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Stacks Claim Links V2 #747

Closed jhammond2012 closed 1 year ago

jhammond2012 commented 1 year ago

APPLICANT

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Discord:                                                    2n10se#5020

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Stacks Forum:           

GRANT BASICS

Grant Name:                                        Stacks Claim Links V2

Total Budget:                              15,000

Total Duration:                 200

Grant Type:                                               Open Source Dev Repeat Grantees

Grant Track:                                          Stacks User Experience

Grant Goal:                                               Strengthen Community

Grant Audience:             End Users (Consumer)

Specific Audience:         This was a difficult one to select as it targets end users as well as developers

Grant Team:                                       jhammond2012

Previous Grants:                           https://grantsdashboard.stacks.org/dashboard/grants/512

Ecosystem Programs:      

GRANT MISSION, IMPACT, RISKS & REFERENCE

Grant Mission:         This application will allow users and organizations to onboard users to the stacks ecosystem. Offering sponsored STX claim links will allow users to create a wallet easily, get loaded with STX, and interact with their first dApp. I eventually see these supporting complete "care packages" that contain other tokens from the community (Slime, City Coin, Alex, etc.).

I do not believe this application will attract developers directly, but rather, it will lower the barrier of entry for the end user using their applications. A good example is when I try to get a friend to check out Sigle or any other leading app built on stacks, they say:

"Sure! How do I do that?"

I have to instruct them to create a wallet, go to OK-Coin, buy 1-2 STX, wait ten days, and transfer to their wallet... THEN process some transactions.

This process takes too long and, in my experience, does not have a large success/conversion rate. One solution to this is to run sponsored TXNs, but this, for some reason, has not been widely adopted. The other solution is to provide a way to onboard new users by offering a 1 STX claim link. This gifted STX token is not meant to be a "HODL and get rich!!!" But rather a "go explore the ecosystem and use this for the gas".

Grant Impact:               This will be verifiable through the increased onboarding and interest in the stacks ecosystem. The goal is to lower the barrier of entry into the Stacks ecosystem.

Grant Risks:                          Our largest risk is users gamify the system and claim all claim links. While this is not possible to completely avoid, I want to eventually make some incentive base claims. For example: watching video, reading an article (learn to earn)

[Support Link:]()                                     

GRANT ROADMAP & DELIVERABLES

MILESTONE 1:

Deliverable:                   Campaign customization, NFT Claim Links

FINAL DELIVERABLE

Deliverable:                   Extension to the existing app to support NFT links and campaign customization.

stacks-foundation commented 1 year ago

👋 @jhammond2012
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

jhammond2012 commented 1 year ago

Below are some screenshots of the current version: image image image image

RagnarLifthrasir commented 1 year ago

Claim Links could greatly help Trajan App onboard new users to the platform. When I started with Stacks, obtaining STX and minting an NFT had significant friction. Claim Links ameliorate the friction. This will lower the barrier to entry for new users of Stacks applications.

owenstrevor commented 1 year ago

@jhammond2012 have you considered applying for the pre-accelerator with this?

jhammond2012 commented 1 year ago

@owenstrevor I haven't. Would love to discuss more about it though.

will-corcoran commented 1 year ago

Hello @jhammond2012

Thank you for the application and for your patience with the grant review process. We did a thorough review of all of the applications (each application received an average of 6 reviews from members of the Grants Review Committee).  However, after much consideration, we decided not to fund any of the Cohort 19 grant applications as we did not feel they aligned with critical priorities core to the development of the Stacks blockchain.  

We invite you to please read this blog post we authored to help elaborate on the reasoning behind this decision and clarify the current mission of the Grants Program.

Thanks in advance, Will Stacks Foundation Grants Program Manager