Project Progress Tracking Platform for Nervos

CKB Community Fund DAO
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Track spending, project impact, and deliverables — all in one place, with full transparency and real-time insights.

TL;DR
This proposal outlines the development of a comprehensive Project Progress Tracking Dashboard for Nervos-funded initiatives. The platform will empower the community with a transparent, user-friendly tool to monitor the progress of all funded projects—whether grants, core development teams, partnerships, or ecosystem pilots. Featuring milestone tracking, real-time updates, risk detection, and customizable alerts, the platform aims to unify oversight across all active and past projects. The total estimated cost is $7,000.

Motivation
Currently, tracking Nervos’s funded initiatives is fragmented, with updates scattered across forums, Discord, GitHub, and other communication channels. This makes it challenging for the community to consistently oversee projects, evaluate their performance, and address potential issues before they escalate.

Rationale
To address this, we propose building a Project Progress Tracker with the following features tailored to Nervos’s governance model and operational needs:

  • Milestone Tracking: Dedicated pages for each project showing key milestones, progress bars, percentages, and real-time completion status.
  • Real-time Updates: Ongoing tracking of project activities, providing transparent reporting.
  • Automated Alerts: Notifications for delays, scope changes, or budget deviations via app and email.
  • Visualizations: Interactive charts, timelines, and risk maps.
  • Risk Detection: Lightweight ML-powered analytics to detect early signs of delay, underperformance, or budget misalignment.
  • Independent Oversight Layer: An automated, third-party logic layer continuously reviews project health, budget alignment, and milestone integrity. This layer surfaces anomalies or stagnation even without manual reporting, acting as a trustless watchdog for the community.

Project Overview Features

  • Project List View: Displays active/inactive status, completion percentage, risk scores, and last update timestamps.
  • Filterable Dashboards: Allow filtering by project type, funding mechanism, risk level, or steward.

Risk Assessments:

  • Dynamic project health scoring.
  • Smart flags and visual indicators for projects requiring attention.
  • Alerts triggered by inactivity, missed milestones, or deviations from planned deliverables.

Project Detail Pages

  • Milestones & deliverables
  • Funding history & current status
  • Linked community discussions (Nervos Forum, GitHub, Discord, etc.)

Organization and Admin Tools

  • Admin controls for Nervos stewards, project managers, or foundation representatives
  • Tools for configuring alerts, moderating dashboards, and initiating corrective actions
  • Permissions-based views for public users, contributors, and admins

Project Scope & Cost Breakdown
The platform is scoped at a one-time cost of $7,000, covering:

  • Front-end dashboard
  • Risk detection and tracking engine
  • Role-based admin tools
  • Public-facing interface
  • Community reporting and export tools
  • Independent automated oversight logic

Benefits to the Nervos Community

  • Transparency: Centralized visibility into what’s being built, funded, and delivered.
  • Accountability: Ensures funded contributors and teams meet milestones and obligations.
  • Community Engagement: Enables the Nervos community to observe, question, and contribute meaningfully.
  • Early Risk Management: Facilitates early intervention on delayed or underperforming projects.
  • Independent Oversight: Adds a neutral, automated layer of project and spending accountability.

By offering a single, transparent hub for monitoring all Nervos-funded projects, this platform will strengthen operational clarity, contributor accountability, and community trust. It can be integrated directly into the Nervos governance forum or ecosystem tools for easy access.

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Hi @BuildUnion , thanks for your proposal.

I agree with the issue you raised: “Currently, tracking Nervos’s funded initiatives is fragmented, with updates scattered across forums, Discord, GitHub, and other communication channels.” I also fully support the idea that our community needs an “all in one place” project tracking tool.

Here are my personal suggestions for your consideration:

  1. Leveraging existing tools (e.g., Notion) for progress tracking is likely more efficient at this stage. This approach is far more practical than investing significant time, effort, and funds to build a complex progress-tracking dashboard from scratch.

  2. Allocating the majority of resources (perhaps 90%+) to maintaining and updating project progress information is critical. Based on my long-term observation, what the Nervos community lacks most right now is someone who can maintain direct communication with all ecosystem projects (e.g., DID, Stable++, World3.ai, Dobby, UTXOSwap, etc.), obtain timely updates on their progress, near-term plans, and milestones, and then effectively organize and share that information with the community. This is very time-consuming because there are a lot of projects (including some with lower activity—altogether several dozen). This role might need to hold one-on-one, in-depth conversations with each project’s BD or spokesperson every week or two. Therefore, I believe it’s more reasonable to allocate more time, energy, and funding to this work rather than building a new tool from scratch.

