From 88962004c8b996635cf680dc499ff9c88bd4e79d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Emmanuel <49331376+EmmanuelEklipse@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2025 03:51:24 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 01/11] WatchDog Application --- applications/WatchDog.md | 246 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 246 insertions(+) create mode 100644 applications/WatchDog.md diff --git a/applications/WatchDog.md b/applications/WatchDog.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..7b314581fa6 --- /dev/null +++ b/applications/WatchDog.md @@ -0,0 +1,246 @@ +# WatchDog: A Unified Grant Progress Tracking Platform for the Web3 Foundation and Polkadot Ecosystem + +## Problem + +Tracking the progress of initiatives funded by the Web3 foundation, Polkadot Treasury, and OpenGov is currently fragmented. Updates are dispersed across Polkassembly, GitHub repositories, Substrate development logs, and social media. This lack of cohesion hinders the community’s ability to effectively oversee projects, evaluate progress, and address potential issues promptly. Manual cross-referencing is time-consuming for grant admins, and critical issues often go unnoticed until they become disruptive or irreversible. + +## Proposed Solution + +To overcome these challenges, we propose a **Unified Grant Progress Tracker for Polkadot** called **WatchDog** to improve project transparency and accountability — a dashboard purpose-built for the Web3 foundation, Polkadot Treasury, and OpenGov ecosystem. + +![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a54c6967-be66-412a-8070-3176ab567323) + +It brings structured oversight to grant-funded projects by: + +- **Milestone Tracking:** Dedicated pages for each grant, displaying key milestones, progress indicators (e.g., progress bars, percentages), and completion status. +- Syncing with GitHub and Substrate dev tools for real-time technical progress updates. +- Using machine learning to detect early signs of risk (delays, inactivity, unusual fund behavior). +- Mapping Treasury disbursements to project-specific wallet activity to improve financial transparency. +- Anchoring milestone attestations on-chain via hashed, verifiable records. +- Consolidating fragmented data into a standardized, actionable format for voters and stakeholders. +- **Automated Alerts:** Notifications for overdue milestones or significant deviations from the grant scope, delivered via in-app notifications and email. +- **Visualizations:** Charts and graphs to provide a visual representation of project progress and trends. + +By embedding verification and automation into the grant lifecycle, WatchDog empowers the ecosystem with low-effort, low-cost, high-trust project monitoring. + +## Key Features and Differentiators + +### Live Grant Monitoring + +A dynamic dashboard that tracks milestones, development updates, and reporting across the entire Polkadot Treasury and OpenGov landscape. + +### Proactive Risk Detection + +Built-in machine learning models evaluate real-time inputs to detect anomalies such as: + +- Milestones are significantly delayed relative to the original timelines. +- Projects exhibiting sudden inactivity. +- Irregularities in fund disbursement and delivery performance. + +Each flagged project is paired with suggested actions to enable early intervention and improved capital efficiency. + +### On-Chain Milestone Attestations + +Every milestone submission is hashed and anchored on-chain using a lightweight Substrate pallet. Attestations are signed using Polkadot identity primitives to ensure auditability and authenticity. + +### Proposal-Linked Fund Flow Monitoring + +WatchDog maps Treasury disbursements to recipient wallets, milestones, and asset monitoring. This approach provides insight into: + +- Delayed or unutilized funds. +- Unexpected wallet transfers. +- Inconsistencies between reported progress and on-chain fund movement. + +Unlike general wallet tracking, this feature ties activity directly to project milestones and proposal IDs. + +### Standardized Reporting and Automated Summarization + +Structured progress reports are auto-generated by aggregating data from: + +- GitHub commits and pull requests. +- Substrate development logs. +- Forum updates. +- Treasury proposal metadata. + +All reports follow a consistent template, facilitating comparison and enabling timely decision-making. + +### Multi-Source Data Fusion + +WatchDog integrates data across GitHub, Polkassembly, OpenGov, etc. Each grant receives a consolidated profile combining governance discussion, technical updates, and financial tracking in a single interface. + +### Community Oversight Layer + +- Stakeholders can endorse or raise concerns on submitted milestone reports. +- Grantees may respond to feedback within the platform. +- Verified developers and auditors can flag issues that feed into WatchDog's risk model. +- Community signals help prioritize grants requiring further review or follow-up. + +## Ecosystem Fit + +WatchDog aligns with Polkadot’s values of transparency, decentralization, and verifiability. It serves multiple stakeholder groups: + +- **Empowering Grant Administrators:** Tools to streamline oversight, automate progress reporting, generate insights, and trigger follow-ups. +- **DOT/KSM Holders:** Visibility into how Treasury and OpenGov funds are allocated and used. +- **OpenGov Voters:** Actionable insights to inform ongoing and future decisions. +- **Contributors and Grantees:** Reduced manual reporting burdens and clearer expectations. +- **Community Members:** Access to a verifiable, centralized source for project updates and accountability. + +WatchDog complements existing tools like Polkassembly by shifting the focus from governance discourse to delivery oversight, technical verification, and funding integrity. It serves as the DevOps and transparency layer for Polkadot’s on-chain public goods infrastructure. + +## Team 👥 + +**Build Union** – Aggregate Team of Web3 Builders + +Build Union is a collaborative collective of talented developers, designers, strategists, and innovators dedicated to shaping the future of the decentralized web. As an aggregate team of Web3 builders, Build Union brings together diverse expertise to create cutting-edge blockchain applications, DAOs services, and other decentralized solutions. We are focused on fostering innovation and accelerating the adoption of Web3 technologies + +### Emmanuel — Project Lead + +- Project manager and blockchain architect with deep experience in DAO tooling and transparency infrastructure. +- Combines hands-on engineering with leadership in dApp development and open governance tooling. +- LinkedIn: [emmanueleclipsewebsite](#) + +### Machine Learning & Data Engineering + +**Golden K. — ML Developer** + +- Python-based ML pipelines, anomaly detection, data analysis (pandas, numpy, SVM, Torch) +- GitHub: [golden-k22](https://github.com/golden-k22) + +**Eliud Munyala — Senior Data Engineer & ML Specialist** + +- Leads data engineering at SpaceAI. +- Specializes in data ingestion, transformation, and validation. +- GitHub: [meaLuda](https://github.com/meaLuda) +- LinkedIn: [eliud-munyala](https://linkedin.com/in/eliud-munyala) + +### UI/UX Design + +**Marko — UI/UX Designer** + +- Designed 1,000+ websites and data dashboards. +- Leads UX design for WatchDog. +- Portfolio: [hipfolio.co](https://hipfolio.co) +- Dashboards: [hipfolio.co/dashboard.html](https://hipfolio.co/dashboard.html) + +### Full-Stack & Smart Contract Development + +**Awais Nazir — Full-Stack Developer (dApps)** + +- Specializes in Smart Contracts, React, Next.js, Node.js. +- LinkedIn: [awais-nazir-ch](https://linkedin.com/in/awais-nazir-ch) + +**WayToTheVenus — Smart Contract Developer** + +- Modular, audit-ready smart contracts. +- GitHub: [waytothevenus](https://github.com/waytothevenus) + +**CryptoStar7 — Blockchain & Full-Stack Developer** + +- Backend blockchain logic and frontend application layers. +- Smart contract architecture and full-stack web3 tooling. + +## Contact + +- **Contact Name:** Full name of the contact person in your team +- **Contact Email:** Contact email (e.g. john@duo.com) +- **Website:** Your website + +## Legal Structure + +Post-grant approval + +## Team Code Repos + +- Development Status 📖 + The frontend structure is now complete. The first milestone's delivery is to have an experienced UI/UX designer redesign the interface based on DAO input and community feedback. All technical and architectural planning has been finalized, and we continue to consult with more DAO delegates to align on reporting standards. + Live demo: https://watchdog2.vercel.app/ + +## Overview + +- **Total Estimated Duration:** 2 months +- **Full-Time Equivalent (FTE):** 1.5 +- **Total Costs:** 10,000 USD +- **DOT %:** ≥ 50% + +--- + +## Milestone 1 — Frontend Dashboard MVP + +- **Estimated Duration:** 1 month +- **FTE:** 0.5 +- **Costs:** 3,000 USD + +| Number | Deliverable | Specification | +| ------- | ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | +| **0a.