Switch Electric: Maxwell
Developing trustless energy metering tech for small-scale renewables to issue blockchain-based Renewable Energy Certificates, seeking $56,000 for tech scaling and standards development.User Review
AI Review
A1
Reviewed on 13 Feb 2024 02:44 PM
The Grant must be in support of, or directly advancing the ZK tools, libraries, community, or protocols.
Switch Electric: Maxwell's project aims to develop zk-proving standards and libraries for REC issuance, directly advancing ZK tools and libraries.
The Grant should be focused on accomplishing the following for ZK: Usability - improving the user experience of zero-knowledge tools/libraries, not zero-knowledge rollups. This could also be technical education and documentation. Tooling - improving the developer experience or making it easier to develop applications utilizing zero-knowledge proofs or technology. Applications - technical implementations of zero-knowledge proofs and circuits, not simply applications built on top of zero-knowledge roll ups.
The project addresses usability by tackling the user experience for on-chain RECs and also improving developer experience through new zk-proving standards and metering hardware, which aligns with the usability and tooling aspects of the grant focus.
The project must have been active in the last 3 months - social media and GitHub.
The user associated with the project (iChristwin) shows 30 commits in the past 3 months, indicating recent activity; however, the other repositories have little to no activity, but this may be offset by the user activity and what appears to be active project development.
The project should have demonstrated either concrete progress, or evidence of a substantive technical roadmap that clarifies how ZK technology will be used and advanced.
The project has demonstrated concrete progress through the development of their energy meter Maxwell and also has a clear technical roadmap including the development of zk-proving standards and REC issuance applications.
The Grant deliverables should be open source.
While the project implies a focus on open technologies and is listed on GitHub, it is not explicitly stated that all deliverables will be open source.
Satisfy the Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements outlined above.
Based on the information provided, it's unclear if the Program General Eligibility Policy has additional requirements not covered in this assessment.