diff --git a/grants/SCORE.md b/grants/SCORE.md --- a/grants/SCORE.md +++ b/grants/SCORE.md @@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ | SSRC — Just Tech Fellowship | 2026-06-28 (23:59 EST) | up to $60,000 (1 yr, unrestricted) | SOURCED — researching (Fia, 2026-05-14); no folder yet | — | | ~~CalArts CCAT — Technical Director, BB6 studio (job, not grant)~~ | posting closed (verified 2026-05-21) | $100k–$125k / yr | **CLOSED — not submitted.** Paycom job 154720 returns "We Couldn't Find This Job"; CalArts careers portal lists no CCAT roles. Verified: CCAT = CHANEL Center for Artists and Technology, ED MaryClare Brzytwa. Draft archived in vault `calarts-ccat-tech-director-2026/`; public page reframed as archived record. Reopen if CCAT reposts a TD / related role. | `calarts-ccat-2026/` | | ~~Francis Gallery painting exhibition~~ | passed (2026-04-30) | two $15k prizes | MISSED — the public Summer Exhibition deadline was 2026-04-30 (Fia's text said May 30, incorrect). Track 2027; if a separate private call exists, restart this folder. | `francis-gallery-2026/` | | Smart History — Contributor essay | rolling | unpaid | PITCH.md drafted (send first; PhD-or-equiv clause) | `smarthistory-essay/` | -| Tezos Foundation — Ecosystem Grant (KidLisp Keeps v12) | rolling (submit Q2 2026 → July review) | ~$30k (milestone-based, 4 milestones) | DRAFT ready — applicant (Aesthetic Inc) + ask ($30k) set; needs grants-platform registration to trim to form fields | `tezos-foundation-keeps-2026/` | ### Drafted vs. submitted @@ -41,6 +40,7 @@ | Application | Submitted | Decided | Outcome | Folder | |---|---|---|---|---| | CultureHub — LA Residency 2026 | 2026-05-21 | — | **Submitted, awaiting decision** — *Notepat Jam*: a six-channel audio piece performed solo on six salvaged laptops booted into AC Native (each voicing one channel of the 5:1 Kalio surround), plus open programming (public workshop + dialogue). Answers on Desktop: `CultureHub-LA-Residency-2026-Application.md`. | `culturehub-2026/` | +| Tezos Foundation — Ecosystem Grant (KidLisp Keeps v12 + LA adoption) | 2026-05-22 | — | **Submitted, awaiting decision** — *KidLisp Keeps v12*: $45,000 across 5 milestones (~14 weeks). v12 contract (rotatable signer, role separation, holder-governed metadata, opt-in v11→v12 migration) released as a reusable Smart Contract Template, plus tutorial videos, custom keeps wallet polish, LA adoption sessions at NELA Computer Club, and an outreach campaign into fxhash/objkt. Rolling Q2 cycle → reviewed July 2026. Management: . | `tezos-foundation-keeps-2026/` | | Are.na Annual Vol. 8 — pitch (theme "Score.") | 2026-04-20 | 2026-05-08 | **Rejected** — Meg Miller (editorial director). Channel `aesthetic-computer/self-teaching-scores` (68 blocks) + pitch page stay live; track for Vol. 9. | `gigs/are-na-annual-vol-8/` | ## Personal Logistics (not grants but tracked here) diff --git a/grants/tezos-foundation-keeps-2026/DRAFT.md b/grants/tezos-foundation-keeps-2026/DRAFT.md --- a/grants/tezos-foundation-keeps-2026/DRAFT.md +++ b/grants/tezos-foundation-keeps-2026/DRAFT.md @@ -85,13 +85,29 @@ in the keep UI (both collections shown, explicitly labeled, no forced burn). v11 stays live for provenance and trading history. *Deliverable:* v12 on mainnet, migration claim path live end-to-end. *~3 weeks.* -**Milestone 4 — Open preservation template + audit protocol.** +**Milestone 4 — Open preservation template + tutorial video series.** Publish the v12 FA2 contract, the repeatable audit script (`keeps-audit.mjs`), and the 25-year stability/ops plan as an openly licensed **preservation template** with documentation, so any Tezos creative project can mint executable or long-lived art on a hardened, auditable contract. -*Deliverable:* public repo + docs + a short write-up for the Tezos community. -*~2 weeks.* +Produce a 3–5 video tutorial series covering: (a) forking the template, +(b) minting your first keep, (c) running the weekly audit cadence and reading +its output. Targeted at Tezos developers and creative-coding artists who want +to ship their own preservation-grade FA2 contract without re-deriving the work. +*Deliverable:* public repo + docs + tutorial video series + short community +write-up. *~2 weeks.* + +**Milestone 5 — LA adoption sessions.** +Run **4 NELA Computer Club appointments** (biweekly demos at Plot.Place, +Chinatown, Los Angeles) plus **1 public workshop** at an LA venue, guiding +5+ LA-based generative artists through forking the v12 template and minting +their first keeps end-to-end. The sessions double as the live test of the M4 +documentation and tutorial videos. Output: a public onboarding playbook +documenting the sessions, the artists' first keeps, and lessons learned. +M5 is the concrete adoption arm of KPI #2 — not a parallel art-event budget, +but the mechanism by which the template's first independent forks happen. +*Deliverable:* 5 sessions held + onboarding playbook published + 5+ first-time +keep minters with their work on mainnet. *~2 weeks.