@littlemoneyboss (Amy Soon) got 50k to write a book that is basically a crypto knockoff of “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” by Robert Kiyosaki but even worst. You can read it here, for free, because Stephen is a visionary and wanted to give it to everybody.
Amy has a company (MoneyBoss, but the website is now offline. I wonder why!) where she’s promoting some sort of training to become rich and stuff like that together with her sister (a self-made millionaire, former finance director for Apollo Global Management, according to her) and her husband, the great Al Cheung (cheualx) that, by pure coincidence, is also involved in the grant processes for Harmony.
A lot of DAOs start getting LOADS of money to provide basically nothing. Allow me to provide some great examples:
NomadDAO where Al Cheung is a governor, they got 10k and did literally nothing
Vegan African DAO started by an actual member of Blu3DAO that I caught buying her own NFTs and trying to game KPIs to get more grants. Obviously, No action from Harmony or Blu3DAO, @sunny4earth just got a great time at Devcon without being a developer (last time her travel at your expense was justified for "trying to identify pain points in DAOs, I’m not even joking).
SpectrumX DAO - a classic. Our guy @Boris_Polania gave 10k to a kids dance teacher to start a DAO related to autism. She bought a MacBook Pro and started “working” to another DAO. As always, leadership didn’t blink, maybe they were too busy buying Apes.
Blu3DAO was the masterpiece of money siphoning and probably the last nail on Stephen&Li’s adventure. I strongly encourage you to read about it on Twitter and other sources (like Forbes), there’s too much stuff for a single post.
Regarding how much money was spent on DAOs, if I’m not mistaken we’re waiting for an official document from them. Happy to dig in it if it’s already online!