Aragon challenge for Best Aragon Nest proposal

[Smokyish]

ETHBerlin: Aragon challenge for Best Aragon Nest proposal

Aragon is the most powerful and modular way to create and operate Decentralized Autonomous Organizations.

Aragon Nest is a grants program to support the development of the ecosystem.

For the Nest program, the goal has always been to find great people to work on common goods that will produce quality results that benefit either of these two ecosystems as a whole. We are dependant on the prosperity of Ethereum, and others rely on Aragon to provide them tools for success.

There's a large stack of developers out there who just want to create great things without worrying about where they can get food on their table while working on such a common good. Not every project needs an ICO, not every team needs a business model, and not every piece of software needs a team or an employer.

A project can be funded without having to go through all the time, effort and stress that creating a token sale entails. A team might just want to build a single piece of software that isn't seeking to make a profit, just to get it out there. Someone might want to passionately contribute to the community and #buidl something by themselves and still make a living while creating that piece of software.

The Nest program was created to meet circumstances like these and provide funding to those who wish to step up and construct such relevant software. Therefore, we are not interested in funding startups or monetizable solutions. In order to achieve the best possible results on selecting which projects and ideas to fund, the whole process is made transparent through the Nest Github repository and the only requirement is to be open-source. This also allows all the community members in the ecosystems to take part and comment on what proposals and requests for funding they see as valuable.

The difference between the proposal stage and the request for funding stage is that in the proposal stage we will focus on determing if the idea is worth pursuing and should be considered for a grant. In the request for funding stage we focus on determining if the team will be able to deliver and the feasibility of the timeline/roadmap, milestones and deliverables.

Learn more about hacking with Aragon in our Aragon at ETHBerlin blog post!

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Resources

• Aragon Nest repository

• Browse the current proposals for grants

• Read the Frequently Asked Questions about Aragon Nest

• Guide for submitting a Proposal for a grant

• Read the public announcement Introducing Aragon Nest

• Read the Launch of Aragon Nest post

 Judging criteria

The following criteria will be applied by the Aragon team when assessing the submitted proposals:

• The proposal must follow the Guide for submitting a Proposal for a grant
• Quality of submission: We will evaluate the proposal and its quality while considering its usefulness as a common good for either the Ethereum or Aragon ecosystems.
• Innovation and usefulness: How much value the proposed solution will bring to the Ethereum or Aragon ecosystem and how innovative and novel the idea is.
• All proposals must adhere to the following grant sizes:
  • Funding: From $50,000 up to $100,000 in ETH, split into chunks paid out over achieved deliverables.
• Pull Requests eligible for this bounty must be submitted in the ETHBerlin-Bounties repository

 Prizes

There will be just one prize, which will select the Best Aragon Nest proposal submitted by the criteria above.

• Prize: $500 USD in ANT

The exchange rate for Aragon Network Token will be fixed at the price of ANT at 00.00 CEST on September 9th 2018 available in coinmarketcap.com

Ideas

Some examples of proposals that have previously been accepted and granted funding by the grants program:

• Aragon Nest Proposal: OS-level signing provider
• Aragon Nest Proposal: Pseudonymous identity solution within Aragon
• Aragon Nest Proposal: Scalable & Private Voting through Bilinear Pairings
• Aragon Nest Proposal: Sharding Implementation Client for Go-Ethereum
• Aragon Nest Proposal: Optimistic UI for Blockchain Interfaces
• Aragon Nest Proposal: Open source incentivization app for Aragon

[gitcoinbot]

Issue Status: 1. Open 2. Started 3. Submitted 4. Done

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This issue now has a funding of 0.001 ANT attached to it.

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[gitcoinbot]

Issue Status: 1. Open 2. Started 3. Submitted 4. Done

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The funding of this issue was increased to 400.001 ANT (303.2 USD @ $0.76/ANT) (plus a crowdfund of 646.83 ANT worth $490.3).

• If you want to claim the bounty you can do so here
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• $24,178.36 more funded OSS Work available on the Gitcoin Issue Explorer

[Smokyish]

Bounty has been funded as defined in the issue

The exchange rate for Aragon Network Token will be fixed at the price of ANT at 00.00 CEST on September 9th 2018 available in coinmarketcap.com

The price at the time being $0.773/ANT the bounty has a total of 646.83 ANT.

[owocki]

@Smokyish looking into this now. would you mind sending me the txids of your crowdfund contribution? thanks!

[gitcoinbot]

Issue Status: 1. Open 2. Started 3. Submitted 4. Done

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The funding of 646.831 ANT (490.3 USD @ $0.76/ANT) attached to this issue has been approved & issued.

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• $30,506.04 more funded OSS Work available on the Gitcoin Issue Explorer