* --- @@ -157,24 +173,35 @@ --- ## Ask / budget -**Total: ~$30,000 USD-equivalent, milestone-based.** A single-developer -infrastructure grant covering ~3 months (~12 weeks) of focused contract and -tooling work, plus Ghostnet/mainnet gas. The Foundation pays per completed, -reported milestone; the split below tracks the roadmap above: +**Total: ~$45,000 USD-equivalent, milestone-based.** A single-developer grant +covering ~14 weeks of contract engineering, template publication with +tutorial videos, and LA-based hands-on adoption sessions, plus Ghostnet and +mainnet gas. The Foundation pays per completed, reported milestone; the split +below tracks the roadmap above: | Milestone | Work | Weeks | Payment | |---|---|---|---| -| M1 | v12 spec + threat model + SmartPy invariant tests | ~3 | $8,000 | -| M2 | v12 contract on Ghostnet + migration prototype + adversarial pass | ~4 | $11,000 | -| M3 | v12 mainnet deployment + opt-in v11→v12 holder migration | ~3 | $7,000 | -| M4 | Open preservation template + audit protocol + community write-up | ~2 | $4,000 | -| | **Total** | **~12** | **$30,000** | +| M1 | v12 spec + threat model + SmartPy invariant tests | ~3 | $6,000 | +| M2 | v12 contract on Ghostnet + migration prototype + **custom keeps wallet polish** | ~4 | $9,000 | +| M3 | v12 mainnet deployment + opt-in v11→v12 holder migration | ~3 | $6,000 | +| M4 | **Tutorial video series + onboarding kit + media materials** + open preservation template release | ~2 | $11,000 | +| M5 | **LA adoption events** (4 NELA Computer Club + 1 public workshop) + **outreach campaign** to fxhash/objkt creators + onboarding playbook | ~2 | $13,000 | +| | **Total** | **~14** | **$45,000** | + +Split: ~47% contract work (M1–M3 = $21k) · ~53% adoption / media / events +(M4–M5 = $24k). Most on-chain templates die because nobody made the +surrounding materials — this budget treats getting the template into +artists' hands as the larger of the two halves. Self-audited: v12 is hardened with the existing repeatable audit script (`tezos/keeps-audit.mjs`), a written threat model (M1), and an adversarial test pass (M2). A funded third-party security review is **not** included in this ask — if the Foundation's reviewers would prefer one, it can be added as a separable follow-on line item rather than holding up this scope. + +M5 ties directly to KPI #2: the workshop sessions are how template adoption +gets measured, not a parallel art-event budget. Held below the $50,000 +threshold to keep the proposal on the simpler review path. --- diff --git a/grants/tezos-foundation-keeps-2026/RESEARCH.md b/grants/tezos-foundation-keeps-2026/RESEARCH.md --- a/grants/tezos-foundation-keeps-2026/RESEARCH.md +++ b/grants/tezos-foundation-keeps-2026/RESEARCH.md @@ -69,22 +69,45 @@ - `tezos/keeps-audit.mjs` — repeatable audit script - `system/public/aesthetic.computer/disks/keep.mjs` — the mint UI (3,798 lines) - `system/netlify/functions/keep-confirm.mjs`, `keep-update.mjs` — backend -## Decisions made (2026-05-22) +## SUBMITTED 2026-05-22 + +**Management page:** + +The form's actual vertical taxonomy turned out NOT to be the 7 marketing-site +verticals — the platform routes by working-group UID and exposes a different +category list (Collectibles · Communication apps · Creator tokenization · +Crowdfunding · DeFi · Gaming · Payment Solutions · **Smart Contract Templates**). +We landed in **Smart Contract Templates** because Milestone 4 is literally +"release v12 as a reusable contract template," which gave us a clean spine. + +### Final scope (as submitted) + +- **Applicant entity:** Aesthetic Inc (US C-corp, EIN 33-1483385). +- **Ask:** USD $45,000, milestone-based, 5 milestones over ~14 weeks. +- **Budget split:** ~47% contract work (M1–M3, $21k) · ~53% adoption / media / + events (M4–M5, $24k) — deliberately weighted toward the artifacts that + actually get a smart-contract template adopted, including the custom keeps + wallet, tutorial videos, NELA Computer Club + LA workshop, and an outreach + campaign into the existing fxhash/objkt creative-coding community. +- **Self-audited:** no external security review in this ask; left as a + separable follow-on if Foundation reviewers prefer one. +- **Submitted PDF:** `proposal.pdf` (4 pages, AC paper style — xelatex + YWFT + Processing + Berkeley Mono + AC palette). Source: `proposal.tex` + `build.fish`. + +### What happens next -- **Applicant entity:** Aesthetic Inc (C-corp, EIN 33-1483385). Grant held by - the company, consistent with