** | License | MIT license | +| **0b.** | Documentation | Inline code comments and README describing setup and usage of the dashboard UI components with mock data | +| **0c.** | Testing and Testing Guide | Unit tests for UI components; testing instructions included in README | +| **0d.** | Docker | Dockerfile to run frontend locally for testing and demonstration | +| 1 | UI/UX Design | Wireframes and high-fidelity designs for dashboard, milestone cards, and activity charts | +| 2 | Dashboard Implementation | Responsive React/Next.js frontend with Tailwind CSS, visual components for milestone progress, alerts, and filters | +| 3 | Mock Data Integration | JSON-based dummy data simulating backend API responses to test dashboard functionality | +| 4 | Deployment | Deploy on Vercel with CI/CD, publicly accessible demo URL | + +--- + +## Milestone 2 — Backend & GitHub Sync + +- **Estimated Duration:** 1 month +- **FTE:** 1 +- **Costs:** 7,000 USD + +| Number | Deliverable | Specification | +| ------- | ---------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | +| **0a.** | License | MIT license | +| **0b.** | Documentation | Inline code comments, API documentation, setup guide for GitHub data sync pipeline | +| **0c.** | Testing and Testing Guide | Unit and integration tests for data ingestion, normalization, and API endpoints; testing instructions included | +| **0d.** | Docker | Dockerfile for backend service and data sync pipeline | +| 1 | GitHub API Integration | Connect and authenticate with GitHub API; fetch commits, PRs, and issues for relevant repos | +| 2 | Data Normalization & Mapping | Normalize GitHub data and map to project milestones with basic risk flags | +| 3 | Database Setup | PostgreSQL schema design and implementation for projects, milestones, activities, and flags | +| 4 | Continuous Sync Pipeline | Scheduled data sync every 6–12 hours with error handling and logging | +| 5 | API Development | REST or GraphQL API exposing project data, milestone progress, activity logs, and risk flags | + +### MVP Pages + +**Project list page** + +![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/77b12a31-4fd5-4df2-bbae-cd37d77c5208) + +![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/572e8f70-893d-4160-9aaf-d68e21ddaca5) + +**Project details page** Indepth detials on grant +![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6c519cf7-60e2-4a99-b45d-e2d556c85b1f) + +### Post MVP Pages + +**Grant Control Page** + +![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2ba6b795-0651-4c1b-9e7a-1191a83de819) + +**Organizational Grant Details** +![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1fb23c0f-9a32-4842-b1d8-7017d77dc68e) + +Admin Page + +![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/881847cc-9310-41cd-abba-6d9991d852aa) + +## Future + +###Sustainability & Monetization +While initial funding from the Polkadot Treasury is required to bootstrap development, the long-term vision includes a hybrid, self-sustaining model through the following revenue strategies: + +**Ecosystem/ParaChain Audit Subscriptions** +Partner with Parachains organizations to subsidize audit tooling and monitoring services. Small monthly or quarterly fees will give grantees access to advanced oversight features. + +**Tiered API Access** +Offer real-time, verified milestone and treasury data via subscription-based APIs. Pricing tiers will reflect data freshness, query volume, and customization needs (e.g., for analytics firms, dApps, or researchers). + +**Premium Analytics Dashboards** +Provide enhanced dashboards for large grantees, foundations, or institutional partners, featuring historical analysis, filtering, and benchmarking across grants. + +**Sponsored Integrations** +Collaborate with ecosystem tools and infrastructure projects to integrate WatchDog data, supported by licensing or sponsorship agreements. + +##Conclusion +WatchDog introduces a structured, intelligent accountability framework for the Polkadot Treasury and OpenGov. By transforming fragmented and inconsistent grant data into real-time, verifiable insights, it strengthens trust, reduces inefficiencies, and helps ensure the long-term effectiveness of Polkadot’s public funding mechanisms. From 55c02f13862cb1244e880ff59f44ec87ae0af375 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Emmanuel <49331376+EmmanuelEklipse@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2025 04:10:00 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 02/11] Update WatchDog.md --- applications/WatchDog.md | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/applications/WatchDog.md b/applications/WatchDog.md index 7b314581fa6..cd11e9868b8 100644 --- a/applications/WatchDog.md +++ b/applications/WatchDog.md @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ Build Union is a collaborative collective of talented developers, designers, str - Project manager and blockchain architect with deep experience in DAO tooling and transparency infrastructure. - Combines hands-on engineering with leadership in dApp development and open governance tooling. -- LinkedIn: [emmanueleclipsewebsite](#) +- LinkedIn: [emmanueleclipsewebsite](linkedin.com/in/emmanueleclipsewebsite/) ### Machine Learning & Data Engineering @@ -141,9 +141,9 @@ Build Union is a collaborative collective of talented developers, designers, str ## Contact -- **Contact Name:** Full name of the contact person in your team -- **Contact Email:** Contact email (e.g. john@duo.com) -- **Website:** Your website +Contact Name:** Emmanuel O +Contact Email:** Virtualsrikignly@gmail.com +linkedin.com/in/emmanueleclipsewebsite/ ## Legal Structure @@ -221,13 +221,13 @@ Post-grant approval **Organizational Grant Details** ![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1fb23c0f-9a32-4842-b1d8-7017d77dc68e) -Admin Page +**Admin Page** ![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/881847cc-9310-41cd-abba-6d9991d852aa) ## Future -###Sustainability & Monetization +### Sustainability & Monetization While initial funding from the Polkadot Treasury is required to bootstrap development, the long-term vision includes a hybrid, self-sustaining model through the following revenue strategies: **Ecosystem/ParaChain Audit Subscriptions** @@ -242,5 +242,5 @@ Provide enhanced dashboards for large grantees, foundations, or institutional pa **Sponsored Integrations** Collaborate with ecosystem tools and infrastructure projects to integrate WatchDog data, supported by licensing or sponsorship agreements. -##Conclusion +## Conclusion WatchDog introduces a structured, intelligent accountability framework for the Polkadot Treasury and OpenGov. By transforming fragmented and inconsistent grant data into real-time, verifiable insights, it strengthens trust, reduces inefficiencies, and helps ensure the long-term effectiveness of Polkadot’s public funding mechanisms. From 747a2e59b267ba269cb3c17b234928cae41ae688 