ETeissonniere commented 6 years ago

Obsidian Ecosystem

Abstract

Many projects are building on Ethereum and its competitors, but when wanting to market their frameworks and tools to other developers, projects or even users they face one but giant issue: users will need own ETH and an other token, but sometimes users don't want to care about owning some ETH to pay transaction fees, they just to own and play with their (let's say) ANT.

What I am proposing is a way to completely abstract away from the requirement of owning some Ether for common users thanks to the Obsidian Ecosystem.

Additionally, the smart contract structure introduced will give every user a Safe where they can deposit funds and manage them with an increased security, additionally they will be able to customize its verification and execution flows.

Website Paper (:warning: draft)

Deliverables

Safe contract
Relayer nodes and relayer discovery system
Additional modules for the Safe: two factor authorization, key recovery...
A nice UI for the users

Grant size

Funding: Up to $50k in ETH, split between the different deliverables.

Success reward: Up to $20k in ANT given when the project is completed.

Proof of concept

I am working on this, will be available in the GitHub.

Team

Eliott Teissonniere

Former BitNation CTO (left based on internal dysfunctions), maker of ETHLove (world's first smart contract to be married on the Blockchain), lead developer of Horizon.

I live by open source and decentralization, but the crypto ecosystem still have a few things to solve to reach mainstream adoption, Obsidian is tackling some of these problems.

Legal structure to be adopted

None at the beginning, the project will be offered for free and open sourced in a completely decentralized way.

Eventually if there is some big interest from the community, a DAO will be created.

Final words

Happy to discuss everything in this proposal 😉, add some clarifications or even rework some parts, thanks for the interest ❤️.

mariapao commented 6 years ago

Hi @DeveloppSoft thanks for submitting your proposal.

Your project is trying to solve one of the key UX pain points in Ethereum and is interesting to see your approach. However, this is a problem other people/teams are already tackling so we prefer to support other problems that nobody is tackling right now. Also, keep in mind that for Nest to fund a project the scope of work should fit the funding range of the program: $50k up to $100k. Thus, this proposal is not a candidate for funding this time. If in the future you are working on something that is a fit for the program, please apply again. We appreciate your participation very much!

ETeissonniere commented 6 years ago

Thanks @mariapao for taking the time, I hope you don't mind me asking a few precisions 😉.

However, this is a problem other people/teams are already tackling so we prefer to support other problems that nobody is tackling right now

I only heard of the Gnosis Safe which is first tackling multi-devices / signatures wallets rather than ETH-always-needed problem that could be similar to Obsidian, would it be possible to give me a few links? I would be interested in seeing other similar initiatives I don't know of.

Also, keep in mind that for Nest to fund a project the scope of work should fit the funding range of the program: $50k up to $100k

Just to note that my Grant size fits this requirement 🙂.

Anyways, thanks for your time again.

mariapao commented 6 years ago

@DeveloppSoft sure! this project is great, for example.

You said "funding up to $50k" and that can mean $10k or $49k.

ETeissonniere commented 6 years ago

Thanks for the link!

You said "funding up to $50k" and that can mean $10k or $49k.

Indeed, guilty as charge, this was intended to let you choose.

Thanks for the review (and the link), wish you the best, I will stop bothering you :).

mariapao commented 6 years ago

@DeveloppSoft Always happy help. You don't bother :)

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