The PEP-31 Scholarship Fund was approved by the DAO in June 2022 to allocate an accumulating monthly allowance of 10,000 POKT per month to contributors, students, learners, speakers, educators and others in the Pocket community. Tyler Kell (@relyt29) is the first recipient of the Pocket Scholarship for his presentation Academic Cryptocurrency Research Space - An Overview, Spring 2022 at Infracon 2022 - Pocket's inaugral conference.