My humble opinion is that, first of all, decentralization doesn’t work with initiatives of this importance. Someone (a ceo) and board of directors or in our case founders and the team should take the initiative, do all the research OR outsource and have it done and come up with a proposal after which it can be opened to tokenholder feedback for a couple weeks after which it can be voted after necessary modifications are made. This grant thing will be painfully slow and it’s not gonna be worth the time and effort of the team and the dao. It’ll be a waste of time. Even the criteria for potential grantees to enter into consideration is very harsh.
Also, it’s not like these decisions should be scientifically backed or something. They are all empirical at first. Trial and error, if you will. For instance, I could just say, let’s calculate the net profits at the end of every month and buy back half of that exact worth of Cow and burn it. The other half will be put in treasury for a rainy day. As funny and simple as that sounds, it’d be a start.
We don’t need that much time as mentioned above. There is no science to this.