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.
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.
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.