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Boost a dApp for the win! #45

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Abstract

Forthewin is building an all-in-one solution for crypto startups with providing no-code smart contract services.

We found a pattern that most dApps follow based on observing 5 years of web3 development: 1) Issuing tokens, 2) crowdfunding, 3) vesting, 4) voting, and 5) listing.

Looking at the 5 steps above, all involve a certain degree of technical knowledge, especially smart contract development. The problem lies, particularly, that smart contract development is complex for startups. It is a dangerous and costly task.

Forthewin is a platform that provides services that web3 teams can use for those instead of building their own smart contracts. This helps them to focus on their core ideas and save resources.

Proposal Information

Description

Forthewin is the simplest way for someone to start a project in the Neo ecosystem. Our service called Smith helps users to deploy their own token contracts with a few clicks.

Smith has been used by 20 NEP-17 tokens and 7 NEP-11 tokens. Most projects are active and it has been helping NEO to increase daily transactions and to bring new users.

We’ve got great feedback from other web3 founders and investors in Draper’s sessions because it is a fresh idea that they’ve never seen in other chains.

So far, we could raise around $13,000 USD from a hackathon by NEO to accomplish all the aforementioned points/features.

Given the current state of FTW, this proposal aims to ask Grantshares for a grant in order to accelerate FTW platform to the next stage. We will mainly focus on making more users and traffic in the next 6 months.

Motivation

We’ve witnessed Binance Smart Chain has grown rapidly with a ton of meme coin creations in 2020 which brought new developers and users to the chain. They have been growing exponentially since then. Projects are users of blockchain. N3 is an attractive chain that has some distinguished features than other chains. Forthewin wants to bring this business into NEO in order to enlarge the NEO ecosystem.

Goals

Forthewin is in a very early stage, however we have a lengthy amount of experience in the web3 industry. Forthewin will help and educate new web3 teams how to plan and start their tokens and how to manage the tokens in a healthy way. Also we want to be a place where investors can discover very early stage gems.

Deliverables & Roadmap

Bringing new projects

Forthewin has access to use NEP tokens that are allocated for startup incubation. We are going to use the funds for contests and initial LP support to help web3 startups and even people who want to try web3 business.

We had a meme coin contest on the N3 testnet a few months ago.

https://medium.com/@Forthewin_network/meme-coin-contest-on-n3-testnet-c4ac5fd0b840

We had many teams participating and many new tokens were created. Competition between teams could make a big synergy for marketing. The event was successful to introduce the FTW ecosystem. Some teams are continuing their projects on N3 mainnet and actively building.

We are going to plan bigger scale contests on N3 mainnet. We are confident to bring more projects using our experience from the testnet contest with the startup funds. We want to build long term relationships with quality teams from the contests to grow together.

We believe the best marketing way in crypto is viral. We will do our best to find potential web3 projects and make great stories of success

Deliverable costs:

Listings

Integration support & listings

As a startup dex, our priority is to increase popularity and credibility. First of all, we need to have a standard data api that is required by many popular crypto platforms such as CMC and Coingecko.

We already built our backend ground for data service. We will target to integrate our dex data with dApps in the NEO ecosystem first.

Once we finish with the Neo eco integrations, we will start contacting platforms outside Neo to be listed as an exchange and as tokens that are traded in our dex.

We also want to find reasonable centralized exchange listing opportunities during the process which can increase our popularity and credibility in a different way.

Deliverable costs:

Contract audit

We will ask Overlord (https://overlord.wtf) for Locker contract (Vesting platform we launched lately) smart contract audit. We will open our smart contract code to the NEO community. More open source code can help other developers.

Deliverable costs:

About You / Your Organization

Short-Bio

A full-stack dev for 10 years. I've been building dApps on Neo since 2017.

Portfolio of Projects / Past Experience

Forthewin introduced a decentralized lottery platform in NEO legacy. It used users and our tokens to verify tickets and calculate prize which is a POW concept at dApp level. The idea worked well until the N3 announcement. Team paused the project because it only worked with the zero fee structure that NEO legacy had. Teams were no longer interested in NEO. However, I decided to stay.

