Filamint - 3D Printable NFTs
<p>3D modelers have minimal control over the physical supply and intellectual property of the assets they create</p>
Community Reviews (8)
Addresses Challenge
Does the proposal effectively addresses the challenge?
The NFT technology applies well to the context of art. The 3D art is growing therefore it is important to regulate it. The 3D printer are also digital addicted by definition and this is why I like this Proposal. It could work very well.
Assessment Quality Assurance
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- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_303
- Total QA Ratings
- 9
- QA Rating Outcome
This proposal addresses the challenge quite well also in the context of all 3D designs and visualisations that requires physical realisation. The marketplace recommended to serve as some kind of "certification" hub as well. Storing of the native files - IPFS or centralised?
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- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_633
- Total QA Ratings
- 9
- QA Rating Outcome
The proposal indeed suggests a novel and interesting use-case, which bridges the gap between the real and the digital world in the context of 3d-printed assets. This novel idea opens up new business opportunities, where creators of 3d models can be rewarded for their efforts and can sell either their models or limited supplies of their creations. This has the potential to attract users from a new niche, and opens the door to exploration of how the blockchain interacts with real-world assets. The proposal includes both technical objectives as well as marketing ones, which is essential for adoption, and a great plus to this proposal.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_318
- Total QA Ratings
- 9
- QA Rating Outcome
The proposal attempts to merge two growing markets, NFTs markets and 3D printable models. As a member of the 3D printing community I am personally excited for a dApp which allows creators to monetize and distribute 3D models. The proposal offers a unique approach to hosting 3D model repositories and a mechanism for creators to easily craft and monetize their work. This proposal builds off the current NFT craze to access a, relatively, untapped market for the 3D printing community. The proposed dApp shows promise to attract people with 3D printers to the Cardano ecosystem.
Assessment Quality Assurance
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- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_338
- Total QA Ratings
- 12
- QA Rating Outcome
This is a very promising proposal. It has a significant potential to grow cardano's user-base, network-utility and network-value. The application suite proposed is a fantastic combination of the NFT concept and the cardano network and has all the necessary requirements to attract all the 3D printing enthusiasts. It has clear and measurable goals, the budget is pretty reasonable and it seems to have the capacity to attract the community interest and engagement. The plan set out is quite clear on how they plan to add value to the cardano ecosystem and the milestones are aligned with the objectives of the campaign.
Assessment Quality Assurance
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- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_341
- Total QA Ratings
- 7
- QA Rating Outcome
The proposal is offering protection to Intellectual Property in 3D printing through NFT. However, it goes more in the direction of making 3D printing less accessible and less democratic. It's of course important to protect Intellectual Property and give value to the work done by 3D makers. However, controlling every piece printed does not counter the problem of piracy (as the NFT and art market have proved s far) and moves the market to more oligarchic models. Therefore, it is questionable that the proposal effectively addresses the challenge and will disrupt the 3D printing market.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_386
- Total QA Ratings
- 7
- QA Rating Outcome
This proposal is a very unique way to approach the concept of a NFT, and utilizes the blockchain issued NFT to tie the digital world to the physical, or vice versa. This makes blockchain the "glue" of our economy. 3D printing is an obvious next step in manufacturing as far as physical products goes, and NFTs will be a large part of this space.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_577
- Total QA Ratings
- 11
- QA Rating Outcome
I think this is a fantastic idea to bridge and start NFT marketplace. Relevant experience is detailed and the roadmaps has great metrics.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_594
- Total QA Ratings
- 9
- QA Rating Outcome
Feasibility
Given experience and plan presented is likely that this proposal will be implemented successfully
Very likely - with clear deliverables and timelines. Tokenomics re scarcity might add value and more buy-in for success.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_633
- Total QA Ratings
- 9
- QA Rating Outcome
I think the experience of the team is important and I can feel the passion they have put into the field of 3D art. The Plan is in line with what they are declairing. The fund rising instead seems very high. My suggestion is to split the idea in a pilot scenario and a target scenario in order to collect feedback from the market
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_303
- Total QA Ratings
- 9
- QA Rating Outcome
The plan is clearly laid out. I consider the timelines optimistic, but they are definitely doable by a team that is experimented and dedicated. The team seems indeed to have most of the technical skills required, though I couldn't find prior experience related to smart contracts or NFT-related development. However as a software developer myself, I know that isn't a roadblock and can be picked up easily to develop at least the first version of this system.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_318
- Total QA Ratings
- 9
- QA Rating Outcome
The proposal is very repetitive, it continuously makes claims about what the dApp will be capable of but doesn't offer insights to how the team will achieve them.
