Summary

Commit $30,000 worth of $gOHM to Wagmi Labs Inc for i) interactive curriculum creation, ii) facilitating 2 live weekly classes and iii) distributing objective educational content about the Olympus protocol over a 12-16 week period.

Outline

  • Motivation

  • What will Wagmi Labs do for Olympus?

  • How will Olympus Scholars Program content differ from existing content?

  • How to measure the success of this effort?

  • Who is Wagmi Labs Inc?

  • How will OlympusDAO keep Wagmi Labs accountable?

  • Note from Asfi

  • Polling Period

  • Poll

Motivation

Creators of decentralized, censorship resistant currencies face three interwoven challenges:

  • Product is complex without precedents

  • Marketing to users is a legal landmine

  • User understanding is critical for success

An educational service operated by a credibly neutral third party that is obsessed with decentralized, censorship resistant currencies (yes, that’s us) can help solve these challenges. 

As a company we are committed to upholding the following ideals:

  • Maintaining intellectual honesty and process transparency when creating content

  • Delivering comprehensible input in a low anxiety environment

  • Facilitating Socratic dialogue to articulate where the protocol breaks

  • Distributing educational content that contains Reliable Knowledge*

*Reliable Knowledge is knowledge that has a high probability of being true because its veracity has been justified by a reliable method. 

What will Wagmi Labs do for Olympus?

  1. Create a learning curriculum that captures key concepts, mechanism, history and criticism of Olympus protocol (see draft syllabus outline here, will be finalized with input from Policy).

  2. Design an interactive learning experience using Articulate 360 (see example here to get a feel for what we mean by interactive content).

  3. Moderate two live one hour discussions: one on Zoom Webinar for aspiring scholars (requires email address*) and the other in Olympus Discord for casual learners (does not require email address).

  4. Upload live class recordings and short-form summaries to YouTube and share class summary in the form of a Twitter Thread and Linkedin Post.

  5. Provide a report to the community about learning outcomes of enrolled scholars.

*Note that an email address is required to track progress of an aspiring scholar, we will never share your email address with any third party.

How will Olympus Scholars Program content differ from existing content?

Olympus Scholars Program content will be educational and objective. This means our content will also focus on protocol criticism and weaknesses in design. Protocol critique will only take place after learners have internalized how the protocol works and reviewed observable evidence on-chain.

In summary, Olympus Scholars Program content will:

  • Deliver Reliable Knowledge

  • Minimize inference

  • Maximize context

  • Make learning fun

  • Promote Socratic dialogue

How to measure the success of this effort?

We will track the following Key Performance Indicators:

  1. Number of learners enrolled

  2. Hours spent learning

  3. Completion rate

Our North Star is increasing the number of Olympus Scholars where an Olympus Scholar is someone who deeply understands the Olympus Protocol including its weaknesses and limitations. An Olympus Scholar is a truth seeker who does not get defensive when $OHM is criticized. Instead, such a person will seek to “steel man” a critique.

What is Wagmi Labs Inc?

Wagmi Labs Inc is a Delaware registered C-Corp, to date it has:

  • Conducted a hackathon for OlympusDAO and KlimaDAO in which $100,000 in prizes were paid out. $67k came from Wagmi Labs, $33k came from Odyssey.

  • Co-funded a $50,000 grant for an Olympus Pro implementation on Solana

  • Co-funded a public relations effort for Olympus for $110,000

  • Delivered a presentation at ETH Denver about OlympusDAO

Our current mission is to extract and disseminate Reliable Knowledge from attempts at creating censorship resistant algorithmic currencies

My name is Asfi Shaheen (see my Linkedin Profile here). I am the Founder & CEO of Wagmi Labs. Wagmi Labs raised a seed financing round in January 2022 from True Ventures and Proof Group. I will be conducting these classes personally.

In the coming 4 months Wagmi Labs can only support two customers, our hope is that Olympus Protocol will be one of them.

How will OlympusDAO keep Wagmi Labs accountable?

We propose a milestone based payment schedule. This gives us flexibility to create a truly spectacular learning experiences, collaborate closely with DAO contributors and also ensures we get paid after demonstrating value. 

Thus, we propose splitting this payment into three equal parts.

  1. First installment becomes payable after Wagmi Labs has gotten the syllabus outline approved by Policy and uploaded content for the first three classes on Articulate 360. This will take 2-4 weeks. 

  2. Second installment becomes payable after Wagmi Labs has conducted seven classes. We expect to get here between week # 8-10 after.

