GRANT INTRODUCTION

Grant Name

Please provide a descriptive name to help the community understand your proposed, unique approach to decentralized mining pools.

<aside> ➕ Decentralized Mining Pool

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Total Duration

How many hours of work total should this project take to complete?

<aside> ➕ 2560h

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Total Budget

Take the hours above and multiply by $75/hr. If your project requires any third party fees, add those as a separate cost outside of development time-related costs.

<aside> ➕ 192,000$

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Required Applicant Skills

**Please note the complexity of this project will likely require a team of people working together. We ask that only teams with a proven track record of delivering projects at a high level TOGETHER apply.

You are a good candidate for this grant if your team has …**

a) Deep understanding of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Script

b) Deep understanding of Clarity, Proof of Transfer, and Stacks Mining

c) Deep understanding of contemporary front-end technologies.

d) Deep understanding of all required backend / middleware technologies & infrastructure.

e) Experience with being a mining and/or stacking pool operator.

f) Track record of shipping production-level products in Stacks (e.g. related to Stacking or infra level), relationships to work with Stacks entities.

g) Please note having product development, business development, and fund-raising experience would be seen as a value add as Stacks Ventures has expressed interest in investing in this product upon completion.

<aside> ➕ Type your answer here…

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Track record of almost 1 year of shipping infrastructure related smart contracts, their integration, documentation, tutorials, and holding workshops for Stacks foundation. Our work can be found here:

General Intro

How to Integrate an NFT into your App or Game - Tutorial

We’ve been developing smart contracts such as the ones for: