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Financial markets software engineering, cryptocurrency payments, start-ups, data & Govtech, impact investing. Organize legal-tech community.
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Robert O'Brien Proposals (15)
Continuous Finance Building Blocks
<p>DApp developers want to use financial Smart Contracts in projects, but that requires Plutus engineering expertise, slowing time-to-market.</p>
Retroactive Project Funding SDK Quick Pitch
<p>Project Catalyst & SoFi DApps must leverage treasuries while funding innovation. Building robust market mechanisms to do that is difficult.</p>
Give Users security and confidence
<p>Obscuring the truth is how phishing attacks and scams common in cryptocurrency convince people to take action against their interests.</p>
On-boarding East Asia Today!
<p>Despite a population of billions, East Asians are underrepresented in Catalyst due to a lack of localised content.</p>
Library of Proposer Case Studies
<p>Communicating ideas to a crowd is intimidating if you have not seen others do it well & know how it worked out for them.</p>
Cardano Canvas, Cards & Calculator
Solution: Create Canvas, Card deck & Calculator tools to design blockchain ventures at hub events that are easy to explain, customise & share offline
AMM for Continuous Financing
Solution: A reusable module (money legos) of economic protocols based on bonding curves to scale up continuous project financing and investment.
DeFi+Catalyst🔥 Retroactive Finance
Solution: Conduct user research with behavioural data to design and prototype a mobile app that turns people into impact investors.
Retroactive Financing Experiment
Solution: Conduct experiments with conditional financing mechanisms to help explore and understand rapid funding options.
DAO Treasury Building Blocks
Solution: A reusable module and SDK for bonding curves enable DApp developers to implement DAO treasury management and fair disbursements.
Regulation/legislation as code repo
Solution: A community managed open source platform for leg/reg as code for anyone to contribute to & build on + a legal eligibility tool to help ppl.
Distributed Autonomous Accelerator
Solution: Conduct a research project for a radical decentralized blockchain accelerator that nurtures teams that are worth investing in any context.
Impact Finance Regulatory Sandbox
Solution: Research and write a blueprint for creating a regulatory sandbox to experiment with innovative DeFi in social and environmental finance.
Decolonising financial compliance
Solution: Build ecosystem governance frameworks and technology for Āhau, using TribalDIDs methodologies, to interoperate with financial and compliance systems removing nation-building barriers in Aotearoa/NZ
A Smart Market Toolkit for Cardano
Solution: Construct a toolkit for building Smart Markets, the killer dApps on Cardano. You can then trade any mix of assets tokenized as NFTs
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The start of the project is dependent on other proposals progressing before we work on this proposal— dependent proposals are F7 DeFi+Catalyst 🔥 Retroactive Finance and F7: DAO Treasury Building Blocks. The latter is a fundamental building block for this work and until the larger team is working full-time a lot of our efforts will be prioritised towards that proposal.
Two of the team had personal matters that meant not as much preliminary background work was conducted this month as hoped. Our primary Product/UX designer contracted COVID so that has pushed out his work commitments by a couple of weeks. He will be starting full-time in June. However a small amount of preliminary design research is work proceeding with the Eastern Townhall core team.
Conceptual models and specification work using BPMN, PetriNets, and BigraphER progressed. We are setting up a documentation site which will host the specification work. We have workflows incorporating Github, Nix, Nix Flakes, Teraform, AWS. Key aspects of Plutus transaction metadata has been worked on which incorporate a stance on SSI/DIDs and will be applied to a number of other proposal projects building up toward a Retroactive Funding system for DAOs.
A flint-stone experiment using Bonding Curves for a compensation process is being worked on with the Eastern Townhall core team. The aim is to help inform the specification and UX design work by using a real-world example in a controlled manner.
This proposal is a critical building block to a lot of our efforts so is being prioritised over the others until we scale the team. We've done some outreach to local universities and we had an extended meeting with a senior Cloud Native Foundation (Kubernetes) member, initiating a potential collaboration as part of our larger effort.
The completion of the project itself is dependent on other funded proposals progressing before starting on this proposal. A fundamental building block for this work F7: DAO Treasury Building Blocks. Until a larger team is working full-time a lot of our efforts will be prioritised towards that proposal.
Our primary Product/UX designer contracted COVID so that has pushed out his work commitments by a couple of weeks. He will be starting in June. However some preliminary design research work is being conducted through our work with the Eastern Townhall core team.
Some preliminary planning/design work is being done with an initial preliminary-experiment being conducted with the Eastern Townhall core team. The project itself is dependent on other funded proposals progressing a little bit before we activitly start on project. See the proposal for more information.
We getting to start work on this proposal in April. After being funded for a number of proposals in Fund 7, we a building out a team and going to be seeking additional funding to do this. Scaling the project team is occupying a lot of time and attention at the moment. This proposal is a critical building block to a lot of our efforts so is being prioritised over the others.
Some preliminary planning/design work is being conducted with the Eastern Townhall core team. Also our primary Product/UX designer can only start work part-time until his other commiments have completed.
The completion of the project itself is dependent on other funded proposals progressing a little bit before we activitly start on project. This project also depends on making progress with other fundamental Plutus Development projects funded in F6&F7. See the proposal for more information.
After being funded for a number of proposals in Fund 7 and a related projects with Manatū Taonga, the New Zealand Ministry of Culture and Heritage (MCH), we need to build out a team. We are seeking additional (non-catalyst) funding to do so. Hence scaling the project team/organisation is occupying a lot of our attention at the moment.