Please describe your proposed solution.

Block Bounty is a Cardano bounty management system that provides project management focused bounty discovery and tracking. The system allows users to create bounties, track progress, and pay out rewards in ADA or Cardano Native Assets.

This grant proposal requests funding to create open source protocol and API documentation for Block Bounty. The API will allow Cardano community members to build their own reporting or front ends to the Block Bounty Protocol.

Block Bounty was born as part of the Project Catalyst funded and delivered “Urban Farmer dApp”. Originally this tool was purely for integration in the dApp, but we see the benefit of opening the tool up to the wider community for use in project bounty applications. This proposal seeks to take the first step in opening the protocol to all users of the Cardano Ecosystem.

How does your proposed solution address the challenge and what benefits will this bring to the Cardano ecosystem?

Benefits of the Project:

• The open source protocol and API documentation will make Block Bounty more accessible to developers and community members.
• It will allow developers to build their own custom tools and applications that integrate with Block Bounty.
• It will help to grow the Cardano bounty ecosystem and attract more users to the platform.

How do you intend to measure the success of your project?

The project will be successful when the API and Protocol documentation are available via a github repository.

Please describe your plans to share the outputs and results of your project?

Outputs will be provided via github. Videos produced will be hosted on YouTube. Socialization of the availability of the protocol will be via social media channels.

What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability?

The team members are developers and network engineers with extensive real world expertise in deploying and maintaining scalable solutions. We have delivered the Urban Farmer dApp Proof of Concept in Fund 8. Our team members also have roles in other companies within the space, including DripDropz, & Adosia. Team members are highly active in the Catalyst community and are fully publicly available. We have strong relationships with the best and brightest within the Cardano ecosystem. We have a proven track record of working with IOG and the community on many projects. We are well suited to bring this project to completion.

Our Closeout video from Fund 8 is located here:

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsGxjMJkQyI>

What are the main goals for the project and how will you validate if your approach is feasible?

The main goals of this project are to fully document the protocol and API calls necessary to operate all of the functions of Block Bounty. We will validate the approach through interactions with community members such as developers and project managers who will make use of our tools.

Please provide a detailed breakdown of your project’s milestones and each of the main tasks or activities to reach the milestone plus the expected timeline for the delivery.

Milestone 1

Document Each API Endpoint between the front and back end of the current Block Bounty system.

Milestone 2

Create example Javascript code that performs each action available to the API

Milestone 3

Provide a Protocol Document which lays out the entire workflow of the protocol ahead of our side chain release.

Milestone 4

Provide an Explainer video which shows the API in action and suggest next steps for developers who want to implement block bounty into their own dApps.

Please describe the deliverables, outputs and intended outcomes of each milestone.

Milestone 1: A SWIFT document with all endpoints available.(2 Months)

Milestone 2: A Github Repository with sample code (2 Months)

Milestone 3: A document within the Github repository that describes the full protocol. (1 Month)

Milestone 4: A video on YouTube showing the API and suggestions to developers. (1 Month)

Please provide a detailed budget breakdown of the proposed work and resources.

Milestone 1:

Lead Developer:10000

Management:500

Milestone 2:

Lead Developer:10000

Management:500

Milestone 3:

Lead Developer:5600

Management: 5000

Milestone 4:

Lead Developer: 500

Media Team: 4000

Management: 2000

Administrative Overhead for Catalyst Fund Reporting Administration: 7500

Total Budget: 45600 ($11,400.00 USD @ $0.25 ADA)

Who is in the project team and what are their roles?

<u>Key Staff</u>

• Melannie Duhon CEO: <https://www.linkedin.com/in/melannie-duhon>

Extensive retail management experience. Entrepreneurship degree with Agribusiness minor from FGCU. Owner/Operator of Living Greens Urban Farm

• Eric Montgomery Senior Programmer: <https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric996/>

Full stack developer with over 30 years of experience building business applications at institutional levels.

• Lloyd Duhon Systems Architect: <https://www.linkedin.com/in/lloyd-duhon>

30+ Year IT veteran, CTO experience. Cardano Plutus Pioneer 2nd Cohort. COO DripDropz, Adosia.

• Paul Spata Senior Programmer: <https://www.linkedin.com/in/fortifygroup/>

Full stack developer with over 30 years of experience building business applications.

• Juno Duhon Hardware Developer: <https://www.linkedin.com/in/juno-duhon-095bb4124/>

Hardware developer with 12 years of experience, with municipal deployment experience.

How does the cost of the project represent value for money for the Cardano ecosystem?

• The open source protocol documentation will make it easier for developers to understand how Block Bounty works. This will make it easier for them to build their own custom tools and applications that integrate with the platform.
• The API documentation will provide developers with detailed instructions on how to interact with the Block Bounty API. This will allow them to build their own custom reporting or front ends for the platform.
• The project will help to grow the Cardano bounty ecosystem by making it easier for developers to build and deploy bounty programs on the platform. This will attract more users to the platform and help to increase the value of the Cardano ecosystem as a whole.

We believe that the open source protocol and API documentation for Block Bounty is a valuable investment in the future of Cardano. We are confident that the project team will deliver a high-quality product that will benefit the Cardano community.