🎯 Grantee
A Grantee is the individual or team receiving funds in a GrantFox engagement. They are responsible for delivering work, submitting milestone evidence, and unlocking payouts - all in a secure, transparent, and structured flow.
In traditional payouts systems, grantees often wait weeks or months for unclear payments. GrantFox changes that by giving grantees a clear path to compensation through milestone-based smart escrows.
👤 What is a Grantee?
A Grantee is any recipient of a grant, bounty, prize, or payment who:
Participates in an engagement initiated by a Payout Provider.
Delivers work tied to one or more milestones.
Submits evidence when each milestone is complete.
Receives automatic payouts upon approval of the deliverables.
📌 A Grantee can be a solo developer, a team, a startup, an NGO, or even a DAO sub-entity - basically anyone with a wallet.
🚀 Why Use GrantFox as a Grantee?
✅ Milestone clarity: Know exactly what you need to deliver, and when.
✅ Transparent conditions: Terms are set up-front, visible, and immutable.
✅ Fast payouts: Get paid in seconds once work is approved.
✅ No need for extra steps: No emails, no invoices - just submit and release.
✅ Stablecoin support: Get paid in USDC or other Stellar-based assets.
With GrantFox, grantees are empowered to focus on delivery, not on chasing payments or guessing what funders expect.
🔄 Grantee Lifecycle
Here’s how a Grantee typically interacts with GrantFox:
Receives Engagement
The Grantee is invited or selected for a payout with defined milestones and amounts.
Delivers Work
For each milestone, the Grantee completes the task (e.g., task, feature, report, event).
Submits Evidence
Evidence is uploaded directly via GrantFox (docs, links, screenshots, videos, etc.).
Waits for Approval
A reviewer (directly from the Payout Provider) validates the milestone.
Receives Payout
Upon approval, funds are released instantly from escrow - no middleman required.
🧪 Example: Earning a Bounty for a Completed Task
Imagine you're a developer who spots a small task posted by Stellar - a $300 bounty to translate a piece of documentation into Spanish for their upcoming developer onboarding.
As the Grantee, you:
Accept the engagement: The bounty is already live on GrantFox with the task description and payout amount.
Complete the work: You translate the document and prepare a clean, shareable version (Markdown, PDF, GitHub PR).
Submit milestone evidence: You upload the translated file and a link to your pull request directly in the GrantFox interface.
Wait for approval: A reviewer from the Stellar team checks your submission and marks the milestone as complete.
Receive payout: Once approved, the $300 USDC is released instantly from escrow to your wallet - no delays, no forms, no chasing.
📌 You don’t need to be part of a long-term program or a known contributor. You simply deliver, and the protocol takes care of the rest.
This makes it easy for:
Ecosystems to reward community help without friction.
New contributors to get involved.
DAOs to manage open bounties at scale.
📎 Responsibilities of a Grantee
Understand the milestone definitions and deliverables.
Submit quality evidence on time.
Communicate proactively if deadlines or scopes change.
💡 Remember: Milestone-based payouts mean that payment is conditional, but also predictable - if you deliver good work, you get paid. No more trust gaps.
💬 Summary
The Grantee is the recipient of funds in a GrantFox engagement.
Their role is to deliver, submit, and unlock.
They benefit from transparent agreements and fast, automatic payouts.
They reduce overhead by eliminating manual invoicing and status checks.
They are at the center of results-based funding.
Whether you're building, designing, translating, researching, shipping, or more - if you’re doing the work, you are the Grantee.
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