Accelerate Cosmos Adoption with SOGE

As Web3 adoption continues to expand, onboarding Web2 developers and users remains a critical challenge across all major chains. Cosmos, with its unparalleled scalability, security, and developer-friendly technology, is poised to lead-but it needs a frictionless path for Web2 participants to transition into the Web3 world. Our solution is SOGE-a Web 2.5 bridge that equips developers and end-users with seamless access to multiple blockchains through a single, unified API. With your support, we aim to bring 1,000 new Web2 developers into the Cosmos ecosystem over the next year and generate $1 million in USDC deposits into Cosmos via Nobel, enabled by SOGE-powered applications. What is SOGE? • Web 2.5 Bridge: By removing the complexities of wallet management and specialized crypto libraries, SOGE dramatically lowers the barrier to entry for both developers and end-users. • Open Source (Backend): Core functionalities and chain code will be fully open-sourced; the front-end will remain proprietary. • One API, Many Chains: SOGE already supports Injective and will include additional integrations with Cosmos chains (ATOM, OSMO, STARGAZE) and beyond (SOL, ETH, BTC). SOGE is…

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do you have some technical docs on what the product is exactly?

from “unified api” and without details it sounds something like a proxy service, ie cosmos.directory.
from “removing the complexities of wallet management” and without details it sounds like email based keplr wallet registration.
how is ics involved? why ics? is it something similar to Lava blockchain?

would be nice to see the list of products the team has built in cosmos.
if the team is fully doxxed - could you provide details? number of team members, their linkedins, etc.

We have an API doc (Cosmos Forums isn’t letting me add any links) and will keep adding more details as new features go live.

We’re planning to leverage the ICS validator set to decentralize our API, letting validators handle transactions on the SOGE network.

LinkedIn (Co-Founders)
• Daniel (username: “danielgabriele”)
• Rizbe (username: “haquemo”)

SOGE is built from the ground up for Web2 developers—offering wallet management, premade smart contracts, a scalable transaction processing system, and more—making it different from platforms like Lava.

We’re also working on project templates for Web2 devs so they can easily launch new projects in NextJS (with more frameworks to follow).

Even though we’ve received offers for investment, we prefer to keep SOGE open-source and community-driven—free from the VC “death grip.”

Since Cosmos forums wont let me add any links, you can go to: soge dot io for our API docs

Products we have built in Cosmos:

• (SATH) Staking as the house protocol -
• Gelotto lottery backed by NOIS
• Mortal Koinbat
• NFT Raffles
• Sports Square - Sports betting game
• Gelotto Threads - Reddit fully on-chain
• NFT Reward Sender - Send reward to specific NFT collections on STARS
• PampIT live on: INJ, STARS, OSMO, ARCH, Archway, Neutron
• CW Uploader- Tool to manage uploading and editing CW
• SOGE

Our Developer wallets are also whitelisted on: INJ, OSMO, and STARS

We have also open sourced over 40 smart contracts & tools

Since Cosmos Forum wont let me post links you can search our github for Gelotto and checkout our Gelotto site

We also have 3 new products that are built but haven’t been released yet:

• Dynamic NFTs on Stargaze
• BlockMap on INJ - World builder game
• Gelotto Vaults on OSMO - lock up assets like BTC to be used in our AI traders

For asking for $1M this is an incomplete proposal:

• Lack of Detailed Technical Roadmap: This proposal is missing a clear, step-by-step technical roadmap. How do you expect anyone to believe in your project without a detailed plan? There are some points in there, but they lack explanation & depth.
• Unclear Monetization Strategy: There’s no explanation of how SOGE will generate revenue or sustain itself.
• User Adoption Strategy: You claim you’ll onboard 1,000 Web2 developers, but where’s the strategy? How will you attract and retain these developers? What does the end to end pipeline look like? Ads & workshops is not detailed enough.
• Cost Justification: there isn’t a detailed breakdown of the cost per head count, and what the precise team size is, nor projection of what different key product milestones will entail in terms of time to develop

I’d recommend approaching the ICF if you want a shot at accelerating an initiative in a big way, as the days of coming to the community pool for large spends appears to be coming to a close.

I don’t get it - confused about “web 2.5 bridge” and “One API, Many Chains”, and that SOGE is a chain.

Are you saying:

• You’re building a web2-friendly wallet/APIs? So web2 devs can easily create wallets for their users (which is what seems to be in your API)
• Those wallets are on the SOGE chain, which is then connected to others via IBC
• And you create more web2-dev-friendly APIs for IBC transfers?

If so, it makes no sense to me to add the SOGE chain in there. You’d have to convert fiat<>SOGE and then move it to ATOM, etc…when you can just build with ATOM directly (its already got fiat/CEX support all around). - I mean, commercially for SOGE, it makes sense. But not for ATOM to fund this.

Also, on the “web2.5” side https://www.usecapsule.com/ have an excellent web2-auth based wallet creation, with integrations with almost everyone already.

And then there’s Blockdaemon too - MPC wallets, RPCs, and everything else

Also, FYI - “Noble”, not “Nobel”

It’s not just wallet management, SOGE also process TX, and lets web2 devs deploy premade contracts without having to learn how to build, deploy, and manage their own contracts. Overall SOGE aims to offer a lot more than things like Capsule or Blockdaemon

Cosmos Forum won’t let me update the post to correct Noble since it’s complaining there are URL’s in my prop so I can’t add any new changes.

