CESS has completed all three phases of development for the Web3 Foundation Grant

CESS completed the development and successful delivery of the third milestone required by the Web3 Foundation Grant on January 25, 2022. With this, the development and delivery work for the Web3 Foundation Grant, which lasted for over three months, has been fully completed, and CESS has taken a significant step towards the gradual improvement of the network.

The Web3 Foundation Grant was initiated by Gavin Wood, the founder of Polkadot, as a funding program aimed at high-quality projects in the Web3 ecosystem, with the goal of promoting the development of the Web3 ecosystem. Since its launch in 2019, the program has funded over 300 projects, including well-known Polkadot parachain projects such as Phala, Bifrost, and Acala.

To obtain funding from this Grant, applicants must complete the agreed development tasks within a certain timeframe and submit them for review by the Web3 Foundation. Only after passing the review are they eligible to receive funding from the foundation. We can see that there are quite a number of projects on the application list (https://github.com/w3f/Grants-Program/blob/master/docs/acceptedgrantapplications.md),*** which have not completed their established goals.

• CESS applied for this Grant in September 2021 and completed the development progress required for the first "milestone" on October 15.

The development content required for this milestone included operational instructions related to the "file bank" containing file information, operational instructions related to storage miners, management of file storage paths, and relevant documentation.

• Subsequently, even after participating in the Polkadot Global Hackathon, the delivery of the second milestone was also completed on January 5.

The development content required for this milestone included the development of zero-knowledge proof algorithms, mining clients, and storage mining functions, as well as relevant documentation. At this stage, CESS implemented the use of Stacked DRG (SDR) for proof of replication, making it impossible to encode data segments in parallel.

• Finally, CESS successfully completed and delivered the development work for the last phase.

This included the development of encryption features; completion of a user-friendly blockchain explorer; a web application that includes functions for uploading, downloading, and sharing files, as well as relevant documentation.
Although there were some detailed issues encountered during this process, the team promptly made corrections and ultimately received recognition from the Web3 Foundation. As a decentralized cloud storage infrastructure that uses Substrate as its development framework, CESS inherently possesses good compatibility and interoperability with Polkadot ecosystem projects. It is believed that CESS, recognized by the Web3 Foundation, will become an important member of the Polkadot and the entire Web3 field in the future, providing infrastructure capable of supporting large-scale commercial applications for Web3.

After completing the development tasks for the Web3 Foundation Grant, CESS quickly applied for the SBP (Substrate Builder Program).