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I hope to ask for an amount that is smaller than the value I have personally brought to Decentraland, here are a list of contributions I believe should be considered. ### Twitter marketing - twitter.com/morph_bot  Decentraland post reaching over 100K impressions and over 2 years of metaverse coverage, this content is positive and often acts as a counterpoint to misinformation. ### Avatar Interop research  After investigating VRM in 2021, I was able to successfully modify the DCL avatar into VRM format, this research proved invaluable in testing the viability of DCL-VRM and was my main motivation for gathering community sentiment for implementation: https://decentraland.org/governance/proposal/?id=bdafe1c0-1d6b-11ed-96c7-2fa07c6df25b I continue this work by providing technical implementation concepts for shapekeys/jigglebones for increased avatar expressions and upcoming VR social requirements. ### DCL standards propagation One of my core initiatives has been to step outside Decentraland and attempt to build bridges with other metaverse standards groups: - Voicing DCL standards and implementations at M3Org (https://twitter.com/m3org) - Giving technical presentations on avatar composability to groups such as MSF (https://metaverse-standards.org/) and OMI(https://omigroup.org/) - Covering events such as Metaverse Fashion week to external parties within metaverse orgs, containing members from MSFT/Meta etc. - Marketing DCL avatars via interoperability and attempting to build understanding with previously hostile groups such as VRChat  ### Consistent Live Stream MorphBotTV has been a consistent stream promoting DCL every Thursday for coming up two years. This show is now one of the longest running DCL livestreams and serves as a valuable marketing resource for both DCL avatars & the platform itself, here are some rough stats: - 20-30 average concurrent viewers per stream (mostly active on https://kick.com/morph-bot) - 10+ unique chatters per stream - Peak viewership of 75-100 concurrent viewers during special events: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HE4sRmL61I - ~300 lifetime stream hours ### Weekly top-3 event, 2 years running I founded Diamond Hands Thursdays as a way to livestream Decentraland and foster a community event, after several months of organizing this event I was able to legitimize it via DG where they upgraded it with a verified schedule and music acts/prizes - it continues as the staple of my livestream as I host a table every Thursday and is often found in the Top 3 most active scenes.  ### DCL Avatars in the mainstream MorphBot will be appearing for non-profit in a mainstream triple-A game alongside SpongeBob and other major IP characters thanks to DCL's unique IP system, he is a boss character in the story mode that must be beaten multiple times.