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Pop Network | Enabling simple and powerful smart contract development, with DOT
Pop Network | Enabling simple and powerful smart contract development, with DOT
We will be opening a treasury proposal in the coming days and we are happy to start receiving any feedback before we do so.
Here you can find a summary of the proposal as well as the full detailed document attached at the bottom.
Problem and Solution Summary
For several years Polkadot has been at the forefront of blockchain technology, continually showing its dedication to enabling a truly decentralized world. Polkadot as an ecosystem has amazing diverse technology where the next generation Web3 applications can be built upon. Yet, Polkadot is not achieving growth like seen in other ecosystems. Why?
A main cause is that it is not easy for developers to build and deploy on Polkadot. Additionally, the largest pool of Web3 developers are smart contract developers. However, these developers are unable to access and use Polkadot’s amazing technology in their smart contracts. Currently, this functionality is only available to parachains.
Overall, the developer onboarding and experience must be improved. If smart contract developers are to choose to deploy on Polkadot over other ecosystems it must be easy to build and deploy on, but there also must be distinguishing factors that other ecosystems do not or cannot provide.
Enter Pop Network: the solution that bridges the gap between Polkadot’s complex infrastructure and application builders. Pop Network is an ink! enabled parachain that offers straightforward and stable interfaces (APIs) to smart contracts and only uses the DOT token. These APIs access the Pop Network runtime enabling smart contract developers to easily use the power of Polkadot to build unique solutions, like cross-chain applications, without inheriting its complexity. There is no need to learn complex pallet development, launch a parachain, or try to comprehend XCM. Pop Network abstracts these lower-level technologies making usage seamless. Imagine a Polkadot where smart contracts can be used to create cross-chain DAOs for voting and extending OpenGov, with only a few lines of code – powered by the DOT token. With the Pop Network parachain, this use case, and many more, are becoming a reality.
Pop Network only using the DOT token to deploy and use smart contracts helps reduce onboarding friction, while increasing DOT’s usage. Pop Network aims to be the easiest, fastest, and most empowering platform to onboard real world applications to Polkadot.
Pop Network is the programmable layer atop the infrastructure of the future web: Polkadot.
Status of Pop Network
Pop Network is already live on the Paseo testnet supporting the PAS token as the native token on Pop Network. The UI onboard.popnetwork.xyz enables easy PAS onboarding to Pop Network. Additionally, there is a first version of Pop Network’s API that ink! smart contracts can already use. Recently, Pop was presented at Sub0 where a smart contract purchased on-demand coretime, for a different parachain, with just adding two lines of ink! code. This is the power of Polkadot. Using the amazing existing technology to easily enable extraordinary applications that are only possible on Polkadot.
Team & Ask
R0GUE is built from ex-Parity Tech Delivery Service’s engineers who are going r0gue and are prepared to challenge the status quo. Building proper solutions for Polkadot’s problems to help promote a new era of innovation. With over 10+ years of experience in Polkadot from working within Parity, the R0GUE team has amassed great knowledge of the technologies in Polkadot. Including, but not limited to, runtime & pallet development, XCM, parachains, ink!, light clients, migrations, benchmarking, subxt, and more. These skills were gained from directly building custom solutions for high-profile projects along with providing support to the wider ecosystem, including active support for the Paseo testnet.
R0GUE is asking for $587,100.00 (67492 DOT) to achieve milestones 1 and 2 of Pop Network, encompassing development, auditing, and deployment on Polkadot. These milestones aim to propel smart contract development to new heights on Polkadot, driven by the DOT token. As Pop Network advances, it will ignite activity on Polkadot prompting additional demand for the DOT token and Coretime consumption.
Thanks and GO R0GUE.
Comments (13)
Hello everybody! I'm Alejandro, part of R0GUE team. I'll be happy to address any feedback or questions here . Or you can always reach the team at: https://t.me/Pop\_Network
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Hey This is a very well-crafted project. Sharing it on the AwesomeDot repository would be a fantastic way to increase its exposure within the developer community.
Thanks
Hi, cool proposal, great team. Glad you're using Paseo =) Other than the DOT token change, what do you think other parachains using ink! (Astar within Polkadot + Aleph Zero outside Polkadot) could have done better that inform how POP should attract new ink! developers? Promoting ink! is too hard while EVM chains are a dime a dozen. The uphill battle is so difficult that it appears that CorePlay's killer feature (the stop-resume programming pattern enabled by PVM) is necessary to make your life easy, because it supports high gas using transactions, or long/infinitely running programs. The success of POP is likely attached not to ink! but to CorePlay. For this reasosn, I think POP should be supported as a next generation smart contract parachain, but with a CorePlay centric future... which might take a while.
Hey @Colorful Notion thanks for the comment, and happy to see some initial engagement here!
Let me try to address your comments in order
A pair of examples that are kind of on-topic:
Imagine implementing the logic that manages a bounty approved via OpenGov in a smart contract. Pop Network enables you to do that.
DAOs that want to interact with Polkadot governance in a way more transparent way. Pop Network enables that too.
I haven’t yet seen smart contracts implementing such use cases, maybe we are opening new doors.
Promoting ink! is hard: I tend to disagree here. I believe ink! has strong branding around it, and it isn’t really anything new. Many other ecosystems aside from Polkadot use rust to implement their smart contracts and it doesn’t seem to be a blocker. My stand is that if using a certain language allows devs to do interesting things and is fun to use, they will happily use it.
CorePlay: Having pallet-contracts in the core of Pop Network gives the project a really privileged position to evolve with the future with the Polkadot. Don’t forget that PVM started with “how can we make pallet-contracts better”.
Any other comments from my side on this topic won’t be really well informed as I have only seen its PoC - https://github.com/bkchr/coreplay-poc. But the success of Pop is defined by how many more developers now find in Polkadot a fruitful ecosystem to build interesting solutions on rather than the details on how the underlying technology behaves.
I hope my comment helps