Community Council is the governing body overseeing the NEAR Community Fund I. CF1 has 5M $NEAR & $1.5M to support the growing NEAR ecosystem of communities, DAOs, Guilds, dOrgs, and beyond.
Current council members are:
- NiMA Asghari (Chairman, Head of Community/dOrg Incubations)
- Matt Lockyer (DevRel
) - Ashley Tyson (Web 3
) - Peter DePaulo (Head of DevRel)
- Shreyas (Guilds lead)
- Amos (Asia Community)
- Dani (Grants lead)
(*James Waugh as board/council observer)
At the moment, only CC (Community Council) members can submit proposals, but we are working on various paths for open and permissionless funding proposals. You can contact community+fund@near.org if you would like to get funding for your own DAO, Guild, … dOrg. Guilds should also apply via NEAR.org/Guilds
Here are a few examples of existing open funding programs backed by NEAR CF1 (DAOs, Guilds, …):
- Createbase mini grants (funding for NFT projects, early stage art*tech creators)
- Sputnik.fund (permissionless DAOs)
- FlamingoDAO (funding for NFT projects, established art*tech creators)
- NEAR Sandbox by 4NTS Guild
- …
Addendum for CC members:
Please add one of the following tags in the title of your proposals:
[Discussion] : for proposals still in discussion (not ready for voting)
[Proposal] : proposal submitted for voting
[Pass/Fail] : final status once min voting thresholds are met
Proposal submission and voting process (v1.2):
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Start with the default template and provide the required information with any additional supporting material
(use the + New Topic button on the top right corner next to bell button) -
Use the voting/polling plug-in on Discourse (select Community_Council under Allowed Groups setting)
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All new topics (proposals) are by default Wiki, i.e. all changes made to the proposal will be tracked
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After you submit the proposal all members of the group will receive an email notification to vote on the proposal (note for members of CC: click on the bell icon and choose Watching First Post)
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If you would like to get more attention for a certain proposal feel free to post it on the private Slack group called Community Council and @ mention the CC members who should definitely vote!
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After min voting and quorum requirements are met (see below for details) email cf@near.foundation for processing.
Voting and quorum thresholds:
- <2K$ - 1X Yes - no minimum quorum (* quorum defined as min number of members needed for the vote to be valid)
- 2-10K$ - 2X Yes - no min quorum
- 10-30K$ - 3X Yes - min quorum 4 of 7 - 4X members should vote in either direction
- Above 30K$ requires Erik or Illia’s additional approval (Head of NF/Chairman of NFC)
- Above 100K$ requires NEAR Foundation Council approval
P.S. until now we have been using a closed/private category for CF. Hence, this new open category is somewhat sparse and empty … 