# Builders Team - May Update

## TL;DR
- Good progress with OpenZeppelin and their runtime library development, key to Substrate[cito]. Thanks to Nick and Kerstin for their contributions in the negotiations, and also to Gautam, Vince and Sehran for the support in the project.
- Teams coming into SquareOne with more advanced projects stages. This is both thanks to the teams handed over from Growth and those that came from W3F after successfully delivering a grant.
- Polkadot Treasury as the second most used steering option after Grants.
- 7 new teams accepted to the SBP, with one Graduating.

## Detailed Update

### Square One

Within the last **60** days the Growth team has committed and handed over **23** new projects to Square One where we are actively in contact and guiding them through the different Initiatives recommended to them.

The W3F also handed over **7** new projects who have successfully applied & completed a Grant and would like to further their development within our ecosystem.


Within the last month Square One has also handed over **2** project to the SBP for an evaluation review.

#### Team Status
To highlight some of the deals that the Growth Team have handed over recently, we will give a quick overview of the projects steering options and current status. Thanks to Coleman, Robin, Nico & Aarya for their hard work in committing these deals.

|Teams | Recommendation | Status |
|:---:|:---:|:----:
|[Faceless](https://faceless.live/)|SBP|SBP Evaluation
|[Syncra](https://liberumdao.io/)|W3F Grants|Grant Submitted
|EightFish|SBP|Finishing MVP
|[Movement](https://alpha.movemnt.dev/)|W3F Grants|Drafting Grant
|[Unit Network](https://www.unit.network/)|Tech Advisory Call + SBP|Evaluating Q's on Stack Exchange
|[Dapps.co](https://dapps.co/)|Treasury|Drafting Proposal
|[Entropy](https://entropy.xyz/)|Delivery Services|Advisory
|[Clorophilla](https://www.clorophilla.io/)|W3F Grants|Grant Submitted
|[Magic Powered](https://magicpowered.io/)|Ink!ubator|Intro'ed to Moonbeam + Drafting Application for In!kubator Program
|[Whales Heaven](https://www.whalesheaven.com/)|W3F Grants|Drafting Grant
|Spheroid Earth|W3F Grants|Drafting Grant
|[FirstBatch](https://www.firstbatch.xyz/)|Parachain Connection|Connected with Moonbeam

#### Steering Option Metrics:
Out of **16** Teams
- **44%** Have gone to W3F Grants
- **19%** Are drafting a Treasury Proposal
- **19%** Required further tech advisory from Delivery Services


There has also been an increase of **50%** of new teams with a POC/MVP Development stage from previous months.


## SBP Pipeline
We currently have a total of **79 projects** in the SBP Pipeline, almost 27% of them are in the applied stage and 10% are in the evaluation stage.
Currently **28 teams** are working on their **Milestone** deliverables for the program, and **15 projects** are now in the Launch support stage.
Teams that have successfully launched a parachain on Polkadot are now in the Pioneers pipeline.


### Substrate Builders Program
There were 5 SBP Pitch calls, 6 teams were being evaluated, and we have accepted 7 teams into the SBP:
|Teams | Description |
|:---:|---|
|[Kogarashi Network](https://kogarashi-network.com/)|After several W3F Grant they are looking to implement a privacy-preserving blockchain and cryptographic primitives, e.g. Substrate compatible zk-SNARKs and zk-STARKs libraries.|
|[Eluvio](http://eluv.io/)|Distributed content platform providing off-chain media functions attested and controlled on-chain|
|[Odyssey](https://odyssey.org/)|They are building a Web3 platform for content creation, collaboration and community building in 3D.|
|[NFT Chain](https://www.nftchain.com/)|Working on a blockchain that allows to define next generation NFTs, that could span from community utility tokens to bingo cards, from digital art to coding proficiency badges, and overcome NFT limitations to provide NFTs onchain contractual agreements and more.|
|[Faterium](https://faterium.com/)|A decentralized voting platform that provides business tools for content creators to monetize their projects and directly engage the community, similar to Patreon and Kickstarter where the community can influence the creation process.|
|[Freeverse](https://www.freeverse.io/)|A platform for dynamic NFTs. NFTs that can evolve and change based on multiple factors, generating engagement beyond collectibles.|
|[Metaquity](http://metaquity.xyz/)| An appchain for asset fractionalisation. Their aim is more than “tokenizing real estate” but unlocking illiquid assets (bringing liquidity premium) through tokenized legal vehicles (SAFE and convertible notes) that can be then become colleteral for DeFI primitives etc.|

If you want to learn more about these teams, please check out their websites.

## Teams Graduated from SBP
|Teams | Description |
|:---:|---|
|[Imbue Network](https://www.imbue.network/)|Imbue started as a Web3 crowdfunding DAO but recently pivoted to a freelance marketplace. Imbue Network is a parachain on Kusama.|

## SBP initiatives updates
### Milestone Reviews
The below teams have completed their Milestone reviews since the last update:
- Omni Enterprise M1
- Chainify M1
- Apillon M1
- Webb tools M2
- Imbue Network M3
- Ternoa M1

**Big thanks to the Delivery Services Team** spending tremendous time and energy to go through the codebase of the teams and sharing feedback!

### Security reviews
In the last few weeks **5 teams** were being reviewed and a total of **10 security issues** were found in 7 different categories.

### Office hours
We have hosted our weekly Office hours every Monday in SBP’s cool little metaverse office. (Check it out [here](https://zep.us/play/yxjJPz), Password: “SubstrateIsLove”)

The main topics for last few sessions were:
- Francisco from [Tanssi presented their protocol](https://www.loom.com/share/3ad7c98d29124706978cadba4941882a) designed for swift and effortless deployment of application-specific blockchains. Making Substrate development and deployment easier.
- Bryan Chen from Acala presented [Chopsticks](https://github.com/AcalaNetwork/chopsticks), a tool for e2e testing across multiple versions of XCM.
- Daniel a.k.a woss from Anagolay Network presented Dotsama.info that places critical chain specs, versions, binaries all in a convenient json file with items hosted on ipfs.
- Nino from Apillon presented what Apillon is currently [working on](https://app.apillon.io/).
- Dominik from Brushfam talked about [Sol2Ink](https://github.com/Brushfam/sol2ink) and how easy it is with sol2ink to transform solidity code to ink! code

### Technical feedback

We have continued to listen to the feedbacks of the community and we have reached more than **140 total feedback count** in more than **50 different unique user stories**. We continue to work on gathering additional feedback from more and more sources. Please find more information [here](https://www.notion.so/Builders-Study-e546a2a9bdaf43e8bb8207962b977f9b) and in [this Forum post](https://forum.parity.io/t/ecosystem-feeback/1821).

## Future Plans
- SquareOne Revamp is underway to actively track teams and their status on an ongoing basis. The idea is to have a project history journey path of where a project started and how it is currently progressing in our Ecosystem.
- SBP will go back to a more active communication with teams, leveraging the fact that there are not that many teams in the program.
- Keep on looking for feedback on Ecosystem Feedback post, [here](https://forum.parity.io/t/ecosystem-feeback/1821). If none receive this week, we'll post on Polkadot Forum.
- Restart conversation with providers about easy to deploy parachains for Substrate[cito]. If anyone has a potential partner here, let us know!

## Team Updates
- Joshua reached the 1 year mark with us :tada:
- No new members joining.