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title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-01-23"
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date: 2022-01-23
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author: magicmonerofund
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---
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Justin, John, Rucknium, Kayaba, CB
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19:00 Congratulations
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03 Introductions by Justin, started 2016 by Sarang Noether, bit off too much, started undergraduate scholarships
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John two years, early 2020, 501c3 exemption start of 2020
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05 CB Brainstorm ideas on fundraising
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06 Justin Our fund, we can do what we want, trusted by the XMR community
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07 Deverick joins
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08 Agenda from Justin appears on screen (welcome, background, goals, policy documents, grant application process)
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09 Justin's history with the XMR StackExchange and a Monero foundation
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11 John's history
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12 CB's history, news, art, primarily wants to fundraise, support more developers
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13 Deverick, "fundamental old school privacy advocate", lots of projects, psychology, compsci, cybersecurity, devcon
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15 Kayaba, Python wallet, atomic swaps, wants to help ensure funding for developers
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15 Rucknium
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"I started working on Monero about six months ago. I'm tackling some of the statistical issues involved in decoy (mixin) selection for Monero's ring signature privacy model. I'm an empirical microeconomist, so I know the statistics involved but not the cryptography.
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I am most interested in how the fund can support an effort to support more research (and researchers!) into improving Monero.
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See https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/Rucknium-OSPEAD-Fortifying-Monero-Against-Statistical-Attack.html"
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(verbalized by Justin)
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18 Justin details policy documents, conflict of interest
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23 Kayaba asks about the theory of funding organizations who are then not liable to perform KYC checks on recipients as sub-organizations, as discussed in relation to ZOMG
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24 Justin covers our KYC requirements and AML details
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26 Grant recipient paperwork
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28 GitHub repo for submissions? KISS
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30 Suggestion to review Monero Bounties
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33 200 XMR war chest from anonymous donor
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34 Rucknium
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"At our individual Fund level, I assume and hope that we could have an option to allow certain types of applications to remain private.
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If I'm a researcher interested in working on Monero, I would be concerned that publishing all my preliminary work could lead to my idea being "scooped" by another researcher. In a typical research grant fund, the whole application isn't made public, at least not at the moment of submission. Often, a title and abstract are made public after a grant has been approved."
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35 Kayaba asks about a MG email which serves as a mailing list for all of us to enable such submissions
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35 Justin will offer emails and a list (monerofund@magicgrants.org)
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37 Justin wants meeting minutes (also on the agenda, which now also shows finances/reaching the Magic Grants board, questions), Kayaba says he has some and agrees to handle them
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40 Waived minimum fund fee for this year
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42 Financial information will be available in a publicly disclosed spreadsheet
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43 Formal communication with the board can be done via info@magicgrants.org
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45 Kayaba confirms a GoFundMe would still be tax deducible, clarifies signing requirements on documents, and
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48 Kayaba suggests BTC/ETH/XMR
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50 Deverick agrees, KISS
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50 Rucknium
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"I think we can accept everything, but if the coins are outside of a core set that we want to place on a website as donation addresses, then we can say, "contact us for more instructions"."
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51 Kayaba agrees, citing how publicizing addresses for certain coins may turn donations away
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52 Deverick asks if US only applications
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52 Justin, MG was initially, yet it is now definitely international as it should be
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55 CB asks what to prepare for the next meeting, Deverick covers discussions about the submission process
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55 Rucknium
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"Can we give monthly or every-two-months payments if we get grant reports from grantees? So they are not waiting for a long time?"
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55 Justin Yes
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56 Rucknium
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"I think it would be best if we use CryptPad instead of Google Office products."
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56 Kayaba
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"Can we do conditionally continued grants or would that be defined a separate grant entirely?"
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56 Justin Yes
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56 Rucknium
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"I think next meeting in a week would be better. As I mentioned, there is a potential research grant application coming down the pipeline."
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57 Kayaba covers what to prepare as well, saying we kinda already handled what addresses to display, saying we can individually reach out to Justin to handle emails having settled on Discord for the group, Justin agrees
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58 Kayaba also proposes someone sign up to handle the submission process, saying we don't have to be silent till the next meeting, and says we should come up with investment strategies
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00 Kayaba agrees, CB agrees, Deverick agrees with 56 Rucknium
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00 Rucknium
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"I will try to look at the research grant application process of, broadly speaking, similar grant foundations. And see what common elements they have -- to get ideas."
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01 Discussion by Deverick and Justin on GH management, Kanban, Jira...
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... continuation of misc GH, discussion, thanks to everyone, goodbyes
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title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-01-30"
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date: 2022-01-30
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author: magicmonerofund
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---
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### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, Csilla (, Justin)
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- 19:00 Hellos and greetings, waiting for everyone else to show up
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- 19:03 Rucknium, Kayaba, and Csilla acknowledge having joined the GitHub
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- 19:04 Rucknium provides RFPs we can design our own off of
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- 19:10 Previous meetings minutes are confirmed
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- 19:13 Csilla presents campaign ideas for fundraising and awareness
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- 19:19 Discussion around NFT collections for fundraising, including an example from Csilla of a Monero card, a gif from Rucknium of a statistical procedure, and the example of Monerujo funding development with NFTs
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- 19:31 Comment the best way to raise awareness is by actually issuing grants and the infrastructure for them
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- 19:31 Kayaba started on a document for grant submission to be presented at the next meeting
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- 19:34 Discussion on using GitHub for the submission process
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- 19:36 Rucknium also wants to make progress on investment policy, a discussion postponed during the grant submission discussion
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- 19:37 CryptPad suggested as an alternative to GitHub
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- 19:38 Rucknium notes different grants will have different flows, along with how researchers won't want to publicize their submissions in whole
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- 19:41 Public submission via GitHub, private submission via the email list proposed, enabling a post-mortem publication to GitHub
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- 19:41 Comparative analysis to ZOMG on submission privacy
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##### Deverick joins having been out of servive, making him present
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- 19:47 Justin notes an alternative private submission process may be possible, yet notes some legal requirements
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- 19:50 Discussion over whether or not those would apply with the result being Justin will review while it is not believed to be an issue at this time
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- 19:59 Rucknium volunteers to write an RFP template for research-focused grants for the next meeting
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- 20:00 Justin will set up emails and the email list for communication
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- 20:05 Next meeting planned for the same time next week
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title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-02-06"
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date: 2022-02-06
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author: magicmonerofund
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---
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### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick
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### Fundraising
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Futher exploration of the concept of using NFTs for fundraising occurred, mainly focusing on the basic theory of the idea and how we could set the distribution criteria. No decisions were made nor plans established on this topic.
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### Draft Research RFP
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Rucknium presented a draft of his research-focused RFP document for committee review. This document would clearly establish how research grants should be submitted and their detailing, ensuring validity and the ability to properly review them. Feedback was provided on specific wording, sections, and targets, having certain decisions explained in order to be discussed. Rucknium intends to take this feedback to submit a final copy in the next meeting for committee vote and adoption. This document does specify a mostly applicable timeline for responding to grants, either with an approval or rejection, of three weeks. This was agreed to be reasonable so long as there was an exceptional case noted as possible, ensuring the time needed can be taken.
