DAO DAO is a decentralized governance and human organization tool for Web3 that empowers communities to rapidly turn tokens into meaningful votes and actions. DAO DAO smart contracts are audited and widely used across the broader Cosmos ecosystem.

With over $300M managed across 11 chains and 5,226 DAOs, their platform has proven its capability. Introducing DAODAO's advanced DAO tools to Cosmos Hub eliminates the need to independently develop governance modules, smart contracts, or user interfaces. Key features include Token DAOs, NFT DAOs, and Membership DAOs, supported by an intuitive UI for proposal creation, voting, and exploration. DAO DAO also offers sophisticated structures like SubDAOs and cross-chain accounts via Polytone - allows DAOs to control assets on another chain.

Our grant to DAO DAO supports this integration to enhance Cosmos Hub's governance and operational efficiency. We previously funded DAO DAO to deploy on Neutron, a deployment we at AADAO currently utilize. But with CosmWasm now live on the Cosmos Hub, the community can natively leverage DAO DAO's tools to establish various SubDAOs, enabling specialized governance and resource allocation. This integration is a critical step towards a more organized and cohesive governance framework, essential for advancing the Cosmos Hub and the AEZ.

This grant to Superbolt is for developing an advanced NFTfi protocol on Neutron. Superbolt will feature a cutting-edge NFT marketplace, a no-code launchpad, and revolutionize NFT liquidity and utility in the AEZ. 

NFTfi, or NFT finance, enhances the utility and liquidity of NFTs by turning them into financial assets. Superbolt will introduce fractionalization, breaking down NFTs into smaller, fungible tokens, making them more accessible and tradable. 

Superbolt's NFTfi Layer will also use Astroport PCL for efficient trading, and facilitate borrowing and lending with NFTs as collateral to secure loans, among many other NFTfi use cases. 

Superbolt's NFT Marketplace will be a customizable trading hub for Neutron, a key platform of the CosmosHub's AEZ. Expect advanced analytics, various user modes (including Degen mode), and a sleek UI/UX, with plans to include messaging features to enhance user interaction. 

Their NFT Foundry will be a no-code launchpad making NFT creation easy. By removing technical hurdles, it encourages creativity and community growth. Superbolt aims to position Neutron as the go-to for NFT launches, with future integrations for smooth NFTfi onboarding. 

AADAO approved a $125,000 grant to Superbolt to bring these revolutionary use cases to the AEZ, further increasing utility and on-chain activities in the AEZ. To unlock the full grant amount, Superbolt will need to hit TVL targets.

Previously, grant name was Cosmos Hub IBC Relayers Working Group

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The IBC Relayer Feegrant Working Group was set up as per gov prop #862 - to cover the transaction fees for IBC relayers on the Hub. Before that prop, relayers had to cover the fees out of their own pocket, which is not scalable nor fair - the user is sending letters without paying for the postage. This gas fee wallet has now been exhausted, and without quick funding, IBC relaying on the Hub was set to trickle down to a halt.

Currently, 24 relayer teams are using the fee grant. A report about the first service period (2024/01/01 - 2024/06/21) under the governance mandate, can be found here.

This grant of $56k will be used to market-buy ~8k ATOMs to replenish this fee grant wallet and ensure effective and efficient IBC relaying on the Hub. Without AADAO grant, IBC on the Hub will grind to a halt - seriously hampering the Hub's ability to do anything else.

The WG recognizes that this fee grant solution is a temporary fix. The correct fix is for the user to pay their relay costs, but at this moment, there is no solution for this. But should a fix be found, any unused funding will be returned to the ATOM Accelerator DAO.

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Previously, grant name was Ludium: Developer Education in South Korea

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This grant of $15,000 is for the development and deployment of a Korean developer onboarding course, primarily targeted at South Korea (SK). The Ludium team will produce content (written, code samples and videos) on 3 core modules:

• Cosmos Overview: Intro to Cosmos Ecosystem, Go Language and how to use CosmosSDK
• Intro to CosmWasm: Intro to Rust and CosmWasm contract development
• CosmWasm dApp: Hands on exercises to deploy dApp on Neutron

The content will then be split into "missions", which will be deployed on Ludium's in-house LMS platform. Lidium will then find up to 100 SK devs to go through the content, and support the course with AMA and online workshops.

Previously, grant name was PSS Economic Model Frontend

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This grant will build the website front end for the PSS Economic Model (created by another grantee of AADAO). The primary purpose is to make that economic model more accessible, dynamic and user-friendly.

The front end will need to:

1. Help users figure out which validator they should stake with (PSS means different rewards with different validators).

2. Help validators figure out the cost vs reward of running a Consumer Chain. They can then decide not to run a chain.

3. Consumer Chains figure out the economic cost of the security they want/need, helping them create blacklists based on validator metrics, etc.

