To reduce governance overhead, the main project took out $Xmm every quarter and allocated to the contributor multisig who later produced a report of expenses for their dao for transparency
You could propose a project. But the bar for it to be included in the roadmap was high. You had to get buyin. If anyone was found doing dm politics, they were insta kicked out.
Fwiw, it wasn’t all roi. Fattybagz made an nft collection. The community bought into it. No grants needed/asked for. It was about the people! Most of us still hang despite losses