Web3 Naming Service (3NS) Infrastructure - ashleyturing

[Hero-Gamer]

Cohort 1 Discord Name: ashleyturing

Project Description: Web3 Naming Service (3NS) Infrastructure: 3NS offers a Web3 naming service for brands, music labels, and artists to register names on the Bitcoin network through Stacks, linking assets on-chain with an sBTC treasury, governance features, an ordinal vault, and fractionalization options.

Upfront money: $2500 Milestone 1: $2000 - complete by 1st March 2024 Development of the pre-order e-commerce website for name registration and community validation.. Milestone 2: $500 - complete by 1st of April 2024 Further marketing and promotional activities to build interest in the additional features of the project, initial build of naming service on stacks.

Total grant request: $5,000

[AshleyTuring]

Cohort 1 @Hero-Gamer @whoabuddy 3NS - Web3 Naming Service - Delivery by AshleyTuring

Pleased to confirm the completion of Milestone 1 for the 3NS - Web3 Naming Service project. This phase involved creating a the pre-order website for name registration alongside a mechanism for community validation (through an engaging quiz), view here:

https://www.3ns.link/

I genuinely believe this has far exceeded the expected deliverable standards. Given the deliverable required more time, effort and resources than anticipated, I am really excited about delivering the next milestone. I would welcome your feedback and kindly request additional support with the next milestone. Many thanks.

[Hero-Gamer]

Review Milestone 1: Approved

Commentary:

• Thanks for the effort Ashely.
• I've reviewed the milestone 1, checked the website. It has the basic site up to capture interested members mailing list.
• "creating a the pre-order website" is my understanding the public functionality is not live yet to do pre-order, presume this will be part of ongoing development during M2.
• Noting some "community validation" has been carried out, and is also part of going commitment to shape the M2 work & the final product in order to find the right Product Market Fit (PMF). I'd hope to see more concrete feature coming out of community validation part.
• Should you need help in "community validation", do reach out to 1. me 2. Bitcoin Startup Lab 3. Christopher, founder of NoCodeClarity
• I think reaching out to the people who are already interested in domains is a good idea, such as the BNS community who already have been interests in domains.
• If you need to speak to Artists community, the go-to person first might be someone like Goodkitty, and Nick from Gamma.
• If you are talking about treasury, multisig wallet provider such as Asigna would be a good company to talk to.

Personal commentary: I'd as a Stacks community member personally like to see "community validation" done even more thoroughly in order to find a commercial product with big market potential, than just a cool platform that's niche.