We plan to encourage people to contribute to the Graphene blockchain and its amazing product such as Bitshares. Even if it's open source, we have to consider it as a business and a product in order to reach higher position and more wide use globally. Being just a DEX or just an opportunity for other dApps to be built is not enough, as seen by now.

Since getting on board, assembling team, getting respect and visibility to just be able to submit a worker proposal is so painful and long process, we are trying to find and track valuable resources, even recognize if they are screaming out with passion to work and try over recognized AP Asia name to give them chance to build their own and include them in future worker proposals.

Legal paperwork there is ofc to protect business of Bitshares, our own and 3rd party in this story. Imagine if we would be giving random root access to servers to people over telegram or promising payments and terms for scope of work without contract... No thanks. Even Bitshares Foundation has its own contracts with their business associates across blockchain and registered paper business for Blockchain consulting.

So in business is normal to have written agreement between, we just made first legal agreement that is acceptable by court, but still happening over blockchain and writting its course on it.

Cheers,

Luci @apasia.tech