General introduction
Dear lovely Cosmos community, this is Chloe, the core contributor for the CFG Labs. We have been secretly building one of the best communities for developers and researchers for Cosmos for the past 6 months in Asia (Mandarin speaking channel) Right now we have almost 800 active members.
Chloe : Core contributor for CFG community, Bachelor of Mathematics in UCL, Master of economics in Cambridge. Interested areas include Micro: Game theory, Mechanism design, Macro: Monetary Theory, Credit System, Theory of value, Econometrics. HSBC HK IBD.Fallen down into the crypto rabbit hole since 2016.
Kevin He (CTO) : Core contributor for CFG,senior technical director of a global blockchain company, has more than ten years of R&D development experience, and has accumulated more than 5 years of blockchain engineering experience. The consensus protocols that he personally implemented include POW, POS, POS+BFT, Tendermint, etc.with billions of TVL. His main interest areas include high-performance public chains, blockchain big data, and decentralized application platforms. Kevin is the hub of developers (including Solidity, Move, Rust), covering the majority of the developers in the Asia community (Mandarin speaking channel) and he is working actively with InfoQ, the largest developer community in Asia, and trying to bring more Web2 developers in this space. He is a strong candidate and being selected to be onboarded into the next round of interview for the fellow programme for Celestia, which is a new program that supports and mentors modular builders, selecting 10 from the 390 total applications from top protocol engineers, developers, and founders. Mentors include Zaki Manian - Co-Creator IBC, Co-Founder of Sommelier, and early Cosmos contributor, Mustafa Al-Bassam - CEO & Co-founder, Celestia Labs. Eric Wall - Blogger & Investor aka âAltcoin Slayerâ, Morgan Beller - Co-creator, Diem, Can Gurel - Researcher, Delphi Digital, Eli Krenzke - Research Team Partner at Polychain, Wei Dai - Research Partner, Bain Capital Crypto, Marko Baricevic - Cosmos-SDK Lead, John Adler - Chief Research Officer & Co-founder, Celestia Labs, Ismail Khoffi - CTO & Co-founder, Celestia Labs, Evan Forbes - Software Engineer, Celestia Labs
Don Cryptonium: Core contributor for CFG. I believe most of our communities know him. He has been super amazing and contributed for the Cosmos for the past 1 year for free. He generated over 50 hours of interviews and content for Cosmos for the past 1 years, helping projects, validators, users understand more about the ecosystem. We appreciate your work and we look forward to more interesting stories from you.
Lshoo (Head of Engineering): Core contributor for CFG : Shihu has more than ten years of development and engineering experience. He started to focus on blockchain in 2017, and has accumulated many ecological development experience in the industry. Besides being the Wasm Promoster, He is also the co-founder of Move DAO, a technology community focusing on training and promoting the Move language. We appreciate all the work he has contributed to the ecosystem so far. His education module will include Wasm fundamentals, Wasm VM running environment, Wasm Frontend Applications, Wasm Cloud Computing and Edge Computing, Wasm blockchain.
Frank (Co-founder): Core contributor for CFG, starting the crypto business with Chloe back in 2016. He has many years of experience in technology development, artificial intelligence, big data, search engines, and smart contract development. He previously worked in Alibaba as a senior engineer and has accumulated over 6 years of product/operation experience in the blockchain industry. He has solid professional skills in the field of WEB3.0. His points of interest are community governance, Web3.0 product tools, and on-chain data architecture. He is also the Wasm promoter and will take care of the CosmWASM, Cosmos SDK, Tendermint adoption of the ecosystem within the Asian community.
Andy (Head of Product): Core contributor for CFG. Has many years of experience in the products for several Web2.0 top Internet Giants companies, he is currently working as the core product position of leading global blockchain companies. He is now based in Singapore. He has deep thinking and logic on Web3.0 products and governance.
Gankthisway (Senior Engineer): Core Contributor for CFG. Informal Management background from the leading university, Early Crypto supporter, Prev Mobile Phone Market Data Analyst/Developer at Chinese Telecom Operators (Global 500), Prev Data Analyst/Developer at Web2 Startup Company. Current Quantitative Trader Focus on Crypto Perp/Future & Blockchain Researcher.
