@Daaviis , from a community member to another, I have seen on another post that the official stance for the moment is:
‘‘due to current market conditions, Harmony grants and investments are on hold. This includes milestone payouts for existing grants. We will keep you posted if the situation changes’’
This is obviously not surprising with the current situation, the best decisions need to be made going forward and I completely agree that they need to take time to evaluate and readjust. The team is pedal to the metal right now and there is a long list of people that need addressing hence why you probably haven’t received a direct reply yet.
Hi Lauram, I’m just trying to help out here as I know the core team is extremely busy, I think the difference between Harmony and other fast and cheap blockchains is the fact that Harmony is battle-tested. Other chains can be fast and cheap, but are they scalable, truly.
I had some interesting conversations with core team members in an AMA a while ago to discuss the network. So far the majority of traffic has been running on a few shards alone. In the future Harmony even have the option to offer complete shards to large projects if necessary. I’m really not a tech expert, but I understand harmony is an absolute powerhouse with its tech and potential.
The original post has been updated to reflect a new way to resume our grants program for existing approved grantees. Please read the new update and we hope you find this helpful.
It is great to see Harmony respond to community feedback and re-assess their initial position! One caveat in the update I wanted to get clarification on was regarding the six month window from grant approval. Our project (Strudel DAO) received a grant, but we didn’t initially start development, nor was that the plan.
We’ve recently completed our trustless bridge, and it appears we’re in a bit of a gray area here… This was also changed well after we already received our grant, so I’m hoping that this caveat applies to grant approvals moving forward.
I think the changes are a great thing for the community, developers, and the Harmony project as a whole. This is the right thing to do and I commend the team for finally realizing what kind of damage they were about to do. Good job folks! I think you will find a much needed increased faith in the team from the developer community.
I would like to know what plan Harmony has for DAOs that has not been approved so far. I think the point of difference from the other Harmony blockchains was the ambition to create 10,000 DAOs, there must be another way, even if you don’t have funding right now, to continue to help create those DAOs. But they would have to publish a clear project for it and promote it as much as possible. You can ask the community for help, we are together to lift the chain if it is going through bad times, but you also have to do your part, starting by being more active in the community, more transparency, more communication, keeping your words and greater harmony. @lij
We appreciated Harmony’s Team effort to overcome this difficult time and we will continue working with the team and developing new solutions that facility Harmony’s developer experience.
Since there has no been updates here there is a kindly suggestion… Or suggestions
Q3 (at least what’s left)
-Focus in transparency & communication
-Propose several proposals to restore the bridges & obtain peg again
-Voting & implementation of proposals
Q4
-Focus in projects who decided to stay supporting Harmony (forget NFT’s)
-Continue communication and improve transparency (I’m not talking just the weekly videos, or shilling tweets, we need no know what is being done behind the scenery)
-Present plan for 2023
One caveat in the update I wanted to get clarification on was regarding the six month window from grant approval. Our project (Strudel DAO) received a grant, but we didn’t initially start development, nor was that the plan.