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### Grant GitHub Repository
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Kayaba presented a draft of a GitHub repository intended for grant applications, predicated on using issues for each application. This would be the primary location for submissions though the Monero Fund Committee email list would also be allowed for more discrete submissions, with partial (and eventual full) disclosure via the GitHub repository. The Research RFP document does provide extensive criteria for grant submissions, extending the repository's own criteria for that field of grants. The repository itself intends to set a baseline which is complete for development grants.
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### Investment Policy
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Noting the lack of all members, this discussion focused on deciding the intent of investments made by the committee. Commodities and real estate indices were mentioned as possibilities in order to provide stability while protecting against inflation, yet concerns about how liquid such assets would be were put forward. An agreement was made to generally avoid DeFi due to its high amount of risk. Beyond further discussing the desired amount of risk, it was suggested the committee try to update its investment policy no more frequently than monthly, if not even longer, in order to minimize risk by effective day trading and to focus on what matters. A suggestion on fund management where grant funds are frozen immediately upon grant approval was also put forward, yet was not voted on.
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title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-02-13"
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date: 2022-02-13
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author: magicmonerofund
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---
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### Present: Vik, Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick, Csilla
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### Diversification of funds
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The Monero Fund Committee had 200 XMR available to fund grants, along with the ability to decide how to invest it in order to best prolong it. The decision was made, unanimously, to move 40% (80 XMR) into USD as a hedge against bear markets. USDT, USDC, and DAI were also considered, with the vote explicitly falling back to USDC if USD was not a viable option. There is further discussion planned on diversification of the XMR into other cryptocurrency assets, yet that was postponed until the next meeting to ensure other topics can be discussed.
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### Research RFP and Grant Application Template
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The Research RFP document and Grant Application template were both submitted to be voted on. The committee unanimously agreed to adopt both, with minor clarifications being needed before they were finalized. Their adoptance also set the policies of aiming to respond to applications within 3 weeks, and currently aiming to fund grants up to 20,000 USD. The documents were scheduled for publication, along with an announcement, hopefully within two days, enabling grant applications to be submitted with clarity on the process. The decision was also made to use the [Monero Fund GitHub repository](https://github.com/MAGICGrants/Monero-Fund) previously used for voter registration/committee member candidacy to handle applications, maintaining email availability for more limited disclosure.
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title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-02-20"
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date: 2022-02-20
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author: magicmonerofund
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### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick
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### Secure handling of documents
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With our recent first grant application, we were asked to maintain a file revealing the applicant's encryption. To this end, we ensured we had a method to distribute encrypted documents between committee members and pledged to briefly go over the handling of such documents with every member.
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### External review of grant applications
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The ability to consult groups, such as the Monero Research Lab, for feedback on grant applications was discussed. It was agreed that we should absolutely seek review from educated parties on grants, with the importance of the committee being the ability to vote to fund grants, not a status of being perfect experts in all matters.
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### Donation addresses
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It was agreed to initially post donation addresses for BTC, ETH, and XMR. While an email address has always been available to coordinate donations, that doesn't represent a private nor immediately simple system, hence the decision to post select addresses. Since a reason MAGIC Grants has value is the ability to receive tax deductions on donations, the email is still expected to be used frequently, also coordinating donations in other cryptocurrencies. The coins selected were believed to represent what most donations would be in, starting a targeted, effective list without risking confusion nor overwhelming potential donators.
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title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-02-27"
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date: 2022-02-27
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author: magicmonerofund
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### Present: Vik, Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick
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### ACK-J's Grant (Security Audit of Ring Signature Resiliency Against Machine/Deep Learning Attacks)
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This meeting was primarily focused on reviewing our first grant application as now fully submitted by ACK-J. While the grant in question has been agreed upon to be of importance (after discussion on what it represents, why certain decisions were made, the feedback given by the MRL, and how it should increase Monero's value as a privacy protocol), the requested amount of funds represents almost 2/3rds of the committee's budget. Once addresses are posted, a donation stream will hopefully follow, yet we can't be sure of that at this time.
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Multiple ideas were discussed to relieve the burden of this grant, from reducing scope to requesting a reduced rate to even splitting the grant into two separate grants. Then, later down the road when the Monero Fund hopefully has further funding, it'd be able to complete the grant in whole. Reducing scope was deemed as too reductive of the grant's value to be worthwhile. Requesting a reduced rate is a possibility, yet it risks losing the applicant along with not paying according to value. Splitting the grant is reducing scope in the worst case, except that idea was dismissed as not sufficiently valuable, and it potentially leads the applicant on if we're unable to fulfill the second grant when the time comes. Continuing discussion on requesting a reduced rate, the candidate's position was considered, along with other posted rates for such work.
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For now, it has been decided to postpone the decision until the next meeting, at least, while further questions occur and deliberations are made.
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title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-03-06"
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date: 2022-03-06
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author: magicmonerofund
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### Present: Vik, Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick, Csilla
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### Final review of the Security Audit of Ring Signature Resiliency Against Machine/Deep Learning Attacks grant
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Another Monero researcher provided extensive comments on the proposal, supporting it and providing further technical review. With that, and the previous discussion, it was agreed to fund the grant with the only question being for much. This was a point of contention last time due to the fund's limited funding, having only recently posted donation addresses. The committee agreed to use a ranked choice voting system to decide the amount granted to the researcher, resulting in 12k USD being awarded. We are very excited to be moving forward with the Monero Fund's first grant!
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### Fund management
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With 12k USD being deducted from the balance sheet (previously 12768.4155 USD and 120 XMR), as grant allocations are reserved at time of vote, there was the option to mostly liquidate out of USD. This would be a risky investing strategy defeating the purpose of the reserve established. In order to resolve this, a rebalance maintaining 40% USD holdings was voted on, and it was voted on in perpetuity. All grants distributions will trigger this event in order to ensure responsible fund management and the Monero Fund's financial future.
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title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-03-13"
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date: 2022-03-13
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### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick, Csilla
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### Marketing and Fundraising
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Having voted on the Monero Fund's first grant, this meeting primarily discussed ways to raise awareness and interact with the community, which would also increase our budget to offer further grants with. Donation incentives such as flairs on the /r/Monero subreddit were considered a possibility, though it would require moderator approval. Distributing items such as t-shirts could also work to increase funds.
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Beyond community awareness, awareness by potential grant recipients is key. There are grant databases MAGIC can achieve inclusion in which the Monero Fund would be able to post about specific topics of research we're looking for work in. Reaching out to various universities and groups could also enable us to be present on relevant newsletters and boards, achieving an informational reach to all students in a field.
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title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-03-20"
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date: 2022-03-20
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author: magicmonerofund
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### Present: Vik, Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick, Csilla
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### Fundraising Mechanisms
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It is important to streamline the donation process, notably with monthly donations which can automatically process. MAGIC is currently working on a system, yet Deverick also has proposals on how to manage this, in order to create a smooth flow for incoming funds. Further discussion on t-shirts occurred as well.
