Pre-proposal discussion: smoldot development financing Q4/2023
Hello everyone, Every 3 months, the smoldot project seeks the continuation of its financing for the next quarter. As many of you might already know, smoldot is an alternative implementation of the Polkadot client focused on using as little CPU, memory, and bandwidth as possible. It can be embedded within a web page, and thus allow end users to connect directly to the Polkadot network. You can find a link to smoldot's repository here: https://github.com/smol-dot/smoldot/ It must be emphasized that smoldot is not a prototype. It was initially started in December 2019 within Parity Technologies and has been financed through treasury proposals since February 2023. Since its inception, all of its goals have been fulfilled consistently and on relatively short time frames. It is robust and ready to be used in production. You can find all the details of the proposal here: https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmYVdyouLyiWwTs9grXbdRyph2dzfb33reveJgT2U7uPE2 This document highlights the work that has been performed, and proposes new milestones for the upcoming quarter year. Please let me know what you think in the comments. This is now the 4th treasury proposal that smoldot goes through, and it has been very difficult to estimate the amount of time that milestones take. Additionally, having fixed milestones ahead of time makes it difficult to react to short-term needs. For these reasons, I am thinking of changing the model of financing of smoldot in 2024 and beyond, and instead do work ahead of time and ask for retroactive payments. This is not a decision I have made yet, but something I've had in the back of my head. Please also let me know what you think about this in the comments. Thank you for reading! Tomaka
Comments (2)
Hello team Smoldot!
KryptosChain has discussed your proposal & gave his feedback from this timestamp.
With that being said, KryptosChain will be happy to vote Aye once this goes on chain!
Good luck,
Claudio (KryptosChain)
We have plans to use smoldot in the very near future. Our product runs as a JS bundle on 3rd party websites and requires connections to node endpoints. Smoldot is the obvious choice for us in order to provide an efficient, resilient product. Running polkadot on resource constrained devices is an obvious must-have for the success of the network. We think this project should continue to be funded upfront.