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Emmanuel <49331376+EmmanuelEklipse@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2025 01:33:09 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 03/11] Update WatchDog.md --- applications/WatchDog.md | 123 +++++++++++++++------------------------ 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 76 deletions(-) diff --git a/applications/WatchDog.md b/applications/WatchDog.md index cd11e9868b8..aee2c5b5875 100644 --- a/applications/WatchDog.md +++ b/applications/WatchDog.md @@ -1,91 +1,62 @@ -# WatchDog: A Unified Grant Progress Tracking Platform for the Web3 Foundation and Polkadot Ecosystem +## Unified Grant Progress Tracking Platform For Polkadot + + **Team Name:** Build Union +- **Payment Details:** + - **DOT**: 1XYfhcszyy6jiHYvkBqPxUXq6YADRUaUkcZ8vopqNTiqjBv + - **USDC** 0x53785b7155d016ba9c64fc2117d0eac0b21c9869 +- **[Level] **1 -## Problem -Tracking the progress of initiatives funded by the Web3 foundation, Polkadot Treasury, and OpenGov is currently fragmented. Updates are dispersed across Polkassembly, GitHub repositories, Substrate development logs, and social media. This lack of cohesion hinders the community’s ability to effectively oversee projects, evaluate progress, and address potential issues promptly. Manual cross-referencing is time-consuming for grant admins, and critical issues often go unnoticed until they become disruptive or irreversible. +## Problem +The Polkadot DAO, Web3 Foundation, and OpenGov have allocated over **34 million DOT** to fund ecosystem initiatives. While this capital has accelerated growth, updates and critical information about funded projects remain **fragmented** across platforms like **Polkassembly, GitHub, Discord**, and **X**. This results in **inconsistent reporting** and **limited oversight**, making it difficult for the community and grant administrators to get a comprehensive view of projects, track progress, ensure financial accountability, and evaluate alignment with Polkadot’s long-term goals. Resulting in **time-consuming and manual**, with risks of critical issues going unnoticed until. ## Proposed Solution -To overcome these challenges, we propose a **Unified Grant Progress Tracker for Polkadot** called **WatchDog** to improve project transparency and accountability — a dashboard purpose-built for the Web3 foundation, Polkadot Treasury, and OpenGov ecosystem. - -![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a54c6967-be66-412a-8070-3176ab567323) +**WatchDog** is a unified platform designed for the Polkadot ecosystem to improve **transparency and accountability** for Web3 Foundation, Polkadot Treasury, and OpenGov grants. It consolidates data into a user-friendly dashboard and provides live, structured insights into **milestone progress**, **spending**, and **outcomes**: -It brings structured oversight to grant-funded projects by: +![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/12c0d82c-7736-47ab-acb3-03fdb295e7a1) -- **Milestone Tracking:** Dedicated pages for each grant, displaying key milestones, progress indicators (e.g., progress bars, percentages), and completion status. -- Syncing with GitHub and Substrate dev tools for real-time technical progress updates. -- Using machine learning to detect early signs of risk (delays, inactivity, unusual fund behavior). -- Mapping Treasury disbursements to project-specific wallet activity to improve financial transparency. -- Anchoring milestone attestations on-chain via hashed, verifiable records. -- Consolidating fragmented data into a standardized, actionable format for voters and stakeholders. -- **Automated Alerts:** Notifications for overdue milestones or significant deviations from the grant scope, delivered via in-app notifications and email. -- **Visualizations:** Charts and graphs to provide a visual representation of project progress and trends. +- **Milestone Tracking:** Each grant has a dedicated page showing milestones, progress bars, and completion status, updated in real-time using data from GitHub and Polkadot’s development tools. +- **Risk Detection:** Machine learning identifies delays, inactivity, or unusual fund activity, providing actionable suggestions for early intervention. +- **Financial Transparency:** Tracks Treasury funds to project wallets, linking spending to milestones and flagging inconsistencies. +- **Blockchain Verification:** Milestones are securely recorded on Polkadot’s blockchain for transparent, tamper-proof audit trails. +- **Automated Alerts:** Sends in-app and email notifications for overdue milestones or deviations from grant plans. +- **Visual Insights:** Displays progress through charts, such as bar graphs for milestone completion and line charts for fund usage trends. -By embedding verification and automation into the grant lifecycle, WatchDog empowers the ecosystem with low-effort, low-cost, high-trust project monitoring. +> WatchDog streamlines grant oversight, empowering stakeholders with clear, actionable insights at low cost and effort. ## Key Features and Differentiators -### Live Grant Monitoring - -A dynamic dashboard that tracks milestones, development updates, and reporting across the entire Polkadot Treasury and OpenGov landscape. - -### Proactive Risk Detection - -Built-in machine learning models evaluate real-time inputs to detect anomalies such as: - -- Milestones are significantly delayed relative to the original timelines. -- Projects exhibiting sudden inactivity. -- Irregularities in fund disbursement and delivery performance. - -Each flagged project is paired with suggested actions to enable early intervention and improved capital efficiency. - -### On-Chain Milestone Attestations - -Every milestone submission is hashed and anchored on-chain using a lightweight Substrate pallet. Attestations are signed using Polkadot identity primitives to ensure auditability and authenticity. - -### Proposal-Linked Fund Flow Monitoring - -WatchDog maps Treasury disbursements to recipient wallets, milestones, and asset monitoring. This approach provides insight into: - -- Delayed or unutilized funds. -- Unexpected wallet transfers. -- Inconsistencies between reported progress and on-chain fund movement. - -Unlike general wallet tracking, this feature ties activity directly to project milestones and proposal IDs. - -### Standardized Reporting and Automated Summarization - -Structured progress reports are auto-generated by aggregating data from: - -- GitHub commits and pull requests. -- Substrate development logs. -- Forum updates. -- Treasury proposal metadata. - -All reports follow a consistent template, facilitating comparison and enabling timely decision-making. - -### Multi-Source Data Fusion - -WatchDog integrates data across GitHub, Polkassembly, OpenGov, etc. Each grant receives a consolidated profile combining governance discussion, technical updates, and financial tracking in a single interface. - -### Community Oversight Layer - -- Stakeholders can endorse or raise concerns on submitted milestone reports. -- Grantees may respond to feedback within the platform. -- Verified developers and auditors can flag issues that feed into WatchDog's risk model. -- Community signals help prioritize grants requiring further review or follow-up. +- **Live Grant Monitoring:** A dynamic dashboard tracks milestones, updates, and reports across all Polkadot Treasury and OpenGov projects, consolidating data from multiple sources. +- **Proactive Risk Detection:** Machine learning analyzes real-time data to flag risks, such as: + - Significant milestone delays + - Sudden project inactivity + - Irregular fund usage + Each flagged issue includes recommended actions to improve outcomes. +- **Blockchain-Based Milestone Records:** Milestone submissions are securely stored on Polkadot’s blockchain, ensuring authenticity and enabling easy audits by stakeholders. +- **Fund Flow Tracking:** WatchDog links Treasury disbursements to project milestones, highlighting: + - Delayed or unused funds + - Unexpected project activity + - Misalignments between reported progress and spending +- **Standardized Reporting:** Automated reports combine data from GitHub commits, Polkadot development logs, and OpenGov metadata into a consistent format for easy comparison and decision-making. +- **Multi-Source Data Integration:** WatchDog unifies data from GitHub, Polkassembly, and OpenGov into a single grant profile, combining governance discussions, technical updates, and financial tracking. + +## Community Oversight + +- **Endorsements and Feedback:** Stakeholders can endorse or comment on milestone reports. +- **Grantee Interaction:** Grantees can respond to feedback within the platform. +- **Auditor Input:** Verified developers and auditors can flag issues, feeding into the risk detection system. ## Ecosystem Fit -WatchDog aligns with Polkadot’s values of transparency, decentralization, and verifiability. It serves multiple stakeholder groups: +WatchDog aligns with Polkadot’s values of **transparency, decentralization,** and **accountability**. It serves: -- **Empowering Grant Administrators:** Tools to streamline oversight, automate progress reporting, generate insights, and trigger follow-ups. -- **DOT/KSM Holders:** Visibility into how Treasury and OpenGov funds are allocated and used. -- **OpenGov Voters:** Actionable insights to inform ongoing and future decisions. -- **Contributors and Grantees:** Reduced manual reporting burdens and clearer expectations. -- **Community Members:** Access to a verifiable, centralized source for project updates and accountability. +- **DOT Token Holders & DAO Delegates:** Clear insights to evaluate grant performance. +- **Grant Recipients:** A user-friendly portal for reporting progress. +- **Governance Facilitators:** Portfolio-wide visibility to identify risks. +- **Community Members:** Transparent access to fund usage and project impact. -WatchDog complements existing tools like Polkassembly by shifting the focus from governance discourse to delivery oversight, technical verification, and funding integrity. It serves as the DevOps and transparency layer for Polkadot’s on-chain public goods infrastructure. +> WatchDog complements tools like **Polkassembly** by focusing on **delivery oversight, technical verification, and funding transparency**, acting as a **DevOps layer** for Polkadot’s public goods infrastructure. ## Team 👥 @@ -158,16 +129,16 @@ Post-grant approval ## Overview - **Total Estimated Duration:** 2 months -- **Full-Time Equivalent (FTE):** 1.5 +- **Full-Time Equivalent (FTE):** 2 - **Total Costs:** 10,000 USD -- **DOT %:** ≥ 50% +- **DOT %:** 50% --- ## Milestone 1 — Frontend Dashboard MVP - **Estimated Duration:** 1 month -- **FTE:** 0.5 +- **FTE:** 1 - **Costs:** 3,000 USD | Number | Deliverable | Specification | @@ -186,7 +157,7 @@ Post-grant approval ## Milestone 2 — Backend & GitHub Sync - **Estimated Duration:** 1 month -- **FTE:** 1 +- **FTE:** 2 - **Costs:** 7,000 USD | Number | Deliverable | Specification | From 45be097b7c6ca283cdd190ccd53e2082c83ad54e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Emmanuel <49331376+EmmanuelEklipse@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2025 01:50:37 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 04/11] Update WatchDog.md --- applications/WatchDog.md | 58 ++++++++++++++-------------------------- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) diff --git a/applications/WatchDog.md b/applications/WatchDog.md index aee2c5b5875..3763a289c4b 100644 --- a/applications/WatchDog.md +++ b/applications/WatchDog.md @@ -9,54 +9,36 @@ ## Problem -The Polkadot DAO, Web3 Foundation, and OpenGov have allocated over **34 million DOT** to fund ecosystem initiatives. While this capital has accelerated growth, updates and critical information about funded projects remain **fragmented** across platforms like **Polkassembly, GitHub, Discord**, and **X**. This results in **inconsistent reporting** and **limited oversight**, making it difficult for the community and grant administrators to get a comprehensive view of projects, track progress, ensure financial accountability, and evaluate alignment with Polkadot’s long-term goals. Resulting in **time-consuming and manual**, with risks of critical issues going unnoticed until. +The Polkadot DAO, Web3 Foundation, and OpenGov have allocated over **34 million DOT** to fund ecosystem initiatives. While this capital has accelerated growth, updates and critical information about funded projects remain currently **fragmented** across platforms, Polkassembly, GitHub repositories, Substrate development logs, and social media, making it difficult for the community and grant administrators to oversee progress, evaluate outcomes, and identify issues early. Manual cross-referencing is time-consuming for grant administrators, and critical risks, such as delays or mismanagement, often go unnoticed ## Proposed Solution -**WatchDog** is a unified platform designed for the Polkadot ecosystem to improve **transparency and accountability** for Web3 Foundation, Polkadot Treasury, and OpenGov grants. It consolidates data into a user-friendly dashboard and provides live, structured insights into **milestone progress**, **spending**, and **outcomes**: +WatchDog is a platform designed to enhance **accountability**, **efficiency **, and **transparency** in the Polkadot grant ecosystem by centralizing fragmented data into a user-friendly dashboard. It provides structured oversight for Web3 Foundation, Polkadot Treasury, and OpenGov grants, empowering stakeholders with actionable insights. Key features include: -![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/12c0d82c-7736-47ab-acb3-03fdb295e7a1) +- **Milestone Tracking:** Dedicated grant pages with progress indicators (e.g., progress bars, percentages) and completion status, synced with GitHub and Substrate tools for real-time technical updates. +- **Financial Transparency:** Mapping Treasury disbursements to project-specific wallet activity for clear, verifiable spending oversight. +- **Risk Detection:** Machine learning algorithms to identify early signs of delays, inactivity, or unusual fund behavior. +- **On-Chain Verification:** Milestone attestations anchored on-chain via hashed, verifiable records for high-trust reporting. +- **Automated Alerts:** In-app and email notifications for overdue milestones or deviations from grant scope, enabling proactive issue resolution. +- **Data Visualization:** Charts and graphs to illustrate project progress, trends, and financial activity, simplifying community oversight. +- **Community Empowerment:** Standardized, consolidated data formats for voters and stakeholders, reducing manual effort and fostering trust. -- **Milestone Tracking:** Each grant has a dedicated page showing milestones, progress bars, and completion status, updated in real-time using data from GitHub and Polkadot’s development tools. -- **Risk Detection:** Machine learning identifies delays, inactivity, or unusual fund activity, providing actionable suggestions for early intervention. -- **Financial Transparency:** Tracks Treasury funds to project wallets, linking spending to milestones and flagging inconsistencies. -- **Blockchain Verification:** Milestones are securely recorded on Polkadot’s blockchain for transparent, tamper-proof audit trails. -- **Automated Alerts:** Sends in-app and email notifications for overdue milestones or deviations from grant plans. -- **Visual Insights:** Displays progress through charts, such as bar graphs for milestone completion and line charts for fund usage trends. +### Impact -> WatchDog streamlines grant oversight, empowering stakeholders with clear, actionable insights at low cost and effort. +WatchDog streamlines grant management by automating monitoring, reporting, and risk identification, significantly reducing administrative burden. By embedding verification and automation into the grant lifecycle, it