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### Presence at Monerotopia
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Monerotopia is an upcoming Monero conference where multiple Monero Fund committee members will be attending. Accordingly, we are interested in having a presence there to meet our goals established in the previous meeting. We would ideally be able to have a table and banner in order to represent our group and goals.
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title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-03-27"
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date: 2022-03-27
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### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick
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### Announcement of ACK-J's grant
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ACK-J published a post on Reddit confirming they were awarded a grant, theirs being the first from the MAGIC Monero Fund. Not only is this a step forward by the organization, it demonstrates to the community what we do. This specific grant is for scientific research regarding both machine learning and statistical analysis, which may put somewhat of a barrier on understanding both it and why it benefits Monero. Accordingly, we look forward to their first update demonstrating both their progress and the start of a less abstract commentary on how this work has impact on improving Monero's privacy.
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#### Monerotopia
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Further organization for Monerotopia occurred. While we originally wanted to have an interactive presence as a way of drawing attention, this has been deemed infeasible given when we started discussing and organizing for it. We still plan to maintain a presence to raise awareness and engage with the community
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title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-04-03"
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date: 2022-04-03
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author: magicmonerofund
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### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, Csilla
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### Flyers for Monerotopia
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This meeting initially had the flyers for Monerotopia confirmed, which involved a discussion on the design. Ensuring we could effectively reach out to the community with the necessary branding and information was important, especially as we were able to confirm we'd have a table at Monerotopia and even be able to give our flyers out as people claimed their badges. The MAGIC General Fund offered to pay for the flyers (costing up to $100 for up to 250), which Kayaba will handle the purchase and delivery of.
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#### Auditing
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The various developers behind Monero discussed audits as the next hard fork approaches, primarily around the multisig PRs. Given the issues found with Monero's multisig, these PRs do have a certain priority and accordingly must be handled properly. One of the Monero Fund's purposes is providing audits for Monero, a statement reaffirmed during this meeting, which will be brought up to the community at large to ensure that as further auditing discussions happen, we can help with ensuring the funds needed are available.
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title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-04-10"
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date: 2022-04-10
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### Present:
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This meeting was cancelled by agreement of Rucknium, Kayaba, and Deverick as it was during a Bitcoin conference with Monero features which was occurring shortly after Monerotopia, where Vik, Kayaba, and Deverick were all in attendance at some point.
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title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-04-17"
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date: 2022-04-17
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### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba
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This 'meeting' overlapped with Easter and did not have consensus. Because of that, it should not be considered a meeting versus a meetup of members during what would've been the regular meeting.
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### Conferences
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The MAGIC Monero Fund was able to provide flyers to all individuals who checked in at Monerotopia. Unfortunately, this has failed to convert to any donations. MoneroKon, an upcoming Monero event, may provide a larger opportunity in that we may have the option to speak (either briefly or for a medium period of time) to fully communicate our purpose and captivate attention.
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### ACK-J's Machine Learning Grant
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ACK-J posted a progress update on his [grant](https://github.com/MAGICGrants/Monero-Fund/issues/15#issuecomment-1086122008), which has met its first milestone and been accordingly paid out. We're very excited to see this working smoothly and look forward to the rest of it.
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title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-04-24"
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date: 2022-04-24
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### Present: Kayaba, Deverick
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### MoneroKon
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||||
The MAGIC Monero Fund will have committee members attending MoneroKon and would appreciate having a moment to present MAGIC to the larger community while there. Kayaba, who is certainly planned to go, is already applying to give their own presentation, yet is willing to present another one as well (for 5-15 minutes to quickly state MAGIC on stage). It just may be unfavorable to the organizers to have two presentations by the same person.
|
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|
||||
### Fundraising
|
||||
|
||||
Still managing fundraising ideas, NFTs came up once again as a way to reward users while also raising awareness through automatic community propagation. In order to demonstrate our successes, a quarterly newsletter with updates, such as our in progress grants and their milestones, would also be a reminder which is more meaningful than more generic PR statements.
|
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|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-05-01"
|
||||
date: 2022-05-01
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick
|
||||
|
||||
### Multisig
|
||||
|
||||
Monero multisig, which has had a series of issues raised causing a large set of changes to be made while it's not recommended, nor viable, for usage, is planned to be audited before large scale deployment in the upcoming Haveno DEX. The MAGIC Monero Fund has re-iterated it's previously re-affirmed stance to fund audits, and is watching as the multisig protocol is formalized, the next step before obtaining an audit.
|
||||
|
||||
### Amazon Smile
|
||||
|
||||
MAGIC is available via Amazon Smile, Amazon's charity program which automatically donates a percentage of your order value, at no additional cost, to a selected charity. This would enable quickly scaling semi-regular micro-donations if properly communicated to the community.
|
||||
|
||||
### Reddit Flairs
|
||||
|
||||
Harkening back to the previously discussed NFT ideas, which are still open, giving Reddit flairs to people who donate to either the MAGIC Monero Fund or the CCS could encourage donations to either. $25 would be accessible yet substantial at scale, as it'd automatically propoagate through the community. The difficulties in doing so would be the fact these flairs need to not only be tracked, yet also assigned, and from the MAGIC side of things, we'd want recurring donations to be available as an option when we launch this campaign, so every user who donates under this campaign has that option as they donate. Options which expand beyond simply the Monero subreddit become much tricker, yet could reach a much larger audience and therefore be more successful.
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-05-08"
|
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date: 2022-05-08
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick
|
||||
|
||||
### Conference in Europe
|
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|
||||
MAGIC was approached by a notable community member seeking funding to present at a cryptocurrency conference in Europe. While we were interested, the conference appeared to only have 30-60 people attending, and as much as we respected the speaker, we couldn't justify the money asked for at this time. There was also a discussion on if it would count as education, which does fall under MAGIC's, and the Monero Fund's, perview, or if education is more intended for materials and academic settings. Justin did clarify it could be scoped without issue under education though.
|
||||
|
||||
### Fund management
|
||||
|
||||
As part of our campaigns, we're trying to not only get recurring donations set up optimally, yet also ensure we have a secure way to monitor Monero donations for campaigns such as Reddit flairs. An appreciated community developer was working on a system which would've been viable to monitor funds coming in, yet still needs more work for modularity and MAGIC's own needs. Deverick also may have a prebuilt solution which may work for us.
|
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|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-05-15"
|
||||
date: 2022-05-15
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick, Csila
|
||||
|
||||
### Payment processing
|
||||
|
||||
Having reviewed the payment processing software noted last time, Kayaba will be putting in the work to get it up to code and speed. This should be ready before MoneroKon in order to be able to maximize our presence at that event.
|
||||
|
||||
### Promotional items
|
||||
|
||||
Considering we have officially been present at a conference once (Monerotopia), and are planning to be at MoneroKon as well, it'd make sense to have a reusable banner available to draw attention and establish ourselves. There'd also be benefit in having a smaller item available to giveaway, leading to discussion on what items would be ignored and which items would return a lasting impression while remaining affordable.
|
||||
|
||||
### Grant program
|
||||
|
||||
A grant program was recently noted as a candidate to receive funding from, and we're working on a proposal for it. Not only would it increase our available funds, it'd create connections with other organizations and increase our presence overall.
