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Uber of 3D Printing Manufacturing

Problem

Custom manufacturing services are expensive. Peer-to-peer manufacturing platforms currently do not exist. We need better Cardano full nodes.

Solution

Create new economic opportunity by deploying open p2p marketplace (Uber of 3D printing) to enable monetization of 3d designs and print jobs.

Completed outcome

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Total to date

This is the total amount allocated to Uber of 3D Printing Manufacturing.

$275,000

Total funds requested

Distributed: $275,000

Remaining: $0

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₳71.8M

Votes yes

₳28.9M

Votes no

About this idea

smart-contract adoption business blockchain dapps platforms

Create new economic opportunity by deploying open p2p marketplace (Uber of 3D printing) to enable monetization of 3d designs and print jobs.

The Adosia team has a proven record of deploying highly successful projects on Cardano and includes Kyle (CEO DripDropz), Quinn (smart contract dev DripDropz, Tokhun), Mike (seasoned multidisciplined engineer), Jia and Jonpaul (SpaceX engineers), Ron Hill (SPOCRA) and many others

[IMPACT]

Adosia's decentralized fulfillment network is essentially composed of numerous smart contracts, including contracts for the marketplace, the printing pool, quality assurance, NFT role minting, 3d printer and shipping and receiving.

The smart contract associated with the 3D printable NFT marketplace will house user-submitted 3D printable NFTs which contain one or more .stl files along with any designer royalties referenced in the NFT metadata. The user will interact with the marketplace smart contract, selecting all the NFTs they would like to have printed, which will then create a new "purchase order" NFT capable of traversing the decentralized Adosia 3D printer operator network. Once a user holds a purchase order NFT, upon paying an appropriate fee, they will be able to initiate a print job for that NFT with the Adosia network. Upon successful print job completion the printer operator fulfilling the print job will be paid the majority of Ada with the appropriate 3D designer(s) being paid designated royalties. The Adosia smart contract will also earn a small fee for the Adosia treasury, with all participants being incentivized early on with Adosia ADO tokens.

Current Implementation & The Road to the MVP

The goal of the MVP is to provide the basic infrastructure to show the world that decentralized manufacturing is possible and will soon be a reality. All on-chain functionality will be provided by the printing pool, purchase order, and printer registration contracts. These contracts will allow a customer to get a purchase order and have a registered printer accept the job for printing. The printer registration process has already started with the Adosia ambassador program.

The market contract will be replaced with Buffy Bot for the initial product release. This will ensure that the printers will be able to print appropriate purchase orders as we walk everyone through the system. This project is a huge undertaking and needs to be approached in small manageable chunks.

What To Expect

Users will be able to buy an NFT of a purchase order that will allow them to choose to print one of our special designs via a registered space printer. The printer will then ship the 3D object to the user who will receive the object and confirm its quality. At this point, the purchase order will be returned to the user and the printer will be paid ADA for their services. It is a simple product but it shows what is technically possible now. Blockchain and the tangible world will mesh together and this is just a stepping stone along that path.

High-level end-to-end experience.

Future Implementation

The Full Experience

The future of decentralized manufacturing with the space printer ecosystem involves many contracts interacting with each other in very complex ways. This will be a fully encompassing ecosystem that will allow designers to produce 3D printable objects, printers to create and ship products, and it will allow the everyday user to get any 3D printable item shipped directly to their door by a local printer in a decentralized manner.

What Is Missing

The ecosystem will include a complete social ranking system similar to eBay's buyer and seller ranking. This will allow new buyers to select known and trusted printers to complete their job and will provide printers with the means to avoid potential bad customer interactions. The ranking system will be stored inside another smart contract such that users of the system can not simply send their negative ranking to some other user. Whenever a printer or a customer does something positive, like complete a shipment or participate in a quality assurance event, they will be issued a positivity token. Conversely, there exists a negativity token that is issued for negative actions.

Complete Adosia Smart Contract Specs:

https://logicalmechanism.gitbook.io/adosia-smart-contract-specs/

Adosia will bring a wide variety of new users via enabling exciting new peer-to-peer applications on Cardano. We will also enable a new cardano-node node option for everyday Cardano participants which doesn't require utilizing personal desktop or laptop resources like Daedalus does.

Important metrics are number of active printer operators, number or 3D printable designs in the smart contract, number of users and monthly orders.

This project is well under development and will be completed regardless of receipt of Catalyst funding. Funding will certainly help ensure a rapid time to market and quick turn to operational sustaining revenue.

