Prezenti Grants: Season 3 Plan
Receiver Entity: Prezenti Grants, Celo Governance
Author(s): @Prezenti.grants (@MayaRB, @Wade, @Thylacine)
Type: Funding: redeployment of held funds (no new Treasury disbursement)
Intent: Season 3
Category: Direct Grants
Request: $0 new Treasury funding, $0 new overhead.
Notice of redeployment of funds Prezenti already holds: ($279,274 USDm + 600,000 CELO, ~$39,000) into $165,000
Summary
This proposal confirms two fund movements to continue operating Celo’s direct grants program through Season 3 without drawing new funds from the Community Treasury and without allocating any of the redeployed funds to overhead. Operations are fully covered by our existing funds, disclosed in the Season 2 proposal.
Season 2 closed with significant uncommitted grant capacity (we held our traction bar rather than dilute it). Separately, $127,380 USDm and 600,000 CELO has come back to us from a strategic partnership proposal from 2025 that was ultimately cancelled. Rather than returning these funds to the Treasury and requesting an equivalent new disbursement, we’re folding them into Prezenti’s own reserve: $172,000 goes into four grant pools sized after two seasons of observed demand including a trial sponsorship initiative, the balance stays with us to deploy as Season 3 needs dictate. All outstanding Season 1 and 2 grant obligations ($114,750) remain fully funded in their safes and are unaffected.
Season 2 in Brief
Our full Season 2 Retrospective Report: 75 applications; 19 grants funded (15 Boost, 2 Anchor, 2 Frontier); $157,000 committed. Frontier, launched mid-season via a $40,000 reallocation from Anchor, drew 34 applications in seven weeks (45% of the season’s total). 41% of all applications came from African builders. 100% of the 56 rejected applicants received rubric-tied feedback. The Charmverse platform collapse was handled quickly and effectively.
Three lessons drive this proposal.
Sourcing outperforms open forms: Boost (invite-only, DevRel-sourced) has the best completion rate of anything we run, while Anchor’s open form produced 24 applications and 2 fundable teams, leaving $130,015 uncommitted, which now funds Season 3.
Demand follows real builder energy: 47% of applications were AI/agent projects.
Large CELO conversions are risky: converting 3,430,000 CELO in March 2026 realized $261,227 against a $276,400 target despite a ~3% buffer. Season 3’s committed pools are therefore funded entirely from USDm already held.
Season 3 Design
Pools are sized for demand but may be adjusted if there’s additional interest. The open application door stays open: it is realistically the ecosystem’s only open funnel for smaller teams, and the application flow itself is ecosystem intelligence.
Boost continues exactly as designed:
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Celo Core Co DevRel identifies aligned teams;
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Prezenti contracts and administers.
The Season 1 carryover that funded Boost through Season 2 is effectively exhausted ($3,011 remaining), so Season 3 Boost is funded from redeployed capacity at its established size.
Frontier keeps its Season 2 scope (agent identity and discovery, agent-to-agent transaction rails, AI-native developer tooling, verification and trust systems, interoperability layers) and eligibility (Celo mainnet deployment, ERC-8004 registration, Self Protocol Agent ID, verifiable on-chain activity).
What changes is sizing: Season 2 outcomes and our retrospective both pointed to more grants at smaller individual sizes, so Season 3 Frontier grants are capped at $15,000, with additional grants funded from reserve, at our discretion, if the pipeline’s clearance rate rises.
Anchor reflects two seasons of observed clearance: exactly two qualifying teams per season at the Stage 2 profile (10K to 100K est. daily transactions). Larger traction-stage requests are handled case-by-case from reserve. We continue to require verifiable evidence of real usage and a clear path to meaningful transaction volume on Celo, and we continue not to fund transaction-count gaming, unverifiable traction, or teams that cannot articulate their contribution to transactions or TVL.
The Reserve turns Season 2’s improvisation into standing capacity we manage directly. It may:
1. capitalize a new pool if a clear category signal emerges mid-season, as Frontier did.
2. top up a pool whose qualified pipeline exceeds its allocation.
3. (or) fund larger Anchor-stage grants case by case.
We’ll report each deployment publicly, with the evidence behind it, the same way we announced the Frontier launch. We’re not gating individual moves behind a separate forum vote: multisig logs are public and linked continuously, and the balance returns to Treasury if the program doesn’t continue past Season 3.
MiniPay, 12+ million wallets as of January 2026 and growing since, remains the distribution thesis for Boost and Anchor teams in payments, gaming, trading, and social.
Grant Terms
Grant terms are unchanged: one-off grants in USDm, 20% at onset and 80% on delivery milestones, contracts and KYC required, four months from contract to delivery. Applications run through frontier.prezenti.xyz and anchor.prezenti.xyz (Tally Forms).
Sponsorships (Trial)
Allocated: $7,000 from the Reserve (no new treasury request) · Duration: 4 months · Recipients: 5 individual builders
What it is: an experiment in funding tools instead of time. Best-in-class AI coding subscriptions for five high-agency builders who otherwise couldn’t access them, with an emphasis on underrepresented developers for whom the cost is a real barrier.