ensures low-effort, low-cost, high-trust project oversight, enabling the Polkadot ecosystem to address issues promptly and drive successful outcomes. -## Key Features and Differentiators + ## Ecosystem Fit -- **Live Grant Monitoring:** A dynamic dashboard tracks milestones, updates, and reports across all Polkadot Treasury and OpenGov projects, consolidating data from multiple sources. -- **Proactive Risk Detection:** Machine learning analyzes real-time data to flag risks, such as: - - Significant milestone delays - - Sudden project inactivity - - Irregular fund usage - Each flagged issue includes recommended actions to improve outcomes. -- **Blockchain-Based Milestone Records:** Milestone submissions are securely stored on Polkadot’s blockchain, ensuring authenticity and enabling easy audits by stakeholders. -- **Fund Flow Tracking:** WatchDog links Treasury disbursements to project milestones, highlighting: - - Delayed or unused funds - - Unexpected project activity - - Misalignments between reported progress and spending -- **Standardized Reporting:** Automated reports combine data from GitHub commits, Polkadot development logs, and OpenGov metadata into a consistent format for easy comparison and decision-making. -- **Multi-Source Data Integration:** WatchDog unifies data from GitHub, Polkassembly, and OpenGov into a single grant profile, combining governance discussions, technical updates, and financial tracking. +WatchDog aligns with Polkadot’s core values of **accountability**, **decentralization**, and **transparency**, serving: -## Community Oversight +- **DOT Token Holders & DAO Delegates:** Clear insights to evaluate grant performance and inform voting decisions. +- **Grant Recipients:** A user-friendly portal to report progress and demonstrate accountability. +- **Governance Facilitators:** Portfolio-wide visibility to identify risks and streamline administration. +- **Community Members:** Transparent access to fund usage and project impact, fostering trust. -- **Endorsements and Feedback:** Stakeholders can endorse or comment on milestone reports. -- **Grantee Interaction:** Grantees can respond to feedback within the platform. -- **Auditor Input:** Verified developers and auditors can flag issues, feeding into the risk detection system. +As a governance layer for Polkadot’s public goods infrastructure, WatchDog complements tools like Polkassembly by focusing on delivery oversight, technical verification, and funding transparency, ensuring seamless integration into the ecosystem. +## Impact -## Ecosystem Fit - -WatchDog aligns with Polkadot’s values of **transparency, decentralization,** and **accountability**. It serves: - -- **DOT Token Holders & DAO Delegates:** Clear insights to evaluate grant performance. -- **Grant Recipients:** A user-friendly portal for reporting progress. -- **Governance Facilitators:** Portfolio-wide visibility to identify risks. -- **Community Members:** Transparent access to fund usage and project impact. - -> WatchDog complements tools like **Polkassembly** by focusing on **delivery oversight, technical verification, and funding transparency**, acting as a **DevOps layer** for Polkadot’s public goods infrastructure. +WatchDog streamlines grant management, **reduces administrative effort**, and enables **proactive risk mitigation**. By embedding automation and verification into the grant lifecycle, it delivers low-effort, low-cost, high-trust oversight, empowering Polkadot’s community to drive successful outcomes. ## Team 👥 From aebf3dcd62723bbb886056e615f6694b655b3b01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Emmanuel <49331376+EmmanuelEklipse@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 03:30:37 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 05/11] Fixed to highlight focus on W3F --- applications/WatchDog.md | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/applications/WatchDog.md b/applications/WatchDog.md index 3763a289c4b..cb52ced307e 100644 --- a/applications/WatchDog.md +++ b/applications/WatchDog.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -## Unified Grant Progress Tracking Platform For Polkadot +## Automated Grant Progress Monitoring & Risk Detection for Web3 Foundation **Team Name:** Build Union - **Payment Details:** @@ -8,37 +8,36 @@ ## Problem +The **Web3 Foundation Grants Program** oversees hundreds of innovative projects within the Polkadot ecosystem, driving its growth and development. However, tracking the progress of these grants remains challenging, as updates are often scattered across GitHub repositories, pull requests, and issues, making it difficult to evaluate milestone completion, detect delays, or assess overall project health. This fragmentation increases the workload for reviewers who must spend hours manually cross-referencing data, and risks overlooking early indicators of project stagnation, such as inactive repositories or scope drift, while also reducing transparency for the community. Without an automated tracking system, the Web3 Foundation faces significant challenges in maximizing the impact and success of its grant funding. -The Polkadot DAO, Web3 Foundation, and OpenGov have allocated over **34 million DOT** to fund ecosystem initiatives. While this capital has accelerated growth, updates and critical information about funded projects remain currently **fragmented** across platforms, Polkassembly, GitHub repositories, Substrate development logs, and social media, making it difficult for the community and grant administrators to oversee progress, evaluate outcomes, and identify issues early. Manual cross-referencing is time-consuming for grant administrators, and critical risks, such as delays or mismanagement, often go unnoticed -## Proposed Solution +## Proposed Solution +WatchDog is a lightweight, GitHub-integrated, web-based monitoring platform that aggregates W3F grant progress and activities into a real-time, user-friendly dashboard. It automates milestone tracking, visualizes project activity, and flags risks (e.g., inactivity or delays) using basic ML. Designed to complement W3F’s existing workflows, WatchDog reduces reviewer workload, enhances grantee accountability, and provides the community with transparent insights into funded projects, along with enhancements, like on-chain milestone attestations, to further strengthen trust. -WatchDog is a platform designed to enhance **accountability**, **efficiency **, and **transparency** in the Polkadot grant ecosystem by centralizing fragmented data into a user-friendly dashboard. It provides structured oversight for Web3 Foundation, Polkadot Treasury, and OpenGov grants, empowering stakeholders with actionable insights. Key features include: +### Key Features -- **Milestone Tracking:** Dedicated grant pages with progress indicators (e.g., progress bars, percentages) and completion status, synced with GitHub and Substrate tools for real-time technical updates. -- **Financial Transparency:** Mapping Treasury disbursements to project-specific wallet activity for clear, verifiable spending oversight. -- **Risk Detection:** Machine learning algorithms to identify early signs of delays, inactivity, or unusual fund behavior. -- **On-Chain Verification:** Milestone attestations anchored on-chain via hashed, verifiable records for high-trust reporting. -- **Automated Alerts:** In-app and email notifications for overdue milestones or deviations from grant scope, enabling proactive issue resolution. -- **Data Visualization:** Charts and graphs to illustrate project progress, trends, and financial activity, simplifying community oversight. -- **Community Empowerment:** Standardized, consolidated data formats for voters and stakeholders, reducing manual effort and fostering trust. +- **Milestone Tracking** Live dashboards showing each grant’s milestones progress with indicators (e.g., progress bars, percentages) and completion status. -### Impact +- **GitHub Integration** Syncs PRs, issues, commits, and