Thanks for your support, Bob! I appreciate you noticing our flexibility and our dedication.
Yes. We are planning to hire a communications specialist dedicated to Arbitrum. On the Thrive team, we hired a Executive level marketing pro, but we are waiting for the Arbitrum proposal to pass before hiring the dedicated talent. This is great because they will have the support of the Thrivecoin pro when we do hire them!
The best place to get a feel for how much of an impact Thrive has had on other communities is here: AIP-379: Thank APE - Phase II: Amplifying a Movement - #18 by loowl - Accepted AIPs - ApeCoin DAO
We were open to partnering because of a shared ethos and similarity in vision of where the puck is going. Decentralized validation by humans in a way that can be trusted is key to impact measurement, outcome evaluation, and survey legitimacy. These are needed components of a Pluralist funding framework.
We will likely run one program using Thrive to review all grants. We may also do some others which will utilize their best practices from other deployments. However, the dedicated team here will also continue guiding the experimental use of any funding mechanism which has unique value and potential to scale. Plus, the board will have oversight and right to veto the selection of these programs.
We will clean up the work of the first milestone and make it absolutely clear how our program creates outsized value for its cost!