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Cardano After Dark - Hold'em poker

$40,000.00 Received
$40,000.00 Requested
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Addresses Challenge
Feasibility
Auditability
Solution

Create a decentralised poker-platform where players can play for cryptocurrencies directly from their wallets with minimum fees

Problem:

100+ million poker players are playing on centralised Poker-platforms which are holding their money and are charging high fees

Yes Votes:
₳ 118,924,628
No Votes:
₳ 6,126,433
Votes Cast:
554

This proposal was approved and funded by the Cardano Community via Project F7: Gamers On-Chained Catalyst funding round.

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Detailed Plan

What is it all about?

Building an Online Poker Dapp will give Poker-players a decentralised alternative to play on the Cardano Network. In addition, this would be a creative experiment in terms of implementing real-world solutions tackling common DeFi problems with a different approach. For instance:

  • secure protocols without trusted intermediaries (ZK)
  • financial rewards and penalties enforcements (following rules)
  • disaster-prevention rules (responsible gambling)
  • responsible tokenomics (part of the income shall be destined to addiction prevention)

Our aim is to build a real-world Poker Dapp, that can tackle the above problems.

While there are other Poker-projects out there we are going to implement our solution with regards to the IOG (Former IOHK) co-sponsored Paper [1]"Kaleidoscope" to the paper [2]"Royale"* as well as [3]"21 - Bringing down the Complexity"*

This will not just get IOGs papers in a real Environment but will also bring lower cost to Pokerplayers and raise awareness for Cardano within the gaming-community. Our implementation will be open source and well documented which means it can be reused and built upon by everyone in the Cardano eco-system. In addition our hope is to benefit from an ecosystem, filled with professionals in mathematics, game theory and exploitation.

Poker could be just the beginning, creating a poker-platform based on these papers we keep other card-games in mind for easier integration in further iterations while others could use our model to build their own card-games or find other usecases in other Cardano-markets for this model!

Within the context of this proposal we will create Testnet-player-NFTs to incentivize and have an immutable record of their participation and who knows what else we can bring to the community once we have a plattform to implement these, Avatar-NFTs, open-source-contributers, DIDs.

How does success look like?

A proof of concept/MVP on the Cardano Testnet

Users who own ADA can play the game using real tokens

rules should be applied correctly (e.g. a user leaving midgame loses part of his stake)

Responsible game actions shall be applied (e.g. prevent addictive behaviors, by alerting or incentivising game-stops)

A mechanism for social compensation shall be applied.

The Plan: Roadmap and Milestones

While working in a Lean and Iterative Methodologie, we think these Milestones can be met.

<u>First three months:</u>

Implement part of the smart contract, including the below bullet points

  • Wallet integration
  • Smart contract
  • Frontend
  • Backend

Extensive documentation on what we do and on the process.

Part of analytic documentation incl. flowchart, algorithm, contract.

<u>first six months:</u>

go from development to public testnet

publish articles about what we do

open source the project

MVP finished

ready for auditing

Team

  • Seomon - Cohort F6, CA, IT consultant
    <https://github.com/Seomon4u>

  • Psuzzi - Fullstack Engineer, Banking, Automotive, SW Modeling
    <https://github.com/psuzzi>

  • David Baxter - Front end Engineer and Founder of Beanchain Coffee
    <https://www.linkedin.com/in/baxweb>

  • Cem Karaca - Cardano Architecture & Design Developer Professional Student @Emurgo. fintech data center owner, MFC/C++ developer, cyber security professional. <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ckaraca/>
    <https://github.com/ckaraca>

  • Cagkan - Backend Engineer. Experience in Python, PostgreSQL and a bit of HTML&CSS.

  • Jude Ben - 9 years+ Software Development , Plutus Smart Contract Development , Cloud and Infrastructure Engineer <https://www.linkedin.com/in/judeebene/>

  • Thomas - Theoretical physicist and mathematician
    <https://nl.linkedin.com/in/thomas-vellekoop-1a622119a>

  • Steve Lockhart - Community builder, decentralization advocate, arborist, dog owner.

  • Nori Nishigawa -
    <https://github.com/xeeban>

  • Shannon Baxter - UI/UX Designer, Information Architect, Management
    <https://www.sbax.design/>

Budget Breakdown

  • Programming: 450 hours 50$ = 22.500 $
  • Project Management: 120 hours * 50$ = 6.000 $
  • Marketing: 80 hours * 50$ = 4.000 $
  • Documentation: 50 hours 50$ = 2.500 $
  • Community and partners = 5.000 $

Success metrics

<u>Userbase:</u>

  • Do we have enough initial users/testers? (100+ users)
  • How many rounds have been played (2000+ rounds)
  • How many transactions are being made? (250+ transactions)

<u>Functionality:</u>

  • The Poker application is complete and functional
  • We use funds from the connected wallet
  • If signs transactions that are directly sent on chain
  • It applies the rules of the game and enforces penalties
  • Reusability: can you use the application as a template for building similar applications?

<u>Usability:</u>

  • The application shall be easy to use and intuitive

<u>Transparency:</u>

  • Smart contract backend and (open source architecture) makes the system transparent.

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Links:

  • Check out our Github
    <https://github.com/Cardano-After-Dark/>
  • check out our initial idea for an architecture
    <https://github.com/Cardano-After-Dark/co-ordination/blob/main/docs/architecture.md>
  • Check out our ideation
    https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lhLk_UY=/?invite_link_id=544237046605 ()
  • Join our community and talk to us!
    <https://discord.gg/VwxRdEBwBE>

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There has been progress in different areas, like architecture, frontend but also on the smart contract side please look at our github for more info: https://github.com/Cardano-After-Dark

Gossip which is my current read is a very interesting technology for us, we were already thinking about creating our own signaling server(-proposal :D).

Also we are already working on DRED, our F8 funded proposal for redis on Cardano. This is about making CAD and dapps scalable as well as ensure security and reliability of state channels.

PS: Last question had a spelling error: "…or any other measurable way you feel demontrates the…", just letting you know.

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Working on Implementation.

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We are sorry for the delay, our team is doing what we can.

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working on it

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