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This way, we can provide an experimentation ground for iterating on new token toolings while populating an open-source library for anyone to test novel implementations. ", "hidden": false, "question": "What specific problem(s) do you seek to solve with this grant, and how will you know whether you have accomplished your goal(s)?", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "One of Inverter's core objectives is to create a design space for innovative token mechanisms and make them accessible. We offer an open library of open-source modules that enable users to build mechanism primitives. Our architecture then allows combining these primitives in various ways to serve different purposes and use cases. Two key aspects of our approach are crucial. Firstly, the Inverter\u2019s protocol architecture makes these mechanisms accessible, affordable, and of high quality for all projects seeking to utilize tokens, eliminating the need for expensive resources in smart contract engineering. Secondly, Inverter modules makes every innovation and tool reusable and accessible to others. Thus, the token primitives in our library play a vital role in advancing the field of token engineering, enabling a streamlined process of turning ideas into smart contract mechanisms that integrate seamlessly into existing token economies.\n", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe how your project contributes to token engineering and why it is a valuable public good.", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Minimum viable product (MVP)", "hidden": false, "question": "What stage do you consider your project is currently in?", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We have entered the code-freeze phase of Inverter with +15 modules and now preparing to go live on mainnet in June. 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The Inverter research group, involving participants from diverse backgrounds across the ecosystem from token engineers to mechanism designers to traditional market brokers,  was first focused on tackling the limitations of monolithic smart contracts by turning protocols into building blocks like LEGO pieces to form customizable protocol stacks, and second, mitigating the loss of value capture from sovereign token economies that provide utility to those protocol stacks.\n \nAfter comprehensive research spanning nearly a year and a half, the Inverter protocol v.1 was designed as a modular infrastructure to facilitate blockchain use cases involving programmable money flows: ensuring the extendability and upgradability of protocol capabilities, as well as dynamic operability of embedded business logic and token economies via customizable admin panels to offer a comprehensive back-office solution. \n\nOne of Inverter's core objectives is to create a design space for innovative token mechanisms. We offer an open library of modules that enable users to build mechanism primitives. Our architecture then allows combining these primitives in various ways to serve different purposes and use cases. Two key aspects of our approach are crucial. Firstly, the Inverter\u2019s protocol architecture makes these mechanisms accessible, affordable, and of high quality for all projects seeking to utilize tokens, eliminating the need for expensive resources in smart contract engineering. Secondly, Inverter modules makes every innovation and tool reusable and accessible to others. Thus, the token primitives in our library play a vital role in advancing the field of token engineering, enabling a streamlined process of turning ideas into smart contract mechanisms that integrate seamlessly into existing token economies.\n\nMoreover, this approach offers a pathway for advanced research and development in token engineering. Collaborations with research leads, such as the BCRG RnD, have led to the development of modules like the Bonding Curve Module. We believe that by building sustainable support structures for researchers and creating a framework for catalyzing ideas into adoptable technologies, we initiate an invaluable learning loop for token engineers.\n\nOur goal is to become a key infrastructure provider for improved token models, offering possibilities that open up entirely new types of use cases for projects that previously lacked access to such tools. Now, these projects can experiment freely and innovate without constraints.\n\nInverter Network understands the value of supporting meaningful public projects with sustainable token systems, shown by early users of the Inverter Protocol.\n\nIn 2024, our roadmap includes: \n1. Launch Inverter on Mainnet, along with the Inverter SDK & Control Room. 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