|
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|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-05-22"
|
||||
date: 2022-05-22
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick
|
||||
|
||||
### MoneroKon
|
||||
|
||||
MAGIC is officially on the schedule for MoneroKon, giving a 5 minute lightning talk at 3:45 pm on the first day. This will be presented by Kayaba to briefly establish why MAGIC exists as an alternative to the gathered community.
|
||||
|
||||
### Multisig Auditing
|
||||
|
||||
As part of MAGIC's commitment to funding audits, the discussed multisig audit is a prime candidate we aim to not only provide funding for, yet hope to also investigate options able to perform the audit. A historical analysis of audits performed via the CCS was done to establish a price of roughly 15,000 USD as what's necessary. Coordination through MAGIC's upcoming donation system was then discussed.
|
||||
|
||||
### Grant application finalization
|
||||
|
||||
MAGIC is applying to another grant program to increase its funding and the rest of meeting was spent finalizing its application, with notable amounts of commentary on how we embody Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. We believe the pseudonomynous process of applying for grants, where the committee can decide without learning identities, and then the charity performing KYC solely to verify legality, perfectly enables a process without discrimination.
|
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|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-05-31"
|
||||
date: 2022-05-31
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Vik, Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick, Csila
|
||||
|
||||
### Grant application
|
||||
|
||||
The MAGIC Monero Fund did finish its application for organizational funding in the previous meeting, which was successfully submitted and is currently pending.
|
||||
|
||||
### Reusable Marketing Materials
|
||||
|
||||
Designs are underway for brochures usable at a variety of events, along with a banner which we can bring with us. These should promote Monero and the MAGIC Monero Fund while being a long term cost-effective option. Immediately upcoming is MoneroKon, which we do have a lightning talk at.
|
||||
|
||||
### Donation Processing and Multisig Auditing
|
||||
|
||||
Work on a donation processor continues. With sufficient planning having been done, the decision was made to officially reach out to RINO to work on coordinating an audit. This continues our previously stated committment to ensuring Monero's security via audits. Beyond contributing our own funds to the task, we can offer tax deductible options for the community as a whole and help review candidates.
|
||||
|
||||
We are also considering being listed on Gitcoin, or having MAGIC itself be listed on Gitcoin, to raise awareness through there.
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-06-07"
|
||||
date: 2022-06-07
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick
|
||||
|
||||
### Paypal
|
||||
|
||||
We do have a Paypal link supporting recurring donations, https://www.paypal.com/fundraiser/charity/4112637. This should be added to our page shortly to enable that as an option.
|
||||
|
||||
### Researchers
|
||||
|
||||
The MAGIC Monero Fund is accumulating a list of universities and organizations which may have researchers amicable to working for Monero. We are also considering posting an offer on the IACR job board, yet we'd have to have the funds for such a position lines up, not to mention a specific working focus. It remains an option for consideration.
|
||||
|
||||
### Newsletter
|
||||
|
||||
While these minutes exist, it'd also be valuable to email MAGIC community members our accomplishments and updates, on a quarterly or so schedule. This was a proposal raised by Deverick a while back, and is once again coming up as the MAGIC Monero Fund could potentially work with an external party on crafting the newsletter. While it'd be optimal for the committee to do it themselves, they've already volunteered their time and effort as-is, and gone above and beyond with helping MAGIC as a whole, so the ability to delegate would be beneficial.
|
||||
|
||||
### ACK-J Update
|
||||
|
||||
ACK-J posted their most recent number, claiming machine learning was able to identify 23% of the model transactions' spends correctly. While this was with somewhat distinct data, which when corrected will lower that percentage, ACK-J is also refining their methodology and utilizing the computing resources they need. This remains an active grant with many comments on our decoy selection algorithm available.
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-06-21"
|
||||
date: 2022-06-21
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Vik, Rucknium, Kayaba
|
||||
|
||||
### June 14th Meeting
|
||||
|
||||
The meeting on the 14th was cancelled due to conflicting travel arrangements for MoneroKon.
|
||||
|
||||
### Resignation
|
||||
|
||||
Vik Sharma unfortunately does not have the time to maintain their participation, and has resigned accordingly. We appreciate their participation thus far, and wish them the best on their ventures.
|
||||
|
||||
### Funding Stability
|
||||
|
||||
Haveno suspended their UI development due to lack of funds caused by the current bear market. Molly.im's intergration of Monero has also slowed down, for the same reason. While MAGIC offers a potential solution to such cases, as we will allocate grants in USD if requested and can handle conversions, we have yet to successfully attract applicants in a way comparable to the CCS.
|
||||
|
||||
### MoneroKon
|
||||
|
||||
Kayaba gave a lightning talk at MoneroKon about the MAGIC Monero Fund. While brief, it did raise awareness and create a few new connections.
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-06-28"
|
||||
date: 2022-06-28
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba
|
||||
|
||||
### BCH Donation Address and Donations
|
||||
|
||||
Given the community request for one, we have listed a BCH donation address on the MAGIC Monero Fund to ensure the accessibility of funding Monero development, both technological and communal. Recently, we also received a few notable donations, which we look forward to utilizing for these purposes.
|
||||
|
||||
### Funding Stability
|
||||
|
||||
We discussed pro-actively reaching out to recently shuttered CCS proposals, due to the funding instability, and offering a path forward. While we were unable to provide such a decision at this meeting, we did note we'd want to seek community feedback beforehand. The intent would be to demonstrate MAGIC, while ensuring that previously allocated funds do end up at their designated target, and providing legitimate advantages to Monero despite overall market conditions.
|
||||
|
||||
### Researchers
|
||||
|
||||
We once again discussed research candidates to reach out, one of them being one of the authors of "Burning Zerocoins for Fun and for Profit", an extremely notable piece of cryptographically-private cryptocurrency history, who has continued to provide research on Monero-related topics.
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-07-12"
|
||||
date: 2022-07-12
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick, Csila
|
||||
|
||||
### MAGIC Membership
|
||||
|
||||
MAGIC launched a membership program, enabling regular donators to claim perks. We specifically offer a flair on the r/Monero subreddit to those who donate to the MAGIC Monero Fund.
|
||||
|
||||
### Molly.im
|
||||
|
||||
We once again discussed Molly.im, specifically, whether or nor we should proactively ask them to submit a grant application to complete their existing CCS proposal. While we do not want to be a bailout fund for CCS proposals which were unable to successfully manage funding, we acknowledge the tremendous bear market, along with the CCS's pains with funding, and Molly.im has yet to claim any milestone, absolving them of such mismanagement. We committed to ask the Monero community for their thoughts, before we make our own decision.
|
||||
|
||||
### Commitee Funds
|
||||
|
||||
The committee is unable to sign off on any expenditures, however small. We have to either pay for items out of pocket, or request MAGIC cover expenses. As we discussed graphic design work, this note came up, which felt counterproductive. Other similar organizations have noted such issues in the past themselves, and it may be worth requesting an amendment to the Fund documents accordingly.
