Threshold Marketing Guild Q2 2023 budget request

Vote Type: Single choice voting (Yes/No)

DAO Elected Representative Sponsors: John Packel, Ashley, Ryan, Benjamin, Nico, Ben L, Will, Beem

tl/dr

• The Marketing Guild Committee requests a budget of $50k for Q2 2023
• Accounting for the previous budget approved for Q3 2022 is provided
• Projected categories for Q2 2023 spend are listed
• Context and links are provided regarding 2 pending Marketing Guild structure proposals

Previous budget accounting:

The Marketing Guild last requested budget in June 2022 for Q3 2022. The request for $124,450 was approved June 19, 2022. While we expected to be able to spend close to that amount, this was based on the intention at that point for both tTBC vs and thUSD to launch sooner. Because it was an approved limit and not a spending mandate, we were able to stretch the funds through Q1 2023, and the current balance remaining is $4,310.

The intention was to invest in these categories:

The Marketing Guild’s H2 2022 report here details the accomplishments this budget supported, as well as the efforts to iterate on the operating model - an update to which is pending in governance proposals TIP-49 (committee restructure) and TIP-50 (marketing lead contractor).