Applications for the zkLink Grant Program require to have milestones, the number should be around 1 - 5 milestones. Grant funding is tied to the milestone’s completion, with portions of the grant unlocked as each milestone is completed.

What is a milestone and why is it important?

A milestone is an achievement that marks a significant change or accomplishment within a project, often signifying advancement towards new stages of development.

Milestones vs Goals

Goals are the results you want to see once the milestone is completed. The milestone is a key achievement(s), which can be seen as the cumulative result of completing each goal.

Types of goals required

Goals can relate to product development (e.g. product launch, mainnet implementation, integration with other zkLink ecosystem teams/partners), commercial metrics (e.g. weekly active users, number of (unique) wallets, number of transactions, TVL), or other relevant metrics for your project.

The zkLink Grant program currently requires each milestone to have, at least, one goal related to an on-chain commercial metrics and one related to product development.

See the template and examples below.

| Milestone Template | Milestone Examples *Used as an example only. All projects milestones and goals will be different based on each project’s independent build and grant support request | | --- | --- | | Start of the program : Milestone 1: Description

• Goal 1
• Goal 2
• Goal 3
• Expected completion date Milestone 2: Description
• Goal 1
• Goal 2
• Goal 3
• Expected completion date .... | Start of the program: Milestone 1: Mainnet launch and marketing campaign
• Goal 1: Integration to Nova mainnet
• Goal 2: Finalize UI/UX v1
• Goal 3: Smart contract audit is completed by a third-party auditor
• Goal 4: [Insert commercial metric e.g. Reach XXX weekly active users, XXX number of transactions, XXX number of wallets created]
• Expected completion date: 01/07/2024 Milestone 2: Growth
• Goal 1: Launch app in Apple & Google stores
• Goal 2: Finish integration of XX Nova products
• Goal 3: [Insert commercial metric e.g. Reach XXX weekly active users, XXX number of transactions, XXX number of wallets created]
• Expected completion date: 01/10/2024 | | | Note: A weekly active user is defined as a user that completes at least 1 transaction per week | | | Examples of product development Goal:  Building smart contracts, Testing, Growth and marketing strategy, First version of the user interface, Deployment in app stores, etc. | | | Examples of commercial goals by Sector: DeFi: Users (WAU, DAU, MAU), Trading Volume (Daily, Monthly), TVL, No. of Integrations, No. of Partnerships Gaming/NFT: Users (WAU, DAU, MAU), Wallet Addresses (Active, Unique), Transactions, Volume, No. of Integrations, No. of Partnerships, No. of NFTs minted, User Retention Infra/Tooling: Users (WAU, DAU, MAU), Wallet Addresses (Active, Unique), Transactions, No. of Integrations, No. of Partnerships, No. of Dapp Developers |