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-07-19"
|
||||
date: 2022-07-19
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick, Csila
|
||||
|
||||
### Committee Funding
|
||||
|
||||
In response to the topic from last week, we explicitly asked how to handle reasonable expenditures, such as promotional materials. We were informed they would go through the grant process, being subject to the standard criteria, such as:
|
||||
|
||||
- No conflicts of interest
|
||||
- Legitimate benefit to MAGIC/the Monero Fund
|
||||
|
||||
And for this example case, it'd classify as educational materials.
|
||||
|
||||
### Molly.im
|
||||
|
||||
We committed to establishing communications with the Molly.im developer, offering our support with planning, fundraising if it aligns, and potentially funding. While we had a discussion regarding precedent for CCS proposal funding as a whole, the Molly.im proposal specifically had no complaints with it. We strongly prefer not offering additional aid to funded CCS proposals, nor do we want to encourage CCS proposals are planned such that they require additional aid.
|
||||
|
||||
### Upcoming CCS Proposal
|
||||
|
||||
We also decided to offer to be the fundraising host for a potentially upcoming CCS proposal. It requested an additional amount due to volatility, as part of its proper planning to not require additional aid. MAGIC has the opportunity to USD-denominate the funding, removing any requirement for an additional amount while still guaranteeing safety, yet still payout in Monero. This would make MAGIC a great fit accordingly.
|
||||
|
||||
### Researcher Reach Out
|
||||
|
||||
Finally, we committed to contacting a researcher, and their network, who has worked on Monero-related topics in the past and could potentially greatly benefit Monero's academic standing. We hope they, or their peers, will submit grant applications formalizing Monero, evolving its membership proof, or otherwise improving it.
|
||||
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-07-26"
|
||||
date: 2022-07-26
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick
|
||||
|
||||
### Followup to the aforementioned CCS Proposal
|
||||
|
||||
We reached out to noot regarding their upcoming Ethereum Atomic Swap proposal, offering to host the fundraising for it in order to remove volatility. They have expressed their interest, and we will have the necessary discussions to move forward.
|
||||
|
||||
### Issuing a grant to research adjacent to a committee member
|
||||
|
||||
Rucknium, one of our committee members, is a researcher working on Monero via the CCS on statistical analysis and a new decoy selection algorithm. Their own CCS grant stated a need for an external C++ developer, not covered by their own CCS proposal, to assist with some parts of the algorithm, and once their work is submitted, to implement it into Monero.
|
||||
|
||||
The question was raised if MAGIC could provide funding for such a developer, given how Rucknium would not benefit from financially and Rucknium was not expected to handle such development themself. The desire to confirm is based on the fact it is funding an implementation of their research, and working with them, even though it's for Monero.
|
||||
|
||||
### Update on Research Topics
|
||||
|
||||
We have decided to officially adopt arithmetic circuit based membership proofs as a topic of interest which we're likely to fund grants for, along with security proofs for the existing proofs used within Monero. This has been noted in our letter to a group of researchers, which we will be sending shortly.
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-08-02"
|
||||
date: 2022-08-02
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, Csila
|
||||
|
||||
### Update from ACK-J
|
||||
|
||||
Citing their workload, ACK-J requested an additional month to complete their work, which was agreed to without issue. The paper, while largely complete, would benefit from additional tuning and editing. We appreciate their dedication to an optimal result from their work.
|
||||
|
||||
### Ethereum Atomic Swaps
|
||||
|
||||
The present committee members unanimously voted to host the fundraising for noot's Atomic Swap proposal, originally proposed to the CCS. This came after noot confirmed their preference would be to fundraise through MAGIC, which can offer a stable price.
|
||||
|
||||
### Molly.im Followup
|
||||
|
||||
We reached out to Molly.im for an update on our offer for assistance, as we had previously reached out yet the developer said they needed a few days as they were occupied. They responded saying they believe they have found a path forward, one not requiring additional funding, and will be working on that in order to complete their grant. While MAGIC's offer to assist stands, this is no longer something we will actively pursue, and we wish them the best.
|
||||
|
||||
### Grant to fund development surrounding OSPEAD
|
||||
|
||||
Justin confirmed there may be a conflict of interest concern, as noted in previous meetings, yet the path forward would to be to fill out all documentation for formal review. This does have the benefit we can do the paperwork and committee deliberations now, without further delays, if that's the timeline which best fits the work. This will be communicated to the developer who would submit the grant so they know the option is available.
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-08-09"
|
||||
date: 2022-08-09
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick, Csila, monerobull
|
||||
|
||||
### Election Results
|
||||
|
||||
monerobull was elected to the MAGIC Monero Fund Committee, becoming our fifth member. The parallel election regarding who should complete the two-year term which was vacant, either the newly elected member or the original election's third choice, promoted Kayaba to the two-year term.
|
||||
|
||||
### Newsletter
|
||||
|
||||
The MAGIC Monero Fund is planning a quarterly newsletter to present our work and continue to raise awareness of our upcoming projects. We hope to be able to present a rough draft at our next meeting which can be worked into our first issue. The potential to have another party operate our newsletter discussed, which would reduce the committee's workload while potentially yielding a higher quality product to a larger audience. Despite a few angles being discussed, one amicable to all parties which puts the Fund's interests first didn't appear.
|
||||
|
||||
### Advertising
|
||||
|
||||
Continuing the previous discussion, reaching out to various community newsletters to announce pieces of Monero Fund news, such as the upcoming Ethereum Atomic Swaps fundraise, would be very beneficial. While we already ensure items are discussed on Reddit and so on, awareness seems to be our biggest issue and inclusion on more platforms would be effective at solving that.
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-08-16"
|
||||
date: 2022-08-16
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick, Csila, monerobull
|
||||
|
||||
### Ethereum Atomic Swaps Awareness
|
||||
|
||||
We want to continue to raise awareness for this active fundraiser of ours. Beyond the Monero community, the Ethereum community is a valid audience who will directly benefit from this work, which so far hasn't been engaged with. We also can reach out to multiple sources of Monero community news, ensuring representation there, and it sounds like noot may be featured in an upcoming event.
|
||||
|
||||
### Newsletter
|
||||
|
||||
Continuing the newsletter discussion, we further discussed sections to include. Beyond our existing grant, and active fundraiser, we discussed our infrastructural improvements and the infrastructure we can use for this newsletter. It was also proposed to include updates on research, highlighting and encouraging our academic side. Finally, methods of reader engagement were discussed.
