@limes - thanks for the questions. I’d suggest they’re not directly related to @netto.eth’s funding request above, but happy to answer here regardless.
To avoid @netto.eth’s conflict of interest on this, I never discussed the SPP vote front-end provider grant with Netto until after it was settled.
I discussed with @daostrat.eth and @AvsA in March and April, as the [EP 6.4] discussions began to make it clear that these dev teams were now doing significant pro-bono work with no guarantee of an SPP2 stream after the vote.
(Cam and I already agreed on the retro grant, but we felt a 3rd voice was appropriate for oversight. I chose Avsa because he is an elected foundation member, former elected metagov steward, and long time ENS contributor.)
The 60k to Lighthouse was a grant to enable them to undertake the Onchain DAO Org Identity Metadata project.
There’s a post here from when that kicked-off, and the Lighthouse team had been discussing it openly on Metagov calls. There’s other forum posts on it, some hackMDs / Notion, and a Telegram group and open meetings on it.
The amount was what Lighthouse requested in their petition to Metagov. I was personally very supportive of the grant, in hopes this team could do what other initiatives in this area have failed at, while ensuring the final standard keeps the ENS protocol at its center.
The 61k USDC to zkEmail wasn’t a grant from Metagov - it was Metagov temporarily covering a DAO obligation using our discretionary funds, so it was Metagov providing a loan to the DAO, because the assets in the Stream Management safe weren’t sufficient to pay all the back pay needed when we activated the SPP2 streams.
This forum thread explains the process, but the tl;dr is that the SPP2 streams were late in starting, and we had to pay the recipients a “back pay” payment to cover the gap between when they began accruing on May 26th and when the streams actually began flowing on July 5th. Most of the back pay payments were made using the USDCx that had accrued in the Stream Management pod, but there wasn’t enough to cover all 7 team’s backpay payments.
Metagov paid zKEmail’s backpay payment using our discretionary line item, knowing that the next funding window would replenish the discretionary category on our books.