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- Team Name: Legal name of your team (e.g. Duo)
- Payment Address: DOT Address
❗ The combination of your GitHub account submitting the application and the payment address above will be your unique identifier during the program. Please keep them safe.
Please provide the following:
- If the name of your project is not descriptive, a tagline (one sentence summary).
- A brief description of your project.
- An indication of how your project relates to / integrates into Polkadot.
- An indication of why your team is interested in creating this project.
We expect the teams to already have a solid idea about your project's expected final state. Therefore, we ask the teams to submit (where relevant):
- Mockups/designs of any UI components
- Data models / API specifications of the core functionality
- An overview of the technology stack to be used
- Documentation of core components, protocols, architecture, etc. to be deployed
- PoC/MVP or other relevant prior work or research on the topic
- What your project is not or will not provide or implement
- This is a place for you to manage expectations and to clarify any limitations that might not be obvious
Things that shouldn’t be part of the application:
- The (future) tokenomics of your project
- For non-infrastructure projects—deployment and hosting costs, maintenance or audits
- Business-oriented activities (marketing, business planning), events or outreach
Help us locate your project in the Polkadot/Substrate/Kusama landscape and what problems it tries to solve by answering each of these questions:
- Where and how does your project fit into the ecosystem?
- Who is your target audience (parachain/dapp/wallet/UI developers, designers, your own user base, some dapp's userbase, yourself)?
- What need(s) does your project meet?
- Are there any other projects similar to yours in the Substrate / Polkadot / Kusama ecosystem?
- If so, how is your project different?
- If not, are there similar projects in related ecosystems?
- Name of team leader
- Names of team members
- Contact Name: Full name of the contact person in your team
- Contact Email: Contact email (e.g. [email protected])
- Website: Your website
- Registered Address: Address of your registered legal entity, if available. Please keep it in a single line. (e.g. High Street 1, London LK1 234, UK)
- Registered Legal Entity: Name of your registered legal entity, if available. (e.g. Duo Ltd.)
Please describe the team's relevant experience. If your project involves development work, we would appreciate it if you singled out a few interesting projects or contributions made by team members in the past.
- https://github.com/<your_organisation>/<project_1>
- https://github.com/<your_organisation>/<project_2>
Please also provide the GitHub accounts of all team members. If they contain no activity, references to projects hosted elsewhere or live are also fine.
- https://github.com/<team_member_1>
- https://github.com/<team_member_2>
- https://www.linkedin.com/<person_1>
- https://www.linkedin.com/<person_2>
If you've already started implementing your project or it is part of a larger repository, please provide a link and a description of the code here. In any case, please provide some documentation on the research and other work you have conducted before applying. This could be:
- links to improvement proposals or RFPs (requests for proposal),
- academic publications relevant to the problem,
- links to your research diary, blog posts, articles, forum discussions or open GitHub issues,
- previous interface iterations, such as mock-ups and wireframes.
This section should break the development roadmap down into milestones and deliverables. It helps to describe the functionality we should expect in as much detail as possible, plus how we can verify and test that functionality.
❗ If any of your deliverables is based on somebody else's work, make sure you work and publish under the terms of the license of the respective project and that you highlight this fact in your milestone documentation and in the source code if applicable!
- Total Estimated Duration: Duration of the whole project (e.g. 2 months)
- Full-Time Equivalent (FTE): Average number of full-time employees working on the project throughout its duration (see Wikipedia, e.g. 2 FTE)
- Total Costs: Requested amount in USD for the whole project (e.g. 12,000 USD).
- Estimated duration: 1 month
- FTE: 1,5
- Costs: 8,000 USD
❗ The default deliverables 0a-0d below are mandatory for all milestones, and deliverable 0e at least for the last one.
| Number | Deliverable | Specification |
|---|---|---|
| 0a. | License | Apache 2.0 / GPLv3 / MIT / Unlicense |
| 0b. | Documentation | We will provide both inline documentation of the code and a basic tutorial that explains how a user can (for example) spin up one of our Substrate nodes and send test transactions, which will show how the new functionality works. |
| 0c. | Testing and Testing Guide | Core functions will be fully covered by comprehensive unit tests to ensure functionality and robustness. In the guide, we will describe how to run these tests. |
| 0d. | Docker | We will provide a Dockerfile(s) that can be used to test all the functionality delivered with this milestone. |
| 0e. | Article | We will publish an article/workshop that explains [...] (what was done/achieved as part of the grant). (Content, language and medium should reflect your target audience described above.) |
| 1. | Substrate module: X | We will create a Substrate module that will... (Please list the functionality that will be implemented for the first milestone. You can refer to details provided in previous sections.) |
| 2. | Substrate module: Y | The Y Substrate module will... |
| 3. | Substrate module: Z | The Z Substrate module will... |
| 4. | Substrate chain | Modules X, Y & Z of our custom chain will interact in such a way... (Please describe the deliverable here as detailed as possible) |
| 5. | Library: ABC | We will deliver a JS library that will implement the functionality described under "ABC Library" |
| 6. | Smart contracts: ... | We will deliver a set of ink! smart contracts that will... |
- Estimated Duration: 1 month
- FTE: 1,5
- Costs: 8,000 USD
...
Please include here
- how you intend to use, enhance, promote and support your project in the short term, and
- the team's long-term plans and intentions in relation to it.
Here you can also add any additional information that you think is relevant to this application but isn't part of it already, such as:
- Work you have already done.
- If there are any other teams who have already contributed (financially) to the project.