Hey, hey everyone! Heard that we all love grants so might just as well apply! This is my application for “New Protocol Ideas” 
(would also like Education, Community growth & events, hard choice…)
1. Name: Popescu Razvan aka ZER8
2. Your forum username: ZER8
3. Twitter: zer8_future
4. What is your experience in the interested domain? Please share links and supporting information. Do you have experience running in any other grant programs?
Joined my first DAO in 2020 and in 2021 I’ve joined GitcoinDAO as a grant reviewer in the FDD, then grew into the Grant Eligibility role. I’ve been responsible for reviewing and approving 95% of the grants between GR12-GR15.
My work with Gitcoin DAO(it’s all grant related 
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- Lead the GE team for three seasons (Gitcoin rounds) and ensured the accurate review of 3000 grants applications all while minimizing fraud in Gitcoin rounds
- Maintaining the grant approval time under 48 hours during the rounds
- Managed a remote and decentralized team of reviewers and experimented towards a permissionless review narrative.
- Recruited, trained reviewers and helped open up the review role to the whole Gitcoin community
- Responsible for cross workstream coordination with all the WS involved in running the Gitcoin crowdfunding rounds all in a extremely dynamic environment
- Introduced dynamic fraud investigations which saved over 1M$ in four seasons(GRs)
- Identified and investigated over 1000 fraudulent grants and protected grant creators/donors/matching pool donors and the Gitcoin community from malicious activities
- Co-authored some of the internal/external documents as well as processes involving eligibility
Yes, I have experience in running other grant programs. My work in Gitcoin also involved strategic planning around the grant processes. 
Links: 1. Grant Eligibility Notion
5. What would you like to see built on Arbitrum in your domain and what a good grant proposal looks like for you
Personally I would like to see more moonshot protocol ideas(similar to what Uniswap was in the beginning). If only one protocol idea manages to have that impact, Arbitrum will surely thrive as an ecosystem.
What a good proposal looks like
Imo a grant application should ideally have:
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Direct and measurable impact in Arbitrums ecosystem
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A degree of reputation in web3 (nothing fancy, but it either the contributors have earned trust in web3)
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Detailed milestones(the grant should include a detailed explanation on how the funds are going to be used)
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Full transparency(the grant application should allow us to see what they are building, spending, etc)
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A degree of experimentation(Web3 wouldn’t have evolved to what it is today if the same protocols are just copied and rebuild on other L2s or ecosystems, so I would personally like to see more innovative grants participate)
6. Time commitment You need to commit at least 15 hours of your time per week as a domain allocator**, and what is the expected Turn Around Time (TAT) that the builders can expect from you?
I am able to commit at least 15H/week and the TAT is under 48 hours, even 24 if required by the situation(may be longer on weekends)
7. Declaration of Conflict of Interest
I’m also managing the Arbitrum Rounds on Gitcoin 