Introducing Decentralized Grants Marketplace By Protocol Labs
The Protocol Labs (PL) ecosystem is excited to announce the launch of DGM (Decentralized Grants Marketplace), a new platform for large-scale grants within the Protocol Labs Network and beyond. Additionally, PL is launching an inaugural set of grants for the Filecoin ecosystem on DGM.
DGM stands for Decentralized Grants Marketplace. The DGM is intended to be a home for funders within decentralized ecosystems to post grants for important work, and for individual workers and teams to contribute to the highest impact projects. DGM’s aim is to build a tool and system that can help decentralized ecosystems accomplish massively ambitious roadmaps with a broader community of contributors that are deeply engaged, and to sustainably maintain and grow these projects over time.
The soft launch of DGM coincides with Protocol Labs’s recently released inaugural set of grants for important projects on the Filecoin.
These grants include:
- Engineering plan for blockchain state on IPFS/Filecoin: Produce a high-quality and detailed plan that an engineering team can use to get all L1 blockchains to store their full transaction history on IPFS+Filecoin, and to sync chain state from this stored history. (Application deadline: March 4, 2022)
- Branding and design of the Boost GUI: Boost is nearing initial launch in early April 2022 with the aim to improve the flexibility and user experience of deal making for Storage Providers on Filecoin. Boost already has a fully functional, low fidelity GUI, but we are looking for a team to help us create branding and a redesign to make it ready for launch to users. (First milestone deadline: March 4, 2022)
- New node software for large-scale clients with PB-scale data onboarding: Build a tool or set of tools that can help fill the gaps with data onboarding that PB-scale clients deal with, and conduct user testing for onboarding PB-scale datasets. (Application deadline: March 7, 2022)
- Dedicated PB-scale client onboarding: Support in onboarding a PiB-scale client to Filecoin storage (Application deadline: March 10, 2022)
- Storage provider discovery platform: A platform that allows Filecoin storage providers to advertise their businesses and lets storage clients discover SPs that fit their needs. (Application deadline: March 15, 2022)
- Cryptoeconomic research, synthesis, and recommendations for DGM: Analyze cryptoeconomic mechanisms from projects relevant to DGM, and synthesize recommendations for DGM’s cryptoeconomic mechanisms based on your research. (Application deadline: March 18, 2022)
Each grant varies in how it is structured, and the total grant amount. However, they are all significant for the overall Filecoin storage and retrieval roadmap and high-impact for the ecosystem as a result.
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