Proposal: Ordum | Grants Aggregator for the Polkadot and Kusama Ecosystems

Proponent: Ordum [DaUR7Puu8u3PRw1Xha1in2s55bYXmbv4tX8ETe4gfvXEd32]
Date: 12.12.2022.
Requested KSM: 78,804 USD (allocation in KSM will be calculated on the day of submission using EMA7 rate - https://kusama.subscan.io/tools/charts?type=price)

Short description: Ordum is a public good grants aggregator for the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems. This proposal addresses the funding of R&D.

1. Context of the proposal:

we aim to have as much context as possible to understand how a proposal came to the proponent's mind, Please include here:

There is no existing software besides Gitcoin to publish, apply for and manage grants. Gitcoin focuses on a quadratic funding model, while there is a need for an overall indexer and management software for grants in web3.

After reading the Builders Program post on the Polkadot Forum and speaking with other members of the community (including councilors, Web3 Foundation, and members of Shokunin Network), it was evident that a grants aggregator is imperative for bringing projects into the ecosystem as well as scaling it.

In order to construct a rich and independent environment of public goods and DAOs, it is fundamental for teams to easily find and acquaint themselves with treasuries and foundations.

b. Team

Our team was formed through various connections within the community. Myself, Martin Jensen and Mrisho Lukamba are members of ChaosDao and have been connected by the same ideas and principles about blockchain. Our main motivation is building public goods and services which are not necessarily related to finance. We have a fourth member, Ivo Nikolaev who is a front-end developer switching from Web2 to Web3, brought in by Martin.

XyloDrone

UX/UI, Project Management

Joined the ecosystem in 2021 as a UI designer for KodaDot and later RMRK, MetaPrime, ChainSaw (ETH), deStore, VYBEZ.
Managed and curated the DotSama Experience and the Polkadot NFT Gallery in Berlin.
Currently focusing on Ordum.
BA Visual Communication Design (Arts Academy of Split, Croatia).

Mrisho Lukamba

Blockchain Developer (Rust & Substrate)

Substrate runtime engineer.
1+ years building with substrate.
One of the team members in Fair Squares
Currently contributing to Substrate core repository.
Building side project Vane.

Ivo Nikolaev

Front End Developer (React & Vue)

Experience:

2016-2020 Computer Science at KEA (Copenhagen)
2018-2019 FlowInt (React / jQuery / Java)
2019 Internship at Ulobby A/S (Vue and Laravel)
2021-2022 - Worked at Risika A/S (React and Vue.js)

Technology:

React and Vue.js
Responsive design MongoDB
Fan of GraphQL Taiwind and MaterialUI
Bootstrap and SASS
Currently studying Rust and its implementations in the blockchain space

Martin Jensen

App developer

Fun fact: Broke the Kusama chain twice with mass emoting during a Kanaria emote competition.

Experience:

2017-2020: Computer Science at KEA (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2020-2021: Software Development at KEA (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2019-2021: Student App Developer at Adapt Agency
2021-2022: Flutter Developer at Monstarlab EMEA
2022-current: Flutter Developer at Dawn Health / WEMA Health

Technology
Mostly mobile app development

Substrate (first intake of Substrate Runtime Developer Academy)
Rust
Solidity (small Encode Solidity bootcamp)
JS
Python
Flutter, Dart
Kotlin, Java, Swift
Android, iOS

c. any known backups already behind the solution

(known token holders, organizations or collectives building on Kusama Network or participating in its governance mechanism in any way).

Ordum has received 2 grants from Shokunin Network(worth 4000 GBP each) for research and development in May and July. The Network will still remain our advisor.

2. Problem Statement

what problem is this proposal trying to solve? Make it as granular as possible to allow token holders to understand the logic behind it.

Treasuries/foundations(eg. Polkadot Treasury) are burning funds as there are not enough projects to support.
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Grants information and guidelines within the ecosystems are scattered and therefore difficult to find (there are only 2 places where we have a somewhat overview of these; Polkadot/Kusama documentation and Web3 Foundation Github).
It is difficult to publicly track (grant) funding for different stages of project development. This has previously resulted in conflicts within the community (eg. Soramitsu, Snowfork).
There isn’t a unified public record to privately / publicly manage and display a grant recipient's quality and outcome of delivery (scattered documentation).
With GOV2 incoming, further research is required on tracking proposals and deliverables in order to determine the appropriate UX.

3. Solution

What is the goal of the proposal? What does 'success' look like? Explain what your solution is, after taking into consideration the context and the problem. Make sure to consider all points included in the problem statement to ensure a complete and balanced proposal, and try to be as granular as possible.

Success for Ordum is the deliverance of all milestones and a V1 POC of a public goods grant aggregator.

1. A dapp which contains all grants from the ecosystems.

Index data from treasuries in the ecosystem by building custom APIs(Subsquids) for tracking proposals
Integrate Github in the front end for tracking and submitting non-treasury grants
Building and maintaining light clients for quick data retrivals, security and low loading times
Enable log in with multiple DID services, Github and Wallets

2. Minting of non-transferable NFTs as “certificates” for completed milestones. Each token would contain information on what was executed and how it was evaluated.

Ordum will be built on Phala to leverege the chains privacy capabilities and Phat smart contracts
Create a connection between DID (foundation)–> Phala Smart Contract–> Non-transferable NFT–>DID (recipient)
Design a custom type of RMRK non-transferable NFT, stored on Crust, containing reports from the foundations on milestone delivery

3. Delivery of milestones, grant applications and funding are displayed on a team’s profile for transparency.

Front end displaying funding amounts and certificates within a roadmap

4. Issuing surveys and analyzing / feedback data for the purpose of aggregating and managing treasury grants in the most optimal way.

Design the optimal UX through collaboration with other teams in the ecosystem(interviews, surveys)

Bellow is a biased information architecture (WIP)