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As we introduce web3 and Arbitrum tooling to our community of 80k+ annual unique users and 100 local contributors, we want to make sure that they have not only the best tools but also the support to fork Upe Impact and Upe Vote, to increase the customization of our framework to address their local reality.\n\nThat\u2019s why, in addition to the workshop, we will continue to update our community to inform our users about new opportunities (open calls, grants, new tools,  etc.) to build on Arbitrum, like this recent [announcement](https://u.pe/info/upe-secures-grant-for-local-ngos-participating-in-the-beer-olympics/) celebrating the procurement of Oasis Onchain funds. \n", "hidden": true, "question": "Describe your previous work or plans related to the Arbitrum ecosystem. How does your project strengthen Arbitrum's foundational infrastructure, improve developer efficiency, or accelerate the adoption of novel applications?", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "NA", "hidden": true, "question": "If applicable, describe how your project leverages Stylus or Arbitrum Orbit Chains. What unique capabilities or use cases does this enable?", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "- **Role:** Storyteller, Frontend Developer, Community Coordinator\n- **Upe Contributions:**\n    - Content creation and syndication\n    - Feedback loop implementation\n    - Community engagement\n- **Previous Key Projects:** Operation CRJuntos, DAOESCO, MetaCamp v2 Facilitator, RaidGuild Cohort Season 5, webSMART, Cape Fear Roller Derby (fka Cape Fear Roller Girls)\n- **Example Work:**\n- DAOESCO - Create and syndicate community surveys, to iterate on next event based on feedback: [2022 Event](https://lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/c260fb29-ba98-43b9-bff1-97d0b0a42e7a) and [2023 Event](https://lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/483baf4f-20f6-4044-9d65-1ea9420ab3c0), [website](https://daoesco.org/)\n- MetaCamp v2 - Local impact highlight: attendees participated in a Gitcoin [mini QF round on Optimism](https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/10/0x35c9d05558da3a3f3cddbf34a8e364e59b857004), which was for public goods provided at the event. The local staff took home more than $3000 USD, with many using the funds to pay their rent during the low season.\n- Raid Guild Season 5 Cohort demo project provided a data dashboard for [web3 job search queries](https://lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/143763bd-4006-4a82-bbfd-96c1838d446c).\n- webSMART - Collaboration with the Beach Society, a local women\u2019s Facebook group, to [create and manage a local directory](https://websmart.co/community/guanacaste-goals-taking-local-to-a-new-level/) of women-owned businesses.\n- Cape Fear Roller Derby - Founding member of 501(c)7 and former board member of a member owned and operated [women\u2019s flat track roller derby league in Wilmington, NC](https://www.capefearrollerderby.com/) Community leagues and its network of over 500 leagues today in the [WTFDA](http://wftda.com/) today, are precursors to DAOs in the way they are owned and operated.\n\n**Adan (4d4n)**\n\n- **Role:** Full Stack Developer, Systems Administrator\n- **Upe Contributions:** Frontend and backend development, systems administration, cybersecurity\n- **Key Projects:** Operation CRJuntos, Public Nouns Twitter bot, DAOESCO, Raid Guild Rite of Moloch\n- **Example Work:**\n    - Public Nouns Twitter bot - [Public Nouns Twitter bot](https://github.com/0x4d4n/nouns-monorepo)\n    - DAOESCO - [website](https://daoesco.org/)\n    - Raid Guild - [Rite of Moloch](https://github.com/0x4d4n/RiteOfMoloch)\n\n**Ben**\n\n- **Role:** Business Operations Specialist\n- **Upe Contributions: Business development and operations, finance, community connector**\n- **Key Projects:** CRJuntos, The Alley, ADI Tamarindo\n- **Example Work:**\n    - The Alley - Owner and operator of [Costa Rica night club](https://twitter.com/TheAlleyTama) that integrates IRL business with web3 by accepting crypto, having a crypto ATM and leveraging PFP IP to offer unique perks.\n    - ADI Tamarindo - Facilitated the collaboration between ADI Tamarindo, Upe and the ICT (Costa Rica\u2019s tourism board) to develop [VisiteTamarindo.cr](http://visitetamarindo.cr/) to attract digital nomads to the town of Tamarindo.\n    - CRJuntos - Managed logistics and procurement during, ensuring efficient sourcing and distribution of food packages", "hidden": true, "question": "Describe your team's expertise in your chosen focus area within the Arbitrum ecosystem. Include relevant experience, publications, or past projects.", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "https://gap.karmahq.xyz/project/upe-1", "hidden": true, "question": "Please provide a link to Karma GAP, where you are tracking and reporting on milestones.", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "As our first experience onchain, we deployed the following contracts:\n\n\nUpe Impact Account Factory:\n0xDA7B0D6c687b168A4350581A101f2Cf2b20444Ae\nUpe Impact Badges:\n0x83F236b3B75Ce287125D849f863754Eb32102D93\nUpe Impact Trophies:\n0xc13f78150b54C4f2d6B3F48530BB3ED895e72b67\n", "hidden": true, "question": "List any contract addresses with the associated network(s), EOAs, or deployer addresses your project has deployed.", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Yes! \n\nWe got a grant of 5000 ARB to host a workshop for local NGOs focused on exploring the transformative potential of Web3 technologies and preparing them for participating in our next community fundraiser event in Costa Rica.