Since N3 launch, what Forthewin has been done :

Proposal Info :clipboard:

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  "method" : "releaseTokens",
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grantshares-dapp[bot] commented 1 year ago

🚨 This proposal was edited by the proposer.

grantshares-dapp[bot] commented 1 year ago

⛓ This proposal was created on-chain! 🔥🚀🎉

➡️ Now, waiting for a GrantShares Member to endorse it... ⏰

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gsmachado commented 1 year ago

Hey @ediopia

Thanks for the proposal! 🚀 ☘️

I thought you would give some time for other DAO Members (besides AxLabs and NNT) to give you feedback and, based on this, have the chance to adapt the proposal BEFORE putting on-chain (if necessary).

GrantShares has a feature now that allows proposal edits before the on-chain phase.

But now that you already put the proposal on-chain, there's no room for "edits" anymore. 😅

Creating the proposal and putting it on-chain right after basically gives the message of "ok, no dialog, just vote".

Anyway, let's see what others would say about it.

ediopia commented 1 year ago

@gsmachado Thanks for greeting ☘️

My bad. I couldn’t think that way. I thought it would extend our previous proposals.

Yes! I am looking forward to listen community thoughts.

DylanNNT commented 1 year ago

I'll preface my response with two things a) I'm in favor of distributing the grant to Forthewin and b) Ed is a genuine person who has been BUIDLing in the Neo ecosystem since the Legacy days circa 2018. When Ed first submitted his proposal, it lacked focus, was too large in scale, and didn't have any real deliverables identified. He was asked to resubmit the proposal, and worked with GrantShares members to draft this proposal we see now.

If there's any consternation of mine, it's a lack of following a process and of steel-manning potentially complex issues. I don't want to stir up any dust, so I'll just use a recent example; those who helped Ed shape the grant asked for some time for others to provide insight into in case it needed any changes. Then, the proposal was immediately put onchain, without this comment period. With this funding, I'd like to feel confident that future FTW modules will go through a more rigorous form of mental gymnastics before they're released.

That said, Ed builds products on behalf of users and for developers in the Neo ecosystem. FTW is full of tools that make it the easiest way to onboard new users and developers into the ecosystem. I've used FTW to help onboard a local university, and now they're interested on building a product on Neo.

Overall, Ed's a good actor, great for the Neo ecosystem, and has already built a suite of tools without support from the GrantShares community funding DAO. Further, the FTW NFT projects have both integrated utility with other dApps in the ecosystem. That is also a positive attribute that FTW has brought to the ecosystem.

The new proposal includes a line item for contract audits from OverLord, who have audited many contracts in the Neo ecosystem. So, I feel like my previous concerns are somewhat addressed with some of the funding allocated for this purpose. This is my .02 GAS, but if someone were to endorse the proposal, I don't see why it should not reach a quorum in favor of distributing funding.

steven1227 commented 1 year ago

Forthewin is a great platform and ED is a very experienced developer in the Neo ecosystem. The proposal here states the new plan and it satisfies all the requirements. Although Forthewin got some reward and funds from other way before, it sounds like the milestone in this proposal is independent.

One question, for the first purpose We are going to use the funds for contests and initial LP support to help web3 startups and even people who want to try web3 business. That means you will use this part of funds to provide LP for those new project's token?

ediopia commented 1 year ago

@steven1227 Thank you for your warmth greeting. Correct. It won't be easy to verify team's credibility but we will find the way. Adding one updated fact is FrankCoin was one of the winners of our testnet meme contest. I am very happy to see his progress.

csmuller commented 1 year ago

Even though, I'd prefer even more concrete deliverables, i'm in favor of this proposal, because it is a clear extension to what FTW already does and sounds like a good opportunity for the Neo ecosystem in general.

I'm not sure if we should endorse the proposal now, or if it will get lost in the christmas/end-of-year craze, and we should wait till January... 😬

grantshares-dapp[bot] commented 1 year ago

⛓ This proposal was endorsed on-chain! 📄🔑

➡️ Voting period starts NOW!

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gsmachado commented 1 year ago

Great to see this proposal moving forward! 🎉

grantshares-dapp[bot] commented 1 year ago

🎉 Outcome: this proposal was accepted! 🚀

➡️ Now, waiting for someone to execute it... ⏰

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gsmachado commented 1 year ago

It's awesome to see this proposal being accepted!

