# Bread Garden Pool Setup

Gardens funding pools allow communities to fund projects through conviction-based voting:  

- Members allocate voting power to support proposals they believe in
- Support grows stronger over time (50% every 7 days)
- Sustained backing carries more weight than quick decisions
- The system rewards genuine, persistent support

## Introduction to Bread Cooperative Gardens Pool 💧**

**🍞 Bread Cooperative Community Initiatives Pool**: Supporting projects that advance post-capitalist values and solidarity economics

- **Participation**: Open to all Bread Cooperative community members
- **Voting Token**: $BREAD with weighted voting (more $BREAD = more voting power)
- **Total Funding**: TBD
    - Option: 6k (3k from Bread Cooperative + 3k matching from Gardens round)

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## **🍞 Bread Community Initiatives Pool**

Designed to fund and reward **community-led proposals** that advance Bread Cooperative’s broader network goals. Initiatives could include new platforms, research, content production, collaborative gatherings, or other ventures that bring collective benefits to Bread Cooperative’s network.

### 🌱 Goals

- **Encourage network innovation** by funding initiatives that advance Bread Cooperative’s impact, tooling, and community-building efforts.
- **Foster collaboration** among member projects, their communities and the greater ecosystem of post-capitalists.
- **Strengthen the Bread Cooperative’s community** through accessible micro-grants that reward valuable contributions and experimentation.

### ✅ Eligibility Requirements

- **Value Alignment**: projects must demonstrate alignment with Bread Cooperative's core principles, dual power, economic democracy, mutual aid, transparent governance
- **Community Benefit**: Each proposal must show how it benefits the broader Bread Cooperative ecosystem
- **Maximum Funding Request**: 500 BREAD? (to be determined by community)
- **Disputes**: Proposals that fail to demonstrate alignment with Bread Cooperative's values may be disputed and reviewed by the community

### ✋ How it Works / How to Participate

1. **Become a Bread Cooperative Community Member**
   - Hold $BREAD tokens to participate in governance
2. **Access the Pool**
   - Go to the **Bread Cooperative Community Initiatives Pool** on Gardens
    - Stake your $BREAD tokens to activate your voting rights
3. **Support or Create Proposals**
   - Browse existing proposals and allocate your conviction to those you support
    - Create your own proposal if you have an initiative that aligns with Bread Cooperative's values
4. **Watch Your Conviction Grow**
   - The longer you support a proposal, the stronger your voting power becomes—growing 50% every 7 days

### 🧪 Pool Parameters Explained

- **Pool Type**: _Funding_ – proposals that meet the required conviction will be granted funds from the pool
- **Token for Voting**: _$BREAD_ – weighted voting based on token holdings
- **Spending Limit**: 500 BREAD – maximum amount that can be requested in a single proposal
- **Minimum Conviction**: `TBD` – percentage of total voting power required for proposals to pass
- **Conviction Growth**: _`7 days`_ – support for proposals strengthens over time (50% per 7 days)
- **Collateral to Create/Dispute**: `TBD` – prevents spam proposals/disputes
- **Ruling Time**: `TBD` – time for community review of disputed proposals
- **Default Abstain Resolution**: _Rejected_ – if no decision is made, the proposal is automatically rejected

### 🔗 Relevant Links

- [Bread Cooperative Website](https://bread.coop/)
- [Detailed Intro to Conviction Voting](https://blog.giveth.io/conviction-voting-a-novel-continuous-decision-making-alternative-to-governance-aa746cfb9475)
- [Introduction to Gardens V2 and Documentation](https://docs.gardens.fund/)