Also not sure if you had a chance to checkout our example of a Web2 app using SOGE clicking on easy dot gelotto dot io

The need for a SOGE chain will be to decentralize the API and make it more scalable

With SOGE you can not only create and manage wallets:

• Create tokens
• Create airdrops
• Vesting contract
• Create bonding curves
• Database contract to store state of other contracts to keep an app fully on-chain and etc

These are just some examples of whats to come, SOGE aims to let you build full Web3 apps without having to manage or even learn CW

We posted this recently on X, worth posting it here as well to speak to our goal:

The goal of $SOGE is to eliminate the need to learn CosmWasm. Think about what Shopify did for Web2: even a grandma can build a fully functioning website without coding. That’s exactly what we’ll do with $SOGE but for Web3 with Cosmos Hub being the center of it all.

This proposal makes me want to burn the community pool. Respectfully.

If it’s not going to be used to further develop the ecosystem, lets burn the CP

Hey

For being part of the two recent PSS chains (Elys and Dungeon chain), being active on their discord and participating to their testnet… I can tell you it takes many many months, even years to launch a chain, even with PSS. Reading your post I feel like the work on this potential new chain didn’t really started yet, as you’re waiting for a grant to work on it. I feel very uncomfortable giving away another millions of dollars for something that may take 2 years to come with no guarantee it ever does, or that it will succeed once done.

Like other stated above we are moving away from this type of governance where teams just put a prop on the forum and receive millions of dollars on the back of holders who just see their investment going down. This is not a viable business model.

The main focus of this prop is to further develop SOGE which will almost eliminate the need for most developers to learn cosmwasm and enable them to build Web3 products faster and easier. Creating a chain is a by product of developing SOGE.

lols!

I missed Cosmos gov

It’s funny how people will throw millions of dollars at copy and paste NFT staking contracts and shiny new DEX’s but when it comes to a legitimate plan to scale up activity on cosmos through normal consumer web and mobile apps that don’t pander to the greed component of the defi world’s psychology, people just say that someone else has done something similar already and so no need or that they don’t want to throw money in another blackhole. Do you know what the blackholes have been? 90% of what’s been funded by communities and core teams to date. Mostly hype. Mostly things that are born, burn out, take their cash, and leave the ecosystem in worse condition than they found it. Meanwhile, we’ve been here cranking out dapps, innumerable smart contracts, novel purely on-chain architectures, consistently sharing compelling product and services ideas, not asking for anything in return as we burn through our own personal savings to write free software for blockchains that are destined to die almost as soon as they come online. Asking for $100,000-$1mm is, in reality, a very modest ask for any serious group who would like to run a serious and sustainable business, considering all of…

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dgabri3le:

Asking for $100,000-$1mm

Then ask for 100k instead of 1M maybe… a more reasonable ask may be better taken by the community. Personally I wouldn’t feel confortable giving away 1M dollars just for a 20 lines prop.

Where is the detailed breakdown of cost ? A detailed roadmap of what will be done with the money so we can evaluate?

I have never heard about the team, but maybe it’s just me?

Do you really need 1M dollars upfront ? Why not setting milestown approach with different objectives?

And finally, I don’t think the negative comment are against you personally, just like you said, ATOM cp got raided so many times, and Cosmos folks are all feeling drained and start to be pessimistic about this kind of ask. Plus, we are trying to move away from direct funding from the cp for now.

Golden-Ratio-Staking:

This proposal makes me want to burn the community pool. Respectfully.

100% agree. another attempt to drain $1,000,000 from the community pool.

@NotRizbe no offense, your soge website looks like was made by a junior dev.

NotRizbe:

we aim to bring 1,000 new Web2 developers into the Cosmos ecosystem over the next year

that’s $1,000 per developer. this CAC is higher than in hyper-premium industries such as real estate where each new lead brings 10x-20x of that in profits. imo this can be done for half of the price with proper influencer marketing if we wanted to have 1000 new devs onboard, and without the nonsense “web 2.5” bridge narrative.

Are you referring to our landing page? Have you explored the API?

If the Cosmos community doesn’t think it should fund a platform that enables Web2 developers to easily integrate Cosmos into their existing apps/new ones, that’s totally fine. We’ll pursue other avenues to fund SOGE.

This post makes absolutely no mention as to how these wallets are secured.

You want people to use some api that can generate keys, where you own the private keys? Why would anybody in their right mind use this when there are dozens of better products that properly outline their security measures?

Unfortunately, we cannot support this proposal as it lacks essential details needed for proper evaluation. There is no clear breakdown of fund usage, no KPIs, and no reliable information to conduct a thorough due diligence process. While the proposer may believe such details are unnecessary due to the relatively low funding request, this highlights exactly why a strong grant team is needed to handle proposals with professionalism.

That said, we do not question the idea itself, which appears promising. However, there are notable overlaps with other teams working on similar tools. Instead of developing an entirely new framework, there may be opportunities for collaboration that should be explored.

As you may know, AADAO, the previous grant allocation team, has sunsetted, and there are no plans to revive it. Meanwhile, the Interchain Foundation has taken on an expanded role within the ecosystem. We encourage you to reach out to them instead.

Thank you for your proposal.
We hope you find support within the foundation, as we currently believe the community pool is not the appropriate funding source for this initiative.

Best regards,
Govmos