Speaking from personal experience, I co-founded a company building exclusively on NEAR to provide high quality NFTs in support of charities and impact orgs. We’ve been building for ~1.5 years and have watched the space deteriorate before our eyes. We received grants from NF but our problem was the lack of marketing and community building. Many NFT projects I’ve seen have the tech but are lacking in those two areas. I’ve also seen a slew of low effort, low quality get rich quick PFP projects come and go and the space is diluted in my opinion.
I’ve been extremely invested in the NEAR NFT space for quite some time now on a technical standpoint whether it be maintaining standards or creating contracts alongside Matt L. I think your proposal makes sense and I’m going to echo what Matt said above. For this to work, we need to filter the high potential, high quality projects and if they don’t have experience with marketing or community building, we need to figure out a way to help them. Support from existing platforms is also really important in my opinion. Building an inclusive and open community that lifts and amplifies other projects promotes a healthy, successful ecosystem.
All in all, I agree with everything you’ve said and I’ve been extremely frustrated with the space as well. Happy to help support in any way that I can.