This escalated quickly. 😅
Huge thank you to
@TransparentArt for the challenge, the matching, and to everyone who jumped in. Phase 1 and 2 are now fully funded. ❤️
A bit of context on why we're doing this now, and why we're doing it this way ⬇️⬇️
TTC has always been a community project, run entirely by volunteers. Our weekly events, prizes and activities have been made possible by community donations and
#TezosCRP awards.
But in 2023, we wanted to do more. For the first and only time, we asked for help covering the operational expenses we simply couldn't volunteer our way around: hosting our HubPage and Events Calendar, software licenses, subscriptions to help boost our social presence and reach, and other costs paid mostly in fiat.
TTC's first major operational funding came through a Tezos Ecosystem DAO grant for 2 years of operations, paid on February 2, 2024 ➡️
forum.tezosagora.org/t/thete…
We actually started earlier, we covered the largest first-year expenses ourselves in October 2023. Then, in December, support from
@cryptonio and an anonymous community donor helped us complete the budget needed for things like Elementor and our Tezos calendar tooling.
Through careful budgeting, plus some later in-kind support such as donated licenses, we managed to stretch those resources far enough to cover most of a third year.
Now we're entering year 4, and the Tezos Ecosystem DAO is no longer an option...
With
$XTZ at its current price, our remaining treasury wasn't enough to cover even Phase 1, the core expenses for 2026/27.
So rather than look for another traditional funding source, we wanted to try something more transparent, measurable and sustainable, so TTC's Guardian
@webidente developed a crowdfunding tool to ask for your support 🫂TTCrowd:
crowd.purplematter.com/
StrongerTogether
#Tezos ⬇️