i have a suggestion: instead of doing scholarships by nomination lets setup a bounty board - a list of tasks anyone with a verified wallet can complete and then earn grape.
this has 3 benefits:
- permissionless: don’t need to get nominated or approved by an existing member, lower barrier to entry
- quality: you get people who are serious and demonstrated proof of work - don’t need locking mechanisms
- win-win: if they don’t stick around in the community they got paid for their work and we got output.
this is the approach the superteamdao has taken and so far it seems to work well. low intent people get weeded out naturally and velocity of output is strong.