Ongoing Development of Gossamer (16 months)

Short Description

Gossamer is an implementation of the Polkadot Host, developed using Go. As an alternative client implementation, it serves decentralization and robustness of the network by being a full node and a validator node. Ultimately, Gosammer is a framework for building within the Polkadot ecosystem, uniquely positioned to accelerate Golang development and offer additional advantages and capabilities.

Gossamer is built by ChainSafe Systems, a blockchain R&D company specializing in protocol engineering and web3 infrastructure that has been building within the Polkadot ecosystem for years, along with Filecoin and Ethereum.

Full proposal: Gossamer Full Proposal (IPFS) | Gossamer Full Proposal (GDrive)

Context of the Proposal

This proposal requests to continue supporting Gossamer development for the next 12 months. With years of dedication, the team's expertise has gained significant traction. This continued support would leverage their extensive experience to sustain and enhance the project’s development, building on successful foundations.

The next 12 months will be crucial for Gossamer as it reaches significant user-facing milestones like full node and validator node capabilities while discovering its potential and value within the Go development ecosystem.

Larger milestones that Gossamer will achieve in the estimated period:

Q2/Q3/Q4 2024

• Achieve Full node capability
• Increasing Full node reliability; reaching robust and performant production state
• Product discovery to validate Gossamer's potential beyond just serving a basic set of node features
• Setup infrastructure and run Gossamer nodes

Q1/Q2 2025

• Achieve Validator node capability
• Participate in both SASSAFRAS and BEEFY consensus
• Run additional QA and interop testing to ensure network reliability
• Run Gossamer validator nodes on Paseo testnet and Polkadot

Timeline and milestone details can be found in the Gossamer Full Proposal document.

Payment Details

Requested Funding: 368,016 DOT

Beneficiary Account: 149mJjdQjEBMHHbWDjbLJ7X4e95ps6L35DZVaBzn1raR1EVQ

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We are always open for conversation, so for any questions, thoughts, or feedback, feel free to reach out! You can always contact us at [email protected].

Thank you,

Gossamer Team