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+# W3F Grant Application: DeHand Security Shield
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+- **Project Name:** DeHand Security Shield
+- **Team Name:** DeHand Network
+- **Payment Address:** 5Da3MXkbGtx8uh8tvdyQDxDKQp87GpqfMMgoi9T3Agcen5L4
+- **Level:** 1 (Up to $10,000)
+
+## Project Overview
+
+### Project Description
+DeHand Security Shield is a serverless, decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) infrastructure core designed to protect web resources, decentralized applications (dApps), and EdTech platforms from automated bot-traffic, scraping, and Sybil attacks. 
+
+Unlike traditional centralized solutions (e.g., Cloudflare, WAF) that create a single point of failure, DeHand shifts the traffic filtering and mitigation layer directly to a distributed network of validation nodes. The network utilizes a custom node-reputation graph coupled with a lightweight SHA-256 Proof-of-Work (PoW) mechanism to dynamically throttle malicious automated scripts before they hit target backend databases.
+
+### Ecosystem Fit
+The Polkadot ecosystem relies heavily on decentralized infrastructures, cross-chain communication, and node-level resilience. However, RPC nodes, validators, and ecosystem Web3 platforms remain vulnerable to high-intensity scraping and automated bot interactions that exhaust resources. 
+
+DeHand acts as a fundamental cybersecurity layer for Substrate-based projects and Polkadot-native applications, establishing a reputation scoring engine across nodes to automatically isolate malicious traffic.
+
+## Team
+
+### Team members
+- **Olesya Dekhand** - Founder, Lead Backend / Software Engineer, Business Analyst.
+
+### Contact
+- **Contact Name:** Olesya Dekhand
+- **Contact Email:** olesyadekhand@gmail.com
+
+### Legal Structure
+- **Individual / Freelancer Profile** (Self-employed status under local registration). 
+
+### Team's Experience
+Experienced software engineer specializing in system architecture, network protocols, and distributed database design. Deep practical expertise in Go and Python backend engineering. Developed a standalone peer-to-peer networking core (DeHand) that leverages cryptographic standards for decentralized seed-phrase authorization and node routing. Accomplished extensive technical and business analysis for wholesale enterprise sectors and industrial automation infrastructures.
+
+### Team Code Repos
+- https://github.com
+
+## Development Roadmap
+
+### Milestone 1: P2P Network Core and Anti-Bot PoW SDK
+- **Estimated Duration:** 4-5 weeks
+- **FTE:** 1
+- **Costs:** 8,000 USD
+
+| Number | Deliverable | Description |
+| -----: | ----------- | ----------- |
+| 0a. | License | Apache 2.0 |
+| 0b. | Documentation | Complete English documentation explaining the P2P node protocol, architecture, and connection guides. |
+| 0c. | Testing Guide | A suite of unit tests for the filtering kernel with instructions on how to execute them. |
+| 1. | Core Architecture | Implement the core distributed node-reputation graph engine in Go with local secure storage. |
+| 2. | Anti-Bot PoW | Integrating a lightweight SHA-256 Proof-of-Work challenge protocol to deter automated scraping bots at the protocol level. |
+| 3. | API Integration | Developing an easy-to-integrate SDK/API wrapper for external decentralized services and educational platforms to route traffic securely. |