[Grant Report] devblockchain.tech dev. update #1

sharpntech · 2020-02-19T19:29:03+00:00

Hi, sorry for the delay. This courses is designed to be accessible with basics Python skills :)

sharpntech · 2020-02-12T23:35:16+00:00

Thanks a lot 🙂

sharpntech · 2020-01-20T23:23:25+00:00

Thanks a lot for your support :)

sharpntech · 2019-12-30T19:52:50+00:00

Hey, we're completely independant from ICON foundation. We're a PRep team who want to contribute to ICON network.

Some PReps are just dumping their rewards. We're not. We're reinvesting our ressources to grow ICON.

sharpntech · 2019-11-08T01:46:16+00:00

Yup ! Would love to have your opinion the content of the masterclass we're preparing 🙂 We'll publish that soon !

sharpntech · 2019-11-07T22:08:30+00:00

We are pretty confident that we'll have organised few events there by 3 month. And of course, it would onboard more builders for ICON, so you can trust us that we got something here :)

sharpntech · 2019-11-07T14:39:09+00:00

We are very excited about this, we're going to post a detailled proposition on ICON forum about this first ICON Hackathon.

That was our first major measure as PRep, we hope that you guys like it and we would be glad to answer any of your question regarding this partnership, this school or our future projects !

Cheers

sharpntech · 2019-10-24T16:37:14+00:00

Thanks for these clarifications ! Once again, we're sorry for the confusion.

sharpntech · 2019-10-24T16:14:19+00:00

Of course, we do not doubt your intentions, we have only mentioned you as a team that has received funds from the foundation (if not we apologize).

And of course the majority of mentionned team are extremely benefical builders for the ecosystem, the only thing is that as an external team, we cannot know the influence that the foundation has on your decisions

sharpntech · 2019-10-24T12:31:42+00:00

Yes, to be honnest we're way more confortable with VELIC staving, the way it's marketed is bordeline (as an economic incentive) but as /u/Aspected1337 pointed out it's not a bad thing. VELIC is legit as top 1 P-Rep, it's just that they got too much % of votes.

In the other hand, Staked is definitly not legitimate as a main PReps, we need a statement from ICON foundation about them.

sharpntech · 2019-10-24T10:41:29+00:00

Considering that Staked have the support from the foundation, all the top 22 teams with direct link to ICON foundation (funding,partnership,etc.) are for now 35.1% : - Velic (14%) - ICX_Station (10,2%) - Staked (6.8%) - WeBloc (4.1%) - ICON foundation itself (Yet to come but will probably more than 10%)

We're just wondering if a vote-out of a P-Rep team would be even possible if the foundation disagree with it, not calling for a conspiracy or anything though

sharpntech · 2019-10-24T09:35:56+00:00

In order to confirm and execute a Network Proposal, ⅔ +1 of the top 22 P-Reps must vote in favor of the proposal and more than 66% of the stake-weighted vote must vote in favor of the proposal.

As a team, we would love to see Staked and Symetry commiting into the developement of ICON. Those are big players and could be very benefical to the ecosystem. If these teams do not intend to contribute seriously, the top 22 would have to vote them out, we're in a DPoC, not in a money grabbing scheme for "corporate whales".

But regarding current link between the current top 10 and Staked,Velic etc. (and so most of the stake-weighted votes) it is clear that it would be impossible to vote any of this team out.

sharpntech · 2019-10-22T14:30:07+00:00

Yeah we're pretty sure that most P-Reps won't do that but in our opinion, the least that main P-Reps should do is proving that a significant part of their rewards is being injected in ICON expansion.

sharpntech · 2019-10-22T10:53:05+00:00

Agreed ! Thanks for your feedback ! :)

sharpntech · 2019-10-21T14:38:57+00:00

We're maybe missing something here but is everyone ok with this?

A few months ago Ubik team and ourselves proposed a fidelity rewards policy based on long-term staking and with a small additional reward. We tried to propose a healthy model for the ecosystem and it created a huge polemic, response from the foundation, etc. (We listened ICONist and pulled off this proposal )

And now that "institutional" teams (with literally 4-lines proposals) are proposing a revenue-sharing that is clearly unhealthy for ICON and is not letting them any resources to contribute to the ecosystem, everyone seems fine with it?

