# Cloudless Labs Development And Funding Proposal **URL:** \ **Category:** Proposals\ **Created:** [July 9, 2024, 5:33pm UTC](https://gov.fluence.network/t/cloudless-labs-development-and-funding-proposal/392 "2024-07-09T17:33:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
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This proposal formally engages Cloudless Labs (formerly Fluence Labs) to continue development of the Fluence platform. Cloudless Labs is uniquely suited to develop these features and others, to also increase awareness of Fluence and to drive adoption. ### Determination of benefits: Fluence requires additional development before it is a fully functional network: - The network should add staking functionality to provide trust - The network also should add Docker integration to support a wider range of use cases than is possible with WASM. - Adding GPU support is important to address the fast growing AI market. ### Terms: - Cloudless Labs will be paid $400,000 per month to cover operational expenses - Marketing expenses will be reimbursed as incurred with a cap of $250,000 per month - Fluence DAO will make a one time payment of $1,000,000 to reimburse Cloudless for expenses involved in setting up the DAO - Fluence DAO will grant Cloudless Labs 20 million FLT and will grant and additional 5 million FLT for achieving each of the following three Deliverables Deliverable 1: Staking for hardware - Deliver network scalability required for onboarding up to 10,000 CPUs and enabling staking for new hardware. - Build UX for FLT holders to discover staking availability and stake tokens to hardware Deliverable 2: Virtual machines / Docker integration - Develop ability for the Fluence platform to support other execution runtimes alongside WebAssembly to enable customers’ workloads in Docker containers. Deliverable 3: GPU support - Add compute marketplace features for GPU hardware. Enable staking for GPU hardware and ability to rent it from the marketplace by customers. ### Funding process: - Upon approval, the $1 million one time payment and six months (two quarters) of the $400K monthly payment ($2.4 million) will be transferred to Cloudless Labs. - Upon approval, 20 million FLT will be transferred to Cloudless Labs - The DAO governance committee will be responsible for determining the successful completion of the Deliverables - Additional payments of $1.2 million per quarter will be transferred by the DAO at the beginning of each quarter. --- _[View the full topic](https://gov.fluence.network/t/cloudless-labs-development-and-funding-proposal/392)._