This grant is aimed at promoting the use of ATOM for NFTs, with Stargaze, the premier NFT platform in the interchain, leading the effort.

With this grant, Stargaze will:

• Add ATOM as a mint denomination on their platform.
• Create an ATOM Creators Fund to incentivize NFT creators from outside the ecosystem to launch collections mintable only in ATOM on Stargaze.
• Run the "Atom August" campaign, a four-week event where all Stargaze Featured projects will mint in ATOM.

The ATOM Creators Fund project includes encouraging 2-3 high-profile creators from outside the ecosystem to launch signature collections on Stargaze. The Stargaze team will execute on marketing and outreach efforts, produce onboarding material for the creators and conduct workshops  (online and IRL)  on minting with ATOM.

The Atom August campaign is designed to drive ATOM's use on Stargaze's NFT marketplace, measure ATOM usage over time through mint volume, and incubate the cultural, marketing, and community value of ATOM-associated NFTs, establishing a new use case for the ATOM token within the ecosystem.

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Visit the Stargaze website or follow them on X.

This grant is to organize a Cosmos Hub side-event at EthCC Brussels. The full day event (12-7pm) will take place the day before EthCC, and aims to target both ETH and wider Cosmos participants.

The event is targeted at developers, aiming to accelerate the launch of PSS chains. The event will feature:

• Keynote from Ethan introducing the PSS Launch front-end
• Keynote from Youssef highlighting our grants, venture and QF programs to support these devs building and launching in the AEZ
• Workshop on bootstrapping an SDK chain, and then a workshop to launch that chain on ICS
• An AEZ pitch night for prospective PSS chains and apps launching in the AEZ to present their project to VCs (of which 1 will be AADAO)

This grant is being issued to Miwa, an Event Management team.

Previously, grant name was Testnet Incentives Program ("Small Testnet")

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The introduction of Partial Set Security (PSS), also known as ICS 2.0, in the recent Gaia v17 software upgrade for Cosmos Hub, brings forward a more complex economic framework for network participants. To address this transition and provide further network support, Hypha Worker Co-operative, renowned for its management of testnets and governance improvements, has secured two grants, one for the ISLE testnet with a funding of $50,000 in USDC to provide incentives for testnet participation, and a second for the “day-to-day” Testnet Incentives program with a funding of $77,000 in USDC. [note: by time of publication, only $30k of the $50k for ISLE testnet was used, with the remaining $20k being returned back to AADAO. Learn more here.]

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ISLE testnet aimed to prepare the Cosmos Hub for this transition through comprehensive education and incentivized participation in the testnet. Through this effort, Hypha sought to raise awareness about the positive effects of PSS and ISC 2.0 on the Atom Economic Zone (AEZ), enhancing validator and stakeholder confidence. The ISLE testnet has been successfully completed, find the results report here.

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After an already successful pilot program that began last year, the six-month Testnet Incentives Program aims to support Cosmos Hub validators' participation in the Hub’s Interchain Security testnet — where new software is tested and new consumer chains are initially onboard — by incentivizing validators to reliably participate, providing feedback to consumer chain teams, helping other validators join the testnet, and more.

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By leveraging their experience from past successful initiatives, such as the Game of Chains incentivized testnet, Hypha is poised to facilitate a smooth transition to PSS and increase overall mainnet validator participation, significantly supporting the advancement of the Cosmos Hub.

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Visit the Hypha website or follow them on X.

Previously, grant name was ICS 2.0 Community Education

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Pro Delegators, a cross-chain validator across the interchain, who actively contributes to the Cosmos Hub community, has proposed an impactful solution to address the lack of detailed economic understanding among validators and consumer chains regarding the Interchain Security 2.0 (also known as PSS)

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With a $15,000 grant from the AADAO, Pro Delegators plans to deliver a comprehensive spreadsheet modeling PSS economics, along with a thorough post in the Cosmos Hub Forum to foster education and awareness. Additionally, they will release a 15-minute video covering all the technical and fundamental aspects changed by the introduction of PSS.

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These initiatives will further spread awareness and understanding of the upgrade, helping to ensure a smoother transition and greater engagement with the new economic framework.

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Visit the Pro Delegators website or join their Discord.

Previously, grant name was Cosmos Hub Awareness LATAM

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La Multisig, founded in 2021, is a Web3 content hub that provides educational content in Spanish and marketing services to help Web3 projects expand in Latin America (LATAM).

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Leveraging its large network and marketing experience, La Multisig aims to improve user and developer onboarding for the Cosmos ecosystem in LATAM, particularly in Argentina. Argentina is already home to over 115,000 developers and a third of the population uses stablecoins for daily purchases.

