Closed jamesray1 closed 5 years ago
Hi @jamesray1 thank you for submitting your proposal.
First, apologies for the slow reply. We have been working on the priorities for Nest this year.
What you are trying to achieve with Gossipsub is certainly important. Unfortunately, this project is not aligned with the priorities of the program at the moment. We are focusing on teams working on tools, infra and key applications for Aragon that will help to have a product more satisfying for the users. Therefore, we have decided not to approve this proposal.
If in the future you are working on something that fits the above-mentioned priorities, please do not hesitate to apply again.
Aragon Nest Proposal: Gossipsub
Abstract
Currently Ethereum, Substrate, and Polkadot use floodsub, a PubSub protocol that floods to all peers. This wide amplication is not efficient, nor scalable, which conflicts with the scalability goals of Ethereum 2.0. Gossipsub is a PubSub protocol that involves publishing and subscribing to some limited set of peers, using randomized topic meshes and gossip. This grant proposal is seeking to fund the development of gossipsub and integration into Ethereum 2.0 clients, such as paritytech/shasper, and Polkadot.
Deliverables
Grant size
Funding: Up to $100k in ETH, split into chunks paid out over achieved deliverables.
Success reward: Up to $50k in ANT, given out when all deliverables are ready.
Application requirements
Development timeline
The development timeline will be the following one in regards to each deliverable (some flexibility around this timeline may be allowed in accordance with the team and possibly other commitments that they may have):