Please describe your proposed solution.
Developers spend a lot of valuable time and resources reinventing the wheel when it comes to building smart contracts and ensuring they are secure and reliable. Furthermore, due to lack of auditing and security expertise within organizations, there is high risk associated with smart contract exploitation.
By providing more simplicity around smart contract integrations, we believe our solution will drive developer adoption, ensure ecosystem growth and improve the overall security of Dapps running on Cardano.
Maestro and Anastasia Labs will collaborate to offer developers a smart contract-as-a-service platform to deploy and interact with open-sourced smart contracts with ease, addressing the key challenges when building Dapps on Cardano:
Secure Smart Contracts: By providing a library of modular, reusable, and secure smart contracts, this proposal helps minimize the risk of vulnerabilities in your applications. You can leverage battle-tested contracts that have been reviewed by the community, reducing the likelihood of hacks and attacks.
Streamlined Developer Experience: This project simplifies the development process by offering ready-made and customizable smart-contracts. Developers will be able to leverage a standardized smart contract interface that employs best practices and security patterns.
End-to-end contract integration and deployment: Developers will have access to fully integrated smart contracts and be able to interact with them simply via APIs or SDKs. This will revolutionize Cardano dApp development and unleash the full potential of Cardano.
How does your proposed solution address the challenge and what benefits will this bring to the Cardano ecosystem?
This solution can drastically reduce the time it takes to build an application from weeks or months down to mere minutes, since API are the industry standard when developing web applications. As a result, the service will attract developers within and outside the ecosystem and make it easier for small teams as well as large enterprises to integrate with Cardano smart contracts.
How do you intend to measure the success of your project?
Our success measurement strategy includes tracking API call volumes and actively engaging with the community to gather feedback, ensuring continuous improvement aligned with user needs. We will also track the number of stars and issues in the open source Github repositories pertaining to the smart contracts.
Finally, we will monitor the number of projects that choose to deploy their infrastructure with Maestro and use their APIs to interact with Anastasia smart contracts.
Please describe your plans to share the outputs and results of your project?
Preparation Phase:
- Develop smart contracts and off-chain SDKs
- Ensure integration with the Maestro platform
- Conduct thorough testing with interested developers
Integration and Testing Phase:
- Integrate the developed solution with the Maestro platform
- Collaborate with developers interested in utilizing the service
- Run extensive tests to ensure smooth functionality and identify any potential issues
Documentation and Demonstration Phase:
- Create comprehensive API documentation for easy integration
- Provide practical examples showcasing the usage of the service
- Demonstrate the capabilities of the solution to developers