ICON Foundation P-Rep Delegation Pilot Program — Chainode Tech Update
Zug, Switzerland , 1 June 2020 — Hello ICON Ecosystem community and Chainode Tech voters! We are excited to come to you with an update regarding the work progress of our team that was selected in the first round of the P-Rep Delegation Pilot Program (initiated by the ICON Foundation). First of all, we would like to mention again how appreciative we are that we were among the first batch of P-Reps to receive delegations from the ICON Foundation. We applaud the initiative, as there are quite a lot of especially Sub P-Reps that have great potential, yet not always the budget that would enable them to do their best work. For this, we are thankful!
As the P-Rep Delegation Program proposal was not made public yet, we first want to share with the community our application and our proposition in terms of managing the support received from the Foundation’s Delegation. Please find the submitted proposal below:
„Our goal is to completely restructure and build from scratch the iconecosystem.io portal, and to transform it in the Nr. 1 ICON DApps, tools and events aggregator.
We were one of the first teams to join the ICON Network as P-Reps, and the creation of ICON Ecosystem identity was part of our Contribution Proposal. Our team built and released the current version of the ICON Ecosystem portal even before the decentralization took place, as a sign of our commitment to the ICON Project.
Because we started to build the iconecosystem.io portal before the decentralization, hence before starting to receive any rewards, we were not able to invest as much as we wanted into its design and structure. Since then, we received a lot of valuable feedback from the community and we also were able to see in this trial time what would really benefit the ecosystem and what improvements we could bring to the platform, its design and utility.
Our vision is to make the iconecosystem.io website the go-to place for any new or long term ICON community member, with or without a technical background. A place where all the relevant ICON DApps, tools, events and relevant materials get the deserved exposure so that the everyday user can save time and energy for other relevant tasks rather than researching everything from scratch. We want to make the ICON Ecosystem a place where every community member can contribute, as we will also focus on crowdsourcing the information so that every user can bring his or hers contribution to the portal.
Why ICON Ecosystem?
- It currently ranks number 1 on Google for the keyword „ICON Ecosystem“, something that almost every community member interested in information about the ecosystem uses;
- We already created social media accounts around the ICON Ecosystem identity, and managed to build a strong following and engagement in the last year. The @ICONEcoystem Twitter account currently has 598 Followers (https://twitter.com/ICONEcosystem) — with 136 K impressions in the last 3 months — all organic results (no paid ads or promotion).
- We will make sure, as until now, to promote all the quality ICON DApps and tools, and our long term goal is to create also the ICON Ecosystem DApp Accelerator, in order to invest and sustain the growth of relevant DApps and tools around the ICON Ecosystem.“
Since our team was always transparent with our work and strategy we want to offer the community an update about the status of the plan’s execution. Here, we will focus on 2 main aspects:
1. ICON Ecosystem rebranding
The rebranding of ICON Ecosystem was not included in our initial plan, but it made a lot of sense when we discussed about all the changes that we would like to bring to the platform. As much as we like the current logo which reminds us of our first steps as an ICON P-Rep, we are really excited to revamp it and create a new, fresh logo, slogan and identity. This will be revealed before the end of Q2, 2020.
2. Rebuilding the ICON Ecosystem platform
2.1 Platform Concept
We do not want ICON Ecosystem to be a platform that is run by a single party, e.g. only the Chainode Tech P-Rep team. Similar to a decentralized project, we want to built the platform’s architecture in such a way that in the long run it can be self-sustainable. How can we make this? By using the power of crowdsourced intelligence. Adding to that, while researching for DApp platforms (and funding the integration of ICON Network on State of the DApps) we noticed just how expensive it is to list a project/its DApps on a DApp aggregator. Sometimes, this reaches outstanding sums close to 30k USD. This is why, there are two main aspects that are important to us in the management and growth of the new ICON Ecosystem platform:
- Crowdsourcing information. This means that every ICON community member can submit new ICON DApps to the platform, new events, new developed tools or educational content. This does not come to say that we will not be involved anymore in its management process, we will do everything that we did until now including the background work of approving and making sure that the information on the website is correct plus constant research in order to add the newest information to the platform. However, in the long run, the „stars of the show“ will be the ICON community members.
- Free of charge listings. The goal of creating the ICON Ecosystem platform and identity was always and will always be the growth of the ICON Project. This is why, it is in our interest to promote and offer the deserved exposure to as many ICON DApps, tools and events as possible. This is why it is in our long-term philosophy to never charge any listing or promotion through the ICON Ecosystem platform or social media channels.
2.2 ICON Ecosystem Structure & Menu
As we already started developing the new ICON Ecosystem platform (hint: mock-ups to be shared soon), we want to share the main categories that the visitors of the website can expect to find there:
Get started. A a sleek and comprehensive summary of what ICON Ecosystem is all about, great design and professional UI. This section will include basics like what is blockchain, what is ICON, available ICON Wallets as well as an FAQ section to get users onboarded in the ICON Ecosystem.
Developers. A section dedicated to developers with links to the most relevant materials to get them started on developing on ICON. Some examples are https://www.icondev.io/ from ICON Foundation and https://www.devblockchain.tech/ from Sharpn. This section will also serve all the ICON community members that would like to go on a deeper level and learn more about programming on ICON, DApp creation, building on the ICON Blockchain or understanding how the ICON project works on a technical level.
Community. This will include:
- DApps (with DApp submission form): the section on the platform where all the ICON DApps can be found (both existing and upcoming). It will also include stats related to the number of DApp users, transactions, volume, etc.
- Tools (with Tools submission form): all the ICON tools will be available in this section, from Staking tools, Telegram bots to tools available on Github that can be used for the further development of ICON.
Resources. This will include:
- News: all the official news sources and newest articles will be found here, so that the community does not miss any single ICON update.
- Tutorials: from installing the ICONex wallet, to staking guides, to deploying an ICON DApp, all the existing tutorials and step-by-step guides will be gathered in one go-to place on our platform for the whole ICON community.
- Vlogs: Here we will be sharing all the available ICON video material, from interviews, events videos or video project summaries.
Technology. Will present different core technology features of ICON, which can be found in the whitepaper, yellowpaper or blogs, for example describing the new LFT 2.0.
Events (with Events submission form). This section will include all the relevant ICON events, from P-Rep meetings, to official upgrade dates of the ICON Blockchain, new DApp releases, etc.
As the development of the ICON Ecosystem platform is a dynamic process, all the above mentioned features are subject to change. We will do our best work in making sure that the platform will be one to make the ICON project and community proud and become the go-to place for every new or long term ICON supporter.
Social handles & Contact
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChainodeTech
Telegram: https://t.me/ChainodeTechPRep
Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/ZkMeNU9
E-mail: contact@chainode.tech
