# Project Idea: SHIPSOON.Ai – The First Autonomous Grant Protocol on SOON Mainnet ### Project Authored By Bau --- ## Summary SHIPSOON.Ai is the first **autonomous grant protocol** deployed on SOON Mainnet. It’s an onchain AI-powered system that curates, distributes, and enforces ecosystem funding using a community-driven, stake-based mechanism. Developers who wish to receive a grant from the ecosystem must stake $SOON tokens to be considered. If they deliver, they are rewarded. If they fail, they are slashed. This infrastructure can later be offered as a white-label product for other L1/L2 ecosystems under names like `$SHIPETH`, `$SHIPBNB`, etc. --- ## Core Mechanism: Autonomous Grants via $SOON Staking ### 1. **Developer Application + Stake** - Dev teams apply for a grant via a streamlined onchain portal. - Each applicant must stake a set amount of $SOON to activate their application. ### 2. **Council Review & Staking Phase** - A Grants Council (a multisig or DAO committee) reviews each proposal. - If **approved**, the project enters the next public staking round. - If **rejected**, the team’s $SOON stake is **returned in full**. - Approved projects then become eligible for **community curation**. ### 3. **Community Curation via Staking** - $SOON holders stake their tokens on vetted projects they want to see funded. - Staking period lasts **7 days**. - Top curated projects receive **onchain AI-distributed grants** at the end of the round. - New rounds begin every **10 days**. ### 4. **Delivery & Slashing Enforcement** - Funded projects have a defined milestone/timeline. - If a project **delivers**, they keep the full grant and their original stake. - If a project **fails to deliver**, a portion (or all) of their original stake is **slashed** and returned to the SOON grant pool. --- ## Technical Infrastructure ### AI-Driven Grant Allocation - AI agent tracks staking signal & community curation to calculate and finalize grant allocation. - Rewards curators that vote on winning grant applications by distributing $SHIP. - AI Agent distributes $SHIP to winning grant recipients in a escrow contract ### Liquidity Bootstrapping - Initial $SHIP liquidity can be bootstrapped via models like: - **Pump.fun** - **DAOsdotfun** - Once the funding target is reached, the AI agent deploys liquidity to a **community-voted exchange**. - $SHIP token is launched with a bonding curve, which stores reserve assets like $SOL and $SOON to endsure fundamental stability in token price and longevity in project - 69% of $SHIP token supply is locked in a smart contract wallet managed by Ship.Ai as the "eco fund" - 20% is deployed as liquidty to the community-voted exchange - 11% is reserved for bot ops ### Fee Model - A portion of staking and slashing activity is routed to infrastructure providers to ensure protocol sustainability. - --- ## Why should we build this? Ship.Ai is the first truly autonomous and trust-minimized funding mechanism for ecosystems. Built natively on SOON, it: 1. **Democratizes Ecosystem Funding** – Any team can apply, stake, and get curated without insider access. 2. **Adds Skin in the Game** – Applicants must stake to apply, incentivizing seriousness and accountability. 3. **Eliminates Manual Bottlenecks** – AI agent handles allocation logic, freeing up human capital. 4. **Curates Quality** – Token holders and a grants council ensure only high-quality projects get through. 5. **Creates Modular Public Good Infra** – Once proven, it can be replicated across other chains as a white-label agent. --- ## Anything else you'd like to add? This isn't just a grant tool—it’s a **battle-tested public goods flywheel**. Starting with SOON, this framework can be deployed across dozens of ecosystems to decentralize and automate ecosystem funding. --- ## Skills Needed - **Design** – Clean UX for grant application, staking dashboard, slashing/execution logic. - **Content** – Launch comms, developer onboarding docs, grant program guide. - **Full Stack Dev** – - Smart contract logic (staking, slashing, AI agent interaction) - Frontend grant/staking dashboard - Integration with SOON bridge infra and ecosystem APIs --- ## Cost (in USD) **$20,000 – TBD**