[PREPROPOSAL] PoktFund 2022 LeanPOKT and Security Vulnerability Reimbursement

[addison (Addison Spiegel)]

Hi everyone,

Just want to provide some clarifying points. After we proposed the idea of partnering up on this effort with PoktFund, we agreed to go 50/50 on any potential proceeds. We would break all doors down, build this together as if we were one team, and submit a funding proposal. A few weeks after submitting the original proposal, we offered to renegotiate the split in their favor prior to the next proposal, but PoktFund wanted to keep it at 50/50.

Now that we delivered LeanPocket to the network and are looking for retroactive funding, PoktFund told us they would submit their own proposal, reneging on our original agreement to share proceeds.

To us, this represents a lack of character and integrity that hurts us deeply. That being said, there is nothing we can do at this point, and will move forward amicably since we both put tremendous efforts into this project and both deserve to be rewarded.

@BaaSPoolLLC

ThunderHead has requested that we remove references to them in the body of this proposal,

Inferences were made that don’t align with reality.

@BaaSPoolLLC

This is no longer the case and hence one of the reasons why we’re decoupling the proposal.

No longer the case because PoktFund reneged.

@RawthiL

I only have one question, as I thought that TH was a central contributor of LeanPOKT.

We are. In no way shape or form could Lean Pocket have been released without this partnership. We both brought unique skillsets to the table .

@Jinx

Of the work performed to bring LeanPokt to production, what percentage was PoktFund, and what percentage was Thunderhead?

It is hard to discern an exact percentage, especially in a public forum.

This is a non-exhaustive list of our contributions. (I was not expecting this post this morning)

• Came up with the original idea (Posted to the forum + several conversations with core devs in February)
• Presented our original work at InfraCon and met with all of the core devs in order to build a plan of collaboration
• Several conversations with Pocket execs to get them to support the effort.
• Conducted large scale testing on our fleet and latency/performance measurement and analysis.
• QA testing and creation of all the test scenarios
• Hosted AmAs to educate the community and spread awareness. [1, 2]
• Lean Pocket announcement and marketing [1, 2]
• Infographics and explainers [1, 2]
• Support and answering everyone’s questions/concerns [1,2,3]

This was a team effort. Its impossible to exactly delineate each of our contributions since we built this together.

I never anticipated things to turn out this way . We initiated and spent an inordinate amount of time on this effort and were pivotal in the process. We will submit our own proposal seeking retroactive funding.