releases for all grant-related repositories. -WatchDog streamlines grant management by automating monitoring, reporting, and risk identification, significantly reducing administrative burden. By embedding verification and automation into the grant lifecycle, it ensures low-effort, low-cost, high-trust project oversight, enabling the Polkadot ecosystem to address issues promptly and drive successful outcomes. +- **Activity Visualization** Graphs and timelines showing recent coding activity and engagement trends. - ## Ecosystem Fit +- **Risk Detection * ML algorithms to identify early signs of delays, inactivity (e.g., no commits in X days). -WatchDog aligns with Polkadot’s core values of **accountability**, **decentralization**, and **transparency**, serving: +- **Automated Notifications** Optional alerts via email or dashboard for delays or deviations. -- **DOT Token Holders & DAO Delegates:** Clear insights to evaluate grant performance and inform voting decisions. -- **Grant Recipients:** A user-friendly portal to report progress and demonstrate accountability. -- **Governance Facilitators:** Portfolio-wide visibility to identify risks and streamline administration. -- **Community Members:** Transparent access to fund usage and project impact, fostering trust. +- **Lightweight Documentation View** Pulls summary-level GitHub activity and README data for reviewer-friendly views. -As a governance layer for Polkadot’s public goods infrastructure, WatchDog complements tools like Polkassembly by focusing on delivery oversight, technical verification, and funding transparency, ensuring seamless integration into the ecosystem. ## Impact -WatchDog streamlines grant management, **reduces administrative effort**, and enables **proactive risk mitigation**. By embedding automation and verification into the grant lifecycle, it delivers low-effort, low-cost, high-trust oversight, empowering Polkadot’s community to drive successful outcomes. +WatchDog streamlines grant management, reduces administrative effort, and enables proactive risk mitigation. By embedding automation and verification into the grant lifecycle, it delivers low-effort, low-cost, high-trust oversight, empowering the W3F and Polkadot’s community to drive successful outcomes. + +## Ecosystem Fit + +WatchDog enhances, not replaces, the W3F GitHub-based grant workflow. It enhances and adds a monitoring layer on top of public activity to aid: + +- **W3F Grant Reviewers:** Evaluate progress in seconds via real-time dashboards. +- **Grantees:** Share transparent progress without extra overhead. +- **Community Members:** Access visible signals of grant health and activity. ## Team 👥 @@ -197,3 +196,5 @@ Collaborate with ecosystem tools and infrastructure projects to integrate WatchD ## Conclusion WatchDog introduces a structured, intelligent accountability framework for the Polkadot Treasury and OpenGov. By transforming fragmented and inconsistent grant data into real-time, verifiable insights, it strengthens trust, reduces inefficiencies, and helps ensure the long-term effectiveness of Polkadot’s public funding mechanisms. + +WatchDog brings clarity and efficiency to the Web3 Foundation grant oversight process. By transforming fragmented GitHub activity into meaningful, actionable insights, it delivers transparent oversight with minimal effort, reduces inefficiencies and maximum trust for both reviewers and the community. As a comprehensive monitoring solution, WatchDog will directly enhance the effectiveness and success of the W3F Grants Program for easier scaling. From 4c4c889305fab691ecf7f708802594c4cfe49724 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Emmanuel <49331376+EmmanuelEklipse@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 05:38:42 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 06/11] Update WatchDog.md --- applications/WatchDog.md | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/applications/WatchDog.md b/applications/WatchDog.md index cb52ced307e..1bd9469b3f9 100644 --- a/applications/WatchDog.md +++ b/applications/WatchDog.md @@ -8,35 +8,61 @@ ## Problem -The **Web3 Foundation Grants Program** oversees hundreds of innovative projects within the Polkadot ecosystem, driving its growth and development. However, tracking the progress of these grants remains challenging, as updates are often scattered across GitHub repositories, pull requests, and issues, making it difficult to evaluate milestone completion, detect delays, or assess overall project health. This fragmentation increases the workload for reviewers who must spend hours manually cross-referencing data, and risks overlooking early indicators of project stagnation, such as inactive repositories or scope drift, while also reducing transparency for the community. Without an automated tracking system, the Web3 Foundation faces significant challenges in maximizing the impact and success of its grant funding. +The Web3 Foundation Grants Program oversees hundreds of innovative projects within the Polkadot ecosystem, driving its growth and development. However, tracking the progress of these grants remains challenging, as updates are often scattered across GitHub repositories, pull requests, and issues, making it difficult to evaluate milestone completion, detect delays, or assess overall project health. This fragmentation increases the workload for reviewers who must spend hours manually cross-referencing GitHub activity across multiple repositories, correlating commits to milestone deliverables, and identifying stalled projects. There are risks of overlooking early indicators of project stagnation, while also reducing transparency for the community. Without an automated tracking system, the Web3 Foundation faces significant challenges in maximizing the impact and success of its grant funding. ## Proposed Solution WatchDog is a lightweight, GitHub-integrated, web-based monitoring platform that aggregates W3F grant progress and activities into a real-time, user-friendly dashboard. It automates milestone tracking, visualizes project activity, and flags risks (e.g., inactivity or delays) using basic ML. Designed to complement W3F’s existing workflows, WatchDog reduces reviewer workload, enhances grantee accountability, and provides the community with transparent insights into funded projects, along with enhancements, like on-chain milestone attestations, to further strengthen trust. -### Key Features +## Features -- **Milestone Tracking** Live dashboards showing each grant’s milestones progress with indicators (e.g., progress bars, percentages) and completion status. +### Core Administrative Features -- **GitHub Integration** Syncs PRs, issues, commits, and releases for all grant-related repositories. +- **Search & Filter Tools** + Allow admins and community to explore grants by category, status, technology stack, and development stage. -- **Activity Visualization** Graphs and timelines showing recent coding activity and engagement trends. +- **Project Activity & Updates** + Real-time updates on significant milestones and deliverables with automated GitHub integration, allowing grantees to add context to project updates and share relevant resources. -- **Risk Detection * ML algorithms to identify early signs of delays, inactivity (e.g., no commits in X days). +- **Administrative Dashboard** + Comprehensive overview combining high-level statistics on active grants, completion rates, ecosystem health, funding distribution across categories, aggregated performance metrics, success rates, completion times, and resource allocation efficiency for administrative evaluation. -- **Automated Notifications** Optional alerts via email or dashboard for delays or deviations. +- **Risk Detection & Analytics** + ML algorithms to identify early signs of delays and inactivity (e.g., no commits in X days), with risk flags, comparative analysis, and workflow optimization. -- **Lightweight Documentation View** Pulls summary-level GitHub activity and README