STX-C // Community Event Management & Inventory Tracking

[Alisammour]

APPLICANT

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Discord:                                                         ali#9835

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GRANT BASICS

Grant Name:                                        STX-C // Community Event Management & Inventory Tracking

Total Budget:                              32,500

Total Duration:                 425

Grant Type:                                               Open Source Dev Repeat Grantees

Grant Track:                                          Stacks Developer Experience

Grant Goal:                                               Integrate Between Technologies

Grant Audience:             Developers

Specific Audience:          Developers and companies benefiting from providing partial ownership of NFT’s through proof of ownership and proof of conversion. This supports the foundation's request for token gating event management with infrastructure tooling compatible with Xverse/Hiro. Also will enable Heylayer/RoundlyX to allow their members to roll savings towards vesting on blue chip NFTs and track progress.

Grant Team:                                        nokhodian, erfanyeganegi, alisammour

Previous Grants:                      https://github.com/stacksgov/Stacks-Grant-Launchpad/issues/570 http://fractionalizer.droplinked.com

Ecosystem Programs:      FLATLAY was part of Stacks Accelerator cohort 2 and we are working across companies and partners between C1 & C2

GRANT MISSION, IMPACT, RISKS & REFERENCE

Grant Mission:          Stacks Commerce (STX-C) is a smart contract system enabling independent buyers, sellers & value add parties to contribute & be rewarded for the exchange of goods & services. The system provides mechanisms to automate affiliate sales tracking & autonomous rewards association enabling owners and contributors to partner with one another while addressing the compromises of centralized systems. Centralized networks are prone to a lack of transparency & keen to mistreat trust (lacking data & capturing excessive revenue from transactions across their networks).

STX-C provides the ability to mint NFTs & fractionalize them to a desired amount. The NFTs can represent physical goods, services & digital products. The fractions can equate to the volume of products produced or the amount made available for batch listings & collections. Exchange & ownership related to fractions can represent the purchase of a product, service or true ownership of a listed item. Actual goods & services are represented as an exchangeable fraction of an NFT enabling many functionalities.

In what ways does this project bring us closer to a user-owned internet?

This project helps to associate NFT fractions with real-world products and services. This enables a DAO or any 3rd party to fully organize an affiliate network with pre-agreed terms and conditions that are fully transparent between every authenticated and contributing party. This will enable 3rd parties to unlock many value-add features.

How will this project accelerate a broader adoption of Stacks?

• Enable businesses to create their dCommerce solutions atop of Stacks
• Enable event management for STX community members and projects focused on the STX ecosystem
• Enable affiliate and secondary sales in a very efficient and transparent way that will benefit any retailer, marketplace or dapp being built for the ecosystem

Explain how this project will have a positive and meaningful impact on the Stacks community?

Provides open source tooling empowering devs to adapt the solution to their own use cases. However this use case specifically will support the community for any future events that want to enable token gating functionalities.

Community Event Management Tooling:

A library to provide infrastructure that allows event organizers to mint and distribute Attendance NFTs on Stacks. Create an API library that enables event organizers/developers in the Stacks community to distribute digital badges/collectibles NFTs minted on Stacks for their events.

1. Given a minter: mint NFTs for all attendees with the same metadata and artwork. The NFT minted should include a memo/taxon field that include information about the event (date, location and description) and an artwork that represents the event.
2. Gateway for attendees: collect the NFTs through their wallets of choice or create new wallets and distribute them securely.
3. Event attendees lookup: Add a way for people to look up wallets with the same event NFTs.
4. Event NFT ownership verification: Add an API for people to verify the event NFT using their signature to prove that they are the owner of the account associated with the NFT.

Other use-cases:

• Providing the platform for developers to better leverage web3 commerce tools that can be customized into their own properties/sites

• Allow for the integration of dCommerce value-add offerings in a structured format that can be made actionable across the network (dapp devs, shipping and logistics providers, merchandise production and fulfillment, etc.)

• An affiliate network for the ecosystem so that all NFT sellers and existing community members can provide access to 3rd parties a way to incentivize co-promotions and co-selling.

What is your community engagement plan throughout the process of the project?