\n\nThe workshop will introduce topics such as on-chain governance, new avenues for grants and funding, and the benefits of public-facing data. Upe will onboard these organizations and get them ready for the fundraiser. On August 17, twelve NGOs will participate in a fun-filled event that incorporates the aforementioned three topics.\nUpe will approach local businesses to sponsor the event, and we will leverage the funds from this grant as a matching pool to maximize the total amount of funds raised and distributed to local community organizations. Our goal is to provide a collaborative experience for locals in Guanacaste, especially those active in high-functioning community organizations, to be exposed to Web3 and discover the potential of on-chain governance.\n", "hidden": true, "question": "Have you received any previous grants or support for your work in the Arbitrum ecosystem? If so, please provide details and estimated funding amounts.", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "dropdown", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Please confirm that you have read and agree to comply with the ethical standards outlined in the eligibility criteria, including Gitcoin's Quid Pro Quo policy (https://support.gitcoin.co/gitcoin-knowledge-base/gitcoin-grants/general-questions/what-is-our-quid-pro-quo-policy)", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "No.", "hidden": true, "question": "Do you have any potential conflicts of interest to disclose? If yes, please provide details.", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Because our community is new to web3 tooling, Upe is searching for an L2 to call \u201chome.\u201d While interoperability is paramount to the evolution of blockchain coordination mechanisms, we believe it best to be deploying on a single L2 for this next phase to allow our community to acclimate to new tooling. Upe\u2019s founders find alignment with the ethos of Arbitrum, particularly with the pluralistic approach to grants. We look forward to becoming more involved in the Arbitrum ecosystem and governance, as we feel that there is much for us to learn from and contribute to.\n", "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to share anything else about your project, team, or vision for the Arbitrum ecosystem that wasn't covered in the previous questions?", "questionId": 9}], "project": {"id": "0xbf2653b8b4f5f688d39ca23a8a1ef883288153f319977ef35cd3d2a07b4007cf", "title": "Upe Impact", "logoImg": "bafkreicyc2tk2r6cubh2l6gbllbxwz55dqxhafx5xg5ydaztlqjjzsqndi", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreigrrxzkyyymvpbt43gk7y3sgnqac2go4icxdl7u4safw4stz4rppq", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://i.u.pe", "bannerImg": "bafkreidmkxqdw3n2db2qotn3vmeniabygfaihyvn3gtjhc2sbzlbywnege", "createdAt": 1722953724237, "userGithub": "0x4d4n", "credentials": {"github": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..Oj6QaUyrThdzgF1mK1N8wAx6sU82qiDvegcoWkkSDus7xGx3E55qkOzwwaxNpY-eD_gDnpBGotb7nlNxYSZQAw", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2024-08-06T14:02:11.625Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2024-08-06T14:02:11.625Z", "expirationDate": "2024-11-04T14:02:11.625Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x1E4ca94B3AaB60eC2Ec1a9FE7f4C58aAc2854dA6", "hash": "v0.0.0:FGmZ4bqJ0dcMeM+lc9kW1wyXMh7tTdd7P3OonYu4oGw=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextGithubOrg#0xUpe#168289188"}}, "twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..A4xpY-fECh_1lqFc4y0fzk6egUTzUzTximBIU03pvnpW_PoIdnjhgp_p7gv7pCh0gBuVXDl0bE3GfsYgEGOqDw", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2024-08-06T12:55:52.398Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2024-08-06T12:55:52.398Z", "expirationDate": "2024-11-04T12:55:52.398Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x1E4ca94B3AaB60eC2Ec1a9FE7f4C58aAc2854dA6", "hash": "v0.0.0:mB+oEMaqVUg8xwyZGm8xBxqAZo8z5no3XKMS5Lh4uqw=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#upelocal"}}}, "description": "Upe is developing real-world use cases within our local community that leverage blockchain technology to scale a public good. Our model can be duplicated or forked for any local community to replicate. \n[![Image](https://i.imgur.com/N7DYH7a.png)](https://vimeo.com/995389688)\nUpe empowers communities in Costa Rica to crowdsource and syndicate local information, developing real-world use cases that harness blockchain technology to scale a public good. Community information is often only shared in gated chats and private groups. Upe serves as a hub for anyone to post information, such as community events, water consumption reports, and beach cleanup collection results, making this data publicly available to everyone.