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To kickstart a dedicated Cosmos Hub community in this region, La Multisig will organize two in-person events. Leveraging our $12,000 grant, one small-size event will be held in Buenos Aires in the next few months, and a second mid-size event will be held at the end of the year, both focused on kick-starting and sustaining an ATOM community in the region. These events are expected to boost end-user awareness and developer adoption of the Cosmos Hub and AEZ among LATAM users.

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Visit the La Multisig website or follow them on X.

Previously, grant name was AEZ QF Expansion

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DoraHacks, the leading multi-chain Web3 developer platform, has over 120,000 monthly active users globally across 100+ ecosystems, offering hackathons, bounties, quadratic funding, and more.

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Dora Factory, its infrastructure arm, recently concluded the first-ever native Cosmos Hub quadratic funding round for AEZ builders and community members, gathering nearly 400 unique contributions.

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Recognizing the importance of quadratic funding in identifying market gaps and ensuring support for essential AEZ public goods like IBC Relayers and popular Cosmos SDK modules, Dora Factory introduced the AEZ Quadratic Funding program. With Cosmos Hub governance approving this Quadratic Funding program, the Atom Accelerator DAO is both adding funds to the match funding pool and playing a role in aligning the program to the needs of the AEZ.

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With $200,000 in funding to be distributed across 10 quadratic funding rounds, the AEZ Quadratic Funding Grant is a 24-month program. Its goal is to support the sustainable development of public goods and appchains in the AEZ, helping shape the future of the vast Cosmos ecosystem and ultimately giving rise to new cornerstone applications within Cosmos. Learn more about AADAO’s support for the AEZ Quadratic Funding Program here.

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Visit the DoraHacks website or follow them on X.

Previously, grant name was ISLE incentivized testnet ("Big Testnet")

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The introduction of Partial Set Security (PSS), also known as ICS 2.0, in the recent Gaia v17 software upgrade for Cosmos Hub, brings forward a more complex economic framework for network participants. To address this transition and provide further network support, Hypha Worker Co-operative, renowned for its management of testnets and governance improvements, has secured two grants, one for the ISLE testnet with a funding of $50,000 in USDC to provide incentives for testnet participation, and a second for the “day-to-day” Testnet Incentives program with a funding of $77,000 in USDC. [note: by time of publication, only $30k of the $50k for ISLE testnet was used, with the remaining $20k being returned back to AADAO. Learn more here.]

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ISLE testnet aimed to prepare the Cosmos Hub for this transition through comprehensive education and incentivized participation in the testnet. Through this effort, Hypha sought to raise awareness about the positive effects of PSS and ISC 2.0 on the Atom Economic Zone (AEZ), enhancing validator and stakeholder confidence. The ISLE testnet has been successfully completed, find the results report here.

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After an already successful pilot program that began last year, the six-month Testnet Incentives Program aims to support Cosmos Hub validators' participation in the Hub’s Interchain Security testnet — where new software is tested and new consumer chains are initially onboard — by incentivizing validators to reliably participate, providing feedback to consumer chain teams, helping other validators join the testnet, and more.

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By leveraging their experience from past successful initiatives, such as the Game of Chains incentivized testnet, Hypha is poised to facilitate a smooth transition to PSS and increase overall mainnet validator participation, significantly supporting the advancement of the Cosmos Hub.

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Visit the Hypha website or follow them on X.

Previously, grant name was Lava Network

Previously, grant name was Airdrop Tracker

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Airdrops have long been recognized as a pivotal value driver for ATOM stakers. However, the exact extent of their impact has remained elusive—until now.

Everstake is set to develop an “Atom Value Accural” tracker. This essential tool will comprehensively illustrate and continuously track the growth in value derived from staking ATOM, alongside capturing all the airdrops ATOM stakers have qualified for.

While this will be delivered as a simple-to-use dashboard, with our firm commitment to proliferate positive data about the Cosmos Hub, Everstake’s grant will include delivery of API endpoints - allowing wallets, platforms and other UIs to access and make visible this data on other dashboards across Cosmos and in other ecosystems.

Visit the Everstake website or follow them on X.

Previously, grant name was Asteroid Protocol

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Asteroid Protocol aims to establish the Cosmos Hub as a permanent data storage layer, facilitating DeFi activities like minting and swapping NFTs and fungible tokens. By embedding data on the Hub, Asteroid leverages existing infrastructure to expand the Hub's capabilities without compromising security.

The grant’s goals include integrating advanced functionality in NFT and CFT20 marketplaces - from the ability to launch NFT collections to floor-sweeping functionality; expanding interoperability through cross-chain transfers of NFTs and CFT20s; and introducing novel experiments to advance activity on the Hub. We’ll share more on this in a later blog.

Asteroid's work could significantly increase the activity on the Cosmos Hub and expand on its current use cases without requiring core protocol engineering. As of the end of February ’24, Asteroid Protocol has produced more than 4.5 million transactions on the Cosmos Hub and accounted for roughly 10-15% of all transactions, with occasional spikes to over 50%.

