Pre-Proposal: Network Engineering SPE

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Network Engineering SPE — Update #3 (July 2026)

Period: 27 June 2026 – 27 July 2026
Status: On track
Summary: RFP #1 closed out complete with a public retrospective, five retroactive grants were decided across five different builders, and Direct Grant #1 had Milestones 1 & 2 signed off.

Completed Deliverables

  • RFP #1 — Delegator UX Analysis (RaidGuild) — completed and closed

    Milestone 3 (design brief, instrumentation plan, draft prioritized backlog) and Milestone 4 (final backlog, final analysis report) both delivered, closing all four milestones with nothing deferred. 27 gaps scored by severity and split into Quick Wins and Follow-on RFPs, now a prioritized backlog milestone in the Explorer repo. Delivered beyond commitments: The Graph teardown, agentic delegation research, and one user interview.

  • Retroactive Grants — five decisions, five different builders

    Every decision ran the published process end to end: application, AI rubric pre-screen, Review Team decision.

    • Livepeer Workflow Kit (Shane) — approved. The Review Team independently verified funded execution through the hosted service — catalog and route discovery, paid Florence-2 inference, Nemo transcription — confirming live orchestrator-backed usage rather than local framework code. AI pre-screen · Review Team decision
    • Livepeer Discord Protocol Data Bot & Public Protocol Data API (Mike Zupper / Cloud SPE) — approved. The Review Team verified the live API returns canonical finalized records from Arbitrum block 6,072,093 through current blocks, with block-anchored ETH and LPT valuation. AI pre-screen · Review Team decision
    • Explorer Bounty Umbrella: Bug Fixes and UX Improvements (ECWireless) — approved. Three merged PRs against pre-existing maintainer-filed tickets. Decision · #710 · #712 · #713
    • Extend voting transparency to the governance page (ibs) — approved. Surfaces voter, staked LPT, vote choice and per-voter history on finalized polls. Decision · #683
    • Explorer Bounty Umbrella: Delegators View & History Event Filter (lpt.moudi.eth) — approved, releases on merge. Delegators tab on orchestrator pages and a 12-category filter on account history, both closing maintainer-filed issues. Decision · #719 · #720
    • Conflict of interest handled in the open: Rick Staa stepped down from the review board for the Protocol Data Bot grant only, as a prior user of the tool. Recusal

  • Retroactive Grants — sixth application received and pre-screened

    Realtime Flux Klein over Trickle (Moein / zargarzadehm). Closes a maintainer-filed example request, throughput tuned from ~11.65 to ~24 fps, independently stood up and run by a named orchestrator and a second community tester. Review Team decision pending.

  • Direct Grant #1 — Livepeer Payment Clearinghouse (John Mull / Elite Code Solutions) — Milestones 1 & 2 signed off

    Nine PRs merged in livepeer/clearinghouse this period. Shipped and demoed publicly: RFC 8628 device-code login via Auth0, default credit subscriptions on OpenMeter, MoonPay (ETH and LPT) through the Turnkey-managed remote signer, Stripe checkout, and bearer-token API keys with passkey login. The grantee reported the project running roughly 1.5 weeks behind schedule, with the stack usable by builders today.

Watercooler Presentations

  • 30 June — Elliot (RaidGuild): Delegator UX RFP walkthrough — teardown, 27 gaps, persistent delegation widget proposal.
  • 30 June — John (Elite Code Solutions): Clearinghouse — Docker runtime stack merged, live Auth0 device-login demo, price oracle, OpenAPI spec.
  • 7 July — Elliot (RaidGuild): final Delegator UX output, backlog milestone opened in the Explorer repo, Vercel instrumentation plan.
  • 14 July — John (Elite Code Solutions): Payment House — subscription credits, MoonPay and Stripe, API keys, and an honest read on schedule.

ETA for Next Update: end of August 2026