Our spending plans are purposefully frugal to account for any delay in obtaining funding. As a result we have used what we believe to be realistic costs for each component, rather than padding the numbers to account for contingency.

Our funding priorities in order are:

1.  Developing and launching our **Newspaper NFT.** We anticipate the cost for this to be approximately $3,000 for the launch of the first NFT, and a further $500 per issue following this. This will allow us to:

-   **Raise additional funds** on the first sale.

-   Add the first **utility to our token** for future issues by making the NFTs accessible through staking rather than purchase. 

-   **Increase our reach** in the community whilst opening opportunities for collaboration highlighting milestones of other projects.

2.  Replacing and increasing **liquidity** (LP) for our token. This will not only improve the faith from our existing community, but also open the opportunity for people to "buy in" to our vision. It will also unlock a limited spending power based on the project held share of the token pool. We will look to do this initially with approximately $3,000 (matched with $3,000 of $VESTA) and then add to it consistently over time until approximately 15% of our token pool is locked on Hercules.

3.  Fund the continued content creation for the website and **learning centre.** Whilst the content that exists provides an excellent framework for what we hope to achieve, we envision both the learning centre and news site as being constantly evolving platforms. In order to do this we'll need people-power in order to do this. In the short term this might look like part time fees for one or two individuals selected by the community; likely in the region of ~$2,000 a month in order to ensure a high quality of work. The media platforms will provide the following advantages to Metis:

-   **Increase accessibility of all projects on Metis** and encourage cross project collaboration. 

-   **Make Metis accessible** to brand new crypto users.

-   Foster a **culture of trust and accountability** through project reviews.

Additionally we anticipate the following advantages for VestaDAO:

-   Expansion of reach and trust in our platform; leading to a larger and stronger community. 

-   Eventual revenue through affiliate links. 

-   Benefits to our holders by leveraging provided exposure to projects who go through our review process.

4.  Introduce more **traditional marketing** for our learning centre. As a platform aimed at those with no crypto background we would like to do testing with marketing more common in web2; this might include PPC advertising and social media marketing that extends beyond twitter. This early round would look to collect data on the long term financial sustainability of this, with a few to the learning centre becoming a self-sufficient business. Initially we would be looking to spend ~$1,000 - $2,000 per month for a three month period.

5.  Development of our decentralization process. Earlier this year, we demonstrated our **commitment to decentralization** through having our first leadership elections. We additionally made a commitment to have further elections in future; likely every two years. We would ideally like to develop a mechanism by which this process can be as trustless as possible, ensuring that the results of any election are honored through on-chain processes.