Polkadot Dapps over Apps (REVISED)

This proposal as been revised following the feedbacks from @saxemberg , @helikon, @jimmytudeski We are excited to let you know that we now have the best substrate technical team.

Polkadot Dapps over Apps is a community that aims to onboard and educate traditional developers, tech enthusiasts and creatives about web3 and the potentials of building with Polkadot’s blockchain infrastructure.

We are solving the problem of lack of visibility. 9 of 10 developers in Africa never heard of Polkadot's sophisticated blockchain infrastructure and development toolkits.

Our Mission: Bridging the gap between traditional developers, tech enthusiasts, creative builders and Polkadot blockchain technology.

Establishing sub-communities in various institutions and regions in Nigeria and across Africa so as to expand our reach and onboard developers & creative builders in unrecognized and grassroot levels.
Organizing workshop & training on the usage and implementation of Polkadot’’s established solutions, Kusama, and substrate for new parachains and new protocol development.
Educating project founders, traditional developers and creative builders in Africa about the basic products and comprehensive framework of the Polkadot ecosystem.

Onboarding web 2 project in Africa, helping utilize blockchain tech through Polkadot.
Building market awareness around Polkadot’s product through content creation and distribution.
Supporting potential unicorn projects in Africa building on Polkadot or Kusama through grants and mentorship.

How do you know that people need your services?

Visibility: 99.9% of 85,000 developers in Nigeria have never heard of Polkadot blockchain.
Resources constraints: 92 million of 200 million Nigerians do not have access to electricity thus restricting their ability to interact with the open web. Our program will support developers in Africa with the necessary resources needed to build and transform web3.
9 out of 10 gen z’s in Africa are web 3 enthusiasts but lack the knowledge needed to kickstart their web 3 journey.
Traditional developers are looking for ways to transition into web3. Our hackathon and incubation program will be a turning point for developers in Africa.
Blockchain can be used to tackle immediate problems facing Africa. Our hackathon program will be centered on providing sustainable solutions to the issue affecting Africa and the world at large.
Potential unicorn start-ups in Africa fail most times because they lack support. We are dedicated to supporting brilliant minds with amazing projects utilizing Polkadot, Kusama or Substrate.

Grant received will be channeled into:

Conferences and events: We will organize global conferences and monthly seminars in various cities and institutions in Africa.
Workshop & Training for developers & non- developers on how to utilize Polkadot network.
Organizing startup pitch competition for project founders looking to build or integrate Polkadot’s infrastructure to their projects/startups.
Organizing hackathons and incubation programs focused on providing solutions to real life problems applicable to Africa and facing the world at large.
Guiding project building on Kusama or Polkadot to MVP, testnet and mainnet respectively.
Establishing blockchain clubs in various institutions in Africa.
Creating visibility via content creation and distribution.
Collaborating and consolidating efforts with various institutions and communities aligned with our goal.
Personal mentorship program with project founders, developers, tech enthusiasts and web3 newbies looking forward to building with Polkadot.

Tractions:

Organized a workshop and hackathon program where over 100+ participants were taught how to build on the blockchain and also built amazing projects. Some of the project built from the workshop:

Successfully onboarded 1,000+ developers and non-developers to web 3.
Created a running database of developers in Africa.
We organized Dapps over Apps conference 1.0 one of the biggest web 3 conferences in Africa with over 500+ attendees consisting of blockchain & web 3 enthusiasts, traditional developers and creative builders.**

Organized several workshops on smart contract and blockchain development for over 400+ web 3 enthusiasts and traditional developers. Some highlights below
a. Building your first Dapp
b. How to build a voting application

We co-organized web fusion Lagos Hackathon where developers and project founders created innovative projects in-person.
Review link: https://twitter.com/dappsoverapps/status/1742950910806880600?s=46
Project created at the hackathon: Projects link

Organized a start-up pitch competition to encourage builders to integrate blockchain technology to their businesses and projects.

Facilitated 2,000+ of on-chain transactions and wallet activation on Near blockchain.
Successfully supported and funded 10+ projects in Africa building on the blockchain.