Visit Asteroid Protocol’s website or follow them on X.

Cosmoverse is the single largest conference for the entire Cosmos ecosystem, with its 2024 event aiming to attract over 2000 attendees.

While the Cosmos Hub is the chain that birthed the ecosystem, our grant aims to bring further exposure to the Cosmos Hub and its direct ecosystem, the Atom Economic Zone (AEZ), helping to establish the Hub as the center of the wider ecosystem.

The grant will promote the Cosmos Hub, its technology and innovation, and the AEZ projects that are driving value to the Hub - before, after, and at the conference. With an estimated reach of 5 million through press and social placements, along with a further 100k viewers of the online stream of the event, this grant is set to propel the Cosmos Hub’s visibility.

Visit the Cosmoverse website or follow them on X.

Previously, grant name was Testnet Working Group

Previously, the grant name was “Cosmos Hub & AEZ Educational Content / Cosmos Joe”

Previously, the grant name was “GT1, Automated Grants Payments Tooling: Calc Finance”

Previously, grant name was Astrovault+

Previously, the grant name was “Shogun”

Previously, the grant name was “Fiat Onboarding to the AEZ”

Previously, the grant name was “Interchain Info Development Funding w/ AEZ chain priority”

Previously, the grant name was “IBC Summit”

Previously, the grant name was “New DAO Bootstrapping / SunDAO”

Previously, grant name was Cosmos Hub Hackathon

AADAO is the sponsor of Cosmoverse, with inclusion of AADAO grant teams, tokenomics RFP, and other AEZ related topics.

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Progress Status: Cosmoverse 2023, the largest Cosmos event of the year, was held in Istanbul in October 2023 with over 1500 attendees. AADAO was a sponsor of the event and had a significant presence, with presentations from grant teams, a tokenomics RFP, and other AEZ-related topics.

The event also featured presentations from projects outside of the Cosmos ecosystem, showcasing the growing interest in Cosmos and interoperability.

One of the main highlights of Cosmoverse was the Tokenomics RFP, which was presented by AADAO and other prominent Cosmos figures. The RFP is designed to attract and support projects that are building innovative tokenomic models.

Another highlight of the event was the updates from various Cosmos blockchains, which provided a glimpse into the latest developments in the ecosystem.

Overall, Cosmoverse 2023 was a successful event that brought together the Cosmos community and showcased the latest developments in the ecosystem.

To learn more about Cosmoverse 2023, please watch the official recap video here.

Previously, the grant name was “Interchain Allocator’s Covenant System / Timewave”

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Progress Status: The distribution of funds for Timewave Covenants V2 supports the completion of key milestones following the successful completion and incorporation of feedback from an audit, which can be found here. The primary objective of this project is to move Cosmos Hub Proof-of-Liquidity (POL) deals off multisig and onto smart contracts. Timewave's Covenants V2 are now ready for the Hub to use our products as soon as the Hub adopts the ICA controller in the upcoming v17 upgrade. The remaining portion of the grant will ensure the seamless integration and operational readiness of Covenants V2 for the Cosmos Hub.

Previously, the grant name was “Cosmos Brazil”

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Grant Proposal for onboarding New Developers, bring awareness and a new Foundation for the Cosmos in Brazil

Previously, the grant name was “Colombian Development Seedbed”

Previously, the grant name was “IBC Atom Compounding”

Previously, the grant name was “MetaMask Snaps Infrastructure”

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AADAO has provided Mystic Labs with initial funding of $49,000 to stand up RPC services and architect a gas fee flexibility capability within its MetaMask wallet that is compatible with Cosmos chains. The RPC providers will be Rhinostake and Numia. In return for AADAO's support, the Cosmos Community Pool will receive a 33% share of fees generated from IBC swaps after the wallet achieves two months of operating at breakeven.

The integration focuses on the ATOM Global Fee's function within the Metamask platform. This function revolves around the "snap" architecture of Metamask, which is designed to be both modular and dynamic. The flexibility of this design ensures the ease of adding new chains and efficiently harnessing multiple chains from a single snap. The initial gas tokens supported will be ATOM, OSMO, and USDC (from Noble).

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Progress Status: The initial scope is now complete. The scope of work for this project included the following:

• Backend swap logic: Implement and test the backend logic to allow users to pay IBC swap fees with ATOM, OSMO, or USDC.
• UI/UX design: Update the MetaMask UI to allow users to select their preferred gas fee token and to automate the use of gas.
• Fallback logic: Implement and test fallback logic to handle cases where users do not have enough gas in their wallet or where there are other errors.
• QA and testing: Conduct comprehensive QA and testing of the entire system to ensure that it is working as expected.

Mystic Labs has completed all of the above tasks and has met all of its technical implementation KPIs, devwork, and timeline milestones. The product is currently in the final stages of QA and testing, and it is expected to be delivered to AADAO very soon.

Once the product is delivered, users will be able to enjoy a number of benefits, including:

• Reduced costs: Users will be able to pay IBC swap fees with the token of their choice, which can save them money on gas fees.
• Convenience: Users will not have to worry about knowing what token they need to pay gas fees with. MetaMask will automatically select the most cost-effective gas fee token for each transaction.
• Flexibility: Users will have more control over their gas fees. They will be able to set their own gas limits and gas prices, and they will be able to see exactly how much gas each transaction will cost before they confirm it.

The AADAO Gas Fee Flexibility Grant is a significant development for the Cosmos ecosystem. It will make it easier and more affordable for users to interact with Cosmos chains and to participate in the Cosmos economy.

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Last Update:

In a collective decision made by AADAO, it has been agreed to discontinue the Metamask implementations for the time being. This decision is not permanent, and there remains the possibility to re-explore this avenue if circumstances improve.

In alignment with this decision, Mystic Labs, along with our RPC providers, have mutually agreed to halt ongoing developments, including RPC funding. This strategic shift provides Mystic Labs with the flexibility to seek alternative funding sources without the constraints tied to AADAO.

Despite this adjustment, Mystic Labs remains steadfast in our commitment to developing the gas fee flexibility module for the benefit of the Cosmos ecosystem. We maintain open communication and stand ready to resume support should there be positive developments. Our team will continue to monitor progress closely, analyzing key metrics such as daily transactions, user engagement, and IBC swap fees, in the coming weeks and months.

Previously, grant name was DAO DAO Neutron Deployment

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Porting DAODAO to Neutron to have more on-chain tooling for AADAO andother subDAOs.

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Progress Status: The objective of this work for DAODAO is to facilitate the transition of AADAO to DAO DAO, guiding the new governance structure for the next iteration. The scope includes consultation to assist AADAO in setting up the new structure, educating them on using DAO DAO, and prioritizing bug fixes.

The implementation involves auditing a veto feature for DAO DAO smart contracts to be used by the Oversight Committee and introducing frontend improvements supporting the governance structure and AADAO workflows. These improvements include approval and veto flows, vesting UI enhancements, and a CSV import for bulk spend actions.

The cost breakdown includes $23.5k for DAO DAO Milestone 2 and $13.6k for a smart contract audit from Oak Security, with payment milestones set at $10k to begin and $13.5k upon completion.

Previously, grant name was Leap Gas Station

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In wallet services for AEZ with with a key focus on ATOM as the interchain gas token.

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Progress Status: Leap Wallet is making significant progress in streamlining gas fees within the Cosmos ecosystem, specifically focusing on $ATOM. Users will soon have the flexibility to pay fees in $ATOM across the Cosmos ecosystem, including consumer chains, with $ATOM becoming the default fee option for these chains, unless expressly objected.

Additionally, Leap Wallet is introducing a 'Preferred Gas Token' feature, allowing users to set $ATOM as their priority fee option in the global fee settings. This ensures that on any chain supporting $ATOM as the gas-paying token, Leap Wallet will default to selecting $ATOM as the preferred gas fee token, provided $ATOM balances are available.

To further enhance user convenience, Leap Wallet is developing mechanisms to allow users to acquire required tokens using $ATOM, even in cases where $ATOM is not the native gas token. This includes implementing a 'Gas Modal' in Elements SDK for transaction flows and creating a dedicated 'Gas Station' page in Leapboard, offering a snapshot of gas token amounts and a convenient Top-Up flow.

These updates aim to improve user experience and accessibility within the Leap Wallet ecosystem. More details can be found here.

Generic indexer for investigating governance, delegations, taxes, IBC transfers, others.

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Progress Status: Defiant Labs has successfully completed the Cosmos Indexer Grant project, which focused on developing an advanced indexer technology for monitoring and analyzing governance proposals within the Cosmos ecosystem. The final milestone includes the creation of a website that showcases the capabilities of the indexer technology. This website features real-time tracking of proposal votes, detailed analysis of voting data, and displays voter voting power. Inspired by discussions in the AADAO space, the project has also produced a polished presentation and comprehensive documentation. The final payment is justified by the completion of all grant work, the innovative features of the governance monitoring website, and the alignment of the project with the grant objectives, demonstrating significant potential for enhancing transparency and understanding of governance activities within the Cosmos community.

Previously, the grant name was ICS/RS Consumer Chain KickStart Service

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Focused on ICS, it will offer comprehensive support, including codebase preparation, testing, launch events, and ongoing operation, for potential Consumer Chains looking to deploy or migrate to the AEZ platform.

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Progress Status: The CryptoCrew grant involves the development of a testing suite for consumer chain core software, designed to operate within a local environment and facilitate a provider-consumer simulation using bash script, Vagrant, and VirtualBox.

The suite has achieved pre-development milestones, technical milestones, and integration accompanying goals, with ongoing work on feedback and bug fixes. Plans for the future include the completion of launch and adoption, as well as post-launch support and maintenance.

Simultaneously, for the "ics-valset-monitoring" milestone, the team is working on a validator set monitoring dashboard for AEZ, reaching completion in pre-development and technical milestones. The platform aims to offer real-time visualization of consensus state data across provider and consumer chains, with future goals set for integration, feedback and bug fixes, launch and adoption, and post-launch support and maintenance.

Previously, grant name was Cryptocito Sponsorship

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4 months sponsorship on producing monthly videos dedicated to the hub, Atom Zone spaces, spaces with our DAO/our grantees, a monthly hub focused livestream plus additional hub advertising.

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Progress Status: Cryptocito is continuing on producing educational and informational videos, additionally there has been coverage on AADAO’s progress in Citozone, and upcoming interviews with AADAO team members to discuss progress updates and new proposals from the team.

Previously, grant name was Proof of Personhood by Anima

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Use Cosmos hub as a central hub for cosmos user identities across the interchain.

Progress Status: Anima has made notable progress in the development and adoption of Proof of Personhood within the Cosmos ecosystem.

In the pre-development phase, comprehensive market research was conducted, potential partner dapps were identified and contacted, and integration with the Leap Wallet was successfully achieved.

Additionally, an automatic switching module was implemented for users to manage connections to and from zone to hub chain. The launch and adoption phase included a successful workshop for the Dora Hacks hackathon with AEZ, covering the integration of Anima and demonstrating a privacy-first Proof of Personhood against Sybil attacks in a 45-minute livestream with substantial viewership on YouTube and Binance Live. With the technical milestone completed and developer outreach initiated, the focus now shifts to collaborating with projects to implement the PoP SDK and gather feedback on various use cases.

The project is well-positioned to progress through the next phases within the designated three-month timeframe.

Previously, grant name was RMIT

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Tokenomics RFP Lead contributor.

Previously, grant name was Binary Builders

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Tokenomics RFP Lead contributor.

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Progress Status: Binary builders have published two reports so far, Developer Revenue Incentive Program and Atom Alignment Treasury.

Previously, grant name was Blockworks Research

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Tokenomics RFP Lead contributor.

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Progress Status: Blockworks has been very active on cosmos forum publishing Fiscal and Governance Policy research, as well as Dynamic Liquid Staking Tax.

Additionally, prop 848 passed, marking a huge milestone for cosmos reducing Atom’s inflation to 10%.

Each part of Blockworks research will be put up for proposal where the cosmos community will decide whether or not to implement such changes in a more modular approach.

Previously, grant name was AMS for AEZ

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An auction module which allows for the development of applications which aim to benefit partner chains by enhancing AEZ's value and generate revenue from listing fees, NFT marketplace sales, and auction commissions, with $ATOM as the default settlement token.

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Progress Status: The Auction Module team achieved an MVP implementation along with a tutorial for building an ABCI++ application. A demo of the first end-to-end user journey showcased reserve auction creation, bid submission, and settlement.

The implementation utilizes a general interface for an escrow service, allowing flexibility for it to be an auction module or a CosmWasm contract. The team also presented the ABCI++ application at Hackmos, emphasizing SDK 0.50 and Comet 0.38. The workshop focused on using prepare/process proposal and vote extensions to address frontrunning issues in auctions.

Continuous feedback from core teams informs iterative design, and insights gained will enhance the documentation and tutorial for wider user education.

Previously, grant name was IBC Security Monitoring

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IBC monitoring dashboard for AEZ to monitor and alert anomalies & security breaches.

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Progress Status: Range Security achieved the completion of real-time dashboards for tracking IBC activity between the Cosmos Hub, Stride, and Neutron. Users can now create customized analytic dashboards and set threshold-alerts for real-time notifications on Slack, Telegram, or Discord channels.

Additionally, monitoring for ICS-specific events has been finalized, allowing developers to create alerts for various scenarios, such as CCV timeouts, validator set changes, packet anomalies, slash proposals, relayer fund issues, and reward distribution anomalies.

A significant milestone in progress involves developing open-source rules based on ICS data to detect bugs and anomalies, serving as a template for developers and ready-to-use alert rules for monitoring interchain security behavior.

Previously, grant name was Messari Protocol Services

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Institutional grade quarterly research reports on Cosmos hub and Atom Economic Zone, including initiation report followed by 4 quarterly reports.

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Progress Status: Messari has published two reports thus far. The first report was initial coverage of Cosmos hub, covering it’s Genesis of the Interchain and ecosystem, and the second one covered State of Cosmos hub and AEZ. Research on the second quarterly report is being conducted and scheduled to publish in Q1 2024.

Previously, grant name was Piloting deliberative governance for the Cosmos Hub

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Pilot research program aimed to address and improve governance challenges Cosmos hub faces today.

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Updates: Grant has been discontinued funding from AADAO, however the team has decided to pursue their research and have published the results of session 1 of Cosmos Citizens assembly here.

Non-custodial lending protocol on Neutron with self repaying loans.

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Progress Status: Amulet has released a 3 part medium article series on how it works. Amulet Finance experienced a Strategy contract delay due to the need for a more complex design on Neutron.

The 'Hub & Spoke' network topology includes a Hub managing user positions and yield distribution, with Vault contracts acting as Strategy wrappers. Audited Hub and Vault contracts are deployed on Neutron's testnet, with the Strategy contract for staking ATOM awaiting auditing. During the delay, partnerships with Stride, Mars, Levana, and Eclipse were formed, with a focus on a lockdrop with Eclipse.

The team is working closely with legal teams for a robust protocol launch and actively raising awareness before launch. The ATOM strategy for cross-chain staking via IBC from Neutron to Cosmos Hub is currently in audit with SecurityOak. 

Previously, grant name was Fairblock Private Governance

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Aims to deliver pre-execution privacy and private governance to Cosmos, ensuring user protection and enhancing the overall user experience while mitigating against bad MEV.

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Progress Status: Fairblock has completed all of the Phase I developments of the grant, which have been audited by Oak security and are currently on testnet.

Phase I of the grant included the development of a Pre-Execution Privacy (PEP) Cosmos SDK module, the FairyRing Cosmos chain, the FairyPort relayer, and Decentralized IBE, VSS, and DKG cryptographic libraries.

Fairblock is now working on Phase II of the grant, which includes the development of a Private Governance Cosmos SDK module.

Fairblock is also developing a frontend js library that can encrypt transactions, which is expected to be completed in Phase III of the grant.

A cohort between AADAO, Neutron, & LongHashX for a 12-week program,the first focusing on accelerating projects on Cosmos’ Partner Chains, to boost applications in the ATOM Economic Zone, including those on Neutron.

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Progress Status: Longhash VC, in partnership with AADAO and Neutron, has launched a 12-week accelerator program to support the development of applications in the ATOM Economic Zone, including those on Neutron. The program focuses on accelerating projects on Cosmos' Partner Chains.

So far, the program has funded eight grants: four through the Accelerator Track and four through the Builder Fellowship. The funded projects are Obi, QuantAMM, FortyTwo, ChainDefender, Calculated Payments, and Rugless AMM.

The program is making good progress and is helping to boost innovation in the Cosmos ecosystem.

Previously, grant name was Data Lenses Analytics Dashboard

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The grant proposal aims to develop a custom dashboard called LENSES within Data Lenses, Numia’s upcoming public Dashboard, to provide the Atom Economic Zone with valuable insights for informed decision-making.

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Progress Status: The Datalenses By Numia platform has launched and is receiving positive feedback from the community. The team is committed to ongoing enhancements to the Hub dashboard and is currently integrating the whale tracker.

The ChatGPT integration is still under development, but the team is prioritizing expanding Lenses to other Cosmos chains. Key vertical feature enhancements, such as the ChatGPT integration, will be selected and implemented incrementally.

The team has also launched a new go-to-market (GTM) strategy, which includes an ad network that is fully powered by Numia.

Overall, the Datalenses By Numia grant has delivered a valuable resource to the Cosmos community for on-chain data analytics. The team is also committed to growing the platform through its new GTM strategy.

Previously, grant name was Escrow Module: DreddSecure

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Cosmos SDK Escrow module designed to provide a secure and reliable way for parties in the Cosmos ecosystem to transact with each other and reduce the risk of fraud and disputes.

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Progress Status: The DreddSecure Escrow Module is now ready for deployment, and the team has released a module signaling prop to seek community feedback. Before entering the final stage of the grant with launch efforts, the team will carefully consider and address any community feedback.

However, there were some concerns raised about the risks and maintenance challenges of implementing the escrow module on Cosmos Hub. In response, AADAO has decided to allow DreddSecure to have a fair chance at governance and negotiate marketing aspects post-governance results. Other chains are also being explored for a more top-down approach in case the escrow module is rejected on Cosmos Hub initially.

This situation has also kickstarted a discussion about the Cosmos Hub Improvement Process (CHIPPS). Some members of the community have suggested that a CHIPPS process could be used to provide technical support and feedback to projects prior to launching their project or applying for a grant. This would help to identify and mitigate potential risks and challenges before projects are deployed on Cosmos Hub.

