The PeakD team has been active on Hive from the very beginning since before Hive was born.
Working on peakd.com, peakmonsters.com and several other projects has given us the opportunity to interact with the Hive community, understand their needs and brainstorm ideas and solutions that will help the whole ecosystem to move forward.
But we realize that some of the solutions will be much more powerful if we can launch new open accessible features and develop them in a way that will be useful to ALL Hive projects and communities, and are not limited to "PeakD only products" but instead are encouraged to be a part of many projects.
We hope that with the help of the community we'll be able to launch these ideas in a faster, decentralized and more sustainable way.
THEREFORE: For all the reasons stated above we are creating this DHF proposal to fund work on a large set of Open Source projects for the whole Hive community. (Aka a "Launchpad for Open Source Hive projects")
This proposal is NOT for funding the development of PeakD.com and PeakMonsters.com ...though those projects are excited to be potential users of these new tools
There are multiple projects on the Peak Open Projects Roadmap and some developers already working on them. Having a single proposal allow us to scale the amount of work and to keep all those projects active for a long period of time. A single proposal gives us the opportunity to work on multiple tasks at the same time, easily transition to new projects upon completion and even decide to start working on additional popular projects that we have not included in our initial list. In addition some projects are inter-connected and require both to be worked on for either one of them to function to their highest potential. Having separate proposals model the shared recurring costs are harder to handle and the time spent developing to maintaining and promoting several projects takes away from end results. Also we want to avoid creating projects that once they get unfunded seem to vanish or loose steam... we want these projects to have staying power.
We have already started working on several features (hired a couple new developers) and our team is now 4-5 people. You can vote on the proposal right now and the funding could start beginning of June if there are enough votes.
We are already paying developers but this will allow us to pay them for longer and for us to expand the team to work on more projects at the same time.
You should expect to see future separate posts about each project and their progress from our team and the developers that work on each.
NEXT GEN. HIVE BLOCK EXPLORER - There are multiple block explorers on Hive, but most of them have been built some time ago and only focus on showing the Layer 1 transactions. Nowadays Hive is much more than that with 2nd layer applications comprising the bulk of transactions. So we are building a new block explorer that can beautifully and intuitively display all block transactions AND can validate even 2nd layer Hive based transactions such as Hive-Engine, Splinterlands, Dlux etc.
A simple MVP foundation of this new explorer is already being created and will be shared soon, stay tuned :)
HIVE NODE BEACON - This is an open source tool that was created a while back to check the health status of Hive API nodes. The tool is already working, but should continuously be maintained and upgraded.
HIVEMIND PLUGIN UPGRADES - This is an open source plugin that provides additional features and API to Hivemind. The plugin is a read-only addon and there are already multiple API nodes using it to provide PeakD.com with some specific endpoints to render part of the UI. As Hivemind is going to be migrated to HAF technology soon this plugin will required some work to be upgraded and improved. We hope that other interfaces will be able to benefit from this open source plugin as well.
HAF TOOLS - We want to fund several new HAF based tools and look forward to working with multiple developers who can use this great new technology created by the 
EXAMPLE: We assisted and pushed the start of work on a new Global Notification System which can do customized Hive notifications and also provide notifications for 2nd layer apps such as Hive-Engine or Splinterlands as well. Though we helped with initial funding this particular project is now requesting support through it's own HDF proposal by 
We plan to back work on similar projects or support teams like the one led by
One example candidate is an open source system that tracks TIPS made to posts and that can support more 2nd layer tokens as well.
NEW HIVE WALLET - We believe it's important for Hive to have multiple options for intuitive wallet software which can be used to do transactions on Hive via various interfaces or stand alone software. We are big users and supporters of Hive Keychain and will continue to support their product and hope they continue to progress. This is a centralization issue and a push to make sure users have options. We also hope that this will result in teams pushing each other to provide the best for the Hive community.
We are just now starting this project and so there will be a lot of information/details about this project that we'll share in a dedicated post soon.
Above are what we are able start work on with the developers at our disposal (though more developers would make it faster)
Below are what we want to begin as soon as there is bandwidth (finishing of projects or onboarding of new developers)
HIVE BADGE DECENTRALIZATION AND UPGRADES - The badge system created by our team needs more upgrades and should be a decentralized open source project available for all user interfaces. Upgrades include but are not limited to: Easier tools to help create badges, user suggestion/application system for badge holders, stats and sorting mechanisms, display tools, badge feed page upgrades and potentially automated badge tools... etc
NEW INTERNAL MARKET INTERFACE - A new HBD-HIVE market interface that not only has more features but is also more intuitive to use and can be more easily integrated into other projects and markets. This post by 
RC DELEGATION INTERFACE - With the upcoming release of RC delegation we know that an open source tool that interfaces can use to help users will be very important. We plan to make one for PeakD.com so it will be good to work on a system that multiple interfaces can input on and benefit from. The basic idea is that interfaces could decide to cover the RC cost of new users who do not have much HP yet.
