Stakeboard: Social Staking Platform

, Nami wallet developers [2] and the HOSKY team [3].

Moreover, Stakeboard's functionality will allow delegators to verify SPOs' claims.Stakeboard will encourage a culture of "trust, but verify" in delegating. If a delegator is uncertain about whether a stakepool's specific claims are true (for example, that they use predominantly green energy or are owned by a woman in blockchain) then Stakeboard's messaging application enables them to ask the SPO for supportive documentation. And Stakeboard will provide verified stakepools with the ability to upload documents to their profile that evidence the truth of their value propositions.

[To learn what the Stakeboard team is already doing to combat scams attacking Cardano's staking community, and how we aim to make Stakeboard one of Cardano's most valuable tools in disarming disinformation cyber attacks, please check out our proposal focusing on this topic: https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Defending-Cardano-Staking-Ecosystem/384952-48088]

3. Decentralized Business Opportunities:

At Stakeboard we think of Proof-of-Stake (POS) consensus as foundational decentralized finance (defi). And we believe the power of POS combined with Cardano's UTXO model will only begin to realize its full potential once Cardano delegators and SPOs come together in innovative ways to leverage their collective block rewards into the growth of decentralized business (debiz). The reality is, even if projects like Stakeboard improve trust, transparency and ease-of-use in the Cardano staking landscape, a huge amount of ADA will still remain on centralized exchanges unless delegators are provided more compelling financial incentives towards decentralization. And at stakeboard we believe this financial incentive will be the chance to participate in the growth of staking-centered debiz. The advent of the Initial Stakepool Offering (ISO) funding model is already beginning to show the potential here, and at stakeboard we want to push this potential forward with debiz products built into the Stakeboard platform - starting with the following three:

Stakepad: Stakepad will leverage Stakeboard's infrastructure and resources to improve the Initial Stakepool Offering funding model. Building upon MinSwap's Fair ISO (FISO) model, Stakepad will further improve the fairness, feasibility, and delegator experience of the FISO model in several ways, including:

Stakepad will greatly lower the barrier to entry for Cardano projects wanting to raise funds via an FISO, thereby creating more opportunities for SPOs and delegators to participate in FISOs.

Stakepad will allow projects to introduce criteria for selecting their partner stakepools that go way beyond basic parameters like pools' fixed costs and minimum pledges. If projects wish, they'll be able to include criteria to specifically include stakepools utilizing renewable energy, women and/or minority owned pools, pools located in specific regions, SPOs developing applications for the Cardano ecosystem, etc.

With Stakepad, the Stakeboard team will encourage partner projects to opt for a hybrid stakepool partner selection model which balances fairness to SPOs and the need for community participation in the selection process.

StakeStarter: With StakeStarter, SPOs wanting to use block rewards to launch and/or grow a business (or non-profit organization) will be given special space and additional functionality on Stakeboard to realize their entrepreneurial goals. StakeStarte will essentially allow an stakepools to present proposals to the delegator community, including the SPO's experience, what the stakepool intends to build, what margin they'll require (in other words, what level of ADA rewards delegators can expect while staking to the stakepool), what kind of progress reports will be provided, and what benefits (financial or otherwise) delegators will receive for delegating to the stakepool.

Additionally, for projects needing a considerable amount of seed funding to launch, SPO's will have the option of setting an initial funding contribution requirement prior to launching their pool. If this contribution requirement is reached prior to a deadline stated in the proposal, the SPO will launch their Stakestarter proposal plan and receive the seed funding from Stakeboard, but if the seed funding goal isn't reached by the deadline, any ADA contributed to the seed fund will be returned to the contributor(s).

Essentially, StakeStarter will aim to combine the best of Patreon and Kickstarter models, and integrate them into the POS mechanism to help launch and sustain Cardano ventures.

Opportunity Board: The Opportunity Board will enable Stakeboard users to list job, gig and collaboration opportunities for projects within the Cardano ecosystem.

