grantshares-dapp[bot] commented 1 year ago

Abstract

Learn-to-Earn is a teaching methodology that incentivizes individuals to acquire knowledge. At MELK DAO, we have developed a Discord bot that enables users to learn at their own pace, complete on-chain missions and engage with the Web3 ecosystem using $MELK tokens. Our proposed project involves creating a trail mission for the NEO ecosystem and the aim is to onboard new users and encourage them to explore and utilize the full potential of the NEO ecosystem, while earning rewards for their efforts. At MELK DAO, we believe that learning about the Web3 ecosystem should be engaging and rewarding. Our Learn-to-Earn methodology is designed to make learning fun and accessible, regardless of the level of experience.

Proposal Information

Description

Our project is focused on creating a trail of missions for the NEO ecosystem that aims to onboard new users and encourage them to explore and utilize the full potential of the NEO blockchain. By completing various missions, such as creating a NEO wallet, funding it, transferring NEO, exploring the blockchain, etc... users can gain a deeper understanding and proficiency in using the NEO blockchain.

Our trail mission is designed to be simple and user-friendly, providing step-by-step instructions and guidance for users who are new to the NEO ecosystem. To incentivize user participation and engagement, we offer rewards for completing each mission, such as MELK tokens or other tokens and assets. In addition, we have also created a Proof of Knowledge certificate that might provide reputation status and additional benefits to the community members who have completed the trail missions.

Through our project, we aim to onboard new users to the NEO ecosystem and encourage them to become active members of the community, contributing to the growth and development of the NEO blockchain. By unlocking the full potential of the NEO ecosystem, users can benefit from enhanced security, privacy, and reliability, and access various applications and services available on the platform.

Our current MVP for Ethereum onboarding is already installed and running in 10 different servers with a reach of 10'000 users and 15% organic conversion in the past 6 months. More details can be found in our documentation here: https://docs.melkdao.com/v/en/

Motivation

Our goal is to onboard millions of individuals into the Web3 ecosystem, and we are searching for products and ecosystems that create a meaningful impact in the space. We strongly believe that NEO is one such ecosystem that has tremendous potential to make a significant contribution to the Web3 community.

Currently, our founding team is working on a voluntary basis, sharing the same vision and passion of promoting the Web3 ecosystem and its potential benefits. However, we recognize that additional resources are needed to bring these developments to life. Therefore, we are seeking grants as a means to support the development of this project and help achieve our mission.

Goals

What are the main goals, and why?

The main goal of our project is to create the first part of a trail mission for the NEO ecosystem that aims to onboard new users and encourage them to explore and utilize the full potential of the NEO blockchain. By completing various missions related to the NEO blockchain, users can gain a deeper understanding and proficiency in using the platform. The reason for this goal is to increase and maximize the adoption and usage of the NEO blockchain and products.

Through our project, we aim to amplify and simplify the process of onboarding new users to the NEO ecosystem by providing step-by-step instructions and guidance.

How would you bring value to the community?

Overall we aim to bring more users, engagement and collaboration to NEO. Here's how:

Onboarding new users: By creating a trail mission that provides step-by-step guidance and incentives for completing various missions related to the NEO blockchain, we can help onboard new users and increase the adoption and usage of the platform.
Promoting community engagement: By offering rewards for completing missions and providing opportunities for participation and collaboration, our project can help foster a strong and engaged community of developers, investors, and users around the NEO blockchain.
Enhancing awareness: By promoting the adoption and usage of the NEO blockchain through our project, we can raise awareness of the platform and its unique features, which can help attract new users, developers, and investors to the NEO community.

Deliverables & Roadmap

Here's what the first phase of our deliverables include:

Research and Planning:
- Duration: 1 week
- Research the NEO ecosystem, define the trail mission objectives, and create a detailed project plan.
Smart Contract Development:
- Duration: 2 weeks
- Create and deploy new smart contracts for each mission in the trail. These smart contracts will manage user actions, validate inputs, and trigger rewards upon completion of each mission.
Staging and Debugging:
- Duration: 1 week
- Test and debug the smart contracts in a staging environment to ensure that the trail mission is functional and error-free.
Interface Design and Development:
- Duration: 1 week
- Design and develop a user-friendly interface for completing each mission in the trail. The interface will be easy to use and understand for both new and experienced users.
Reward System Development:
- Duration: 1 week
- Develop a reward system that will incentivize users to complete each mission and earn rewards. This reward system will be integrated with the NEO blockchain to ensure that rewards are distributed automatically upon completion of each mission.
Security and Vulnerability Testing:
- Duration: 1 week
- Conduct security and vulnerability testing of the trail mission before and after deployment to ensure that it is secure and protected from potential attacks.
Staging and Deployment:
- Duration: 1 week
- Stage and deploy the trail mission to the NEO blockchain. Staging involves testing the trail mission in a production-like environment, while deployment involves deploying the trail mission to the NEO blockchain for users to access and complete.

Total FTE estimation for the project : 2

Total budget requested: ~6'670 GAS / 15'000 USD [Jun 12th]

Once the first phase is delivered we aim to expand the missions and introduce videos to support the learning path.

Deliverables Verifiability

Previously, we developed and tested a trail mission for onboarding users into the EVM blockchain ecosystem. This served as our MVP to test the contract and understand its traction with users. The content for the trail mission is available for anyone to test on one of our servers with the bot installed. For more information, please refer to our documents here: https://docs.melkdao.com/v/en/comunidade.

