GameChanger: Dandelion Deployment

Extended problem statement:

GameChanger is gaining a lot of traction as other projects are building integrations on top of it, and as a light-wallet, its backend infrastructure (Dandelion) needs to grow accordingly.

Describe your solution to the problem:

In order to grow our infrastructure capacity, LATAM adoption, and Dandelion network, we propose to deploy and maintain 3 nodes for at least 3 months in 3 different LATAM datacenters; contributing this way to decentralize further our infrastructure layer (Dandelion network) in these areas.

These Dandelion nodes will be joined to the Dandelion IAN (Incentivized Alpha Network), so in case they have some extra capacity to share, it will be contributed to Dandelion Community Service. This way other projects and people from areas that are not so well connected or don't have the resources -like some in LATAM- can benefit from it, and use it to bootstrap as GameChanger did itself. We are here for m₳ss ₳doption. 

Dandelion IAN nodes will also be rewarded with tokens to access Dandelion mainnet, so after these 3 months we'll be able to use them to access other nodes of the network, making our underlying infrastructure more resilient and highly-available.

We'll try to find some candidates from within the LATAM SPOs community to operate these nodes, so they don't all depend on us, and new opportunities are brought to their SPO businesses and circles. In the case we don't find any candidate, the budget will be used to extend the period of time the nodes are kept up.

Relevant Experience:

We made GameChanger, a released and long term product, highly humanized and gamified wallet, committed to newcomers, students and builders. And our team members have been active contributors to Dandelion, Yoroi and Emurgo projects.

Meet the team:

Adriano Fiorenza is Entrepreneur & Senior Full Stack Developer with 10+ years of experience software and IOT development. Founder and the main Lead Developer behind GameChanger Wallet, and Project Catapult, participated in 1st gen Plutus Pioneer Program and is currently contributing as Core Team member at Gimbalabs

His Linkedin profile can be found at https://ar.linkedin.com/in/adriano-fiorenza

Javier Ribó, Technical manager working in the flight industry and for the past years has successfully built and scaled different projects.Also worked for more than 7 years in the Hosting & Cloud industry. Currently going through the "Emurgo Developer course" Batch 52 & contributing to GameChanger Wallet as Senior Developer.

His Linkedin profile can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/index

Roberto C. Morano is a systems integrator and DevOps advocate with over 15 years of experience. Ex-Emurgo DevOps Lead. Gimbalabs Co-Founder. Dandelion Founder and Operator. GameChanger Wallet advisor.

His Linkedin profile can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/rcmorano/

Current Status / Technical Information:

We have already succesfully deployed and sized our own Dandelion node, so we just need to replicate the model in new locations.

Key features/goals:

Deploy 3 Dandelion nodes in LATAM, ideally, operated by 3 LATAM SPOs.

Roadmap:

- 1st month:

  - Research LATAM server providers. As there are some that might not perform well and won't be able to keep up chain-sync speed, we'll probably need to test different providers.

  - Look for some candidates to operate the nodes

- 2nd-3rd month:

  - Deploy, deploy, deploy (3 nodes).

  - Report bugs, contribute to Dandelion OpenSource project.

Key Performance Indicators for the first 3 months (KPIs):

There will be only 2 KPIs:

- Number of nodes deployed (ideally 3)

- Number of LATAM operators (ideally 3)

Budget:

- Servers: 3x $300 x 3 months = $1800

- Ops incentives: 3x $300 x 3 months = $1800

Total: $3600

Related proposals & other projects:

More information in general about all our participation and co-proposals in Catalyst can be found on our website.

https://gamechanger.finance/catalyst

We also want to contribute to the overall Catalyst experience and we have created Project Catapult for all the not-funded proposals and helping on Catalyst Community Tools On-Chain!