Not yet. For now the project "alpha" version is only deployed on Kovan testnet, in which ETH is free.
When I started coding this project ETH price was around US$ 500, and gas prices around ~40 Gwei, making it feasible to launch the project on mainnet without much hassle using my own funds.
Since then ETH has gone up to the roof. Now ETH is ~US$ 1900 and gas price ~150 Gewi, making it 14x more expensive to launch.
I'm still evaluating if I should launch on ethereum mainnet or in a different solidity compatible blockchain (ex: Binance Smart Chain, Avalanche) once the project reaches a beta version due to the cost of deployment.
In the project main page I ask for donations for covering deployment costs [1], but so far I was unable to secure any funds.
ETH is expensive but there are other "cheaper" blockchains compatible with ETH whose "gas" price is negligible. You can also deploy for free on the "testnet"
This is a beta app, the ETH used are not real ones. I'm currently building a faucet for mock ETHs.
People can offer services and then be paid in crypto by people willing to get their services.
I understand your concerns but the app is 100%, as I said you don't need any real money to use it.
The only goal of the beta app is to show people how the product works for now. The app is deployed on a tesnet.
I have almost no idea about the Ethereum system, but don't you have to pay to have your code executed on the global ethereum machine? Does that mean I have to pay to test run my code? or maybe after I deploy it?
While developing, you would do it either on the dev (local, not connected) or testnet. Both these are easily mineable (I have 10k's on both), so there is nothing stopping you to actually playing around and putting together a dapp without having real ETH in your pocket.
No expenses and you can play around all you like. When you want to go live, there is typically only a very small deployment cost.
When I started coding this project ETH price was around US$ 500, and gas prices around ~40 Gwei, making it feasible to launch the project on mainnet without much hassle using my own funds.
Since then ETH has gone up to the roof. Now ETH is ~US$ 1900 and gas price ~150 Gewi, making it 14x more expensive to launch.
I'm still evaluating if I should launch on ethereum mainnet or in a different solidity compatible blockchain (ex: Binance Smart Chain, Avalanche) once the project reaches a beta version due to the cost of deployment.
In the project main page I ask for donations for covering deployment costs [1], but so far I was unable to secure any funds.
[1] https://github.com/TCGV/DeFiOptions#support-mainnet
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