Dear Dappcraft team,
The Grant Support Squad was created to support the grantees in achieving their goals and to take care of the DAO treasury. In this opportunity, I want to draw your attention to an issue that we detected as we talked with this team.
The DappCraft team has written in this proposal “CROSSVERSE is part of the play2earn incubation program from Decentraland for the past 5 months” and you asked for a grant, funded by the DAO, to execute the Phase II of the project, a digital pet.
According to their roadmap, their last update, and as we´ve checked, the project is healthy and they are on track. However, there is an existent blocker that won’t allow them to move forward. Basically, (and I´ll quote following what the Decentraland documentation page says) “Smart wearables are still in Alpha. The Builder does not support the upload of smart wearables, and there isn’t an approval process in place to allow community-built smart wearables to be published. The current development tools allow you to create and test smart wearables, but please don’t attempt to publish any in the Builder, they will not be approved”).
We spoke with the Foundation and they responded that the Smart Wearables portable experience is on hold until the SDK new version goes live. With these inputs, we have an issue. The project is still being funded by the DAO but you will not be able to comply with the portable experience, which is what the community has voted on, because there is a problem with the Decentraland Foundation’s roadmap regarding the smart-wearables deployment. We encourage the community to work on the whole smart-wearable development as a solution; however, this will need a new process, energy, and funds that are not in our hands, DAO´s scope, and into this original roadmap either.
Therefore, we recommend to the DAO Committee (@yemel and @HPrivakos) to pause the vesting contract, as this is a project that cannot be finished until the environment is ready to execute it.
We acknowledge our responsibility to keep talking with Decentraland Foundation regarding the roadmap for smart wearables. We are aware that the DAO has invested in this project, and the knowledge that DappCraft has gained is very valuable. We also acknowledge the compromise, when the circumstances are given, and if the DappCraft team is available to develop it, to ask the DAO Committee to resume the vesting contract and provide support to see the project live.
We want to communicate to the community that this is not a fault on the DappCraft side, but the vesting contract of this grant is being paused due to the state in which the smart wearable infrastructure currently is. Also, based on the learnings with this grant, we will recommend to the entire community not to finance projects whose goal is to create a smart-wearable, until this is no longer a block.
Best,
Zino.