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Introduction
The Splinterlands community is needing to complete and deploy the software to operate the SPS chain.
This proposal is meant to be a community driven alternative for what has been proposed here: @splinterlands/sps-governance-proposal-hire-jptr-corp-to-develop-sps-chain
We believe the community would benefit from competitive pricing for finishing the validator software. Likely there are multiple options to get it done but the DAO community should have options and we are throwing our hat in the ring... this is actually something our team had considered offering to do many months ago but it was indicated at that time that the software was almost ready to go and so we stopped pursuing it. Seeing that the recent proposal indicates 12 more months of work we have renewed our interest.
About Us
The PeakMonsters/PeakD (peakmonsters.com) team is very familiar with Splinterlands ecosystem as we have worked on projects with the game for about 6 years. Also our costs seem to be well below the very high inflated US developer wages so we believe we can provide a very good product at a greatly reduced rate.
We have developers that work on @peakd, @peakmonsters and @peak.open projects that are very familiar with both Hive and the Splinterlands game/community. On top of that one of the treasurers (@jarvie) is part of the team. Our team is very focused on user facing experience and interacting with userbase.
How it would work
We are proposing that if this vote passes our team would spend 2 weeks reviewing the existing code at no cost.
If we believe we can hit the 10 months target we would then proceed creating an official document with the list of all project requirements. We expect to receive some input from the Splinterlands team during this task to be sure we correctly identify the full project scope. Once this document is finalized and approved we'll confirm our intention to forward and start working on the code.
We may decide to not take on the job after the review but we will give feedback of the code and still request no funds.
We have an incentive and would love to get this project done quickly at a very high standard for the benefit of us and the Splinterlands ecosystem well before one year.
Final Audit
As indicated in the other proposal by @splinterlands it is the SPS DAO that is in charge of developing and deploying the code to operate the SPS token. We totally agree with this.
At the same time it is important to mention that the SPS token is fully intertwined with the Splinterlands game. Both are required and none can operate independently.
For this reason we request a final security review of the code by the Steem Monsters Corp. (aka Splinterlands) before the release. For this review we estimate 1 month and a budget of 40,000 USD to be paid directly to Steem Monsters Corp. by the DAO
ℹ️ NOTE: We decided to include this section in our proposal as it's honestly quite surprisingly that there is no mention of something like this in the other proposal. The Splinterlands community deserves an audit by the main game developers before going live with a software developed by a 3rd party (both PeakMonsters or JPTR Corp) that can potentially destroy the ecosystem.
Cost & Payments
Our team can work on this project at a cost of $300k USD for 10-12 months. On top of those $300k USD there are $40k USD to be paid for the audit as explained in the previous paragraph.
The total cost for the DAO will be $340k USD providing a $140k USD potential savings.
The payments will be handled based on the following:
- $300k USDC/USDT should be set aside (either by escrow or deemed untouchable except by this project)
We request stable coins be used to set aside funds though for monthly payments we are flexible what is accepted.
Funds will be distributed by DAO treasures in the following schedule:
- $22k USDC per month paid to PeakMonsters for the next 10 months. Total: $220k USD
- $40k USDC paid to Steem Monsters Corp. at the start of the audit
- $40k USDC paid to PeakMonsters once the software is audited
- $40k USDC paid to PeakMonsters after the software is deployed and validator nodes are active
This system of payment rewards expedited work and also focuses on accountability for quality
⚠️ ❗ NOTE: The above cost is purely based on a very high level understanding of the project scope and the cost to operate a 4-5 person team. We are looking forward to reviewing the existing code and getting a clear and well defined list of all the requirements of the validator nodes software.
Open Points
- Based on the recent DHF proposal there is a chance the Splinterlands game will move to a different blockchain in the future. If this happens the impact on the validator node system is unknown.
- A new proposal to sunset VOUCHERS will be live soon for official vote. If this proposal is approved there will probably be an impact on the validator node system that will require further discussion and adjustments.
PeakMonsters and Splinterlands links:
- PeakMonsters: https://peakmonsters.com/
- PeakD accounts: PeakMonsters | PeakMonsters blogging account
- PeakD Projects discord: https://discord.gg/QdYg3zUSCD
- PKM Whitepaper: https://pkm.peakmonsters.com/
- Play Splinterlands: https://splinterlands.com?ref=peakmonsters
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