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I propose temporarily revising the method for distributing funds from the DAO treasury.
All proposals should begin with a description of their effectiveness. Identify proposed key performance indicators (KPIs), which are measurable metrics for assessing the achievement of goals and the effectiveness of business processes. Each proposal should include a link to a forum where the proposal owner should report on what was and was not accomplished with the allocated funds, as well as the reasons why the plan was not implemented.

I also propose that the forum discuss and put to a vote mechanisms that will prevent the ineffective use of funds.
https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/preparing-a-proposal-to-protect-the-dao-budget.68335/

What was the trigger?
I'll give examples of budget waste that demonstrate how poorly the current funding system works. There are many examples, but I'll just give a few.

Dash Incubator
The most appalling example of incompetent fundraising is Dash Incubator. Rion spent $1.6 million on Dash Incubator. That's a colossal amount of money, and yet the community didn't get a single product. There's not a single example of a successful project or product developed by programmers hired by Dash Incubator, with the exception of Platform Explorer, which is still being developed by the pshenmic team. Rion mismanaged money, paid unqualified people huge sums of money, apparently didn't conduct any interviews, and wasn't even smart enough to assemble a team of several qualified employees that would include a designer, a manager, and developers. All Dash Incubator projects have basic designs that look like they were created by a second-year student. And, in fact, rion literally paid students to write articles like "which JSON library should I choose: gson or jackson?"—a real example of a student getting paid a hundred dollars to understand a basic question that could be Googled in five minutes. If you visit any of the Dash Incubator-related repositories, you'll see that most projects haven't had a single commit since 2022. All the projects are hopelessly dead. Rion can't estimate how much a project will cost or how many people it will take to build it. He's taken on every project he could, even though it's obvious that a project as infamous as Jembe can only be developed by a professional team. Rion paid over $10,000 for the Jembe design, but has even one masternode owner seen that design? Where is that design now? The community paid a ton of money and got nothing back. $1.6 million—that's enough money to build 5-6 DashPay wallets for iOS!
Before rion joined, the Dash Incubator also existed, and it, too, was overspent. Hundreds of thousands of dollars. Everything I say can be verified by looking at Trello, Github, and MnoWatch. No one reviews people's work for years. For years, masternode owners continued to give rion money, despite the obvious fact that he was completely incompetent. Three years ago, some community members tried to draw attention to this problem, but masternode owners continued to trust rion.
Rion and AJ asked for funding for the development of the Dash Platform SDK. Eventually, rion's friend AJ simply realized he'd screwed himself, couldn't do anything, and walked off with the money. This guy had been making huge amounts of money for years streaming to three or four people. Thousands of dollars for streams that no one wanted. He bills himself as something of a programming guru, yet none of his projects exceed 1,000 lines of code. How could someone like that be trusted to write an SDK for such a complex project as the Dash Platform?
After AJ "walked off," rion continued asking for funding for SDK development. And... again, he did nothing. He complained that there wasn't enough money to hire a US developer. This is absolute nonsense. If a US developer is so expensive, then they could hire a developer from Europe or the CIS. But, of course, he didn't have enough money to hire a developer, since he took all the money for himself as salary, which is perfectly confirmed by his comment under his proposal, that he finally found a job and can now hire a developer. So what did he do? What should he be paid for?

BMD
BMD is a prime example of a scam made possible by a flaw in the existing system: payment for work before it's actually completed. BMD managed to gain the trust of community members for a long time. He even performed some work for Dash. Masternode owners were charmed by this scammer; he talked a lot, well, and beautifully. But in the end, he defrauded not only the community but also many other people he hired to do the work. The Dash community couldn't believe that such a nice guy was actually nothing more than a con man and a liar.

Ernesto
Ernesto is a man who shows up once a year to ask for money for yet another project, the benefit of which to the community is always unknown. How long has it been since the community donated money to Unalivo? What's happened to that project? What has it contributed to the community? The community is donating funds to strangers who don't bother to send even the slightest report on their work.

