Why not a big ecosystem development fund focused around iNK and WASM based projects? We have a giant treasury. use it.
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Just let you know that our core dev just released Uniswap V2 Dex template in ink! This type of template accelerates the ink! adoption since anyone can fork this GitHub and deploy it on any networks that support the contract pallet.
We would like to make these templates as many as possible together with ecosystem builders who are using ink! and the pallet.
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Great to see a serious push for a joint effort @sota. We at SatoshiPay (Pendulum) already discussed setting up an alliance for those promoting Wasm/ink!, so would love to join the task force.
Our strategy so far has been to promote our Kusama chain, Amplitude, as a place to deploy and test the most popular EVM protocols. In order to encourage developers, we’ve launched a grant program for Amplitude to support those who translate popular, open source EVM-based protocols to Wasm. It’s a requirement that the translated code is open source, so the rest of the DotSama ecosystem can benefit from it.
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Thank you very much for your reply. That’s good to know. That is a great initiative. The most important thing for this task force is to gather all commercial Wasm parachains and submit a treasury proposal.
Astar also has this type of grant but an initiative by a single parachain is still very weak to push ink!'s adoption inside/outside of Polkadot ecosystem.
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This is so hype! Awesome work @sota and team
Thank you everyone for your reply. This week, I reached out ink!/wasm projects and builders. As the next steps,
- I will make a group of this task force with the guidance of Parity ink! developers.
- Discuss the go-to-market strategy (treasury proposal? or bounty proposal?)
- Define the scope of this task force
- Submit the proposal to the council (by Sub0 in Nov)
If you are interested in this initiative, please reach out to @sotaweb3 on Telegram.
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All the things you have talked in here are mainly related to running ink! on a parachain. Which is essentially the same as running a contract on ETH. IMO, we need something better, something really new when it comes to use ink!. Something that is only doable on Polkadot.
I had recently this idea with of creating an ink! only parathread. When we have parathreads we could provide like a ready to use runtime into that you can plug in one smart contract. The smart contract itself should be directly baked into the wasm file registered on the relay chain. If we do this, we could “abuse” the HeadData that each parachain/parathread gets on the relay chain to store the actual state. Currently this HeadData allows 20KiB of data. For sure that isn’t that much, but for small use cases it could already be enough. You could also play other kind of tricks like keeping your entire state in the PoV (then you would have like 5MiB of compressed data). The relay chain stores each PoV for 24 hours and also supports to recover a PoV. Here the idea would be that you don’t need to have any kind of infrastructure running, as long as you have one block per 24 hours. You could have an app running on your smartphone, modify the state and send a new block of the parathread to the relay chain from your smartphone.
I think there are probably use cases that could be build around this functionality. This parathread would probably also support XCM and be able to receive dots/ksm and to use it for some kind of functionality.
Leaving this idea here for someone to pick it up 
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Hello everyone. Thanks for your comments. Just a heads up. This proposal is now open to discuss on Polkassembly and will be submitted to the council.
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Awesome work guys 
thanks for sharing that!
Thank you for your thoughs, that’s a really good idea. I hope we will see it realized someday!
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Thank you Sota for sparking these debates in advance!
I’m Matt Community Lead from SiO2.Finance team based on Astar.
We are building the next-generation lending platform that will support both Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and Web Assembly (WASM).
In the short term, EVM will probably continue to dominate the Web3 space due to its history. But in the long term, with the high gas-efficiency and scalability, we believe WebAssembly is going to be the future.
Building a multi-VM lending hub supporting both EVM and WASM with easy-to-use one-click features will provide higher interoperability to the DeFi ecosystem during this time.
Thank for your time guys, Let’s buidl the future together!
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Nice project, keep up the good work, I love what you guys are doing 
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Hey, KodaDot is interested in the first ink! NFT marketplace, yet we need to figure out how to cover the costs of getting a working indexer and implementation into our UI components so it would be beneficial for the existing user base of KodaDot instantly.
Happy to chat on this or can we figure out to offset implementation costs it through Treasury?
Thanks for your comment. We have launched this program and this info may help ink! documentation
Astar is really doing a fantastic job of promoting Polkasama to potential customers.
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