- How will the 3D model data be stored? on-chain or Off-chain? Many detailed 3D models are gigabytes in size and require multiple parts. The proposal does not offer an answer to how or where the data will be stored? centralized or decentralized storage?
- What off-chain or on-chain mechanism will be utilized to prevent multiple NFTs from representing the same 3D model
- A block explorer can verify that a smart contract only minted a single instance of an NFT, but doesn't prevent other smart contracts from minting a different NFT to represent the same metadata (i.e. 3D model).
- Is there a plan to prevent other NFTs from representing the same model? Such as an off chain algorithm that combs through the off-chain database to identify NFTs that represent the same/similar models or only listing NFTs that were minted with the project's NFT minting solution. So that it the dApp can verify that each listed NFT represents a unique 3D model.
- Much of the data that specifies how to print the model (i.e. nozzle temperature and size, print bed temperature and size, different materials, SLA vs FMD printer etc.) differs for each 3D printer. How will the dApp handle print details which differs for different 3D printers?
- Once a "user" of the dApp gets the 3D models from the off-chain database, (I am assuming that the cad/slicer models will not be stored on-chain -> too expensive) what is preventing the "user" from sending multiple copies of the model to their 3D printer. How will the dApps enforce the "pay-per- print" mechanism.
- How would the dApps limit the quantity of 3D prints of a specific model, without relinquishing control of the 3D model data? Once the user is given the data necessary to 3D print the model, how can the user be prevented from printing unlimited copies?
Because the proposal does not seems to acknowledge many of these concerns it is not clear how or if the team has the capability to complete the dApp.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_338
- Total QA Ratings
- 12
- QA Rating Outcome
This proposal is very likely to be successful based on the definition of success set out in the plan. The team is experienced and has the necessary knowledge to implement the idea. The budget not only is broken down into very clear items but also has a reasonable estimation for each one of them. The milestones are very realistic and feasible. The only point I would add is a deeper thought on the unexpected challenges that could arise during the project and what alternatives the team would invest to overcome them.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_341
- Total QA Ratings
- 7
- QA Rating Outcome
The team has experience in the market of 3D printed and seems to be business-oriented. There's a clear plan and clear goals. However, it's a too-small team to execute all the steps and the huge amount of work described in this proposal. And the proposal does not give any contingency plan in the case that users/makers simply do not see an advantage in "regulating" the 3D printing market. If there are not users enough in the platform, would it at least leave a legacy to the industry or it does not change anything at all?
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_386
- Total QA Ratings
- 7
- QA Rating Outcome
This proposal is likely to succeed based on the merits of the team proposing it and thee vast depth of their respective backgrounds.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_577
- Total QA Ratings
- 11
- QA Rating Outcome
The roadmap appears to be well thought out and the product "Filamint" pretty cool name for the 3D printing connection with blockchain technology to create scarcity and ownership.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_594
- Total QA Ratings
- 9
- QA Rating Outcome
Auditability
Does the proposal provides sufficient information to assess and audit progress and completion?
Although metrics quite clear - would be good to releasd basic functionality after month 2.5 as value gap between month 1 and 4 too big -especially out of blocks. As much as youtube can help with marketing, selling and education - metrics and effort should be added on streamlining the core processes of ensuring that the essence of the challenge is optimised and made user friendly.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_633
- Total QA Ratings
- 9
- QA Rating Outcome
The information provided is explained well but it is missing the identification of KPI that allow us to verify the status update of the proposal.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_303
- Total QA Ratings
- 9
- QA Rating Outcome
My main concern is that the proposers do not address risks and challenges - 3d printing is not always an exact science, and surely a lot of details with how the real asset interacts with the blockchain element will need to be tweaked. Regardless, the proposal proposes measurable, specific goals on the tech and marketing roadmap.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_318
- Total QA Ratings
- 9
- QA Rating Outcome
Much of the milestones offered by the proposal are definitive and can be used to measure the progress of the team. Hopefully the team behind this proposal will make the milestone data available to everyone.
