Good Whale's Grant Fund

[glasgowm148]

Up to $20K per grant!

Good whale’s fund is mostly interested in the following topics:

• developing a standard for NiPoPoW-based certificates for NFTs (and not only)
• developing contracts and UI for Ergo Name System (alternative for Namecoin, Handshake, Ethereum Name Service)
• developing applications on top of ErgoDEX, such as DexyUSD Dexy USD 'Simplest Stablecoin Design'
• token sales with buyback guarantees
• New Ergo Smart DEX Orders with buyback guarantees | Ergo 4 etc
• developing standard DeFi stack: lending applications, financial instruments (futures, options), etc
• Mixicles and other private DeFi applications
• Mutual credit systems, targeted microloans, savings cooperatives and other community-powering DeFi

but you are free to propose your topic!

https://www.ergoforum.org/t/good-whales-grant-fund/2779

[glasgowm148]

It would be good to have a language which is defining a finite state machine which is then to be translated into UTXO protecting scripts automatically, with registers being used to store data needed in the states etc. We're not quite here yet.

https://discord.com/channels/668903786361651200/669989266478202917/738817632022822934

[cherrries]

• developing a standard for NiPoPoW-based certificates for NFTs (and not only)
• developing contracts and UI for Ergo Name System (alternative for Namecoin, Handshake, Ethereum Name Service)

Why not kill two birds with one stone and do NiPoPoW integration with Handshake? The Handshake Institute is holding .ergo to deliver to whatever community-based, fair Ergo Name Service arises to claim it.

We also plan to deliver .cardano to Cardano and we will seek Catalyst funding through proposals to fund open source development of decentralized second level domain registries. It would be wonderful if Ergo had the same. Lots of possibilities.