Hey everyone! I’m David, the founder behind rxelms (soon to be Polaris) and the Node Keepers. We’ve built a soft staking platform on Algorand that’s currently live with around 600,000 ALGO worth of assets in TVL on the platform and 151 unique stakers. We’re applying for retroactive xGov funding by o…

Thanks for providing the breakdown! I can’t seem to access the repo though. Is it public yet?

I was waiting for the Electric Capital approval, I wasn’t sure of the process but here is the public version GitHub - david49046/algorand-soft-staking: Open source multi-pool soft staking infrastructure with Merkle proof reward distribution on Algorand · GitHub :slight_smile:

Also for full disclosure, I’m not a great developer and wouldn’t of been able to do this without AI. It did take me 3 months to build, for 95% of the build I was using Claude to help with the code not Claude Code. Then when Algorand’s Vibekit came out I switched to Claude Code which was really amazi…

Thanks for providing the repo and the transparency regarding development. It is unfortunate that the smart contracts are written in PyTEAL (an obsolete Algorand development language), despite the product being built relatively recently (if I understand correctly). IMO, this reduces the usefulness …

I didn’t actually know that lol, I didn’t really know much about coding before I started making it and tbh I still don’t really know much about coding but I paid around $30k to actual developers out of my own money to build a similar thing and it never worked so I’m super happy that I now have what …

I put your comment through Claude Code and this was the output: PyTeal being “obsolete” — This is a fair criticism. Algorand’s official tooling has moved to AlgoKit + Puya (Python-native compiler). PyTeal still works and is battle-tested, but new projects are expected to use the modern stack. Th…

A word of advise, be careful about a hallucinating AI. E.g. in the function get-merkle-proof [L230] it checks just balance, not whether the stake has moved at all - you’d need to check past transactions. Or in the function claim_rewards [L186] it require opt-in in the app, which has nothing to do …

Thanks for taking the time to look through the code again. You raised two points and I wanted to address both properly. 1. Balance check in get-merkle-proof (no transaction history verification) You’re right that the balance check at claim time only verifies the wallet’s current balance, it doesn’…

I’d like to add a little more context to the proposal, building the platform was a major undertaking that took 3 months of many 10 hour days, I learnt loads along the way. In the last few days before I released it to the public I discovered Claude Code, at the same time Gabe’s Vibekit was released, …

Thank you for your efforts to address the feedback. Hope to hear the thoughts of other xGovs too.

Open Sourcing Multi-Pool Soft Staking Infrastructure with Merkle Proof Reward Distribution

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The older pools still use the same PyTeal contract but new pools use the new Puya contract, there’s currently 2 pools using the new contract, the one you found and also the new Dolan pool

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