SWARM Treasury PBL

[GENERAL] Name and surname of main applicant

The Swarm

[GENERAL] Are you delivering this project as an individual or as an entity (whether formally incorporated or not)

Entity (Incorporated)

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

6

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

No

[GENERAL] Summarize your solution to the problem (200-character limit including spaces)

SWARM is due to its strong engagement in multiple blockchain ecosystems in a good position to generate a Innovative Treasury PBL which can help others to improve their systems

[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] Please provide here more information on the open source status of your project outputs

All gathered knowledge and the PBL itself will be fully open sourced through the Treasury Guild Github

The dApp that does the transactions 

https://github.com/treasuryguild/treasury-dapp 

The new Dashboard  https://treasuryguild.com/Singularity%20Net/Singularity%20Net%20Ambassador%20Wallet?tab=report 

A new admin tool to help with managing the database - https://github.com/treasuryguild/treasury-database-admin

[SOLUTION] Please describe your proposed solution.

The SWARM Treasury system, in development since late 2021 is a set of processes which combine Community Contribution systems to an on-chain Treasury System, making it easy for a community to build fully public and transparent contributions and treasury processes into a modular system.

First serious developments of the system have been funded through the Fund 9 DAO - Tools proposal (https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/421708) which has been successfully completed in March 2023. 

Biggest Success so far:

The SWARM treasury system has been implemented in the SingularityNET Ambassadors program, where a task-based contribution system handles currently between 100 to 200 tasks on a weekly basis and is currently on the road to become a supporting System for SingularityNET’s innovation fund at DeepFunding and to support community-driven operations, starting with DeepFunding Reviewers.

The Treasury PBL

Our System has been proven to be a nice fitting solution and ecosystems definitely benefit from the stuff we built so far. However, it is not easy to integrate a system and to adapt it to its own needs and use cases. Therefore, we want to take all previously gained knowledge and experiences and wrap everything into a SWARM Treasury PBL, using the Andamio Platform to ensure that anyone is able to have easy access to an education format to use SWARM’s gained knowledge and experiences for their own needs.

! More about Andamio at:

https://hackmd.io/@andamioplatform/B1_gJMDvn/%2FKNDmpf44T--Ix_Kwj7_nYQ

[IMPACT] Please define the positive impact your project will have on the wider Cardano community.

Our System has been proven to be a nicey fitting solution and ecosystems definitely benefit from the stuff we built so far. However, it is not easy to integrate a system and to adapt it to own needs and use cases. Therefore, we want to take all previously gained knowledge and experiences and wrap everything into a SWARM Treasury PBL, using the Andamio Platform to ensure that anyone is able to have easy access to an education format to use SWARM’s gained knowledge and experiences for their own needs. Projects using the PBL will have access and guidance on a more than 2 Years accumulated knowledge on SWARM Contribution and Treasury systems, enabling them to leverage our knowledge to innovate, enhance and further develop their projects with strong and 100% practice based knowledge.

[CAPABILITY & FEASIBILITY] What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability? How do you intend to validate if your approach is feasible?

Swarm has been active in Catalyst since its earliest days in early 2021. Since inception, we played a key role in building up the Catalyst Ecosystem and communities, initiated and supported the emergence of whole communities, projects and companies and have since then, grown our networks and engagements across multiple ecosystems where we play a key role in building up decentralised communities and ecosystems. Our Treasury System has been proven to be of great use to not only projects, but whole communities and ecosystems such as the SingularityNET Ambassadors program and the currently built Project DeepFunding, SingularityNET’s innovation fund. We have years of experience, and we know what we do and what we speak about. We are builders and craftsmen, deeply committed to building decentralised communities and ecosystems.

Having the Andamio platform as service provider also enables us to have direct access to the Andamio developer team, which will help us to ensure that the PBL will get all the needed eyes and hands on needed to have a top notch PBL up and running for everyone to benefit from. The Andamio is consist of seasoned Cardano Developers, building a all-stars team with a outstanding capacity on all things education and Cardano Blockchain development

[Project Milestones] What are the key milestones you need to achieve in order to complete your project successfully?

