Hello everyone. This is the treasury proposal for dAppForge milestone 4.
I also did a discussion post before about it: https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/post/3238
We submitted a previous treasury proposal, ref 1343, and completed all the tasks/milestones.
Milestone 3 of 4 for dAppForge V1 is now completed.
Here is our
The dAppForge VS Code plug-in supports code generation and autocompletion for Solidity, Substrate, ink!, and Rust. It offers contextual insights into generated code, helping developers deepen their understanding and accelerate development. Each fine-tuned version increases performance and usability, enabling developers to build better and faster. This will lead to more applications being built on Polkadot.
We have now completed 3 of the 4 milestones to build dAppForge V 1.0. To recap, these are the 4 milestones:
Tagline: AI-powered plug-in for Polkadot developers that reduces development time.
Brief description: Building on Polkadot is complex, creating a high barrier to entry. dAppForge aims to enable Polkadot developers to build better dApps, appchains, and parachains faster, lowering the entry barriers for new developers. The model can be used for code generation and autocompletion. It provides insights into the code generated, which helps developers increase their understanding of the programming languages.
We have integrated Solidity and now aim to enable developers to deploy Solidity smart contracts on the Polkadot Hub (AssetHub) once Plazza is completed in Q3 2025.
Motivation: Polkadot has the second-largest developer ecosystem and consistent growth in developer activity. dAppForge aims to empower existing developers and make it easier for new developers to join and build on Polkadot. With the launch of smart contracts on AssetHub, we want to make it as easy as possible to onboard this new category of developers (smart contract developers) into the ecosystem.
Here is the complete proposal:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t2D5w6yXkJwcHO4yYZRjyhyrIbmGsavGxePbufmXMRs/edit?usp=sharing
dAppForge is a project that aims to help developers build better decentralized applications (dApps), appchains, and parachains on the Polkadot network. They have completed three out of four milestones for their dAppForge V1.0. Here are the main points of their fourth and final milestone:
dAppForge's goal is to make it easier for developers to build on Polkadot and attract new developers to the ecosystem. They have a VS Code plugin that supports code generation and autocompletion for Solidity, Substrate, ink!, and Rust. This plugin helps developers understand the code better and build faster.
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UPDATE: I took from our conversations with the proposer today that the team is updating their tier limits. I'm going to review my vote after the new pricing models are effective, and a comparison to the tier offerings by ChatGPT, Cursor, Clause and others.
The free version of the product allows up to 30 chat messages and 30 code completions, as listed on the webpage:

This is not even rookie numbers for an active developer, who already has access to tools like ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude and possibly others. It means that the treasury, contrary to its public good nature, is basically funding a privately-owned, paid product, at a total price tag of ~$320K.
For comparison, ChatGPT charges $20 per month for the complete package, and Cursor costs the same. I should note that ChatGPT is extremely well-versed at Polkadot SDK, I would expect the same if not better from Cursor, which supports ink! and Solidity too.
I shared this feedback with the proposer earlier in private discussions, and my stance remains the same: they should commit to making this product virtually free for the Polkadot developer community. If that means that the treasury would need to cover the maintenance costs, so be it. Covering those costs through product payments doesn’t seem feasible to me anyway.
I'm nay until this product is positioned as a total public good.
Best regards,
kukabi | Helikon
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