Superblock 648000 Final Proposals

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Proposal: Social_Coordinator   (Philip Marshall)

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- Maintain the social media profile of Blocknet on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, BTCTalk, Youtube, Medium, The Blocknet website and other platforms.
- As a brand co-lead, manage and train the social media team.
- Ensure communications from the developers and marketing team can be transmitted in a clear and timely manner to the community.
- Respond to the community.
- Compile and write regular newsletter.
- Write press releases and news updates including leading article creation for specific initiatives. Recent PR example: https://www.blocknet.co/blocknet-invited-to-attend-e-u-blockchain-roundtable/
 (3 articles have been written in preparation for the Block DX marketing push and are ready for publishing when the DX is 100% ready.  In addition a separate 4th deep dive / in depth article on DXs is currently in the 5th draft and stands at 12 pages. It is a loose sequel to this article: https://medium.com/@theblocknetchannel/understanding-a-decentralized-exchange-eee9e1043f45)
- Contribute to various marketing materials and initiatives.
- Manage, source, correspond and coordinate payments to news and media outlets.
- Participate in strategy discussions as part of the strategy group.

Cost Assessment:
1.5 BLOCK per hour / 4 hours per day @ $3.97 per BLOCK.
A fixed amount of 175 BLOCK (Plus 10 BLOCK fee)
Total: 185 BLOCK from Superblock  (note: this is the first time I am requesting an increase since the price drop in early August)

If this proposal passes but is bumped from the Superblock due to there not being enough room, this will be paid out from the Marketing Fund.

This proposal is for the final phase of XRouter development funding

- Finalize XRouter Plugin payments
- Finalize General XRouter code
- Code Audit/Review/QA

TimeFrame:
- 1 Month

Resources:
- 1 Dev (Juan)

Total - 2429.667 BLOCK (covers proposal submission fee)
If this proposal passes but is bumped from the Superblock due to there not being enough room, this will be paid out from the dev fund.

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Proposal: marketing-cryptoved1

• Social Media Content Curation (contribute posts on Twitter, Facebook, Facebook Group, Instagram and other social media)
• Collaboration & Editing of Current and Upcoming Articles
• Collaborating on Current & Upcoming Marketing Initiatives with the Marketing Team (strategies, advertisements, content, etc.)
• Brand Lead (Collaborate, oversee, coordinate & train social media teams; oversee Blocknet brand messaging along with other Brand Leads)


Cost Assessment:
A fixed amount of 263 BLOCK (calculated at 25 hours/week, $4.12 current 30-day M.A. Note: I plan to hard-cap the amount at 250 BLOCK while we are currently at this low of a BLOCK moving average, as our priority should be funding ongoing development.)
Total: 263 BLOCK from Superblock (250 + 10 BLOCK proposal fee + 3 BLOCK for Photoshop subscription)
If this proposal passes but is bumped from the Superblock due to there not being enough room, this will be paid out from the Marketing Fund.

To vote:
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Proposal:

UAT-QA-Team-648000


Team consists of 86b, aderks, and Fattox



Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Support services
  
• Integration strategy
  
• Product analysis
  
• Bug reporting, error tracking, and logging
  
• Collaboration with other projects and teams
  
• New coin integration, confirming, and corresponding QA
  
• Genesis testing
  
• Exploit checks
  
• Brand lead assistance with marketing and SMT initiatives
  
• Communicating with partners and project delegates
  
• XRouter testing and QA
  
• Block DX UI QA
  
• Wallet release QA
  
• Auto configuration testing and QA
  

One of the key focuses this upcoming month is getting the AWS QA + Testing environment finalized in order to not only move QA items out the door much faster, but also stay fully up-to-date with coin wallets so they can move into the BLOCK DX UI auto-configuration as quickly as possible preventing users from being stuck using old wallet versions for an extended period of time.


Total:  1620 BLOCK
Includes 10 BLOCK submission fee and 10 BLOCK Final Budget submission fee


Vote from 5000 BLOCK Client:

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Vote from Service Node:

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Role overview
* Lead team efforts in executing marketing strategies
* Manage design, copywrite, and web development vendors
* Uphold Brand Guidelines and uniform messaging
* Build relationships with every project Blocknet supports
* Handle daily marketing & administrative responsibilities
* Oversee and assist community based marketing initiatives
* Take on creative tasks that include writing, design, and media production

November Goals:
- Coin Announcements 2.0 w/ use of Coin Portals
- Launch Block DX marketing campaign (Depended on Block DX security checks being released.  Currently these checks are being QAed)
- Blockchain Expo North America: https://blockchain-expo.com/northamerica/
- Continue web development of Coin Portals, community tools, including translation capabilities.
- Create a Marketing Roadmap

NOTE: Returning from India on Nov 8th, but still be working remotely, just from a different timezone. I probably won't be working as many hours and the BLOCK below reflects that.

