Grants & Bounties Committee
What the Grants & Bounties Committee does, who sits on it, and how members are chosen.
The Grants & Bounties Committee (GBC) is the elected group that reviews grants and bounties and pays for delivered work. It was created by AIP-002 and first elected in September 2024.
Project leads handle most bounties within their own projects for now, so the GBC is formally inactive. It may be reactivated as more bounties come from outside the projects.
If you're here to get funded, start with Grants & Bounties. This page is about the committee itself.
What the GBC does
AIP-002 gives the committee one chief mission: to distribute grants and bounties "in order to harness the community's talent to further the goals of Arrow DAO." Day to day, that means the GBC:
- helps community members find the right grant or bounty and put together a strong application
- scores applications fairly against a publicly posted rubric
- works with applicants to get a proposal into shape, and asks for a resubmission when one isn't ready
- turns down work that is low quality or doesn't make economic sense
- tracks funded work and releases payment as milestones are met
- meets regularly with a clear agenda
What it funds
AIP-002 defines four kinds of award, and the difference between them is mostly about who does the work and when it happens.
| Award | What it pays for |
|---|---|
| Bounty | A specific result, open to whoever delivers it best. The person who proposes a bounty doesn't have to be the one who wins it. |
| Project-based grant | A piece of work the applicant carries out themselves, with a cost estimate, milestones and a payment schedule. |
| Time Commitment grant | Ongoing hours in a critical area of the DAO, paid at the levels set in AIP-004. |
| Retrospective award | Work that has already been done. Anyone can nominate it, including on someone else's behalf. |
Larger efforts with a named leader and a budget cap run as projects under the AIP-006 Projects Framework and are approved by a DAO vote rather than by the committee. The current lineup is on Active Projects.
How decisions are made
The committee decides by majority and announces its decisions publicly. When it awards a bounty, or stops paying a grant because the agreed work isn't being delivered, anyone can dispute the call within two weeks by raising an AIP, which then goes to a Snapshot vote.
Funded work stays visible while it's underway. Time Commitment grant recipients post a public progress update at least monthly, and project-based grant recipients report as agreed in their application, or weekly if nothing else was agreed.
Conflicts of interest
Members stay out of decisions they stand to gain from. A member nominated for a retrospective award doesn't score, vote on or discuss it, and a member who applies for a grant abstains from scoring every grant in that round. They can still answer questions to improve their own application, and they can vote in the ratifying Snapshot like any other token holder.
Where the money comes from
The GBC holds its own multisig, 0x7cFd3D29fD7b13CA33E49bA6b11b79bEF89e5906, separate from the main treasury. The DAO tops it up through Snapshot votes, each usually covering one or two months, and rounds ran from October 2024 through February 2026. Every funding round is listed on DAO Voting, and the wider picture is on Treasury.
Members
The official membership record is AIP-003, a Living AIP that the AIP Editors update whenever membership changes. The table below reads it directly, so it's always current.
| Member |
|---|
| Alperenag |
| Errrks |
| Sleety |
| Thomasg |
| WhiteDadJokes |
Snapshot of AIP-003 as of September 2026.
How members are chosen
The committee needs at least five members, and AIP-002 asks for a multidisciplinary mix of reputable, knowledgeable people from the community. Candidates nominate themselves on the forum or in Discord, and the DAO confirms them with a Snapshot vote. Every later change, whether a member steps down or someone new joins, goes through the same process. Members can be paid for their time through a stipend or bounty.
If you'd like to serve on the committee, the forum is the place to raise it.