Proposal: Support the launch of DevDapp! Our GitHub rewards engine will award AKT tokens to developers for deploying to Akash

[RAIReth]

Hi Akash community! it's Garrett founder of RAIRprotocol coming back for round 2 👋👋

Background

We submitted this proposal here a few months ago to research and implement some needed new features for security and scaling (passing env secrets to providers in an encrypted way + working on auto-scaling via Terraform and ArgoCD) Based on feedback we decided not to post the proposal on-chain at the time (was too broad) and focused on a new direction instead.

🔗 https://github.com/orgs/akash-network/discussions/709

Below is a new proposal that will generate some awesome KPIs for Akash! (Thousands of new Devs with successfully deployed Dapps on Akash)

Akash + DevDapp Sponsorship

🟩 Support the launch of DevDapp! Our GitHub rewards engine will award AKT tokens to developers for performing tasks in GitHub.

▪️ Intro task: A test deployment using trial wallets

▪️Advanced task: A production deployment of a new Dapp on Akash using all 6 of our microservices

🔗 Working SDL in the Akash marketplace that new devs can quickly deploy with default our docker images.

https://console.akash.network/templates/akash-network-awesome-akash-RAIR-Dapp

🔗 How DevDapp Works

1. After learning the basics of GitHub, the Akash deployment is the first major points-generating task! We made a nice clickflow guide below to walk new devs of any experience level through the trial wallet deployment process. Currently we have ~1000 successfully closed issues in our game repo for devs completing the first task.

https://github.com/rairprotocol/dev-dapp-season1/tree/main/Season%201%20Tasks/4.%20Akash%20Deploy

2. Our system will test the submitted issues URL for a 503 instead of a 404 to determine that it was deployed. (as trial wallets only support 1 microservice) Then administer the labels to give devs their points in DevDapp.

3. Devs who submit an issue with a fully working Dapp on Akash will get exponentially more points towards winning the grand prize.

Ask

▪️$130k USD AKT (Will administer rewards in native Akash). All funds are calculated off-chain and sent at the end of the season. This means there are no exploits for getting funds onchain during the game.

Deliverables

▪️Official Cloud Provider Status for RAIRprotocol and member of RAIRprotocol partner network (Along with Soneium, Alchemy, etc). Default environment variable configurations in our mono-repo so all new Devs that use RAIRprotocol deploy with Akash first!

▪️Administer Developer Onboarding program. Send out AKT to winning devs at the end of the season. Return unspent funds to community pool with KPI results before asking for a Season 2 tranche.

Distribution

In Native AKT. Actual payout could be more or less at the conclusion of the season. E.g. 5 usd at time of receiving funds could be 2 or 10 at the time of payout. No buffer is being asked for to cover price fluctuation. AKT won't be converted and dev payouts could be more or less in Native AKT at the conclusion of the season.

▪️50k - Grand prize pool. Max 10 winning Dapp submissions. 5k per winner. If less than 10 winning Dapps return unspent to pool.
▪️50k - Completion prize pool. Max $5 usd per dev up to first 10k devs. If less than 10k devs then return unspent to pool.
▪️30k - Ancillary costs to DevDapp to administer the campaign. Promotion, dev, devrel.

Links
▪️Prelaunch Dapp: https://devdapp.com (Will turn on GitHub login prior to ETHDenver launch)
▪️Intro Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x-Nxt1J5LI
▪️Akash Deployment Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5w6_3X1pMc
▪️Github https://github.com/rairprotocol

About Us

✅RAIRprotocol is an open-source Dapp engine with 90+ integrations - Sony, Zoom, Web3Auth, Alchemy, Akash
✅DevDapp is a next-gen Web3 GitHub rewards engine built on RAIRprotocol
✅RAIRprotocol + DevDapp = Viral open-source flywheel for Web3 innovation

💪Backed by Sony (Astar/Sony grad) Denarii Labs, Alchemy Platform, Red Beard Ventures, ROOT Network, Alphabit Fund, Bluefolio

🎉We're an official https://ethdo.me/ sponsor. We have 250 usbc hubs, 100 super hero capes 100 t shirts, and 1000 stickers to incentivize IRL signups! Will be distributing the merch in exchange for devs connecting their GitHubs to DevDapp!

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Looking forward to chatting about how DevDapp works and the tangible KPIs (new devs using Akash) in the comments!

Garrett (Founder RAIRprotocol / DevDapp)

[RAIReth]

Hi Akash community! Quick update from our end. We published our sprint review here which details our plans with Akash as well as Argo CD and Kube Seal. https://x.com/rairprotocol/status/1885376616504975722

[RAIReth]

We are also working through some issues with trial wallet provider availibilty to make sure the deployment flow works where a trial provider is available for the 1 microservice deployment task.

[lechenghiskhan]

Thanks for this renewed proposal. A few questions for you:

50k - Grand prize pool. Max 10 winning Dapp submissions. 5k per winner. If less than 10 winning Dapps return unspent to pool.

Who will be the judges of winners and what are the criteria?

50k - Completion prize pool. Max $5 usd per dev up to first 10k devs. If less than 10k devs then return unspent to pool.

Will this be used purely for deployment purposes during the event or also after?

30k - Ancillary costs to DevDapp to administer the campaign. Promotion, dev, devrel.

Can you help break this down?

Additional question:
When do you plan on launching the event?

[RAIReth]

Hey Cheng thanks for checking in! Great questions happy to answer

Who will be the judges of winners and what are the criteria?

1. The winners will be determined by who has the highest number of levels at the end of the season. There are different ways to earn points where more difficult tasks earn more points that translate to more levels. The winners will likely be the ones that have completed the final task in the game - deploying a new Dapp using our open source (this is worth the most points). Though other ways to score highly include, QA and Devops tasks.

The criteria for the final task is to deploy a new dapp with SSL to a custom URL + checking in new code to our open repo with novel new mechanics we don't currently have.

The rewards distribute on a sliding scale after the first 10 so everyone that participates will earn $RAIR, but just those top 10 earn the max reward in AKT.

Will this be used purely for deployment purposes during the event or also after?

2. This fund will go to anyone that completes this task here.

https://github.com/rairprotocol/dev-dapp-season1/tree/main/Season%201%20Tasks/4.%20Akash%20Deploy

Once they show a successful trial deployment they will comment with their cosmos wallet address on the GitHub issue to receive the small reward.

Our syncing engine can find the address to send out the funds by the launch date of 05/01/2025

Can you help break this down?

3. Sure here are our Ancillary cost details.

*Our sponsorship for the https://ethdo.me
*marketing spend for outreach on X
*sponsorship of Hackindia, etc.
*Gamified swag (USB Hubs, Tshirts, Capes)

*Ongoing costs offsetting some of our core dev team spend (front, backend, qa, devops, bd)

Our ask gives us a few months of partial support runway (campaign from pre-launch now through May) but goes a long way towards helping us pull this off!

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Finally we're launching at ETH Denver!

The Points Campaign will officially go live on 03/01/2025 🎉