Sei x Gitcoin Creator Fund Proposal: MultiBaas

Curvegrid has been selected for the Sei Network's Creator Fund on Gitcoin. This fund uses quadratic funding, where it contributes to projects based on the amount, and more importantly, the number of community donations of SEI tokens.

The fund aims to boost initiatives contributing to the Sei ecosystem, which includes Curvegrid's tool, MultiBaas, designed for multiple EVM-compatible blockchains. We're excited to integrate Sei v2 with MultiBaas and expand our support to more L1s and L2s.

Every vote makes a big difference in helping us achieve this goal. The minimum matched vote is 1 USD which is currently 2.85 SEI. You can purchase SEI on a cryptocurrency exchange like https://crypto.com/ or get in touch with us if you need some help.

Thank you for your support. The direct link to our grant is here: Curvegrid's Grant Profile

Don't miss out on your chance to support projects on Sei. This voting period ends on Tuesday, July 2nd at 9am EST!

‍Grant Proposal

Please read our grant proposal below to learn more about our technical background and project roadmap.

About Us‍

Curvegrid is a blockchain technology company based in Tokyo, Japan. Curvegrid's MultiBaas blockchain middleware offers a web UI and a REST API, allowing developers and customers to build the blockchain without needing any prior blockchain knowledge. MultiBaas powers some of the leading blockchain applications, and our team has deep blockchain technology experience. We are occasional contributors upstream to projects like go-ethereum and solc, have been awarded multiple bug bounties by the Ethereum Foundation, and are regular mentors, judges, and sponsors at ETHGlobal hackathons.

Multibaas supports development on multiple blockchain platforms, and the API significantly improves development speed, lowers engineering resource needs and reduces time to market. Curvegrid also offers a number of turnkey solutions for blockchain-based financial services, decentralized finance (DeFi), online games, document management, logistics, marketplaces, analysis, and more.

For more information, visit www.curvegrid.com.
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‍Web3 Creative Tools and Infrastructure

Sei users can have an enriched developer experience by making use of Curvegrid's MultiBaas middleware, the advanced API, UI, and developer toolkit that helps you get your Web3 project done faster. MultiBaas is in full production and has been used to build numerous EVM-compatible Web3 projects specializing in financial services, decentralized finance (DeFi), online games, document management, logistics, marketplaces, analysis, and more.

If you’re a creator that is building something on Sei, you can accelerate the growth of your project by using our suite of turnkey solutions. MultiBaas middleware has already supported a combined 17 EVM mainnets and testnets so you can seamlessly connect your application to the Sei network for easy onboarding and improved cross-chain interoperability. Using MultiBaas Bridge, for example, assets and tokens on other chains can be moved easily across the first parallelized EVM with Sei v2.

NFT Marketplaces and Tools

Sei users can easily list and sell NFTs on Shopify using Curvegrid's free-to-install NFT minting app, NFTeapot. This will allow you to use the world’s largest e-commerce platform to bring your works to any collector, including those who are not yet familiar with blockchain or the Sei ecosystem. This tool allows you to create and sell NFTs with no crypto or blockchain experience required, alleviating potential barriers to entry in Web3. This means that your audience will be able to purchase their Sei NFTs using either crypto or non-crypto forms of payment, making the Sei ecosystem more accessible for widespread user adoption.

Overall, MultiBaas empowers creators and can provide you with the solutions you’ll need to build your projects on the SEI blockchain more efficiently.

By integrating Sei onto MultiBaas, we can help expand Sei’s ecosystem through cross-chain interaction and interoperability. Some of the most prominent Web3 projects have come to market by using MultiBaas, and this is value that Curvegrid can bring to the SEI community as well.

Artists and Creators

Specifically, we have supported notable creators on Ethereum and helped bring their NFT projects to life, including well-established artists like Kohei Nawa, Vexx, Ron Arad and Justin Aversano whose NFT was sold at Christie’s for $1.1 million USD. We’ve also provided our services to creative collectives like Tokyo-based XYZA, fine art galleries like WheelHouse Art from Louisville, Kentucky, and marketplaces like Zora. Through our connections and years of blockchain expertise, we will gladly onboard the SEI community of creators and developers onto MultiBaas and NFTeapot.

APIs and SDKs

We’ll provide you with APIs, SDKs, and when required, professional services, that can simplify the development process and reduce development time for any smart contracts deployed on the Sei network, encouraging more creators to build on Sei. MultiBaas middleware is a scalable and comprehensive solution with many useful features.

