Harmony 2019 Q4 Planning
Harmony’s vision is “Open Consensus for 10B” (see harmony.one/story).
Toward a fully open development and platform, we publish our quarterly planning publicly here as harmony.one/plan. We follow Google’s OKRs.
We believe activity < productivity < impact < value < meaning.
Here are our main goals this quarter:
- $10k transaction fees: stablecoin, animoca game, porting dai
- $10m ONE staked: delegation, 3 pools (binance, blockdamon, staked.us), 10 wallets
- 100% uptime: 40% external, $50k machine cost, 2-hour deploy
- 10 hires: 3 eng, 1 biz, 3 interns, china (2 eng, 1 biz)
We wear our ambitions on our sleeves. But these goals are not guaranteed deliverables.
Leadership & Vision
- publish value proposition (settlement, peg, rates, identity) on cross-border transactions
- fully open quarterly planning & monthly milestone review
- wallets / no throttle for token swap with binance, bitmax, kucoin (open deadline)
- delegation, economics, slashing for EPoS specification
- design doc for cross-shard HRC20/721 token standards
- publish on cross-border financial products with china/india/vietnamese currency pairs
- treasury management on foundation tokens, US utility memo
- 100% network uptime: 9 postmortems, 75% test coverage with pangaea ops (p-ops)
- increase external nodes from 32% to 40% for validator success via pangaea academy
- article on hiring: tgi community engagement, hiring 10 in a quarter, culture evaluation
- animoca game on mainnet with tooling and marketing
- publish staking economics design on inflation, issuance rate, soft cap
- hire CMO w/ community communication, team coordination, startup conviction
- hire 3 biz/interns, coinbase due diligence, extend hashkey defi report
- organize 10 sfbw events with 250 signups, 2 india events with matic
- onboard 80 new external nodes to 400, service-level agreement
Technical & Research
- reduce monthly network traffic budget from $35k to $20k
- delegate 100% (from 30%) of pangaea operations to community
- reduce weekly mainnet deploy time from 30 team hours to 2
- staking transactions for validators & delegators with 10 tests
- improve view changes with 15 end-to-end tests (from 5)
- demo zkproof app from aztec, hire 1 eng
- staking dashboard (lunie), integrated with math wallet / ledger
- chrome-extension wallet for signing staking transactions
- transaction pool to prioritize & synchronize transactions among validators
- hire 3 eng, 2 remote, one agency & 10 eng bounties
- animoca game on mainnet, two-click logon
- 50 devs deploy testnet apps and 2 mainnet apps
- staking: EPoS rewards, committee member assignment, slashing unavailability
- integrate with Metamask via plugin API for 2 wallets
- reduce average CPU utilization on t3.small by 25%
- bridge from ERC20 to BEP2, also native ONE token
- port MakerDao’s Dai with $10k assets
- carbon payment API on animoca game or puzzle
Community & Empathy
- korean KRW/ONE fiat pairs: upbit, probit, coinone
- $2M staking from asia; 3 korea partnerships (bigbangangels, snek)
- 10 teammates tracking tasks w/ Asana
- pangaea academy with pangaea ops (p-ops) team
- social mining w/ 500 pagaeans and organic governance mechanism
- technical bounty program with 10 collaborators, pangaea testing
- improve youtube to 10k views, instagram to 500 likes, twitter to 3k views per video
- 30% clicks on new website (quadrilemma, pangaea, defi), hire 1 video producer
- publish proposal for 90-min documentary on privacy & open finance
Mission & Excellence
- JS SDK for staking in trust wallet / math wallet
- SDK with cross-shard, publish migration tutorial on animoca demo app
- resharding design doc: compare with ETH2 and near protocol
- reduce monthly machine cost from $60k to $30k
- convert 380 m5a instances to t3.small
- reduce weekly offline nodes to less than 1.5% (out of 600) and to 5% total offline time
- staking on ledger and trezor (via chrome and javascript)
- port ring signatures to support tx privacy, publish layer-1 primitive support
- continuous api tests on jenkins, usage & error patterns from log analysis
- on-demand benchmarking for throughputs & variance on testnet
- hiring 1 frontend eng in eastern europe
- validator explorer staking delegation, validator statistics, top stakers
- block explorer transaction volume, market cap metrics (e.g. etherscan)
Scale & Passion
nick vasilich (@vasilich_nick, medium): 1000 russian community, $1m social mining
maggie wang (@maggiewangharm1, medium): hire 1 biz & 1 intern, 100 TGI new guests
sarah nofal (@sarahn_harmony): 500 arabic telegram, 1000 arabic twitter
alex kretsch (@alex_kretsch): expensify in 10 hours, 1-day bounty distribution
john lam (@john_lamu, medium): foundation nodes 100% uptime, 10k likes on instagram
janet liang (@janetlharmony, github): watchdog for /1h monitoring, p-ops mainnet regression
manish gangal (@manish0338, github): node monitor tui, unified config viper, multiple BLS keys
yu yi (@HarmonyYuyi): 1000 weibo followers, 5000 wechat