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", "hidden": true, "question": "Profiles or socials of other main team members publicly associated with project", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "During the second week of Zuzalu, Noah started working seriously on viaPrize. By the second month of Zuzalu, we were ready to have the Zuzalu community use the tool such as when we crowdfunded a prize to make an AI voice for a river (https://airiverchat.com/) which a crew of 12 Zuzaluans gathered together to build. Since proving the concept at Zuzalu, we are now searching for more partner communities to use this tool. \nOn the dev side, we are integrating Privy which allows for a user to login with their email and have a wallet created in association with that user account. The user may then interact with their credit card. As we explain benefits of web3 however, the user can instead click \"log in with wallet\" instead of \"log in with email\" at any time and thus take control of their wallet and be smoothly onboarded to web3. \nAs well as this, we are working on making it easy to embed a web3 crowdfunding campaign into your own websites.", "hidden": true, "question": "What are you planning to continue building for your project after Zuzalu? ", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "In the public goods funding ecosystem, there is a balance to be found between confidence for funders and stability for builders.\n\nOn the one hand, we have upfront funding such as Gitcoin grants which are great for builder stability because builders get upfront funds which are often needed to jump start a project. However, funders have no assurance of delivery.\n\nOn the other hand, we have retroactive public goods funding systems like Optimism's which is great for adding a sort of \"bonus\" reward when the community recognizes existing projects as doing good. Funders may be confident that they can see a project and its results before sending funds, but builders have no guarantee of funding while they are building. \n\nThere's the additional issue that these options only exist because funds are being funneled from profitable projects to these more \"charitable\" programs, but the programs are not profitable in and of themselves. How can someone else launch their own public goods funding programs if they don't already have a pool of funds? \n\nPrizes (aka bounties) as a public goods funding mechanism allow for complete funder confidence because you only ever send out a reward after you see evidence of the successful completion of a project. In this way, no funds are ever wasted (30 billion dollars annually are spent on crowdfunding campaigns that do not deliver what was promised. Imagine what the public goods funding world could accomplish if we reclaimed even 10% of that?) \n\nAs well as this, from the builders perspective they have security knowing that a transparent pool of funding is waiting for them if they successfully bring a project from its current ideation stage into the realm of reality.\n\nBest of all, a community doesn't need an existing big pool of funds to start coordinating the ideation, creation, and funding of public goods. They may simply start launching prizes and let the community crowdfund them. \n\nPrograms like Gitcoin grants do amazing good. Why not have crowdfunded Gitcoin bounties/prizes? By building up viaPrize, we are showing another path forward for supporting public goods that can expand the great work of communities like Gitcoin.\n\nMore details found here: https://www.noahchonlee.com/post/prizes-as-the-missing-middle-road-in-public-goods-funding", "hidden": true, "question": "How does your project and future plan align with the Zuzalu mission? ", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Yes, under the name of \"Pact\" we won a prize in the public goods hackathon. Since then, we are combining Pact and viaPrize.", "hidden": true, "question": "Did you win a hackathon prize at Zuzalu?", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We have received $1600 from the Gitcoin beta round. We have no other sources of funding but have a team of amazing volunteers. We are actively pursuing fellowships, grants, or investments to continue this work.\nThanks to this team and using some of the funds from the Gitcoin Beta Round, we also made a successful prize for delivering medical supplies to volunteers in the front-line of Ukraine which the volunteers said are likely to save at least one life. ", "hidden": true, "question": "How much funding have you received and does your project have any other funding sources?", "questionId": 7}], "project": {"id": "1:0x03506eD3f57892C85DB20C36846e9c808aFe9ef4:405", "title": "viaPrize", "logoImg": "bafkreiaui7tvdj42pd2rp6c5jdrmx64hhdh7ymeclyvga5wfqguwb76fky", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreigxudltkjxnoinbqyi43k2amww25rwcbwz6qq7tc7b2yhix222qba", "protocol": "1"}, "website": "https://viaprize.org", "bannerImg": "bafkreifya7rdnarjedcz5gxwuiifdqzpceodr7dy77ym5k326sbwf5z7cy", "createdAt": 1681478289164, "userGithub": "haonchon", "credentials": {"github": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..Cv36iF3qLVBHfCa2b55Tu0-j1hfUHZEZtuZKOLFNhCNWJD-ULoeGROITa3WbU3P4LpvNFnF7KZq9Wu2epdTiDA", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-04-14T13:36:51.999Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-04-14T13:36:51.999Z", "expirationDate": "2023-07-13T13:36:51.999Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x850a146D7478dAAa98Fc26Fd85e6A24e50846A9d", "hash": "v0.0.0:T+HROY7tfU8jZlPujKcaODEbd9+NKushjxg4+iSt4Fg=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextGithubOrg#viaprize#123272916"}}, "twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..q7Zh0EeQcUIbxyv41hU5CmX4aGG3s92bLXyybigDkFj5SVs6Z-HoH89skWOp634XmYkLwALuCtbRl0lOr8CfAQ", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-04-14T13:35:49.881Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-04-14T13:35:49.881Z", "expirationDate": "2023-07-13T13:35:49.881Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x850a146D7478dAAa98Fc26Fd85e6A24e50846A9d", "hash": "v0.0.0:ip4tQ7yquR2hr6tA74LjT24gwJo35/s/BEEcBsxPhSc=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#viaprize"}}}, "description": "# Crowdfunding Prizes for Public Goods with viaPrize.org\nviaPrize.org is a platform that allows anyone to create a crowdfunded prize to incentivize the creation of public goods. This innovative solution overcomes the tragedy of the commons through peer-to-peer collaboration, rather than bureaucracy.\n\n### The Tragedy of the Commons\nIf a village wants a road to be built, for example, they encounter the tragedy of the commons. This public good would benefit everyone, but no single person wants to take on the expense of making it happen. In today's world, the solution is to have a government tax the populace, then offer a contract to someone to build the road. In this way, everyone pays (or at least taxpayers do) and everyone benefits. However, this approach has downsides, including slow-moving governments, limited knowledge of which projects will do the most good, and inefficient crowdsourcing of ideas.\n\n### Crowdfunded Prizes as a Solution\nWith crowdfunded prizes, anyone in a community can propose a variety of projects, anyone can add funds to the reward for completing a project, and anyone can complete the project and win the reward. This creates a mechanism wherein ideas recognized as valuable may gather momentum. This is beneficial for prize proposers, funders, and winners, as they can easily outsource great ideas, donate to projects they like in a de-risked way, and earn rewards for pursuing projects that help their community and/or the world.\n\n### Open Source and Impact Certificates\nviaPrize.org is open-sourcing its smart contracts so that anyone may use its system of funders voting on how to allocate their donations. The platform is also establishing a partnership with hypercerts and adding impact certificates. Additionally, the budget will be open-sourced and utilized to pay contributors and fund prizes for public goods. \n\n### Prizes and Projects\nviaPrize.org already has prizes being won and open source projects being built, such as Pastecal.com, a zero-login calendar for unconferences, and a smart contract implementing ideas by allowing funders to vote on winners. With funding, the platform can accomplish even more.\n\n### Availability\nThis platform will be available for communities in web3, charter cities, and network state projects to open their own prize program. Through crowdfunding prizes, we may overcome the tragedy of the commons with peer-to-peer collaboration rather than bureaucracy.\n\n### Try It Out!\nCheck out the site and propose a project, contribute to any existing ones, or win the prizes today at viaprize.org!", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "viaprize", "projectTwitter": "viaprize"}, "recipient": "0x4326883E2dB64442F2B8D2d00b454459Af3878Ab"}}