Delegate polling and voting mechanisms for SPOs

[GENERAL] Name and surname of main applicant

Rhys Morgan

[GENERAL] Email address of main applicant

catalystburneremail@gmail.com

Additional applicants

Quintin

Quasar

Theo

Paul

[GENERAL] Please specify how many months you expect your project to last (from 2-12 months)

4

[GENERAL] Please indicate if your proposal has been auto-translated into English from another language.

No

[GENERAL] Does your project have any dependencies on other organizations, technical or otherwise?

No

[GENERAL] If YES, please describe what the dependency is and why you believe it is essential for your project’s delivery. If NO, please write “No dependencies.” .

no dependencies

[GENERAL] Will your project’s output/s be fully open source?

Yes

[GENERAL] If NO, please describe which outputs are not going to be open source. If YES, please write “Project will be fully open source.”

Verification mechanism and polling mechanism will be open sourced, but our mobile app will not.

This will enable other projects to adapt the work we have released to suit their own needs

[METADATA] Category of proposal

SPOs

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

build a simple feature set using NFTPass' mobile app to enable polling and voting with easy to distribute and secure verification mechanisms to ensure SPOs can poll and get community feedback from delegates.

A good example of where this would be useful is the recent SPO on-chain poll by the foundation.

[IMPACT] How does your proposed solution address the challenge and what benefits will this bring to the Cardano ecosystem?

it will give SPOs a way to get feedback and input from their delegates and community members to help drive decision making processes and facilitate communication

This will provide staking communities with a way to interact with SPOs without requiring them to constantly check up on discord, telegram, twitter or other places where reach is out of the SPOs and delegates control.

Having a simple way to communicate directly with their communities, SPOs will have a means to make decisions based on feedback from their community, creating a tighter knit community around the pool's operation and decision making

[IMPACT] How do you intend to measure the success of your project?

adoption of polling mechanism by SPOs used for any reason to get feedback or information from delegates.

we will measure the use of this system by SPOs and request feedback on the usage of the process to improve it for the community.

We will also track the number of people interacting with polls and see how we can help improve the number of responses by delegates, to get a more quantitative and qualitative data set for SPOs and their communities which will aid in decision making in the future

[IMPACT] Please describe your plans to share the outputs and results of your project?

We will share case studies of use by different SPOs and communities within Cardano

We will share the outputs and results of the project with reports and videos provided of works completed

We will be running our own internal tests before feature launch and then some real world community tests once it is ready to integrate.

With the SPOs permission, we will share the process, results, and effectiveness for them in acquiring feedback from community members

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability?

Our team has already built the Alpha version of the NftPass app, from blockchain integration to ui development, we have experience in mobile development, blockchain tools and backend development.

We already have confirmed tests happening at this year's RareEvo, with aims to expand into other Cardano events this year.

As part of this release schedule we will be integrating tests for this stake pool community polling specifically, along with other features as they are developed.

We are also part of the SPO community with great connections to the different alliances where we are able to run tests and see the effectiveness of this voting and polling mechanism as we develop and iterate on it

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] What are the main goals for the project and how will you validate if your approach is feasible?

The main goal is to provide SPOs with an easy-to-use tool to poll their communities and acquire a high level of quality data from verified delegates.

We will validate this approach with continued testing and small-scale deployment as the project develops to measure its effectiveness in delegate verification and poll responses.

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed breakdown of your project’s milestones and each of the main tasks or activities to reach the milestone plus the expected timeline for the delivery.

Milestones:

M1 - 1 Month:

• user app scanning functionality
• SPO specific customisable triggers
• UI Design work

M2 - 1 Month:

• poll and voting templates & submission mechanism
• on the fly generator for polls/voting for SPOs
• backend polling records and data processing
• front end integration

M3 - 1 Month:

• preview network testing mechanisms
• security checks

M4 - 1 Month:

• small scale mainnet tests

M5 - 1 Month

• larger scale SPO alliance based testing

M6 - 1 Week:

• integration and feature release

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] Please describe the deliverables, outputs and intended outcomes of each milestone.

Deliverables:

• in app voting mechanism
• (User side interaction with poll - scanning and responding)
• easy to deploy polling and voting mechanism for pool operators
• SPO side poll & trigger generation
• Each month we will be recording team project updates and publishing them to YouTube
• Monthly dev update articles released on Medium and our Website

Intended outcomes:

• Ability to poll verified community members on the fly
• Verification process integrated into polling/voting for unverified community members

[RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown of the proposed work and resources.

Project Management (60hrs - $3200)

• Organizing Real World Tests (30hrs)
• Partnership formation for Pool Alliances and individual SPOs
• Managing deals between projects
• Planning and Coordinating Tasks (30hrs)
• Personalizing approach for all partners
• Ensuring new features are tested at each event
• Facilitate Post-Mortem of tests & Finding Solutions

Front End (40hrs - 2400$)

• Dashboard Construction
• Voting Interface (user) (10hrs)
• Vote Interface (project) (15hrs)
• Vote Form (project) (15hrs)
• Questions
• Triggers

Back End (60hrs - $4800)

• Dashboard Construction
• Vote Form (project)
• Triggers (Implementation)
• Scanning function (user)
• Voting interface (user)
• Voting response tally (project)
• QR/Poll record & identifier

Design (30hrs - $1800)

• UI design for dashboard (15hrs)
• Infographics & Explainer videos (15hrs)

Testing - $600

Contingency - 10% ($1320)

Total: $14,520

[RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] How does the cost of the project represent value for money for the Cardano ecosystem?

Our product will help remedy the lack of ease of access to polling mechanisms which are easy to use for both the SPO and the community member, but most importantly easily verifiable to ensure participation is only for the desired audience.

We will release a provably verifiable mechanism for polling and voting of community members and delegates for SPOs to use.

[IMPORTANT NOTE] The Applicant agreed to Fund10 rules and also that data in the Submission Form and other data provided by the project team during the course of the project will be publicly available.

I Accept