AC's other contracted work. -- **Ask amount:** ~$30,000 USD-equivalent, milestone-based, self-audited - (4 milestones over ~12 weeks). Breakdown in DRAFT. +Tezos Foundation grants run on a rolling submission, quarterly review cycle: +proposals submitted in a given quarter are reviewed the month following +quarter-end. Submission landed in Q2 (Apr–Jun 2026) → reviewed July 2026. +Three-stage process: ~1 week initial vetting → ~3 weeks Technical Advisory +Committee + Executive Committee review → ~4+ weeks post-award legal / +paperwork. Earliest realistic first-milestone payment: late summer 2026. -## Still open before submission +### Open commitment carried into the work -- **Register on the grants platform** (`grants.tezos.foundation`) — needs - @jeffrey to create the account; then capture the real I&T form fields and - word caps so the draft can be trimmed to fit. -- **Open-sourcing confirmation:** Milestone 4 commits to publishing the keeps - FA2 contract + audit protocol as a reusable preservation template. That - commitment is what makes this ecosystem infrastructure rather than "fund my - project" — confirm @jeffrey is good with releasing it openly licensed. +Milestone 4 commits to releasing the keeps FA2 contract + audit protocol as +an openly licensed preservation template. That single commitment is what +makes this ecosystem infrastructure rather than "fund my project." ## Sources diff --git a/grants/tezos-foundation-keeps-2026/build.fish b/grants/tezos-foundation-keeps-2026/build.fish new file mode 100644 --- /dev/null +++ b/grants/tezos-foundation-keeps-2026/build.fish @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env fish +# build.fish — Tezos Foundation grant proposal PDF (xelatex, AC paper style). +# Two passes for hyperref + tabularx layout settling. +cd (dirname (status filename)) +set tex proposal.tex + +for pass in 1 2 + xelatex -interaction=nonstopmode -halt-on-error $tex >/dev/null +end + +rm -f *.aux *.log *.out +echo "done — proposal.pdf" diff --git a/grants/tezos-foundation-keeps-2026/form-step3-values.md b/grants/tezos-foundation-keeps-2026/form-step3-values.md new file mode 100644 --- /dev/null +++ b/grants/tezos-foundation-keeps-2026/form-step3-values.md @@ -0,0 +1,109 @@ +# Proposal step (form step 3) — proposed values + +Drafted 2026-05-22 from `DRAFT.md` + repo facts. Review before fill. + +--- + +## Category +**Smart Contract Templates** *(form id `d477a92d-9758-4bec-bf87-6997d451659c`)* +— maps cleanly to Milestone 4 (publishing the v12 FA2 contract as a reusable template). + +## Name of the proposal *(≤128)* +> KidLisp Keeps v12 — A Reusable FA2 Preservation Contract for Executable Generative Art on Tezos + +## Purpose sentence +> To harden an already-deployed Tezos FA2 contract — KidLisp Keeps — into v12 with rotatable signer keys, holder-governed metadata, and a replay-safe migration path, then release it as a reusable smart-contract template any Tezos creative project can fork to mint executable code with multi-decade longevity guarantees. + +## Executive summary +> KidLisp Keeps is a Tezos FA2 collection that mints *executable* generative art — runnable KidLisp programs, not static images — as permanent on-chain tokens. The production contract (KT1Q1irsjSZ7EfUN4qHzAB2t7xLBPsAWYwBB, v11) has been on Tezos mainnet since March 2026 and currently holds 88 tokens across 6+ owners. This grant funds v12: an upgrade that replaces the contract's single fixed permit signer with a rotatable signer registry, separates admin / permit / treasury roles, adds holder-governed contract metadata via an on-chain proposal lifecycle, and ships an opt-in, replay-safe v11 → v12 migration claim path. The contract, its repeatable audit script (`keeps-audit.mjs`), and a 25-year stability and operations plan are then released as a reusable Tezos smart-contract template — turning one collection's hardening work into shared ecosystem infrastructure. + +## Value proposition to Tezos ecosystem +> 1) A hardened, openly licensed FA2 preservation contract that any Tezos arts-and-culture project can fork — most reach for ad-hoc contracts or marketplace defaults; this provides a governance-aware, audit-ready baseline. +> 2) A repeatable on-chain audit protocol (`keeps-audit.mjs` + cadence) usable by any FA2 collection on mainnet. +> 3) A worked, public example of holder-governed contract metadata and a replay-safe inter-contract migration — patterns the wider ecosystem can study. +> 4) Onboarding for creative-coding artists into Tezos via a low-friction Beacon mint flow that takes the program itself (not just a render) on-chain. + +## Market demand +> Generative-art collectors on Tezos already buy executable work — fxhash and objkt host thousands of code-based projects. But existing