This is the final report for the ink!ubator program, detailing the achievements and outcomes throughout its lifetime of activity. Created for the fostering of the ink! ecosystem's growth and the innovative projects within the Polkadot network, the program is established with a key objective: to accelerate the development of ink!-based smart contracts through financial and technical support to the most promising projects.
During its lifetime, the incubator supported and funded a number of projects; many of these are extremely useful for the further development of the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems. Among these range infrastructure and business-oriented applications to demonstrating the advantages brought about by ink! over other smart contract programming languages.
The report serves to highlight ink!ubator's numerous successes, showing projects that have been successful, giving insights and recommendations for further development in support programs. Furthermore, it embeds the role of ink! in the greater context of Web3 technologies and its role in the building of a sustainable Polkadot ecosystem.
The mission of the ink! ubator was to support community-driven projects built with ink! and parachains, especially those that want to expose selected APIs through contract palletes, and to flesh out a market for smart contract audits. Our vision was to create easily accessible and audited showcases of ink!/ask! smart contracts, fostering a more secure and innovative ecosystem. What we wanted to do, by the things we are doing, is to give to the developers the tools and resources to be able to really actualize their projects, which will bring in growth and success to the ink!
The curators (e-)met on a weekly basis to review the proposals, learn more about their weekly to daily activities here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14_oZUN1YcbD4nGpVvcFnIAbgOOYshuxPOotasEGGr-s/edit?usp=sharing
Payment for the work of curators:
Payment for the work of Facilitator to Astar Foundation: