Requested Amount: $38,760 USD
Period: July - October 2025
Proponent: Ideal Labs
Full Proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_hp2sPx4l179wzpxptkCkaKCwasCvR60bYcQVYQm7cU/edit?usp=sharing
Ideal Labs is requesting retroactive funding for 340 additional development hours (21% overrun) required to complete production-ready deployment of the Ideal Network randomness infrastructure.
Original funding: $191,520 for 1,680 hours
Actual delivery: 2,020 hours required
This request: $38,760 for the additional 340 hours at $114/hr
The team encountered two major categories of unforeseen technical challenges during deployment:
During Paseo testnet deployment in August, we discovered a critical incompatibility with the Cumulus lookahead mechasnism. The initial inherents-based design caused:
Solution: Complete rebuild using Post-Finality Gadget (PFG) architecture to ensure canonical randomness after block finalization.
Found four critical security vectors during integration that were outside the initial SR Labs audit scope:
These ecosystem-level vulnerabilities only emerged during actual multi-chain integration testing.
Went beyond original scope by integrating contracts pallet directly into IDN with custom chain extensions, enabling zero-cost contract randomness access.
Comprehensive credit system, treasury integration, and fee management required more implementation work than originally estimated.
When these issues were discovered in August, the team chose to self-fund completion rather than pause development for 4-6 weeks to request an amended proposal, prioritizing delivery of critical ecosystem infrastructure.
All work is deployed and verifiable through public GitHub commits. The project delivered:
This is a one-time retroactive request for technical work already completed and delivered.
Here is a summary of the Ideal Network treasury proposal:
Requested Amount: $38,760 USD
Period: July - October 2025
Proponent: Ideal Labs
Full Proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_hp2sPx4l179wzpxptkCkaKCwasCvR60bYcQVYQm7cU/edit?usp=sharing
Ideal Labs is requesting retroactive funding for 340 additional development hours (21% overrun) required to complete production-ready deployment of the Ideal Network randomness infrastructure.
Original funding: $191,520 for 1,680 hours
Actual delivery: 2,020 hours required
This request: $38,760 for the additional 340 hours at $114/hr
The team encountered two major categories of unforeseen technical challenges during deployment:
During Paseo testnet deployment in August, we discovered a critical incompatibility with the Cumulus lookahead mechasnism. The initial inherents-based design caused:
Solution: Complete rebuild using Post-Finality Gadget (PFG) architecture to ensure canonical randomness after block finalization.
Found four critical security vectors during integration that were outside the initial SR Labs audit scope:
These ecosystem-level vulnerabilities only emerged during actual multi-chain integration testing.
Went beyond original scope by integrating contracts pallet directly into IDN with custom chain extensions, enabling zero-cost contract randomness access.
Comprehensive credit system, treasury integration, and fee management required more implementation work than originally estimated.
When these issues were discovered in August, the team chose to self-fund completion rather than pause development for 4-6 weeks to request an amended proposal, prioritizing delivery of critical ecosystem infrastructure.
All work is deployed and verifiable through public GitHub commits. The project delivered:
This is a one-time retroactive request for technical work already completed and delivered.