(reposting this for awareness)
What do we do from here?
After a lot of thinking, I've come to the conclusion the only way out is through community and hard work! We should go back to our roots, when the project started. That's when ideas flowed, stuff happened and the project thrived. We need that back.
To that end, I'm proposing SafeMars Grants. ANYONE who has an idea how to help the project AND is willing to execute it AND has clear/measurable success metrics AND accepts payment-on-delivery / payment-for-results, can write it here or DM me. The way it'll work is:
1. We discuss idea, timeline, success metrics and price
2. We create a poll for the community to vote on (I'll still retain veto vote, e.g. if 100 people vote for "use the whole treasury to list on BitFart" I won't do it)
3. The originator executes
4. If the execution is successful, I pay it out
Possible ideas and deliverables:
- finish the game and nft marketplace, deliverables: working game and website live
- facelift website, deliverables: the facelifted website
- marketing campaign wherever, deliverables: project mcap increases by x%
- CEO job, deliverables: project mcap reaches X or Y
You'll notice that using this model, the CEO job is simply another idea. Do we need a CEO? Maybe, but in the end it doesn't matter if we need a CEO or not, if someone (e.g. ozgur) is willing to take the job AND define some success metrics AND agree on pay-on-delivery we can do it.
Using the model proposed above, we make sure that we ONLY spend the treasury money for things which actually bring real, measurable value to the project.
If this works out, it should create a positive flywheel: successful project -> value -> more investors -> more volume -> more in treasury -> we can finance more projects -> more value -> ...
Consider the SafeMars Grants live! Feel free to come up with ideas AND a plan AND deliverables for them (if you propose something that's missing one of these parts, it'll get ignored). Let's come together as a community and bring SafeMars back!