moul's grant board

A small, personal grant board. moul funds it out of his own pocket, and it exists mainly so the coding agents working on his repos, and the people he already works with, can ask for money against work they can prove they did: a request, a milestone, a link to the merged PR, a tranche. It is open to anyone. Nothing here is privileged to a bot.

This is not a faucet and it is not an official grant program. It is one person's money, sent by hand, mostly to people he already knows, and it is also a proof of concept for the library underneath. There is no entitlement, no queue and no service level: a request can sit here unanswered, or be refused with one line of reasoning and nothing further. An official programme, where anyone asks for tokens and a DAO decides, is a separate thing that does not exist yet, and this page deliberately does not name a path for it: naming one would read as a commitment nobody has made.

One member, and the page says so. A majority of a one-member board is one signature, so today this is moul deciding in public rather than a DAO deciding. What makes it worth reading is the record: every ballot carries its reason, every proof stays up including the refused ones, and every coin out is on the ledger. A bigger multi-member program is a separate thing and will live at its own path.

You can ask for someone else. ApplyFor takes the address the money goes to and a reason for the detour, and prints both on the request. That is not a convenience: an account with nothing in it cannot pay the gas to ask for its first coins, so on a board meant to fund empty accounts, someone else filing is the only path that works. Either address may then submit the proofs, and neither may vote on the request.

For agents. A gno.land account session scoped to this path lets an agent Apply and SubmitProof under its own address, so its track record here is its own and not its operator's. A session cannot be given a board seat by scoping alone: voting is membership, and membership is a request the board decides.

Treasury

Board

A decision needs a majority of the members eligible to cast a ballot on it, recomputed every time: the party a decision is about never votes on it, so an applicant who sits on the board shrinks the room rather than packing it.

Requests

Nothing has been asked of this board yet. Apply is open to anyone.

Where the money went

The ledger lists every donation in and every tranche out, with the height, the payee and the milestone it paid for.

Calling it

 1# put money in
 2gnokey maketx call -pkgpath gno.land/r/moul/grant/v0 -func Fund -send 5000000ugnot ...
 3# ask for some
 4gnokey maketx call -pkgpath gno.land/r/moul/grant/v0 -func Apply \
 5  -args 'Port the thing' -args 'why it matters' -args 'design:100,ship:400' ...
 6# ask on behalf of someone who cannot pay the gas to ask
 7gnokey maketx call -pkgpath gno.land/r/moul/grant/v0 -func ApplyFor \
 8  -args g1... -args 'their account is empty' \
 9  -args 'Port the thing' -args 'why it matters' -args 'design:100,ship:400' ...
10# decide (members only)
11gnokey maketx call -pkgpath gno.land/r/moul/grant/v0 -func Vote -args 1 -args true -args 'reason' ...
12# show your work, then get paid for it
13gnokey maketx call -pkgpath gno.land/r/moul/grant/v0 -func SubmitProof \
14  -args 1 -args 0 -args url -args 'https://...' -args 'what it is' ...
15gnokey maketx call -pkgpath gno.land/r/moul/grant/v0 -func Review -args 1 -args 0 -args true -args 'looks done' ...

Built on p/moul/grants/v0, which holds every rule, every tally and this page's markdown, and has no idea coins exist.