What they get (per builder, costed in the table below):
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Claude Max 20x and ChatGPT Pro subscriptions for four months
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A flexible allowance to spend however they choose across the term
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Everything reimbursed against monthly receipts
What they do for us:
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Build on Celo: a month-two Celo deployment or ecosystem contribution is required to keep the seat
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Build in public: monthly updates from all five in a single shared forum thread
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A public 2% give-back pledge: 1% to Prezenti and 1% to the Celo Community, on anything they create or materially advance during the trial that deploys on or integrates with Celo
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Where a project has on-chain revenue or a token on Celo, the give-back routes automatically via a public 0xSplits contract naming Prezenti and the Celo Community Fund (0xD533…7972); otherwise it stands as a good-faith, governance-recognized commitment — deliberately no equity or token-warrant paperwork at this scale
How they’re selected:
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Open application, scored automatically by our published open-source program: six months of public GitHub activity, weighting shipped original work, sustained cadence, code review, and contributions to emerging agentic protocols (MCP, ERC-8004, x402 and similar) over raw commit counts
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Alongside a self-declared access statement and endorsements from Celo’s regional scouts, who will also refer builders directly; a short build plan is collected as a guide, not a scoring factor
Subsidies: we have applied to both Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s partner programmes to subsidize the trial directly, acceptance is not assured, so the table assumes no subsidy. Every grantee is also routed through Anthropic’s Claude for Open Source program and OpenAI’s open-source track; anything obtained free returns to the Reserve.
KPIs: ≥3 Celo mainnet deployments or material ecosystem contributions across the cohort; monthly updates from all five in the shared thread; ≥1 give-back split live on-chain.
Proposed Budget
Outstanding S1/S2 obligations ($114,750: Anchor $45,000, Boost $37,750, Frontier $32,000) are fully funded in their safes and excluded from the above.
No CELO conversion is needed for Season 3; the 600,000 CELO stays unconverted unless deployed, then converted in small Mento tranches and reported publicly.
Operations: the Admin Safe stands at $116,272 through to a planned close in July 2027.
Timeline & KPIs
KPIs:
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18 to 24 grants signed across three pools
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3 pools fully delivered
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100% of rejected applicants receive rubric-tied feedback
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100% of reserve deployments reported publicly (post-hoc, not pre-approved by forum vote)
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multisig logs public and linked continuously
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aggregated grantee transaction metrics reported at season close (including the S2 cohort, which completes by early Q4 2026)
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1 to 2 case studies published, including at least one S2 grantee
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final S2 outcomes reported by end of Q4 2026
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Sponsorships: ≥3 Celo mainnet deployments or material ecosystem contributions across the cohort; monthly build-in-public updates from all five recipients in a single shared forum thread; ≥1 give-back split live on-chain.
Execution Terms
This proposal authorizes two fund movements, both verifiable on-chain:
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Redeploy $151,894 of uncommitted capacity from the Anchor ($130,015), Boost ($3,011), and Master ($18,868) safes into the Season 3 pools.
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Retain the returned funds from the cancelled 2025 strategic proposal [link] ($127,380 USDm + 600,000 CELO) and fold them into the committed pools and Prezenti’s reserve, in lieu of a return-and-re-request round trip.
The net treasury position is identical either way; redeployment simply avoids a round-trip disbursement and a second large CELO conversion. Community approval of this proposal is understood to cover reserve management as described above. The reserve remains in the Master and Partnership safes until deployed or returned.
Wallets
Master Multisig (2/3): 0xa5c9389a0ce1bfe24ff883e761ff313225c77d44.
Grant Pool Safes and link to all our Prezenti transaction logs here:
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Growth Pool: 0x3C9a27cd6d3CaF595aa5088001482664215f8Da7
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Boost Pool: 0xdCc89C89c3705D90EebFF3db911CCefA8C0B8d5F
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Frontier Pool: 0xA4884D80E72461D8274fa6e3d0d75B6221694997
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Admin Safe: 0x03344b9FCDdE6BE2FEF42876dB8fDc0696Ec688F
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Partnership: 0x4eb2d379b7b74aeff190898e049dfd4687a45512
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Boost: 0xd0622d262a1b912da6b587f5df7017f3a02462af
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Master: 0xa5c9389a0ce1bfe24ff883e761ff313225c77d44
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Pilot pool: 0xdcc89c89c3705d90eebff3db911ccefa8c0b8d5f
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Hot Wallet: 0x8e3c938c5f84f5ecb8355dc58c0916ad2610dbae
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Scale pool: 0xd1e5488b44af038f2b220d1e53f0cb068904e3b3
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Micro pool: 0xa0bfa96a40cb3aead1a34cffc1301226dbc5d2ec
Team & Next steps
Team unchanged from Seasons 1 and 2 (prezenti.xyz/about-us).
Multisig 2/3 signers:
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Wade Abel (Founder, operationally active; validator operator; Celo Governance Guild)
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Maya Brown (Founder, operationally active; web3 grant writer)
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Aaron Boyd (Founder, advisor; validator operator)
We will continue to work very closely with Celo Core Co as a strategic grants partner. If there are no major objections to these suggestions the team will move ahead with the fund allocation after 7 days of this post being live and presenting a governance call. If Season 3 does not go ahead, or no further funding follows it, Prezenti will complete all existing grant obligations, wind down responsibly, and return funds to the Celo Community Treasury.
Resources:
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Season 2 (2026) — including the CELO→USDm conversion report
Thank you for your continued support of Celo’s builder ecosystem.
Prezenti Team