# General Grant Proposal

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

## Project Overview :page_facing_up:

### 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 :busts_in_silhouette:

### 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
- A core developer of **Synpress**, an open source web3 end-to-end testing library and standard used by **Optimism, Octant, and Gitcoin** in their web applications

#### 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](https://www.meetup.com/warsawinternational/): 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](https://x.com/Vahidzarif1/status/1761797237275758813)

### Team Code Repos
* Personal Account: https://github.com/Seroxdesign
* Gitcoin R&D: https://github.com/grants-stack-frontier
* Synpress: https://github.com/Synthetixio/synpress/tree/new-dawn
* Tellor Subgraphs: https://github.com/tellor-io/tellor-autopay-ethereum-graph

## Development Roadmap :nut_and_bolt:
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):** 0.75 ([see](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-time_equivalent))
* **Total Costs:** $xx.

### Milestone 1
* **Estimated Duration:** 4 weeks (1/7 - 26/7)
* **FTE:** 0.75
* **Costs:** $x
* **Estimated delivery date**: 26th July, 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 (29/7 - 23/8)
* **FTE:** 0.75
* **Costs:** $x
* **Estimated delivery date**: 23rd 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 (26/8 - 20/9)
* **FTE:** 0.75
* **Costs:** $x
* **Estimated delivery date**: 20th Sep, 2024
* **Deliverable**:
* List of tasks performed and the time allocated to each task.
* List of outputs: PRs, commits, write-ups, and etc