[To learn more about Stakepad and Stakestarter and the business opportunities they aim to bring to Cardano's SPO community, please check out our proposal focusing on these products: https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Beyond-ISOs-SPO-driven-Funding/384955-48088]

Connect with us

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Stakeboard_
Discord: <https://dsc.gg/stakeboard>
Medium: https://stakeboard.medium.com

Stakeboard Team

Giovanni - Co-Founder

Senior Software Engineer - DevOps Advocate - Plutus Pioneer and Stake Pool Operator

<https://www.linkedin.com/in/giovannigargiulo/>

Sebastiaan - Co-Founder

Entrepreneur and government contractor for software integrations and solutions - Plutus Pioneer

<https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastiaan-m/>

Anthony - Head of Business Development

Entrepreneur with 7 years business development experience, 15 years sales experience, primarily in financial services and real estate.

<https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonycapitan/>

Trecy - Head of Design

Passionate about creativity and design processes, I have been working for several years to design aesthetic and functional user experiences.

<https://www.linkedin.com/in/trecy/>

Floriaan - Communication Manager

Support, Community & Social media experience in IT, Design and Blockchain industries.

<https://www.linkedin.com/in/floriaan-mekes-96b510127/>

Matteo - Product Manager

Master degrees in Government Science - Product and Project Manager - Blog writer on blockchain ecosystem.

<https://www.linkedin.com/in/matteo-mannucci-201b12168/>

Roadmap

We've been hard at work on Stakeboard since August, and despite having to fund the project's development until now from the team's savings and on a volunteer basis, we can proudly say we've made huge progress: Platform design is complete and several core functions are built.—As of late November, SPOs can now verify ownership of their pools and create Stakeboard profiles. Nami wallet integration has been completed and delegating directly from Stakeboard has been enabled. And we recently launched the project's landing page at stakeboard.net.

Unfortunately though, we're quickly approaching the point where our abilities to self-fund the project will be depleted, which is why being awarded Catalyst funds for our Fund7 proposals will be critical to sustain project development.

That being said, Here's our Roadmap:

August 2021

Proof of Concept (completed)
Proposal Fund6 (completed)
CICD & infrastructure (completed)
Concept design (completed)

September 2021

Stakepool listing page (completed)
Stakepool verification (completed)
Feature design (completed)

October 2021

Implement feedback from users (completed)
Iterate through the design (completed)
Notification center - Alice: Pool updates on telegram (completed)
Feature design (completed)

November 2021

Notification center - Alice: Pool retirement, Twitter integration (completed)
Launched Stakeboard.net (completed)
Stake from Stakeboard w/ Nami (completed)
Catalyst Fund7 Proposals Submission (completed)
Marketing Project and Proposals (completed)
Interview with Cardano Hotel (completed)
Create Stakeboard style guide (completed)

December 2021

Create Stakeboard style guide cont.
Interview with CF "Ask an operator" with Jeremy Firster (completed)
Stakepool Management - Stakepool Profile customization
Enhanced filtering: filter by offchain data (eg. mission, charity, contribution, women in blockchain, etc.)
Notification Center - Alice notifications on Stakeboard
Marketing project and proposals

January 2022

Onboard Stakepool operators and delegators to test the MVP
Delegator Account creation via wallet
Notification Center - Subscribe to specific Alice notifications on Stakeboard
NFT First X SPO to register. (First Y Multi Pool Owner to register)
NFT First X Non-SPO to register
Set Staking Address(es) on profile

February 2022

Communication Center - On platform SPOs to Delegators Messaging
Social Media content Integration: Youtube, Medium, Twitter
Initial Stakepool Offering MVP Dashboard

March 2022

Stakeboard beta launch

Key Performance Indicators

1-month

50 SPOs registered
200 Community size
500 Searches
1k Page Views
5 delegations from stakeboard (nami like)

3 months

150 SPO
500 Accounts registered
4k Searches
15k Page Views
50 delegations from stakeboard (nami like)

6 months

Reduce by overall 1% amount staked on exchanges (very had to verify, but still)
1500 registered accounts
200 SPOs connected
20k Searches
100k Page views
100 delegations from stakeboard (nami like)

Cost Breakdown

+ UX: $ 5000

+ One full-time engineer for three months (at 50% of accustomed wages): $26.000

+ One part-time engineer for three months (at 50% of accustomed wages): $13.000

+ Cloud hosting: $ 1.500

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