If the community signals approval of this proposal, through votes in this post and the ātemperature checkā snapshot Gabor just set up, we could well fund this proposal through a grant. Whether governance or grants makes the payments is a technicality.
This will make it āapproved by the community, funded through PoolGrantsā. I think due to the nature of the research this is better than PoolGrants unilaterally making the decision.
In 3 weeks, the first quarter of PoolGrants will end. Weāll be making a request to get funding for the second half of the pilot program soon. In that, I anticipate we will be asking to get part of our budget in USDC rather than POOL.