The proposal seems to have a well defined metrics for measuring their success. I believe it will be very possible to audit the progress and success of the proposal.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_338
- Total QA Ratings
- 12
- QA Rating Outcome
The information provided is sufficient to audit the progress of the team. Even though it is not extremely detailed about the entire roadmap, there's a good amount of milestones with clear metrics for each of them. A good idea would be to prepare some presentations mid-journey to show how current progress is compared to what was planned. But again, the KPIs are very clear and aligned with the definition of success which in turn presents a good understanding of the targeted problem.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_341
- Total QA Ratings
- 7
- QA Rating Outcome
The proposal is well structured and detailed in a way that the progress can be audited. However, the required budget is not reasonable. In special, because it is an audacious task to build the entire platform with 5000 active users, in one year and in a team of two persons. It would be too risk to invest such amount of money, considering the chances of failing and delays.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_386
- Total QA Ratings
- 7
- QA Rating Outcome
The road map is incredibly well laid out, thoughtful and easy to measure quantitatively in plain terms with no ambiguity. Voters should feel comforted knowing this will be clear as day weather the team succeeded or not.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_577
- Total QA Ratings
- 11
- QA Rating Outcome
The overall plan seams well established, the funds are reasonable per intended use and the timeline well designed.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_594
- Total QA Ratings
- 9
- QA Rating Outcome
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We hired one amazing plutus pioneer and are currently looking for another!
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Have been using my own funds to pay workers for 2 months now
changed name from filamint to 3dkey
Slowly but surely evolving the project. Almost to the point where we can start funneling the community we created onto the website!
Making steady progress! Very close to a soft launch
We are gearing up for our first product release. The last month has been spent on developing and filming a product we intend to release into the market to our 150k subscribers. In parallel we have been building out our website which will facilitate the sale of this product through a Cardano web3 interface.
We intend to scale the business through continued releases of 3d printable products. Each product will have a dedicated repository containing a tutorial on how to build the product. This information will be free and open to the public. Along side each repository, users will be able to post "makes" of the product which they can sell to other users who don't feel like tackling the build. This entire setup will be structured in such a way that the original creator of the repository can collect small royalties on sales within their repos (via web3 and smart contracts).
Our current capability is centrally controlled repos with centrally controlled product fulfillment via web3. Our plan is to iterate through our first sale with web3, and then experiment with federated decentralized fulfillment. Lastly we will make our repos fully decentralized.
As a final note I would like to say that our current stage of this project is looking somewhat different than our original proposal. This has made me somewhat apprehensive about reporting. The nature of good development and engineering is to make logical trade offs in response to the objective reality of obstacles. With that being said I am trying my absolute hardest to bend our original proposal into the reality of development capability and market conditions. In my view, any funded project that does not do this is doing the Cardano community a disservice by dooming their project to failure.
Since our last report we have launched our first product along with its accompanying repository. After deploying our wallet connector last month we have deployed functioning test net transactions with multiple wallets (nami and eternal). Steady growth on the tiktok side of our community along with rapidly increasing growth on the YouTube community (44k views this month up from 20k from last month).
This month we plan to achieve our first sale in ada, begin making headway on smart contracts, add two more products/repos, and double our YouTube growth.
Like last month, this was a big month for us in regards to development of our platform, as well as advertising the project across TikTok and YouTube. Firstly, and the most obvious, is we've greatly expanded our product pool, which has also helped in rounding out the look of the site. Next, we removed the out of place connect button from the top for Cardano wallets and integrated them as a selection in the actual product view. Along with this, and the most exciting part of the update, we officially have mainnet Cardano transactions! As our platform utilizes Shopify's backend product database we also had to create a shipping form linked to our cryptocurrency checkout. This form connects a wallet to an order and also includes product options such as color. We eventually hope we can integrate the transactions directly into the Shopify database and have our crypto orders appearing there as well. Finally, the last major update to the platform comes in the form of displaying the product prices in ADA.
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