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Thank you for acknowledging the no sale rule. Just so everything is absolutely crystal clear, your researchers would be paid in OP, and they in turn would simply be long OP for the time being?
Can you elaborate further upon this portion of the grant plan? It might be helpful to walk through a hypothetical example of how this would work.
A suggestion to make this part of the grant plan stronger would be to provide specific dates and more specific deliverables. For example,
Could become “Set up an analysis framework and share with the Optimism community. This will be done via forum post, which will be clearly labeled as XYZ and will link back to this grant plan for reference. This report will share the basic concepts and reasoning behind the framework, and will either include or clearly link to methodology. This will be posted on the forum no later than 4 weeks from receipt of OP tokens.”
We suggest similar specificity for the critical milestones. Note that critical milestones are needed to unlock each portion of a grant, so it’s important they be unambiguous to avoid disagreements.
Further guidance on milestones can be found here: Milestone Assessment
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