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Voting Yes. However, I would also like to see an extension to the service - perhaps with a separate funding proposal. That would be to vet new proposal owners before they get voted in on their first proposal to the network. Currently the only information we have of a new proposal owner before they submit their proposal is what they choose to tell us. For all we know they could be a con artist as we have seen so many times previously. I feel basic background checks on the proposal owners and their team will give us better insight if a proposal owner is capable of running the project. No investor, business angel, VC or business in their right mind would ever agree to fund anyone without extensive interviews, tests and background checks along with a fully worked out business plan - so why are we dishing out money to unknown people without doing due diligence? A good idea is really not enough as we have seen time and time again. What makes a project work is the team behind the project. I would rather now not fund any projects that do not at least provide a fully worked out business plan and are vetted to ensure they have the credentials to run a project for us successfully.


In addition to the network needs to retain exploitation IP rights to all content, programs, software, designs we fund so we can use them on other projects. I've said this many times previously but this message seems to be falling on deaf ears. We need to retain IP. If we do this all future projects we fund can benefit immediately from a repository of digital assets. We need to set this up if we are to be serious about building the future of DASH otherwise we are simply wasting valuable resources that other projects can benefit from. I suggested previously the concept of "Dash Assets" which would be a DOA owned legal entity that could ensure to setup IP licensing and rights to every project we fund. If a proposal owner does not wan this then they don't get funded. In this way if they provide the best service they continue to get funded. If not a better proposal owner will take over their work. We need an entity that can manage IP rights and licensing for the projects we fund to make certain these assets are used by all future projects.

The Dash network should have IP exploitation rights to the KuvaCash software, to the Estonian project for the DASH card NFC payment system, to Alt36 software we paid for. That is a couple of million investment with absolutely nothing worthwhile to show for the network. This needs to change.

Hi DeepBlue, thank you for your support and feedback. Dash Watch is open to any requests the MNO consensus would want to implement. If the MNOs would like a verification or section of the DW website/report to have information on the proposal owner, we can implement that. Please feel free to email us directly at team@dashwatch.org if you would like to discuss any implementation ideas.

For the IP rights, that would be primarily the MNOs responsibility to "enforce" with DAO tools (Trust Protectors/DIF) as it would probably be outside the scope of Dash Watch.

PS. We can use the KuvaCash software for a new team to build a remittance system to Venezuela. We could use the Alt36 for a payment system in Venezuela and we can use the could have used the NFC payment from the Estonian project for the DashMall & Parking project. We need to retain the rights to these assets we are paying for.

Your ideas about software and IP are rather fanciful DB. First of all, there is no such thing as "KuvaCash software." You will be riding in a DashTaxi long before Kuva ever ships a product.

Rather than collect half-baked, junk IP, we should continue to focus on defunding nonperformant DAO Dodo birds so we can fund new initiatives that actually move us forward.

Yes, but still hoping for wiki style reporting one day.

We have discussed this internally and our original plans had Dash Nexus being more of the "wiki style" proposal information center. With Dash Watch reports being integrated into the Dash Nexus site.

Yes from me, hope you get enough votes posting this late in the cycle.

Thank you, we held on longer than usual because we had some rollover from last month due to the price increase. However, we saw that there was still some room in the budget, so we asked for a smaller amount so that we would not burden the budget but also give us additional run rate with funding.

Voting YES! DashWatch provides a much needed service as an independent third party for proposal verification. They also provide a bonus secondary feature in that they are a great way to summarize the current state of the Dash economy. Recently, I took an afternoon to go through all of the recent Dash watch reports back to Nov 2019. It was really bullish and eye-opening just how much work is being paid and getting done in a diverse set of regions.

We've got many teams reporting to an independent 3rd party auditor that allows the independent MNOs and DAO to make decisions on funding proposals. This is so amazing because we seem to just take it for granted that we have this. Dash appears to have so many innovations and firsts, that even its own community doesn't know how to properly take advantage of them all! For contrast, BCH is threatening right now to split *again* because they are trying to set up a self-funding mechanism like ours, so they don't have to be beholden to volunteers and corporations (like AXA).

The problem is they lack precisely what I'm fawning over, decentralization. They lack decentralization of funding, decentralization of teams (dev, marketing, biz dev), and most importantly, they lack decentralization of arbitration. I.e. there's no one entity they as a community can look towards in order to verify claims independent of the bias of the makers of those claims. They can't poll the stakeholders of BCH (MN voting), they can't independently verify that teams that have claimed work have completed it (DashWatch). Those two things together, MN voting + DashWatch = a whole hell of a lot of decentralization in decision-making. We can easily do, every month, what every other coin is either too small, or too centralized to do. That is what Dash Watch brings to the table and I for one whole-heartedly support their efforts.

Let's vote YES! for Dash Watch so they can continue to audit the DAOs that work for us and provide an independent third party that the MNOs can trust.

Thank you for your support!

I fully agree with therealDashman21. DW has been an excellent resource and provides a framework to make it easier not just on MNOs but also for proposal owners, to know what to expect when it comes to the transparency that the DAO seems to value.

Also, verifying myself as TroyDASH#5509 on Discord

Thank you TroyDASH!

Voting YES for this solid team, thanks guys!

Thank you for your continued support!