This would’ve been great - if there were funds left for the large scaled community we have now today. I hate to dwell on the past, but the recent past affects the present and the future. PNF paid PNI nearly $7M in assets in 2022, and in 2023 today we are now moving forward with $190K and 6M/POKT as a starting budget for the entire community, which has grown just as much as PNI did!
There was an amplitude of time to make the decision to diversify and adjust to invest more into the community soon after it was clearly obvious PNI was bottlenecked in v0, lacked direction (RE: the shift of engineers and execs leaving), the vision to do proper infrastructure management for the Portal, etc that burned so much $USD. I am not disagreeing the funding helped Pocket grow, but I also think it is possibly one of the many reasons why they are in the position they are today, thanks to how much was subsidized from PNF (i.e infra cost and staffing). How does one justify this expense if the goal is to be a credible neutral entity that represents Pokt Network? To be frank, I did not even know about this until very recently - so I am starting to really question where was PNF the entire time as I do not recall any of the directors (Stephane and Nelson) being present at all in any of the community discussions.
To be clear, I’m not here to dwell on the past entirely. I feel confident moving forward that the PNI is on the right path forward, and the new PNF team is laser-focused on being a credible neutral entity. However, thanks to these decisions, PNF is now operating on a much lower budget for 2023 while the community and the DAO (to a certain extent) feel dependent on PNI now due to how much was funneled to them. If it was you and Stephane who authorized these decisions and had the power to change course and did not, at what point do we draw the line if you are actually acting in the best interest of POKT?