Application for Substrate Move System Pallet, pt. 1

[MeerKatDev]

Project Abstract

This application is a response to Move Smart Contract Pallet RFP.

We want to provide a Substrate system pallet that allows to deploy and interact with Smart Contracts written in the Move language, by providing a Move Virtual Machine (MoveVM) as a pallet. This is the first part of a 3 steps development plan.

This pull request is a resubmission consequent to the discussion which took place in a previous pull request.

Grant level

• Level 1: Up to $10,000, 2 approvals
• Level 2: Up to $30,000, 3 approvals
• Level 3: Unlimited, 5 approvals (for >$100k: Web3 Foundation Council approval)

Application Checklist

• The application template has been copied and aptly renamed (project_name.md).
• I have read the application guidelines.
• Payment details have been provided (bank details via email or BTC, Ethereum (USDC/DAI) or Polkadot/Kusama (USDT) address in the application).
• The software delivered for this grant will be released under an open-source license specified in the application.
• The initial PR contains only one commit (squash and force-push if needed).
• The grant will only be announced once the first milestone has been accepted (see the announcement guidelines).
• I prefer the discussion of this application to take place in a private Element/Matrix channel. My username is: @_______:matrix.org (change the homeserver if you use a different one)

[CLAassistant]

All committers have signed the CLA.

[Noc2]

Thanks for the application, and sorry for the late reply here. Could you change the file name and add ".md" at the end? This way, it will be easier for others to review the application.

[Noc2]

Also, a reminder to sign the terms and conditions (see CLAassistant above).

[dtuzi]

I have signed the CLA on behalf of Eiger.

[Noc2]

Could @MeerKatDev also sign the terms and conditions? Usually, everyone who contributed to the PR needs to sign them.

[Noc2]

Btw. some of the formattings still seems to be off. I recommend for example removing aside and fixing the formatting of the milestone table, see below:

[MeerKatDev]

Btw. some of the formattings still seems to be off. I recommend for example removing aside and fixing the formatting of the milestone table, see below:
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Fixed :) thanks!

[Noc2]

Thanks for the update. I'm happy to go ahead with it and share it with the rest of the team.

[semuelle]

Moro. Happy to support this. Just one minor request below.

Also, if you are working towards a common goods parachain, I think it makes more sense to move to treasury funding after the grant. But happy to discuss then.

[semuelle]

Thanks for the update.

[takahser]

@MeerKatDev thanks, this looks interesting. I noticed that your team code repos don't belong to the Eiger organisation. That's generally fine, but I was wondering if you could provide some context on Eiger's role in the development of each of these projects. For example, was Eiger the sole implementor, or a main contributor? Or was it only some bugfixes or specific features that you contributed? Feel free to directly update the proposal.

[MeerKatDev]

@MeerKatDev thanks, this looks interesting. I noticed that your team code repos don't belong to the Eiger organisation. That's generally fine, but I was wondering if you could provide some context on Eiger's role in the development of each of these projects. For example, was Eiger the sole implementor, or a main contributor? Or was it only some bugfixes or specific features that you contributed? Feel free to directly update the proposal.

Thank you for the question @takahser. Let me clarify: Eiger is part of the Equilibrium Group (website). We have been working under the Equilibrium brand for the past 4 years and only last year created the Eiger brand to focus on implementation engineering. Eiger/EQ was one of the main contributors in all of these endeavours.

• The SnarkOS for Aleo (repo) is done by a mix of Equilibrium/Eiger engineers and Aleo core engineers, here's a couple of our guys:
  • https://github.com/ljedrz
  • https://github.com/niklaslong
• OrbitDB (repo)
  • https://github.com/aphelionz
• The rust implementation of IPFS (repo)
  • https://github.com/koivunej
  • https://github.com/ljedrz
  • https://github.com/aphelionz
  • https://github.com/niklaslong
  • https://github.com/Mirko-von-Leipzig
• Interledger in Rust (repo)
  • https://github.com/koivunej
  • https://github.com/whalelephant
  • https://github.com/Mirko-von-Leipzig
  • https://github.com/pradovic
  • https://github.com/KristianWahlroos
  • https://github.com/ljedrz
• Ziggurat - Our inhouse testing tool built entirely from EQ/Eiger people

[takahser]

@MeerKatDev that's an impressive track record indeed. Thanks for elaborating. I'm happy to approve as well.

[SBalaguer]

Looking forward for this first step and the ones to come!

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