DCG
How is it that Dash SPV, which was in development for iOS for almost two years, was never finished by the developer responsible for it? The DashPay wallet for iOS still hasn't been released. Looking at the Dash Shared Core and Ferment repositories, you can see how the developer only occasionally added a couple of lines of code over several months of work. And now all that work has been thrown away, and Sam is starting everything from scratch. How is this possible? Furthermore, DCG now has no iOS developer, and it's unclear when one will appear or how soon they'll be able to contribute to the project. Clearly, DCG lacks dedicated management; Sam is too immersed in the Platform code. However, this doesn't absolve Sam of responsibility, who continued to ignore the fact that nothing has been done on DashPay for iOS. All this time, the developer was being paid, and the community was assured that everything would be ready on time, which led to unnecessary marketing expenses (Joel received funding several times to promote the platform, including the iOS wallet, but there is still no iOS wallet).
I'm not trying to attack Sam; he does a lot for the community (meaning Platform development), but perhaps he shouldn't try to manage such a large team. I mean, if Sam is well-versed in the platform, let him focus on platform development and manage Platform development exclusively.
For example, DCG is currently seeking a Senior iOS developer for $60,000. $1.6 million is 27 times the annual salary of a Senior iOS developer. Experience shows that Sam again doesn't have enough time to manage this developer.
Let separate people develop mobile wallets. The story of developing a block explorer for the platform and Pshenmik's Chrome browser extension is a good example of separating duties and responsibilities. If Sam understands this, each specialist or small team will receive separate funding and be held accountable for their work. Then the IT infrastructure won't crash, and people won't blame Sam for the L1 "Insight" (block explorer) not working again or the iOS wallet not being ready again.

Joel
Joel is a big fan of Dash, but his competence is highly questionable. Advertising campaign Brave for a general audience isn't a smart move. There are plenty of ways to focus on targeting a specific audience. Why would a 7-year-old or a housewife watching a pie recipe on YouTube see the Dash Evolution image in the Brave browser?
My opinion:
If the Dash platform is being promoted, it's necessary to focus on attracting developers who can build apps on the Dash platform. If there's no developer SDK, then the Dash project's other tools need to be promoted and the target audience needs to be targeted.
If the price needs to be raised and speculators or investors need to be attracted, then the target audience needs to be focused on the platform and demonstrated it. (Explain how launching the Dash platform will impact the world).
Why spend money on a general audience now if Dash Pay doesn't work on iOS at all, Dash Pay on Android is buggy, and there are still no proper tools for working with tokens? People come to Brave's landing page through ads, perhaps wanting to see a working product, but instead they see a prototype or a missing app, after which they leave forever.
Marketing must be professional and effective. I emphasize, I'm not attacking Joel; I just want marketing to be effective.
I recently lashed out at Joel, but I had no other choice. I'm glad the community heard me, and I'm glad Joel heard me. I don't want to shoot myself in the foot. I started retracting "NO" votes on October 15, 2025. https://www.dashcentral.org/p/dash-growth-q4-2025

Summary
Ten different advertising campaigns, each targeting a specific audience, are much more effective than one large advertising campaign.
Ten individual developers or a team are more productive than one large team.
The effectiveness of each project is assessed individually, which will allow us to make the right decisions in the future.
This means that the MN owner will be able to evaluate the effectiveness of each individual project, which will reduce disputes, mitigate criticism, and prevent the negative impact of a developer's unimplemented project (Dash Pay iOS) from casting a shadow over the entire team.

Thank you for reading this lengthy text. If you're interested in evidence supporting the above, you can find it on Dashcentral, Discord, Telegram, X, Github, forum, and Trello.

P.S. Please consider this proposal as a way to communicate with the owners, as not all owners have access (or no have time) to Discord, Telegram, X, Github, forum, or Trello.