Adds parachain staking grant proposal

[crystalin]

Grant Application Checklist

• The application template has been copied, renamed ( project_name.md) and updated.
• A BTC or Ethereum (DAI) address for the payment of the milestones is provided inside the application.
• I have read and acknowledged the Terms and Conditions.
• The software delivered for this grant will be released under an open-source license specified in the application.
• The total funding amount of the project is below USD $30k for initial grant applications and $100k for follow-up grants.
• The initial PR contains only one commit (squash if needed before submitting your PR).
• The grant will only be announced once the first milestone has been accepted.

[CLAassistant]

All committers have signed the CLA.

[mmagician]

@crystalin Thanks for the application, looks pretty good. The only change that I'd like to request is changing the currency, because as of recently we only pay in DAI for Open Grants.

[crystalin]

The PR is not updating after pushing changes to the branch, I'm closing/re-opening the PR

[crystalin]

@mmagician I've updated the currency/address

[Noc2]

Thanks for the application. Could you potentially also add the deliveries 0a to 0d to the application, see https://github.com/w3f/Open-Grants-Program/blob/master/applications/application-template.md#milestone-1-example--implement-substrate-modules. At least the license should be included. Regarding milestone 2, would it potentially be possible to also make a pr to integrate this into polkadot.js apps itself?

[4meta5]

@Noc2 I made the requested changes, let me know if they are OK. I can change the licenses if necessary.

[mmagician]

Looks good to me, I'm looking forward to see this integrated!

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[alxs]

Hey @crystalin @4meta5, care to share a quick status update on your second milestone?

[crystalin]

Sorry @alxs, the person in charge of providing the 2nd milestone has left and I've been having a hard time finding someone to take over.
Let me re-evaluate the amount of work needed with @4meta5 and come back to you

[crystalin]

@alxs , we have resumed the work on the 2nd milestone. No ETA at the moment, but I would suspect few weeks of work should be enough

[alxs]

@crystalin sounds good, thanks for the update. Please keep us posted.

[4meta5]

@alxs 2 updates:

1. Recent refactor of the 1st milestone parachain-staking pallet in [Staking] Make exits manual, patch lack of delay for {increasing, decreasing} bonds moonbeam-foundation/moonbeam#810 . This PR changed the naming conventions from NPoS to DPoS. It also optimized the exits so that they are no longer scheduled to be automatically executed in on_initialize (which had led to large (sometimes overweight) blocks at round transitions). These changes are included in the upcoming NCC audit.
2. The 2nd milestone work is complete Add parachain staking panel polkadot-js/apps#6430 but the PR is awaiting review. We are waiting for it to be approved and merged before formally submitting the milestone.

[alxs]

Hey, thanks a lot for keeping us updated. Very happy to hear that. Freel free to go ahead and submit milestone 2 before it's accepted to polkadot-js/apps, we can already start looking into it and potentially also review the PR.