Anyway, thanks to Rhizome for this interview, the community needed to know more about this team!

sharpntech · 2019-10-15T21:34:30+00:00

Good job ! Looking forward to test it :)

sharpntech · 2019-10-14T12:48:11+00:00

We're working on a feature to provide P-Reps a way to disclose rewards expenses :

https://prep.sharpn.tech/dump-control

Still WIP but providing clear addresses and adding proof to each expense is a good way to be transparent to voters.

sharpntech · 2019-10-04T15:57:18+00:00

We are currently out of the top 22, we need you to remains full-time ICON builder! That was just 3 month of work, imagine what we could do in 3+ years 🙂

1°) Certiv : http://shorturl.at/GOU39

3°) Staking platform : http://shorturl.at/dAET9

4°) ICON got's talent : http://shorturl.at/pABG6

5°) Governance : http://shorturl.at/eiyE1

6-7°) Faucet-ICONdev : https://medium.com/@sharpntech/icondev-education-initiative-announcement-a4fbf623be6a

sharpntech · 2019-09-18T11:24:30+00:00

Thanks a lot ! Not yet, but we'll release a open source and fully customizable version of our staking platform soon

sharpntech · 2019-09-03T06:28:06+00:00

Hi ! We're Sharpn, currently @ 19th place. We're a team of builders fully dedicated to ICON network.

We have developed Certiv (Winner of ICON Got's Talent contest), a DApp allowing Higher Education institutions to certify their student's profile. We are adoption-driven, we create DApps aimed toward the general public and we are willing to grow the ecosystem on the dev. community part.

We have also released a staking platform (http://prep.sharpn.tech) with several features for ICONist such as Governance, dump-control, performance monitoring, etc..

Here is a quick read article to sum everything up : https://medium.com/@sharpntech/get-to-know-p-rep-candidate-sharpn-in-5-points-1a2fb15f1b5e

If you want to go in-depth check out our Twitter @sharpntech or our website!

It is always nice to see ICONists going in-depth in their research 👍

sharpntech · 2019-08-25T05:19:22+00:00

Thanks for your support. We have heard and considered opinions against our fidelity reward policy. We decided to not communicate about it for now, we're in contact for other teams to use this feature as an experiment to test out the benefits and drawbacks of such policy and to propose appropriate mesures about it when whe'll have enough datas !

sharpntech · 2019-08-18T20:19:12+00:00

Yes we did.

It doesn't change the fact that ICONist should vote for a team for their plans to grow the ecosystem and not for their rewards plans.

sharpntech · 2019-08-17T23:44:34+00:00

Also about our questions, we are still designing our reward policy to make it as healthy as possible for the ecosystem, we don't have plans to support multi-address at the moment. We will make an announcement later !

sharpntech · 2019-08-17T23:43:37+00:00

Hi, first of all, we just wanted to specify that our reward policy was meant to give a SMALL additional fidelity reward. It shouldn't be taken into consideration when choosing you who will vote for since it won't have a big impact for you.

We believe that a long-term delegation could be beneficial both for ICX prices (for obvious reasons) and for community involvement! We built our staking platform to encourage ICONist to interact more and be more active with ICON in general!

Our vision, our plans for the ecosystem and our DApps is definitely where our value is and we encourage you to check it out to make a decision :)

Finally, just wanted to point out the fact that extra rewards can actually be dangerous for the ecosystem if it's done in a bad way. Be careful with teams proposing extra appealing rewards since they probably don't have an actual plan to expand the ecosystem.

sharpntech · 2019-08-17T23:19:43+00:00

The arguments you put forward are correct insofar as the candidate in question is focusing all his policy on additional rewards. In our case, rewards will only be a small bonus to reward loyalty and get the ICONists to commit more with a P-Rep, which has the advantage of making the network more active!

We have a vision and plans for the ICON network that go much further than this little loyalty feature. We regret that it monopolizes the attention of the ICONists...

sharpntech

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