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title: 'Project Idea: SOONGrant.Ai – White-Label AI Agent for Blockchain Ecosystem Funding'

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# Project Idea: SHIPSOON.Ai – The First Autonomous Grant Protocol on SOON Mainnet

### Project Authored By  
Bau

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## 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.

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## 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.

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## 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.
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## 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.

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## 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.

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## 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

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## Cost (in USD)  
**$20,000 – TBD**  