data for reviewer-friendly views. +### Community & Transparency Features -## Impact +- **Public Transparency Hub** + Community-facing dashboards with project discovery tools, progress visibility, and engagement opportunities for public access. + +- **Community Engagement System** + Multi-tier feedback mechanism allowing community members to flag concerns, suggest improvements, contribute insights to project evaluation, and provide constructive feedback on individual projects. + +- **Automated Reporting** + Monthly transparency reports are generated automatically from dashboard data, highlighting ecosystem trends, successful projects, and areas needing attention. + +### Strategic & Knowledge Management + +- **Community Knowledge Hub** + A comprehensive system for capturing, showcasing, and sharing successful projects, case studies, best practices, and replicable patterns across the ecosystem for learning and improvement. -WatchDog streamlines grant management, reduces administrative effort, and enables proactive risk mitigation. By embedding automation and verification into the grant lifecycle, it delivers low-effort, low-cost, high-trust oversight, empowering the W3F and Polkadot’s community to drive successful outcomes. +- **Redundancy Prevention** + Cross-reference new applications against existing projects to identify potential overlaps and suggest collaboration opportunities before funding decisions. + +- **Impact Tracking** + Long-term success metrics, including project adoption, ecosystem integration, and value creation, to inform future funding strategies. + +- **Strategic Alignment Tools** Help potential applicants understand ecosystem priorities and contribute to filling identified gaps, increasing proposal quality, and ecosystem coherence. + + +## Impact +WatchDog streamlines grant oversight by reducing administrative burden and enabling real-time milestone tracking. By embedding automation, verification, and alerting into the grant lifecycle, it allows the Web3 Foundation to proactively mitigate risks and increase funding accountability with minimal overhead. WatchDog ensures that grant funding translates into progress. It enhances reviewer efficiency, making sure grantees are on track. ## Ecosystem Fit WatchDog enhances, not replaces, the W3F GitHub-based grant workflow. It enhances and adds a monitoring layer on top of public activity to aid: - **W3F Grant Reviewers:** Evaluate progress in seconds via real-time dashboards. -- **Grantees:** Share transparent progress without extra overhead. +- **Grantees:** Share transparent progress without additional reporting overhead. - **Community Members:** Access visible signals of grant health and activity. ## Team 👥 From e984b9c4a7475751486d59ed13188cb458b90250 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Emmanuel <49331376+EmmanuelEklipse@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 06:11:50 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 07/11] Update WatchDog.md --- applications/WatchDog.md | 11 ++++------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/applications/WatchDog.md b/applications/WatchDog.md index 1bd9469b3f9..c0f8ff229af 100644 --- a/applications/WatchDog.md +++ b/applications/WatchDog.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ ## Problem -The Web3 Foundation Grants Program oversees hundreds of innovative projects within the Polkadot ecosystem, driving its growth and development. However, tracking the progress of these grants remains challenging, as updates are often scattered across GitHub repositories, pull requests, and issues, making it difficult to evaluate milestone completion, detect delays, or assess overall project health. This fragmentation increases the workload for reviewers who must spend hours manually cross-referencing GitHub activity across multiple repositories, correlating commits to milestone deliverables, and identifying stalled projects. There are risks of overlooking early indicators of project stagnation, while also reducing transparency for the community. Without an automated tracking system, the Web3 Foundation faces significant challenges in maximizing the impact and success of its grant funding. +The Web3 Foundation Grants Program oversees hundreds of innovative projects within the Polkadot ecosystem, driving its growth and development. However, tracking the progress of these grants remains challenging, as updates are often scattered across GitHub repositories, pull requests, and issues, making it difficult to evaluate milestone completion, detect delays, or assess overall project health. This fragmentation increases the workload for reviewers who must spend hours manually cross-referencing GitHub activity across multiple repositories, correlating commits to milestone deliverables, and identifying stalled projects. There are risks of overlooking early indicators of project stagnation. Without an automated tracking system, the Web3 Foundation faces significant challenges in maximizing the impact and success of its grant funding. ## Proposed Solution WatchDog is a lightweight, GitHub-integrated, web-based monitoring platform that aggregates W3F grant progress and activities into a real-time, user-friendly dashboard. It automates milestone tracking, visualizes project activity, and flags risks (e.g., inactivity or delays) using basic ML. Designed to complement W3F’s existing workflows, WatchDog reduces reviewer workload, enhances grantee accountability, and provides the community with transparent insights into funded projects, along with enhancements, like on-chain milestone attestations, to further strengthen trust. @@ -18,13 +18,13 @@ WatchDog is a lightweight, GitHub-integrated, web-based monitoring platform that ### Core Administrative Features - **Search & Filter Tools** - Allow admins and community to explore grants by category, status, technology stack, and development stage. + Allow admins and the community to explore grants by category, status, technology stack, and development stage. - **Project Activity & Updates** Real-time updates on significant milestones and deliverables with automated GitHub integration, allowing grantees to add context to project updates and share relevant resources. - **Administrative Dashboard** - Comprehensive overview combining high-level statistics on active grants, completion rates, ecosystem health, funding distribution across categories, aggregated performance metrics, success rates, completion times, and resource allocation efficiency for administrative evaluation. + Comprehensive overview combining high-level statistics on active grants, completion rates, and ecosystem health for administrative evaluation. - **Risk Detection & Analytics** ML algorithms to identify early signs of delays and inactivity (e.g., no commits in X days), with risk flags, comparative analysis, and workflow optimization. @@ -34,9 +34,6 @@ WatchDog is a lightweight, GitHub-integrated, web-based monitoring platform that - **Public Transparency Hub** Community-facing dashboards with project discovery tools, progress visibility, and engagement opportunities for public access. -- **Community Engagement System** - Multi-tier feedback mechanism allowing community members to flag concerns, suggest improvements, contribute insights to project evaluation, and provide constructive feedback on individual projects. - - **Automated Reporting** Monthly transparency reports are generated automatically from dashboard data, highlighting ecosystem trends, successful projects, and areas needing attention. @@ -49,7 +46,7 @@ WatchDog is a lightweight, GitHub-integrated, web-based monitoring platform that Cross-reference new applications against existing projects to identify potential overlaps and suggest collaboration opportunities before funding decisions. - **Impact Tracking** - Long-term success metrics, including project adoption, ecosystem integration, and value creation, to inform future funding strategies. + To inform future funding