Who are we?

• open source NFT marketplace
• implemented 9 NFT standards across 6 chains
• top1 dapp in Polkadot Ecosystem by Github
• over 100 developers contributors
• won numerous international hackathons
• smol internal team
• no token

What’s KodaDot’s Mission?

• enable mass adoption for Polkadot
• simple UX for NFT interactions
• abstract NFT standards for end user interaction
• bring more developers to PolkaDot

Design perks

• AI-waifu minter by Vikiival
• smart wallet portfolio by Exez
• mass mint by Vlad & Daiagi
• smart search by Vikiival
• unlockables by Exez & Daiagi & Vikiival & Jarsen136
• simple mint
• cart experience
• multi-chain trait sniper

Ai waifu minter

• successful campaigns on physical events
• over 300 mints
• version v2 is coming

Smart wallet portfolio

• Single click shows your portfolio on any chain KodaDot supports
• recent NFT sales
• easier onboarding

Mass Mint by Vlad & Daiagi

• bulk minting for nfts on any chain Kodadot supports
• available next month

Unlockables

• demonstrating phygital functionality with KodaShop
• successful 50 claims
• drops page

Smart Search

• removing UX complexity for user for searching
• response under 30ms, worldwide
• inspiration from GitHub codebase search

Simple Mint

• with incentives we will be onboarding more artists to Polkadot
• summer ‘23

Cart Experience

• bulk buying
• bulk selling
• end of summer ‘23
• ask for beta testing

Multi-chain trait sniper

• enabling items from any chain K supports
• searching traits on any chain within our explorer

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Pay per contribution model

• we feel inspired by Gitcoin model
• give contributors rewards once their proof-of-work is delivered
• evolution was quite fuzzy and no roadmap

Achievements

• recognition by Github
• recognition by OSS frameworks
• unique development process
• fast-track development

What we have achieved so far?

• over 100 developers contributors across KodaDot organization
• 458 ⭐️
• 262 🍴

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What was the need behind this?

• bull-run 2021
• thought times to hire great cultural fit
• avoid mercenaries
• how to nurture right OSS culture within project w/o sacrifice much?

Fast Paced Development

• last week initiated
• v0 working this week
• brutally fast execution
• thanks to Exez, Daiagi, Jarsen & Vikivall for speedy coordination

What we have achieved so far?

• processed over 1000 bounties on-chain
• in total amount - $450,000 @ $200/KSM
• supporting KSM, DOT, USDT

Amount of processed pull-requests

• external contributors made over 2800 pull-requests
• 5000+ backlogged issues

Evolution of the URI model

• establishing KODADOT URI payment scheme
• automation across repositories
• powering internal payroll system

Code Review Guild

• struggled with not so good code
• established group of code reviewers
• code reviewers got paid
• automatically assigned on round-robin basis and availability

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Github records with this system

• team of 2, managed 250 pull-requests in one month
• experimenting with peer-pay culture

Multi-chain integrations

• 9 NFT standards
• 6 chains
• upcoming Statemine and Statemint
• demonstration of atomic swaps
• offchain signatures
• collaborative collections
• POAP drops
• WASM NFTs

Developers Tooling

• Uniquery
• Workers
• Indexers
• Minimark
• Fandom Shop
• CLI tooling

Uniquery

• bring your own query - BYOQ
• you can query literally anything, flexible for your integration

Workers

• hypergate - we've built our very own sauce of serving images after trying lot of vendors on market they couldn't accommodate our needs in terms of SLAs or customizations we providing to our visitors
• polysearch - speed up data retrieval with any endpoint to replicate our results across world as special partners with CloudFlare
• opengraph - we've hacked way to fetch data on-the-fly for social networks which raises CTR from shared links

Indexers

• anyone is free to use our indexer
• we are running currently running 12 indexers and counting

MiniMark

• building open source minting tooling which is wrapping NFT standards, range from rmrkv1, uniques and nft pallete through PSP34 till EVM based erc721/1155

Fandom Shops

• we enable anyone to build custom facing storefront to various collections in easy way

CLI Tooling

• we believe that it's crucial to interact with NFTs for devs from console to exercise more complex installations

KodaCon

• separate efforts borned within KodaDot, delivering amazing bunch of events
• cumulative over 2000+ attendees for 2022
• distributed over 3000 t-shirts various conference including non-tech polkadot ones

Incentives Models

• Artist Ambassadors
• Remote Conference
• EthDenver (300 shirts distributed)
• Austin (100+)
• Referral program

SubWork - coworking in nature

• located at Bled, Slovenia
• web3 workplace
• 7+ coworkers
• 35+ reviews on gmaps
• Polkadot Mini Conf
• polkadotbled.xyz NFT hackathon

SubWork - place to hang

• kodadot HQ
• wellbeing-first
• web3 merchandise
• superior grinding culture
• when are you coming?

Giving away $3000 for KodaMerch

• scan QR
• connect wallet
• mint NFT on Statemine for FREE
• open NFT to claim $50 voucher
• ???
• PROFIT

Future?

• we’ve got partners who want to allocate $$$
• growing and solidify contribution foundation
• looking for onboarding creative agencies and studios

How does a contributor know ahead size of bounty?

• Sum amount of bounties in our repository is close to $50k

Friction and how we tackled it?

• we’ve came with assign bot
• set rules like time & tries

Labels

• We build pipeline of tags like:
• changes-requested
• works-for-me
• visual-ok
• code-lgtm
• qa-ok