Proposal Research

The following research has been made on the technical feasibility and on the market/user demand of this proposal:

• A Google Form for market research was created and shared on Discord, Reddit, and in different SIG calls. Out of this, an average of 9/10 are supportive of this tooling being necessary. These numbers can be verified by Adam, Head of Community, on Overclock Labs.
• Multiple live demos and Q&A's in the Office Hours and SIG calls where suggestions have been made by users but nobody has rejected the idea.
• Releasing a GitHub Discussion detailing the rough idea and requesting feedback. Here, users have been asking questions and/or been supportive. Here, users have confirmed that the requested pay is fair.
• Technical research has been done on the feasibility of the tooling and the functionality of it by a member in p-i-3 with over two years of experience of Akash.
• With the help of Max from the Cloudmos team, the proposal has been able to have been turned into a collaborative effort between Cloudmos & p-i-3. Thanks to Max, it has also been somewhat optimized into something smaller than previously thought.
• One member will be attending the next Steering Committee.

Proposal Outline

The proposal is created to request funding for the following topics, services, and contributions. More details in the previous discussion.

• Contributions related to benchmarking providers, testing RPC nodes, and tracking uptime made to the Cloudmos indexer.
• Contributions related to filtering based off Cloudmos API and previous contributions made to the Cloudmos website.
• Implementation of KYC into an auditor, bringing audited providers and tenants to the network via signedBy fields & another set of API.
• Implementation of automation to an auditor, bringing benchmark & other API metrics to the network via signedBy fields and another set of API.

The estimated and billed times are: 100 hours for benchmarking, 20 hours for testing RPC nodes, 120 hours for building a tier-based auditing system, 10 hours for building the general auditing service, 100 hours for building the KYC auditor on providers and tenants, another 100 hours for integrating filtering and API usage to the Cloudmos frontend, and 45 hours for previous work from the hackathon. We are not counting any time for SIG calls or Office Hours calls. For every line item with an estimated number of hours, there is one milestone.

The estimate to complete all services and contributions are between 3-6 months, and we place the deadline at 6 months. Every milestone not reached after the deadline will have its funding returned to the community pool. We will begin our work sometime between the 15th and 31st of January when we have more time.

Proposal funding

We are requesting $50/hr in AKT with a total of 495 hours of work, for a total request of $24750 USD worth of AKT at the time of submitting the proposal.