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No new milestones yet to report (also still waiting payment for both). Before that we participated in previous rounds and since we have organise 30+ educational events and published multiple in-depth articles with educational content on key web3 topics like ecosystem development.", "hidden": false, "question": "If you've participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months (N/A if you are yet to participate).", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "short-answer", "hidden": true, "question": "Telegram Handle We Can Use To Contact You (you can answer N/A)", "questionId": 3, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "lpV85MCMNrY3MSPT8INMkiem2pg+r5QHET0O5XmuwJ4=", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "c7f19e37fde627fc64acbec25b3fe6ddf01ad0137f7f4a8f23ce8ee3cba37c9f6ef9bafab035143ece1417224476361117293d18fe15fe4e3db6e899dfcf82114d495ce678ede12791f31c5569e59662c7ac0ded90117bfafe5d4c06d9d96da08c35d29c87b3470b7bdefff76181c6b2b5d0e4dd9ce008bf08abd4acdb43b4a00000000000000020a583a39ca37617f11fa8885a7ba726e2572243f1b042a60dda823cbc69549f8dd2511b656d76b7076731fa1bb916e1ad"}}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "https://checker.gitcoin.co/public/project/show/rndao-empowering-humane-collaboration", "hidden": false, "question": "Have you participated in any Octant epoch (Epoch 0 through Epoch 4) OR a previous Gitcoin Grants round? Please provide details and evidence of your participation.", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "https://gap.karmahq.xyz/project/rndao", "hidden": false, "question": "Do you have a Karma GAP set up? If yes, please provide proof. If not, can you set one up before applying?", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "RnDAO engages in deep research to address challenges of human collaboration and ecosystem development. We're connecting Web3 with expertise in organisation design, group psychology, political science, behavioural economics and more, taking an applied approach to ensure relevance.\nThen we're working to translate that research into solutions, by supporting entrepreneurs to validate and build projects.\n\nWe've also recently run an experiment to evolve how QF rounds are done, testing the idea of Thresholds in partnership with Gitcoin. More on that here: https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/gg21-community-round-proposal-collabtech-round-and-thresholds-experiment/19131\nAnd here: https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/gg21-retrospective-collabtech-round-by-rndao/19317\n", "hidden": false, "question": "Please describe how your project contributes to the growth and development of the Octant ecosystem.", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We've hosted over a 100 events and published 20+ research articles. These are publicly available for the ecosystem.\nSee our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@rndaotalks\nAnd blog: https://www.rndao.io/blog/category/articles", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project align with the round's focus on community and education within the Octant ecosystem?", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We'll continue our work researching and building solutions for DAO ecosystems and beyond.\nWe're right now researching reputation and will soon publish research on the topic.\nFollowing this area we aim to select the next topic for research based on community feedback.", "hidden": false, "question": "Provide a clear roadmap of your project, detailing future milestones and deliverables. How does this demonstrate your commitment to long-term impact and growth within the Octant ecosystem?", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We've a team with decades of experience in CollabTech and research, including having lead research for Google Suite, Asana, Aragon, and beyond.\nWe're also community builders and serial founders.\nMore about us (scroll down): https://www.rndao.io/about-us", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe your team's expertise and how it contributes to the successful execution of your project.", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We work open source and generally provide high-quality research, encouraging others to raise the bar. Our prioritisation of topics is based on identifying gaps in the ecosystem and we often include others in our workgroups. We're collaboration geeks after all :) ", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project complement or enhance existing initiatives within the Octant ecosystem rather than competing directly against them?", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We're actively doing research and championing ecosystem development methodologies that move entrepreneurship from competitive to collaborative.