Funding Readiness Scorecard

What this scorecard is for

This scorecard is for grant and accelerator reviewers who need a fast answer to one question:

what is already shipped, what becomes stronger with execution capital, and which strategic operating lifts come next?

It is intentionally direct.

Current posture

PrivateDAO is already a live Testnet product with:

• root-domain web product routes
• wallet-first governance flows
• trust, proof, and story surfaces
• confidential payout and telemetry corridors
• reviewer and buyer packets

The funding ask is not to discover the product. It is to accelerate the shortest remaining path from a live Testnet product into a stronger, better-evidenced, production-ready release candidate.

Why this is a public-good funding case

PrivateDAO should be understandable as an ecosystem-facing infrastructure case:

• it improves governance privacy without giving up reviewability
• it helps Solana organizations handle grants, treasury motions, and sensitive payouts in a cleaner way
• it turns advanced cryptography, telemetry, and custody discipline into reusable operating patterns
• it gives the ecosystem a product that others can inspect, test, and build on instead of a private internal stack

Use cases that matter most

The strongest funding-facing use cases are:

1. grant governance and allocation committees
2. DAO treasury approvals and controlled payout routing
3. protocol operating councils and security-sensitive voting
4. confidential contributor, payroll, and vendor payout flows

Scorecard

Best use of capital

The strongest use of grant or accelerator capital is:

1. external audit completion
2. production multisig and custody closure
3. monitoring and alerting completion
4. full real-device wallet matrix
5. source-verifiable settlement receipt publication
6. final production cutover ceremony

Milestones a serious funder can track

1. visitor can connect a Testnet wallet, run the core flow, and verify the result directly
2. reviewer can inspect proof, telemetry, and custody continuity without leaving the product shell
3. operator gates for audit, custody, monitoring, and wallet coverage become fully evidenced
4. release candidate is strong enough for final production cutover

What a funder should believe now

Funders should believe:

• the product already exists
• the proof of work is already public
• the product thesis is already legible
• capital accelerates a real operating gate set

Funders should understand that the next capital-backed lifts are:

• final production-readiness lift
• external audit completion
• custody ceremony completion

Best reviewer path

1. /start
2. /story
3. /services
4. /trust
5. /documents/capital-readiness-packet
6. /documents/funding-readiness-scorecard
7. /documents/mainnet-blockers