Thank you for these comments Rika! You also wanted me to respond to the value that this initiative might bring to Metacartel, so here we go:
Value to Metacartel
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This is an opportunity for MC to disseminate its integrity-rich, community-first stance through innovative cultural artifacts. We are attempting to raise the sanity waterline for the whole Ethereum ecosystem by scaling the vision and values of the Moloch/MC through potent lore. Some might consider this a marketing justification, but we might consider it longer-term cultural production for the MC family.
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MC will help set the precedent for this novel transmedia initiative to perform and demonstrate their continued commitment to community-first values. MC has conducted some awesome experiments in the past and this risk taking generates strong cultural credibility for the DAO.
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These efforts will be on display to capture the attention (hearts and minds) of everyone at ETH Denver, slated to be tens of thousands of people. We hope to raise morale and generate visceral optimism by focusing on rad-tastic cultural products, inspired by how MC has conducted itself in the past: producing value locally that scales to the larger web3 conversation.
Key Performance Indicators
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The release is successful. This means all of the work in the proposal is executed (minimum) and far exceeds all of our expectations (the stated goal). Success here is measured by the mind melting radness of the artifacts, which will be apparent in the spirit of the audience receiving it during the event.
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The sales will speak for themelves. This drop is in collaboration with Metalabel, which just sold out their alpha release in hours. Basically, we hope for some quantifiable financial success here. The profits will go to the artists, so as a metric we hope to prove that The Pluriverse (in collab with Metacartel and Metalabel) might demonstrate a powerful funneling of attention and value to non-web3-native art and artists (who we are pilling in the process) that create future incentives for them to keep working with us and attract more regen web3 attention from their local communities.
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Based on the previous points, we will attract additional sponsors and grantees to allow us to continue the experiment into Q2. The cultural artifacts produced from this grant will allow The Pluriverse to build a stable foundation, using ETH Denver as the schelling point. If these points fail, we will not be returning for additional grants.
A side note: we are really trying to shift away from the loss leader strategy of the previous releases (the comics) and towards an economically viable/sustainable franchise strategy. This is definitely a bold experiment for a bear market, but we think the cultural/community value is much needed during these trying times.
As to the point about this being a larger grant request than MC usually distributes, I would defer to @Dekan’s original Grant Giving Chili Pods post that outlines the proposal conduct for this initiative and states “teams without proven track records can request up to 20k.” We are positioning The Pluriverse into this category, as we might not have the “history of successful distribution” to request more. If the funds were decreased, certainly the scope of the output would need to be as well. I would also note @Yalor’s ETHos Chili Pod #2 proposal which successfully allocated 32ETH recently, double the amount of this proposal. I encourage more discussion on this point from any Metacartelians that might be so inclined to weigh in.
Thank you so much for your time and consideration in reading this material!