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", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "address", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here:", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Public site: \u200b\u200bhttps://www.ournetwork.xyz/\nCurrent subscriber count: 31,260 (+250 weekly)\nOpen Rate: 30%\n30-day Views: 155k\nTwitter followers: 23.2k (+100 weekly)\nMonthly Twitter Impressions: 200k\n", "hidden": false, "question": "Where should we look to see the impact of your project? Please provide links to public websites and/or the latest values for key metrics you track privately. This might be used in future impact reports", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "10,120 OP ($25,500 USD)via Optimism RetroPGF3 in Q4 2023", "hidden": false, "question": "Total Prior Funding Amounts, Sources, and Dates for the project in USD", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["Grants", "Sales"], "hidden": false, "question": "Which of the following funding sources do you have? Check all that apply", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "number", "answer": "227", "hidden": false, "question": "How old (in Months) is the project?  ", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "North America", "hidden": false, "question": "Location/Region where the project is based ", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Have you read and confirmed your grant abides by the Program General Eligibility Policy? ", "questionId": 14}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "No", "hidden": true, "question": "Are you applying for any other OSS rounds in GG20? (Reminder: you can only be accepted into one) ", "questionId": 15}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "OurNetwork is a decentralized research platform pioneering a new standard of 'onchain journalism'. Aligning closely with the ethos of web3, our reporting is purely community-led, bottom-up coming from a one-of-a-kind community of builders, investors, power users, and independent researchers with a core value of numbers > narratives. \n\nWe believe that distributed networks require a distributed research model - and OurNetwork is the only application building towards this, uniquely reporting on the evolving health of crypto networks through a succinct data-driven lens. This distributed model has allowed us to scale our coverage without diminishing quality, having published 200+ issues, from 400+ contributors, to 30,000+ subscribers each week, through three crypto cycles. ", "hidden": false, "question": "Please describe your dApp or App, focusing on its innovative utility or service within the ecosystem. Highlight the problem it solves or the need it addresses.", "questionId": 16}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "OurNetwork is a complete redesign of how information flows in our industry. We are building an onchain research application that decentralizes information flow with a novel community led, bottom up, distributed research model. Anyone from around the world can join the community and report on a protocol or ecosystem of their choosing, bringing a unique layer of accessibility that many media players in this space do not.  \n\nFurther, onchain analysts historically have not had a dedicated platform to showcase and distribute their work \u2014 OurNetwork is that venue.\n\nOurNetwork 2.0 will include a number of improvements to the UX that allow anyone, anywhere to consume or create onchain analytics coverage. Leveraging partners such as Coinbase\u2019s Smart Wallet, Privy and/or Thirdweb to abstract away points of friction for non crypto-native users will be pivotal to scaling our application to onboard the masses. \n\nIn addition, we are leveraging decentralized infrastructure to allow permissionless publishing, community editorial governance, and tracking onchain reputation of contributors looking to build a career in research, data or journalism. Building all of this on a high throughput, low fee infrastructure partner will allow us to scale these net new user experiences. ", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe how your application improves user experience in the Web3 space. Include any specific design choices or features that enhance accessibility and practical utility.", "questionId": 17}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "OurNetwork has been a premier education platform for 31,000+ subscribers since 2019, democratizing research across our industry. With our free and publicly available coverage published multiple times per week \u2013 anyone, anywhere, can learn about the evolving health of crypto networks with our digestible, data-driven coverage.  \n\nAs is custom in crypto, contributors are only judged by virtue of their contributions to OurNetwork \u2014 in most cases we aren\u2019t even aware of the gender, race, location, or any other aspect of our contributors\u2019 identity.  