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Hello everyone, I thought we'd give a quick update as we approach our demo date of June 19th. For general information on the project, visit our static website: gweihir.io.

We are preparing to demo our Phase I & II deliverables on AAG next Monday, June 19th. We invite you to attend if you're interested in seeing how these funds were put to work and how much we've accomplished!

Due to the emerging hostility toward spending requests on Kusama, we have decided not to pursue funding for Phases III & IV of Project Gweihir from the Kusama Treasury. Instead we have applied to Chainlink Labs' grant program. Our application was submitted as follows:

Project

We are working on building a general external adapter that allows chaindata queries of the Kusama blockchain (or other substrate-based blockchains) from Ethereum. This project effectively creates a one-way bridge from Kusama to Ethereum. Once we establish this one-way bridge, we hope to work on expanding the Chainlink substrate pallet to facilitate two-way communication between Ethereum and Kusama.

The Kusama Treasury funded the proof-of-concept which we have successfully delivered. Our proof-of-concept was to query a Kusama account's balance from Sepolia using our external adapter.

Unfortunately, the Kusama Treasury is no longer a viable funding option so we have decided to approach Chainlink Labs to request funding to continue Project Gweihir. Continued funding will allow us to:

1. Implement the most useful Kusama API queries and RPC calls in our external adapter.

2. Create "Gweihir Utility Protocols" (GUPs) to ensure smart contract implementers utilize Kusama chain queries correctly to achieve meaningful cross-chain utility on Ethereum. We can formalize these GUPs into an EIP.

3. Implement a light version of Gweihir using Chainlink Functions so that implementers can contribute to the decentralization of sourcing Kusama chaindata to Ethereum without needing to run expensive infrastructure.

4. Develop our infrastructure as code (IaC) to make it as easy as possible for implementers to launch all of the necessary infrastructure for a Gweihir instance.

You can find more information on Project Gweihir by following these links:

• https://gweihir.io/
• https://github.com/gweihir
• https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/28 - this is the Treasury funding referendum on Kusama

Team

Steeber Solutions is leading the project and we have the following contractors working on the project:

• Adam Steeber (Founder): Adam is the CTO of Steeber Solutions and founder of Project Gweihir. He has worked on a number of blockchain projects in the Kusama ecosystem and maintains a validator node on the network. He has over two years of experience working on applications, NFTs, and other projects built on Kusama/ substrate. https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-steeber-a74a44a4/

• Spencer Brown (Lead Engineer): Spencer has extensive experience in full stack development and has been working on blockchain applications with Steeber Solutions for over a year. https://spencerwebservices.com/

• Keenan Reed (UX/UI Developer): Keenan works is a frontend developer with expertise in React. He has been working on dApp frontends with Steeber Solutions for about a year. https://www.linkedin.com/in/keenancodes/

• Tyler Hanson (Full stack/ infrastructure Engineer): Tyler has been developing full stack applications for nearly a decade with a focus on enterprise-level applications. He has been consulting on Project Gweihir for the last 6 months. https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerhansondeveloper/

• Andrea Vendrame (Full stack/ solidity Engineer): Andrea has been working with Steeber Solutions helping us with Project Gweihir's smart contract needs. He is the founder of 3tech Studio and has extensive experience working with blockchain projects. https://www.3techstudio.com/

• Nicholas Spiess (Community Relations): Nick has been intimately involved with the Chainlink community for over 4 years and is passionate about Chainlink developments and implementations. He has been consulting on Project Gweihir regarding the dissemination of information and community outreach. He is also a software developer with proficiency in Python and JS. https://www.linkedin.com/in/realnickspiess/

Impact

The Kusama and Polkadot ecosystems are powerful cross-chain technologies but are totally self-contained to their own parachains. Project Gweihir aims to utilize Chainlink technology to give the Ethereum network access to the wealth of data on Kusama and its parachains, and consequently, Polkadot and its parachains.

The reason we chose to use Chainlink technology is so that we can piggyback on the already-established oracle technology that Chainlink has built and to facilitate decentralized scaling. This allows implementers a clear standard for deployment and a well-defined passive revenue model for maintaining an oracle that services Kusama chaindata to Ethereum. We hope that the demand to bridge this data will naturally create a competing oracle market where node providers vie for users' LINK, thus generating a robust decentralized network of oracles.

Not only does Project Gweihir create demand for the LINK token proportional to the demand to bridge data from Kusama/ Polkadot to Ethereum, it also showcases the interoperability that Chainlink can provide between self-contained blockchains. We also have aspirations to help bring about CCIP for substrate chains, effectively creating a two-way bridge between substrate chains and Ethereum.

We hope that Project Gweihir can serve as a powerful example of Chainlink’s ability to facilitate cross-chain interoperability.

Needs and Challenges

Although our team has a wealth of experience, there is no precedent in the substrate blockchain ecosystem for what we are attempting to achieve so it is quite difficult to pioneer the standards and protocols that we envision. It is important that we have a full understanding of what data on Kusama is useful, how to access and serve that data, how to build the infrastructure efficiently and effectively, and how to utilize bridged data on Ethereum in a meaningful and useful manner. This has been a constant challenge for project Gweihir, but we have risen to the challenge.

Funding is also a constant challenge since we cannot realistically capitalize on this open source project without monopolizing the oracle market. We believe in decentralization and open source development which unfortunately makes traditional SAAS revenue models impossible for us.

We also don’t have a perfect understanding of CCIP which we would like to help develop in the future, so guidance from Chainlink Labs in that regard would be very helpful.

Previous Work

https://github.com/gweihir - Gwehir github

https://github.com/orgs/rmrkdao - RMRKDAO is a polling standard that we build as an extension of the RMRK 2.0.0 NFT standard

https://greenbaydollar.com/ - Green Bay Dollar is a local implementation of Encointer technology (one of Kusama's system parachains), the first of its kind in the US, led by Steeber Solutions

https://forum.polkadot.network/t/kusama-treasury-analysis-reconfiguration - Adam has done on-chain analytical work to guide policy direction in the Kusama ecosystem

https://medium.com/@ adam-steeber - Adam has written a number of technical articles detailing what various Kusama parachain offer and how they work.

Please help our grant application get attention by @ mentioning Chainlink on Twitter, joining their Telegram and Discord. Be sure to mention how Kusama has made a healthy investment in developing their tech and the benefits of continuing to develop Project Gweihir!

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