Grants Application
Project
What is the work being proposed?
We’d like to build a Rocket Pool community dashboard on Alphaday that aggregates Rocket Pool news, on-chain data, social media, dev resources and much more into one customizable UI.
Will the results of this project be entirely open source
Most of our front-end is open source
Benefits
How does this help people looking to stake ETH for rETH, rETH holders, people looking to run a Rocket Pool node for the first time, people already running a Rocket Pool node, the Rocket Pool community, RPL holders and what other non-RPL protocols, DAOs, projects, or individuals, would stand to benefit from this grant?
Market research we conducted in 2021 concluded that crypto users are overwhelmed with information and spend a lot of time jumping from one news source to another, from one social site to another, and usually have dozens of tabs open to stay up to date with everything happening in a community.
We aim to provide a single end-point from which Rocket Pool users can consume all the information they could possibly want. We would like to create a dashboard that aggregates the following information into a single community dashboard:
- The latest Rocket Pool official announcements and blog post content
- A feed of all news mentions of Rocket Pool from coindesk, cointelegraph and 20+ other news sources aggregated from across the internet
- A calendar containing all Rocket Pool events including Rocket Pool Governance votes, meetups, hackathons with Rocket Pool bounties, AMAs
- Podcast feed containing the latest appearances and interviews given by Rocket Pool team members
- Youtube stream containing educational Rocket Pool content.
- Rocket Pool Documentation, Dev Docs, Bug Bounty Program
- Integration with Rocket Pool Governance Forum to show the latest and trending discussion topics
- Discord & Telegram Integration to show a feed of latest discussions
- FAQ, Whitepaper, RPL tokenomics information
- Rocket Pool Careers integration to show the latest open jobs listed
- Rocket Pool Overview, ETH2 Staking, rETH Token
- Rocket Pool on-chain metrics including TVL, Unique User Deposit Wallets and other metrics pulled in from Dune Analytics
Team
Who is doing the work?
Alphaday
What is the background of the person(s) doing the work? What experience do they have with such projects in the past?
Alphaday’s co-founder is Deniz Omer and has been involved in the Ethereum space since early 2016 and joined Kyber Network in 2017 as Head of Ecosystem Growth before quitting to start Alphaday full-time in 2021. He previously worked at Thomson Reuters for a decade building financial products that rivaled the Bloomberg Terminal. He is also currently a Venture Partner at IOSG.VC
Alphaday’s co-founder Felipe has also been involved in Ethereum since 2016 and was a Developer Advocate at Pegasys and Consensys before quitting to work full time on Alphaday.
Alphaday’s third co-founder is DeFiDude who used to be a community manager at both Aave and Kyber Network before co-founding Alphaday.
What is the breakdown of the proposed work, in terms of milestones and/or deadlines? How is the work being tested? Is testing included in the schedule? How will the work be maintained after delivery?
If we receive a grant it will take us roughly 2 months to create and develop the Rocket Pool community board including integrating the discussion forums, blog post, social feed, jobs listing, TVL and other on-chain metrics. For the next 12 months we will provide maintenance including having an Alphaday content analyst quality-checking the dashboard every day and ensuring the Calendar widget is up-to-date with latest Rocket Pool events, all news mentions across the internet are captured by the dashboard, any updates not automatically captured by the Alphaday aggregator engine is manually added to the board, and other maintenance tasks.
Payment and Verification
What is the acceptance criteria?
NA
What is the proposed payment schedule for the grant? How much RPL and over what period of time is the applicant requesting?
35 RPL upfront cost for development.
4 RPL per month for the next 12 months for maintenance.
Conflict of Interest
Does the person or persons proposing the grant have any conflicts of interest to disclose? (Please disclose here if you are a member of the GMC or if any member of the GMC would benefit directly financially from the grant).
No conflict of interest
Will the recipient of the grant, or any protocol or project in which the recipient has a vested interest (other than Rocket Pool), benefit financially if the grant is successful?
No
Useful links:
Live Product: https://app.alphaday.com/