Fair Mineable Smart Contract Tokens

[Proposal setup] Proposal title

Please provide your proposal title

Fair Mineable Smart Contract Tokens

[Proposal Summary] Budget Information

Enter the amount of funding you are requesting in ADA

24000

[Proposal Summary] Time

Please specify how many months you expect your project to last

2

[Proposal Summary] Translation Information

Please indicate if your proposal has been auto-translated

No

Original Language

en

[Proposal Summary] Problem Statement

What is the problem you want to solve?

Cardano has a lack of open source permissionless and decentralized solutions for fair token minting and mining.

[Proposal Summary] Supporting Documentation

Supporting links

• https://github.com/while0x1/mana-mining-co

[Proposal Summary] Project Dependencies

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

No

Describe any dependencies or write 'No dependencies'

No dependencies

[Proposal Summary] Project Open Source

Will your project's outputs be fully open source?

Yes

License and Additional Information

MIT open source license

[Theme Selection] Theme

Please choose the most relevant theme and tag related to the outcomes of your proposal

GameFi

[Campaign Category] Category Questions

Mention your open source license and describe your open source license rationale.

We are using a MIT open source license and believe this wide and permissive license aligns with our goals in the cardano ecosystem. This license allows anyone to use, modify or commercialize the code within the repository.

How do you make sure your source code is accessible to the public from project start, and people are informed?

Public announcements through X, discord and catalyst will inform people of our repository and the code will be published into a public repository from day 1. Our code already exists and does not need to be created before it can be made public.

How will you provide high quality documentation?

As the sole maintainer of the library and creator of the software it will be straight-forward to document the codebase for public consumption. I have delivered previous catalyst projects and documentation before and am well equiped to provide clear, concise and useful documentation.

[Your Project and Solution] Solution

Please describe your proposed solution and how it addresses the problem

The smart contract mining platform provides a feature rich end-to-end example for creating decentralized and permissionless token minting/mining platforms.

The smart contract provides an example of contract token minting as well as techniques for dealing with validity intervals and datum tamper-proofing. A complete mining application is also included which allows users to mine the token and a block explorer provides a web application to visualize the chain-state. A set of helper scripts which detail how to mint NFTs is also included. This suite of applications provides a perfect easy to follow template for developers to use or expand upon.

[Your Project and Solution] Impact

Please define the positive impact your project will have on the wider Cardano community

Most Cardano applications are closed, permissioned and not decentralized. With the increased availablility of easily approchable open source examples more developers will be able to create applications on Cardano for our growing community.

[Your Project and Solution] Capabilities & 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?

The proposer has been a SPO for over 4 years and has previously delivered a catalyst fund 11 project on time and budget.The proposer has deployed multiple smart contracts and applications to mainnet. The application in this proposal has already been deployed to maininet with multiple users downloading and mining tokens successfully.

[Milestones] Project Milestones

Milestone Title

Documentation

Milestone Outputs

• documentation published on github explaining how each software program works and integrates with other components
• a readme file for the repository
• Code comments where necessary added to software
• Library dependencies listed

Acceptance Criteria

• The documentation is available on a public github repository.
• The documentation is clear, legible and understandable.
• A readme file present on the public repository.
• The documentation contains up to date list of library dependencies

Evidence of Completion

The evidence of completion for an open-source project is the availability of the entire code on a public github repository. We will also publish the links to the repository within the final report.

Delivery Month

1

Cost

2400

Progress

10 %

Milestone Title

Publish Codebase

Milestone Outputs

• publish miner application to open repository
• publish block-explorer web-application to repository
• publish offchain utilities for contract setup to repository
• publish smart contract to repository

Acceptance Criteria

• miner code available on public repository
• functioning block-explorer code available on repository (sans any keys/accounts/ip addresses)
• offchain utilities for license minting and contract utilities published to repository
• smart contract available on repository

Evidence of Completion

The evidence of completion for an open-source project is the availability of the entire code on a public github repository. We will also publish the links to the repository within the final report.

Delivery Month

2

Cost

16800

Progress

70 %

Milestone Title

Project Completion Report

Milestone Outputs

1. A project closeout report will be published to github detailing the project KPIs and how they were met.
2. A project closeout video will be recorded and published to github with a link published within the project closeout report.

Acceptance Criteria

PCR/PCV will address:

• List of challenge KPIs and how the project addressed them
• List of project KPIs and how the project addressed them
• Key achievements (in particular around collaboration and engagement)
• Key learnings
• Next steps for the product or service developed
• Final thoughts/comments
• Links to other relevant project sources or documents.
• Link to Close-out video - must be either YouTube or Vimeo link only

Evidence of Completion

The report is available on the public repository and the link is operable with the video being viewable on youtube/vimeo.

Delivery Month

2

Cost

4800

Progress

20 %

[Final Pitch] Budget & Costs

Please provide a cost breakdown of the proposed work and resources

This project is seeking retroactive funding for already developed code but will require some time and budget to deliver the documentation.

1. Contract development 40
2. Contract testing 56
3. Offchain development 40
4. Front-end software 64
5. Infrastructure Setup 12
6. Documentation 22
7. Project Management 6

240 Hours

100 ADA / hour * 240 hours = 24000 ADA

[Final Pitch] Value for Money

How does the cost of the project represent value for the Cardano ecosystem?

This project already exists on mainnet and can be open sourced rapidly. Given we are seeking mostly retroactive funding we have applied a rate of 100ADA/hour which at the current exchange rate is extremely competitive for blockchain/full stack software development.

[Required Acknowledgements] Consent & Confirmation

Terms and Conditions:

Yes