Grant Proposal: Lindy

Community Grant Applications
#1

Grant ID: 358u9jv

Summary:

Our product will transform on-chain events into a human readable cross chain block explorer and integrate external data for context so that users can connect the dots on web3 activity that is relevant to them.

We will first personalize what a user sees based on their on-chain activity and then build relationships between their activity and that of others. Then we’ll start to integrate off-chain context specific to the user such as the health of a DeFi position, applicable regulations, governance proposals and much more. All while making it easy for any user to create narratives based on what they’re seeing on-chain so any other user can follow what they’re doing.

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Are you applying as a team or individual?:
Team

What type of grant are you pursuing?:
Project (one-off)

Please select the category your project best fits into:
Dashboards & Analytics

Please select who you think will benefit from your project?:
Other

How much funding are you looking for? (USD):
12000

Provide a breakdown of your requested funding:
The costs will purely go towards development:

  • Infrastructure resources (deploying on The Graph and testing higher volume) ~20%
  • Developer hiring: our team has 2 part time engineers working on this, this will go towards hiring an additional contract engineer for enough months to help us get off the ground.

Have you applied for (or already received) funding from somewhere else?:
No

What’s your vision for how your project will impact The Graph and/or web3?:
Crypto hasn’t live up to its promise of transparency - at least for most people. High learning curves and technical knowhow makes it difficult for the average user to connect the dots on how different entities or actions across the web3 ecosystem can impact them.

The Graph is about making web3 data truly accessible. We want to take that to the next level so mainstream users can easily do this.

What can you share about any past work that is relevant to this grant?:
We previously worked on something we thought we would pivot into another crypto wallet. We called this project Canary since it is based on monitoring users’ wallets, alerting them of abnormal transactions and providing a quick eject tool to a backup wallet.

That was more security focused but it did help us understand how to build off web3 more since our experience was very much web2 before this.

Why are you interested in contributing to The Graph and/or web3?:
My team and I have been in crypto since 2016. While I was purely an investor then, I fell down the rabbit hole hard, a term you don’t hear much of nowadays. I loved reading through real whitepapers that taught me how cryptography, consensus mechanisms and zero knowledge proof worked.

Since then, I’ve seen new waves rise and fall. Now I want to contribute the next wave since I don’t want users to experience the same problems I did when I couldn’t figure out entities and transactions were related in a way that impacted me.




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#2

Good afternoon!

Thank you for your application! After reviewing it in detail, I have a few questions:

  1. You wrote that you worked on the Canary project, can you give more details about what you worked on and perhaps give some links that relate to the work you did.

  2. Just to clarify, did I understand the point of the project correctly?

It must be a protocol that links a transaction on the network, to a specific event. Based on this, an infrastructure is created which, later on, must be interconnected and show the big picture based on the data. And in the same way, there will be recommendations for you about your search and interaction with the network.

  1. How will The Graph benefit from this project? Because from what you’ve written, these are pretty general concepts for the crypto sphere in general.

Thank you!

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#3

Hello!
Interesting application making Web3 easier to access via a clearer visualization is a good a idea for user adoption and it’s great to read about projects focused on building this kind of solutions.
I’d like to ask a couple of questions about the project though:

  1. How is this product different from existing solutions like: interface.social, Zapper, Zerion, Debank and similar platforms that aim at the same/similar goal?

  2. How long will the project take to be finished?

You mention the funding will go towards development and also that there are currently 2 engineers working on the product and part of the funds will go to hire another engineer.

  1. How long this additional engineer will be working with the team?

  2. You said 20% ($2.400 USD) will be spend on infrastructure, does this mean that the remaining $9.600 USD will be used to pay just the new engineer or the whole team and if so and how many hours/weeks of work does that amount cover?

  3. How do you measure the success or full completion of the product?

  4. Will this project will be free to use or there will be fees for the users?

Thanks.

#4

Unfortunately, this grant proposal did not generate the level of support in the community to move it to the next phase of the grant application process.

Thank you for submitting this proposal and you are encouraged to stay engaged in the Graph community. You are also welcome to submit new grant applications in the future with proposals that may generate stronger community support.

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