I got a small grant right back at the beginning 12 months ago from Geyser.
I applied to spiral.xyz and they require basically an MVP alpha.
Defining this is not simple when the concept aims at highly programmable routing, but as far as proof of concept, tests already have been written for a basic codebase that tests the cryptography and protocol handling.
Already have checked out opensats and much the same answer from them as spiral.
The requirements need more technical appraisal at this point because the protocol was not well specified previously, it was just coded and tests were written.
I'm really not that bothered to have to work on cosmos, though less so for a working on an ethereum distributed validator system, to be honest. As far as I'm concerned from a technical perspective it is already a proven concept in its initial, ragged implementation.
It's you all out there who are missing out by not having resources directed to adding some more eyes and hands to get this thing out there. We discussed strategy quite intensively, as for how to find the short path to us being compensated by the system itself, and that path means building a hybrid Nostr/Indra relay which enables distributed LN based paywalling for up and download of notes and content.
Ok, I'm understating it. Really I'm frustrated af to have to go back to shitcoin dev work. Last year it was incredibly irritating that the shitcoin community had abandoned Go and everyone is all Rust Rust Rust and it's such a garbage language I learned how to work with it by necessity but for me it is a shitcoin itself compared to Go.