🚧RPGF
Retroactive Public Goods Funding
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Estimated Date of Instantiation: 09/31/2025
*This is a tentative date subject to adjustment as deemed circumstantially necessary. Retroactive Public Goods Funding will be engaged 12 months after the launch of mainnet, which will provide ample time for the BCSports Foundation to establish a balanced criteria, projects time to establish their presence, and for the ATLETA network the generate enough baseline data.
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What is RPGF?
RPGF or Retroactive-Public-Goods-Funding is a model for distributing ecosystem rewards to projects that have proven some material level of measurable impact. Effective for acknowledging positive results from top performing applications and incentivizing their further action; Retroactive Public Goods Funding provides additional resources to the teams creating the largest (non-spam, non-null) on-chain footprints.
🤔 How Does RPGF Work?
Once projects mature enough to pass the threshold for qualifying as an RPGF candidate; there is a simple and straightforward four step process:
1) Nominations
Nominations are a period of time where the general public is given a chance to submit contenders for the RPGF program (self-referrals are ignored). Projects, users, and any other kind of entity will provide the names of their nominees, a description proclaiming the benefits/impacts/importance, links to their channels, and a proof of their individuality (signature/social post/etc...).
*Nominees are required to receive multiple submissions on their behalf; the minimal nomination rate will depend on the landscape of active candidates, RPGF pool size, and preceding cases.
2) Committee Evaluation
Once a group of Nominees has been selected, they group is passed onto the Delegate Committee for review. The Committee is composed of a broad range of active ecosystem members (must have $ATLA staked) that will evaluate all the potential candidates and vote on what they deem to be the most worthy.
*Any single nominee must accumulate more than a superminoirty of votes (~33.3%) in order for them to be inducted; if two projects each receives 33.3% each, they split the RPGF round. If there are 10 nominees and nobody reaches the 33.3% level, voting continues indefinitely (or unless abruptly cut by the governance module).
3) Results Announced
A public ceremony is held to translate the results of the RPGF round to the community. Winners are announced, runner-ups are encouraged to re-submit, and the countdown to next RPGF round begins.
4) Funding Dispersed
Funds are dispensed to their winners, as defined by the terms of the RPGF round.
*Terms for the transference of funds are pre-determined in the specifications of each individual RPGF round.
📜 Criteria
In order to qualify for consideration into the RPGF, projects are required to exceed a minimal quantitative standard:
Operational (Mainnet) for over 9 months (270 days)
At least 500,000 unique addresses (lifetime)
At least 200,000 active addresses (monthly)
At least 2.00 $ATLA in gas was consumed by project SC* (only applicable to dapps)
there are a slew of entity specific nuances that are applied on a case-by-case basis; such as total number of ecosystem partners/cross-integrations, social media audience (quality + quantity),
Only after all of the above metrics have been satisfied, does a project become capable of entering the RPGF candidate set.
❓ F.A.Q.s
How many projects can win an RPGF round at the same time?
Although highly unlikely, it is possible for 3 projects to split an RPGF round under the assumption they receive EXACTLY (33.3%) each.
What can RPGF proceeds be used for?
Use of the proceeds from RPGF is entirely up to the discretion of the receiving party; the funding can be used in whichever way would best serve the future growth/sustainability of the project. Some examples are:
Decrease OPEX related to on-chain interactions
Increase transactional capacity for experimentation
Layer of user incentives
User gas rebate program
Marketing Efforts
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