Stakepool Metadata Hosting Service

[GENERAL] Name and surname of main applicant

Holger Hartstock

[GENERAL] Email address of main applicant

catalyst@cardano24.com

Additional applicants

No others

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

2

[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?

No

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

Only what is visible in the Browser-Code will be open source.

[METADATA] Category of proposal

SPOs

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

Have your metadata file ready and hosting within under 1 Minute.

Just copy/paste the URL and HASH and you can update your Stakepool.

• Easy to use webinterface to create and manage metadata files
• create changes based on previous metadata
• automatically correctly generated metadata-format
• instant hosting for free on high-availability infrastructure
• distribution of metadata files over a global CDN
• automatic calculations of metadata hash etc.

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

The Portal helps new and old SPOs to create new metadata files faster and manage and change current metadata much faster. They do not need to worry about mistyping something and then breaking their entire Pool-information on Explorer-Sites and Wallets. The hosting will be for free on a high availability cluster to ensure all metadata files are available all the time. The Cardano-Ecosystem will benefit from more frequently updated and more reliable Pool-Metadata/Information.

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

We will have real numbers. We see how many Pools use correct and good metadata hosting. Better metadata creation, management, and hosting means better and more reliable Pooldata for Explorer sites and wallets.

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

The Portal will go live very shortly after the funding and SPOs will be already enabled to create/manage and host their metadata files by using the open beta.

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

I am a professional and well-known in the Cardano Community for delivering many projects and help without any funding. You can check out https://Cardano24.Social as an example.

Here you can find also some reputational feedback:

https://twitter.com/HolgerCardano24/status/1558221914035916803

A few things I am already known for in the Cardano EcoSystem:

  ✦ running a Pool from day 1

  ✦ running 50+ Relays worldwide (public&private)

  ✦ voted as Foundation Board Member of SPOCRA by hundreds of SPOs

  ✦ helped over 500+ Pools to see the day-light

  ✦ fixing bugs of pools, with even 60+M stake, to run correctly

  ✦ helping African pools by providing them with infrastructure (for free)

  ✦ Creator of https://cardano24.social/ (for free to support our Community, without any funding)

  ✦ Supporting/Dev-Testing other Community projects to improve them

  ✦ Former CTO/Tech Lead of LIQWID (bringing native Defi to our Cardano EcoSystem)

  ✦ Infrastructure Lead of DripDropz

  ✦ part of the Cardano Alonzo Blue Testnet, helping and testing, to bring us closer to Smart Contracts

  ✦ Offical Moderator in IOG's Technical Community Discord-Server

  ✦ Main Droperator of DripDropz

  ✦ Host of "We are Cardano"

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

Long story short: I am a professional and know what I am doing. The Cardano-Community knows me for delivering professional solutions.

[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.

1. Coding the Project (30 days)
2. Open Beta after 30 days - Optimizing the Code (continuously...)

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

1. The Portal will be ready within 30 days and ready to use for SPOs in Open Beta.
2. The Portal, the Code, and the Servers will get optimized continuously.

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

1. Coding the Project and Optimizing the Code = 39000 ADA
2. Server costs, setup, optimization, maintenance plus running them = 10000 ADA

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

The "value for money" of this project and how our EcoSystem will benefit from it is obvious: More reliable Pool information leads to better information flow. Explorer sites and wallets will have more accurate and usable data in order to present them to delegators, investors, and SPOs.

[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