Funding the Future

There’s no clear answer for this one.

I wanted to vote on #3. That’s the guiding light. The other two are important stepping stones.

Given the near-term constraint, I voted for #2. Here’s why:

  • @aliencoder has publicly taken on the project to build docs for the NoM. I can’t think of a better candidate; he has touched everything from GitHub Actions and Syrius to extension chains.

  • Once the initial version of the documentation is live, I truly believe the community is more than capable of maintaining, improving, and expanding it to cover tutorials, deployment and maintenance of testnets/sandboxes, etc…

  • Even without programming expertise, anyone could leverage LLMs to analyze source code and create really good documentation. The barrier will keep dropping.

  • Efforts like the Supernova extension chain, allows us to leverage the tooling and much larger ecosystem of Ethereum/Cosmos, making it easier for developers to build in our ecosystem. I can’t think of a better introductory playground. All that is required is a lot of copy pasting and slight adaptions to proven developer experiences.

Take this as feedback from a long-time community member, who basically took on learning how to program after I discovered Zenon, in a pre-chatGPT era. It would have been nice to have proper SDK documentation then. Now, it’s also great to have one, particularly for big picture stuff, but not as critical. I can take the Zenon Dart SDK and use a LLM to walk me through the code.

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