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", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "address", "answer": "0x094b75EEDF58a83Af4D37694b7532691fB26570E", "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": "Our Github repo is a fine place for assessing our technical contributions\n\nOur app website app.voicedeck.org for number of newsrooms plus hypercerts we have prepared (currently 2 and 27 respectively)\n\nOur homepage voicedeck.org for project information and soon to be released whitepaper v1", "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": "1. Ethereum Foundation (Next Billion Fellowship) : $7,500 + in-kind support from team of 6 (Pollen Labs) for MVP development (July 2023 to April 2024)\n\n2. Gitcoin QF rounds : ~$4,000 since the beta round (April 2023 - ongoing) \n\n3. Buidlbox x Funding the Commons hackathon : $9,000 (September 2023)\n\n4. Hedgey finance - $25,000 from their share of RetroPGF (April 2024)\n\n5. Plurality Institute - $2000 (January 2023)", "hidden": false, "question": "Total Prior Funding Amounts, Sources, and Dates for the project in USD", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["Grants"], "hidden": false, "question": "Which of the following funding sources do you have? Check all that apply", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "number", "answer": "30", "hidden": false, "question": "How old (in Months) is the project?  ", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Somewhere in the Metaverse", "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": "VoiceDeck is a new approach to funding high quality journalism with a reward-for-impact approach incentivizing stories that create a positive outcome. These outcomes are recorded onchain as Hypercerts,  becoming available for purchase by media funders. The solution ends the need for grant applications by creating a virtuous cycle where funders purchase outcomes from your past work to support your future work.", "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": "We are the first project to integrate with the Hypercerts marketplace (currently on testnet), which is a web3 protocol for impact certificates. The marketplace lists different quality certs and lets donors purchase them directly (unlike having to claim them as is done with the Gitcoin rounds).\n\nOur code base improves user experience for Hypercerts by integrating the open source content management system Directus to let even  non technical people mint content as Hypercerts. \n\nWe have also built out a UI/UX for the Hypercerts marketplace smart contract and applied a methodology (benefit cost ratios as described in the Robin Hood Rules for Smart Giving) for quantifying impact in a Hypercert.\n\nAs such, once the Hypercerts marketplace is on Mainnet, we expect many other projects to build on our repo which provides a friendly and accessible way to leverage their contracts and take inspiration from our design and evaluation methodology.", "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": "Our long term vision is to mainstream impact certificates as a way of funding public goods. First proposed in 2014 by Paul Christiano on the effective altruist forums, impact certs let donors purchase impact similar to how they might buy a t-shirt. Rather than make a donation and wait 6 months (or more) to hear back on its impact, certificates let funders buy positive outcomes created by an organization.\n\nThe current models for funding public goods are primarily service contracts like grant agreements. Impact certificates are products sold by organizations, which allow for more disruption by startups in the social impact space.\n", "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": "All code is open source on our public repo and always will be! We haven't formally stated a license on our repo but MIT open source is the way to go", "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": "We have already launched a fully functioning version on Sepolia testnet and are currently in code-freeze. Our primary goal is to properly finish UI/UX testing, obtain appropriate legal assistance and launch on OP mainnet once the Hypercerts marketplace moves off testnet.", "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": "We would use funds for;\n1. Registration of legal entity to manage the VoiceDeck open source repo\n2. Figure out the legal status of selling impact certificates, which need to be onchain to prevent double selling of a cert.\n3. Prepare more Hypercerts (currently at 27) so we have a sizeable corpus when we launch on OP Mainnet\n4. Complete testing of our MVP and prepare V2 requirements for developers to build out\n5. Evangelize the project to attract more contributors to the open source repo, encourage relevant projects to fork our code base, better document the code in our V1 and create awareness of our project through media articles and academic publications", "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 took part earlier in the Web3 Community and Education Rounds as we did not at that time have an open source code base.