[Proposal Round 15] NEAR Integration

OceanDAO Round 15
#1

Name of Project: Ocean Protocol on NEAR

Proposal in one sentence: Establish traction and technical roadmap for implementation of Ocean Protocol on NEAR.

Description of the project and what problem is it solving: NEAR Protocol is a layer1 blockchain designed for usability and bridging the onboarding gap between web2 and web3. NEAR has numerous strengths in it’s technical foundation including fast transaction settlements, low cost and sharding on mainnet in 2021. There is demand to deploy a robust infrastructure for data marketplaces on NEAR. The long term goals of this project are currently identified as:

  1. Deploy a fork of Ocean Market on the NEAR Aurora EVM
  2. Deploy Ocean smart contracts on the NEAR Aurora EVM
  3. Get $OCEAN listed on the Trisolaris DEX and Aurora website
  4. Use Ocean Protocol to build a data marketplace for Cannabis Genome DAO (CGD)
  5. Integrate with DAO tooling to enable community governance of key marketplace parameters such as commission rates
  6. Merge the Ocean Market front-end with an NFT marketplace-like mobile app for CGD (e.g. Mintbase and Alga Wallet)

Grant Deliverables: (Target deliverables for the funding provided.)

  • Write a report on the feasibility and timeline for deploying Ocean Protocol on Near
  • Outline onboarding UX for Cannabis Genome DAO data types (in whitepaper)
  • Engage users on social media (likes, comments, follows, shares) through a series of educational & promotional posts about Ocean Protocol and how we plan to implement it (including retweeting posts made by @OceanProtocol and @OceanDAO_). Our current social media following is approximately:

Which category best describes your project? Pick one.

  • Build / improve applications or integrations to Ocean

What is the final product? A DAO governed marketplace with governance tokens for peer-reviewers and developers (precise mechanism TBD)

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Figure 1. Network architecture and composability of the proposed system

CannaData.Market Infographic https://storageapi.fleek.co/382082d6-65c7-4f00-8a1a-70725dd2ab5b-bucket/CannaData.Market.png

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  1. Usage of Ocean.

We have an existing community of cannabis cultivators that we work with at Delta Leaf who want a way to publish their data without compromising self-sovereignty.

  1. Viability — This round = 90%, overall = 75%

  2. Community active-ness

CannaData.Market intends to integrate with other OceanDAO funded projects such as Algovera, Alga Wallet and DataUnion to improve user experience and onboarding. Elijah (flowscience) has been attending OceanDAO Town Halls regularly for approximately three months and has attended a few CTWG and PGWG meetings while preparing this application and building the CGD community over that time.

  1. Adding value to the overall community — how well does the outcome of the project add value to the Ocean community / ecosystem?

We will be expanding cross-chain support for Ocean Market to a vibrant new layer 1 ecosystem full of DAOs and communities that would be able to integrate Ocean based on the groundwork we lay.

Funding Requested: $3000

Proposal Wallet Address:

0xb2108A2C8c695E9a6502D7D437F71d0532972bA4

Have you previously received an OceanDAO Grant? No

Team Website https://cannabisgeno.me

Twitter Handle: @csatgenome

Discord Handle: flowscience#7502

Project lead email: elijah@cannabisgeno.me

Country of Residence: USA

Summary Video (~70s) https://youtu.be/P9xwdnLKx7E

One-Page Roadmap & Resource Page https://storageapi.fleek.co/382082d6-65c7-4f00-8a1a-70725dd2ab5b-bucket/CGD%20Pre-Launch%20Roadmap.pdf

Cannabis Genome DAO Overview Deck https://storageapi.fleek.co/382082d6-65c7-4f00-8a1a-70725dd2ab5b-bucket/CGD_Overview.pdf

Part 2 - Team

2.1 Core Team

Elijah Spina, PhD

I’m bringing my passion for building to web3 as a core contributor to Cannabis Genome DAO; a public good to incentivize participation in open-source cannabis research. Our first product will be CannaData.Market - a DAO governed fork of Ocean Market running on the NEAR Aurora EVM. CGD is recruiting members in various regions of the world to collect samples of wild cannabis for testing through our partner laboratory, Delta Leaf, and subsequent publication to CannaData.Market. We are working to establish ambassadors interfacing with indigenous groups to assist them in joining the global data market their physical work already circulates in through the same testing and publication process. Two of my cofounders at Delta Leaf are assisting with community building and DAO operations but do not have experience in data science or software development, therefore, they are not listed here.

CGD acquired grant funding from The Near Foundation in November 2021 to finish writing our whitepaper, develop a DAO on Astro, and deploy native token smart contracts for CGD on NEAR protocol. After spending months building our community, finalizing our roadmap and exploring various components of the proposed implementation (including Ocean); we are now seeking to hire two full-time developers to collaborate with me on this work, both of whom will also be tasked with contributing to the implementation of Ocean on NEAR.

2.2 Advisors

None yet.

Part 3 - Proposal Details

3.1 Details

Details of the proposal:

3.2 If in Category “Build / improve applications or integration to Ocean”:

App will be live at:

https://cannadata.market

Is the software open-source?

Yes. License(s) TBD.

Project software can be found at:

3.9 Overall Project Deliverables - Roadmap

Complete

  • Launch Discord server: 10/8/21
  • Launch website https://cannabisgeno.me October 2021
  • SputnikDAO launch on NEAR: October 2021
  • AstroDAO frontend: November 2021

In Progress

  • Publish whitepaper
  • Deploy smart contracts on NEAR mainnet:
    1. CSAT fungible token
    2. Peer-reviewer and Developer governance modifier tokens
    3. Automated Contribution/Reputation scoring system
    • Currently using SourceCred, POAP, Coordinape, Mee6 & AstroDAO
    1. Reserve Pool
    2. AstroDAO custom contract calls
  • Publish report on Ocean Protocol feasibility and implementation plan
  • Deploy a fork of Ocean Market on the NEAR Aurora EVM

Upcoming

  • NFT marketplace/crowdfund
  • Deploy appchain MVP on Octopus Network
  • Full appchain public launch (Near, Ocean, Arweave, DAO, mobile front-end)
  • First data published on network (first tokens earned):
  • Deploy Ocean smart contracts on the NEAR Aurora EVM
    1. Get $OCEAN listed on the Trisolaris DEX and Aurora Website
  • Integrate with DAO tooling to enable community governance of key marketplace parameters such as commission rates
  • Merge the Ocean Market front-end with an NFT marketplace-like mobile app for CG
  • Subgraph for Astro DAOs
  • DID solutions (Ontology Network, BrightID, Magic)

3.10 Additional Information

This specific grant proposal would primarily establish a more detailed technical roadmap through hands on experimentation in the Aurora/NEAR testnet development environments by our core team and developers. We will also create educational content such as social media posts, infographics and AMA’s to communicate the impact and benefits of deploying a fork of Ocean Market. Ongoing support from OceanDAO would enable us to expand the scope of this work to include establishing and maintaining support for NEAR, as well as promoting general demand and data consume volume, throughout the Ocean ecosystem.

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Hi @flowscience, thanks for your submissions!

I have just reviewed your proposals and they are in good standing.

Please consider this entry void, and the other one registered. Thank you.