# OPEN PRIORITY: Gateway Demo

**URL:** https://forum.pokt.network/t/open-priority-gateway-demo/4874
**Category:** RFPs
**Created:** [December 14, 2023, 3:25pm UTC](https://forum.pokt.network/t/open-priority-gateway-demo/4874 "2023-12-14T15:25:52Z")
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### Author: ![JackALaing](https://forum.pokt.network/user_avatar/forum.pokt.network/jackalaing/32/39_2.png) [@JackALaing](https://forum.pokt.network/u/JackALaing)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2023, 3:25pm UTC](https://forum.pokt.network/t/open-priority-gateway-demo/4874/1 "2023-12-14T15:25:52Z")

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# POP Objective

The [Gateway Kit](https://docs.pokt.network/get-rpcs/build-a-gateway/gateway-kit) is making significant progress towards abstracting a gateway’s integration with the protocol, lowering the barrier to entry for new gateways, and is on track to complete the Initial Release Candidate in January.

One philosophy of the Gateway Kit is to be modular and agnostic, to maximise the flexibility for the Gateway Kit to be used in different architectures. For example, the Gateway Kit generates a single-tenancy HTTP endpoint for each blockchain that POKT supports, so that it can more easily be plugged into different multi-tenancy architectures. Multi-tenancy is generally strongly technically opinionated, such as which language, framework, and authentication provider to use. Existing RPC providers who want to become gateways will already have a multi-tenancy architecture, so they would simply add the Gateway Kit server as a blockchain node to their load-balancer rotation.

Our goal as PNF is to ensure that the barrier to entry is as low as possible for prospective gateway operators. One way that we can do this is to ensure that when the Gateway Kit’s initial release is complete, there are open-source reference implementations (demos) for the operators to reference when they are learning how the Gateway Kit interacts with the POKT protocol.

This Pocket Open Priority (POP) invites community builders to build open-source reference implementations of a full-stack user-facing gateway.

# POP Specifications

Take the Gateway Kit and build on top the other components required for a user-facing, demo gateway, including the following must-have components

- Authentication and multi-tenancy endpoints, enabling users to login and create authenticated endpoints for themselves
- Request tracking (e.g. to power rate-limiting)
- Reverse proxy setup to send requests to the gateway kit server
- User-facing frontend

Must-have:

- All components listed above are included in the reference implementation
- Full reference implementation is open-source
- Should not include copyleft components, so that private businesses are unrestricted in forking the reference implementation
- Integrated with the Gateway Kit as the underlying backend for POKT integration

Nice-to-have:

- As many components as possible leverage standard, actively-maintained open-source libraries
- Extra SaaS components, like payments, analytics, alerts
- Admin UI for managing app stakes and visualizing statistics by ingesting Gateway Kit prometheus metrics

# POP Funding & Application Details

- Open: Now
- Price: TBC - based on submissions. Preference will be granted to submissions that are priced in POKT.
- Funding: This submission will be funded from the Era Allocation as outlined in PEP-60 ERA Budget.
- Submission Deadline: Close of day 3rd January
- Decision Provided: Close of day 5th January

Submission details requested:

- Full scope of work, including technical specification (include language and frameworks used)
- Estimated timeline
- Breakdown of expected fees and payments
- Team working on it

_Submissions should be posted as replies to this thread. Submissions can be edited at any point up until the deadline._

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