Cost breakdown & Milestones

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OfHzkatGgWB1Wk7OaQloryq_CGAPNJTCrAPP7s2qu5I/edit?usp=sharing

Team members:

Substrate technical team:

Uchenna Nwele: A blockchain engineer and rust developer proficient in Substrate. He has built and contributed to several projects in the polkadot ecosystem and beyond. Kindly check out some of his original substrate code base:

https://crates.io/crates/pallet-dex-v2 - Custom dex pallet
https://github.com/developeruche/citadel - a parachain that aims to provide a decentralized exchange (DEX) platform for users to trade assets.
https://github.com/polytope-labs/hyperbridge

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/uchennanwele

Deepak Chaudhary worked as a beta tester at the Polkadot Blockchain Academy. He has over 3 years of experience in Rust, Substrate, and the Polkadot Blockchain. He has worked on various custom pallets, ink! smart contracts, the Governance mechanism, Parachain-Staking, Consensus-mechanism and have also provided tutoring to over 2000 students in Rust and Substrate. Additionally, He is a competitive programmer who translates thoughts into code and can often be found participating in contests on platforms like Codeforces/Codechef.

a. https://github.com/Aideepakchaudhary/proof-of-stake-node-template - Original code based template

b. https://github.com/Aideepakchaudhary/Etherium-Compatible-Substrate-Chain

c. Other projects can be found in these repository https://github.com/Aideepakchaudhary?tab=repositories

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/deepak--chaudhary

Bolaji Ahmed: He is a full stack blockchain nomad with experience in Substrate Rust,INK!, and Polkadot blockchain. He is also passionate about imparting knowledge and helping aspiring developers to grow. Below are some of his original substrate code and template compiled for workshops and training.

https://github.com/bolajahmad/personal-prown-node - Personal resource.

https://github.com/bolajahmad/polkadot-sdk/tree/master/templates/minimal - templates

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bolajahmad

Parth Desia: He is an experienced blockchain engineer and proficient in Substrate, Rust, Polkadot-SDK and Go. He designed a consensus algorithm for distributed oracle from scratch and worked on adding features to their tendermint based blockchain platform. He is currently working at ChorusOne on the bridge between cosmos and substrate platforms, which enables the cosmos chain to track finalized headers and authority set from substrate.

Github: https://github.com/ParthDesai

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/parthdesai08

- Abdulkareeem Oyeneye: A web 3 advocate with 37 months experience in blockchain network development and community building. He has worked with Near protocol and helped them onboard over 1,500+ active users and facilitated wallet and on chain transactions.

He founded a community; Nearxart, which focuses on onboarding creative to web 3 and charitable contributions via the use of blockchain technology and web 3 tools.

His passion for a decentralized world made him start the Dapps Over Apps movement that aims to onboard traditional developers and web 2 project to utilize blockchain infrastructure.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdulkareem-oyeneye-82a6aa277

- Emmanuel Ugwu: He is proficient in web Scraping, Web Automation, Backend Development, DevOps. He also has experience in the following: Python (3 years+ experience), Typescript (3 months+ experience), Javascript (2 year+ experience) Frameworks: Django(2 years+ experience), Django Rest Framework (2 years+ experience), Selenium(6 months+ experience), Beautiful soup(6 months+ experience), FastAPI(1 year+ experience), React JS(1 year+ experience),Nodejs(1 year+ experience), NestJs( 3months+ experience). Databases: MongoDB(3 months+ experience), PostgreSQL(1 year+ experience), SQlite(2 years+ experience) Tools: Anaconda(2 years+ experience), Visual Studio Code(2 years+ experience)

Github: EmmanuelHillary (Emmanuel Hillary) · GitHub
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuel-ugwu-011972181/

Bimpe Wosilat: She is a climate change enthusiast with a degree in Agriculture, master’s in plant sciences; she is focused on farming and regenerative practices that helps promote the reduction of greenhouse gas and climate change emissions.

She has been involved in onboarding women into web 3. She has guided and trained women in different continent about web 3 education, blockchain technology and NFTs

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bimpe-o-b7ba68a9

Reviews and feedback about Dapps over Apps community from renowned web 3 advocates in Africa: