stacking.club 2.1

[fungiblesystems]

APPLICANT

Type:                                                                        Direct Application

Email:                                                                    hi@fungible.systems

Discord:                                                    aulneau

Twitter:                                                        aulneau_

Stacks Forum:           aulneau.id

GRANT BASICS

Grant Name:                                        stacking.club 2.1

Total Budget:                              225,000

Total Duration:                 1,500

Grant Type:                                               Open Source Dev Repeat Grantees

Grant Track:                                          Stacks Interface

Grant Goal:                                               Improve Existing Technologies

Grant Audience:             End Users (Consumer)

Specific Audience:         Developers and all Stackers

Grant Team:                                       aulneau, jjenzz, fungiblejasper, +1 more

Previous Grants:                      290, continued funding for micro-stacks

Ecosystem Programs:      

GRANT MISSION, IMPACT, RISKS & REFERENCE

Grant Mission:         stacking.club has been the go-to source for stacking related information since shortly after Stacks 2.0 was launched.

With Stacks 2.1 there are some changes to the pox protocol that we want to include in stacking.club, along with a rebuild of the API, making it officially public (apps use it now, but it's not in a good state for public usage), and improvements to the frontend. We also want to add stacking functionality built into the application, which has been requested by multiple folks in the ecosystem.

The primary goal of this grant is to give us (Fungible Systems) the ability to dedicate real time towards the product, and to help offset some of the costs of maintaining and running stacking.club (~$300+ a month for infra costs alone)

Grant Impact:               App developers make use of the API, users stack through the website, traffic continues to grow.

Grant Risks:                          Not many, stacking.club has seen consistent usage over the last year+

Support Link:                                     the current version of stacking.club

GRANT ROADMAP & DELIVERABLES

MILESTONE 1:

Deliverable:                   new API backend powered by chainhooks

MILESTONE 2:

Deliverable:                   Public API documentation, JS/TS client for API

MILESTONE 3:

Deliverable:                   A cleaned up and improve frontend

MILESTONE 4:

Deliverable:                   Stacking features built into the frontend(contract calls)

MILESTONE 5:

Deliverable:                   Exploration around improved visualizations and other UI/UX improvements

MILESTONE 6:

Deliverable:                   Research and exploration around how best to support pool operators/users

FINAL DELIVERABLE

Deliverable:                   An updated stacking.club for stacks 2.1, new public API built with chainhooks

[stacks-foundation]

👋 @fungiblesystems


Thanks for your application! We will do a pre-review and let you know if we have any immediate questions. In the mean time please refer to our review schedule here for a detailed timeline and response dates.


Best,
Will

[markmhendrickson]

This is great to see! And would work particularly well with the Hiro Wallet extension now that we have Ledger support for it, since many Stackers will want to use their hardware device while engaging with a stacking.club 2.1 that has integrated stacking functionality.

Would it be possible to ship this in time for the launch of Stacks 2.1 itself vs. some date afterwards?

[fbwoolf]

Very cool, happy to see this! 👍