Revised- Project Progress Tracking Platform for Centrifuge

cp: [XXX]
title: Project Progress Tracking Platform for Centrifuge (Pilot)
authors: [BuildUnion]
contributors:
beneficiary: BuildUnion
wallet: [insert wallet address]
uses-component: [cp2]
technical-proposal: yes
requires-onchain: no
impacts/modifies: Transparency & Governance Oversight
status: rfc
date-proposed: 2025-09-12
date-ended: [2025-10-20]


Short Summary

A pilot version of a unified dashboard to track Centrifuge-funded projects with milestones, updates, alerts, and risks —boosting transparency and accountability for the DAO.


High-level objective

To deliver a lean, working MVP of a Project Progress Tracking Platform tailored to Centrifuge workflows, with milestone tracking, project list views, and early alerting.


Background of Proposal

Currently, Centrifuge project tracking is fragmented across forums, Discord, and GitHub. This creates challenges in project oversight and transparency. By starting with a lightweight MVP, CentrifugeDAO can validate the usefulness of a central progress tracker before scaling it further.


Description of Activity

We will develop and deploy a minimum viable product (MVP) of the Project Progress Tracker, focused on:

  • Project List View: Funding source, completion status, last updated date.
  • Milestone Tracking: Progress bars and completion markers.
  • Basic Alerts: Notifications for overdue milestones.
  • Project Detail Pages: Key deliverables and discussion links.

This scope ensures a usable version that can later expand to include advanced visualizations, risk detection, and integrations.


Goals and Themes

  • Goals:

    • Validate the concept of a centralized project tracker.
    • Provide immediate transparency and accountability.
    • Build a foundation for scalable governance tooling.
  • Themes:

    • Transparency
    • Governance efficiency
    • Community engagement

Risk Assessment

  • Risks: Low adoption if project count remains small; technical delays.
  • Mitigation: Build lean and modular; ensure community testing before final deployment.

Sustainability

  • Platform will be open-source.
  • Hosting costs are minimal (<$20/month).
  • Expansion can be proposed later if the community validates the MVP.

Collaborations and Partnerships

  • Collaboration with Centrifuge governance contributors for feedback and integration guidance.

Change or Improvement

Shifts project oversight from scattered communication channels to a single accessible dashboard, enabling the DAO to track accountability more efficiently.


Alignment to the mission of Centrifuge DAO

This pilot strengthens DAO transparency and governance accountability, ensuring that project funding translates into measurable outcomes and community trust.


Description of Individual/Group seeking funding

BuildUnion

BuildUnion is a collective of developers, designers, and strategists focused on Web3 tooling, DAO infrastructure, and decentralized governance. We operate as an integrated unit to deliver high-impact, production-grade applications.

  • Emmanuel – Project LeadLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanueleclipsewebsite/
    Personally, I bring extensive multi-chain experience as a Web3 Architect and long-time contributor to decentralized governance. I was an early contributor to Dash, helping shape some of the first DAO governance mechanisms, and have since contributed to Polkadot’s governance infrastructure, Solana’s developer tooling, Arweave’s storage protocols, and Gnars DAO community initiatives.
    My expertise includes front-end and back-end development, data integration, and the design of transparent tracking systems. A recent relevant example is my work on Tracker for the Polkadot ecosystem, a tool to monitor project and governance activity. This cross-chain perspective enables me to design interoperable, user-focused solutions directly applicable to the Centrifuge ecosystem.

  • Golden K. (Machine Learning Developer)
    Builds Python-based ML pipelines for anomaly detection and risk scoring
    GitHub: github.com/golden-k22

  • Eliud Munyala (Senior Data Engineer & ML Specialist)
    Focused on data ingestion, transformation, and analytics pipelines
    GitHub: github.com/meaLuda
    LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/eliud-munyala

  • WayToTheVenus (Full-Stack dApp Developer)
    Specializes in smart contracts, React/Next.js, and backend services
    Github: waytothevenus (waytothevenus) · GitHub

Sample


Budget

Total Requested: $2,000

Breakdown:

  • Development (frontend + backend MVP): $1,500
  • Testing & feedback iteration: $400
  • Deployment & documentation: $100

Funds will be received by BuildUnion.


Measurement and Evaluation

KPIs:

  • MVP deployed and publicly accessible.
  • At least 3 funded projects onboarded into the system.
  • Active community engagement (feedback on forums/Discord).
  • Reduction in reporting gaps (all tracked projects updated at least once per month).

Delivery and Reporting

Timeline (4 weeks total):

  • Week 1-2: Build core project list + milestone tracker.
  • Week 3: Add alerts + project detail pages.
  • Week 4: Testing, community feedback, deployment.

Reporting: Weekly forum updates + final delivery demo.


Legal and Ethical Considerations

No major legal or ethical issues.
All code open-sourced under MIT or GPL license.


Hi,

Did you talk with any community members, team members or members of the different ‘Groups’ in Centrifuge before making this proposal? How do you know it is aligned with needs of the projects?
Thanks

Hi, that is what the forum post is for: to get feedback from the targeted users, including the community. Also, we did get some feedback on our earlier post. Build Union is providing the same tool for other Networks, including Polkadot, Nervos, Solana, etc., and we have found that the community reacts very well to having better grantee accountability.