offerings store the *output* of code or its runtime artifacts; the *source program* lives off-chain in a marketplace's database. As marketplaces come and go (the hic et nunc → its successors lineage is the canonical example), works lose runnability. Keeps demonstrates a different model: the program itself lives on-chain, as the token. Mainnet adoption is already underway with 88 tokens minted across 6+ owners since the v11 launch in March 2026. Demand will grow as more generative artists, collectors, and institutions look for preservation paths independent of any single marketplace's lifecycle — a question the Musée d'Orsay, Serpentine, and others have already raised publicly about Tezos-resident work. + +## 3 key KPIs +> 1. v12 contract deployed to Tezos mainnet, with the opt-in v11 → v12 migration claim path live end-to-end (binary completion). Verifiable on TzKT. +> 2. v12-template adoption demonstrated through LA hands-on sessions: 4 NELA Computer Club appointments (biweekly demos at Plot.Place, Chinatown LA) plus 1 public workshop, guiding 5+ generative artists through forking the v12 template and minting their first keeps. Documented as a public onboarding playbook. Stretch target: at least 3 independent Tezos creative-coding projects evaluating or forking the template within 12 months of M4 publication. +> 3. Repeatable audit cadence operational — weekly machine-generated audit reports (via `keeps-audit.mjs`) published for 26 consecutive weeks post-v12 deployment, demonstrating that the 25-year operations plan is real, not aspirational. + +## Current follower base on social media +> @whistlegraph (the artist's prior project, on TikTok) reached ~2.6 million followers during 2019–2023 and its archive still moves ~48,000 video views per day in 2026 (~17.7M views in the 2025-04 → 2026-04 window). Aesthetic Computer (aesthetic.computer) currently has 2,800+ registered users, 600+ published pieces, and tens of thousands of boot sessions. The KidLisp Keeps collection itself has 6+ on-chain owners across 88 tokens on Tezos mainnet. Handles: @promptDOTac (Twitter / X), @whistlegraph (Instagram and TikTok). + +## Alternatives +> On Tezos, generative-art minting is dominated by fxhash (parameterized JavaScript art stored as fxparams plus a renderer iframe), objkt (a marketplace; most contracts store IPFS pointers to static outputs), and various per-project ad-hoc FA2 contracts. On Ethereum, Art Blocks plays a similar role (parameterized Solidity-tracked code, but gas-expensive and renderer-mediated). For preservation of the *runnable source program* — not just its outputs or parameters — there is no widely adopted standard on any chain; most artists rely on personal backups, GitHub repos, or marketplace stewardship. + +## Better than alternatives +> Keeps stores the program itself, on-chain, as the token. Re-running requires only a KidLisp interpreter — open source, runs in any browser, with several language ports already in existence (WASM, Game Boy, Nintendo 64, Playdate) — and does not require the keep mint UI, a specific marketplace, or any particular renderer to keep working. v12 adds holder-governed contract metadata so the collection's identity is never under unilateral admin control, and ships with a published 25-year operations plan. The combination — runnable program on-chain + governance independence + documented multi-decade ops — is unusual on any chain and currently absent on Tezos. + +## Technical design +> v12 is an FA2 (TZIP-012) smart contract authored in SmartPy, with TZIP-016 (contract metadata) and TZIP-021 (token metadata) compliance, derived from the production v11 contract (`kidlisp_keeps_fa2_v11.py`). +> +> Key changes from v11: +> - Replace the single hardcoded permit signer key with a signer registry: `permit_signers : big_map` + an admin-governed `set_permit_signer(key, enabled)` entrypoint. +> - Explicit role separation: admin (policy), permit manager (signer rotation), treasury (fee withdrawal). Optional delayed role change via `propose_role_change` + `accept_role_change`. +> - Holder-governed contract metadata via an on-chain proposal lifecycle: `propose_contract_upgrade` → `vote_contract_upgrade` → `execute_contract_upgrade`. One vote per live `token_id`; quorum and approval gates configurable. +> - Opt-in v11 → v12 migration claim: `claim_from_v11(old_token_id, token_info, creator_pubkey)`, one-time per source token, with provenance tags (`upgraded_from_contract`, `upgraded_from_token_id`, `migration_kind`), verifying current ownership of the source token via the `get_balance_of` view. +> - Preserved from v11: owner-only `burn_keep`, immutable `content_hash` + royalties after metadata edits, owner metadata lock. +> +> Surrounding tooling: Beacon SDK