search

stacksgov / grants-program

Welcome to the Stacks Foundation Grant Program. Community members interested in submitting a grant proposal may do so by opening an issue in this repository and filling out the grant application.
141 stars 36 forks source link

Ryder: bringing web 3 to the masses #78

Closed MarvinJanssen closed 1 year ago

MarvinJanssen commented 3 years ago

Background As DeFi disrupts the financial industry and NFTs start to empower creators to monetize directly with their fans. We believe that the next crypto cycle and boom-bust will be focused on data ownership and privacy, all while achieving true self-sovereign identity. A cycle wherein we try to realize the full potential of web 3.0 by tying all the innovation through DIDs.

We intend to make (digital) identity truly personal and achieve self-sovereignty with our hardware device: Ryder.

Our first proposal can be found at #6. This led to the development of the first hardware identity device of its kind, with currently 10 working prototypes in the hands of key community members. We refer to them as the Pioneers.

Project Overview (For a historic overview, we refer to the posted issue at #6 and the corresponding documentation.)

Our full proposal, including what we achieved so far, can be accessed here: https://www.notion.so/Ryder-Deck-v_01-67526501bbde43a39dce76a0fc83b923

Scope Our project is fully scoped in the document linked above. The section "2021 Timeline: Ryder Roadmap" delineates major milestones and deliverables. We divided these milestones over multiple funding quarters.

A direct link to the roadmap: https://www.notion.so/b319b1b729ed435c9d697a3f124d71ca?v=1039f64aaff34d74866c4951e5c83538

Budget and Milestones Our team would like to make an application for a $100,000 grant from the Stacks Foundation. The remaining $30,421.25 will come from the founders. We will use these funds to unlock our 2021 timeline as shown above. This grant will ensure Ryder meets every deliverable before becoming a self-sustainable startup, either through token issuance or SEC regulation crowdfunding (Reg CF).

A cost breakdown can likewise be found in the linked proposal document.

Team Ryder is brought to you by co-founders Marvin Janssen (@MarvinJanssen), Louise Ivan (@louiseivan), and Kiki Grammatopoulos (@kikigramm19), the Pioneers, with a special mention of Niclas Wimmerstedt (@niwim) for helping us compile this grant proposal. Ryder would not be possible without the community members.

We are currently writing our "Genesis Blog" where we will fully introduce our team and tell our origin story.

Risks With a project of this magnitude, many obstacles are to be anticipated. However, we feel we are in a good spot and have already lined up the partnerships needed to make this work. Our head of product has experience with the product development process and we have an industry veteran as a consultant to help us avoid common pitfalls. For details we again refer to our proposal document.

Community and Supporting Materials Our first proposal and development cycle was a community success and generated a lot of exposure from key members in the Stacks ecosystem, as well as the crypto space as a whole. Take a look at the previous proposal and deliverables for social proofs, and the current proposal document for the kinds of messages we receive daily. The responses have been humbling to say the least. 🙏

OmurCataltepe commented 3 years ago

Louise is an great builder who can make this project successful with his other teammates. The project is really good and will increase value of the ecosystem. I think this project should be supported. I loved it!

GAD2511 commented 3 years ago

This is just woow. Think a kind of "AMA" is needed at this point to let the community know what is being prepared so that community can bring more tools or his support to the team.

Go ahead, you guys have our support.

zrixes commented 3 years ago

Great A+ team from Stacks OGs to key specialists in hardware product & digital identities! Excited for Ryder and cant wait to try it when its available!

Raikku22 commented 3 years ago

Great Team. Can't wait to try . Plus Louise is a great Community leader, he can do what's best for the community

kriptodede commented 3 years ago

I think everyone know how Louise is passionately working and how he is successful .I think he deserves to get support for that project. That will be good for ecosystem as well❤️❤️

louiseivan commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the warm support everyone!

tycho1212 commented 3 years ago

Huge fan of this! 😍

One thing that might help you guys internally is to structure your roadmap like an overview of dependencies rather than / in addition to a timeline (i.e. we will first do a, then b, then c). I've always found during product development that a list of dependencies immediately shows where the leverage is & helps to execute accordingly.

This is quite a nice piece on Roadmap vs Timeline: https://www.mindtheproduct.com/free-your-product-roadmap-and-ditch-the-timeline/

RaffiSapire commented 3 years ago

Hi there, thank you for the application. This is approved and we're excited to support you however we can. I'll email you an updated docusign to sign.

mardi00 commented 3 years ago

Awesome! I can't wait to try it.

RolandDecker commented 3 years ago

This is awesome. I wish you guys all the very best...

MichaelforMichigan commented 3 years ago

Looking forward to learning more about this. I’m interested in supporting you too.

stx-grant-bot[bot] commented 3 years ago

M1 has been funded! When you are finished with this milestone, please comment on this issue with !m1_complete

louiseivan commented 3 years ago

!m1_complete

We're proud to say that we've completed all of our M1 milestones. See the breakdown below for the comprehensive list of achievements during Q2021.

