Hello @jlwaugh ! Unfortunately there is no official “documentation” for the 300 NEAR / month rate. As far as I am aware, @Ozymandius had an agreement with the NEAR core team, who contacted him first for this initiative, and this was the rate that was set and given out from the beginning.
A bit more on this context is here: Community Slander Has Gone Too Far: Enough is Enough
Back in May, the NEAR Leadership Team created a slack group with me asking to create marketing support in the NEAR ecosystem. I then decided to bootstrap and create the Degens for the benefit of the Ecosystem with budget support from from this leadership . We did this as a long-term initiative to improve engagement of NEAR on Twitter, Reddit, 4chan, townhalls and much more. Every single budget was approved before spending.
While we understand that changes to community payouts are being implemented, I have been informed that @Ozymandius has the word from @illia to keep the payments as they are and not switch to USD. Since our payout is directed to the Knights of Gondor DAO, and not the DAO verticals, we operate under the understanding that no changes have been made to our payout policy as of yet. If there are any conversations defying that, it is beyond my awareness and capacity at the moment.
^I have added this point to our September report as well