Name of Project / DAO / Company
EthSign
Application type
DAO Governance Tool, dAPP
Proposal overview
EthSign is built upon Web3 infrastructure that has just become mature over the past few years: Decentralized Identity, smart contract platforms and decentralized storage networks. EthSign‘s mission is to become the underlying infrastructure and platform for multi-party collaboration such as DAO proposal execution (investment, portfolio lock-up management), credit lending, crowdfunding, etc.
We currently have two offerings:
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EthSign 3.0 (PDF Signing) is a completely serverless website (http://ethsign.xyz), statically hosted on IPFS + Arweave and runs entirely within the user’s browser. provides the same functionality and UX as a Web 2.0 electronic agreement signing platform, while leveraging the power of blockchains to enhance transparency and security.
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EthSign Smart Agreements (ESA) is our upcoming customizable and extendable framework that truly realizes the vision for “smart contracts”. ESA enables electronic agreements to have tighter binding properties by enforcing its execution using smart contracts in addition to or in place of existing legal enforcement. Powered by Chainlink Oracles and Keepers, one use case of ESA is smart escrow triggered by on-chain and/or off-chain conditions.
Roadmap
EthSign 3.0 Launch
Target Date: Q3 2021
Status: Completed
Email Push Notifications
Target Date: October 2021
Status: Completed
EthSign Plug-n-Play Integration SDK
Target Date: Q4 2021
Status: Prototyping
EthSign Lite
Target Date: Q4 2021
Status: Under development
EthSign Finality Bridge
Target Date: Q4 2021
Status: Under development
DAOs, crypto ventures and defi protocols are the first users of EthSign. Our protocol clients include NAOs Finance, Maple Finance, Impossible Finance, moleDAO and many others.
EthSign is currently live on Ethereum and 4 EVM chains, we are also live on Harmony testnet. We have 2500 active users and aiming to acquire 100k users by Q4 2022 as we roll out Smart Agreement feature with more DAOs and protocols. Grant will be used for expansion of development team and smart contract audit]
Team
[ Jack Xu - Ethereum full-stack developer with extensive experience with Solidity. Previously worked as a software engineer for firms such as General Motors and Fidelity Investments. Proficient in Solidity, Swift, JavaScript, C++, and Java. Teaching assistant for USC’s blockchain minor and various Computer Science major classes.
Potter Li - Former investment analyst at Fundamental Labs, a venture capital specialized in the blockchain sector. President of Blockchain@USC, University of Southern California’s premier student-run blockchain organization focusing on education, community initiatives, and career development.
Xin Yan - - Former senior investment manager and blockchain engineer at Fundamental Labs and Huobi Group. Focusing on on-chain data analysis and smart contract design. Xin has tremendous experience with the underlying infrastructure of the Web3 tech stack.
Claire Ma - Former research assistant at NYU’s dynamic system lab and FuDan University in Shanghai. Extensive experience working as UI/UX design at Ebay and Mccann World-group Shanghai. Specializes in graphic design and branding. Very experienced with Sketch, Figma, InVision, Unity3D etc.
Nicole Respecia - Frontend engineer lead, former software engineer at Marti.so. Nicole is very experienced with ReactJS, Node.js, Javascript, HTML and many others. She had been involved with many tremendous projects such as E-jeep tracker, a website application that connects commuters and the jeeps by showing commuters the real time location of the jeep. Also project Moses, an early earthquake warning system analyzing P-waves and S-waves and notifies residents.
Scott Mai Backend engineer, former software engineering intern at Facebook, former software engineer at General Task and at Northrop Grumman Corporation. Scott was also the TA for Software Engineering (Fall 2020) - Data Structures in C++ (Spring 2020) - Programming in Python (Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2021) at University of Southern California. Very experienced with Python 
C++ Java and so on.
Jiang Jiacheng - - Backend engineer, former backend engineer at imToken, former web developer at Hipcamp (providing camping sites reservation services). Jiang is very experienced at Python，Node.js，Ruby on Rails and Elixir Phoenix.
Jennifer Jing - - Design - former UX design intern at Microsoft, Led end-to-end designs of a new feature on Teams Mobile with a cross-functioning product team that enhances the group sharing experience. former UI/UX development intern at Inesa Smart City. Very experienced with Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Framer.
Mike Ma - - Community lead, E-Board at Blockchain@USC. Former risk management intern at Onion O’mall. With extensive experience in SQL, solidworks, matlab etc. Mike was also a mechanical engineer.
Ethan Lippman - Business Development. Venture fellow at Ripple ventures, venture scout at Draper Associates. Founder of MinerALL, an organic pesticide company. Ethan has tremendous experience with business strategy, sales, marketing, and venture capital.
Heather Zhou - Legal Researcher
Jordan Bettencourt - Frontend Engineer
Cathy Xu - Design]
Proposal ask
50,000 USDT
Justification
Weeks 1-3: Feature complete and deployed onto testnet
Weeks 3-5: Give beta access to Harmony community to test and give feedback
Weeks: 5-6: Deploy to mainnet and ramp up marketing efforts
First month after launch: Form DAO
Second month: Acquire 5k new users
Proposal ask
$50k
Metrics for success
$10K after launching a feature-complete product on our testnet (complete), $10K after forming a DAO with its community, $10K after mainnet launch with audit, $10K after 1K users(complete), and $10K for after 10K users.
External links
EthSign 3.0 demo link: EthSign 3.0 Special Features: Smart Agreement, PDF Annotation, Metalayer - YouTube
Deck Link: DocSend
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