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From: Slyrack <162980673+Slyraack@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:56:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Neova Grant Application

Submitting project from Neova for a grant application at Gno.land
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+# Project Name
+
+## Gno-based Compliance Control Plane for Private Infrastructure
+
+contact : quentin@neova.io
+
+X : https://x.com/Neova_Protocol
+
+Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/company/neovaprotocol
+
+Website : https://www.neova.io
+
+
+# Project summary
+
+This project proposes the development of an open-source compliance and trust control plane built on Gno, designed for private, off-chain distributed infrastructure.
+
+Many private decentralized systems operate in regulated environments where node identity, geographic constraints, and compliance requirements must be enforced, audited, and reproducible. Today, these concerns are typically handled through informal, centralized, or opaque mechanisms.
+
+The goal of this project is to demonstrate how Gno Realms can act as a deterministic and auditable source of truth for infrastructure compliance, without executing or modifying the underlying infrastructure itself.
+
+The control plane focuses on:
+- Persistent node registration
+- Declarative and certified node attributes (including geographic location)
+- Revocation and lifecycle management
+- Clear separation between compliance logic (on Gno) and execution (off-chain)
+
+The resulting work is generic, protocol-agnostic, and reusable by other projects managing private or regulated distributed systems.
+
+# Goals and deliverables
+## Goals
+
+- Demonstrate how Gno can be used as a compliance-grade control plane for off-chain systems
+- Provide reusable primitives for node identity, certification, and revocation
+- Enable deterministic enforcement of geographic and regulatory constraints
+- Maintain a clean separation between trust anchoring and infrastructure execution
+
+## Deliverables
+
+An open-source Gno Realm implementing:
+- Node registry and lifecycle management
+- Declarative node metadata and geographic attributes
+- Certification and revocation logic
+- Immutable audit trail
+
+Design and specification of an off-chain verification agent
+- Example workflows and integration patterns
+- Documentation and architecture diagrams
+- Public GitHub repository with full source code
+- Impact on gno.land’s developer ecosystem
+
+This project expands the scope of what Gno can be used for beyond traditional on-chain governance or application logic.
+
+It provides:
+
+- A new reference pattern for using Gno as a compliance and trust anchor
+- Practical examples of governing off-chain systems using deterministic on-chain state
+- Reusable building blocks for developers working on:
+  - Private infrastructure
+  - Hybrid Web2/Web3 systems
+  - Regulated or compliance-driven environments
+
+By focusing on identity, certification, and auditability, the project highlights Gno’s strengths as a control plane rather than an execution layer, opening new use cases for the ecosystem.
+
+# Timeline and milestones
+## Month 1
+
+- Compliance and trust model definition
+- Gno Realm architecture design
+- Initial node registry implementation
+
+## Month 2
+
+- Geographic attributes and certification logic
+- Off-chain verification agent specification
+- Example integration flows
+
+## Month 3
+
+- Final Realm implementation (v1.0)
+- Documentation and diagrams
+- Community feedback and refinements
+
+# Contributions or related work for gno.land (if applicable)
+
+This is our first direct contribution targeting the Gno ecosystem.
+
+# Why are you and your team well-suited for this project?
+
+Neova builds a private and regulated distributed infrastructure, with a strong focus on:
+- Data sovereignty
+- Compliance (including GDPR)
+- Hybrid Web2 / Web3 architectures
+- Production-grade private networks
+
+Our team works daily on the operational and regulatory challenges of running decentralized systems in real-world environments. This project directly reflects those needs while remaining fully open-source and ecosystem-oriented.