• Joined the Pol Verifier Telegram group?

• Confirmed all details of your PoL Verifiers group to Catalyst?

• Found four available 1.5 hour meeting slots in your diary during 20 February to 1st March for Proof of Life meetings in UTC timezone format?

• Has the group leader submitted this form with the meeting slots you have scheduled?

• Submitted this with the meeting slots you have scheduled?

• Confirmed at least two PoL Verifiers group members will participate in the Proof of Life meetings?

• Informed your project teams of the time/date of the Proof of Life meetings?

• Have you updated the Proof of Life validation spreadsheet sent to you, confirming that you are satisfied that Proof of Life has been confirmed?

• Have you emailed to confirm that you have completed PoL for all your projects? The deadline is 3 March 2024 EOD UTC (this means we can start onboarding finalization process on Monday 4th March)

• Have you informed Catalyst of any projects that you were not able to meet with to confirm PoL?

There are four key tasks for PoL Verifiers at the onboarding stage:

1. Submit the PoL meeting schedule form by EOD 14th February 2024.

2. Once you have received the funded project contact list from Catalyst, contact the funded projects assigned to your group by EOD 19 February 2024 to inform them of the available schedules for the PoL meetings

3. Conduct the PoL meetings and confirm PoL for each project assigned to you. More details below on how to do this. These meetings will take place between 20th February 2024 and 1st March 2024.

4. Inform Catalyst once you have confirmed PoL with all of your projects by EOD 3 March

Immediate tasks

• You must confirm PoL with your project teams. You can conduct these meetings as you see fit, provided all the requirements outlined in this document are met. At least two PoL Verifiers need to take part in each PoL meeting.

• Without PoL verification, funded project teams will not receive funding, so this is a critical and essential part of your role during onboarding.

• You are more than welcome to attend the Funded Projects Celebration meeting set formally by IO to set the scene for Funded Projects (this is NOT a PoL meeting)

Your actions:

• By 14th February 2024 EOD please find suitable PoL meeting 4 x 1.5 hr slots in your diary/calendar between 20th February 2024 and 1st March 2024 during working days.

• You should set aside four 1.5 hour slots that are convenient to you but please be aware you may be working with project teams that are scattered across time zones so ideally find two morning slots (1.5 hrs each) and two afternoon slots (1.5 hrs each). PoL meetings require a minimum of two verfiers Please note that all scheduled meetings need to be set in UTC format.

• Once you have scheduled these PoL meetings, please submit this to curate them for Funded Projects by IO. The deadline for submitting this form is 14th February 2024 EOD.

• The Catalyst Team will then share with your PoL Verifiers group contact information for the funded projects you will be working with by 20 February 2024.

• You should then contact the funded project teams directly by 20 February 2024 to invite them to join you at one of the PoL meetings via diary/calendar invite, including your preferred method of video meeting. Every PoL meeting must be recorded.

• If any of the projects you are working with are funded for multiple projects in Fund 11 they will only need to confirm PoL with one of the PoL Verifiers group assigned to them but they MUST inform you that they have already verified PoL with another PoL Verifiers group if they are not verifying with you.

• If a primary proposer has already confirmed PoL in a previous fund you will not need to conduct PoL with them again for F11 - they will be automatically confirmed.

  • Primary proposer as listed in Ideascale has to be the same for this to be true.

  • You will be alerted to this fact by Catalyst.

• One or more people in the PoL Verifiers group will need to note this information.

• A video guide sample about how to do PoL can be found .

• During the PoL meeting (scheduled by the PoL Verifiers individually), each funded project lead representative must provide you with the following information to confirm their Proof of Life with their camera ON:

  • Their full name (spelled out as necessary)

    • This has to be either proposer or co-proposer as listed in Ideascale unless explicitly stated otherwise in the FP onboarding form.

• You should then email as confirmation once you have verified PoL for all of your funded projects. The deadline for this is 3rd March 2024.

F11 - Statement of Milestones

For reference only - All projects in F11 will be following milestone based reporting requirements based on clear milestones, reviewed by two community reviewers throughout project delivery. Funding will be linked to demonstrating that they have achieved their specified milestones.

Each funded project will receive information directly from Catalyst about the Milestone based process. If an FP requires any more information about the milestone based process, please refer them to write to Catalyst via the Catalyst email:

Anything else to consider?

If a funded project does not attend a scheduled PoL meeting, it will be their responsibility to follow up with you and arrange a one-to-one PoL meeting within the time slots you have offered.

If an FP cannot attend any of the meeting options you have offered, please contact with full details, and we will follow up with the FP.

Where to see the additional community support?:

At the onboarding stage, the Catalyst team will share with you contact information on the funded projects you will be working with by 20th February 2024 at the latest.

The designated leader of the PoL Verifier group will then need to contact each of their assigned funded projects to introduce themselves and inform them of the available PoL meeting times by 20th February 2024 .

PoL verification meetings will take place from February 20th to March 1st.