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Hi @BuildUnion，感谢你的提案。

我非常认同你指出的问题：“Nervos 资助的项目的进展信息目前比较分散，更新散落在论坛、Discord、GitHub 和其他各种社交媒体渠道中。” 我也完全赞同我们社区需要一个 “一站式” 的项目追踪工具。

这里我有一些个人建议供你参考：

  1. 我认为在现阶段，直接采用成熟的现有工具（如 Notion）来展示和追踪项目进展，可能是更高效的选择。这比投入大量时间、精力和资金从零开始构建一个功能复杂的进度追踪仪表板更为实际。

  2. 同时，我建议将主要的资源（或许 90% 以上）投入到项目信息的维护和更新上。根据我的长期观察，Nervos 社区当前最缺乏的，其实是一个能够与所有生态项目（如 DID、Stable++、World3.ai、Dobby、UTXOSwap 等）保持直接沟通，能够从这些项目中及时获取项目进展、近期计划和里程碑（milestones）等信息，并将这些信息有效地整理、汇总并传递给社区的这么一个角色。这项工作非常耗时，因为 Nervos 生态项目众多（算上一些活跃度不高的项目，总数可达几十个），而这个角色可能需要每周或每两周就与各个项目的 BD 或者对外发言人进行一对一的深度交流。因此，我认为将更多的时间、精力、金钱放在这项工作上是更合理的选择。

Love & Peace

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Hi @JackyLHH, thanks for your feedback on my proposal. I’m open to adapting this proposal to start with a strong human-led approach. Long-term, I still see value in evolving this into a Nervos-specific dashboard that automates workflow, adds analytics, and provides richer public visualizations.

I’m thinking of pivoting this proposal so I take on the community liaison role you described, doing regular check-ins with all ecosystem projects and maintaining a transparent, updated tracking system for the community. Or is that role already taken? Does this align with what you think would be most valuable right now?

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Hi @BuildUnion , above are my personal suggestions as a community member (btw, I am no longer a member of DAO Funds Management Committee). You can gather feedbacks from others and from other channels before making any modifications, as there are many days left for discussion.

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Thanks for clarifying, @JackyLHH, and I appreciate you sharing your thoughts as a community member. I’ll keep engaging here and in other channels to get broader perspectives before making changes.

I think there’s a strong case for why a purpose-built solution enables better information flow rather than just displaying it.

On leveraging existing tools: While Notion is great for documentation, it lacks the specific workflow automation that makes data collection sustainable. The platform would include:

  • Direct integrations with GitHub, Discord, and forums (auto-pulling activity signals)
  • Structured templates that make it easier for projects to report
  • Automated reminders and lightweight check-ins vs. manual outreach
  • An independent oversight layer that can detect project health even when manual reporting lags

Applying your feedback, we could start with a lightweight, human-led approach and then increase automation to gradually reduce manual overhead.

Thanks again for the detailed input and your help in making this initiative stronger.

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the tool does sound cool and useful but i echo Jacky’s sentiment in that the real challenge is the human overhead in maintaining the information

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Thanks for the thoughtful note, @matt_ckb. We’ll incorporate that into the initiative, paralleling lightweight automation to assist human effort.

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@JackyLHH @matt_ckb Who would be the best person to reach out about a liaison role for grants?

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can you share some more detail about what you’re asking?

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If you’re looking for a small grant (around $1k) for demo iteration, please check the Spark program. Otherwise, the community fund DAO will be suitable for a comprehensive proposal.

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@matt_ckb by “liaison role,” I mean someone actively engaging with funded projects, doing regular check-ins, keeping milestone/progress updates current, and maintaining a transparent record for the community.

Thanks @zz_tovarishch, that is exactly what I needed. I’ll apply for Spark (~$1k) to build a lightweight demo dashboard showing basic project tracking and milestone visualization. This will validate the technical approach and user interface. If the demo proves valuable, I can then propose to the Community Fund DAO for either scaling the technical platform or focusing on the liaison role based on community preference. What do you think?

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Actually, this is one purpose of Spark and I really encourage you to submit your proposal to the Spark committee via DC

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Perfect. I will do that.

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