TOKEN ROUTES - A tool that can be used to understand not just the cheapest route from one token to another but how many steps, estimate length of time, price drop estimates and educate on the pain points of token swaps in different exchange routes ... in particular for HIVE tokens and Hive 2nd layer tokens. Routes will encompass centralized and decentralized exchange/swap options.
"BLOCKCHAIN BOOTCAMP" aka Educational Tool that will help users get familiar with many different (or perhaps any) blockchain tools or Hive based projects. We envision this being used by many different interfaces to help educate their users about their features.
We have a big list already but we are open to adding more as we grow more capable.
Either new projects that are suggested and heavily voted by users OR older projects that never quite finished or want to be under this open source umbrella and stay maintained and integrated into other projects.
The community will have a heavy say in the features however ultimately you are trusting the Peak Open Projects team to make the final decision which we will base on the following:
We are obviously focusing on projects that our team knows can be easily integrated into other sites (such as PeakD.com and others) and these may take a lot of work but in the meantime we want to hear your ideas. We invite you to brainstorm some ideas with us... maybe it will help inspire a developer to work on them either separately or with us.
We have built on this blockchain (both Steem and Hive) for 4+ years and have 2 of the most used user interfaces on the chain with peakd.com and peakmonsters.com, both of which have tens of thousands of visitors a day. We have also built smaller open source features.
We have already had a proposal funded for the PeakD.com project. It still has the record for the most voted Proposal in Hive history based on number of accounts that voted for it. We believe we were great stewards of the funds and have been able to extend the life of the funds to sill be able to operate and develop on PeakD.com (through bear and bull market cycles).
This time around we are excited to propose an Open Source funding proposal that can help lots of different projects save time and money while creating great features for Hive users.
We have a great relationship with the users of our products and they know they can make suggestions get responses and more importantly get results which often are very fast. This communication will be vital as we develop the tools that help the community.
We are asking for 600 HBD/DAY with this proposal
This covers the present expenses of the projects we are working on and will allow us to expand to a few of the other projects on our list as well (This includes starting now the Wallet software for example) and a couple of the other smaller projects in the Next Up list.
IF we find a lot of capable developers/team members and grow even larger we can expand the project with an addendum proposal (assuming users are happy with our work). But we will wait to do an addendum when we have a team large enough to justify it.
Funds will be stored on a dedicated account so it's easy for everyone to see the recurring transfers to pay the expenses of this project which primarily includes developers but may expand beyond that to tech costs, designers and management costs.
At the start of the proposal the incoming funds will be greater than the outgoing expenses and this gives us the wonderful opportunity to save up to have longevity on the project and also to handle the potential increase of new projects IF we find the right people or simply extend the length of time for the developers we have.
What is obvious is that the full scope of projects we want to do would not be all done simultaneously at the 600 HBD rate however we hope to complete some projects before starting on others and expect developers will be happy and request to move to new projects.
Q. Why one proposal instead of multiple?
Already explained above, but a short recap is that a single proposal gives us the opportunity to work on multiple tasks at the same time, easily transition to new projects and even decide to start working on additional projects that we have not included in our initial list. Also there are several projects that will not be quite as good (and perhaps not worth doing) if only one of them gets funded.
Q. Where do you plan to host the code?
All code will be hosted here: https://gitlab.com/peakd
Q. Will you accept suggestions and pull requests?
Of course, and we may even compensate external developers if they provide "easy to merge" PR with useful features.
Q. Will you use funds to pay the PeakD team members?
Yes, but only for the hours spent by those team members working on the open source projects funded by this proposal.
(When PeakD team members work on projects their funds are sent to @PeakD to distribute.)
Q. What if you find that the funds are more than you really need?
If it's decided that the funds are more than what is needed long term we will give back funds to the Funding Pool. (In fact in our previous proposal we did return thousands of dollars to the fund when HBD spiked.) The hope is that we increase the list of things we work on so that this is less of a potential issue.
Q. How can I support this proposal?
You can vote and support this proposal using one of the following links:
We invite you to ask more questions.
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