Our solution will involve adding a feature to the Voteaire platform to facilitate the locking of funds, to be distributed according to the outcome of a ballot vote.

This fund distribution should not require trust in any party, and be governed by a smart contract. It should also occur automatically after the completion of the vote.

The DAOs <3 Cardano challenge is about creating tooling for Cardano DAOs to help solve problems such as Treasury management, decision making and DAO Governance.

Our solution will directly address all three of these needs through an easy-to-use Dapp.

• Smart contract complexity - we have a good network of developers to draw upon, however, we have learned to provide a generous buffer for Haskell/Plutus development
• Mitigation strategies
• Networking and communication with established SC developers and team (such as MLabs)
• Auditing of smart contract code
• Scope creep brought on by early platform adopters
• Mitigation strategies
• Ensuring we have a clear definition of the problem and a clear definition of done upfront
• Regular / ongoing backlog and task refinement
• Resource / Team changes mid-development
• Mitigation strategies
• scrum framework - work is assigned to the team, not individuals. Personnel changes tend to be less problematic
• Healthy resource pipeline

• Initial Planning:
• Wireframes of user interface 
• Graphic / Visual design 
• Overall Architecture and approach to oracle problem
• Smart Contract design
• Marlowe Feasibility assessment

• Smart contract development and testing 

• Off-chain component development and testing 
• Voteaire on-chain schema updates
• Voteaire API updates
• Application updates to support depositing / locking of funds
• Automatic funds disbursement
• Transaction builders / workers

• Frontend web development of UI
• Ballot interface updates including fund locking
• Other required UI enhancements

• Smart contract deployment

Resources and approximate allocation using average hourly rates and considering the amount of time the following resources will spend on the project per week:

• Scrum Master
• Project Owner
• Design / UX Specialist
• Smart Contract Developer
• Lead Architect/Lead Developer 
• Backend Developer 
• Frontend Developer

Weekly Budget: $9,860

Estimated number of weeks: 10 weeks

MSVN Distributed Systems consists of the following full-time individuals, as well as additional contractors whom we bring on as required to accelerate efforts

Michael Stewart - CTO

• 18+ years of software development and architecture experience.
• Member of the Cardano community since 2017
• Co-Founder of MSVN (Canucks Publishing, Voteaire.io, Canuckz NFTs)
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/codefly/

Vivek Nankissoor - CEO

• 15+ years of experience in database requirements, design, and development
• Established and grew web analytics, marketing automation, and QA practices
• Co-Founder of MSVN (Canucks Publishing, Voteaire.io, Canuckz NFTs)
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/viveknankissoor/

Darin Ramkissoon - Director of Operations

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/darin-ramkissoon-58450321/

Anthony Ololuo - Scrum Master

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonyololuo

Mateus Santos - Full Stack Developer / Plutus Developer

Bashar Jaan Khan - Full Stack Developer / Plutus Developer

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/bashar-jaan-khan/

Mamoor Jaan Khan - Front End Developer

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/mamoor-jaan-khan/

Yes, we can envision applications in future rounds of funding for additional features in the product roadmap.

We will be tracking standard scrum metrics such as:

• team velocity
• story points completed
• burndowns

For the completed application we will be tracking the following KPIs:

• Number of end users (voters) using the application
• Total number of DAOs using the functionality
• Total funds locked

DAOs have an easy-to-use mechanism to manage their treasury and disburse funds using on-chain votes

DAO participants will feel comfortable knowing that their vote is having a direct impact on the direction of the DAO

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