Incentivizing experienced developer teams to build long-lasting fundamental technology for Algorand.
Why a Dev Tooling Suite and Code Verification Tools?
Developer experience matters more than ever. In other words, developers expect a stellar experience when building blockchain applications at every stage of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
Therefore, the Algorand Foundation is leading an effort to develop a world-class open source developer tooling suite. Such a suite includes IDE, static analysis, debugging, account management, automated testing (using the Algorand sandbox), a smart contract library, a block explorer for private blockchain development, tools to help with continuous integration and development. You can compare this developer tooling suite to the Truffle Suite or Hardhat for Ethereum development.
We expect the suite to integrate existing available tools and IDEs (such as sandbox, algobuilder, AlgoDEA, Algorand VS Code extension) as well as newly developed tools.
We are looking for teams of blockchain developers who have previous experience with blockchain smart contracts, as well as the relevant expertise and experience. In particular, we expect teams developing auditing tools and static code analysis tools to include experts in programming languages and in static analysis.
Teams may develop one or multiple new open source tools (e.g., static analyzer) and/or help improving or extending existing tools (such as sandbox, the VS Code Algorand extension, or the AlgoSearch block explorer). They must ensure that their tools can be easily integrated with the other tools in a seamless as possible way. The Algorand Foundation will oversee all the projects and ensure the above. Proposals for a full suite of open source tools for a specific purpose, such as web IDE à la Ethereum Remix, are also welcome.
How to Apply
Algorand is looking for applicants to submit a proposal for this SupaGrant. From this group, we select three projects to build their proposed solution. We provide a total of $10,000,000 USD in ALGO tokens to be used to bring a full suite of Dev Tools to the Algorand Ecosystem.
