Infrastructure Maintenance Bounty Top-up request
After delivering a report showcasing the child bounties approved at the community request, we aim to request a top-up of the Infrastructure maintenance bounty, which works to aid teams that have been funded by the treasury before for the development of their ideas, to maintain infrastructure and perform continued operations to reduce the work or to resubmit the treasury proposals and time constraints associated with it, as well as model a way in which the community can achieve more agency and support in directing how on-chain treasury funds are spent. The bounty has been running for roughly a year now and has helped fund multiple infrastructure proposals, whose details can be found in the spreadsheet here.
This follow-up top-up will enable us to continue with our efforts as well.
Details of this proposal, including what we have achieved so far, our future goals, and an estimated breakdown of the requested top-up, can be found in the proposal document.
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Could you explain to me like i'm 10, the ROI thesis of this large instrastructure spending? Is there for example a point where this spending moves towards a law of diminishing returns? Is there a basic level that needs sustaining that keeps the lights on? Given the spending to date from the treasury on infrastructure (a very broad category that also includes wallets etc) and relatively little use of said infrastructure, is there an argument to be made that this spending could be reduced in favour of other areas more directly aligned with driving on-chain adoption of the ecosystem? Genuinely interested in your assessment.
The asking amount here is substantial (8% of the treasury)!
This comes at a time where as a community we are looking at measures to protect the treasury from depletion. A spending of this amount would blow any projections of treasury depletion out of the water.
I am grateful that this proposal forces us to address the issues of a depleting treasury with utmost urgency.
I look forward to the discussion and the results that come out of it.
In the meantime I will be voting against the proposal to offer resistance to the currently unchallenged vote (46k KSM ayed within 15 minutes). I hope this encourages more debate around treasury issues. My vote is not final.