Hypha has asked me to comment on this proposal, and I’m happy to do so.
In my opinion, Hypha has done excellent work keeping the testnet program and ICS alive. As Interchain Inc. scales into its Hub maintainership, we are going to need immediate infrastructural help in many forms, and from my discussions, Hypha has won the trust of the validator community on that front.
As Interchain Inc. has ended the “team of teams” model, and opted to in-house all core development, Hypha is a perfect example of an external party that provides value for the Cosmos ecosystem for fair prices and with high quality (yet is not core development). I would love to work with them further this year, at a minimum until Interchain develops the devops resources to take over their work ourselves.