On December 4th, MAGIC Grants announced the MAGIC Monero Fund. Applicants could apply to be a committee member and/or voter before December 30th. Voting ended January 12th.
MAGIC Grants used a ranked-choice voting method, which allows voters to specify the exact order of candidates by preference. The election had an 88% voter turnout.
Results of the Election
MAGIC Grants is pleased to announce the top 5 ranked committee members!
- Vik Sharma
- Rucknium
- kayabaNerve
- Deverick
- Csilla Brimer
Vik Sharma is the owner of Cake Wallet and Monero.com. He is also the president of Liberty Steel USA.
Rucknium is a Monero Research Lab researcher and economist who has focused on statistical obfuscation on Monero and Bitcoin Cash.
kayabaNerve is a Monero-ecosystem developer and security researcher who was the first to implement Monero atomic swaps with ASMR.
Deverick is an application security developer for Blackbaud, a leading nonprofit cloud services platform. He co-planned the 2021 Monero Party.
Csilla Brimer is a blockchain consultant at Willenrimer and a co-founder of the Open Economy Initiative. She co-planned the 2021 Monero Party.
Special Thanks
We would like to thank all 10 committee candidates, including monerobull, Twisted_Turtle, cryptpriv, Syketale, and Cbster! We would like to thank everyone who voted!
We believe that this MAGIC Monero Fund will provide a new, important way of sustaining the Monero ecosystem!