• Engaged with ecosystem partners (STX Foundation, The Mintery, GAMMA, HeyLayer, RoundlyX, Hiro, Xverse, Console, Frens) to support NFT gated event management along with the fractionalization of blue-chip high value NFT’s for co-vesting between constituents and community members

• Working with executive teams and stakeholders to customize libraries and solutions to make shoppable collection embeddable units to be used across their properties in order to make content and promotions more discoverable while providing a native look and feel

• Encouraging community feedback across various Discord threads/forums and Twitter spaces to gauge and incorporate input and improvements

• Providing updates on community foundation calls of the teams progress while asking for collaborative input from new strategic partners interested in adopting STXC

Grant Impact:               Our community engagement plan throughout the process of the project:

• Working with executive teams and stakeholders to customize libraries and solutions to make interactive collection embeddable units to be used across their properties in order to make content and promotions more discoverable while providing a native look and feel

• Encouraging community feedback across various Discord threads/forums and Twitter spaces to gauge and incorporate input and improvements

• Providing updates on community foundation calls of the teams progress while asking for collaborative input from new strategic partners interested in adopting STXC

Grant Risks:                          What challenges, technical or otherwise, do you anticipate encountering throughout this project?

• Accounting for scalability when it comes to the number of smart product listings incorporated across the network.
• Incorporating room for anomalies or variables that are not standardized with the typical association of different use cases for adapting smart product listings.
• Building adoption across current marketplaces without overcomplicating usage and settlement of existing inventory

What is your plan for overcoming these challenges?

• Working with members across the community, our investor and executive advisory portco’s along with Stacks backed teams to incorporate constructive feedback and input to avoid these scalability issues and pitfalls
  • Partnering with Mintery NFT artists and STX marketplaces to build sustainable infrastructure based on their needs to create scaled adoption use cases and case studies beyond to service future community adopters

Support Link:                                     With this grant submission, we will be contributing the open source portion and libraries needed for the decentralized inventory management and sales tracking system on STX.

https://www.crowdcast.io/e/community-updates-call-july-2022 First 3 min Morteza/34m Ali QA

GRANT ROADMAP & DELIVERABLES

MILESTONE 1:

Deliverable:                   Source code and libraries enabling collaboration between sellers & 3rd parties

MILESTONE 2:

Deliverable:                   Interactive portal with libraries for 3rd party developers to use

MILESTONE 3:

Deliverable:                   Full documentation behind the contract and libraries for custom adoption & use.

MILESTONE 4:

Deliverable:                   STX Pay - system to accept transactions associated to a fiat value

MILESTONE 5:

Deliverable:                   An in-depth outline of all deliverables provided in google doc included here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ybeMfriXs-p5jNe_NZdcxxgK2kqHIOlsndmfRnLVK4w/edit

FINAL DELIVERABLE

Deliverable:                   Sandbox to enable any 3rd party to adopt a trust-less deComm solution using STX.

[stacks-foundation]

👋 @Alisammour
Thanks for your application! We will do a pre-review and let you know if we have any immediate questions. In the mean time please refer to our review schedule here for a detailed timeline and response dates.
Best, Will

[Alisammour]

Hi team - we've gone ahead and broken out the initial open source portion to be covered within the grants program to support the STX companies and projects we're working with.

[Alisammour]

@will-at-stacks just wanted to confirm but all our supporting comments went onto our bigger app under #595

[nokhodian]

Update! Actually, we are using 2nd version of our NFT fractionalizer which is using SIP13 and it's able to associate minted NFTs to SFTs and as well create new SFTs.

[will-corcoran]

Hi @Alisammour -

Thank you for your application. As the Grants Review Committee begins their reviews this week and next, we wanted to reach out and see if there is potential to rescope the size of your grant request. Given the projected outcomes of your project compared to cost and the competitive applications in this review batch, this grant is not likely to get approved at it's current size and deliverables. As of now, we have funding for 40-50% of the applications received. If you would still like to be considered in this round, we recommend rescoping your proposal to a lower amount that closer reflects the industry standard of $75/hr.

