Gitcoin Grants R8 Hackathon - Keep and tBTC Ecosystem Development Grant

[krisjpi]

Prize Title
Keep and tBTC Ecosystem Development Grant

Prize Bounty
Grand Prize of 50,000 KEEP with 2 runner up prizes of 20,000 KEEP

Challenge Description
Keep judges are open to anything using Keep and/or tBTC. However, there are 3 types of submissions we’d prefer to see:

Keep Stake Pooling - set up a system to allow smaller Keep owners to delegate a stake lower than the current minimum Keep stake. It can be combined with others to reach the current minimum stake and run a node. Previous work similar to this is referenced below. Contributions building on said work will also be accepted specifically reducing the min stake amount below 20k into the pool or making it non custodial.

• https://keepforthecrowd.com
• https://tenderize.me

Tools to make staking setup easier - you can get creative here but some ideas include a simple S3-compatible storage backend for the keep-common persistence interfaces, automatic backups, and working with common VPSs.

Redeem Service: liquidation prevention - provide a service to node operators and owners to redeem their deposits to prevent deposit from being liquidated.

Submission Requirements

• Must be open source
• Show us the GitHub & on-chain (Ropsten) when applicable
• Demo required

Some Resources
https://github.com/keep-network/tbtc.js
https://tbtc.network/developers
https://github.com/keep-network/

Judging Criteria
We'll be looking for technical value-add as well as a great experience: we want to see usability, utility, and creativity. On the technical side, the fewer obvious attacks your project has, the better. This will be judged by our team. However, our core community members will have input too. It’s highly recommended that you join our community Discord servers to ask any questions and chat more about this bounty:

• https://chat.tbtc.network
• https://chat.keep.network

Work Submission Deadline
Please submit your work for judging by 11:59PM EST December 16th.

[gitcoinbot]

Issue Status: 1. Open 2. Started 3. Submitted 4. Done

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This issue now has a funding of 90000.0 KEEP (30163.14 USD @ $0.34/KEEP) attached to it.

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[xni]

Sorry, I was trying to understand what is a KEEP coin, what is a KEEP node, but the web-site keep.network only describes tBTC, which is absolutely amazing, no doubt. But could you please refer me to more detailed info about keep nodes? Thank you!

[gitcoinbot]

Issue Status: 1. Open 2. Started 3. Submitted 4. Done

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Work for 90000.0 KEEP (28079.82 USD @ $0.31/KEEP) has been submitted by:

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[krisjpi]

Sorry, I was trying to understand what is a KEEP coin, what is a KEEP node, but the web-site keep.network only describes tBTC, which is absolutely amazing, no doubt. But could you please refer me to more detailed info about keep nodes? Thank you!

Hey xni, you may want to check out our KEEP token explainer at https://blog.keep.network/how-the-keep-token-works-500c9722dac0

If you need further clarification, drop into our discord server at https://chat.keep.network - there are many more resources available in the Discord server for node setup!

[gitcoinbot]

Issue Status: 1. Open 2. Started 3. Submitted 4. Done

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Work for 90000.0 KEEP (23258.97 USD @ $0.26/KEEP) has been submitted by:

1. @nikolayga
2. @hurek
3. @zyra-zia
4. @benlongstaff
5. @masaun
6. @viraja1

@krisjpi please take a look at the submitted work:

• PR by @viraja1
• PR by @masaun
• PR by @benlongstaff
• PR by @zyra-zia
• PR by @hurek
• PR by @nikolayga

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[gitcoinbot]

Issue Status: 1. Open 2. Started 3. Submitted 4. Done

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The funding of 90000.0 KEEP (20706.93 USD @ $0.23/KEEP) attached to this issue has been approved & issued to @benlongstaff.

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