\n![All About Upe](https://i.imgur.com/CVTKN2Y.png)\n\n### We\u2019ve been making progress since April 2024: \nUpe Impact is a revolutionary web application designed to facilitate coordinating community betterment projects for non-crypto \u201cnatives\u201d. \nIn essence, Upe Impact puts the heart of their communities on the blockchain by providing tools that enhance efficiency in community projects and ensuring that the efforts of contributors and organizers are accurately recorded, verified, and celebrated.\nUpe Impact is a companion dApp for Upe. In its current state, Upe innovates by putting together, in the same place, the local information, collected and curated by locals, and spaces (like digital Agoras) for the community to make decisions. It\u2019s an App that we aim to turn into a DApp.\n## How it Works\n![Upe](https://i.imgur.com/inwLZM9.png)\n\nWith an integrated authentication system powered by thirdweb, the application generates user wallets upon login, ensuring secure access for all users, regardless of their technical expertise, from web3 natives to novices. This design ensures that any web user can utilize this tool with zero web3 knowledge.\n\nBy bringing all the data on-chain, we aim to be able to experiment with ways to monetize it so the communities can also gain from their work, and coordinate globally.\n\n## Who uses it\nUpe is a civic-bottom-up data initiative verified and tested (by communities, individuals, small businesses, tourists, and even the government of Costa Rica), and it already has traction, as our stats show. Our community framework can be forked for any other local community.\n\nBy the time we collected data for our last report, we had:\n\n- 3,902,370 Search Impressions (From April to August )\n- 80,000+ Unique annual users \n- 1,000+ Weekly subscribers\n- 2 successful contracts with local authorities\n- 100 Local Contributors\n\n## Major updates\n\nAs we blaze into H2 of 2024, we are delighted to announce some significant updates and future plans.\n\n### Major milestones achieved last quarter\n\n- Secured funding from Public Nouns for contributor bounties.\n- Hosted our first IRL community fundraiser event for 600 local attendees, with 12 NGOs as beneficiaries.\n- Built and launched Upe Impact on Base as proof of concept for Onchain Summer.\n- Organized and hosted the first Upe community retreat with 30 attendees to plan the upcoming year - for local communities.\n- Procured funding for a matching pool from Arbitrum Foundation and Oasis Onchain for onboarding NGOs participating in our next community event.\n- Conducted weekly off-chain voting for our members to introduce non-crypto users to basic governance exercises.\n- Website received 3.5 million impressions from search engines (971% increase from last year).\n\n\n\n## Upcoming Goals\n- Build Upe Impact to make it chain-agnostic\n- Bring Upe Vote onchain\n- Relaunch community pages based on data from voting and feedback loop\n\n![Upe Vote](https://i.imgur.com/iNGlh9O.png)\n\n\n## In Progress\n- Feedback loop for locals to uncover information such as important topics, preferred channels, etc., to continue developing the Upe community stack.\n- Developing an annual plan with contributors and local community members based on the Upe community framework.\n- Decentralizing the curation and syndication of community information by organizing guilds, quests, and bounties for contributors to execute. \n- Weekly community voting on important events and topics.\n- Fostering an environment to encourage local impact makers and contributors to connect and collaborate\n## In the Pipeline & Under Research\n- Onboarding local community leaders and their organizations to web3 to foster a collaborative network leveraging blockchain for community coordination.\n- Expanding Upe Impact and Upe Vote for more local use cases.\n- Forking Upe for other nearby communities.\n- Experimenting with various sources of income potential to position Upe as a \u201cnaturally\u2019 public but monetizable goods that can be funded through commercial channels by tweaking them a bit\u201d (Vitalik, The Revenue-Evil Curve)\n![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/h00Ynjs.png)\nOur sources of funding are predominantly public goods funding mechanisms like Gitcoin QF rounds, direct donations & grants. Please help sustain our community by adding us to your cart & donating!\n\n### Learn More\n- Check out our [site](https://u.pe) \n- See [Upe Impact](https://i.u.pe)\n- Explore our [Newsletter](https://m.u.pe/d/)\n", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "0xUpe", "projectTwitter": "upelocal"}, "recipient": "0x18b6Dd99607E3b8203C4a0135A216defb98455DE"}}