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The pool has received many donations which have boosted rewards for solo stakers!", "hidden": false, "question": "If you've participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months (N/A if you haven’t participated previously). ", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "address", "answer": "0xB645EA519d3bb18A03Eb0E059e5f6A70A793b4fC", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here:", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "https://dune.com/0xRob/smoothly", "hidden": false, "question": "Where should we look to see the impact of your project? Please provide links to public websites and/or the latest values for key metrics you track privately. This might be used in future impact reports", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "$45000 in previous grants", "hidden": false, "question": "Total Prior Funding Amounts, Sources, and Dates for the project in USD", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["Grants"], "hidden": false, "question": "Which of the following funding sources do you have? Check all that apply", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "number", "answer": "24", "hidden": false, "question": "How old (in Months) is the project?  ", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "North America", "hidden": false, "question": "Location/Region where the project is based ", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Have you read and confirmed your grant abides by the Program General Eligibility Policy? ", "questionId": 14}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "No", "hidden": true, "question": "Are you applying for any other OSS rounds in GG20? (Reminder: you can only be accepted into one) ", "questionId": 15}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Incentivizing Solo Stakers!", "hidden": false, "question": "Please describe your dApp or App, focusing on its innovative utility or service within the ecosystem. Highlight the problem it solves or the need it addresses.", "questionId": 16}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "By smoothing our rewards for solo stakers. ", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe how your application improves user experience in the Web3 space. Include any specific design choices or features that enhance accessibility and practical utility.", "questionId": 17}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "By giving solo stakers access to reward smoothing, it levels the playing field with large staking operators. ", "hidden": false, "question": "In what ways does your project contribute to financial inclusion, education, or social impact? Explain the specific areas of impact and the target audience or communities you serve.", "questionId": 18}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Apache 2.0", "hidden": false, "question": "What type of open source software (OSS) license(s) do you have? Is all of your code available on public repos or is some portion of your codebase private?", "questionId": 19}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We're live on mainnet, looking to make improvements and release a V2. ", "hidden": false, "question": "What stage of development is your application currently in, and what are your immediate next steps? Provide a roadmap or development timeline if available.", "questionId": 20}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The funding will go towards development of SmoothlyV2. ", "hidden": false, "question": "How would funding from this round support your project's development and goals? Outline specific areas where the funds would be allocated (e.g., development, user research, community building).", "questionId": 21}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "", "hidden": false, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? Anything you'd like to add that may help in determining project eligibility?", "questionId": 22}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to future messages from Gitcoin for updates, information, and/or interviews? ", "questionId": 23}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "No", "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to us sharing your information with select third-parties for investment opportunities? 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If you want to support the health of the network by staking from home, but also want the benefits of reward smoothing, you can now have the best of both worlds. By pooling together execution layer rewards, validators have access to the mean reward and enjoy distributions at fixed intervals. To join, validators change the fee recipient address in their validator client to our pool contract, connect their wallet, and claim their share of the rewards every two weeks. We designed this as an open source sustainable public good and the Smoothly team does not take a fee from the pool. The oracle operators split a 1.5% fee from each reward cycle to make running the oracle sustainable for them. They are well known individuals in the ethereum ecosystem. \n\n▪ Anthony Sassano, Founder of The Daily Gwei\n▪ EthStaker\n▪ Cryptomanufaktur\n▪ Aestus Relay\n▪ Kody Sale (Founder of Smoothly)\n▪ Noah Figueras (Co-founder of Smoothly)\n\nFunding plans\n\nAll funds raised from this round will be used to continue development on the Smoothly protocol. The recent inclusion of EIP4788 could potentially allow us to drop the oracle network completely and develop a new optimistic version which could make the protocol completely trustless. \n\nTeam:\n\nKody Sale (Founder)\n\nMy background is in Mechanical Engineering and am a technologist at heart. I rabbit holed my way into crypto in 2014 when I volunteered my GPU to the distributed computing project Folding@Home. Folding@Home is a project that aims to develop therapeutics for Alzheimer’s through protein folding simulations. The distributed nature of the project led me to the Bitcoin whitepaper, which hit home as I graduated college in 2009 in the midst of the bank bailouts.\n\nMy journey into Ethereum began in 2017 when I discovered a network that allowed for more than just sending and receiving BTC. After exploring various parts of the ecosystem, I found my home in staking. Staking resonated with me due to the high priority of inclusion; anyone with an internet connection and consumer hardware could participate in the consensus of a global settlement layer. The welcoming and supportive community at ETH staker played a significant role in my decision to become a home staker.\n\nThe project started as a simple idea, and the codebase has grown beyond my initial expectations. I feel a strong sense of purpose in building something that aligns with the core ethos of the staking community. My goal is for Smoothly to be sustainable and to provide tangible value to the community at near zero cost. 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