strategies. - **Strategic Alignment Tools** Help potential applicants understand ecosystem priorities and contribute to filling identified gaps, increasing proposal quality, and ecosystem coherence. From c65a2be1ebc8a36b3cab6ca7d5a00ef1ac649b90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Emmanuel <49331376+EmmanuelEklipse@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 08:22:49 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 08/11] Update WatchDog.md --- applications/WatchDog.md | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/applications/WatchDog.md b/applications/WatchDog.md index c0f8ff229af..3abe37f3473 100644 --- a/applications/WatchDog.md +++ b/applications/WatchDog.md @@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ WatchDog is a lightweight, GitHub-integrated, web-based monitoring platform that - **Project Activity & Updates** Real-time updates on significant milestones and deliverables with automated GitHub integration, allowing grantees to add context to project updates and share relevant resources. + - **Verifiable records** Milestone attestations are hashed and anchored on-chain, creating immutable and verifiable records using a Substrate pallet. + - - **Administrative Dashboard** Comprehensive overview combining high-level statistics on active grants, completion rates, and ecosystem health for administrative evaluation. @@ -50,7 +52,9 @@ WatchDog is a lightweight, GitHub-integrated, web-based monitoring platform that - **Strategic Alignment Tools** Help potential applicants understand ecosystem priorities and contribute to filling identified gaps, increasing proposal quality, and ecosystem coherence. - +**On-Chain Milestone Attestations** + Milestone submissions are hashed and anchored on-chain using a lightweight Substrate pallet, creating an immutable and queryable audit log + ## Impact WatchDog streamlines grant oversight by reducing administrative burden and enabling real-time milestone tracking. By embedding automation, verification, and alerting into the grant lifecycle, it allows the Web3 Foundation to proactively mitigate risks and increase funding accountability with minimal overhead. WatchDog ensures that grant funding translates into progress. It enhances reviewer efficiency, making sure grantees are on track. From 0e69c626b0ef61ca990dffd7c089e2a5efd70fea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Emmanuel <49331376+EmmanuelEklipse@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2025 14:29:58 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 09/11] Update WatchDog.md --- applications/WatchDog.md | 33 +++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/applications/WatchDog.md b/applications/WatchDog.md index 3abe37f3473..a1a54fa5de2 100644 --- a/applications/WatchDog.md +++ b/applications/WatchDog.md @@ -24,13 +24,16 @@ WatchDog is a lightweight, GitHub-integrated, web-based monitoring platform that Real-time updates on significant milestones and deliverables with automated GitHub integration, allowing grantees to add context to project updates and share relevant resources. - **Verifiable records** Milestone attestations are hashed and anchored on-chain, creating immutable and verifiable records using a Substrate pallet. - - + - **Administrative Dashboard** Comprehensive overview combining high-level statistics on active grants, completion rates, and ecosystem health for administrative evaluation. - **Risk Detection & Analytics** ML algorithms to identify early signs of delays and inactivity (e.g., no commits in X days), with risk flags, comparative analysis, and workflow optimization. +- **Auto Review Feedback** +An automated review feature provides initial feedback to applicants, identifying missing details or inconsistencies in submitted proposals before manual review. + ### Community & Transparency Features - **Public Transparency Hub** @@ -145,7 +148,7 @@ Post-grant approval ## Milestone 1 — Frontend Dashboard MVP -- **Estimated Duration:** 1 month +- **Estimated Duration:** 2 Weeks - **FTE:** 1 - **Costs:** 3,000 USD @@ -164,7 +167,7 @@ Post-grant approval ## Milestone 2 — Backend & GitHub Sync -- **Estimated Duration:** 1 month +- **Estimated Duration:** 1.2 month - **FTE:** 2 - **Costs:** 7,000 USD @@ -182,27 +185,29 @@ Post-grant approval ### MVP Pages -**Project list page** - -![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/77b12a31-4fd5-4df2-bbae-cd37d77c5208) +**Project list & Recent updates page** +![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1aac1b30-5fc4-4d1f-a84e-32e223ea4493) -![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/572e8f70-893d-4160-9aaf-d68e21ddaca5) **Project details page** Indepth detials on grant -![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6c519cf7-60e2-4a99-b45d-e2d556c85b1f) + ![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0c161026-077a-4d27-8508-d83996d85090) + + **Grant Control Page** + + ![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0dc2f168-4783-4362-a848-144c59571a16) ### Post MVP Pages -**Grant Control Page** -![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2ba6b795-0651-4c1b-9e7a-1191a83de819) +**Admin Organizational Grant Details** + ![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/69ffe990-a011-41b6-b54f-42daabcc40f2) -**Organizational Grant Details** -![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1fb23c0f-9a32-4842-b1d8-7017d77dc68e) +**Admin Vote** +![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1d857304-9445-49e1-a7fc-45808e4921c5) -**Admin Page** +**Ai Grant Review** Provide preliminary feedback for applicants regarding missing details and fit in proposals +![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f5e5be04-4a78-445c-98f3-e616f1e1ca3d) -![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/881847cc-9310-41cd-abba-6d9991d852aa) ## Future From e92e61f85e6cef86b137226a7cb193412086f839 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Emmanuel <49331376+EmmanuelEklipse@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2025 14:52:48 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 10/11] Update WatchDog.md --- applications/WatchDog.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/applications/WatchDog.md b/applications/WatchDog.md index a1a54fa5de2..d38522ba61e 100644 --- a/applications/WatchDog.md +++ b/applications/WatchDog.md @@ -191,6 +191,8 @@ Post-grant approval **Project details page** Indepth detials on grant ![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0c161026-077a-4d27-8508-d83996d85090) +table view +![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0045398c-7b6f-4786-8f2c-e52803ff166e) **Grant Control Page** From d4e43946e9a3ba37aeac5d531dca52ce5c6739cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Emmanuel <49331376+EmmanuelEklipse@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025 22:00:02 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 11/11] Update WatchDog.md --- applications/WatchDog.md | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/applications/WatchDog.md b/applications/WatchDog.md index d38522ba61e..93936090aa2 100644 --- a/applications/WatchDog.md +++ b/applications/WatchDog.md @@ -187,13 +187,15 @@ Post-grant approval **Project list & Recent updates page** ![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1aac1b30-5fc4-4d1f-a84e-32e223ea4493) - - -**Project details page** Indepth detials on grant - ![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0c161026-077a-4d27-8508-d83996d85090) table view ![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0045398c-7b6f-4786-8f2c-e52803ff166e) +**Project details Page** Indepth detials on grant + ![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0c161026-077a-4d27-8508-d83996d85090) + +**Organization Details Page** +![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/27a09e82-3124-4015-89f7-87fc3e9e76fe) + **Grant Control Page** ![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0dc2f168-4783-4362-a848-144c59571a16)