I was asked about this on text chat with the team recently. I paste the response here too.
Related:
Please give me an estimated end date for each milestone in the program
Milestone 1 — Develop smart contracts and frontend
Estimated end date: 2021/01
On this milestone, we get an MVP on Shiden or Shibuya. If Wasm contracts are not launched on Shiden at that time, I use my local chain instead.
For milestones 2–4, I need some more time to estimate. Maybe adjustments are required.
We would like to know what has been done with this amount and current future plans.
We’ve not used the reward SDN, except for our staking bonus to our stakers. The SDN will be used for development/treasury and our Play-to-Earn prizes, but the allocation is undecided yet. We have a transparency report for all SDN we received. Treasury Report #0
What I’ve done for our Builders Program tasks is here:
- groundwork for smart contracts, and structured upgradable contracts
- 80% of logic in smart contracts https://github.com/tash-2s/open-emoji-battler/tree/contract-logic/contracts
Since September, my main focus has been on developing Shiden Wasm contracts, but there are a number of delays. The major cause is unmatured code base around Wasm contracts in the ecosystem, which includes pallet-contracts for a runtime, ink! for writing contracts, and polkadot/api for a javascript client. (E.g., https://github.com/paritytech/ink/pull/942, https://github.com/polkadot-js/api/issues/4008) I needed to pass some roadblocks, and I might get more on our coming development since there is no production usage for Wasm contracts yet.
Not a part of the Builders Program, but I’ve also implemented some tools for our dApp staking bonus. https://github.com/OpenEmojiBattler/shiden-dapp-staking-tools