About: AlgoFaucet is a decentralized faucet application running on Algorand Mainnet that provides free ALGO tokens to users, developers, and newcomers to the ecosystem. AlgoFaucet eliminates the need for manual funds, making it a true public good for the Algorand community. When developers and user…

Setting aside for the moment whether this is suitable or unsuitable for a grant application, this is just my personal opinion, but I felt it was an interesting approach to the problem of how to sustain a faucet. Precisely because Algorand’s node operation has hardware requirements that individuals c…

[image] AlgoFaucet: Recognizing the barrier to entry for new Algorand users who need ALGO for their first transactions for this i have created AVM Gas station - https://gas-station.biatec.io/ Where any project owners can fund his account and his users can operate his smart contracts or opt in…

Also this project has to be marketed properly by community to newcomers. All the best!

Currently you can only ask for retroactive grant for OSS proposals. This means, opensourcing the smart contracts or whatever part of the platform you wish to ask funds for and apply for work done - how you use the funds after that is up to you (so if you wish to run the node and donate rewards, that…

Thank you for the thoughtful feedback. Regarding your point about grant suitability - yes, I believe AlgoFaucet meets all the criteria for a grant application: Open-source: Complete codebase (smart contract + frontend) available on GitHub GitHub - algofaucet/algofaucet: AlgoFaucet is a decentralize…

Thank you for the feedback. AVM Gas Station is an solution for project owners to sponsor their users’ transactions. AlgoFaucet serves a complementary but different purpose: AVM Gas Station: Project owners fund their own users’ transactions AlgoFaucet: Public good providing free ALGO to anyone on M…

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Thank you for the thoughtful feedback. Yes, this is a retroactive grant request for work already completed and delivered: Open-source work delivered: Smart contract (PyTeal) deployed on Mainnet https://explorer.perawallet.app/application/3054946205/ Complete frontend codebase (React/TypeScript) G…

its already cheap to build here…

Subsidization is not sustainable, even with node rewards.

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