Dear ICON community,
We are grateful for the overwhelming community response to our proposal and the problem we are trying to solve. In 5 days since our proposal, things have been quite dynamic. We did talk a lot with the community and with the fellow p-reps. The feedback and opinion you shared with us were very valuable and we are happy to see the positive switch and a more proactive involvement from the community.
First of all, we are happy to announce that we not only managed to get support for the proposed funding but that support was so overwhelming that we are now on the full budget to deliver the DeFiCON proposal. For the same reason, we are withdrawing the ICON Foundation stimulation support for funding as we are now operating as a 100% community funded project.
However, we still want to keep our proposal open as we would like to hear back regarding the points made and the direction of the research proposed. We fully encourage a discussion group started yesterday by Foundation with the goal to improve the current model. Several of the proposed solutions are directly overlapping with our ideas and we are happy to share the opinion and we will continue to do the research in the same direction.
While it may seem trivial, I think it is worth mentioning that our little initiative has become a 1st community-funded proposal on the ICON network. If other P-reps follow our example and develop their ideas into real projects, then we would consider this as our biggest achievement.
