it is not even about the social part, you don't have to be friends with anyone if you don't want to.
Proposals have to have some kind of check mechanism. everyone that is getting funded should have some kind of reports of what was done this week/this month/this stage... especially for things that are not that obvious.
i know bookkeeping/accounting and i am payed for it, do you think firms that pay care that i know it and did it last quarter? they care am i doing a consistent work, and no one expects of them to know what am i doing.

Also, i am sure that no one would say anything if you made a post "ok i did less work this month as we were doing this, that, and that on the blockchain preparing for the HF"... or what ever you did. If there are people who can confirm it, i am sure that almost no one would have a problem with that.