Proposal: Safe on XDC Network

Motivation

The motivation behind this proposal is the intention of contributing to XinFin, starting from a relatively simple project (Safe deployment to XDC Network) and expanding the cooperation over time.
We would be happy to propose additional infrastructure and ecosystem projects, which increase TVL and interest in XDC Network. At the same time, we would like to become a senior partner of the project and receive benefits, since we believe in XinFin ecosystem and share its values.

Ecosystem Benefits

• Safe's multisig wallet can provide secure self-custody for institutional investors and large fund holders, mitigating risks of lost or stolen keys and hacked devices. This can help increase your TVL significantly.
• Integrating Safe can attract various protocols and dApps to your platform, as they rely on Safe contracts and components, including popular protocols such as Chainlink, Sushi, and Balancer.
• Safe is a modular solution with a range of features, including Safe Apps, Modules, and Guards, making it convenient and secure for users to interact with multiple dApps and protocols through one interface.
• Safe is a widely adopted standard on Ethereum, used by numerous DAOs, protocols, and companies to secure and manage their funds on-chain, with the total amount of funds stored in Safes being over $100B.

About Protofire

• 80+ engineers working for 10+ DAOs;
• Is a machine which attracts, builds, and retains engineering teams for protocols and DAOs;
• Teams pick DAOs to work for;
• Start with small project;
• Fully-integrated, dedicated teams - Solidity, Rust, JS/TS, GoLang, Py, Swift/Kotlin, QA, UX/UI, Growth/Recruiters;
• Unique specialty: bootstrapping demand side and developer adoption for leading L1/L2/cross-chain/oracle networks and select DeFi protocols;
• What makes us different: our teams aim to ship business outcomes, not just code. Outcomes like number and $ value of transactions.

We are Safe Guardians!
Safe Guardians are active members of the Safe community, who have verifiably proven their commitment to this vision. Guardians steward the SAFE ecosystem and protocol, and align with our vision to drive the adoption of smart contract accounts.

Chains that we Safe:
Cronos: https://cronos-safe.org/
Oasis: https://safe.oasis.io/
Astar: https://safe.astar.network/
Moonbeam: https://multisig.moonbeam.network/
And others!

Proposal

The goal of the main proposal is to deliver a fully functional, reliable, and secure GS solution on the XDC network.

The main proposal includes 2 phases:

• Bringing the entire infrastructure into working condition and up-to-date
• Providing monthly support & maintenance

The first phase includes measures necessary fixes, patches, configuration adjustments, required for bringing current GS instance in working condition ASAP. All components and smart contracts will be updated to the latest stable versions. In the end, we will provide verification of the code and add XDC Network in the Gnosis Safe official repository as a supported network.

The second phase covers all the activities, required for keeping GS up-to-day and secured. As the upstream Gnosis Safe codebase is being constantly updated and changed by the Gnosis team (guaranteed 2 releases per month), adjustments need to be merged promptly. A monitoring service will be provided for observing all the components. In addition, we provide support to customers and businesses using GS in their daily activity, for better adoption and widespread usage.

Deployment Milestones

We are targeting a fast Safe deployment. We deploy the latest Safe version with the basic features on a default, robust and secure infrastructure model.

Team:

• Field CTO;
• Full-stack Engineers;
• Project Manager;
• DevOps Engineers

Maintenance

Safe Updates
As the upstream Safe codebase is being constantly updated and changed by the (Gnosis) Safe team, new releases need to be merged with the fork deployed by Protofire, making sure it is updated and compatible with your Safe instance. (Gnosis) Safe team makes releases approximately every 15/16 days (2 times per month).
Regular Safe updates will be performed and released on the supported networks. Updates consider Frontend (mainly user experience improvements), Backend services and Smart Contract.
Safe features
Team scope of work includes research and implementation of such features like Safe dApps, Modules, Guards, External Wallets Connectors, client customization, etc.Improvements can be proactively suggested by Protofire or requested by XDC Network team/community.
Infrastructure support & monitoring
DevOps support and monitoring, covering all aspects of infrastructure security, architecture optimization, monitoring and CI/CD pipeline enhancement in order to improve cost-effectiveness and scalability. This team supports troubleshooting incidents and issues in the infrastructure context.
General Suport
General support is provided to Customer’s financial, business and technical teams considering incidents analysis and troubleshooting, research and general inquiries. All potential end-users support requests must come from the Customer’s teams. Support will be provided through specific channels (E-mail, Slack, Discord or Telegram group).

Grants Request

We request a grant of 30,000 USD from the XDC foundation to cover the development and infrastructure costs of the Safe Deployment.
We anticipate that the development process will take approximately 2-5 weeks.
Development rate is 70 USD per hour, hours breakdown are as follows:

The reason why we work with a range, most likely and pessimistic estimation, is because unexpected issues can happen (and they do happen) even more when integrating with networks / RPC nodes. This range is a way to set expectations if inconvenient issues appear.
We are confident that the necessary hours tend to be around the most likely estimation.

So the final cost breakdown will look like:

Approximate Grand Total is 15,645 - 26,355 USD

Part of the compensation is dedicated to developers (+50% of base compensation, USD equivalent in XDC, XDCE, USDC or USDT).
Such an approach allows us to allocate the most professional and senior specialists, who are motivated with the success and potential revenue.

The rest of the budget will be spent on support and adding new features, such as, Safe Apps (like CSV Airdrop App, Drain Account, WalletConnect, Revoke.cash, and/or others), updating Safe components (once released by Gnosis Safe team), setting up monitoring and other types of maintenance.
Results and Reporting
After the deployment, we'll provide a comprehensive report that outlines the time spent on individual tasks, as well as the problems that were resolved and any issues that were addressed.

Relevant links

https://protofire.io/
https://github.com/protofire

Contact

Name: Daria
Email: daria.lapus@protofire.io
Telegram: @daria_lapus