A new set of grants has been approved in Batch 12 today! This batch includes five grants which add up to a total of $116k in funding. Read on to learn more about each project and relevant funding details.
We're happy to share that two of our newly approved grantees will be working on some of our outstanding RFPs:
- Maxime will be building our Cosmos Bridge Aggregator RFP. Users will be able to easily bridge tokens to/from other ecosystems into the Cosmos ecosystem by navigating to the bridge aggregator website. They'll also be able to IBC tokens between zones from the same interface.
- We're excited for Mert to start working on our RFP for Interactive CosmWasm Tutorials. This will be a fully interactive and open-source tutorial for the cw-multi-test and osmosis-test-tube libraries, which will be a great resource for devs who want to learn how to use these tools properly.
Other grants in this batch include Starship, a testing and infrastructure framework in Kubernetes which will create and run end-to-end tests (for OsmoJS and Mesh Security to start with), and helping Numia bootstrap a comprehensive public dashboard for Osmosis which will include a bunch of analytics and information that is not currently available elsewhere!
You can find more info on each grant below.
Cosmos Bridge Aggregator
$30,000 (in OSMO)
Maxime Beauchamp
$5,000 (in OSMO)
$7,500 (in OSMO)
$12,500 (in OSMO)
$5,000 (in OSMO)
To create a Cosmos bridge aggregator website that will allow users to easily bridge tokens to/from other ecosystems into the Cosmos ecosystem, and IBC tokens between zones from the same interface. Milestone 1 = launch the first version of the rebranded Terra bridge aggregator, letting users bridge to/from any of the chains currently supported by the website, and change the hardcoded code to handle the IBC channels to a more generic solution to add support for more assets like native chain assets, USDC, DAI, WBTC, WETH; Milestone 2 = at completion of support for new bridges (Gravity Bridge, Wormhole), new Cosmos chains (Stride, Injective, Evmos, Kava, Agoric, Regen, Akash, Axelar, Stargaze, Mars, Umee), and additional EVM chains supported by Axelar (Polygon, Arbitrum, Fantom, Aurora, BNB chain); Milestone 3 = after having maintained the new website for six months since the completion of the milestones.
A comprehensive, open-source Cosmos bridge aggregator frontend will significantly improve the interchain bridging user experience, and bring more funds into the Cosmos ecosystem from EVM-compatible chains. Having built a bunch of tools on the Cosmos tech stack already, such as Cloudmos, Maxime is an active participant in the Cosmos ecosystem with expertise in building frontends and backends that interact with any on-chain interaction.
Starship
$50,000 (in OSMO)
Anmol
$10,000 (in OSMO)
$15,000 (in OSMO)
$10,000 (in OSMO)
$10,000 (in OSMO)
$5,000 (in OSMO)
To build out Starship as a publicly available testing framework and infrastructure which will create and run end-to-end tests for OsmoJS and Mesh Security. Milestone 1 = completion of testing framework in Typescript with ability to spin up multiple chains from simple config files in various environments (in Starship Repo); Milestone 2 = completion of Mesh Security integration; Milestone 3 = completion of OsmoJS integration; Milestone 4 = after having maintained this project for six months since the completion of the milestones.
Starship aims to create an easy way to set-up an interchain environment by leveraging the power of Kubernetes, a production-grade container orchestration system, to set up a fully simulated Cosmos ecosystem with multiple chains (each with multiple nodes), relayers, explorers and even its own chain registry. Along with the easy to setup infra, Starship also aims to create a testing framework to get rid of bash scripts and make scenario testing easy and repeatable. The main plan is to add regression tests for various scenarios that can be run in the CI/CD to catch bugs sooner in the development lifecycle. This will result in significant cost savings, as it will reduce the likelihood of vulnerabilities and security breaches in the Cosmos ecosystem, and improve developer productivity by making it easier and less time consuming for developers to test and secure their applications and systems, especially with infra setup, regression testing, and mulit-node/chain testing. Anmol was most recently the Tech lead at Persistence, leading development for the Persistence Chain. He has significant experience in Golang and Kubernetes, with a focus on software development standardisation and improving developer efficiency.
Lenses
$30,000 (in OSMO)
Numia
$5,000 (in OSMO)
$7,500 (in OSMO)
$12,500 (in OSMO)
$5,000 (in OSMO)
To help Numia bootstrap their Osmosis public facing dashboard, which will include pre-selected and actionable Data Analytics widgets with information that is not easily accessible elsewhere. The team will also maintain the API that powers the whole application for users who wish to use them. Milestone 1 = backend APIs & dashboard frontend application; Milestone 2 = curated set of frontend widgets & analytics; Milestone 3 = after having maintained the dashboard for six months since completion.
Numia's public facing Osmosis dashboard will cover the needs of non-technical users who can’t write SQL and need curated prescriptive dashboards to improve transparency around Osmosis’ ownership breakdown, economic activity, and health condition, which will allow users to make better decisions about investments and improve the capital efficiency of the network. The team will then submit community polls every quarter so that the community can help them to decide which new widgets should be added next. Numia is one of the leading on-chain data providers in the Cosmos ecosystem. The team has significant experience with the Cosmos stack since they've been involved in the ecosystem since early days.
Interactive CW Testing Tutorials
$5,000 (in OSMO)
Mert Malaz
$5,000 (in OSMO)
To build a fully interactive and open-source tutorial for the cw-multi-test and osmosis-test-tube libraries.
People developing dApps on Osmosis tend to have a hard time testing their dApps against the logic of the chain. Both cw-multi-test and osmosis-test-tube were build to test your contracts against real chain logic rather than mocks. These tutorials will provide a great resource for devs to learn how to use these tools properly, and maximize their impact. Mert was previously working for Deus Labs in a DevRel role, helping with JunoTools, StargazeStudio, technical documentation, and repo maintenance.
Osmosis Frontend Translation (Portuguese)
$500 (in OSMO)
Virtu Growee
$500 (in OSMO)
A retro grant for having completed the Portuguese translation of the Osmosis main frontend.
This has improved the UX for Portuguese native speakers when using Osmosis. Virtu Growee is a crypto enthusiast and content writer.