The trail mission includes the following nine missions:

Creating a wallet using MetaMask
Configuring a new network and a new token in your wallet
Viewing transactions on the blockchain
Understanding the transaction information on the blockchain
Signing transactions with MetaMask
Learning to purchase MATIC
Learning to swap tokens
Learning to make transfers
Learning to sign a Snapshot vote

To ensure transparency, the community will have access to our public GitHub page, where they can view the codebase and track the development progress. We will also provide regular updates through our Discord server to keep the broader community informed about the project's progress.

Budget Plan

What are the overall required resources (i.e., budget)? The overall required resources for the development of the trail mission for the NEO ecosystem are approximately $15,000 USD. This budget will cover the costs of smart contract development, interface design and development, reward system development, security and vulnerability testing, and staging and deployment. The majority of the budget will be allocated towards development costs.
Provide reasons why the requested budget is a good fit for the proposal. The requested budget is a good fit for the proposal because it covers all the necessary development costs for creating a successful trail mission for the NEO ecosystem. Smart contract development will ensure that the trail mission is fully integrated with the NEO blockchain and functions as intended. Interface design and development will create a user-friendly experience for completing each mission in the trail. Reward system development will incentivize users to complete each mission and earn rewards. Security and vulnerability testing will ensure that the trail mission is secure and protected from potential attacks. Staging and deployment will ensure that the trail mission is ready for use by the NEO community.
How the budget would be used to achieve the project goal? The budget will be used to achieve the project goal by covering the costs of the various deliverables required for the development of the trail mission.

About You / Your Organization

Individual/Entity Name: MelkDAO
Website: https://docs.melkdao.com/v/en/
GitHub Organization (if applicable): https://github.com/web3melk/melk-dao-docs

Short-Bio

Our team:

Our team is a group of talented individuals who are passionate about Web3 and blockchain technology. We have diverse backgrounds and expertise, ranging from entrepreneurship and venture capital to software development, project management, marketing, design, community growth, finance and business strategy.

Together, we are dedicated to creating innovative and meaningful onboarding experiences for Web3 ecosystem. Our team is driven by a shared vision of building a decentralized future that is more secure, transparent, and accessible to everyone.

About us:

Who we are : Creators of the world's first on chain Learn-to-Earn Discord bot! What we do :We democratize Web3 education through meaningful learning experiences. Benefits : Our learning methodology is effective and incentivize users to keep progressing. Our mission: Onboard millions of people into Web3 ecosystem.

Portfolio of Projects / Past Experience

Team roles and experience:

Ana/Purple , Co-Founder & General Manager: Ana, aka Purple in Web3 is an ex-P&G with vast experience in F&A and market research. Now leads community growth and strategy for innovative blockchain products at ConsenSys.

Rai, Co-Founder & Marketing Manager: Rai is a Web3 educator and digital content creator with 10+ years of experience in project management and marketing.

Lorenzo, Co-Founder & Developer: Lorenzo is a skilled software developer with relevant experience in blockchain development and web projects.

Akva, Co-Founder & Community Builder: Akva is an experienced Web3 degen who has been part of important founding teams in Brazil. He has extensive experience with building engaged communities.

Desenhista, Co-Founder & Illustrator: Desenhista is a talented digital artist, recognized in the Brazilian community for creating fun and pixeled artwork. In his spare time, he practices law.

Melk, Co-Founder & Advisor: Melk is a founder with a diverse background in entrepreneurship, venture capital, fintech, and Web3. He now contributes as the main advisor for MelkDAO.

Some of the projects that the team has been involved:

web3dev: https://www.web3dev.com.br/ On-demand web3 software development. BrPunk community: https://brpunk.com/ Decentralized persona creating and curating Web3 content nounsbr: https://nounsbr.com/en/ An extension of Nouns DAO, which seeks to introduce Nouns in the various cultural manifestations that give identity and tell the history of Brazil. HoneyBadgers: https://twitter.com/HoneyBadgersBtc digital collectibles inscribed on the Bitcoin Blockchain. First Badger: #81.557 Last Badger: #1.014.824

Proposal Info :clipboard:

Proposal Type: request-for-funding
Amount Requested: 6670
Token: 0xd2a4cff31913016155e38e474a2c06d08be276cf (GAS)
Receiver Address: NaQSq2VexRSoWgKHmbM8qVbLPpZqefD5SL (0xd5eadc51fca200b397ca25645b48b187977bf49e)
Created by: @PurpleRatatui :rocket:
Raw Intents: :eyes:

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PurpleRatatui commented 8 months ago

Hi @deanragnarok and @csmuller , apologies for taking long on responding you, I was out the past 2 weeks for my PTO.

Regarding installation I will make sure to update the documentation , indeed we need to add NEO in order to install the trail.

Thanks for pointing out about the testnet, I will make sure this is very clear in the instruction. Also regarding that, I understand your point about "Earn" not being delivered, we have had this discussion with @csmuller and due to high cost of GAS we are unable to launch in mainnet. Since there is no value in MELK tokens and the idea is for the user to experiment, we were instructed to use testnet to deliver the project for the moment. @csmuller please let us know if you see it differently considering above comment from dean.

Finally, regarding the time to receive the rewards, I will discuss it with our dev to see where we can improve.

Thanks a lot for the feedback, I will revert back to the docs and team and update next week once I am back. Have a great weekend!

csmuller commented 8 months ago

@deanragnarok I still think running the missions on testnet is the right approach at the moment. The grant did not include the operational costs for running the bot on mainnet, i.e., paying for the GAS new users require to go through the missions. So, to get the bot into production as soon as it was technically ready, I think going for testnet was the right decision.

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