Anti-bot team Round 2 - Continued Action

Proposal: 55kd4fm2ybqv

Approved by: a52qw.wam, anyo.cabal, b52qw.wam

Continuing the work on the public API endpoint with a list of known bot accounts, maintained by a team of detectives. The cryptomonKeys team takes bot-fighting seriously. The first proposal initiating this public API endpoint has thus far resulted in finding and verifying ~320,000 accounts as malicious actors (bot networks) in a mere 45 days. Our detectives use a set of privately created tools and methods that have been continually developed and updated towards this end. As it would potentially inform bot networks on how to avoid detection, these tools and methods are not being shared publicly. We are continuing to share the final product publicly for the entire AW community's benefit. We highly encourage other NFT distributing communities to take use of this publicly available endpoint: https://bot.cryptomonkeys.cc/docs As the numbers show, the initial efforts have borne great success. We wish to take what we've learned and continue this effort, maintaining and expanding this list. Milestones: Initiation of Round 2: April 1st 2023 Monthly update with number of additional bot accounts detected: 1st of each month thereafter for 3 months Requested funding: We have 4 detectives. Each detective puts in on average ~2 hour per day. 56 hours a month, at $30/h plus $20/month hosting = $6740 At current value: 258,000 TLM per month. (1 TLM = $0.0261165 as on 21st Feb 2023 16:58 UTC) Request: 3 months. 774,800 TLM

Links from description:
https://bot.cryptomonkeys.cc/docs