Special thanks to our close partner: Jeffery Hu , who is the core contributor to IRIS network and has been continually contributing to the Cosmos, particular in Asia community since launch
Strategy and culture
The recent macro environment in Asia is not good, and many big tech companies have started to lay off people.Many young and passionate developers are looking for Web3 opportunities. We will be the port of entrance/gateway to get into Cosmos. Also, through that way, we can bring more talents to the Cosmos in a sustainable way. Kevin He will lead the technology education for developers in Asia. Also, Don will continue with his work and help projects, validators get more exposure to the community and help users understand more about products in Cosmos. Jacob mentioned the requests for keeping cosmos decentralized by eliminating node hosspots. I think right now for Cosmos, lack of Asia validators is the problem. We will be targeting validators in the next few months representatives of Singapore (Andy, Kevin based), China (Other teams) HK (Don based) to help secure the network. Our culture is open permissions, Cosmos friendly way with every ecosystem partner in this space.
Our first product - infrastructure tooling
Sunny has pointed out the problem for lack of a dashboard that tracks validatorsâ code and tooling contributions.Thatâs definitely true. The current grants programme in the ecosystem only incentivised the web3 product (excluding contents, or put less focus on that). However, the current situation is the Web3 infrastructure is still not well-prepared. I think the best product building for now should be using web2+web3. Hence, the experiences from Web3 tech giants from Andy and Frank, will lead to the first product for data aggregating in the Cosmos ecosystem. We need to prepare for the encyclopedia for Cosmos (similar to Binance Academy). It will be more valuable to the whole Cosmos ecosystem as time goes by. And we believe the opportunities for data aggregating should be much higher than in Web2.
Product Positioning
It is an information aggregating tool served for the whole system, which can push content in the personalized way (according to each personâs interests, collection, behavior), and can create feed flow (like Wechat moments Twitter). We are the encyclopedia for and will accrue more value as time passes. For example, the topic âCosmos Hub has a new proposalâ will be generated in the feed stream when there is a new push.
Why is it value added?
- Core contributors to the ecosystem such as KOL developers and researcher, validators: Aggregators improve efficiency by organizing the data and helping them check their behavior through our product (Core database)
- Staker voting groups/users: Aggregators improve efficiency by providing the data. We can rank the validators through Contributions, such as: track record for contributions to the growth of the ecosystem, through the technical expertise such as Github, Participation: Track record for participations in governance eg putting forward new proposals, or reviewing, voting & communicating proposals clearly to delegators Alignment: Track record for good behavior & acting in the long term interest of the chains being validators
- All players: In addition to our own in-depth content + onchain contents, we will become the best content provider and access for the builders.
- Object that generates information
- Project; validators; important players such as KOL/OG; developers; other important organizations in the ecosystem, such as foundation ICF, Ignite, Informal systems, VCs Galileo in the ecosystem:
- The platform/channel for producing information of the object:
- Twitter, Proposal, Girhub, Draft: Commonwealth, Github etc , Others : Content source Twitter, Medium, Mirror, Commonwealth. Notion, Youtube, on-chain data etc
Product structure
Goal: Encyclopedia of participants in the ecosystem, to become a de facto content provider/ecological portal; Not only does the detail page required to be done well, but the information/relationships also needs to be structured.
Supported Scenarios
- An object is a theme, such as the dynamics of a project, users can view the content according to the object, that is, according to a theme;
- Obtain basic information about objects: there are four major parts: introduction, personnel introduction, website information such as official website Twitter, and relationships with other objects.
- Action: Users can do secondary customization on objects and platforms/channels. For example, if we support 20 developers or 20 OGs, and if some people donât care about these, they can instead choose to turn it off. He can also go ahead and add some new ones by customization. This provides a lot of flexibility for the users.
- Different objectsâ detail pages should be structured differently, for example for validators, onchain- validator voting behavior, github is important. For different projects/applications in Cosmos, the page should include other information such as product design, validating information, team etc. Data should be well structured.
- Feed stream: The object based on the initialization settings automatically generates information flow, we need to cover enough data at the beginning. The objects that these objects follow, and on which channels/platforms.
