Adosia Marketplace Updates

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

The Adosia team will design, build, and deploy additional features to the Adosia Decentralized Manufacturing Marketplace. The minimum viable product for the marketplace was funded through Catalyst Fund 8. These additions and improvements will provide more features to the end users of the marketplace and improve the overall quality of the experience for manufacturers who participate in production for the marketplace.

The following features will be added to the core of the marketplace functionality:

• Profiles for Operators
• Fully Automated Shipping Integration
• Guild Networks
• The ability to sell/transfer rights for a manufacturing file.
• Management/Priority Queueing, to ensure fair distribution of in demand jobs.

About Adosia Decentralized Marketplace

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

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.

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.

[IMPACT] Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.

This solution will address the challenge through the key metric of increased quality of existing products & integrations through suggested improvements that are supported by customer feedback or increased usage by the community. Integrating these features will position Adosia for more rapid market penetration.

[IMPACT] What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?

The primary risks in this project revolves around the Shipping Integration and the Queuing tools. We will attempt to work with multiple shipping interfaces, and complete as many as possible, but we understand that some of the shipping interfaces may not be able to integrate easily, and as such, we may have to create workarounds. The Queuing tools will require careful design so as to avoid a system that discriminates unfairly.

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed plan, including timeline and key milestones for delivering your proposal.

The Adosia development team will design, build, and implement six new features to the Adosia marketplace in a 4 month timeframe. Each of the 6 new features will be developed and deployed by the team, and will be monitored. 

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

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

• Profiles for Operators 30k
• Fully Automated Shipping Integration 45k
• Guild Networks 32k
• The ability to sell/transfer rights for a manufacturing file. 35k
• Management/Priority Queueing, to ensure fair distribution of in demand jobs. 33k

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide details of the people who will work on the project.

Kyle Solomon - CEO: An electrical engineer who began his career building and selling IoT and embedded systems at Intel. Kyle brings a wealth of business knowledge, technical savvy, and a passionate leadership drive to the team. Kyle is the creator of DripDropz, FROG Pool, Adosia, Spacecoins & JetChicken. 

Erik Anderson - Operations: Project Manager & Head Ambassador

With a background in Engineering and Manufacturing he provides the team with project management, innovation and design ideas. Currently, he is providing assistance in building the Adosia network and brand. He has been working with Kyle and Adosia for over ten years. He is an entrepreneur in spirit and a 3D printing enthusiast.

Ron Hill - Operations:Team Leader

His background is in industrial & systems engineering and quality management with 14 years of experience working in various manufacturing organizations both large and small. He is helping the Adosia team with product development testing, documentation, and aiding in ensuring this project is successful. He also is a core believer in utilizing decentralized systems for the benefit of the end users and participants in the network and committed to make this a reality with the Adosia team delivering on our mission. 

Aaron Lowry - Engineering: Hardware Integration

A builder and analyst with a broad background in IoT, construction, and blockchain network infrastructure. Aaron combines years of real-world digital product integration, manufacturing, and distribution experience with a passion for developing opportunities for end-users of decentralized networks.

Mark Stopka - Engineering: Technical Architect

Interim IT infrastructure Subject Matter Expert with overlap into Project Management, Program Management, IT Governance, IT Security and Business Development domains. He helps his clients with Transitions, Transformations, Service Development and other key initiatives where I deliver my broad cross-domain expertise. Within Adosia he is providing expertise and guidance to the team during the product development. 

Latheesan Kanesamoorthy - Full Stack Developer

A senior software engineer and full stack developer. He has built many leading platforms in the Cardano space, including Tokhun's NFT minting and trading solution, Heidrun and the CIP-0027 royalty standard.

Quinn Parkinson - Lead Plutus and Smart Contract Developer:

Quinn graduated from the first Plutus training program and has written a considerable number of successful Plutus smart contracts. A functional programmer with exceptional mathematical strengths, Quinn has been instrumental in the construction of impactful initiatives such as on-chain voting, multimillion dollar NFT marketplace contracts, vesting contracts and many others.

Lauris Stiglics - Operations

An entrepreneur with a background in IT project management. Lauris has been involved with Cardano since 2017 and has been an active member of the community ever since. Currently managing EU01 Stake Pool as well as providing technical support for other members of Cardano community, including helping them set up their own stake pools. He also was the Catalyst Circle Member (CC1 representing Stake Pool Operators) and funded proposer (Fund 8).

Caleb Hataj - Ambassador: 3D Printing Testing Lead

A Certified Journeyman Machinist of 7 years with a degree in Manufacturing Management, drafting, and product design. Caleb brings his experience as a CNC machinist and sales representative for made to order parts to Adosia, while being a discord manager and 3D printer operator in his spare time.

Siddik Adam - Engineering: Embedded IoT Engineer

A computer engineer with some experiences cutting across embedded, web & mobile, smart-contract development and machine learning, He brings his knowledge of web, smart-contract and embedded development to the team. He is also a core-dev in both Tokhun and DripDropz.

Kristen Bouwman - Ambassador 

Healthcare worker who is passionate about helping people attain their goals. Her aim is to support team members and users in the Adosia community. Kristen joined the Adosia team because she believes that the product and the team are making important contributions to the Cardano Community and to innovation in blockchain as the way forward.

[FEASIBILITY] If you are funded, will you return to Catalyst in a later round for further funding? Please explain why / why not.

This project will be concluded at the end of this round and will not require additional funding. If we choose to develop additional features for the system in the future, we may request additional Catalyst funding.

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or any member of your team working on any other proposals in this Fund9?

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or your team working on any other proposals from previous Funds?

[AUDITABILITY] Please describe what you will measure to track your project's progress, and how will you measure these?

The team will use a combination of git and trello to manage the project's progress. The project manager will prepare and submit the monthly reports to Catalyst with percent completed on the projects listed in this proposal. 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.

[AUDITABILITY] What does success for this project look like?

The six additional features listed above deployed to the Adosia Decentralized Manufacturing Marketplace.

[AUDITABILITY] Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.

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

In Fund 8 Adosia was successfully funded for the initial MVP of this marketplace and the CardanoBox system. https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/405271

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

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Rating

SDG Goals

8 - Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

SDG Subgoals

8.2 - Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sectors

8.5 - By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value

8.6 - By 2020, substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training

Key Performance Indicator (KPI)

8.2.1 - Annual growth rate of real GDP per employed person

8.5.1 - Average hourly earnings of employees, by sex, age, occupation and persons with disabilities

8.5.2 - Unemployment rate, by sex, age and persons with disabilities

8.6.1 - Proportion of youth (aged 15–24 years) not in education, employment or training