Total: 1325 BLOCK from Superblock (BLOCK @ $3.80)
If this proposal passes but is bumped from the Superblock due to there not being enough room, this will be paid out from the Marketing Fund.

To vote:
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Proposal: michael-648000

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Summary
In October I've been significantly improving the security of Blocknet's atomic swap algorithm to make it as bullet proof as possible. I also improved the performance of Blocknet's RPC functions related to trading, greatly improving the capacity for bot trading on the XBridge platform. I also added improved rollbacks for failed trades. If a trade fails to complete, the Service Node responsible for the order will now attempt to rollback traders' failed orders on their behalf. This greatly improves the user experience in recovering funds from trades that counterparties back out of. In general, I am focused on making Block DX and XBridge production ready and secure.

November tasks:

XBridge
- Continued improvements on the XBridge (security checks, atomic swap, rollbacks, performance, code reviews)
- XRouter development, including helping w/ the API spec and integration, code reviews

Block DX
Continued Block DX electron app development:
- Updating from within the app (we obtained the required certificate and plan to integrate in November)
- Bug fixes (scaling issues, token list, open/filled orders revamp, price chart improvements)

XRouter SPV
This was submitted to QA in October and is being tested. The plan is to finalize and integrate SPV into the main codebase this month (Nov).

Wallet Redesign
October (screens done, pending integration)
- Settings screen
- Tools Peers List
- Tools BIP38
November:
- Tools Wallet Repair
- Tools Debug Console
- General Info Popups
Screen designs:
- A new Accounts screen

Total: 3250 BLOCK
Requested amount from the Superblock. The payment will be made out of the community funds if the proposal passes but is bumped.

Blocknet proposal - ArtDir_808_Nov18:
Part-time position as Art Director for @808 / Bob.

Please see http s: // goo.gl/ jD63bv for the full proposal (*manually remove spaces in the URL).

Role description and responsibilities:

@808 / Bob as Art Director, will take lead on overseeing and creating Blocknet visuals and design. In particular, Bob will work closely with other team members to find the best solutions for Blocknet’s visuals needs. This entails taking responsibility of the overall visual appearance of Blocknet and how it communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. Bob is given a task and figures out the visual elements, what artistic style to use, and when to use motion, stills or other means of expression.

Past contribution:

I started working for the Blocknet in December 2017 by creating the Blocknet Introduction video. This led to further collaboration as a vendor to the project.

The visuals and designs developed for the introduction movie and the designs from VSA are the foundation of what has been the visual style of the Blocknet brand today.

I have been responsible for the creation of all visuals for Blocknet.

Besides producing media, I’ve been part of Blocknet brand leads, consisting of myself, Shane, PhilipMarshall, Cryptoved and Fattox.

Goals for Q4 / November:

1. Continue working on the media/template library.
2. Creating marketing material for Block DX marketing campaign in particular creating a Block DX promo / commercial.
3. Providing community, the team & brand-leads with media content.

Block DX promo / commercial:

In November I will start the production of creating a 15 / 20 second promo / commercial for Block DX. Thereby creating a attractive and easy to consume video that serves to attract new investors and new users to Block DX and the Blocknet protocol. The promo / commercial will introduce the Block DX and inform what the benefits are of having a true Decentralised Exchange.

The productions needs to be scheduled besides other running Blocknet work. Delivery is estimated to be earliest end of November, latest end of December.

Media Library:

Templates and the media library are going to allow the social media teams to put together quick designs. It helps maintain the level of quality required and reduces cost and time to produce content.

This library will consist of templates for;
• Announcements
• Promotional visuals
• Quotes
• Market News
• Feature lists
• Comparison charts
• Events
• Block DX facts
• Block DX application submitted
• Block DX listings

Cost Assessment:

Total 930 BLOCK (including 10 BLOCK submission fee)
(20 hours per week / $3.80 BLOCK = $3.5k/mo)

I reduced my salary to be mindful of the current Block price and the feedback I received on salary by snode voter(s).

If this proposal passes but is bumped from the Superblock due to there not being enough room, this will be paid out from the Marketing Fund.

Vote:

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