Hey thanks for your comment and appreciate you reading through and dropping by here. There’s a lot more than just approving grants or funding contributors that is under our scope.
In the first version of the proposal we did consider asking for more budget for the incentives too and sought out community feedback for it, and decided in the end to opt for a more prudent approach with the overall USDC budget. If the regional stuff sees good traction well for the next 3 months or so we will likely make a separate grant proposal to the DAO to support those members further.
The JUP per member vested over 2.5 years is based on idea of creating alignment, consistent with Jupiter’s ideas as well as past full WG votes: Here and Here. We chose to adopt a more prudent allocation size as well compared to the prior ones, considering the different nature of our WG and also we wanted to take more time to prove the value of our work. That said, I do not believe the work we do is less valuable, hence it’s a tricky balance as well.