Author: Marco González

Editor: Randall Roland

EOS Support is the EOS Network’s concierge, providing a variety of community services for members at various experience and need levels.

In recent months, EOS Support assisted in getting EOS Respect off the ground. EOS Respect is a dedicated community of elected delegates that provides accountability and funding of affiliated EOS Network projects.

Now with the Auditor Report, EOS Support helps establish a new protocol for:

The EOS Audit assists the EOS Respect community in its efforts. It’s a way to help “identify and reward creators”. Particular attention is given to events that occur during Pomelo seasons.

The audit is broken down into six primary categories:

The audit provides key points, affiliation, contact information, and current status data for ALL 15 projects. Additionally, a determination was made of ALL projects for existing patterns and issues. The category entitled Statement about the issues from the grant owner is dependent upon finding an existing grant issue.

The first EOS Audit provided by EOS Support employed independent techniques to comprehensively audit the top 15 projects listed on Pomelo (by matching funds). Broadly, those techniques consisted of:

Note that the primary means for tracking progress is through direct project links and publicly available information. As a respected member of the EOS community, EOS Support maintains privileged solutions uniquely served for providing network audits. Ultimately, an unresponsive project is both uncharacteristic of those supplying public goods and lends toward suspicion of misuse and/or unfulfilled promises (deliverables).

It is in these ways that the first EOS Audit hopes to ensure the success of existing and future fundraising.

This section attempts to provide a useful overview while drawing readily apparent conclusions based on the auditor's findings.

Acceptance as an EOS Support affiliate goes a long way toward project viability. Affiliation comes by way of invitation only. While projects may directly apply, acceptance is at the discretion of the community.

Advantages of affiliation include a blockchain-elected body of delegates that provide accountability for the projects they fund. Furthermore, each delegate’s choice of funding is evaluated monthly.

Working within Pomelo seasons means that affiliate projects can leverage quadratic funding and the historically-robust matching pool.

Among the 15 audited projects, the following six are currently affiliated with EOS Support:

7 out of 15 audited projects were found to have NO grant patterns worth reporting:

For those patterns reported, most projects were found suspicious of sybil and/or collusion. One project saw all of its raised funds coming from Eden delegates. Others either had donors with no increase in their trust bonus or were funded by newly created accounts that donated in similar patterns.

The only category that may be considered ‘open’ is the owners’ explanatory statements (replies). Of the eight projects found to have grant issues, two (Arbitration Protocols-effectively price EOS assets and Pink cat eating papaya) were NOT available to provide explanatory statements. Those that DID provide statements were:

For those responses that weren’t exhaustive, owners at least provided a clear reason for the identified issue(s).

The new EOS provides unparalleled opportunities. Guided by the EOS Network Foundation and community leaders like EOS Support and Pomelo, network attacks and bad actors continue to fall in number and impact. Transformative technology like blockchain comes at a price. EOS community members are increasingly willing to do what it takes to take the P2P Web3 economy to the next level.