Thanks for your input, @dmytro. As described at the onset of the program last year, the amount of maximum ECOx allocation was decided upon to be:
on par with the maximum upside available to the community’s top-10 Points holders, should they also wait the full two years to claim.
Additionally:
We surveyed comparable grant amounts and streaming compensation for other core governance groups or ‘councils’ elsewhere in DeFi. Those amounts tend to fall between $25k USD and $500k USD (although this can be variable if the grants are denominated in protocol tokens). We obviously want this group to be high profile and compete to attract the most trusted contributors in the space.
As described in the post above, we are already requesting 30% less ECOx than was requested from the treasury for the program in Year 1 (5.5M last year vs. 3.875M this year) — and given the significance of this role to the success of the protocol and the commitment required, we do not believe revising the compensation downward on an individual level would be in the best interests of the program.