Peripheral functions
- Wallet login (Web3 login)
- Favorites: Favorite the content you are interested in;
- Added and supported user settings on themes
- A large number should be initialized by default at the beginning, covering core objects: initialize most of the information;
- Add and support user settings: users can set new and cancel topics by themselves. #Phase 2 Core content is aggregated to users in the first phase, customization should be advanced functions.This allows users to do secondary customization on the object/channels.
Product Roadmap
The goal of the first stage: focus on becoming an easy-to-use ecological information aggregation tool, and the period is divided into 2 small stages :
- Core functions launched: Feed stream + Web 3.0 login support collection + display the subject of interest as the object (information consumption tool)
- Support customization of the following objects: support adding and editing the objects that have been followed, and edit them according to the object-channel two-level structure. (supporting customization for users, provides a very flexible RSS tools)
- Operation in the same period:
- Collect information such as objects and URLs that are required for initialization .
- This period totals 1 and a half months and we need 1 back-end, 1 front-end.
The goal of the second stage: to become the best ecological portal, encyclopedia, and data portal for Cosmos
- Looking at the coverage, such as the relationship between applications and chains (Such as Juno and DAODAO). It needs to be further structured in terms of content and objects. Assess whether the classification of objects of interest needs to be reorganized;
- On the basis of the default details page , enrich specific types of details pages: for example, the details page of the project, the details page of the node, and a large amount of data on the chain should be generated at this time. For example, for the project details page: validator summary, proposal governance voting information, products, etc.;
- Operation during the same period:
- Prepare a general content details page.
- Some structured organization about ecological content, like what Thyborg_ did before joining Informal. He is a well-structured person, structured, embedded something like a Brain Graph, etc. in the content.
- The period totals 1-1.5 months and the exact period depends on how much data we generate. For the periods, we need 1 additional full time operational manager and 1 researcher. They need to capture data + data that needs to be read.
The goal of the third stage: further increase user activity and stickiness via tools , and impose user usage scenarios & high-frequency operation functions.
- Stake &Compound At this time, you can start the Staking business for retail investors, including reinvestment, etc.
- Proposal: Proposal status of the project you follow, easy to vote
- The period totals 1-1.5 months and backend engineers should take more jobs. backends, as addings different app chains required time and effort.
After the initial 4 months, we would begin to deploy on CosmWasm and add more Web3 features and introduce NFTs for our community members. We will also begin to build incentives model/mechanism design to structure the best game incentives to generate value back to our communities and supporters in the future. So we make sure we build the products, to satisfy the needs from the community, collect the ongoing feedback and keep continuously iterating our products, all the value will be given back to the community.
Budget requirement
However, the best talents need to be incentivised properly. The free work is not sustainable, and in order to incentivise the above talents to continue to work for the Cosmos ecosystem, I propose the funding proposals to support the above trabalizers in the ecosystem. Thanks all for all the efforts that have been made so far. So based on the above, we propose $300K USD ( For the convertion, according to the latest price by CoinGecko, the current Atom price is $11.92, then $300k USD is 25,168 Atom equivalent) to pay for the above people, and core team for the next 4 months. 1ďźeducation and interviews, targeting developers, projects, validators, users etc. 2ďźproduct development. Once we receive the funding, we will begin to develop our first product and you can understand as the product based acdemy for all people. The value will be compounded as time goes by. We use the bottom up approach and first starts with Web2 technology + We2+Web3 data. So you can understand it as the Web2.5 product. We are also aiming to start our edcuation programme once we receive the funding as we now cover almost all the mandarin speaking developers (not only 800 in our communties, but the ones covered by Changbin and Shihu) in Web3 and now working to bring more Web2 developers on board. Also, the funds will be granted to Don to help him continue to educate more users, so he no longer need to make a living by his saving.
The budget is based on the current/past salary wage of the team*# hours they can contribute to the projects.
Governance votes:
YES: You approve the proposal to fund the amount to support this product acedmy, wasm education, ueser education for Cosmos.
NO: You disapprove of the proposal in its current form. You donât think the team worth being paid for the time spent on product academy, wasm education, user education for Cosmos.
NO (VETO): You veto the entire motivation for the proposal, are strongly opposed to its implementation, and will exit the network if passed. You are signalling the proposers should not create a follow-up proposal.
ABSTAIN: You are impartial to the outcome of the proposal.