Congrats, @ediopia and team! 🚀

Looking forward to seeing the new developments of FTW!

ediopia commented 1 year ago

@gsmachado Thank you. We will do our best!

grantshares-dapp[bot] commented 1 year ago

⛓ This proposal was executed on-chain! ✅ 💚

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csmuller commented 1 year ago

Hi @ediopia, any updates on your work under this grant? I'm curious to see were FTW is going in this year :)

ediopia commented 1 year ago

@csmuller. It has been dynamic days for Forthewin. We have recently established partnerships with some of the leading players, Defillama and Poly Network. These collaborations have enabled us to expand our reach and offer our users even more valuable tools and resources.

Additionally, we have recently rewritten our C# smart contract code to Solidity and have been testing it on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). We are currently in the process of auditing our code and plan to go live on the mainnet in the near future.

We believe that expanding our user base before launching our main event, the Meme Coin Contest, will help us achieve even greater success. To that end, we have been considering open sourcing a comparison between Neo smart contracts and Solidity contracts, which could be valuable for Solidity developers looking to learn Neo.

Thank you for your continued support. We are excited about the progress we've made and look forward to sharing more updates with you soon!

csmuller commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the report. Great to hear about the progress. I'm curious what your plans are with the new partnerships. Did you form these also for expanding into a broader ecosystem?

ediopia commented 1 year ago

Yes, to expand our reach and credibility in the broader web3 ecosystem. We will try with key players' platforms in the near future too.

gsmachado commented 1 year ago

@ediopia thanks for the report.

I just want to remind you that it's important to provide clear results to the community once FTW accomplishes things in relation to the grant requested on THIS proposal.

At the end of the day, the community would like to know how the grant is being spent, and whether it brought meaningful results.

ediopia commented 1 year ago

@gsmachado I've been working on a plan that wasn't included in this proposal, but I'm confident that it will enhance the main event of the proposal at the end. I understand the importance of keeping the community informed about how the grant is being spent, and I will make sure to share progress updates in a timely manner.

csmuller commented 1 year ago

Hey @ediopia, I can see that the FTW web page is an good state, and has gained some traction 👏 Any updates on the contract audit of the Locker contracts you were planning in the scope of this project?

ediopia commented 1 year ago

@csmuller I hope you're doing well. As I previously mentioned regarding our EVM expansion plan, we've had two EVM contract audits done by Overload: one for swap and the other for farm (staking).

We recently launched our Bridge and EVM Smith (Token Launcher). The meme coin contest plan has been delayed as we'd like it to be available on Ethereum as well. I'll keep you posted on further updates!

KayAppeal commented 10 months ago

@csmuller well looks like zero of the deliverables have been meet exactly 1 year after he received funding, looking at the transactions this is how the money have been spent,

Getting 2950 NEO from GrantShares - 0x167e4f3c2a98f058e2aa50d022c83a86fd1f4133e054f5fde81130d72e7c087a

Exchange to bNEO - 0xeeb2f35d94060a02536d17de426b675335e8405a97b99bac58a48165ccf5d49f 2950 bNEO

Convert half to GAS using flamingo - 0x84cfe558092d066c761f94971a242cd2cc2533b50832c55d519febcf41e7813a 1450 bNEO & 4738 GAS

Staking it on FTW - 0xd3a4108b5a9af32378508cee2826b5ebb6073ceb918b059b834065e19d9b8772 1494 bNEO & 4773 GAS

Unstaking - 0xa4eda421062918fa35de6d58738aca47a132c80ccefed1826df2de993c167a4b 1434 bNEO & 5075 GAS

Transfering to his other wallet (Paying himself) - 0x0d8c8d9e07f299468f575dfda3e4d3a9363bdbc97335e85cd60127904ec240a7 500 bNEO

Restaking - 0x4aba1f27fe1756e1ed7146d7144b8a1de37dd1443d17bc02c95a7da0fc7d12a8 934 bNEO & 3306 GAS (1769 GAS MISSING)

Stake the remaing GAS - 0x8b786ef4512a25e982d0d625d6eed7b949e823ff9166537293181389b50ee27a 1 447 595 NEP & 1777 GAS

Unstake - 0xd5eb6519a3fd2b30536cde34bf4a24100cf1a3e0b2a0b38dbb196f1f9cd99f7d 979 bNEO & 3165 GAS

Transfering to his other wallet (Paying himself) - 0x79f663a141ecc057a6df64940a9eacdf145580a27f5ede33ba12ad9200edb4fc 500 bNEO

Restaking - 0xe239116e2d21a6537bc5221d2bdda9a6569d11c408b31fb71f83a5f509a899c9 656 bNEO & 2123 GAS (1042 GAS MISSING)

