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?
Blink Labs has decades of experience delivering open source software. We have a proven track record of delivery and have successfully completed two previous Catalyst Fund 9 proposals. We have two open funded proposals from Fund 11 and have met every milestone; we are on target to complete them before Fund 12 onboards. Our work is open source and public for all to view. Our team is highly cohesive and have worked together for years, allowing us to provide accurate time and cost estimates to our work.
Creating a Cardano node is a monumental task which requires dedicated resources. Funding allows us to dedicate engineering time to an open source project, rapidly accelerating its development.
Our goal is for the Go Cardano node to become an integral part of a Cardano development stack for Golang developers upon which a Golang ecosystem on Cardano can thrive. To accomplish this goal, we will build the Go Cardano node to support a diverse capability set, allowing for creation of an entire ecosystem of downstream projects.
We have broken this into 4 technical deliverable milestones to reach this goal.
- Blockchain storage
- Ouroboros node-to-node support
- Ouroboros node-to-client support
- Transaction submission gateway
Blink Labs will create GitHub issues for the individual items of work and will track those items using a project board on GitHub. GitHub project milestones will correlate with proposal milestones.