\n\nWe believe we qualify for this round given we have launched our MVP on Sepolia testnet and have a developed open source repo that we are quite proud of.", "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? ", "questionId": 24}], "project": {"id": "0xb30e9a03fe9391b289331bc8d4f3ad6aa31db301447025f92b8275bc88d447f9", "title": "VoiceDeck: A Marketplace for Journalism Impact Certificates", "logoImg": "bafkreics46nauy525ejy577fryy4oujqbch3jaubon2jjqtopjvljf7yza", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreib5l6j7b2vwzwaftg23q5jszwotkyeddavz5xz4gfe6nxxqnfghg4", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://app.voicedeck.org", "bannerImg": "bafkreif75qmjy4geqm2cmfszka3ghkeyfbmrjzsctzs5rrdbyamj2f4dvm", "createdAt": 1682104154322, "userGithub": "devansh76", "credentials": {"github": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..f8TA6amRekb2Mlomat0YtMTdIuMGhvj7doRv5Jj9UtTZfVRBT3VRfUrT9lBTV1FjviaTNa0Cm5l4o_NG9w1zAw", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2024-04-13T11:45:40.685Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2024-04-13T11:45:40.685Z", "expirationDate": "2024-07-12T11:45:40.685Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x3FFD0C300fa4a021364Ae7e85a7b0d3a02133f99", "hash": "v0.0.0:Yw2uYbDsF41ZtRcCHXoyRvuln/aOSMEJV5UjeuZhpMI=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextGithubOrg#VoiceDeck#34304865"}}, "twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..IvUL9yMCG6v_P8-Qt8ztkhxyLd5d0jEdHNErBE8uAu--vSOOL7nBj9mmjkYVvbDsUMJhG1h0B7CA_WTsb6kUCA", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2024-04-13T11:46:37.790Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2024-04-13T11:46:37.790Z", "expirationDate": "2024-07-12T11:46:37.790Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x3FFD0C300fa4a021364Ae7e85a7b0d3a02133f99", "hash": "v0.0.0:vovQcOkDEVmY0d9fl2LRGqofT3//kj1SWTX18JlDyGc=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#VoiceDeckDAO"}}}, "description": "Outcome funding for journalists after their stories create tangible impact\n\n**Problem**\n\nProducing global investigations like the Panama Papers or local stories on community grievances are not sustainable via ad based revenue models. At the same time, such stories uncover new information and often lead to tangible progress on the issue they highlight. Which led us to ask a simple question - instead of having journalists write grant applications for every new story they want to pursue, can we just pay them after their past stories create impact?\n\n**History**\n\nVoiceDeck\u2019s founder Devansh Mehta is a journalist with personal experience of the funding challenges in the media industry. In 2017, he did his master\u2019s in investigative journalism at the Columbia Journalism School, where he worked with newsrooms like the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) that handled the Eurasia region for the Panama Papers. Despite OCCRPs massive impact (over $10 billion in asset seizures, 650+ indictments or arrests and over 1000 investigations or actions) they are unable to capture the value of the impact they create, outside of what is raised through grants.\n\nPost graduation, Devansh worked for 5 years with CGNet Swara, a citizen journalism platform operating in the Maoist affected regions of Central India. Local residents would dial in to a toll-free number and report longstanding community issues, which the organization would forward to government officials for their resolution. CGNet has solved over 1500 issues reported by the community but is unable to successfully raise grants without English speakers on the team.\n\n**Solution**\n\nIn the case of both OCCRP and CGNet, the root of the problem is same: the optimal strategy for nonprofit newsrooms is to sell the past impact from their stories multiple times, to as many funders as they can get an audience with, making impact marketing more important than its creation for fundraising.\n\nAt app.voicedeck.org, we record each impact from a journalist story as Hypercerts on Optimism (these are a web3 protocol for impact certificates). After the Hypercert is fully bought out by funders, newsrooms cannot raise any more money until they create their next impact.\n\nWe think this solution is superior to existing grant funding models for 3 reasons\n\n1. Moves past reputation or brand based giving. If you like the impact described in a Hypercert, buy it! Doesn't matter whether or not you have heard of the newsroom.\n\n2. Even with stellar marketing teams, newsrooms cannot raise more money than impact they have created. Each impact has a price and when fully bought out, cannot be sold again.\n\n3. Newsrooms have to account for their impact and have an incentive to stay with their past stories instead of moving on to the next one. Recording their past impact onchain adds discipline and history to their operations.\n\n**Traction**\n\nAfter first starting work on this idea in August 2021, we finally launched on Sepolia testnet! Ahead of our OP Mainnet launch, we can use all the support we can get. Even if not financial, feedback on our UI/UX would be great !\n\nOur pilot tokenized the impact reports of 3 citizen journalism outlets, including CGNet Swara. If we are maximally successful, newsrooms will regularly mint hypercerts of all outcomes arising from their stories and media funders will purchase them.\n\nOur North Star? Getting the Panama Papers onchain, a pivotal moment for our industry and the world.", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "VoiceDeck", "projectTwitter": "VoiceDeckDAO"}, "recipient": "0xd1825Dd9a5e49791FB7961AC3c4170DeeD5710b4"}}