Swapped excess GAS to bNEO - 0x296d90cb1919e5339a9887b6876fb1a4d585ebf0dfe2537c01a26e3f6ff4c521 600 GAS to 166 bNEO (442 GAS MISSING)

Staking again - 0x28b252c72cad16516ca704ca6a337108b758bac30634ee6eb31bb1a0db40e17f 166 bNEO & 540 GAS

Unstake - 0xfb16e0b5e2c40f9c04a2b5dcc0f2bdf68d39454e802532fd2a848efd9b6b9387 166 bNEO & 539 GAS

Unstake - 0x12a23643ebbfc56aaef3f581cbdf7c69de826b24ccf5d1af7fb2b62af71df132 1 504 681 NEP & 1717 GAS

Transfering to his other wallet (Paying himself) - 0x59d0ccee1f8c648be595c4885707ae4a38613dbd86bf4c9791984ac72ea82ce3 2200 GAS

Staking again - 0xb9f7a8c611e8a40f7e9631800a18181d111d94eb59b8d4cbda2ff56fd837bc03 166 bNEO & 533 879 NEP

Unstake - 0x6864d1dac2baa68238e16fcede96ff2884736876413a412542b5677f1f56cf41 149 bNEO & 597 400 NEP

Paying himself - 0xa7c94eb4a6e996e730746f315e0cd81cd00830404b4d6ede38cf49a874420a8a 284 bNEO

Unstake - 0xce8aff8a47faa87fdb93d3871999db422e0845956b9f278940491b8392166b23 862 bNEO & 1629 GAS

Paying himself - 0x708bb7e9005f8ae1db0875a7ea6ce2aa027277af93620db13bd66ab63eea5b44 500 bNEO

Swap GAS to bNEO - 0xa23f436425c9a785f1b494f6bca033c7c43815a7c7aee13f28c1ce91a5d99dba 992 GAS to 530 bNEO

Swap GAS to bNEO - 0xff210ceb3dd60861e54c9d11726443389f9ea7a4429a477b1363a3d2aceba5e2 200 GAS to 106 bNEO

Swap GAS to bNEO - 0x669f7283b5e2d4c6ec8f7a90e5a856a048dc6fbd7b7d51322702991adba3d8f1 755 GAS to 404 bNEO

Basically over time he has sent all the 2950 NEO to his other wallet: Nby1vRHK1ujrENkndQWYxgFpm3wv8euJ9b and 0 has been used for the deliverables

csmuller commented 10 months ago

Hi @KayAppeal, those are valid concerns and thanks for the efforts of going through transaction data. I think part of this grant was meant to be used as kind of a salary, thus, it's not entirely wrong if Ed used some token by himself or for possible coworkers.

But, we definitely need to shed some light on the work performed under this grant. @ediopia please present some evidence that shows the outcome of this work. Examples:

ediopia commented 10 months ago

@gsmachado @csmuller We have successfully managed our grant and were able to extend our development period thanks to the recovery of Neo's price.

Here are the things we have accomplished with GS support:

Thank you again, Grant Shares. The grant has supported FTW remarkably and helped us to pivot perfectly in preparation for Neo X. We are looking forward to proposing another proposal aimed at a successful launch on Neo X.

@KayAppeal thank you for your bookkeeping. It has saved us a lot of time :)

KayAppeal commented 10 months ago

So from the examples of @csmuller the only one answered was

Features that were implemented for the forthewin.network web app this year.

Niicceeee

antecrypto commented 10 months ago

Seems to be he accomplished everything stated.

FTW expanded to EVM before Neo X was even announced. Connected to Polygon / Ethereum live on Mainnet for anybody to use. This in itself is in a way "marketing" for the chain as it just opened up bridges from Neo to Polygon and Ethereum. It's prime meme coin season and FTW provides easy token creation on Neo, Polygon and Ethereum. That's massive.

He has the audit reports from Overload, I'm sure Overload can confirm it was completed internally.

The only thing not yet completed seems to be "Possibly a token listing with a CEX". Keyword: Possibly.

I can confirm there has been exchanges that reached out to me about TTM/FTW but the agreement wasn't in the benefit of our communities so we passed.

0 has been used for the deliverables

All we see is deliverables.

