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Radicle Grant Application

This document will be part of the terms and conditions of your agreement and therefore needs to contain all the required information about the project. Donā€™t remove any of the mandatory parts presented in bold letters or as headlines! Lines starting with a > (such as this one) can be removed.

See the Grants Program Process on how to submit a proposal.

  • Project Name: NFT Swap
  • Team Name: Orlando Li
  • Payment Address: Ethereum 0x7B54195b743BF76c314e9dBDDf110F5a22743998
  • Level: :seedling:-Seed

:warning: The combination of your GitHub account submitting the application and the payment address above will be your unique identifier during the program. Please keep them safe.

Project Overview :page_facing_up:

If this application is in response to an RFP, please indicate this on the first line of this section.

If this is an application for retroactive funding (i.e. work that is completed and committed into a codebase), please drop any related PRs in this section.

Overview

Please provide the following:

  • If the name of your project is not descriptive, a tag line (one sentence summary).
  • A brief description of your project.
    A marketplace for people to swap NFTs. This could save tax.
  • An indication of how your project relates to / integrates into Radicle.
    If this project is successful, I would like to collaborate on Radicle to find more people to work on it.
  • An indication of why your team is interested in creating this project.
    People with many NFTs donā€™t want to sell them sometimes either because itā€™s hard to price the NFT or they donā€™t want to taxed and then buy another NFT. But they are willing to swap with others. So I am building a platform where people can swap NFTs.

Team :busts_in_silhouette:

Team members

  • Name of team leader
    Orlando Li
  • Names of team members
    Amy Zhao

Contact

Legal Structure

  • Registered Address: Address of your registered legal entity, if available. Please keep it in a single line. (e.g. Main Street 1, London N17LJ, United Kingdom)
  • Registered Legal Entity: Name of your registered legal entity, if available. (e.g. Developer DAO Ltd.)

Teamā€™s experience

I worked at Airbnb for 4 years as a dev and built the experiences project. https://www.airbnb.com/host/experiences. I recently contributed to sybil flow and built Sybil Hereā€™s the PR orca - reuse protocol "connect" for a generic identity only flow by OrlandoLee Ā· Pull Request #98 Ā· Uniswap/sybil-interface Ā· GitHub

Team Code Repos

Please also provide the GitHub accounts of all team members. If they contain no activity, references to projects/repos hosted elsewhere are also fine.

Team LinkedIn Profiles (if available)

Project Description :page_facing_up:

I am trying to build the NFT Swap project fulltime and I would also love to get more awareness of this project.

Deliverables :nut_and_bolt:

Month 1 - Launch NFT Swap site in test network and get 10 users. Month 2 - Launch NFT Swap mainnet and get 100 users. Month 3 - build liquidity by having 100 NFTs listed on the platform.

  • Total Estimated Duration: Duration of the whole project
  • Full-time equivalent (FTE): 60 days
  • Total Costs: $20,000

:exclamation:The more you can organize your milestones into manageable chunks that are conducive to iteration, the better!

Milestone 1

Please add additional milestones in the same way:

  • Estimated Duration: 1 month
  • FTE: 20 days
  • Costs: $5,000
Number Deliverable Specification
1. Launch NFT Swap site in test network and get 10 users Launch NFT Swap with basic functionalities so that users can list, create offer and accept offers in test network

Milestone 2

Please add additional milestones in the same way:

  • Estimated Duration: 1 month
  • FTE: 20 days
  • Costs: $10,000
Number Deliverable Specification
1. bug fix and launch in mainnet a. get 100 users using this in mainnet

Milestone 3

  • Estimated Duration: 1 month
  • FTE: 20 days
  • Costs: $5,000
Number Deliverable Specification
1. build up liquidity a. get 100 NFTs listed on this platform

Future Plans

Please include the following:

  • How you intend to use, enhance, promote and support your project in the short term
  1. get 10 users in test network
  • The teamā€™s long-term plans and intentions in relation to it. In other words, how will it be made sustainable?
  1. build up liquidity
  2. charge 2% transaction fee or a fixed amount transaction fee

:exclamation:This is a good place to share how you might like to get more grant funding for future work

Additional Information :heavy_plus_sign:

How did you hear about the Grants Program? Medium / Twitter / Discord / Announcement by another team / personal recommendation / etc.
Twitter

Here you can also add any additional information that you think is relevant to this application but isnā€™t part of it already, such as:

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A few initial points of feedback.
I currently would not vote on this due to the concerns raised in points 1/2 below.

Please address these as soon as possible. We will need a response within 2 weeks from now or this application will be archived.

  1. Please give this grant a more meaningful title. It currently has the placeholder title.

  2. Please add more details on how this is work will contribute to free and open-source software (FOSS) or Radicle. It remains unclear how this is adding value to the broader ecosystem of open FOSS or Radicle.

For example, this statement:

  • An indication of how your project relates to / integrates into Radicle.
    If this project is successful, I would like to collaborate on Radicle to find more people to work on it.

This segment would be much better if it explained how the project adds to the broader FOSS ecosystem. Simply getting more people to contribute does not add value to FOSS or Radicleā€™s ecosystem. What would these people work on? What will their extra work bring to the table?

For example, how might swapping NFTs in a tax-free or lower tax manner benefit an ecosystem of NFTs for subscriptions (reference Radicleā€™s new Drips Network here).

  1. The PR below is really cool. Do you have a strong interest in governance tooling?
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