\nMore on that here: https://www.rndao.io/blog/post/business-clusters-as-a-strategy-for-web3-ecosystems", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe your approach to community engagement and how you plan to contribute to a collaborative and constructive funding environment.", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "All the funding contributes directly to our mission to empower humane collaboration. It allows us to continue doing research, sharing it publicly, and supporting builders to create solutions with it.", "hidden": false, "question": "How do you plan to use the funding to maximize your project's ongoing impact within the Octant ecosystem if selected?", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Many talks and articles:\nSee our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@rndaotalks\nAnd blog: https://www.rndao.io/blog/category/articles", "hidden": false, "question": "What unique educational content or resources have you created for the Octant ecosystem? How has the community received these? 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Our work includes ecosystem development methodologies ( fund deployment through grants and combined methods), governance, operations, identity and reputation, and community.\n    \n2. **[Venture Building:](https://www.rndao.info/our-ventures)** applying the learnings to incubate and build research-informed tools, and offering an \u201cinnovation space\u201d (community as a service, team coaching, strategy facilitation, networks and partnerships) for early stage tooling projects. \n\n \n    Our current ventures include:\n    \n      - [TogetherCrew |](https://www.togethercrew.com/) \n      - [Meet With Wallet |](https://meetwithwallet.xyz/) \n      - [Harmonica |](https://linktr.ee/harmoni.ca) \n      - [Microflow |](https://microflow.app/) \n      - [CollabBerry](https://x.com/collabberry) \n      - [Farstar](https://farstar.co/)\n      - [Cofound3r](https://www.cofound3r.com/)\n    \n3. **[Community Education](https://www.youtube.com/@rndaotalks/videos):** sharing our research, recording informative interviews with public goods innovators and projects, and running educational webinars and X (Twitter) spaces to support venture builders.\n    \n    Published Research on [Mirror](https://rndao.mirror.xyz/) and our [Blog](https://www.rndao.io/blog/category/articles)\n    \n    [RnDAO Talks](https://www.youtube.com/@rndaotalks/videos) on Youtube\n    \n    [Events & Webinars](https://lu.ma/u/rndao) schedule\n    \n    [![RUB23_VideoThumb_Guil-Cori (1).png](https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/652005eee7b34681ca9b88ac/654a86ff4977ea0dde4e967c_RnDAO%20Sizzle%20vid%20cover.png)`](https://youtu.be/oSFS3Yv-nW8)\n\n\nAnd we\u2019re just getting stronger.\n\n---\n\n# **What your support will help us build next**\n\nWe have bootstrapped our way to where we are, all funds go towards:\n\n- Continue to support our existing ventures as they mature\n- Onboard the next cohort of ventures creating swarm tech innovation\n- Research core challenges to produce in-depth public goods analysis\n- Develop the RnDAO community into a movement promoting humane collaboration\n- Share best practices about ecosystem development and organisation\n\n---\n\n# **What is RnDAO bringing to web3?**\n\nRnDAO is a swarm focused on the future of work.\n\nThe Ethereum ecosystem has developed very significant infrastructure, and now we can begin to focus on developing impactful applications.\n\nBut how? When a builder has identified the right problem, many lack the research skills to dive deep and the supporting community to pull them out of theoretical weeds. No wonder **75% of hackathon winners abandon their projects and 90% of accelerated startups fail.**\n\nRnDAO\u2019s Swarm model finds, funds, and fosters projects that focus on collaboration tech. This work will seed a collaboration-tech product ecosystem that:\n\n- Delivers commercially viable ventures that address societal challenges with impact in both Web3 and beyond\n- Develops operational and governance excellence as a key capability for the broader web3 ecosystem\n\nWe've cultivated an expert community focused on collaboration challenges, from Oxford to INSEAD, Google, BCG, Aragon, Gitcoin, Polygon and beyond. We connect those passionate about reinventing collaboration with those knowledgeable about the intricacies.\n\n\n*\"Improving human collaboration is perhaps the highest leverage activity we can undertake; it has a systemic impact on the major challenges we have as a species.\"* - Daniel Ospina\n\n---\n\n# **Meet the Team**\n\n[**About us**](https://www.rndao.io/about-us)\n\n\n\n\n\u26ab [Visit our Website](https://www.rndao.io/)\n\n\u26ab [Join our Discord](https://discord.com/invite/jKaYS2dkXq)\n\n\u26ab\u00a0[Follow us on Twitter](https://twitter.com/RnDAO__)", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "RnDAO", "projectTwitter": "rndao__"}, "recipient": "0xF784c3cF634615F48fb4a11a71C224901af0491C"}}