Treasury Proposal: subledgr - a site for aggregated, cross-chain fund management and reporting
Proposer: derek // metaspan
Short description: The goal of the project is to create easy-to-use tools for managing & reporting - in aggregate - across multiple chains, tokens & wallets.
By providing features, and following a style that is familiar to web2 users, this site will drive web3 adoption by making it easy to manage groups of wallets as a single fund or reporting unit.
Requested Allocation: Phase 1: 1730 KSM (~£48k, 1 KSM = £28, 31-jan-2023)
Problem Statement
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Multi-chain, multi-wallet
Wallet holders & fund managers do not have affordable multi-chain, multi-wallet tools focused on financial management, reporting and planning. -
New processes
There are no solutions providing (aggregated) tracking and accounting for funds locked in validating, staking, nomination pools, lending & governance processes. -
Lagging tools slow adoption
Web2 tools are focused on fiat with 2-decimal computation & reporting. -
Affordability
Existing crypto accounting tools are charging large fees: -
Parachains
None of the existing solutions cater for parachains
Target Audience
- Project Managers, Curators, Accountants
- DAOs, Clubs, Societies
- Fund Managers
- Businesses using crypto
About Subledgr
Subledgr would like to develop a quickbooks style accounting & reporting platform, integrating with third party vendor tools for the purposes of tax calculation and compliance.
Subledgr would also provide portfolio management and reporting features for working with multiple chains and multiple wallets. We are inspired [and frustrated] by similar features from quickbooks/xero for web2 SME businesses.
Full details and costing available in the draft proposal here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15F79YMx5B5qGB3N8AlPD9r7UYW4WcH-AECFNIb6BmnA/edit?usp=sharing
I would appreciate your review and comments (either here or on the draft proposal itself).
Thanks
Comments (6)
Hi Derek, this would be awesome!
Having a "proper" accounting system for crypto assets would be a dream come true... We use one of these commercial crypto-tax solutions mentioned in the proposal and we still struggle to reconciliate across all different networks, different tokens, different decimal places, different API specs, different CSV file formats, too much pain, and it never matches actual balances!
I wish you the best and hope to see Subledgr going beyond substrate-based assets and become the de-facto Quickbooks for crypto.
Regards..
Milos
Hello Derek and thank you for submitting this proposal for discussion! 🌞
Accounting is one area of account management that is often overlooked in this ecosystem, despite being essential to numerous stakeholders (especially Treasury spends recipients!). From that perspective, Subledgr's proposition already looks very promising.
A few comments/questions:
Q: Have you already started to liaise with wallet teams about this project? If so, has their feedback informed this proposal, especially since some of them are developing their own Portfolio management tools?
Q: What kind of information will these tax reports provide to users and on the basis of which jurisdictions? Will there be options for customising these reports?
Q: Are you planning to onboard ecosystem stakeholders into your developments for testing purposes? If so, will you provide incentives/rewards for their time/contributions?
C: It might be an option to let community members know if there are open positions in this project, so that they can get in touch if they have the relevant skills/expertise to contribute later down the line.✍🏿
Thank you for your time!
@anaelleltd thank you for taking the time to review and comment.
About existing wallets: I found there is a lack of existing functionality aimed at portfolio managment and reporting. Wallets are not a target datasource for us. We will use the same datasources as wallets - i.e. on-chain data - and combine this with off-chain data (exchange rates, etc) to provide the required features.
I have removed references 'wallet' as I think this could be misleading. We hold funds in accounts - and we use wallets to help us manage accounts.
Tax reporting: for Phase 1 subledgr will provide CSV download function that can be used to feed into the tax submissions - as you say, this area is complex, the needs are different for each country so we plan to tackle detailed requirements in a future phase.
Testing / beta users: this is a great idea, thank you! I'll combine this with the next answer.
Team structure: you are correct, I have not assembled the team yet. I will define technical architecture first, which will inform us what skills are required for the rest of the project. My expectation is that we'll need