Solidity smart contract tooling - research for AssetHub/Plaza
This TIP is a request for compensation for time spent working on researching existing solidity smart contract tooling.
Research
has been created to help Parity Smart contract team decide what is the best tooling to test their upcoming Polkadot VM and enable transition of Ethereum smart contract developers to Polkadot.
It took** 2 people to work on this research for 3 working days** (approx 1200 USD (3 x 8 x 50 USD) per person, so 2400 USD all together), but we are applying for only 1900 USD. We hope the community will appreciate this.
We believe the value generated is big, not only for the Parity smart contract team, but also for anyone else planning to work on solidity based tooling for Polkadot in the future.
Full report can be find here:
https://hackmd.io/@T6Wf5EsOQKe-6wyPjJPtuw/Bk_A8RYPC
And we are adding for free also additional text which is placing smart contracts in Polkadot into the Plaza/Asset hub context: https://hackmd.io/@T6Wf5EsOQKe-6wyPjJPtuw/HkC2lL2dR
The inspiration
for applying tis tip came from the discussion with Alex from Parity smart contract team, who agrees, this work has been needed and should be fairly compensated.
Thank you
to the community for recognizing our work on this research and we hope you agree we created value for the ecosystem's future smart contract story on AssetHub/Plaza.
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Treasure the climb!
@sourabhniyogi
Thanks, Sourabh! It feels more like ropes were cut and we're stuck in the valley, so looking around for new hills now :P
easy aye for reasonable tip for valuable research on Solidity tooling compatibility.
@serapath contacted me in May about in-browser work, due to my work on PVM disassembler GUI and together with @ninabreznik__playproject has been pushing hard to find the right path for tooling and developer experience to drive adoption.
ink-playground has been dead for nearly a year. We currently lack entry-level tooling for developers to start with smart contracts on Polkadot. Outreach is futile without a clear tooling path(pop is great but there should also be presetup web environment for kickcstarting development).
imho this research has been crucial in creating consensus on moving forward to provide backward compatible smart contract capable tooling on polkavm based contracts.
@RotkoNetworks
Thanks, this is really nice to hear, it sadly just looks like darkgov doesn't agree, so our proposal has been bashed and for the past 2 months 2 engineers worked full time for free. So, yeah, not a very good outlook on the ecosystem if it wants to attract and keep the talent. But for Shawn and Josep, chaosDAO and other 'important' people we are apparently grifters and potencially malicious, so I have low hopes anything can change if these things don't get properly addressed and resolved.