wallet integration (Temple, Kukai, Ledger) in the mint UI; a repeatable audit script (`keeps-audit.mjs`) that reads TzKT and verifies admin, code hash, and type hash against an expected baseline; SmartPy invariant tests for signer rotation, role-separation permissions, and migration-replay rejection. + +## Why is Tezos relevant +> Tezos hosts the largest concentration of generative-art creators and collectors per chain — fxhash, objkt, the hic et nunc lineage, the Musée d'Orsay and Serpentine programs. Low gas costs make minting accessible at scale (a 2.5 XTZ keep fee is sustainable for individual artists; the same operation on Ethereum mainnet would be prohibitive). Proof-of-stake aligns with the energy concerns of the creative-coding community. Mature FA2 + TZIP standards give the contract a surface that objkt and other indexers already understand. Keeps lives where its audience and its peer projects already live; no other chain offers the same combination of cost, ecosystem maturity, and art-community fit. + +## Grant Duration +**3** (months) + +## Team Size +**1** + +## Proposal Team +> Sole developer and applicant: Jeffrey Alan Scudder. +> Applicant entity: Aesthetic Inc (US C-corporation, EIN 33-1483385). +> Aesthetic Inc is the company behind Aesthetic Computer (aesthetic.computer), the creative-coding platform inside which KidLisp and the Keeps collection are designed, built, and operated. + +## Proposal Team Experience +> Jeffrey Alan Scudder is an artist, educator, and technologist based in Los Angeles. He is the sole designer and developer of: +> - KidLisp Keeps (Tezos FA2 collection): v2 → v11 contract series in SmartPy, the mint pipeline, Beacon wallet integration, IPFS upload with redundancy, the repeatable audit script (`keeps-audit.mjs`), and the published security gap analysis + 25-year stability plan. +> - Aesthetic Computer (aesthetic.computer): a mobile-first creative-coding platform; KidLisp, a Lisp dialect for generative art with 118 built-in functions, with ports to WASM, Game Boy, Nintendo 64, and Playdate. +> - Open-source tools that have reached the front page of Hacker News (No Paint, notepat). +> +> Credentials: Yale MFA in Graphic Design (2013), Ringling BFA (2011). Author in Residence at UCLA Social Software with Casey Reas and Lauren Lee McCarthy. Work in the collections of KADIST (San Francisco) and SMK (the National Gallery of Denmark). v11 on Tezos mainnet since March 2026. + +## Project website +**https://aesthetic.computer** + +## Have you already started? +**Yes** *(form value `1`)* + +## Code Repository +**https://github.com/whistlegraph/aesthetic-computer** + +## Demo URL +**https://keeps.kidlisp.com** + +## Is your proposal below USD 50,000? +**Yes** *(form value `1`)* + +## If above 50K, describe why +*(blank — we're below 50K)* + +## Requested Grant Amount USD +**45000** + +## Other funding from third parties USD +**0** + +## Any other administrative detail +> Applicant entity: Aesthetic Inc (US C-corporation, EIN 33-1483385). The grant would be held by Aesthetic Inc and disbursed per milestone. A detailed milestone breakdown (M1–M5, totaling USD 45,000 over ~14 weeks) accompanies this proposal on the Roadmap step. +> +> Scope summary: M1–M3 are v12 contract engineering (spec, threat model, Ghostnet deployment, mainnet deployment, opt-in v11→v12 migration). M4 publishes the v12 contract as a reusable preservation template under an OSI license, accompanied by a 3–5 video tutorial series walking developers through forking, minting, and the 25-year audit cadence. M5 funds the LA adoption arm — 4 NELA Computer Club appointments at Plot.Place (Chinatown, LA) plus 1 public workshop — guiding 5+ LA-based generative artists through forking the v12 template and minting their first keeps, published as a public onboarding playbook. +> +> Self-audited scope: this proposal does not request funding for a third-party security review; v12 is hardened with an internal threat model document, SmartPy invariant tests, an adversarial test pass, and the existing `keeps-audit.mjs` cadence. If the Foundation's reviewers prefer a funded external audit, it can be added as a separable follow-on line item rather than holding up this scope. + +## Previous contact to Tezos ecosystem +> No prior formal contact with the Tezos Foundation or with named ecosystem advisors. The contact is the work itself: KidLisp Keeps is live on Tezos mainnet (contract KT1Q1irsjSZ7EfUN4qHzAB2t7xLBPsAWYwBB, v11) and on Ghostnet (KT1StXrQNvRd9dNPpHdCGEstcGiBV6neq79K, v3). The mint flow uses the Beacon SDK and is interoperable with Temple, Kukai, and Ledger wallets. Keep tokens appear and trade on objkt.com. The contract series (v2 → v9 → v11) has been operated on mainnet since March 2026. diff --git a/grants/tezos-foundation-keeps-2026/proposal.pdf b/grants/tezos-foundation-keeps-2026/proposal.pdf new file mode 100644 --- /dev/null +++ b/grants/tezos-foundation-keeps-2026/proposal.pdf diff --git a/grants/tezos-foundation-keeps-2026/proposal.tex b/grants/tezos-foundation-keeps-2026/proposal.tex new file mode 100644 --- /dev/null +++ b/grants/tezos-foundation-keeps-2026/proposal.tex @@ -0,0 +1,202 @@ +% !TEX program = xelatex +% Tezos Foundation — Ecosystem Grant Application +% KidLisp Keeps v12 — A reusable preservation contract + the artifacts that +% actually get it adopted. Applicant: Aesthetic Inc. 