The Solana Foundation Is Looking For Proposals To Drive Development Of Open Source Data Tooling For Solana, With Up To $160k In Funding Available

Source: https://x.com/SolanaFndn/status/1832095353363107957

Request for Proposals announcement: The Solana Foundation is looking for proposals to drive development of open source data tooling for Solana, with up to $160k in funding available.

Two RFPs include:

– Solana Indexer Tooling

– Solana Discriminator Directory

Details & apply👇

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Solana Indexer Tooling RFP

Total funding: $100k

This is your chance to simplify data retrieval for @Solana developers by building an end-to-end, open source infrastructure solution for accessing real-time and historical data from Solana programs and accounts.

Proposed Solution:

→ Open-source indexer framework for real-time and historical Solana data

→ Features: account diff tracking, program listeners, cloud deployment, local database sync

→ Supports Google Bigtable, @ClickHouseDB, and @Filecoin data sources

Deliverables include:

✅ Indexing tool for real-time & historical updates given a set of accounts and programs with their Anchor IDLs

✅ Support for account diff tracking, program account listeners, transaction indexes and integration with the Luzid local validator

✅ Implementation example using an open-source program

✅ Management of open-source repository for 2 years

Application Deadline: Oct. 4, 2024

Development Deadline: Jan. 31, 2025

Learn more and apply here: https://forum.solana.com/t/indexer-data-processor/2059

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Solana Discriminator Directory RFP

Total funding: $60k

Empower developers to interact with unknown deployed contracts and parse instructions by creating an open source discriminator database.

Proposed Solution:

→ API for fetching program discriminators

→ Community dataset for uploading discriminators with metadata

→ Compressed parquet files for easy developer access

→ Frontend for uploading discriminators/IDLs with conflict detection

→ Real-time anchor registry watcher

Deliverables include:

✅ Public, consumable dataset of shank and anchor discriminators

✅ Open-source API for uploading and fetching discriminators

✅ Frontend interface for dataset interaction

✅ 2-year management of repository and dataset

✅ Implementation examples and usage metrics

Application Deadline: Oct. 4, 2024

Development Deadline: Dec. 31, 2024

Learn more and apply here: https://forum.solana.com/t/discriminator-database/2060

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Both RFPs will help improve the developer experience and data tooling on the Solana blockchain, and are open for submissions until Oct. 4, 2024.

All applications and more information can be found here: https://airtable.com/apppDmK2Pin9WX8jV/shrDbfJ1wktQ7pB6f/tbli2ERM3sdhyHJYB

Questions? Reach out to @pkxro, Infrastructure Lead, Solana Foundation.

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