This is a post about Hive-engine development, and a petition for continuing funding from The WorkerBEE DAO, which you can visit and vote at that link.
Our current proposal ends today, I have been thinking about making an updated proposal for several days, generally we are trying to help improve something in the background at all times, recently it has been the SMT node.
3 node types
Did you know there are 3 different types of "nodes" in the hive-engine ecosystem? The witness node, the history node and the SMT node.
So our "issue Hunter" development ended up trying to tackle the SMT node, I think there is more work to do there and we also have another node - the history node, which hasn't been modernized in a minute - under this new proposal we will spin up a history node and see if we can't make it faster, easier and less painful to use.
And as the payments most often go to @thecrazygm, my friend and partner, I wanted to include a quote from him:
I learned a lot by adding bulk blocks to our micro project and thanks to eonwarped's help I have learned some lessons with the smt node project and I believe I can properly enable bulk processing for the smt and history nodes, thereby bringing some important and often neglected parts of the hive-engine ecosystem up speed with modern python design principles.
So with that, we are looking into another six month proposal on the WorkerBEE DAO, which we are very grateful to as it has been supportive of us in the past.
We have made another proposal to sweep the available funding; currently this all adds up to about $4500 over 6 months, or about 750 dollars per month. Sure the numbers on the charts are down, but we still have to find a way to live - and we do, or we have so far I suppose. And part of that is thanks to Hive-Engine and the work we have done with them.
We can get partial funding if another proposal is passed above ours, and there may be one coming - so this is only the estimated USD amount if nothing changes, both in base token prices of both BEE and HIVE, and in competition for the available DAO funding. All the voting takes place with staked WORKERBEE tokens.
And finally, if any "issues" become super critical, which they occasionally do in a network, we always do try to help, if applicable, as well as not step on anyone or steal any thunder. There is of course "plenty to do in a layer two", which is a rhyme I just made up right now.
"Thank you for your attention to this matter", another new phrase has entered the lexicon, so I can conclude a post like this - "just letting you know", and hopefully opening up more communication and understanding about how hive-engine works, how open source development and maintenance works, and how all these lessons might be important for the next wave of open source layer 2 protocols that seem about to drop any day now on HIVE.