Dash Mon[k]ey
Manage your web3 money in a web3 way!
About
The problem it solves ### Idea The idea is to have a suite of financial tools and bots to act on your behalf and make you money. Eventually, the project accomplishes three (inter-related) goals for the users — - Manage their keys and addresses - Teach users about financial tools and value vs money, by applying concepts - Run algorithms (trades, arbitrage, liquidity providers, etc.) on behalf of the user for passive income(s) ### ETH Odyssey implementations - Manage user addresses and keys - Use Unmarshal to monitor user addresses - Monitor the market and receive conditional notifications - Deploy the project on a remote device and interact with a webapp - Self host a _discord_ bot that sends notifications and can interact with the project - Create and deploy trading recipes on Uniswap **note** the implementation is janky and mostly unusable currently. However, the code along with the docs should provide a picture of what I intend to build. Of course, with one of the conditions being a solo project, building a solid usable and secure application will take time. I intend to continue this project longer term, which you can read more about [here](https://dash-monkey.com). Additionally, if you'd like to support me and enable me to pursue this project, you can also fund the [grant on gitcoin](https://gitcoin.co/grants/3202/dash-monkey). Finally, since I am graduating from college soon, I am also looking for grant opportunities and mentorship!
How it's made
Challenges we ran into I ran into quite a few challenges over the course of the hackathon, some overcome, some not. ### Code related challenges - **modules** With so many modules planned, and a goal of being simple plug and play, it was quite a challenge to figure out the structure of the project and how objects and data would flow within the code. - **keys** Managing user keys is a challenge. When all money can be used with a string of characters, it is quite easy to be held hostage or simply forget the string. So, Dash Mon\[k\]ey is designed to be deployed on a separate device wherein the keys are stored securely. Additionally, the project is also designed to include injected web3 providers (metamask, etc.), and also employ smart wallets to maintain security. - **UI/UX** The first issue with this is my low level of experience with the same, especially for non developer users. To address this, the application uses a parser that can be sent a command either via the discord bot or the Flask webapp. Smaller templates for each module are also built with basic bootstrap elements. - **tests** I had no time to write unit tests, and unfortunately I am not in the habit of writing tests parallelly. ### Non code related challenges - **scope** As mentioned above, the design of the project eas honestly one of the biggest challenges. However, once finalised, development is typically less time consuming, since a majority of the work then becomes quick copy pasting. - **health** The pandemic has not been easy, not for anyone. Battling health issues to get some code written on a day was quite hard. The erratic nature of my commit history is evidence of that. - **building solo** One of the goals of Dash Mon\[k\]ey is education. While for the users of the project that refers to education of the financial tools, but for developer, ie me, it is also a way to concretely learn tech frameworks and tools and create boilerplates. Since the scope is huge, building solo is also naturally quite hard.