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The collection has been live on mainnet since March 2026; 88 keeps so far, more than six owners, and the artists who hold one can re-run the program any time, in any browser, for as long as the chain is alive. + +This proposal is about two things at once. The first is \textbf{v12 of the contract} --- the next version, which fixes some real structural issues in v11 and makes the contract robust enough that I can confidently invite other artists to put their work onto it. + +The second --- and the larger share of the budget --- is everything it actually takes to get those artists to fork it: a short tutorial video series, the artist-friendly \textbf{custom keeps wallet} I've been building inside Aesthetic Computer (so minting feels nothing like ``do crypto''), in-person workshops at the NELA Computer Club here in Los Angeles, and a real outreach push into the Tezos creative-coding community that already lives on fxhash and objkt. + +A smart-contract template only matters if people use it. Most on-chain ``templates'' sit unused because nothing was ever made to go around them. This grant funds both halves --- the contract, and the artifacts that get it into other artists' hands. + +\section*{Who's doing it} + +I'm \textbf{Jeffrey Alan Scudder} --- an artist, educator, and technologist working in Los Angeles. The Keeps contract is my work, end to end: I wrote it, deployed v2 through v11, built the mint experience, run the weekly audit, and host the biweekly demos at NELA Computer Club. + +Outside of Keeps I run \textbf{Aesthetic Computer} --- a creative-coding platform that lives at \texttt{aesthetic.computer}. It has 2{,}800+ registered users and 600+ published pieces. \textbf{KidLisp} itself is a small Lisp dialect for generative art with 118 built-in functions, ported to WASM, Game Boy, Nintendo 64, and Playdate. Two earlier open-source projects of mine, \emph{No Paint} and \emph{notepat}, each reached the front page of Hacker News. + +\textit{Credentials.} Yale MFA in Graphic Design (2013); Ringling BFA (2011); Author in Residence at UCLA Social Software with Casey Reas and Lauren Lee McCarthy; work in the collections of KADIST (San Francisco) and SMK (the National Gallery of Denmark). My prior project, \emph{@whistlegraph} on TikTok, reached about 2.6 million followers between 2019 and 2023; the archive still moves around 48{,}000 video views per day in 2026. + +\textit{Applicant entity.} Aesthetic Inc, a US C-corporation (EIN 33-1483385). The grant would be held by the company and disbursed per milestone. + +\section*{What v12 changes (briefly)} + +v11 works (88 keeps live, six-plus owners) but has a few structural issues that should be fixed before I invite other artists onto the contract. + +The most important one: v11's signer key is hardcoded. If that key ever needed to rotate, the only remedy would be redeploying. v12 replaces it with a small on-chain registry of allowed keys, so rotation is a transaction instead of a migration. The contract's admin role also gets split into three separate roles (policy, signer rotation, fee withdrawal), so no single key holds every lever, and token holders get an on-chain vote on changes to the contract's top-level metadata. None of the guarantees v11 holders already rely on (owner-only burn, immutable content hash, royalty preservation, owner metadata lock) change. + +v11 holders are never forced to move. v12 ships an opt-in path that lets each holder mint the v12 equivalent of their existing keep, exactly once per source token, with provenance written into the new metadata. v11 stays live forever. + +The v12 contract is already drafted in the repository. The technical part of this grant is finishing it, testing it on Ghostnet, deploying it to mainnet, and shipping the opt-in migration in the keep UI. + +\section*{Where the money mostly goes: adoption, media, events} + +This is the part most contract grants underfund. The grant pays for four kinds of adoption work, and roughly half the budget lives here. + +\textbf{Tutorial video series.