What we do care about is whether they can source onchain data, visualize it, and interpret it \u2014 this merit-based approach promotes inclusion for onchain analysts globally who otherwise may be overlooked. \n\nOur audience is diverse and wide-spanning \u2014 including builders looking for which piece of infrastructure to leverage for their project, investors looking for the next emerging project, power users of the projects we cover, and independent researchers looking to leverage the OurNetwork brand to supercharge their insights. ", "hidden": false, "question": "In what ways does your project contribute to financial inclusion, education, or social impact? Explain the specific areas of impact and the target audience or communities you serve.", "questionId": 18}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "TBD", "hidden": false, "question": "What type of open source software (OSS) license(s) do you have? Is all of your code available on public repos or is some portion of your codebase private?", "questionId": 19}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "OurNetwork v1 launched and operated for 4+ years as a Substack-based newsletter. In an effort to progressively decentralize, we recently launched v2 in Q1 2024 \u2014 a standalone website and contributor leaderboard complete with the framework of a points system to incentivize deeper community participation. This will also include Profile pages, individually sharable submissions from each issue, and both a Contributor and Partner Portal - a gateway for our community of readers, contributors, projects and partners, which are being built and set for release in Q2 2024. \n\nFor v3, we are building more robust crypto-native features, such as an editorial governance that allows contributors to vote on topics for our editorial calendar, allowing for permissionless publishing on the OurNetwork platform, integrating and abstracting wallet connections and token-gated content, enabling web3 social features such as following analysts, collecting submissions, and a novel framework to track onchain research reputations. \n\nWe\u2019ll be completing this roadmap with the following timeline: \n\nPhase 1:\nMilestone: Migrate off of Substack onto self-hosted frontend/backend infra + building out our Community and Partner Portals. \n- Scaling our team of core contributors (Full stack + Solidity Engineer, Community Manager)\n- Designing and building new website + features\n- Migrating historical data and subscriber data from Substack to new site\n- Milestone: Q2 2024\n\nPhase 2:\nMilestone: Launch basic web3 integrations on our frontend. During this phase, OurNetwork will still be hosted on centralized infrastructure.\n- Wallet connect features\n- Linking wallet address to email for streamlined distribution and future web3 activations\n- Token-gated contributor access\n- OUR Points to provide deeper incentives to our contributors and community\n- View OurNetwork NFTs natively on the website across multiple blockchains\n- Milestone: Q4 2024\n\nPhase 3:\nMilestone: Fully hosted on decentralized infrastructure. \n- Deploying and hosting OurNetwork on a high performance, low fee L1/L2/L3. \n- Leveraging web3 social protocols features (profile pages, collecting/minting posts, engaging with posts, all in an effort to create a more aligned incentives for contributors and community). \n- Putting the point system fully onchain to unlock new user experiences that allow us to reward readership and community loyalty more efficiently. \n- Token-gated editorial calendar and other forms of community-driven governance. \n- Milestone: Q1 2025", "hidden": false, "question": "What stage of development is your application currently in, and what are your immediate next steps? Provide a roadmap or development timeline if available.", "questionId": 20}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Our primary goal with grant funding will be scaling our engineering efforts aimed at building OurNetwork on fully decentralized infrastructure and launching the onchain features that unlock new user experiences. This includes deploying on a high throughput, low fee infrastructure partner along with launching the onchain features highlighted in more detail above. \n\nIn addition to the developer resources (75% of allocation) needed to execute our vision, we need to scale our operations focused around community management and editorial support (25% of allocation), by incentivizing core contributor(s) who can work closely with our contributor community to ensure the best quality coverage is published. This will allow OurNetwork to become self-sustaining following the deployment of the grant funding.", "hidden": false, "question": "How would funding from this round support your project's development and goals? Outline specific areas where the funds would be allocated (e.g., development, user research, community building).", "questionId": 21}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We believe OurNetwork is unique in the niche it occupies \u2014 sitting at the intersection of daily news, deep research reports, and data providers \u2014 and setting a new standard for onchain data journalism. Our one-of-a-kind community is among the largest and most active group of onchain researchers in crypto.\nOurNetwork\u2019s transition from a newsletter to a fully decentralized research & media platform will further the promotion of onchain data as an information source digestible by everyone and whose importance is still broadly underutilized and untapped.\nCrypto\u2019s critics have long pushed the narrative that the space has limited applications built on blockchain infrastructure. OurNetwork, as a distributed media network, is an entirely novel application \u2013 a new type of social network \u2013 one that will pioneer the field of onchain reporting, decentralize the industry\u2019s information flow and bring a unique and immediately recognizable application to the infrastructure partner we build on.", "hidden": false, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? Anything you'd like to add that may help in determining project eligibility?", "questionId": 22}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to future messages from Gitcoin for updates, information, and/or interviews? ", "questionId": 23}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to us sharing your information with select third-parties for investment opportunities? 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