One of the most significant challenges will be establishing and coordinating a solid initial base of decentralized 3D printer operators capable of effectively participating in the fulfillment network, as well as determining and testing shipping logistics

We will also need to align treasury governance and expenditures to compensate decentralized participants in the future via incentives for serving the protocol (aiding in dispute resolution, software development, decentralized operational infrastructure, etc). Some of the hardest challenges for the future will be self-governance and the real-world-to-blockchain-bridge. There are many aspects of smart contracts that have never been integrated into the real world as they will be with the space printer. In a single system, a user will be able to design, sell, print, and ship. This is a fully on-chain and decentralized approach to manufacturing, using the newest technology available today in a way no one has ever seen.

We also need to define and align the creation of two separate new CIPs / new metadata standards for purchase order NFTs and printer / hardware device registration NFTs.

[FEASIBILITY]

The first major step we need to take is to learn as much as we can about decentralized fulfillment and to enable the NFT market. We will accomplish this by conducting an initial NFT sale of 3D printable spacecoins rockets. Users will have the ability to choose to print their 3D rocket NFT which would then be fulfilled (manufactured and shipped) by an Adosia network printer operator. The spacecoins rocket NFTs will consist of 8 individual parts and a handful of color schemes. We will perform this sale through Buffy Bot in a manner that enables a market for other parties to follow with their own 3D printable NFT drops which could also leverage the Adosia printer network. This will feed direct Ada revenue into the Adosia printer operator network while providing the team with critical lessons for integrating fulfillment properly into the Adosia network.

The next phase will implement simple 2D image (or existing NFT conversion) into a 3D printable lithophane format. This will enable any user to contract a printer to manufacture an awesome representation of their favorite 2D NFT or image.

The final phase will implement the full marketplace. The marketpace will enable designers to list their designs along with any corresponding royalties to be imposed upon each print and monetize their designs. The marketplace will also enable users to create custom NFTs based on designs listed which may be manufactured on-demand at a later date by whomever holds an applicable purchase order NFT.

Adosia has been cultivating a team of participating 3D printer operators supported by a robust Adosia ambassador program.

SpacePrinter

SpacePrinter is a dapp designed to run on a RaspBerry Pi 0w v2 which are $15 dollars or less. (https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-2-w/)

SpacePrinter will run a small firmware that will present a web interface for configuration. Configuration includes setting up the printer wallet address which uses the Cardano Serialization Library to perform wallet creation, and enables secure signing on devices in the printer operator web browser, registration of the printer with the Adosia smart contracts, and selection of print jobs.

SpacePrinter will connect to a printer operator's 3D printer utilizing a USB cable which will give the 3D printer access to the Adosia 3D Printer smart contract marketplace.

There will be two (2) options for SpacePrinter to pull data from the Cardano blockchain.

#1 - a small API for SpacePrinter we can self host when a user creates an account they will gain access to the API. This is the more centralized solution but it will allow users to just plug in the Raspberry pi 0w v2 with Space Printer firmware on it connect to WiFi and go. And also not have to worry about buying hardware to run Cardano Box or to even having to sync the Cardano blockchain.

#2 - if the printer operator wants to put together a Cardano Box or purchase a Cardano Box from Adosia, there will be an option for space printer to use Cardano Box to do access the Cardano Blockchain and Adosia smart contracts.

The Cardano Box is the underlying application and the brains of Cardano OS. Cardano OS is a Linux Distribution based on openSuse Linux and is already preloaded with software to help you interact and traverse the Cardano Blockchain. The idea for Cardano Box/OS is to give users a simple Linux distribution which comes with a web interface to access the Cardano blockchain.

Cardano Box/OS will allow you to easily launch your own Cardano Nodes to access the Cardano blockchain locally from your home or business using a Web UI. It will have its own wallet called Cardano Box Wallet, which will allow the user to visually create and tailor their own transactions.

It will allow users to create their own Policies and min their own FT and NFT assets from a single user interface. Cardano Box also comes preloaded with tools like the Cardano-Submit-Api a user can enable which allows for all major wallets like CCVault, Nami and Flint to submit transactions helping with processing times during highly congested periods.

