# Grin Community Candidate for fund granting control: Hendi **URL:** \ **Category:** Governance\ **Created:** [March 5, 2021, 6:17am UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/grin-community-candidate-for-fund-granting-control-hendi/8532 "2021-03-05T06:17:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hendi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.grin.mw/hendi/32/287_2.png) [@hendi](https://forum.grin.mw/u/hendi)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 6:17am UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/grin-community-candidate-for-fund-granting-control-hendi/8532/1 "2021-03-05T06:17:08Z")
Based on @tromp’s [request](https://forum.grin.mw/t/call-for-grin-community-candidates-for-additional-fund-granting-control/8521) I herewith volunteer myself as a candidate for the new “Grin Community Council”. * * * I’m Hendrik from Germany, known as **hendi** online and in this community. I’ve been a member of the grin community since 2017. I’ve built and run the first open-source [Grin Explorer](https://grinexplorer.net) and also built and ran one of the few pools that launched on Grin’s Genesis day (this was [grin-pool.org](http://grin-pool.org) which I’ve closed down after it was apparent that miners wanted to mainly join on large pools). The pool was a 0% fee pool, with optional donations to the Grin development fund (we’ve sent the [first non-test Grin donation](https://hendi.io/content/images/2019/03/image-6.png) according to igno). I’ve been a fan of Grin’s vision from the start and supported the project in many ways, and want to continue though. Grin is in a unique position with its fair, non-ICO no-premine launch, a highly competent dev team (Rust and C++) and a great community that share the values of this coin. Besides Bitcoin, Grin is the only crypto currency community in which I am involved. I’ve put far less sweat, blood and tears into grin than many other people, especially the grin/rust and grin++ people. Nevertheless I’ve put a lot of time, money (both private donations and via my company) into the project and see myself as a part of the community. I haven’t asked for any compensation for working on my projects (full disclosure: the pool received some donations, which I’ve donated to the grin fund) and worked on them at my own time and expanses, but I understand that everybody’s situation is different and that more complex projects can require funding to get up to speed. **I’m in favor of the simple [Split Fund Proposal](https://forum.grin.mw/t/fund-alternative-a-split-fund-proposal/8476) to make this process as discoverable, easy, and viable as possible.** > [@Fund Alternative: A Split Fund Proposal](https://forum.grin.mw/t/fund-alternative-a-split-fund-proposal/8476): > > Split Fund Proposal Below is another alternative to the fund as proposed by @lehnberg, modified by @tromp in keybase chat Overview 33 btc ($1.5m+) earmarked for a new group, name tbd, funds held in a 4-of-6 multi-sig wallet. Members from the grin community volunteer to be multi-sig keyholders. Council selects from the list of volunteers an initial group of keyholders. Funds to be transferred conditional on a set of spending guidelines being defined that this new group pledges to upho… In my opinion – or rather the experience of long talks with people from the community and the dev team – the donations that the grin project received were in large parts not meant specifically for the rust implementation, but to advance the “grin blockchain” and “mimblewimble” as a whole. In other words, it should be absolutely no question whether grin++ should receive some of these funds. Their work on usability is the reason that [almost half of all grin nodes](https://grinexplorer.net/stats) run on their software, and DavidT’s work on the mobile/Android version is outstanding as well. But not only Grin++ is amazing, so are many other community projects, Ironbelly, Niffler, to name just a few. Long story short, **the community shows continuously that they’re willing to and able to do great things** to advance Grin, its blockchain and its ecosystem. While theoretically it has been possible to receive grants from the core council’s fund, in practice this hasn’t been used effectively / as often as it should’ve happened. I see the **community fund** as a great way to state **we care about the community, acknowledge their capabilities and want to support them supporting grin.** If I’m chosen to be one of the fund managers / key holders, I pledge to adhere to the spending guidelines, be responsible with spending (but not too frugal!) and support community projects as needed. I envision this fund to not be _solely_ for Grin++ (desktop & mobile) development, but they’re definitely part of the intended recipients. Ideally, the new fund should support both existing project but especially invite new projects to start. I promise to act reasonably and non-hostile on funding requests, and offer open ears and helping hands with drafting requests to lower the (exiting or at least felt) barrier to enter. No one should refrain from asking for money for fear of doing something wrong, getting called-out, or simply being rejected. * * * **tl;dr: Which approach do I support?** I would support all of them (all tackle at least one issue with the current state, and have a good chance of improving things tremendously), but my preference is as follows: 1. [Split Fund Proposal](https://forum.grin.mw/t/fund-alternative-a-split-fund-proposal/8476) 2. [Grants Model Proposal](https://forum.grin.mw/t/fund-alternative-a-grants-model-proposal/8475) 3. [Another Split Fund Proposal](https://forum.grin.mw/t/fund-alternative-another-split-fund-proposal/8477) ---
**Author:** ![dog](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.grin.mw/dog/32/2230_2.png) [@dog](https://forum.grin.mw/u/dog)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2021, 10:55pm UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/grin-community-candidate-for-fund-granting-control-hendi/8532/2 "2021-03-08T22:55:32Z")
Hendi it sounds to me like you believe in this project and your attitude about its future is excellent. Furthermore you have been here longer than the other applicants afaik. I also agree with your approach preferences. At your convenience would you mind telling us what GRIN project you currently find **most** valuable? ---
**Author:** ![hendi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.grin.mw/hendi/32/287_2.png) [@hendi](https://forum.grin.mw/u/hendi)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2021, 5:54am UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/grin-community-candidate-for-fund-granting-control-hendi/8532/3 "2021-03-12T05:54:14Z")
Thank you for the kind words. Me being “here” for probably longer than the others isn’t necessarily a good thing, in some eyes it might put me closer (to closer) to the “establishment”, and I’m definitely in favour of including “new” people and from different part of the greater community as well. Anyway, to your question: Generally there isn’t a single most important project, and further I’m not sure what a “project” constitutes exactly. grin++ is obviously one, but is support for multi-sig or the other stuff listet [here](https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin-pm/issues/385)? Generally I think we need a trifecta of projects: - **network / protocol stength** I’m very happy that we have two separate implementations of the network, and even in two different programming languages. That makes the whole network more mature. All the stuff in the issue listed above is important and advances network and/or protocal and should get funding, though that’s dependent on a developer being available and interested in doing it, which will also affect the order and timeline. - **users (people who send transactions)** I’m also happy to have grin++ and Niffler for their UX improvements, and grin++ mobile and IronBelly for their mobile support. So everything that’s further improving this, I’m all for that. - **ecosystem** projects like a faucet to onboard new users into grin, or @vegycslol’s example testnet exchange implementation and all these other “little” projects that start as a one-man project are important as well. I like the fact that they start “grasroots” style, though they shouldn’t become stuck due to a lack of funding. That was the diplomatic answer, now the direct one 😉 “I have grin running on my computer, and grin++ mobile on my phone. Now all I need to _properly_ use Grin are places to spend them. tmgox is cool, but I’ve got enough swag by now. So IMHO the most important project (which is btw. completely orthogonal to the work all the developers are doing for grin :-)) is to get use-cases for Grin implemented in practice.”