Transfer 7,700 ICP to OpenChat Labs for October 2025
We ask the OpenChat DAO to provide funding of 41,000 USD to OpenChat Labs Ltd for October 2025 to pay for the following:
- Team salaries
- Marketing
- Hosting
- Travel
- Equipment
- Administration
- Other expenses
We have not made our standard funding proposal for the whole of Q4 due to particular circumstances.
A couple of months ago Dom asked the OpenChat dev team to join the effort to build Caffeine AI. Under normal circumstances we would have declined, however, due to the historically low ICP price we felt it prudent to accept. This has helped prolong the OpenChat treasury and drive forward Caffeine which is likely to help reinvigorate the ICP ecosystem.
Matt, Hamish and Ivan accepted a 2 month contract with DFINITY while Julian and Jesse have been holding the fort. Julian continues to develop the OpenChat native apps according to the new designs and has made great progress. For those interested you can watch a short video showing the current state of the native app and even install the latest Android APK (disclaimer: this is work in progress and will be buggy).
At the present time it is unclear whether an extension to the 2 month contract will be offered, and if so, whether we would accept.
With this in mind, we ask for an interim payment to cover our costs for October until the situation becomes clearer at which point we will make a standard funding proposal for the remainder of Q4.
Our focus for OpenChat remains the native apps and we anticipate releasing the Android app this year.
Our second priority is incorporating e2e encryption. This is a significant undertaking and we are very fortunate a crypto researcher / developer at DFINITY has been building an e2e encryption scheme for chats based on vet keys for the last 3 months, and we will be able to directly use it. You can follow his progress on github in this pull request.