Why This Exists In early 2022, we started an experiment that would turn into the Shokunin Network, with a core premise that resource distribution in the Kusama Network ecosystem was too centralized and bottlenecked on majority agreement. Shokunin was fun while it's limited resources lasted and supported a handful of notable projects and builders in their early stages, but it was still very much limited in it's potential reach due to the fact that it was pulling from a finite pool of resources - it didn't solve the problem it set out to solve, it was not sustainable. CryptoPatronage takes the lessons learned from running Shokunin and moves a step further towards it's initial goals using the same techniques, but significantly more automation and accessibility. Instead of a collective treasury to fund multiple creators, the CryptoPatronage platform allows anyone to securely (and revokably) earmark funds to support creators and builders for the long term, and it allows creators to tap on their supporters for consistent funding, instead of intermittent and unreliable comission/NFT/contract based work. Think Patreon, OnlyFans et al., but without the hassle of a company controlling who is allowed to use their platform. CryptoPatronage is not unmoderatable, and does not intend to be unmoderated, but the underlying protocol it uses is entirely open and public, and does not require using our frontend. For Patrons

So, what happened? I mean, Shokunin is broke, basically. Since we commited to funding the projects we agreed to fund, until their goals are achieved, we have roughly 2 months worth of funds (~3 months of funds for a project being funded by an independent treasury shokunin is drawing from) under our current set of commitments until we have to stop payouts. Does that mean this is the end? Not neccesarily. What was the point? What is the point? "If you make a project where the main attraction for people is the money they make, and you run out of money, you shouldn't be surprised if the people leave."

Mateversum Status: In Haitus Funding: In Haitus (2.5k/m) https://github.com/expenses/mateversum A platform leveraging webassembly to bring desktop-like quality and performance multiplayer VR experiences to browsers and mobile. View and explore scenes composed of fully-featured GLTF and VRM assets that can be spawned and manipulated at runtime (console only, currently), situated in an environment supporting reflections and image-based lighting via your choice of skybox. RMTerra (data grow lab, bird habitats, reforestation work) Status: Under Construction (Data Grow Lab), Complete? (Bird Habitats), Ongoing (Reforestation)

allow a creator to define a list of "rates" onchain, and give them a list of supporters based on historical transfers decaying at those rates. references: historical data: https://github.com/colorfulnotion/polkaholic https://github.com/paritytech/substrate-archive https://polkadot.js.org/docs/api/examples/promise/read-storage-at onchain storage:

Who Am I? @jam10o wherever (twitter, tg, here) Formerly: Ethereum nerd. Parity Tech tech support engineer & builders program. Nowadays: Kusama network councilor [until Council is hopefully obsoleted]