  3. Final installment becomes payable after all classes have been conducted and report on key findings shared with the DAO. We expect to get here between week # 13-16.

Overall goal is to finish this program by December 20th 2022. We have prepared a detailed Gantt Chart here to show a list of activities that make sense today. However, once we get deep into the weeds there will be plan modifications.

Note from Asfi

Hi Ohmies! 

As a facilitator my goal is to learn with you, not talk at you.

I see Wagmi Labs as an information distillery that will present you a perspective but refrain from sharing “my take” because such takes will be biased.

I want to make our information compiling process fully transparent. I will reach out to several of you personally to solicit feedback but please do not hesitate to reach out to me, especially if you see me doing something contrary to ideals and goals expressed in this proposal.

I’m personally psyched about creating a tight knit group of nerds who like to study aspiring non-sovereign monetary systems but don’t get defensive in an exchange, especially one that is critical of investments they’ve personally made.

I am reachable on comments in forums, Twitter, discord, LinkedIn and pretty much any medium you prefer. All feedback is welcome.
Asfi 

Polling Period

The polling process begins now and will end at 08:00 UTC on 08/31/2022. After this, a Scattershot vote will be put up at 08:00 UTC on 09/02/2022.

Poll

Approve or reject proposal from Wagmi Labs Inc

Really excited to participate in this initiative and broaden the education horizon for our project. Also, very glad that Asfi has chosen to engage in this space as he's an incredibly valuable and respected pillar in the DeFi Community. Let's make it happen.

Has my full support. There is nobody better to run a program like this.

Great initiative! It would be fantastic to have WAGMI Labs (and Asfi) engage even more and focus on user education. Thanks for being such a persistent supporter across all channels!

I do think that funding from the program should come via the Grants initiative, as it fully aligns with the purpose of Grants @wollemiPine.

    Love this idea.

    Having worked with Asfi before, I can confidently say he is the man for the job. This scholar program might just be the next generation of OlympusDAO contributors. The more brains we can pick on our protocol, the better we can fine-tune it.

    Absolutely for this proposal.

    Also, I'm at your service for any infographics you might need ser.

    shadow changed the title to (RFC) OIP 116: Olympus Scholars Program .

    There is no one better to lead something like this than Asfi. He has spent countless hours educating the community for free and he's someone who has a burning passion for Olympus. He is curious to the point of annoying you with questions (sry Asfi), so I have no doubt that the curriculum and information presented will be top notch. All for it!

    I had to move this proposal back to being a RFC, after which you can post it as an OIP (or I can just move this thread if no edits will be made). If not contentious, you can probably get it up to Snapshot on Saturday.

      Fully support this initiative, can't think of a better team to execute it. Thanks Asfi!!!

      Love the idea and agree with @cpt_zeke that it seems logical this goes through the grants process.

      Will the content be free for users?

        Hi Asfi! Loving this initiative.

        I'd like to propose that if this is approved and paid for by the DAO (rather than going through Grants) that you/Wagmi Labs work closely with the Scholar team and model any created works into the Learn Academy that we have been framing out in Discord.

        We have been working with Background Network (the creators of the FAQ Bot) on Bot-Guided Learning Experiences and I think any content created can be done in such a way as to fit these experiences perfectly!

        Let's connect some time on a Zoom or in Discord so I can give you a demo of what's being built and the type of framework you and your team can follow to make the content portable enough for this system.

        -Drew

          DarkLord_gr Hi Dark Lord, if this proposal is approved I will create a sign up form that lets you attend classes. We will host two classes each week. One requiring your email address on Zoom Webinar and the other in discord, not requiring email address. The discord one will be more casual.

            shadow Thank you so much for the support! My bad for the OIP/RFC mistake. I will follow the process as we've laid down. Will keep checking into replies here periodically.

              kleb yes content will be free because Olympus is basically paying for the content. Content remains Wagmi's property but will be accessible without charge throughout the duration of this program.

                cpt_zeke Thank you for the support! I leave it to council + DAO's discretion to figure out best funding source.

                  dr00 Hi Droo, I'd love to collaborate on this irrespective of funding source. I've been talking to Relwyn already about this.

                  Background Network sounds fantastic! I will message you in discord to set up a time. Thank you.

                    shadow changed the title to OIP 116: Olympus Scholars Program .

                    Hi Asfi,

                    Thank you for this fantastic proposal. It's a perfect fit for grants and we will reach out directly. Given this is the case there is no need to go via Snapshot.

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