$10k - expand SpacePrinter application backend functionality to accommodate Adosia Marketplace

$20k - implement SpacePrinter UI/UX

$40k - complete smart contract development / expert consulting fees

$50k - smart contract auditing

$15k - 2D image conversion tool to create 3D printable lithophanes

$85k - 3D Printable NFT Marketplace

$20k - Cardano Box node rollout

$20k - SpacePrinter / Cardano Box hardware enablement for distribution

$15k - marketing

Core Team

Kyle Solomon is the CEO DripDropz and a seasoned Cardano stake pool operator (FROG). Kyle is leading coordination of the Adosia team. https://www.linkedin.com/in/kesolomon/

Quinn (https://github.com/logicalmechanism) is a seasoned smart contract developer with proven track record of deploying production quality smart contracts on Cardano. Quinn is a Catalyst veteran and the resident smart contract developer for Tokhun.io, DripDropz and Adosia.

Mike (https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db) is a seasoned software developer and multidisciplined engineer

Jia Yang (SpaceX) - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jiayang1/

Jonpaul Littleton (SpaceX) - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonpaul-l-68581156/

Mark Stopka is a blockchain technology expert (https://github.com/mark-stopka)

Lauris Stiglics (https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurisstiglics/) is a seasoned business development manager, coach and Cardano SPO veteran.

Ron Hill (SPOCRA, ITN stake pool operator) is an accomplished technical writer. Ryan Stacy is a seasoned 3D printing manufacturer and resident team expert. Chris Hockaday (DripDropz, Tokhun) is a seasoned community manager. Aaron is is a seasoned manufacturing expert and Erik Anderson (heading up Ambassador program) a seasoned manager.

Adam Dean (Buffy Bot NFTs, DripDropz) and Andrew Westberg (phyrehose, DripDropz) provide advisement.

[AUDITABILITY]

The Adosia team currently meets regularly six (6) times per week across various teams. We regularly track relevant action items, tasks, needs and progress and we adapt as necessary.

We keep target timelines and measure progress against those while regularly refactoring to account for unknown unknowns as they are revealed

Review the new Adosia whitepaper here:

https://logicalmechanism.gitbook.io/adosia-white-paper/

Launching the final smart contract marketplace would constitute completion of this project relevant to this particular funding proposal.

Success is hitting product/market fit so as to achieve sustained revenue streams capable of enabling the team and participants to focus full time on Adosia - including driving enough business to attract 3D printer operators to participate from all over the world.

The Adosia team expects to complete phase one (NFT sale / testing fulfillment) before voting even occurs. Marketplace will be delivered within 4 months of receipt of funding

This proposal is a continuation of a few different proposals submitted by various team members.

This proposal from Fund7 was a lightweight implementation of the model outlined under this proposal (not funded): https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/385120

This proposal submitted by Jia in Fund7 was funded, and provided the SpaceX engineers compensation to design all the rocket parts needed to execute a dynamic 3D printable rocket NFT drop: https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/383141 - The Adosia ambassador team is currently printing all rocket parts as we vigorously are iterating through tests to ensure Adosia delivers the highest quality design.

These proposals support facilitation of a parallel initiative to enable embedded IoT device integration and p2p relevant marketplaces for IoT device operating profiles:

https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/369922

https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/334417

This proposal enables an embedded library to create keys, sign transactions (or arbitrary data) and to verify message data for IoT device authentication. https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/324317

Monthly report

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March 20, 2023 Progress report

Status: Completed

On track: Yes

Estimated completion date: -

Summary

The Project started in May of 2022 as the Spaceprinter, a decentralized tool to connect a 3d printer to the Cardano Blockchain and to receive print jobs from a smart contract. While the entire project is not completed, the work to build the MVP and to meet the three phases of prototype was finished as of March 2023. The Key metrics to measure in the challenge setting are users attracted to the platform, and are new viable applications being created. Our team is happy to report that we are bringing in new users who have had no experience with the blockchain, but are 3d printer enthusiasts, and we also believe that the application is very viable, as we have placed a successful end to end demo of the process here on YouTube. The 3 Phases are: 3d Rocket NFT launch, 2d Lithophane Production, Marketplace MVP feature set. Each of these phases completed successfully. We achieved a complete end to end process to allow an end user to buy a design, work with printers to quote the cost to print, and then allow the end user to select the quote that meets their needs. We have collaborated with SpaceX engineers to design the NFT rockets. We have collaborated with 3d Printer operators to learn what they needed most to successfully quote jobs, and we have engaged our community through Twitter and Discord with great success. We coordinated with IOHK engineers to work through issues of concurrency. We learned that the process of manufacturing requires a number of moving parts and integrations. This learning has expressed itself in several new features that we are building into the tool. We have learned about the concurrency issue that is extant on the Cardano Blockchain, and we have redesigned portions of our tooling to ensure that we are not hampered by this design choice. Our next steps are to continue with our fund 9 proposals, which are on time, and on budget. We are also beginning our Incentivized Test Net to further learn and grow with our product. It is a wonderful time to develop on the Cardano blockchain. We thank the community for their unyielding support of this team, and we look forward to a brighter future with more dApps coming to the Cardano ecosystem. Helpful Links: Adosia Closeout Video: https://youtu.be/T6ShNTFMvgg Adosia End to End Demonstration: https://youtu.be/bTRtypOh3Mo Adosia Mint & Print: https://adosia.com/ Adosia Marketplace: https://adosia.market Adosia Documentation: https://github.com/adosia/adosia-market-docs/wiki

