Welcome to the ink! Alliance – a collective initiative to grow, maintain, and evangelize the ink! smart contract language across Polkadot.
The ink! Alliance meets bi-weekly to plan development priorities, explore product improvements, and manage community projects—such as developing the new ink! website (more info). Meeting notes are publicly recorded in this repository.
To manage intellectual property, the Alliance established Use Ink Ltd. in the UK. Much of the funding comes from the Polkadot Treasury, and the proposals are fully transparent. Once approved, treasury funds are transferred to a multisig wallet, maintained by four curators (requiring 3 approvals):
- https://github.com/cmichi – Former ink! lead at Parity
- R0GUE – Team behind Pop
- Polytope Labs – Team behind Hyperbridge
- Virto – Team behind Virto
The ink! Alliance exists to make smart contract development on Polkadot easy, secure, and scalable by:
- Maintaining the ink! language and associated tooling
- Educating and onboarding developers to build with ink!
- Expanding ink! adoption across parachains and developer communities
- Unifying the branding, messaging, and experience around ink!
- Website: https://use.ink
- Twitter: https://x.com/ink_lang
- Telegram: https://t.me/inkathon/2357
- GitHub: https://github.com/use-ink