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-08-23"
|
||||
date: 2022-08-23
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick, Csila, monerobull
|
||||
|
||||
### Request for Fundraising Hosting
|
||||
|
||||
We received a request not for funding, yet to host fundraising from mj-xmr, a Monero developer. This was due to a few reasons, including MAGIC's ability to offer USD-denominated milestones and payouts to applicants. The grant would be to further analyze MyMonero's fee fingerprintability and unique decoy selection algorithms for statistical estimation of the real spend age distribution and continue to develop tsqsim, a tool useful for testing and verifying models as used in decoy selection to ensure the privacy of people sending Monero. This would greatly contribute to OSPEAD, a separate project intended to provide a decoy selection algorithm achieving a much greater level of privacy.
|
||||
|
||||
Given not only the relevance and importance of this work, yet also the fact it does not take up the MAGIC Monero Fund's budget, we don't see a reason to stand against it. Due to it appearing very shortly before our meeting, we have decided to postpone the vote until we can properly review it in the name of safety, yet have no objections at this time. In general, we are open to hosting any fundraising which is relevant, so long as we are not inundated with requests.
|
||||
|
||||
### Ethereum Atomic Swaps Grant Funding
|
||||
|
||||
We have reached out to two parties on behalf of this grant, requesting funding as part of our work to successfully raise. We are currently awaiting to hear back all responses yet will continue to do what we can.
|
||||
|
||||
### Newsletter Hosting and Writing
|
||||
|
||||
While the MAGIC website does host blog posts, we wanted to ensure widespread visibility. Beyond also sending out an email, which we do have the infrastructure for, we discussed a pair of blogging platforms, each with their own content discovery algorithms we could utilize to further spread out.
|
||||
|
||||
We have also accumulated a list of sections we want to include, with writing provided for some.
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-08-30"
|
||||
date: 2022-08-30
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick, monerobull
|
||||
|
||||
### Hosting Fundraising for mj-xmr
|
||||
|
||||
The committee voted to host mj-xmr's, unilaterally believing in the value the work would offer to Monero. Specifically, Kayaba, Deverick, and monerobull voted yes, with Rucknium abstaining due to the proximity of their own work. While Rucknium does not financially benefit from this, and there is not believed by any member to be a legitimate conflict of interest, respect was still given. We look forward not only to the general contributions of mj-xmr's work, yet also a review of MyMonero's privacy implications and the ability to efficiently test decoy selection algorithms.
|
||||
|
||||
### Reaching out to the Ethereum Community
|
||||
|
||||
As we continue to work on fundraising for Ethereum-Monero atomic swaps, we discussed individuals capable of efficient promotion. We also discussed a grant from the MAGIC Monero Fund's balance to accelerate its fundraising, which will be carried into the next meeting.
|
||||
|
||||
### Newsletter
|
||||
|
||||
An incomplete draft of the body was shared, with Rucknium providing an additional section. By next meeting, we hope for the ready draft, and will be actively orchestrating community engagement until then.
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||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-09-06"
|
||||
date: 2022-09-06
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick, Csila, monerobull
|
||||
|
||||
### Monero <-> Ethereum Atomic Swap Matching
|
||||
|
||||
The committee unanimously voted to match donations over the weekend to the active fundraise to further atomic swaps with Ethereum. This was intended to raise awareness and provide a sense of urgency to donating, encouraging donations now instead of allowing parties interested in donating to push it off and forget about it.
|
||||
|
||||
### Newsletter and Updates
|
||||
|
||||
The content-ready draft of the newsletter was shared, leading to discussions about engagement. We also discussed posting final comments on ACK-J's recently completed work on applying machine learning to Monero transactions.
|
||||
|
||||
### Research Contact
|
||||
|
||||
Another researcher contact was proposed and will be reached out to. They have contributed work around Monero in the past and we hope to be able to get them to contribute further work in the future.
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-09-13"
|
||||
date: 2022-09-13
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, monerobull
|
||||
|
||||
Since the attending committee members didn't represent a majority only minor organizational topics were discussed.
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-09-27"
|
||||
date: 2022-09-27
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick, monerobull
|
||||
|
||||
### BTCPay
|
||||
|
||||
After our previous fundraise, we've had a lot of discussion about simplifying the donation process. The community has an adverse reaction to our usage of Gofundme for tracking donations, along with handling fiat donations. Obtaining a Monero address, or another supported cryptocurrency address, is also obfuscated. This leaves two goals.
|
||||
|
||||
1) Immediately stating cryptocurrency donation addresses on announcement posts
|
||||
2) Placing a trackable counter on the announcement post
|
||||
|
||||
This will also reduce the amount of labor required by increasing our automation. While we've previously discussed a solution by a community member, and have historically discussed building our own solution, we believe BTCPay will be a standing solution usable for our purposes. Not only is it designed to track deposits, it can also provide a tally over simple HTTP requests, making it highly integrateable. The immediate focus will be on setting this up.
|
||||
|
||||
### Monero Documentation RFP
|
||||
|
||||
Hearing community requests for greater documentation, we are considering placing a call for proposals to attract writers to provide said documentation. This would greatly help parties integrate, and therefore adopt, Monero. A list of potentially relevant developers has also been started.
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-10-11"
|
||||
date: 2022-10-11
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick, Csila, monerobull
|
||||
|
||||
### BTCPay/OpenSats
|
||||
|
||||
We've set a goal of having OpenSats ready by next week to handle donations. Rucknium has put forth work on getting an instance set up and making sure it meets our needs. Deverick helped set up BTCPay server, and Kayaba will provide a review of the server's security. Most of this meeting was spent reviewing the current work and handling miscellaneous tasks around it.
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-10-18"
|
||||
date: 2022-10-18
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick, monerobull
|
||||
|
||||
### Grant Application from a Monero Fork
|
||||
|
||||
A Monero fork requested a grant for their payment services, which was considering pivoting to focus on Monero. We discussed it and considered the grant application out-of-scope given the existence of another cryptocurrency. The applicant is welcome to re-apply for any Monero-specific development however.
|
||||
|
||||
### BTCPay/OpenSats
|
||||
|
||||
The security of the OpenSats server was reviewed and confirmed. Further design and functionality discussions were had, creating a list of tasks which needed to be completed in order to achieve deployment.
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-11-01"
|
||||
date: 2022-11-01
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick, Csila, monerobull
|
||||
|
||||
### BTCPay Server Support for Bitcoin
|
||||
|
||||
Due to a recent upgrade to the Bitcoin daemon, BTCPay stuttered on handling the new wallet RPC. While a fix was submitted, it doesn't seem to be complete and we're working on resolving that. A few potential solutions have been put forth.
|
||||
|
||||
### Grant Application for a Cryptography Wiki
|
||||
|
||||
We were requested to fund a cryptography wiki aimed at ensuring open, consistent access to a variety of concepts and protocols. While appreciated, as Monero is built on cryptography and the design seemed sufficiently sane, it wasn't directly related to Monero and the requested amount exceeded our budget. We declined to move forward, yet welcomed the applicant to discuss a Monero-specific section in the future.
|
||||
|
||||
### OpenSats Application Page
|
||||
|
||||
We'd appreciate our new OpenSats site be able to additionally handle applications via a webform. This will be tested before the next meeting.
|
||||
|
||||
### Increasing the grant amount target from 20k to 30k
|
||||
|
||||
Due to our funding approaching 60k USD, we discussed raising the grant amount target from 20k to 30k. We were unsure how many more projects this would actually entice however, and doing a single grant of that amount would be half our budget. For now, we decided to keep the amount at 20k.