Evidence

https://adosia.market

Explanation

MVP has lauched

January 3, 2023 Progress report

Status: In progress

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

Evidence

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1zGmrKGP51esy96WKsFTJEcS1theO0V27 https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Wr_0zc5hsZ5hQ1hcfEatIAfKjhE7W_9H https://drive.google.com/open?id=1S60kb5T9gS0LR0CYvhmgvkKtDalDW54r https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CCt_loxwRBjDjzSpo2eQSV1DyyWSNp9a

Summary

The team derived and approach to address concurrency RE marketplace NFT minting (listing designs into the marketplace) via conducting a handful of simulations. We also continued to explore potential post-MVP architectural solutions to address marketplace purchase order concurrency and scalability concerns. Quinn pushed a massive pull request to the adosia spaceprinter repo, upgrading the contracts from Plutus V1 to Plutus V2 (https://github.com/adosia/Contracts/pull/23). Lath and Quinn also made significant progress on the marketplace MVP, working on the transaction builder and have now resolved all of the outstanding issues: * Lite wallet integration is working fully (we can build tx off chain and ask the lite wallet to sign & submit it) * The issue we had with metadata not working correctly is now also solved * The tx builder demo now has a GUI so you too can practice minting a design into the adosia marketpalace contract (on Preview network) * You can now set your design to be free or paid * You can now update your design's price, inside the marketplace contract * Updated the smart contract, so "Printer Operator" offer works similar to how nft marketplaces work (e.g. jpg.store

November 29, 2022 Progress report

Status: In progress

On track: Yes

Estimated completion date: -

Evidence

htthttps://drive.google.com/open?id=1J9Tl1DtQoUoECSY57vGS9C7mzTaOWP1pps://drive.google.com/open?id=11fUCn26FqDTR7ptKd1dBrmf1_mqtFCXM

Summary

The engineering team conducted a working technical session with Pi (Sundaeswap) who very successfully helped resolve issues the team was having with our transaction builder. We also ran into a hang getting the cardano serialization library CSL minting script to work with Plutus V2 smart contracts due to the CSL not being updated for Plutus V2. This forced and internal decision to fall back on ensuring we integrate an alternative (highly modular) solution using cardano-cli until proper support is created. Mesh is a solution we can use, but it also depends on CSL. Mesh is now considering migrating to CML (developed by dc spark), and we are looking at created a CML based solution on our own down the road if need be. The experience is not smooth for development, but we're making progress and moving to market in mid to late December, hopefully before the next report submission. The spacecoins rocket drop files and details have been placed with Buffy Bot, and the Adosia spacecoins NFT sale is still on track to commence the first week of December. This should provide the team with revenue for marketing. The team also made progress further defining tokenomics and parameters for the upcoming Adosia incentivized testnet. As we will be in testnet for a bit, we decided to port the IoT storefront (adosia.io

October 31, 2022 Progress report

Status: In progress

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

Evidence

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1d01c_zeiWKQ2Z0KGBGdoZuRUBCgjERY7

Summary

This past month Adosia conducted a successful exhibit event at cNFTcon and generated interest and exposure within the CNFT community. Adosia engineering has the application stack and cardano-node running together within docker. The engineering team also made solid progress on the internal transaction builder for the marketplace MVP, coming to consensus on architecture that will be leveraged across multiple project integrations. The team also worked on detailing the incentivized testnet which will accompany the Adosia marketplace MVP launch. We are also interviewing React front end developers and very close to making a new team hire.

