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Dash Incubator Mikhail 2024 Q3

Hey folks. This is a Dash Incubator proposal for an 2024 Q3 that will fund projects that I am working on. 

Last quarter was quite productive, a lot of nice things came up on the Platform Explorer, plus we got more guys working on the projects, and hopefully more people are coming. I still aim my work to continue improve things in Platform, but nevertheless I am always up to do other projects as well by the needs. I am always around in the community and help people with questions, and try to resolve all possible issues as quick as possible.

Team

We have a slight increase in the team working on the projects. One more backend dev now working on the backend in the Platform Explorer, also we got a part time UX designer that helps us build better user interfaces. We just onboatded another frontend developer last week, so I expected him to work on the PE and possibly some other projects. Most of the people are working part time, except me that I'm full time. People are asking for more tasks each week so hopefully we will have a bigger load.

Mikhail (pshenmic) - me
Alexey - Frontend Developer
Owl - Backend Developer
BlackMirrorDesigner - UX designer
Den - Frontend Developer (upcoming)

Q2 Progress


Platform Explorer

A lot of work was done both internally and on the frontend in the explorer. PE received a lot of useful updates and UX improvements, and also increased stability and reliability. 

UX Improvements
There were a lot of interface updates on the frontend together with new features. Home page received a major redesign and now supply user with network status and trending on-chain data. Trending lists shows most active resources in the network that user can explore. Validators page just went live, and we can see how many masternodes there are in the network and which are active right now. A lot of internal work and improvements were done client side. All client requests are now fully asynchronous and shows a user a nice loader when requests are pending.

Custom Data Contract Names
Recently PE introduced a Dash Platform DApp allowing user to set a custom data contract name on the Platform Explorer. To do that, data contract developer who wants to show a nice custom data contract name on the explorer, just needs to push a document to Platform Explorer Data Contract (https://platform-explorer.com/dataContract/CzQbXNyvsjGWmJ9YMHkpVSceW16YmQEuoaosAkpm1JSN) and system will pick it up and show it on the PE website nicely!This Platform Explorer’s feature lets developers make their data contract more recognizable!

DPNS Names
PE indexer engine has received support of the DPNS names internally. I is now possible to see assigned Dash Names and search them. This for now only implemented in the backend, but these features will appear on the fronted very soon.

Dashmate
Dashmate received a check for an on-going or future DKG exchange sessions when you stop your node. That may affect your PoSe score and potentially ban your masternode, if you stop your node in that time. User will receive a warning message suggesting to try that operation later.

xDEFI Integration
xDEFI is non custodial wallet that allow users keep crypto and transfer NFTs, and other great things. It is also supported as authentication method in the Maya DEX. There is no Dash support yet, but the xDEFI team recently open sourced some of their libraries. There is an agreement between us and xDEFI that we will add DASH support in their chains-lib SDK, and then they will be able to integrate Dash in their walletI was able to implement that, PR for this work has been already submitted and now we’re waiting for the review from the xDEFI side.

Electrum Dash
There were no major updates on the Electrum Dash project, but we keep maintenance of the wallet and infrastructure. Dash Core v21 is going to be tested with Electrum in testnet soon to ensure there will be no issues once it live in the mainnet.

Plans
I plan to continue improving Platform Explorer, we got pretty decent team already, and able to deliver features quicker. There are still a lot of interesting and important data missing from the explorer. 

• More UX improvements and frontend work
• Network switch (with an subdomain for each network)
• NFTs collection page
• More detailed info about chain data and network
• Platform Console / GroveDB console
• Other stuff that we find out as we work on!

On the dashmate side, we should see more production features for masternodes, such as `dashmate doctor` that will run a check up on your masternode, and other tasks as wee see them from community or discussed with DCG.There also several other project that I would like to start. I have a lot of ideas, but everything has to be prioritised based on the available resources and budgets, so depends on the team size and their availabilities.

I believe that we would like to see more SDKs, CLIs and client libraries for more easier work with Dash Platform. We aland CLIs to work with platform, the extensions, and other DApps. There is also a demand for an L1 explorer that we can potentially start later, since Insight is not really reliable nowadays.

Website https://pshenmic.dev
X https://twitter.com/pshenmic
Github https://github.com/pshenmic
Discord pshenmic#1750
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikhail-pshenichnikov-70200a212/
Previous DAO proposal : https://www.dashcentral.org/p/dash-incubator-mikhail-2024-q2