Overfunding

Or just blatantly lie and say so much more is being done for the 12500 PRV price tag than what is proposed in the proposal, and try to sweep the previous fundings for those specific aspects under the rug? Like, we can easily see the other projects that have been funded and what the objectives of this one is. It doesn’t look good to blatantly lie or get upset to an honest question asked by someone’s whose transactions are funding the DAO…I think people need to remember the DAO is not their own personal piggy bank and they are accountable to the community.

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And there is a proven fact unless you don’t want it to be shown.

these were the first proposal from Duc back in February that got funded for 7000prv to deliver pkyber, pCompound and pUniswap by the end of may. Something that is not out yet.Screenshot_20200512-005117~2 Screenshot_20200512-005152~2

And then in April the same proposal came back on but with another proposer Henry, which is to deliver pkyber, pUniswap and pCompound for 8000prv.Screenshot_20200512-005214~2

And yet in this may again there is another funded proposal to ship pkyber ( pdex 2.0) for 12500prvScreenshot_20200512-005404

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Project Proposal

I propose to bring pKyber to the pDex by tomorrow. I am only asking for 10,000 PRV. Once approved please send the PRV to my wallet :

12RwD65ovnCeJ4gE21sLoaEeLzUGVrfrYcvuFV4wbde1sSdv4HUGTeFCQ6UhjH4PmduGFKo3ELF5r54wFsCz4qWsmXE4kHdK2ELxrBo

:joy::joy::joy::joy:

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Will fund after product is shipped​:sunglasses::sunglasses::sunglasses:

Still love the project though but was just thinking the fundings are little bit something

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Money up front. Promise it will be shipped within 1 - 5000 days from now. Thanks.

But in all seriousness, I don’t have an issue with devs getting funding or making profit. Hard work and dedication should be rewarded. Let’s just remember that without a community and only Devs then this is nothing. As @ELDAD has pointed out there needs to be tighter reins on the DAO and only payment after meeting deadlines. Prices should also be considered at fair market value.

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Overfunded, seriously?

Have you ever built a product?
Have you ever paid a team to build something?
Have you ever tried to code something?

It’s easy to criticize but I don’t see any suggestions/ideas for improvement in this thread.

Ideas to improve the DAO funding:

  • Remove result based proposals: I think that result based funding is not a good way to build or to expand something. You are interested in achieving your own goal but not the whole product targets.
  • Increase funding by 2x or 4x: High profiles = High salaries
  • Crazy idea: pay salaries (weekly for example), and not funding proposals
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@inccry the proposals are not overfunded in fiat value, but in relation of PRV circulation.

Currently about 8 million PRV is in circulation and 40,000 means 0,5% of all. In comparison Vitalik Buterin owns a similar percentage in Ethereum and he worked years for that.

I 100% agree higher salaries make a project better in general.

But I don’t think raising rates would do anything good here. The PRV price increase should compensate builders imo.

@duy a fair & transprent distribution of coins is the heart of all successful crypto project, people will not buy PRV at a higher price if they feel a small group distributed it between themselves at an early stage, even if the product is super good.

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That would be frustrating, so I appreciate where you’re coming from, but that’s not how it works.

If I run a node, I don’t get any preference over any other user. The “core team nodes” are a fixed number of already-running nodes that serve to secure the network and fund all proposals (not just core team), pay for marketing and upkeep, and a lot more. It’s not like it’s PRV in my pocket. Hope that clarifies it a bit.

As for the overfunding in general, I think it’s a case of misunderstanding. Team members write proposals to show what they’ll work on each month, which must be approved by a vote. If approved, funding is paid out when results are delivered. Also, the most of the funding doesn’t pay a person, but project costs. PRV rewards of 500-2000 (I’m generalizing, it obviously depends on the proposal) are paid to the person working on it. If a proposal says something like 13000 PRV, it’s because there’s multiple people working on it, and high costs that need to be paid (not to the team) for things like materials, advertising, or something else (again, all project specific of course).

Edit:
I just want to be absolutely clear, payout is not guaranteed, it’s dependent upon results being met. That’s why we stress that every proposal has a deliverables and timeline section (and as of recently, a “key results” section), to measure whether payout was earned.

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Wait. What?

Link to article

Incognito Minimum Viable Mainnet (Mainnet v0) Configuration


From the article linked above:

Fixed committee setup

Note that for Mainnet v.0, 22 out of 32 validators are operated by the core team. These 22 validators are fixed and are not substitutable; only the other 10 validator slots are substitutable.


So what you’re telling me is that I don’t know how to read or this has changed but never updated in this article? Also, If my memory serves correctly I read on here that the original date of reducing fixed core validators was actually extended out another year.

Not only that but in the same article, it states the core team purchased 5,000,000 PRV at the initial cost of 1,000,000. At the current market rate that would hold the value of $3,635,000 USD.