Milestone 1 - March 2024

Setup & Kick Off

Deliverables:

Setting up the Project Management & Team

Completed Proposal Onboarding

Initiating the SWARM Treasury PBL roll out

Outcomes published to the public via Github/Dework Project Management and Gitbook Documentation.

Relevant URL's will be provided in each Milestone Report*

Milestone 2 - April 2024

Course creation Part 1

Deliverables:

2X Train the Trainers sessions

Online Workshops with advisory from the Andamio Team to collectively design the Courses Structure and SLTs ( Student Learning Targets )

Workshops will be recorded and uploaded for the Public on the SWARM Youtube Channel

Async work on Course Structure and SLTs

Outcomes published to the public via Github/Dework Project Management and Gitbook Documentation.

Relevant URL's will be provided in each Milestone Report*

Milestone 3 - May 2024

Course creation Part 2

Deliverables:

2X Train the Trainers sessions - Setting up the PBL Course Modules

Online Workshops with advisory from the Andamio Team to collectively design the Courses Modules

Async work on Course Modules

Outcomes published to the public via Github/Dework Project Management and Gitbook Documentation

2X Train the Trainers sessions - Defining PBL Course Roles and Role-Tokens

Online Workshops with advisory from the Andamio Team to collectively design the Courses Roles and Role Tokens

Async work on Course Roles and Role Token

Outcomes published to the public via Github/Dework Project Management and Gitbook Documentation

Monthly Progress Meeting at the end of the month

Progress Meeting will be recorded and uploaded for the Public on the SWARM Youtube Channel

Relevant URL's will be provided in each Milestone Report*

Milestone 4 - June 2024

Course creation Part 3

2X Train the Trainers sessions - Setting up the PBL lessons and assignments

Online Workshops with advisory from the Andamio Team to collectively design the Courses Modules

Async work on PBL assignments

Outcomes published to the public via Github/Dework Project Management and Gitbook Documentation

Monthly Progress Meeting at the end of the month

Progress Meeting will be recorded and uploaded for the Public on the SWARM Youtube Channel

Relevant URL's will be provided in each Milestone Report*

Milestone 5 - July 2024

Course Launch

Deliverables:

Installing up the Andamio Instance

Setting up a PBL Treasury

Launching the SWARM Treasury PBL

Facilitate and moderate Course participants through Andamio & SWARM Discord

Monthly Progress Meeting at the end of the month

( Progress Meeting will be recorded and uploaded for the Public on the SWARM Youtube Channel)

Outcomes published to the public via Github/Dework Project Management and Gitbook Documentation, as well as a publicly accessible Treasury PBL URL

Relevant URL's will be provided in each Milestone Report*

Final Milestone - August 2024

Retrospective and Close out

Deliverables:

Retrospective and reflection on the Course Creation

Identifying best practices of course creation and lesson learned

Outcomes published to the public via Notion/Github Project Management and Gitbook Documentation

Providing a Close Out Report in text and video format

Final Close out Meeting at the end of the month

Progress Meeting will be recorded and uploaded for the Public on the SWARM Youtube Channel

Relevant URL's will be provided in each Milestone Report*

[RESOURCES] Who is in the project team and what are their roles?

Tevo Saks

Development and Documentation.

Tevo is a Cardano and Catalyst OG, additionally a SingularityNET Ambassador and a leading Member of the SWARM. Tevo has been highly engaged in Catalyst since Fund 1 and is deeply committed to decentralised community and ecosystem tools and architectures.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tevosaks/ 

André Diamond - Development  

André is a seasoned Cardano & Catalyst Community member, teached himself how to become a Cardano Developer and since then has been leading the development of the SWARM Treasury Systems at the Treasury Guild.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andr%C3%A9-diamond-45871242/ 

Miroslav Rajh - Transaction Building and Project Management

Miroslav, as well a seasoned Cardano & Catalyst Community member, played a crucial role in the establishment of the Treasury Guild, taking responsibility at the overall operations and building top notch transactions on the Cardano Blockchain

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mirorajh/ 

[BUDGET & COSTS] Please provide a cost breakdown of the proposed work and resources.

