I have no doubts about your credibility as an active voting neuron. My concerns are with respect to decentralization. If the goal of this grant is to incentivize more entities of comparable credibility to participate as active voting neurons, then it seems counterproductive for the majority of the grants to be distributed to a single coterie.
While your team’s technical expertise is paramount regarding your role as a voting neuron, there are still other factors to be considered (i.e. geographical location, the political environment in which your company operates, your company’s interests/priorities, the financial viability of your company’s business, etc…). Regarding these other factors, CodeGov (and Co.) pose just as much counterparty risk as any other team.
The goal of decentralizing the voting power on the IC is to hedge against these risks.
There are several credible teams that have applied to this grant who have the expertise, needed to contribute to responsible governance of the IC. Whatever happens, I’ll offer my support since we all share a vested interests in seeing the IC succeed, but I do believe it would be a mistake to concentrate so much funding to a single clique when there are other teams stepping up.
Best of luck to everyone.