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# Launch Planning

Rick:
- What is the story behind our SAFT?
- Cosmos pitch for major validators and investors?
    - Chris R recruiting small/individual validators.
    - Present engineering plan.
- DeFi pitch for investors? (e.g., chain integration)
- Token launch
    - Roadmap
    - Who should we be speaking
    - SAFT holding restrictions and support
    - SAFT contracts for (21) validators (start conversation on mechanisms)
    - Expert advice: conversation with Tamara and Cassandra (shitcoin whales.)
    - Marketing/communications
    - Listing (how/where)? Token issuance.
        - Can WUSD be issues to SAFT holders (non security?)
    - Legal
    - Steps
        - Start network
        - Enable payments (2-way bridge)
        - Balancer curve (on Ethereum) to manage treasury
        - Governance process to manage contracts, foundation bylaws, etc.


## Technical Stack

- WPS (coordinate with Ashwin's plan)
    - https://optimism.io (commitment to deploy VDB)
    - [Optimistic Rollup](https://github.com/ethereum-optimism/go-ethereum)
    - [Connext’s Spacefold](https://github.com/connext/spacefold)
    - [Chainsafe’s Ethermint](https://github.com/ChainSafe/ethermint)


### Time Estimates

1 dev week to get Optimism Go-Ethereum running inside Ethermint
1 dev week to make CosmosSDK bank module ORU aware.
1 dev week to connect cosmos/relayer to Optimistic Ethermint
1 dev week to modify connext/spacefold demo run it’s own connext server, use Optimistic Ethermint and a Ethereum local testnet 
1 dev week to cosmos/relayer demo to spacefold demo.

We expect this PoC to take 5 developer weeks and approximately $33,000

The net result will be a docker-compose file which will spin up:
1 Stock geth node
1 Optimistic ethermint write node
1 Optimistic geth proxy node
1 cosmosdk base coin demo node
1 relayer process
1 connext hub instance

We will then run demo code that:
Testnet Alice makes a ERC20 contract on the ethereum testnet, connects it to ORU running on Ethermint
Alice deploys spacefold on Testnet and ORU running on Ethermint.
Testnet Alice sends ERC20 to ORU Alice.
ORU Alice sends ERC20 to Starport Carol via IBC
Starport Carol sends Starport Tokens to ORU Alice via IBC
ORU Alice sends ERC20 to Testnet Bob via Spacefold
Starport Carol sends ERC20 to Testnet Bob via Spacefold (This would probably actually be an atomic swap of some sort.)
ORU Alice sends ORU Coins to Testnet Bob
