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Our Ecosystem
The internet of blockchains offers the opportunity for huge progress for the entire blockchain and web3 space. The Cosmos hub is at the heart of the interchain and its token, ATOM, is the gateway and reserve asset.
Our Vision
ATOM Accelerator DAO is a community-oriented fund to support excellence in public goods, open source projects, and ecosystem initiatives that can bring success, security, & innovation to ATOM.
Funding Themes
Applications are encouraged in the following areas
Replicated security (RS)
a) Economics & cost effectiveness of RS
b) Validator working group to optimize RS from validator perspective
c) Upgrade of chains to become RS compatible
b) Validator working group to optimize RS from validator perspective
c) Upgrade of chains to become RS compatible
ATOM zone build-out
a) New consumer chains onboarding
b) Consumer chains council to advance the economic zone agenda
c) ATOM incentive models for consumer chain ramp-up
d) Token swap function between ATOM and consumer chain tokens
e) Harnessing MEV for ATOM stakers
f) Code audits of consumer chains
b) Consumer chains council to advance the economic zone agenda
c) ATOM incentive models for consumer chain ramp-up
d) Token swap function between ATOM and consumer chain tokens
e) Harnessing MEV for ATOM stakers
f) Code audits of consumer chains
Business development
a) Institutional custody for ATOM and consumer chain tokens
b) Wallet integrations for ATOM as gateway asset
c) Media coverage & partnerships
b) Wallet integrations for ATOM as gateway asset
c) Media coverage & partnerships
Governance, infra & tooling
a) Community pool vesting + streaming of payments to DAOs & contributors
b) Tooling to enable payout of ATOM from community pool in USD terms and/or to split funding types in a proposal across set-up & streaming
c) Interchain wallet
d) Tooling to enable sortition based governance processes
e) Tooling to enable community members to rank roadmap ideas
f) Working groups for community projects
g) Process for proposal authors to make presentations to validators
h) Other enhancements to improve Hub governance & deliberation
i) DAO infrastructure
j) New DAO bootstrapping
b) Tooling to enable payout of ATOM from community pool in USD terms and/or to split funding types in a proposal across set-up & streaming
c) Interchain wallet
d) Tooling to enable sortition based governance processes
e) Tooling to enable community members to rank roadmap ideas
f) Working groups for community projects
g) Process for proposal authors to make presentations to validators
h) Other enhancements to improve Hub governance & deliberation
i) DAO infrastructure
j) New DAO bootstrapping
Interchain Public Goods
a) Cosmos SDK
b) IBC
c) Consensus Engines
d) CosmWasm
NB: in the case of interchain public goods funding, we have decided that we would fund them collectively with other Cosmos focused grant programs. The ATOM Accelerator will not be funding them alone, but will actively coordinate with other interchain grant programs
b) IBC
c) Consensus Engines
d) CosmWasm
NB: in the case of interchain public goods funding, we have decided that we would fund them collectively with other Cosmos focused grant programs. The ATOM Accelerator will not be funding them alone, but will actively coordinate with other interchain grant programs
Applied R&D
a) Long-term vision for the Cosmos Hub & the ATOM tokenomics
b) ICS v2
c) Mesh Security
d) Liquid Staking
e) New Interchain Services that can be offered to DAOs, Chains, Cosmonauts: governance, liquidity, administrative, registry, citizenship, credit, etc
f) Interviews with DAOs, Chains, and Cosmonauts to discover & publish needs
NB: preference given to proposals seeking to lock, burn, or integrate ATOM
b) ICS v2
c) Mesh Security
d) Liquid Staking
e) New Interchain Services that can be offered to DAOs, Chains, Cosmonauts: governance, liquidity, administrative, registry, citizenship, credit, etc
f) Interviews with DAOs, Chains, and Cosmonauts to discover & publish needs
NB: preference given to proposals seeking to lock, burn, or integrate ATOM
Events, Marketing & Education
a) Onboarding Web2 developers into the Cosmos Hub community
b) Hackathons
c) Community events & conference sponsoring
b) Hackathons
c) Community events & conference sponsoring
Decentralized identity and credentialing
a) Wallet aggregators
b) Proof of personhood: proves the user is a human
c) Learn to earn: credentials earned by completing coursework
d) Crypto credit scores: numeric rating based on historical crypto transactions
e) Web 3 LinkedIn equivalent: earn and showcase qualifications to build a Web3 resume; tool to link Web 2 identities to wallets
b) Proof of personhood: proves the user is a human
c) Learn to earn: credentials earned by completing coursework
d) Crypto credit scores: numeric rating based on historical crypto transactions
e) Web 3 LinkedIn equivalent: earn and showcase qualifications to build a Web3 resume; tool to link Web 2 identities to wallets
Please note that funding priority will be given to the categories listed above but that we will also consider applications outside of this scope.
