Abstract Summary: Allocate 13,000 APE to sponsor a Prop House program for the Meebits community, with the goal of the program being:
Expand $APE utility to other NFT communities.
Develop a more efficient way to issue micro-grants to community projects than the current AIP process.
Microgrants of 1,000 APE each will be allocated across 3 rounds. Each round will begin with a 10 day period, where anyone can request funding for an idea that will 1) expand the functionality and awareness of Meebits; and 2) incorporate ApeCoin as a payment method if payments are involved. At the end of the proposal period Meebits NFT holders will select the grant recipients by voting for the proposals they like best.
1. The ApeCoin DAO has posted a few resources on navigating the AIP process, including a series of Discourse posts; based on your experience, are these resources and the website helpful for drafting an AIP?
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2. Have there been any delays or changes to the original timeline?
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3. Do you have any updates regarding the budget?
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4. How can the community support your initiative?
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5. Do you have anything you would like to tell the community?
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6. Do you provide consent to share these questions with the community in this forum?
This AIP was completed in February 2023. This AIP funded 3 PropHouse rounds and awarded 9 teams with 1,000 APE each ($68,510 USD total). You can view the rounds here.
The Meebits PropHouse awarded some amazing projects including:
Meebits Legos from Forever Apes (I bought this for my Meebs and love it!)
MeeKit (a Blender toolkit to easily animate your Meebits).
@BojangleGuy ran the PropHouse program and was instrumental in its success. He managed a dedicated PropHouse X account and engaged with both Meebits DAO and Nouns DAO to activate participation. Thank you for going above and beyond!
Seneca and the Nouns community also deserve shoutouts - they built the entire back-end to support PropHouse and were so instrumental in amplifying our reach through Twitter Spaces, reposting, and direct outreach to community members. They really wanted us to be successful and they really showed what web3 is all about.
This AIP was a great example of using microgrants to activate an ecosystem. Not only did this PropHouse fund some great projects, but it also inspired the community as well… Not only did we onboard some great community members from Meebits and Nouns, but we saw folks like Thank Ape continue the effort with their own PropHouse.
The 13,000 APE requested for this AIP went 100% to the prize pools. All 13,000 APE were distributed to PropHouse round winners, and this AIP is completed.