Please describe your proposed solution

We will completely upgrade Cexplorer to a whole new level of experience and functionality.

Significantly extending the existing features and capabilities for the benefit of the Cardano ecosystem.

• new backed - much faster and flexible (db-sync compatible, governance support)
• new frontend - modern with web3 elements, open-sourced, with community involvement
• API/SDK for developers

Please define the positive impact your project will have on the wider Cardano community

Thanks to the rewriting of all components, the main benefits are as follows:

• Increased Cardano decentralization and independence by running an independent explorer
• We'll provide a lot of information directly as an explorer, which will increase transparency and accessibility. Along with that, we'll continue to publish educational articles and raise awareness around Cardano in general, so we'll improve user onboarding, education, and the user experience in general.
• Availability for developers - we will provide API and SDK for developers to use in other projects.
• Front End will be open-sourced. The community will be able to contribute and improve.
• Web3/Wallet support

What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability? How do you intend to validate if your approach is feasible?

We have been long-standing OG members of the Cardano community since ITN.

Jaromir and Lukas are Cardano ambassadors.

Josef is the main project manager of Adapools/Cexplorer.

What are the key milestones you need to achieve in order to complete your project successfully?

Milestone 1: A: Milestone outputs

• frontend design and structure
• backend scheme/structure

B: Acceptance criteria

• available evidence

C: Evidence of milestone completion

• sharing the delivery of milestone 1 with the community + GitHub frontend design and structure, backend API call schema

Milestone 2: A: Milestone outputs

• first version of the new explorer
• basic functions (explorer category - tx, blocks, accounts

B: Acceptance criteria

• working preview website with some functions

C: Evidence of milestone completion

• sharing the delivery of milestone 2 with the community on Twitter and link
• on the website are available features in milestone outputs

Milestone 3: A: Milestone outputs

• wallet connector implementation, user profiles, watchlist
• new functions related to explorer category - epochs, pools, assets (tokens+nfts)

B: Acceptance criteria

• working on a preview website with new functions

C: Evidence of milestone completion

• sharing the delivery of milestone 2 with the community on Twitter and link
• on the website are available features in milestone outputs

Milestone 4: A: Milestone outputs

• new functions related to the explorer category - Dapps, metadata, governance
• user profiles - support for API token creation

B: Acceptance criteria

• working on a preview website with new functions

C: Evidence of milestone completion

• sharing the delivery of milestone 4 with the community on Twitter and link
• features in milestone outputs are available on the website

Milestone 5: A: Milestone outputs

• new functions - some analytic outputs, education articles, pots, network params,
• user profiles - education articles writing

B: Acceptance criteria

• working on a preview website with new functions

C: Evidence of milestone completion

• sharing the delivery of milestone 5 with the community on Twitter and link
• on the website are available features in milestone outputs

Final Milestone: A: Milestone outputs

• finalized and fully working Cardano explorer
• Mainnet, Pre-prod, and Preview instances live publicly
• SDK v1 available
• published open-sourced frontend
• Final project completion report and video demonstrating the use case in a real environment.

B: Acceptance criteria

• working all explorer instances with features from recent milestones
• delivered SDK, FE source

C: Evidence of milestone completion

• sharing final milestone outputs with the community via Twitter
• GitHub contains the SDK library and front-end source code with instructions on how to contribute

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

Michal Urbanek - CEO

Lukas Barta - owner, advisor

Josef Taborsky - project visionary, QA

Jaromir Tesar - analytics, education

Filip Balas - feature planner, marketing

Martin Miksanik - dev+ops

Dominik Pollak - dev

Kamil Hamernik - ux, design

Please provide a cost breakdown of the proposed work and resources

• Milestone 1 - Designing: 50.000 ADA
• UX, coding (80 hours)
• Analysis (80 hours)
• Devops (80 hours)
• Development (450 hours)
• Overhead (40 hours)
• Milestone 2 - Development part 1: 50.000 ADA
• Development (360 hours)
• Overhead (40 hours)
• Milestone 3 - Development part 2: 50.000 ADA
• Development (360 hours)
• Overhead (40 hours)
• Milestone 4 - Development part 3: 65.000 ADA
• Development (460 hours)
• Overhead (60 hours)
• Milestone 5 - Development part 4: 50.000 ADA
• Development (360 hours)
• Overhead (40 hours)
• Final Milestone - Development part 5, SDK, documentation: 68000
• Development (440 hours)
• Documentation writing (20 hours)
• Overhead (60 hours)
• Legal and accounting costs

No dependencies

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

Given our experience, we will not burn the resources entrusted to us inefficiently and ineffectively. We have a team of people who know what they are doing and we will use every dollar as responsibly as possible. After all, the budget we are asking for is relatively low considering the size of the outcome.