Milestone 1 - March 2024

Setup & Kick Off

Budget: 10,000 Ada

Deliverables:

• Setting up the Project Management & Team

Outcomes published to the public via Github/Dework Project Management and Gitbook Documentation

• Completed Proposal Onboarding
• Initiating the SWARM Treasury PBL roll out

Milestone 2 - April 2024

Course creation Part 1

Budget: 10,000 Ada

Deliverables:

• 2X Train the Trainers sessions

Online Workshops with advisory from the Andamio Team to collectively design the Courses Structure and SLTs ( Student Learning Targets )

Workshops will be recorded and uploaded for the Public on the SWARM Youtube Channel

• Async work on Course Structure and SLTs

Outcomes published to the public via Github/Dework Project Management and Gitbook Documentation

Milestone 3 - May 2024

Course creation Part 2

Budget: 15,000 Ada

Deliverables:

• 2X Train the Trainers sessions - Setting up the PBL Course Modules

Online Workshops with advisory from the Andamio Team to collectively design the Courses Modules

• Async work on Course Modules

Outcomes published to the public via Github/Dework Project Management and Gitbook Documentation

• 2X Train the Trainers sessions - Defining PBL Course Roles and Role-Tokens

Online Workshops with advisory from the Andamio Team to collectively design the Courses Roles and Role Tokens

• Async work on Course Roles and Role Token

Outcomes published to the public via Github/Dework Project Management and Gitbook Documentation

• Monthly Progress Meeting at the end of the month

( Progress Meeting will be recorded and uploaded for the Public on the SWARM Youtube Channel)

Milestone 4 - June 2024

Course creation Part 3

Budget: 15,000 Ada

• 2X Train the Trainers sessions - Setting up the PBL lessons and assignments

Online Workshops with advisory from the Andamio Team to collectively design the Courses Modules

• Async work on PBL assignments

Outcomes published to the public via Github/Dework Project Management and Gitbook Documentation

• Monthly Progress Meeting at the end of the month

( Progress Meeting will be recorded and uploaded for the Public on the SWARM Youtube Channel)

Milestone 5 - July 2024

Course Launch

Budget: 10,000 Ada

Deliverables:

• Installing up the Andamio Instance
• Setting up a PBL Treasury
• Launching the SWARM Treasury PBL
• Facilitate and moderate Course participants through Andamio & SWARM Discord
• Monthly Progress Meeting at the end of the month

( Progress Meeting will be recorded and uploaded for the Public on the SWARM Youtube Channel)

Final Milestone - August 2024

Retrospective and Close out

Budget: 10,000 Ada

Deliverables:

• Retrospective and reflection on the Course Creation
• Identifying best practices of course creation and lesson learned

Outcomes published to the public via Notion/Github Project Management and Gitbook Documentation

• Providing a Close Out Report in text and video format
• Final Close out Meeting at the end of the month

( Progress Meeting will be recorded and uploaded for the Public on the SWARM Youtube Channel)

Total: 70,000 ADA for a timeframe of 6 Months

Note:

If the price of ADA goes significantly down over the next few months until proposal approval and budget payouts, we will execute the proposal anyway.

If the price of ADA goes significantly up over the next few months until proposal approval and budget payouts,, we will be lucky and be able to reward proposal members in a higher range and forward leftovers to the Swarm Fund, level up the Pledge at the SWARM Pool and use funds to rewards SWARM Contributors in other activities.

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

Looking at the previous success of SingularityNET using the SWARM Treasury system, we have a proven use case that our Treasury system is not only of great worth to smaller projects, but to whole communities and ecosystems. The Treasury system eases the onboarding process of newcomers to become engaged contributors and by default enhances onchain contributions, leading to a higher rate of Transactions on the Cardano Blockchain, feeding the Cardano Treasury and showcasing the Cardano Blockchain as an effective operating system to other ecosystems. 

[IMPORTANT NOTE] The Applicant agrees to Fund 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