General Grant Proposal

• Project: Backend & other development support for IOU & Pollen labs

Project Overview

Overview

This proposal is to onboard a software engineer, Sero, to assist with miscellaneous support tasks such as backend development, TypeScript, and blockchain application building.

Project Details

IOU

• Support service coding on POC: Specification available at this link: https://hackmd.io/BiNofD9oS4-tG7Vg3Rsd6g
• Collaborate closely with IOU tech lead, Onur.
• Code in Rust.
• Provide end-to-end testing scripts.

Pollen labs - Blockchain power eSIM

• Backend support for blockchain-powered eSIM at various touchpoints such as apps and API endpoints.
• Support team for production release at Devcon

Pollen labs - Misc.

• Next Billion Cohort #4: Sero will participate upon request if his skills are needed.
• ETH SIM Support: Assist upon request.

Team

Team members

• Names: Sero
• Email: [e-mail]
• Telegram: seroxdesign
• Discord: 0xsero

Team Website

• https://blog.serotonindesigns.com/
• https://serox.eth.limo

Team's experience

Public Goods Research and Development:

• Worked with Gitcoin and Allo on multiple R&D projects to improve the gitcoin grantstack:
  • Done research and analytics on crosschain donation for Gitcoin's grant managers
  • Managed the development of a new gitcoin grantstack product in collaboration with the Arbitrum team for the LTIP grant program

Blockchain Development:

• Worked on multiple core web3 infrastrucutre projects, including:
  • Tellor Oracle: Built the Sub-Graphs and contributed to the UIs, Tellor is an open source, decentralised alternative to chainlink
  • POKT Network: Developed the POKT website, built out data pipelines, and contributed to the community by writing documentation, guides, and providing bounties for OSS contributors

Community and Education:

• Founded Warsaw International: a developer focused IRL meetup for international community members in Warsaw, I gave multiple workshops, and onboarded hundreds of people to web3 in the last 2 years.
• Taught a 1 week bootcamp for web3 dev at ETHDenver's buidlcamp

Team Code Repos

• Personal Account: https://github.com/Seroxdesign
• Gitcoin R&D: https://github.com/grants-stack-frontier
• Tellor Subgraphs: https://github.com/tellor-io/tellor-autopay-ethereum-graph

Development Roadmap

1. Set up service for IOU and related support: Target to complete POC within 6 weeks.
2. Support blockchain-powered eSIM backend: Aim for production release by Devcon (requires more than 12 weeks).
3. Assist with other Pollen Labs projects: Based on available bandwidth.

Overview

• Total Estimated Duration: 12 weeks
• Full-time equivalent (FTE): 1 (see)
• Total Costs: $25,000

Milestone 1

• Estimated Duration: 4 weeks (8/7 - 2/8)
• FTE: 1
• Costs: $10,000
• Estimated delivery date: 2nd Aug, 2024
• Deliverable:
  • List of tasks performed and the time allocated to each task.
  • List of outputs: PRs, commits, write-ups, and etc

Milestone 2

• Estimated Duration: 4 weeks (5/8 - 30/8)
• FTE: 1
• Costs: $10,000
• Estimated delivery date: 30th Aug, 2024
• Deliverable:
  • List of tasks performed and the time allocated to each task.
  • List of outputs: PRs, commits, write-ups, and etc

Milestone 3

• Estimated Duration: 4 weeks (2/9 - 13/9)
• FTE: 1
• Costs: $5,000
• Estimated delivery date: 13th Sep, 2024
• Deliverable:
  • List of tasks performed and the time allocated to each task.
  • List of outputs: PRs, commits, write-ups, and etc