} 3--5 short videos (5--10 minutes each) walking a generative artist through forking the v12 template, deploying their own version, minting their first piece, and running the weekly audit. Plain English; nobody has to read SmartPy to watch them. + +\textbf{The custom keeps wallet.} Aesthetic Computer already has an integrated mint flow that hides most of the chain complexity from artists --- you sign in, pick a piece, hit ``keep,'' and the wallet handles IPFS, contract calls, and post-mint indexing for you. This grant funds polishing that wallet so it works smoothly with \emph{any} v12 deployment, not just the canonical Keeps collection. An artist who forks the template inherits a finished, artist-friendly mint experience too --- not a half-built wallet they have to build themselves to make their template viable. + +\textbf{Los Angeles events.} Four NELA Computer Club appointments (the biweekly demos I already host at Plot Place in Chinatown) plus one larger public workshop. The point isn't to put on a show --- it's to get generative artists I already know in the same room as the template, sit down with them, and walk through forking and minting their first keeps together. The first independent forks of the template happen here, in person. + +\textbf{Outreach campaign + onboarding playbook.} A concentrated push to the existing Tezos creative-coding community: short-form content on the platforms these artists already use, direct conversations with fxhash and objkt creators about what would actually get them to try the template, and a public onboarding playbook that captures everything (especially what went wrong) from the LA sessions, so artists who can't be in the room can still follow the path. + +\section*{Roadmap} + +Five milestones across about 14 weeks. Each produces something verifiable; payment releases on milestone report. + +\begin{description}[itemsep=4pt, leftmargin=0pt, labelsep=6pt] +\item[\textbf{M1 --- v12 spec + threat model + tests} (\textasciitilde 3 weeks).] Lock down v12 requirements. Write the threat-model document --- the failure modes I most worry about are key compromise, botched signer rotation, and migration replay. Add invariant tests covering signer rotation, role separation, and replay rejection. + +\item[\textbf{M2 --- v12 on Ghostnet, with the keeps wallet} (\textasciitilde 4 weeks).] Finalize v12. Deploy to Ghostnet. Implement and exercise the v11~$\rightarrow$~v12 claim path end-to-end. Polish the custom keeps wallet so it works with any v12 deployment, not just the canonical one. Adversarial test pass. + +\item[\textbf{M3 --- v12 on mainnet, opt-in migration live} (\textasciitilde 3 weeks).] Deploy v12 to mainnet for new mints. Ship the opt-in migration in the keep UI --- both v11 and v12 collections shown side by side, explicitly labeled, no forced burn. v11 stays live. + +\item[\textbf{M4 --- Tutorial videos + onboarding kit + media materials} (\textasciitilde 2 weeks).] Produce the tutorial video series (3--5 videos, scripted, edited, captioned). Build an onboarding kit: documentation, example projects already deployed via the template, copy-paste deploy commands, a starter \texttt{README}. Design the media materials --- promo cards, social-media assets, the public-facing template homepage. Publish the v12 contract + audit script + 25-year stability plan as an openly licensed preservation template. + +\item[\textbf{M5 --- LA adoption events + outreach + playbook} (\textasciitilde 2 weeks).] Four NELA Computer Club appointments plus one public workshop. Concurrent outreach campaign to fxhash and objkt creators. Write and publish the onboarding playbook --- a real document of the sessions, the artists' first keeps, and the rough edges. M5 is how KPI~\#2 (independent forks of the template) actually gets hit. +\end{description} + +\section*{Budget} + +\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{@{}c X c r@{}} +\toprule +\textbf{M} & \textbf{Work} & \textbf{Weeks} & \textbf{Payment (USD)} \\ +\midrule +M1 & v12 spec + threat model + invariant tests & 3 & \$6{,}000 \\ +M2 & v12 on Ghostnet + migration prototype + custom keeps wallet polish & 4 & \$9{,}000 \\ +M3 & v12 on mainnet + opt-in v11 $\rightarrow$ v12 migration & 3 & \$6{,}000 \\ +M4 & Tutorial video series + onboarding kit + media materials & 2 & \$11{,}000 \\ +M5 & LA adoption events + outreach campaign + onboarding playbook & 2 & \$13{,}000 \\ +\midrule +\multicolumn{2}{l}{\textbf{Total}} & \textbf{14} & \textbf{\$45{,}000} \\ +\bottomrule +\end{tabularx} + +Roughly 47\% of the budget goes to the contract work (M1--M3); roughly 53\% goes to the adoption, media, and events work (M4--M5). The split is deliberate --- I have watched a lot of perfectly good on-chain tools die because nobody made the surrounding materials, and I'd rather underfund the contract slightly than do that to v12. + +\textit{Self-audited.