Closed sgraphics closed 1 year ago
stacks-foundation
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1 year ago 👋 @sgraphics 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
friedger
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1 year ago What is a Clarity compiler?
sgraphics
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1 year ago Ah indeed, sorry for the confusion. An interpreted language definitely makes it easier.
sgraphics
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1 year ago Happy to provide a deeper estimation of each deliverable at some point, but would like to get some initial reactions first.
will-corcoran
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1 year ago @sgraphics
Thank you for the proposal, however we we have decided to deny your application. For the next several quarters we are laser focused on conserving funding for efforts that have clear alignment with the current priorities of the grants program noted here - specifically sBTC.
I would suggest reaching out to Kenny Rogers the Developer Advocate at the Stacks Foundation (kenny at stacks dot org) he may be able to provide you with some additional suggestions on how Stacks can support your efforts. He is also a Clarity expert and is quite knowledgeable on the developer tooling for Clarity and could provide some high quality feedback on the viability of your project and market readiness.
Best, Will
APPLICANT
Type: Direct Application
Email: silver@toolblox.net
Discord: sgraphics#1848
Twitter: @tool_blox
Stacks Forum: -
GRANT BASICS
Grant Name: Toolblox on Stacks/Clarity
Total Budget: 100,000
Total Duration: 3
Grant Type: Stacks Foundation Direct Investment
Grant Track: Bitcoin Utility via Stacks
Grant Goal: Improve Existing Technologies
Grant Audience: Developers
Specific Audience: Stacks/Clarity developer, smart contract auditors, UI dev
Grant Team: sgraphics, Marjasepp,
Previous Grants:
Ecosystem Programs:
GRANT MISSION, IMPACT, RISKS & REFERENCE
Grant Mission: Toolblox main goal is to make developing dApps very easy. Think of it like a BPM tool for Web3 - it allows to digitalize business processes with a visual workflow builder, generate an NFT state machine (using Clarity), and deploy it to blockchain (using Stacks). Target users are freelancers/gig-economy, DAOs, SMEs but also enterprises dealing with supply chains and commodities trading.
Benefit/aim would be to turbo boost web3 adoption on Stacks. Our purpose is to empower every business and individual on the planet to thrive with blockchain and we consider Stacks and Bitcoin to be a crucial part of this puzzle.
The grant will allow us to hire (contract) Clarity devs (to support all features of the workflow builder and create/deploy the cloud service for compiling the contracts), add features for the UI, organize audit and development of templates (usable as quick starts for users).
We have previously won the Near Metabuild hackathon and tooling sub-category of the Polygon BUIDL-IT hackathon. We have just finished a public beta test, and are open to public. At the moment we are considering scaling up using seed funding or accelerator.
Our whitepaper: https://academy.toolblox.net/whitepaper Website: https://www.toolblox.net/
Grant Impact: This is vastly dependent on social media campaign, direct outreach and engagement with the community. Requires additional marketing support. Reach 20 beta testers who have published a workflow by the end of the grant period. Reach 100 published workflows after one year and 10k unique users.
Grant Risks: Creating a cloud service to host the Clarity compiler could be challenge. The effort needs to be assessed beforehand.
Support Link: web
GRANT ROADMAP & DELIVERABLES
MILESTONE 1:
Deliverable: Toolblox Spec to Clarity translator done
MILESTONE 2:
Deliverable: Templates published: Workflow (10), dApp (3) and dapplet (5) (embeddable dapps).
MILESTONE 3:
Deliverable: Clarity cloud compiler done
MILESTONE 4:
Deliverable: Audits for three examples done (covering all features of workflow builder)
FINAL DELIVERABLE
Deliverable: Toolblox fully supports Stacks/Clarity