Air Drops and Bulk Actions
MultiBaas enables cloud wallets, webhooks, transaction managers and event indexers that have been used by many projects to conduct mass transfers, facilitate airdrops, create bulk actions, and more. MultiBaas and NFTeapot can do the heavy lifting for you, allowing you to build smarter and faster with functions such as smart contract deployment on SEI, minting/listing/burning assets, metadata retrieval, monitoring assets, and managing multiple wallets.

Users can scale their operations more efficiently by leveraging MultiBaas – our middleware can handle increased transaction volumes without compromising on performance, which we believe is crucial for supporting the growth of DApps and the user base on Sei.

DeFi and more

As Sei's protocol is designed for trading, our comprehensive solutions can help advance the ecosystem in all aspects of crypto, not just DeFi, but NFTs and gaming as well. At a business level, Curvegrid and MultiBaas will aim to strengthen the Sei community through marketing and technical initiatives designed to onboard and support developers within the Sei ecosystem.

Community Engagement and Impact‍

Curvegrid will employ the following initiatives to drive community engagement and impact:

• Local community outreach: Our company is based in Japan and we plan to support the Japanese Web3 enterprise market with collaborative in-person events dedicated to the adoption of the Sei ecosystem. This includes attending Sei-focused events and partnering with Sei representatives in Japan to co-host or co-sponsor Web3 events and hackathons.

• Added network support and onboarding: We will connect our extensive community of developers to the Sei L1 blockchain by adding Sei support to MultiBaas once we receive funding and a partnership is established. We predict that the technical implementation will take about two months to complete, and within this timeframe we will share ongoing engineering and general partner updates to the Sei team.

• Social media and marketing: A number of marketing efforts will be made to promote our support for the Sei blockchain, including a social media push to drive user engagement, partnership announcements and press releases, and guest-speaking on AMAs via X Spaces. We will also actively engage with the Sei official accounts and community.

Official SNS Channels

Twitter: https://x.com/curvegridinc

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/curvegrid/

We also have a growing community on Discord and Telegram, and we’ll introduce our community to the Sei ecosystem.

Discord: https://discord.com/invite/ud9U7nP

Telegram: https://t.me/curvegrid

Roadmap Deliverables

The key deliverable will be to add Sei support into MultiBaas within two months, combined with a joint marketing effort. The deliverable will be to have MultiBaas's API, web UI, chain indexer, event aggregation, webhooks, and multisig wallet all working on Sei.

- Jul 3, 2024 (approximate, depending on grant results): Integration kick-off

- Jul 17, 2024: Complete testnet integration

- Aug 15, 2024: User acceptance testing of production mainnet integration

- Aug 20, 2024: Joint press release/blog post

- Aug 31, 2024: Production mainnet go-live of Sei support in MultiBaas

Funding and Budget

Our team is looking to raise between $25k USD to $50k USD in funds on Gitcoin from the Sei community to offset the engineering costs of getting Sei (v2) on MultiBaas. These grant funds will be used to integrate the Sei blockchain onto MultiBaas and we plan to complete the following milestones within 2 months, to be accomplished by our team in technical sprints:

Phase 1 - Design and brainstorming (1 week): Technical deliverables such as reviewing security, functionality, and performance considerations on the SEI network will be conducted.

Phase 2 - Iteration and testing (2-3 weeks): Our team will begin developing a code book on Sei, and testing out new features such as a Sei faucet on MultiBaas. Updates will be posted to our Github repository as well as on Gitcoin: https://github.com/curvegrid.

Phase 3 - User testing and beta release (2-3 weeks): We will release a beta version of the Sei integration on MultiBaas, accompanied by sample scripts. This phase includes in-house testing and regular bug fixes.

Phase 4 - Productization (2 weeks): Version one of Sei testnet and mainnet will be implemented on MultiBaas middleware with written documentation to onboard Sei developers and creators onto MultiBaas.

Even after the production mainnet of Sei goes live on MultiBaas, Curvegrid’s marketing team will continue to provide marketing support and engage with the Sei community.

Links

Technical Docs: https://docs.curvegrid.com/

Check out our Intro to MultiBaas video

Bonus: Check out our SEI meme video

We have also compiled an overview of projects eligible for this round. To view all of the projects in detail, head to https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/1329/4.