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# Alphaday

- **Team Name:** Alphaday
- **Payment Address:** 14g3mVhMHTXVkqAC4844zi3gvKrd4KEkUiVBoHw7G42tnaUv

## Project Overview :page_facing_up:
### Overview

Alphaday is a powerful crypto workflow aggregator that pulls in news, on-chain data, social media, web3 services and much more into one customizable UI.

We help solve the issue of information fragmentation and aim to serve as a central point where any user (whether they are a developer, enthusiast, investor) can instantly get the Ink!ubator related information they need, stay up to date on the latest videos & podcasts and much more.

Alphaday is and will remain to be free-to-use for end users.

### ink! Ecosystem Impact

We aim to create a dashboard that serves users, holders, developers, VC’s and stakeholders of projects that support ink! smart contract deployment; particularly those already in production: Aleph Zero, Astar Network, Shiden, Phala, Pendulum, Amplitude, Turnoa and Krest.

The dashboard will include an amalgamation of relevant information extracted from official sources into one customizable dashboard. Alphaday automated data importations includes forums, blogs, reddit, discord, news sources, token market prices, videos, podcasts, DAO votes, and more. We use RSS feeds and APIs to automate data importation. In addition to automated data importation, we create and regularly maintain manually imported data such as: events, documentation (ink! documentation), developer tools (grants & bounties, tutorials, and other resources), link directories, ecosystem projects, and more.

In general, users who can track their favorite projects more easily, stay engaged with the project which in turn supports user retention. Alphaday can also be used as an onboarding tool for newcomers since it aggregates all relevant project-specific data into one dashboard for visibility and ease of access.

### Project Details

- We’ve conducted market research on users and currently people’s regular crypto workflows consist of jumping from one browser tab to another to check prices, read news, follow social feeds, participate in discussions. A typical crypto user will have 6 to 10 open tabs at any given time and people have referred to Alphaday as the ‘tab killer’ because all the information you’d need across all your different tabs is available on Alphaday.

- We are aiming to be the de facto homepage for all crypto users. People using Alphaday to stay up to date with their favourite crypto projects, listen to podcasts, do research, participate in discussions and much more. Other competitors are all competing within much narrower niches. We get their services and integrate them into our app so users don’t have to jump from one service to another, it's all available on Alphaday.

- Alphaday is a React-Typescript dashboard on the frontend using a Python-Django backend built on distributed infrastructure with Postgres and Redis Databases.

- Data importation is automated through RSS feeds and APIs.

- Our challenges revolve mostly around:
1. Changes in API or RSI feeds that need to be updated on a regular basis
2. News sources or other content sources that need to be added or removed
3. Manual importation of data, such as upcoming events, that are not picked up by the Alphaday aggregator engine.
4. New developments or integrations, and quality assurance/testing of new features and widgets.

- Do you need an audit for the contacts? No

## Team :busts_in_silhouette:

### Team members

- Name: Deniz Omer, Founder
- Name: Felipe Faraggi, Co-founder
- Name: Pablo Palomo, Technical Lead
- Name: Vicente Almonacid, Software Engineer
- Name: Charles Nwankwo, Developer
- Name: Jonathan Irhodia, Developer
- Name: Gideon Anyalewechi, Developer
- Name: Zehra Naz Hacisuleyman, Marketing Specialist
- Name: Selim Cetiner, Content Specialist & Marketing Operations
- Name: Michael Hagopian, QA & Partnerships

### Contact

- **Contact Name:** Michael Hagopian
- **Contact Email:** [email protected]
- **Website:** https://app.alphaday.com/

### Legal Structure

- **Registered Address:** 45 North Canal Road, #01-01 Lew Building, 059301 Singapore
- **Registered Legal Entity:** Alphabox Solutions Pte. Ltd.

### Team's experience

Deniz has been involved in the Ethereum space since early 2016 and joined Kyber Network in 2017 as Head of Ecosystem Growth before quitting to start Alphaday full-time in 2021. Previously he worked at Thomson Reuters for a decade building financial products that rivaled the Bloomberg Terminal. He is currently also a Venture Partner at IOSG.VC.

Felipe also has been involved in Ethereum since 2016 and was a Developer Advocate at Pegasys and Consensys before quitting to work full time on Alphaday.

### Team Code Repos

- https://github.com/AlphadayHQ

Please also provide the GitHub accounts of all team members. If they contain no activity, references to projects hosted elsewhere or live are also fine.

- Felipe - https://github.com/faraggi
- Pablo - https://github.com/ppalomo
- Vicente - https://github.com/v-almonacid
- Charles - https://github.com/Xavier-Charles
- Jonathan - https://github.com/elcharitas
- Gideon - https://github.com/getgiddy

### Team LinkedIn Profiles (if available)

- Deniz - https://www.linkedin.com/in/denizomer/
- Felipe - https://www.linkedin.com/in/faraggi/
- Pablo - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pablo-palomo-07127711/
- Vicente - https://www.linkedin.com/in/vicente-almonacid/
- Charles - https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-nwankwo-01/
- Jonathan - https://linkedin.com/in/elcharitas
- Gideon - https://www.linkedin.com/in/getgiddy/
- Zehra - https://www.linkedin.com/in/zehranazh/
- Selim - https://www.linkedin.com/in/selim-cetiner-167364234/
- Michael - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikael-h-87bb4ba4/

## Development Status :open_book:

- Product is live at: https://app.alphaday.com/

- Landing Page: https://alphaday.com/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlphadayHQ
- Discord: https://discord.com/invite/8KSmPyT5k8
- Github: https://github.com/AlphadayHQ
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/alphaday
- Pitch Deck: https://alphaday.com/deck
- Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThCd_W3rK_8