AADAO is committed to supporting the development of the DreddSecure escrow module and to helping the team bring their valuable product to the Cosmos ecosystem. The team is also committed to working with the community to improve the CHIPPS process and make it more effective.

Previously, grant name was Cosmos Millions

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Cosmos Millions is an open source prize protocol which utilizes ATOM yield to distribute to winners.

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Progress Status: Cosmos Millions has had an 87% growth in TVL since inception with 23,641 ATOM added on top of 100k ATOM supplied by AADAO. To be noted that TVL is reflexive and dependent on the price of ATOM. Cosmos Millions is in process of adding two more pools: Mad Scientist for OSMO and Lucky Star for Stargaze. It has added 281 unique users.

Previously, the grant name was “Interchain Meetups”

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Hosting interchain meet-ups bringing Cosmos to universities across Italy and bringing the developers of tomorrow to us. The meet ups will be conducted at various places of interest such as Universities throughout Italy in hopes of bring young talent into Cosmos.

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Progress Status: Made in Block (now Kintsugi) has hosted 4 events with 200+ attendees since winning the Interchain Meetups grant, spending $3000 in total. The events covered topics such as Cosmos-themed workshops, guest speakers from Desmos Network, and workshops on creating independent blockchains. Made in Block plans to continue hosting events, cover a wider range of topics, and collaborate with other Cosmos projects and communities.

This is a project co-funded with Osmosis Grants Program (OGP) to introduce metamask snaps to Cosmos. Metamask is the world’s leading non custodial crypto wallet which currently has over 21 million active users in the EVM ecosystem.

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Progress Status: MetaMask Snaps has been live since mid-September, with over 15,000 total downloads and significant growth during Celestia launch. Mystic Labs has received positive feedback and believes MetaMask Snaps will be a valuable tool for projects looking to branch out from traditional Cosmos users.

Mystic Labs is planning to roll out MetaMask Snaps with dYdX next and is scoping out a gas flexibility module for a contingent grant with AADAO. This module could help projects like Levana by allowing users to pay any gas fee with ATOM, OSMO, or USDC.

Overall, Mystic Labs is making good progress on the MetaMask Snaps grant, with a live product and plans to expand its reach and capabilities.

Previously, the grant name was Liquid Staking by Stride

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This grant seeks to establish an automated process of deploying through IBC the ATOM from the community pool into Stride, liquid stake it into $stATOM and send it back to the community pool, all in a trustless way no multisig in between following a governance proposal.

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Progress Status: The Strides Covenant V1 liquid staking module is nearing completion and is expected to be shipped on-chain in the next upgrade. The module is specific to Stride, but the foundation for Timewave's Covenant V2 was built on the work done in this grant.

The team is currently working on shipping the code on-chain and expects to have it done in the next week, unless any issues are found.

Overall, the Strides Covenant V1 liquid staking module grant is on track to achieve its milestones and deliver a valuable resource to the Cosmos community.

CosmWasm by Example, Inspired by Solidity By Example, offers a registry of example smart contracts, that can be easily viewed with an explanation for all types of developers to come into to get inspired, remember some concepts or even use as templates.

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Progress Status: The CosmWasm by Example project has completed all of its milestones and is now available to developers. The project has integrated with ChainIDE, added open source Cosmwasm contracts, and improved the open source contribution process. It was also introduced at one of the Atom Accelerator hackathons and talks, and Archway and Shade Protocol are in talks to integrate it into their docs.

The team is planning to continue adding new features, improving the user experience, promoting the project to the Cosmos developer community, and collaborating with other Cosmos projects and communities to create a more comprehensive resource for developers.

Overall, the CosmWasm by Example grant has been a success, and the team is making progress towards its goal of making CosmWasm By Example the go-to resource for developers learning about and using Cosmwasm.

Cosmod is a registry for Cosmos SDK which will provide the proper documentation necessary for material to be easily discoverable. It aims to help with discoverability of Cosmos SDK modules for chains developers & keeping track of compatibility between Cosmos SDK modules.

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Progress Status: Cosmod is making good progress on all of its milestones, with 75% of Milestone 1 and 80% of Milestone 2 complete.

Milestone 1 includes indexing Cosmos SDK-based chains modules from GitHub (100%), displaying them on a beautiful and intuitive website (75%), and developing a marketing strategy (100%).

Milestone 2 includes improving the website with statistics and defining best practices to list a module (100%), providing tooling for keeping modules up-to-date in the registry (0%), developing a CLI for interacting with the registry (20%), creating a newsletter showcasing the "module of the month" (80%), and developing a recognizable brand in the Cosmos Ecosystem (100%).

The next steps for Cosmod are to complete the development of the CLI for interacting with the registry, launch the community newsletter, continue to develop and improve the tooling and best practices for developers, and measure the success of the project by tracking the number of modules indexed, submitted, and used.