My other comment explains the funding, but there’s more in this discussion so I think I can sum it up this way:

The project is an iceberg, and incognito is the tip. There’s so much being done that even I am not aware of, just for the sheer speed and volume of work. Listing proposals on the site while the funding is still determined by core team votes is our effort to be transparent and include everyone as much as possible. But we’re still getting there. Proposals from the core team may overlap, since we work together on so many different projects, but it doesn’t mean funds are paid twice for the same project. It’s more of a way for each individual team member to communicate here what they’re working on.

I’m glad we have this thread, because it shows how we can do better to explain, and I want people to continue asking about what they don’t understand. There will always be more, and we’ll always keep working at it. For now it wouldn’t work, but eventually, proposal funding will be decentralized.

Fairness, transparency, and privacy are the main goals for the core team and the community, and soon, there will be no distinction between the two groups. As we work toward that, ask any/all questions that come up, that’s the point. But with the community focused on fairness and representation, and the core team focused on iterating and meeting preset goals, it can feel like there’s a bigger divide than there is. No one means to be defensive, it’s just that there are a lot of sacrifices being made and work being done by people who care about privacy more than money. So you can know we’re all working toward the same thing, but still keep asking us to prove it.

As for @jared, no, I don’t mean to say you can’t read, I apologize if that’s how the comment came across. Here’s how it works:

Fixed Nodes

Fixed node slots are filled. I cannot set my node up somehow as a team member and have it constantly earn. None of us can. These nodes are there to ensure network security and fund the development of the project. @Andrey’s comment helps clarify:

So the PRV from fixed nodes doesn’t line our pockets, it pays your liquidity rewards and funds proposals by anyone, including us, if results are delivered.

5 million PRV prepurchased

This PRV is locked and released as block rewards over 5 years. That PRV was purchased at $0.20/PRV, which is more than what the price of PRV was listed at initially, so it wasn’t purchased at some discount. In addition, the reason it was purchased was to fund the project so that we don’t have to sell out to venture capital or do an ICO. So that was done for users, so we can have a decentralized project. It was paid by the founding team (not me) from their own pockets, only to become locked PRV.

I hope that helps. With so many facets to Incognito, it can seem confusing. But in reality, everything is done for the project, and the community does have a say. That’s the point of the discourse. So thanks for asking questions, and please do keep it up.

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The proposals are there to be as transparent as possible about what is being worked on. Funds are paid per month, but weekly checked whether set goals were met, updates are present.

Quality is a thing at Incognito. Teams are pushed weekly to up their game in writing and updating their proposals. But also this is new to the different teams, they need to get the hang of expressing what they do, how it will be done, what they are aiming for, and when it will be done.

You are more than welcome to comment on the proposals. When one is published just mention your concerns about the funding, about the time span. When one is updated, comment again. That is actually what these are for.

Some team members are in multiple teams, which makes them show up more than once. Some proposals go from team(member) to team(member) when they enter a different state.

For example, the redesign of an app aspect

  • drawing board
  • writing/testing code
  • rolling it out on testnet
  • creating a design in the app
  • rolling it out on mainnet
  • supply support

As Aaron already said, it is not just for team members, everyone can write a proposal for a project they would like to start and get funded once approved.

Maybe this is the right place to remind the community, the project is about adding privacy mode to crypto transactions, storage, trades, and so on. Everything else is there to facilitate that.

The project is aiming for longterm results. We are looking forward to build this network with people who value privacy and see future in the system. We’d love to brainstorm about use cases.

PRV is a utility coin, if the value increases, that is great, but that is not the aim of the project. It is a nice side-effect.

Those who join for a quick win just picked the wrong project. This project wasn’t started to make people instantly rich, or provide a basic income. If that is a longterm result, again that is great, but for now, we want to provide privacy mode to cryptocurrency, all cryptocurrency, and we hope you will join us in achieving that.

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Good point. So what about if 3 different proposals have been funded for the same goals? Is this normal??

I think we can extend the timeline of the product delivery and more by supporting it with more funds intead of switching proposal after proposal but with the same goal.

Just like how the proposal “” NODE TREE"" got merged with the proposal " ACQUIRE 400 NODES"" which is a wonderful move

Just a point that may have been discussed.
I would assume one pnode being created, etc. would be at a lower price amount than multiple new-ish nodes being stacked together.
One pnode equals “x” amount.
Multiple nodes being sold as one equals a higher “x” amount to create then sell. If I’m tracking it all correctly?
(They may also have a larger team to pay now than before?)

Leave a reply to the proposal you disagree with and the owner of that proposal will give you all the information you need.

I do not disagree on any proposal and btw also appreciate the effort the team is pouring on product development and it’s great.

But for a newbie who just came will notice that
1- a funded proposal is led by Duc to deliver : pkyber, pCompound and pUniswap by the end of may which is still in the process.

2- and yet another funded proposal led by Henry to deliver pkyber and pUniswap

3- and again another funded proposal led by Andrey to deliver pkyber ( pdex 2.0).

Now we got 3 different funded proposals, but the same goal.
Why not maintain the first one and keep expending the timeline with more addition goals more fundings

And btw tell @duy to cool his temper, we are all here for the project betterment

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