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-11-08"
|
||||
date: 2022-11-08
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick, monerobull
|
||||
|
||||
### OpenSats Website
|
||||
|
||||
We've completed the OpenSats website per our needs and are discussing final deployment steps. This mainly involves ensuring the Docker containers are properly composed, yet also some remaining BTCPay server tasks.
|
||||
|
||||
### Update from mj-xmr
|
||||
|
||||
We agreed to host fundraising for a grant for mj-xmr. This grant would support the Monero Research Labs, the development of OSPEAD, and work to analyze differences in MyMonero. The fundraising component is currently pending deployment of the new infrastructure. Despite this, mj-xmr has worked on the tasks, providing updates to their tool, `tsqsim`, and analysis of MyMonero's fee behavior. The latter is intended to lead to patches improving users' privacy as part of their continued work.
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-11-15"
|
||||
date: 2022-11-15
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick, Csila, monerobull
|
||||
|
||||
### Supporting MoneroKon
|
||||
|
||||
MAGIC and MoneroKon are discussing if MAGIC would be able to successfully handle their USD flow, and the MAGIC Monero Fund specifically discussed it. Given monerobull's role in organizing MoneroKon, and how some committee members may apply to speak, we deemed the conflict of interest concerns to be quite severe. It'd be optimal for MAGIC to handle it, not the MAGIC Monero Fund, if MoneroKon does want such assistance.
|
||||
|
||||
### Fund Custody
|
||||
|
||||
Given the recent failure of many centralized organizations, we re-discussed how funds are secured and considered alternative options, including ones premised on multisig.
|
||||
|
||||
### New Fundraising Site
|
||||
|
||||
We finished planning the deployment of the new fundraising site which should be live by the next meeting. It will go live at https://MoneroFund.org.
|
||||
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-11-22"
|
||||
date: 2022-11-22
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick, monerobull
|
||||
|
||||
### New Fundraising Site
|
||||
|
||||
We celebrated the deployment of the new fundraising site which is live at https://monerofund.org/. Since some members were absent, we discussed some misc. topics. For the next meeting, we will look into the logistics of creating a newsletter.
|
||||
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-12-06"
|
||||
date: 2022-12-06
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick, monerobull
|
||||
|
||||
### Newsletter
|
||||
|
||||
With the end of the year approaching, having achieved our prior goal of deplying a site for fundraising, we're revisiting our goal of a newsletter. The same overall goals for it apply, now just with additional items for inclusion.
|
||||
|
||||
### Email Delivery
|
||||
|
||||
Currently, MAGIC is setup with Google, and we can send emails through it to our subscribers. A more privacy-friendly option may be preferred, yet candidates for email delivery have so far been lacking.
|
||||
|
||||
### Further Improvements to the Fundraising Site
|
||||
|
||||
The current application page is a bit verbose. Narrowing its scope, allowing for more flexibility in answering, would streamline answering and increase the likelihood of applying. It would also cut out redundancy, allowing us to review proposals faster. We've named several fields for the chopping block.
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2022-12-20"
|
||||
date: 2022-12-20
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, monerobull
|
||||
|
||||
### Next steps
|
||||
|
||||
A proposal for a new fundraiser was discussed and loose consensus for hosting it was achieved by Rucknium, Kayaba & monerobull. More details will follow later on with the fundraisers official announcement.
|
||||
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2023-01-10"
|
||||
date: 2023-01-10
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick, monerobull
|
||||
|
||||
### mj-xmr's Grant for Reduction of Statistical Attack Risk
|
||||
|
||||
We previously voted to host fundraising for mj-xmr's work. The fundraising has completed its allotted time, and unfortunately, failed to raise the necessary funds. With Rucknium abstaining, the other members in attendance unanimously voted to cancel the fundraise.
|
||||
|
||||
### Operational discussions
|
||||
|
||||
With the upcoming rotation of members, retiring the access of current members who will no longer be present was discussed. The main focus was on our active websites, with further discussions on their continued maintenance.
|
||||
|
||||
### Parting commentary and feedback from Deverick
|
||||
|
||||
Deverick shared his opinion on the prior year, aiming to help give us focus for the upcoming year. Not only did they empasize greater outreach to researchers and developers, yet also helping them get involved with Monero in the first place. Our current list of research topics requires prior awareness in order to understand them. Ideally, we'd provide context and further explanations to encourage parties to pick up said topics.
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2023-01-17"
|
||||
date: 2023-01-17
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, Deverick, monerobull
|
||||
|
||||
### Newsletter
|
||||
|
||||
In our final meeting, we agreed to publish our newsletter as a summary of our past year. It has been updated to cover all of our funded proposals, and further cover the goals we've previously set. It will be published to the Monero subreddit and over email, not any additional platforms at this time.
|
||||
|
||||
### Summary
|
||||
|
||||
We also summarized the things we were proud of over the past year, and things we hoped to improve upon over the next year. The community members who are continuing into the next year hope to refocus upon these to ensure we best establish ourselves.
|
||||
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2023-02-07"
|
||||
date: 2023-02-07
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, monerobull, MajesticBank, artlimber
|
||||
|
||||
### Welcoming New Members
|
||||
|
||||
This was the first meeting with new members MajesticBank and artlimber. Justin, from MAGIC itself, joined to introduce them.
|
||||
|
||||
### First Grant Application of the Year
|
||||
|
||||
A project applied for a grant, which we did our initial review on. Due to the limited time after doing introductions and welcoming our new members, we decided not to vote this meeting. We did, however, have initial discussions and raised concerns to consider when we do our further independent reviews.
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2023-02-14"
|
||||
date: 2023-02-14
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, monerobull, artlimber
|
||||
|
||||
### Prior Discussed Grant
|
||||
|
||||
Of the members present, we unanimously voted "No" on the grant mentioned last week. We did not believe it was sufficiently relevant to Monero, nor that it had the structure needed to succeed.
|
||||
|
||||
### Grant Request for Workshops/Research
|
||||
|
||||
We received a grant request to fund workshops at universities and unspecified research papers. We have inquired for more information in order to determine what exactly the research would be, and determine their connections to academic institutions.
|
||||
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2023-02-21"
|
||||
date: 2023-02-21
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, monerobull
|
||||
|
||||
### Grant Database
|
||||
|
||||
We submitted the MAGIC's Monero Fund offer to fund research to a grants database, giving researchers another chance to discover us. This is part of our efforts to reach out to the academic community and find more people willing to contribute to Monero.
|
||||
|
||||
### The EABE Attack
|
||||
|
||||
Recently, a member of the Monero community expressed interest in research towards defeating the EABE attack. While full chain membership proofs would be one solution, there's been a shortcoming of research to handle it under the decoy privacy model. We agreed it'd be worthwhile to reach out and see if MAGIC can help coordinate/fund this research.
|
||||
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2023-02-28"
|
||||
date: 2023-02-28
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba
|
||||
|
||||
With only two members present, discussion was limited to brief updates.
|
||||
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2023-03-07"
|
||||
date: 2023-03-07
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, monerobull, artlimber
|
||||
|
||||
### Grant Request for Workshops/Research
|
||||
|
||||
We requested more info from this applicant and did not receive a response. Due to this lack of communication, the present members have voted not to move forward with this grant, yet we are open to further explanation in the future.