## Development Roadmap :nut_and_bolt:

### Overview

- **Total Estimated Duration:** 2 months
- **Full-Time Equivalent (FTE):** 2 FTE
- **Total Costs:** 2,000 USD

### Milestone 1 — Development & Deployment of the Dashboard

- **Estimated duration:** 2 months
- **FTE:** 1
- **Costs:** 1,000 USD

| Number | Deliverable | Specification |
| -----: | ----------- | ------------- |
| **0a.** | License | Unlicensed (within 2 weeks we will be getting an MIT license and fully open-sourcing) |
| **0b.** | Documentation | Not applicable to Alphaday, as we have no Substrates nodes or sending functionality on the app. |
| **0c.** | Testing and Testing Guide | We can provide a document as a guide to give a bit more detail on how to test a completed dashboard's functionality. It will be a reference to the points listed below. |
| **0d.** | Docker | The dashboard would be live and visible to anyone that accesses the url. As such, a Docker file would be deemed unnecessary. |
| **0e.** | Article | We will publish articles and other posts about the dashboard and the project once we deploy it (as we do with all our partners). |
| 1a. | Blog | The latest ink! supported chain project (https://use.ink/where-to-deploy) announcements and blog post content. |
| 1b. | News | A feed of all news mentions of ink! supported chain projects from coindesk, cointelegraph and 20+ other news sources aggregated from across the internet. |
| 1c. | Calendar | A calendar containing all ink! supported chain project events including meetups, hackathons with Ink!ubator bounties, AMAs. |
| 1d. | Podcast | Podcast feed containing the latest appearances and interviews given by ink! supported chain projects. |
| 1e. | Videos | Youtube stream containing educational ink! supported chain project content.
| 1f. | Documentation | ink! documentation directory. |
| 1g. | Forum | Integration with ink! supported chain project Forums to show the latest and trending discussion topics. |
| 1h. | Social | Discord & Reddit Integration of all relevant projects to show a feed of latest discussions. |
| 1i. | Misc | FAQs, Whitepapers |
| 1j. | Token Price | Live AZERO, ASTR, SDN, PHA, PEN, AMPE, CAPS, KREST spot price charts. |
| 1k. | Developer Resources | Developer tools, API’s, tutorials, guides, grants & bounties, documentation, and any other resources that can help build with Ink!ubator. |
| 1l. | Ecosystem | Categorized links and descriptions of products and services offered in the Ink!ubator ecosystem. |
| 1n. | TVL Data | Supported chain project TVL data through Defillama integration. |

### Milestone 2 — Maintenance & Curation of Dashboard

- **Estimated duration:** Indefinitely
- **FTE:** 1
- **Costs:** 1,000 USDT

| Number | Deliverable | Specification |
| -----: | ----------- | ------------- |
| 2a. | API’s & RSS feeds | Changes in API or RSI feeds that need to be updated on a regular basis. |
| 2b. | Updating Automated Sources | News sources or other content sources to be added or removed. |
| 2c. | Manual Data Curation | Manually import data, such as upcoming events, that are not picked up by the Alphaday aggregator engine. |
| 2d. | Further Development & Upkeep | New developments or integrations, and quality assurance/testing of new features and widgets |

## Future Plans

If we get a grant we will start working on the board immediately and we should have it ready within 2 months. Once we’ve launched the board, we use forums and other channels available to gather feedback and tune the dashboard. We will continue this process of iterating, deploying, and collecting feedback continuously to build a dashboard that ink! stakeholders truly love to use.

We have just recently released a new mobile app version of Alphaday. The dashboard will be available on the desktop version, and we will adapt the new mobile app to automatically filter the ‘superfeed’ based on each project’s url; e.g. ‘/b/Inkubator’ would direct users to the alphaday superfeed page and automatically filter it for all relevant projects.

Other future plans include further development of the app as a whole, and adding new features and functionalities. We have also started focusing on marketing more this year to boost the value our partners get from us, as well as to increase awareness of Alphaday.

## Additional Information :heavy_plus_sign:

**How did you hear about the Bounty Program?**
https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/grants

We do not have direct competitors who are competing in the experience aggregator space but our individual widgets do overlap with features offered by Dune, Nansen, Zapper/Zerion, Coingecko, Discord, DeFiLama, Snapshot.

Bear in mind that the above are feeding data to Alphaday itself.

We are aiming to be the de facto homepage for all crypto users. People using Alphaday to stay up to date with their favourite crypto projects, listen to podcasts, do research, participate in discussions and much more. Other competitors are all competing within much narrower niches. We get their services and integrate them into our app so users don’t have to jump from one service to another, it's all available on Alphaday.

Established partners: Aave, Chiliz, TheGraph, Avalanche, Polygon, Sui, Reserve Protocol, Metis, Dfinity, Zcash, XRPL, Ethereum Classic, RocketPool, Starknet and many others.

We are currently working on open sourcing Alphaday completely. This should take place in around 2 weeks.

Relevant links:

- Live Product: https://app.alphaday.com/
- Landing Page: https://alphaday.com/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlphadayHQ
- Discord: https://discord.com/invite/8KSmPyT5k8
- Github: https://github.com/AlphadayHQ
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/alphaday
- Blog: https://blog.alphaday.com/
- Faraster: https://warpcast.com/alphaday
- Phaver: @Alphaday
- Paragraph Newsletter: https://paragraph.xyz/@alphaday
- Pitch Deck: https://alphaday.com/deck
- Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThCd_W3rK_8