I am not sure all who returned and who did not. Ragepiee built a script to send it back, so anyone could have used his script after he developed it. Of those I am aware of:
- Yogabba returned it to TR
- Venus, as a member in the inactive [or less-active] set (who had done a lot of internal work) decided to return it to the community pool
- Ragepiee, as a member in the inactive [or less-active] set (who was on at least one developer team), who built the script, decided to return it to the community pool
- Zaradar had decided against receiving payment and resigned from TR
My point though, minus that it was less then $150K due to some giving their portion back, was that TR had acknowledged ahead of time that it was switching to a paid business model (and would be using any money received for its business operations), decided to pay those that had been working for months (both active and those that had been doing work but would now be considered inactive [or really non-paid going forward, since there were still active as volunteers]), that were still part of TR, and were burning out, in order to honor the work they had been doing and to help setup in a way that would allow TR to continue to operate so it could continue to support the community, and that the total amount of what was given in a grant to TR in proposal 11030 to:
- help research system architecture and provision the hardware (which the hardware was paid for by their Neblio deal),
- refactor the L2 front-ends,
- to take the API code (once released publicly) and determine the rewrite to enable an API that would provide the same functionality with the partial psudo-code API as a starting point,
- an Agora forum, and
- testing and deploypment
if that proposal’s amount was taken and added to this proposal, is a drop in the bucket to what TFL was paying monthly for L2 public infrastructure for Terra v1. Those are my personal observations.
Did I agree with everything TR did, no (but I could also say that about certain decisions I have made personally too). Did I have a problem personally with them paying people to work, or for previous work, no (even if we all joined knowing that we were doing it as volunteers to help, yet with regard to TR with the understanding that eventually TR would need to take on a business model to continue long term - including paying people). And, no I have not received anything (I had left TR by that time, and really my own personal motivations, as a follower of Jesus, was to help people). I did however receive in exchange the continual ask that delegators protect governance as outlined in the documentation, and here, and the implied promise made in the whitepaper regarding governance).
The work from proposal 11030 has now been completed, and this proposal is to now put that work into action by providing the needed L2 infrastructure along with PublicNodes (AllNodes and TCV) to provide independent endpoints for failover, as well as an archive node (as well as a stable wallet and finder).
I hope that helps a little bit 