} v12 is hardened with the existing repeatable audit script, the v12-specific threat-model document (M1), an adversarial test pass (M2), and SmartPy invariant tests. A funded third-party security review is not in this ask; if Foundation reviewers would prefer one, it can be added as a separable follow-on line item rather than holding up this scope. Total intentionally held below the USD~50{,}000 threshold to stay on the simpler review path. + +\textit{Other funding.} No third-party funding has been received toward this scope. + +\section*{Longevity beyond the grant} + +The Foundation explicitly asks for ``measures to assure the longevity of the solution beyond the grant duration.'' For Keeps, that section is already written --- a 25-year operations plan that names a daily on-chain drift check, a weekly audit report (auto-generated and published), a monthly key-custody review, and a quarterly pause/unpause recovery drill. The incident protocol is: pause $\rightarrow$ disable the mint endpoint $\rightarrow$ post a public status with a timestamp $\rightarrow$ investigate $\rightarrow$ resume only after the root cause is understood. Non-negotiables: no keys in logs, no forced migration, no emergency action without a written postmortem. + +The contract is designed to outlive this grant by decades. The grant just funds getting it onto v12's footing and into other artists' hands. + +\section*{Why Tezos} + +Tezos is where this audience already lives. fxhash, objkt, the hic et nunc lineage, the Musée d'Orsay and Serpentine programs --- the largest concentration of generative-art creators and collectors of any chain. Gas costs make minting accessible at the scale individual artists actually work at. Proof-of-stake aligns with the energy concerns of the creative-coding community. Mature FA2 and TZIP standards mean objkt and the other indexers already understand the contract surface. No other chain offers the same combination of cost, ecosystem maturity, and art-community fit for an executable-art preservation contract. + +\section*{Identifiers} + +\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{@{}l X@{}} +\addr{Mainnet (v11, production)} & \addr{KT1Q1irsjSZ7EfUN4qHzAB2t7xLBPsAWYwBB} \\ +\addr{Ghostnet (v3, staging)} & \addr{KT1StXrQNvRd9dNPpHdCGEstcGiBV6neq79K} \\ +\addr{Admin / treasury wallet} & \addr{tz1Lc2DzTjDPyWFj1iuAVGGZWNjK67Wun2dC} \\ +\addr{Repository} & \url{https://github.com/whistlegraph/aesthetic-computer} \\ +\addr{Demo} & \url{https://keeps.kidlisp.com} \\ +\addr{Site} & \url{https://aesthetic.computer} \\ +\addr{Contact} & \texttt{mail@aesthetic.computer} \\ +\end{tabularx} + +\end{document} diff --git a/system/public/papers.aesthetic.computer/deadlines/index.html b/system/public/papers.aesthetic.computer/deadlines/index.html --- a/system/public/papers.aesthetic.computer/deadlines/index.html +++ b/system/public/papers.aesthetic.computer/deadlines/index.html @@ -433,6 +433,21 @@ proposalLabel: 'Personal Computers Are Not Done Yet', notes: 'Submitted via Submittable for the April 22 deadline. Aesthetic.Computer: Personal Computers Are Not Done Yet — $50,000 requested for the Library build-out: a lending fleet of laptops flashed into the bare-metal creative OS, Flash Days and Family Play afternoons at LACMA, a WIP showing at the 2027 Symposium and a completed showing at the 2028 Demo Day. Biennial cycle restarts in 2026; awaiting decision.', }, { + section: 'submitted', + venue: 'Tezos Foundation', + venueUrl: 'https://tezos.foundation/grants/', + track: 'Ecosystem Grant — Smart Contract Templates', + deadline: '2026-06-30', + deadlineExtra: 'rolling Q2 cycle', + conference: 'Reviewed July 2026', + status: 'submitted', + statusLabel: 'Submitted', + proposalUrl: 'https://grants.tezos.foundation/proposals/detail/a2c89b4d-a1ed-42cc-b2df-0e3e59954a7f/', + proposalLabel: 'KidLisp Keeps v12 (management)', + draftPath: 'tezos-foundation-keeps-2026/DRAFT.md', + notes: 'Submitted 2026-05-22. KidLisp Keeps v12 — A reusable preservation contract for executable generative art on Tezos. $45,000 across 5 milestones (~14 weeks): v12 contract work (rotatable signer registry, role separation, holder-governed metadata, opt-in v11→v12 migration claim) released as a reusable Smart Contract Template, plus tutorial videos, polish on the custom keeps wallet, four NELA Computer Club appointments + one public workshop in LA, and an outreach campaign into the existing fxhash and objkt creative-coding community. Roughly 53% of the budget goes to media/events/adoption work. Awaiting Q2 cycle review.', + }, + { section: 'open', venue: 'SIGGRAPH Asia 2026', venueUrl: 'https://asia.siggraph.org/2026/submissions/technical-papers/',