Lastly, when we kicked off the review cycle with the Review Committee we brought them up to speed on the top three objectives we are prioritizing for this cohort:

1. Support grants that improve Stacks-Bitcoin integration.
2. Support grants that improve the Clarity developer experience and attract new Clarity developers to Stacks.
3. Support grants that improve the attractiveness of Stacks as a place to build for founders and attract founders to Stacks.

If you could, please comment here if you feel your project is consistent with one or more of these objectives and let us know how and why.

Thanks! Will

[Alisammour]

Thanks @will-at-stacks appreciate the feedback, we actually curbed back the application significantly to address:

2. Support grants that improve the Clarity developer experience and attract new Clarity developers to Stacks.

We will be creating specific tooling to community event management and developer tooling that allows for the use of NFT fractionalization and gating functions to SIP13 for upcoming community events and developer partnerships. We've stripped out the extra's and brought the grant back down to an awardee range that is reflective to the current batches budget. Look forward to the teams consideration.

[will-corcoran]

Amazing! Thanks for being flexible and for providing feedback!

[will-corcoran]

@Alisammour we have a couple of final questions for you:

• If this grant is approved on 9/39/22 are you able to complete the work and have it operational by 3/31/23?
• Are you confident the extensive scope outlined in this application can be accomplished? Thoughts?

Thanks Will

(cc: @jennymith )

[Alisammour]

@will-at-stacks (cc @jennymith // @nokhodian)

Thanks for circling back. Assuming the initial date intended is 9/29/22, we're confident in delivering everything in the scope within 60-90 days (potentially sooner). We've already been gathering the needed pieces from various stakeholders across the ecosystem to make this happen and are pushing for the proof of concept in October. Our aim is to have this fully customizable and ready for the foundations use before EoY for the upcoming Bitcoin Unleashed events!

Since the NFT Fractionalization library is leveraged (prior grant-work we did), it's a matter of adjusting the use case to scale for these new scenarios and customizing a Dapp that enables community event management.

[will-corcoran]

Hi @Alisammour -

Congrats! Your grant application has been approved. We just sent you an invite (to the email the application was submitted with) to an onboarding call on Monday. We will use this call to provide an overview of next steps and expectations for proceeding with the grant.

If you are not able to make the call, don't worry, it will be recorded.

Best, Will Stacks Foundation Grants Program Manager.

[Alisammour]

@will-at-stacks thanks for earlier today during the grants review session. We are officially requesting completion of milestones 1 & 2 (initial contract for deployment of events on chain) along with the events dapp front end that we will continue to iterate upon based on community feedback.

Our final deliverable will be the completed dapp on mainnet and reference documentation to the repo.

[will-corcoran]

Excellent. Thanks @Alisammour this request is approved. @shaktistacks can you please disburse payment and post a confirmation here after the fact? Thanks

[Scarlett-Web3]

I think you have an interesting project. If you haven't already gone through the Stacks Web3 Startup Lab, I would like to invite you to apply.

Here's a 5-minute read on how we can help you turn your startup idea into an investment-ready startup: www.web3startuplab.io

If you are interested, you can apply through the "Apply Now" button.

Feel free to ping me on email: scarlett@stacks.ac

[will-corcoran]

Updates to this grant can also be found here

[Alisammour]

@will-at-stacks thanks for the time this week, we are excited to kick off the events Dapp with the foundation team going straight into 2023!

To recap on the discussion:

• adjusting the slippage/grant payment amount for milestone 2's completion
• completion of the final milestone, all codebase, instructional documentation and the updated UXUI that will be deployed from the Figma file can be found here:

Figma: https://www.figma.com/file/zbSn9C2ygyXNr4gs86JoDF/Events?node-id=0%3A1&t=GJvMZI578Sh8Psj2-1 https://fractionalizer.droplinked.com (see the bottom for events dapp library repo)

[will-corcoran]

Hi @Alisammour just confirming this was received. The grant was paid in full (h/t @shaktistacks)

[Alisammour]

Thanks @will-at-stacks @shaktistacks confirming that this was covered in full thank you!

[will-corcoran]

All done! https://fractionalizer.droplinked.com/