|
||||
|
||||
### Monero Dashboard
|
||||
|
||||
We received a grant to fund a series of widgets for tracking Monero. We have decided to ask the community for their opinion to check the actual value of this.
|
||||
|
||||
### EABE Attack Research
|
||||
|
||||
We prior committed to reach out to someone interested in having research on the EABE attack conducted in order to see if we could help organize it. Progress is being made, yet it may be funded through the CCS instead of MAGIC.
|
||||
|
||||
### Cremers, Loss, and Wagner
|
||||
|
||||
Cremers, Loss, and Wagner published a security analysis of RingCT, including various proofs. They will be present at the upcoming Monero Research Lab meeting. We intend to ask them if they'd be interested in formalizing Monero's multisig algorithm, as the MAGIC Monero Fund would be interested in funding such work.
|
||||
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2023-03-14"
|
||||
date: 2023-03-14
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, monerobull, artlimber
|
||||
|
||||
### Grant Request for a Monero Dashboard
|
||||
|
||||
We discussed the grant request to build a Monero dashboard. While not opposed to it, we do want to ensure real-world interest, and will continue to perform temperature checks with the community.
|
||||
|
||||
### Goals of the Monero Committee
|
||||
|
||||
We want to be pro-active in soliciting grants, and discussed firm ideas for grants we could reach out about. Cremers, Loss, and Wagner, who published a security analysis of the current Monero protocol, would be prime candidates to formalize and perform an analysis of our current multisig protocol. We also remain interested in funding atomic swaps and will reach out to a party working in that specific area.
|
||||
|
||||
### Event Presence
|
||||
|
||||
We plan to submit a lightning talk to Monerokon about MAGIC, as we did last year, and will work to have a few slides at Monerotopia.
|
||||
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2023-03-21"
|
||||
date: 2023-03-21
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, monerobull
|
||||
|
||||
### Grant Request for a Monero Dashboard
|
||||
|
||||
We performed temperature checks from the community and didn't hear an outcry of positive support. While we appreciate the opportunity to raise further awareness, there are already a series of Monero dashboards available from the community. We have voted to decline this grant, yet request they reach out in 6 months after having been successfully deployed within other communities so we can re-evaluate value.
|
||||
|
||||
### Grant Request for a Centralized Exchange
|
||||
|
||||
We have received a grant request to the fund the development of, and liquidity for, a centralized exchange. We performed an initial discussion yet decided to wait until next week when more members are present to vote.
|
||||
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2023-03-28"
|
||||
date: 2023-03-28
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, monerobull, artlimber
|
||||
|
||||
### Grant Request for a Centralized Exchange
|
||||
|
||||
We unanimously voted not to fund the creation of a centralized exchange. Not only did we not see sufficient benefit in this specific proposal for a centralized exchange, the role of the MAGIC Monero Fund isn't to entirely fund commercial ventures.
|
||||
|
||||
### Research
|
||||
|
||||
Rucknium provided brief updates on previously discussed research topics. There is no active involvement warranted on our end at this time.
|
||||
|
||||
### Recess
|
||||
|
||||
We will not have a meeting next week, by agreeance, due to a lack of necessity and a request by a committee member.
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2023-04-11"
|
||||
date: 2023-04-11
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, monerobull
|
||||
|
||||
### Research Discussions
|
||||
|
||||
With one group of researchers, there was a question regarding their limitations for receiving funding. We've asked Justin, President of MAGIC, to reach out and help assist given MAGIC's unique ability to participate in the traditional system.
|
||||
|
||||
### Minutes and documentation
|
||||
|
||||
Some minutes, and MAGIC Monero Fund documentation in general, was improperly published. Known instances have been corrected.
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2023-04-18"
|
||||
date: 2023-04-18
|
||||
author: magicmonerofund
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, monerobull, artlimber
|
||||
|
||||
### Brief Updates
|
||||
|
||||
Thre was no further updates available regarding researchers. The Monerokon schedule was published, and our participation was briefly discused.
|
||||
|
||||
### Amendment to the Fund's Policies
|
||||
|
||||
Justin Ehrenhofer, President of MAGIC, joined to discuss the fact the committee has practically operated with just four members since our first meeting. Unfortunately, after that meeting, Majestic Bank no longer attended meetings. While we're understanding of members not being able to make every single meeting, over three months without participation is a distinct matter.
|
||||
|
||||
It was mutually agreed the optimal way forward was to amend the Monero Fund's policies, allowing four committee members to impeach another, pending the MAGIC Grants Board review and approval, after missing at least four meetings in a row.
|
||||
|
||||
The present committee member's unanimously voted in favor of this amendment, tracked [here](https://github.com/MAGICGrants/website/pull/16).
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
layout: post
|
||||
title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2023-04-25"
|
||||
date: 2023-04-25
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author: magicmonerofund
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### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, monerobull, artlimber
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### Membership Update
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MajesticBank was removed from the committee by the MAGIC Grants board for policy violations.
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### Molly
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The committee is once again discussing Molly. Our prior discussions ended when Molly's developer informed us they were taking another path regarding funding. Recently, they updated their CCS with their progress, including work on an Android SDK for Monero with a variety of features/improvements. Within their update, they requested another 36,000 USD for their increased scope of work.
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The committee discussed their increased scope of work and funding opportunities for them. We compiled a list of questions so we can be fully informed.
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### Carbon Emission Company
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A company focusing on carbon emissions requested funding. The committee unanimously voted no due to the lack of relevance.
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### Overseer
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A draft research proposal on analysing the Overseer attack under the decoy model was posted. The committee discussed it at a high level and gave initial feedback.
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title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2023-05-02"
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date: 2023-05-02
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author: magicmonerofund
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### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, monerobull
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### Research Updates
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No further updates are available, though we did take time to further discuss active research topics and solicitation for them.
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### Molly
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Due to the amount of funding Molly is still looking to raise, we unfortunately don't feel MAGIC is likely the best path forward for Molly at this time. We're continuing discussions with them at this time to provide advice and see if there are ways we can still provide assistance.
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title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2023-05-16"
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date: 2023-05-16
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author: magicmonerofund
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### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, monerobull
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### Overseer Research
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We reviewed the proposal to study the implications of the Overseer attack, along with feedback from statisticians within the Monero community. We have decided to ask the proposer to respond to the feedback in question to see how it will be incorporated.
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### MoneroKon
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MAGIC is planning to raise awareness at MoneroKon. While a Monero Fund committee member is also giving a lightning talk, we discussed how we want to be involved with MAGIC's planning.
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title: "Monero Fund Committee Minutes from 2023-05-23"
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date: 2023-05-23
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author: magicmonerofund
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### Present: Rucknium, Kayaba, monerobull, artlimber
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### Overseer Research
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We unanimously voted to offer to host fundraising for the proposal to study the implications of the Overseer attack, additionally providing a 13,000 USD grant. This leaves the amount needing fundraising to roughly 20,000 USD. We hope this research will lead to notable improvements to our understanding of Monero's privacy, letting it be improved to further protect users.
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### Molly
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Molly moved forward with a CCS, yet had a remaining question for MAGIC we discussed, eventually routing to the correct parties.
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