  1. Ryder User Product Journey - this is Primary Research done by Kiki Grammatopoulos
  2. Grow Maker Community
  1. Phase 1 for full implementation of connect with New Maker Bridge
  2. Concept Design Phase
  3. Formalize the Ryder Protocol 0.0.2
  4. Release of Ryder Simulator
  5. Release of Ryder Maker Bounties
  6. Technical Design Phase - Onboarding John as a technical consultant

A detailed blog post about each item will be shared soon.

stx-grant-bot[bot] commented 3 years ago

Sorry. Only author can changes status to Complete.

MarvinJanssen commented 3 years ago

!m1_complete per Louise's post above.

stx-grant-bot[bot] commented 3 years ago

Thank you for completing M1. The grant committee will review and confirm completion or send feedback within a week

louiseivan commented 2 years ago

!m2_complete Another quarter, another milestone. See the breakdown below for a comprehensive list of high-level goals that our community completed to help us navigate our Northstar of bringing crypto to the next 100m this Q32021.

  1. Onboarded Niclas as a Core-contributor
  2. Transaction signing
  3. Ryder Q3 Maker Meetup
  4. Ryder Commercial Specification Document
  1. New Product Renders
  2. The Human-Centered Design of Ryder

A detailed blog post about each item will be shared soon.

stx-grant-bot[bot] commented 2 years ago

Sorry. Only author can changes status to Complete.

MarvinJanssen commented 2 years ago

!m2_complete

Adding to Louise's update above, I am happy to announce that we have reached the following technical milestones:

See:

Screenshot 2021-11-30 at 8 44 56 PM

Firmware 0.0.4 can be tried out today. Install it using the ryder-cli-proto:

marvin@Leviathan ryder-cli-proto % ./bin/run firmware fetch -R /dev/ryder-device
Fetching latest firmware versions
0.0.1
0.0.4
$ ryder-cli-proto firmware -R /dev/ryder-device download 0.0.4
Downloading ryder-firmware-0.0.4.bin
$ ryder-cli-proto firmware -R /dev/ryder-device install 0.0.4

This and the above posted by Louise concludes Milestone 2.

stx-grant-bot[bot] commented 2 years ago

Sorry, you can only complete a milestone if it is active.

jennymith commented 2 years ago

!m2_complete

Adding to Louise's update above, I am happy to announce that we have reached the following technical milestones:

* Basic Stacks transaction decoding.

* Header, with single spending conditions.

* Fee, nonce, origin, the usual...

* Token transfer payload decoding.

* "c32check", Stacks-flavour Crockford base32 encoding to represent Stacks addresses.

* TXID generation.

* **Transaction signing.** (The big one.)

See:

* First-ever Stacks transaction signed by a Ryder prototype: https://ryder.id/blog/transaction-signing-is-here/

* `send-stx` CLI command draft PR: [Transaction support Light-Labs/ryder-cli-proto#10](https://github.com/Light-Labs/ryder-cli-proto/pull/10)

* Firmware 0.0.4: https://ryder-proto-v2.ryder.id/pioneer/

* Simulators for 0.0.4 (Windows build coming): https://ryder.id/downloads/
Screenshot 2021-11-30 at 8 44 56 PM

Firmware 0.0.4 can be tried out today. Install it using the ryder-cli-proto:

marvin@Leviathan ryder-cli-proto % ./bin/run firmware fetch -R /dev/ryder-device
Fetching latest firmware versions
0.0.1
0.0.4
$ ryder-cli-proto firmware -R /dev/ryder-device download 0.0.4
Downloading ryder-firmware-0.0.4.bin
$ ryder-cli-proto firmware -R /dev/ryder-device install 0.0.4

This and the above posted by Louise concludes Milestone 2.

Hey @MarvinJanssen, thanks for submitting this update! I know the milestones are listed in the roadmap you shared but it's a little difficult to discern the milestones from other content. Can you share a list of milestones (with a brief summary of each) in a comment on this thread?

stx-grant-bot[bot] commented 2 years ago

Sorry. Only author can changes status to Complete.

MarvinJanssen commented 2 years ago

Oops forgot to reply...

You're right, we started using a different document for the milestones at some point which left the original we linked in the OP in disarray.

We have updated the completion status of the items in the document: https://www.notion.so/b319b1b729ed435c9d697a3f124d71ca?v=1039f64aaff34d74866c4951e5c83538

These concern the milestones marked Q32021 per the grant proposal (m2). We also started on some tasks of Q42021, as the end of the quarter is fast approaching. We are only posting our grant milestone completion now because the transaction signing milestone was a blocker for the completion of m2.

You can find a short description on some of them when clicking them. Then there is also the blog post that describes the milestones: https://ryder.id/blog/m2_complete-ryder-q32021-recap-and-whats-ahead/

jennymith commented 2 years ago

Thanks @MarvinJanssen! M2 looks great. We'll be disbursing M3 soon.

will-corcoran commented 2 years ago

Hello and thank you for participating in the Stacks Foundation Grants Program!

We are in the process of migrating from GitHub to the new Grants Dashboard. In order to complete your grant, you will need to submit any remaining Progress Review and/or Final Review requests through the Dashboard in order to receive your remaining payments.

Lastly, please note we are marking this grant 'closed' on GitHub for organizational purposes, but it is still 'open' on the Grants Dashboard.

Thanks and we hope to continue to support your efforts with additional grants!

Best, Will