Given the importance of Gateway-verse, we have opted to fund two submissions from this POP: Raid Guild and Liquify. These are both proven contributors whose submissions closely matched the specification of this POP. Between them, we will receive two robust reference implementations using a variety of open-source frameworks, which is exactly what we set out to achieve.
Anaski’s submission was also a close fit with the requirements of this POP. However, the lack of contribution history compared to the other submissions, combined with the added cost, made it hard to justify choosing this submission over Raid Guild or Liquify. We appreciate Anaski stepping up to contribute and have recommended they build their contribution history by opening a socket to drive impact to POKT and/or open-sourcing the work they’ve done to date (which may be eligible for retroactive public good grants).
Node Pilot’s submission is more ambitious than a reference implementation and has an 8-month lead time, which means it is outside the scope of this POP. Their vision for distributing off-chain components of the gateway stack is intriguing, so we’re going to keep discussing this with the Node Pilot team, and encourage the community/DAO to keep discussing where we can innovate in gateway tech.