Most of the completed deliverables is in plain view or can be easily handled in an internal convo between parties involved. As project owner and developer..makes complete sense for pay himself out for the hours upon hours and hours put into building FTW. That is what the grant is for isn't it? Makes so much more sense to go with the experience developer, who owns the project, and has been developing on Neo since legacy than hire a random dev..doesn't it?

The Neo Ecosystem is slowly growing thanks to programs like Grant Shares. I have been seeing more and more projects pop up and get the help they need. But as we all know...even with GrantShares...there's not a lot of teams on the Neo Ecosystem. Pointless bashing doesn't encourage new devs to come along and it definitely doesn't motivate current teams building in the ecosystem.

Developing = Work Hours. Time is money.

cschuchardt88 commented 10 months ago

You can't buy anything on Ethereum or Polygon, its worthless, you can only send to it. Once there, nothing to do with it. To be talking that kind of money i would be expect it to be professionally done, for someone taking $5,000 a month for nothing. Its nothing and always will be nothing, but junk.

cschuchardt88 commented 10 months ago

Ya wasting my time building the very platform you use.

Its my opinion, if you can't take criticism, that can help you improve. Then maybe internet isn't for you. $5,000 could buy you a better website ( than what you currently have), documentation or Google Ads. How did I complain? I didn't ask you to fix anything, I just stated the facts. If I wasted your time, Ah No! You did by replying.

antecrypto commented 10 months ago

Ya wasting my time building the very platform you use.

Its my opinion, if you can't take criticism, that can help you improve. Then maybe internet isn't for you. $5,000 could buy you a better website ( than what you currently have), documentation or Google Ads. How did I complain? I didn't ask you to fix anything, I just stated the facts. If I wasted your time, Ah No! You did by replying.

Nothing you said was constructive. Just a bunch of nonsense and 0 facts. Grant Shares made their decision loud and clear.

I don't care about your dumb ass internet comment, what you suggest $5K could buy, I def. don't care about your Google Ads comment being a seasoned media buyer myself...stick in your lane bud.

I'm glad there's balanced, level headed people voting which seem to disagree with everything you said. Their opinions are the only one that matters...not yours.

You sound incredibly bitter. Get over it.

ediopia commented 10 months ago

@cschuchardt88 I haven't heard about Neo events. So, how much are they paying you for this work? Is it just minimum wage for basic html and monkey logo? Neo has spent millions in the last few years and hasn't brought any significant dApps to the mainnet. Why are you working on something that nobody will use?

cschuchardt88 commented 10 months ago

Explain

As a startup dex, our priority is to increase popularity and credibility. First of all, we need to have a standard data api that is required by many popular crypto platforms such as CMC and Coingecko.

Once we finish with the Neo eco integrations, we will start contacting platforms outside Neo to be listed as an exchange and as tokens that are traded in our dex.

We also want to find reasonable centralized exchange listing opportunities during the process which can increase our popularity and credibility in a different way.

Where is your proof? No one knows you!

You sound incredibly bitter and jealous by the way. Get over it.

Do you not see what your writing? Look at the words you're using.

cschuchardt88 commented 10 months ago

@cschuchardt88 I haven't heard about Neo events. So, how much are they paying you for this work? Is it just minimum wage for basic html and monkey logo? Neo has spent millions in the last few years and hasn't brought any significant dApps to the mainnet. Why are you working on something that nobody will use?

Lol, look at my profile and you see what I'm really working on.

Ps: plus its Google Sites, silly! If you two would stop using your impulses and urges, you might have something good.

ediopia commented 10 months ago

@cschuchardt88 Oh, you must be so proud of yourself big ego like "I am a C# developer working on blockchain". You are working on a blockchain that nobody uses, so stop wasting your time building it for now and help us promote it to bring in real users with us.

P.S. We are among the few users you have for your work. If you were really in the business, you wouldn't treat your users this way. You're the kind of guy we won't see in a few years, so let's stop wasting our time here.

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cschuchardt88 commented 10 months ago

so stop wasting your time building it for now and help us promote it to bring in real users with us.

Your doing such a good already! Because all these people/companies you are contracting to bring here to neo; now can read this github thread. When they do their research, and find out you all are dickhead trolls, that can't take criticism. YA!!! they really want to work with you now! God forbid you became popular or even number one; than someone say something you didn't like...What you going to do? Same stuff your doing now? I'm done with you two.

So he can pretend like he's important. "Check out my profile". In reality, nobody cares.

Oh but you do now! And remember it too!!