Proposal “DCG-Operations-May-July-26“ (Active)Back

Title:Dash Core Group Operations May - August 2026
Owner:quantumexplorer
Monthly amount: 5196 DASH (210472 USD)
Completed payments: no payments occurred yet (4 month remaining)
Payment start/end: 2026-04-07 / 2026-08-04 (added on 2026-04-10)
Final voting deadline: in 1 month
Votes: 254 Yes / 0 No / 0 Abstain
Will be funded: No. This proposal needs additional 55 Yes votes to become funded.
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Proposal description

Dash Core Group April 21st Funding Proposals

DCG is submitting only one funding proposal for the budget cycle that pays out April 21st:
1) DCG Operations: 5,196 Dash per month (currently in month 1/4)

What does this specific proposal fund?


This proposal funds Dash Core Group's ongoing operating costs - this includes compensation, legal and infrastructure costs.  This is a single month proposal that will cover operating costs for May 2026 to August 2026.

What is the proposal funding?

As of early April 2026 DCG has 21 paid staff at full time/close to full time associated with the project. In addition, we have 2 volunteers who have decided to work for no compensation and one for very minimal compensation. The amount of developers we currently have is given below.

In November of 2024 we offered some long time contributors a Dash denominated compensation instead of the fiat based compensation. Many took this when the price of Dash was around 25$ even when taking at the same time a 10% reduction in the total compensation.

We estimate that our projected run-rate for April for compensation will be around 2250 Dash for Dash denominated compensation and $99000 for Fiat based compensation. Our infrastructure cost is at around $3,000 for April. We are also spending around 3k USD/month for AI tools and licenses. This puts our break even price at around 36$ / Dash.

With this current proposal, we are asking for total funding of the equivalent of $207,840 per month. This should allow us to grow our reserve which currently is close to 450k USD.

What does DCG's current structure look like?

DCG has evolved to primarily be a tech focused organization that can be grouped into 2 main parts, technology and technology support.

Technology:

  • CTO Samuel Westrich - quantumexplorer (making this proposal)

Core:
  • Lead C++ Software Engineer (Pasta)
  • Lead C++ Software Engineer (UdjinM6)
  • Senior C++ Software Engineer (Knst)
SDK:
  • Senior Rust Software Engineer (Rehire - Dustinface)
  • Rust Software Engineer (Borja - New - Helping on Mobile for now)
Mobile:
  • Lead Android Software Engineer and Principal Developer (HashEngineering)
  • Sr. iOS Software Engineer (Bartozs)
Platform Team:
  • Senior Rust Software Engineer (Lukasz)
  • Rust Software Engineer (Paul From Research)
  • Lead Software Engineer (Rehire - Ivan)
  • (CTO is heavily working on Platform)
Technology Support:

Communication / Business Development / Marketing:
  • Business Development Manager (very part time (1h/week) )
Documentation:
  • Lead Technical Content Developer
Human Resources:
  • HR Specialist
Infrastructure (no change):
  • Lead Infrastructure Engineer
  • Infrastructure Engineer
  • Web Developer
Project Management (no change):
  • Lead SM / Project Manager
Product (no change):
  • Head of Product
Quality Assurance (no change):
  • QA Engineer
Tech Support (no change):
  • Lead Support Engineer
  • Support Engineer

If you have any questions, please direct them to @quantumexplorer at dashcentral to ensure we are notified of your request.
Requested funding is as follows for the April budget cycles:
  • 5,195.75 Dash for core team compensation per month ($236,406 USD @ $45.50 per Dash)
  • 0.25/Month Dash proposal reimbursement 
Total: Dash per month

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1 point,1 day ago
Evonode APY (9.15%) versus Masternode APY (8.37%) has almost reached equilibrium and unfortunetely the Evonode APY has turned out to be much less reliably achieved then the Masternode APY. The Gaussian distribution system of Platform + high number of Evonodes now operating on the Platform chain + low Platform usage causing longer time between Platform blocks seems to cause my Evonode to operate in an underperforming situation more and more frequently . Last two epochs i can barely get 9 proposed blocks instead of 14, so the Platform rewards per epoch over time are now getting disappointingly low. There is also no additional Platform revenue stream offset occurring either by tokens or dApps from Platform that flow back to Evonodes.

I will evaluate for a few more epochs, but if this continues i think i will go back to just Masternodes only setup. At least that way i know i can actually get the APY that i expect to get.
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1 point,1 day ago
Refer to https://mnowatch.org/evonodes/ page and in the Evonodes table, hover over the numbers in the Proposed Blocks column to get an average, compare that number with your evonode in the list, you should be close to that number if all's fair.
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1 point,1 day ago
Thank you. I will do this at the end of current epoch and see if it matches my mentioned estimated 14 blocks. Handy to know that we can have an estimate of average proposed blocks for an epoch.
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1 point,1 day ago
Quite OT here, but anyway, this is a useful tool: https://github.com/dashpay/evoblocks_distribution_visualizer
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1 point,1 day ago
According my calculations with 355 Evonodes and 1640 masternodes operating on the network an Evonode should receive about 0.686 trillion credits per epoch / 6.8 dash per epoch. It does require your Evonode having proposed about 14 blocks. However if your Evonode only get 9 proposed blocks, you only get 0.46 trillion credits / 4.6 dash.
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1 point,1 day ago
These are my calculations : https://imgur.com/wNC1NxT
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1 point,1 day ago
I would like to see bug fixes get implemented faster on Mainnet for Dash Evo Tool. Last update for DET : 27 October 2025. Bug that requires new DET release : Withdrawing max amount through the Max button not working, throwing error. Needs manual adjustment every single time. Pls dont keep bug fixes for DET hostage this long for new features.
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1 point,1 day ago
Try using the Pshenmic Bulk Send tool, link on the forum, it's splendid, gets every last Duff out and you can automate it too!
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1 point,1 day ago
The issue is that Paul internally fixed this specific issue many many months ago for DET (dev release) and could have just issued a minor version release to DET.
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1 point,1 day ago
Yeah, and he is no longer working in DCG, so the DET is not currently owned by any dev specifically, although, they do contribute to it still from time to time. FYI, I have also made complaints about the slow releases for things like DET and Rust-SPV, and was told that I am wrong to expect such things, so we are SOL.
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5 points,1 day ago
We are doing a massive refactor of DET, cleaning everything up. The work is visible here: https://github.com/dashpay/dash-evo-tool/commits/v1.0-dev/
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