Hello @Dacha as always, feel a lot of respect for you, I have seen how much you have been working for the community without having any job position, or being part of the core team, so yeah I feel a lot of respect for you, as 2021: The Year in Review shows.
There will be not much contributors when NF stop payments. True believers will stick but won’t be enough.
Solution:
- The first step is where we are now, Guilds need to be evaluated to get funding and they need funding to start their own first steps.
- Guilds need to develop and propose projects/activities that will be self sustainable, and this projects will produce earnings that will use the Guild itself to keep contributing.
- Best example is a Company own by the Guild or the community where the main purpose of the company will be to produce and sell a product that will increase awarness about NEAR helping with education and marketing
- Projects like the NEAR P2P that will help with the onboarding and the Guild that is launching this project (NEAR VENEZUELA) will receive 20% of the profits on the Guild DAO.
- Guild Activities like education/development/consulting where we charge a price to the customers/students/enterprises in order to help them to grow professionally or to launch their own projects
We believe that Geographic Guilds can become into cooperatives where we can be incubator for other external particular projects, and in this way we will keep spreading the NEAR Protocol and onboarding new projects - growing the ecosystem - without the need for funding.