# Retroactive Treasury Proposal Summary: Ideal Network

**Requested Amount:** $38,760 USD
**Period:** July - October 2025
**Proponent:** Ideal Labs

**Full Proposal**: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1\_hp2sPx4l179wzpxptkCkaKCwasCvR60bYcQVYQm7cU/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_hp2sPx4l179wzpxptkCkaKCwasCvR60bYcQVYQm7cU/edit?usp=sharing)

## Quick Overview

Ideal Labs is requesting retroactive funding for 340 additional development hours (21% overrun) required to complete production-ready deployment of the Ideal Network randomness infrastructure.

**Original funding:** $191,520 for 1,680 hours
**Actual delivery:** 2,020 hours required
**This request:** $38,760 for the additional 340 hours at $114/hr

## Why the Overrun?

The team encountered two major categories of unforeseen technical challenges during deployment:

### 1. Architecture Redesign (120 hours)

During Paseo testnet deployment in August, we discovered a critical incompatibility with the Cumulus lookahead mechasnism. The initial inherents-based design caused:

* Queue consumption issues with multiple candidate blocks
* Non-deterministic randomness distribution across relay chain forks

**Solution:** Complete rebuild using Post-Finality Gadget (PFG) architecture to ensure canonical randomness after block finalization.

### 2. Cross-Chain Security Vulnerabilities (140 hours)

Found four critical security vectors during integration that were outside the initial SR Labs audit scope:

* Root origin privilege escalation
* XCM fee payment economic attacks
* Cross-chain unpaid execution exploits
* XCM origin authentication issues

These ecosystem-level vulnerabilities only emerged during actual multi-chain integration testing.

### 3. Enhanced Smart Contract Support (30 hours)

Went beyond original scope by integrating contracts pallet directly into IDN with custom chain extensions, enabling zero-cost contract randomness access.

### 4. Production Economic System (50 hours)

Comprehensive credit system, treasury integration, and fee management required more implementation work than originally estimated.

## Key Decision Point

When these issues were discovered in August, the team chose to self-fund completion rather than pause development for 4-6 weeks to request an amended proposal, prioritizing delivery of critical ecosystem infrastructure.

## What's Complete

All work is deployed and verifiable through public GitHub commits. The project delivered:

* Production-ready randomness infrastructure
* Security-hardened cross-chain integration
* Native smart contract support
* Sustainable economic model

**This is a one-time retroactive request for technical work already completed and delivered.**

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