GS-003: Daniel Taiwo- Travel grant

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Abstract

I am requesting travel support to attend Centre Point Meetup #2 (Singapore, Sept 27–29, 2025) to represent builders from Africa that are actively contributing to Neo and SpoonCore AI. I plan to bring back insights to scale Neo adoption across West Africa.

Proposal Information

Description

Firstly, there is a goldmine of devs who can leverage Neo offerings such as SpoonOS hence why during the event, I plan to:

• Share a case study presentation: “How Nigerian Developers Can/ are already adopting SpoonCore AI for Real-World Products”
• Participate in community and technical sessions to further understand how Neo is building globally and replicate those best practices locally here in Nigeria.
• Build connections with leaders in the Eco that will accelerate planning an hackathon in Nigeria, onboarding devs , and cross-regional collaborations.

Post-event deliverables: I plan to publish slides, a community report, and a structured plan for SpoonCore + Neo hackathon in Nigeria.

Motivation

since becoming active contributor to the Neo ecosystem.

• Technical contributions:
  • Contributed 1000+ lines of code to improve the SpoonCore AI graph agent. - Fix/graph agent state corruption XSpoonAi/spoon-core#108
  • Raised 4+ issues during the dev call.
  • Actively participated in Neo SpoonCore AI development calls.
• Community leadership:
  • I maintain an active developer community in Nigeria some of which I onboarded to contribute to SpoonCore and other open-source projects. This is just a fragment of what is possible.
  • Currently collaborating with Denis and Abdulkareem to host a Neo + SpoonCore hackathon locally.
  • Proven track record of onboarding devs to build onchain and other initiatives that successfully onboarded 60+ developers into Web3 ecosystems.

The real value of my presence at Centre Point is to learn how the Neo community operates globally and bring that knowledge home to scale Neo adoption in Nigeria and West Africa.

Goals

• Deliver a case study talk that shows how SpoonCore AI can be integrated into developer products locally.
• Strengthen connections with Neo leaders to see how a local Neo hacathon can be organised
• Publish slides + a report documenting strategies for sustainable Neo adoption in Nigeria.

Deliverables & Roadmap

• Total Estimated Duration: 10 days

• Full-Time Equivalent (FTE): 1

• Total Budget: 544 GAS

• Case Study Presentation
  Prepare and deliver a session: “How Nigerian Developers Can Adopt SpoonCore AI into Products.”
  Output: Slides + live presentation at Centre Point Meetup.
  Verifiability: Public slides link, agenda listing, photos/screenshots, and event recording.

• **Community Report (Post-Event):**Written report (1–2 pages) capturing insights, collaborations, and strategies to replicate in Nigeria.

• Verifiability: Publicly shared PDF/Markdown file in Neo forum + GitHub repo.

Roadmap Overview

**Pre-Event (Days –7 to 0):**Prepare slides and case study materials, also draft hackathon roadmap

**Event (Days 1–4; Sept 27–29, 2025):**Deliver case study talk, participate in community + technical sessions.Hold some syncs with Neo ecosystem.

**Post-Event (Days 5–10):**Publish slides, Share hackathon roadmap and next steps with Nigerian developer community

Budget Plan

• Total Requested: $1,870 (544 GAS)
• Economy flight (Lagos → Singapore): $1,050
• Accommodation (Carlton Hotel, 4 nights): $820
• Within the $2,000 travel grant limit.

About Me

Name: Taiwo Daniel
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
contributions:- XSpoonAi/spoon-core#108 , XSpoonAi/spoon-core#119
email: ask4taiwodaniel@gmail.com
linkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/tee-dee/

Short Bio

Technical contributor & community builder at the forefront of Neo + SpoonCore AI adoption in Africa. My work spans 1,000+ lines of code on SpoonCore AI, raising/closing issues, and supporting the graph agent. Beyond code, I lead developer communities, organize events, and mentor builders. I am currently in talks specifically with Dennis together with Abdulkareem and Neo leaders to host a hackathon that will onboard Nigerian developers into Neo N3 and SpoonCore AI.

My mission is to bridge global Neo innovation with local execution.

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Proposal Info 📋

• Proposal Type: request-for-funding

• Amount Requested: 544

• Token: 0xd2a4cff31913016155e38e474a2c06d08be276cf (GAS)

• Receiver Address: NgpynAsRDNhrjZihsRfd5MDkjKV5NwVHty (0x5541207c589255b1a1e0049b5ac83d39950e69e5)

• Created by: @tdan1 🚀

• Proposal : https://grantshares.io/app/details/d44adbb5bfb00827f19ef2b965b23532

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⛓ This proposal was created on-chain! 🔥🚀🎉

➡️ Now, waiting for a GrantShares Member to endorse it... ⏰

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Pay attention to the following deadlines: ⏰

• Expiration (should be endorsed until): Sep 24, 2025 10:28:39 AM UTC

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General info:

• On-Chain ID: 81
• Transaction hash: 0xc2586cf0ed31f6436f6a63b3cc126e0e13cdaab2c1ea27e87056c3f14a212277

[tdan1]

heyo @gsmachado @gabrielbr @thedanielmark @csmuller @mialbu @shargon @lllwvlvwlll @deanragnarok

Kindly shoot your questions

will be happy to answer them

[CodeKage25]

Hi @gsmachado @thedanielmark @csmuller @mialbu @OT-kraftchain @shargon @lllwvlvwlll @deanragnarok. I'd be happy to see @tdan1 endorsed, he offered solid product recommendations on the AI trading-bot project I built which won the dev call s1. He has also mentored a lot of people in the blockchain ecosystem. I believe he’d be a valuable addition to the Centre Point meetup and to the Neo/SpoonOS teams.

[snakeyrob]

@CodeKage25, @tdan1, what is the relation between you guys?
Are you a team? you both seem to be doing similar work.

Also in my opinion it's important that Centre point focusses on global topics, your case is Nigeria specific which doesn't really seem to fit the target audience. I'm not sure how other Grantshares members view this, but I'd suggest @CodeKage25's global take on SpoonOS is more suitable for centre point.

[CodeKage25]

Hi @snakeyrob

@tdan1 and I are both university colleagues and fresh graduates - graduating this year, he contributed to the spoon-core repository by improving the graph agents and many more contributions to the repo from the last dev call s1, he has mentored a lot of people into the ecosystem on our campus, and he also offered some solid recommendations to the DeFi AI Trading-bot I built on SpoonOS which took the spotlight in the last dev call.

[gsmachado]

hey @tdan1

While I understand that @tdan1 made good contributions to SpoonOS, I share a similar opinion to @snakeyrob on this one. I think that @CodeKage25 will be representing SpoonOS activity (from the community) well enough, with a global perspective.

While Nigeria is a great market for builders/devs/ecosystem, I believe that we'd have other opportunities to bring this topic to Centre Point in the future. For this one, we tend to focus (and discuss) on issues/solutions that are more global, like governance.

Don't feel discouraged with this message. I think you're doing a good job in bootstrapping the SpoonOS (and Neo, consequently) community in West Africa. More opportunities will come. 💪

[tdan1]

Hey Guys,

Sorry for reverting back late. Travelled and didn't have full access to Github. Saw your wonderful feedbacks and they are well noted. @CodeKage25 is a wonderful friend and I believe he will do a solid Job and make a solid addition to CentrePoint.

In the meantime, I'd continue to explore ways to drive adoption and real life usage of SpoonOS both locally and globally

Cheers guys.

cc @gsmachado @snakeyrob

[grantshares-dapp]

🚨 Outcome: this proposal expired! ⏰🤷‍♂️️

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General info:

• On-Chain ID: 81