September 25, 2022 Progress report

Status: In progress

On track: No

Estimated completion date: -

Summary

On the community front the Adosia team continues to build and strengthen our community of 3D printer operators. We're refining near-term opportunities for those 3d printer operators (spacecoins 3d NFT rocket drop) while also stress testing (learning) how to not get killed (on shipping costs) via decentralized manufacturing. We've generated all files and parameters for the drop (will occur before next report) and will be passing that off to Buffy Bot next week. SpacePrinter (utilizes Raspberry Pi to pull print jobs from Adosia smart contract) is currently parked until the Adosia Marketplace MVP is complete. We discovered a UX issue with retrieving large files stored via IPFS (long download times). In light of this we began reconsidering architecture and concluded the best way to solve the issue was to serve the 3d printable files (some of which can be very large) centrally (via CDN) for the MVP. In addressing this issue we greatly improve the printer operators experience and usability, but we also eliminate the need for 3d printer operators to have a Raspberry Pi (reduces overall barrier to entry for printer operators to participate). The current plan is to develop a SPA (single page app) that functions across all devices. Once the marketplace MVP is deployed we plan to wire SpacePrinter up to the backend / Adosia smart contracts and begin work decentralizing the network. We also made significant progress on tokenomics, and also outlined the incentive and functional structure of the upcoming incentivized testnet. Printer operators will be incentivized separately to assist with fulfillment testing. Marketplace testers will be incentivized to participate in predefined test plans in order to test the marketplace and smart contract functionality. Lath and Quinn are actively working in tandem to developing the marketplace and we still expect MVP in October. We have also engaged auditors are working to understand how to most cost effectively achieve a proper technical audit (numerous smart contracts required to be audited before full production launch).

Evidence

https://github.com/adosia/Contracts/tree/space-printer-mvp-v1/space-printer

Explanation

This is the git repo for Adosia smart contracts. This shows all the Plutus V1 testing is complete and V2 testing will be checked in shortly. Cardano recently traversed the Vasil HFE and Adosia has been working to update out scripts to take advantage of Plutus V2 features.

August 24, 2022 Progress report

Status: In progress

On track: Yes

Estimated completion date: -

Summary

We are currently holding weekly twitter spaces to promote building on Cardano. The Cardano testnet was trashed due to a bug found on mainnet - and incident which threw the project into a scramble as we intended to launch on testnet in October and run nearly a year there (on the print side) for a good bit before full production launch. Given the pivots needed, SpacePrinter has been parked until the marketplace is complete. Once the marketplace is completed, SpacePrinter will be revisited to tie in endpoints into the completed smart contract interface. Quinn (adosia lead SC developer) is still pushing, and played an integral role in community testing preparing SPOs for confidence in the Vasil HFE (Quinn crafted a "devilish" sc transaction to reproduce the bug that ruined testnet). Pivots and scrambles, but we good. While spaceprinter is parked, Mike and Siddik will be working on readying the embedded IoT application for Cardano.

Evidence

https://github.com/adosia

Explanation

the adosia github exhibits ongoing work

July 23, 2022 Progress report

Status: In progress

On track: Yes

Estimated completion date: -

Evidence

https://drive.google.com/open?id=13gmx4CfHVbwR78tyJXVqNFebPQVGp9Tg https://drive.google.com/open?id=16kHNBVhKzMsGRDMdF_yfl3ivE_kz40Us https://drive.google.com/open?id=1inNAPo8xJO-yEiSoW7HxZ0mTp9nYAQ5I

Summary

Adosia is pivoting slightly away from combining testing the adosia marketpalce smart contract in parallel with a spacecoins NFT rocket drop - separating the initiatives will enable operational focus on establishing proper approaches to shipping while streamlining development efforts towards the marketplace - adosia marketplace is still on track to launch at CNFTcon - we also learned IPFS sucks for hosting larger files, so we will need to offer a CDN solution there for productivity enablement

June 24, 2022 Progress report

Status: In progress

On track: Yes

Estimated completion date: 10/01/2022

Evidence

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xtJlmyyq4XK9OvERcwF08MLdYbl2VWcv

Summary

The first batch of 3d printable fungible tokens have been minted (for testnet) with production appropriate metadata and distributed within our private cluster of Adosia 3d printer operators / ambassadors. Spaceprinter / smart contract integration testing is scheduled to begin next Friday and to run for two (2) weeks leading up to Adosia's spacecoins 3d printable NFT rocket sale.The purpose of internal testing leading up to the sale will be to ensure printer operators understand how to use the Adosia spaceprinter application to select and claim print jobs from the Adosia smart contract. The purpose of the NFT sale itself to to stress the network so that we may incorporate learnings into the adosia.market marketplace target MVP. Primary features for the marketplace target MVP have been delineated and Latheesan is up to speed with Adosia engineering in preparation for the marketplace build. The spaceprinter application is advancing and improving with regular updates - https://github.com/adosia/spaceprinter.