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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": "https://dune.com/hypercerts/op-hypercerts", "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": "GG19 (Nov 2023): 18 ETH \nOctant epoch 1 (Nov 2023): 28 ETH\nOctant epoch 2 (Feb 2024): 17 ETH \nOptimism RetroPGF 3 (Feb 2024): 96K OP", "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": "14", "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": "Our dApp allows projects and contributors to create and interact with hypercerts, especially to split, transfer, attest, evaluate, and sell hypercerts. In addition it allows projects to create hyperboards to recognise their financial and non-financial contributors.\n\nHypercerts connect multiple funding platforms to an interconnected funding network \u2013 making it easier for projects to reward all contributors and receive funding based on their impact.", "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 build hyperboards as a visualization layer of the underlying decentralized hypercerts database. You can think of it as a digital billboard to give credit to those that provide and support public goods.\n\nHyperboards turn abstract ownership of hypercerts into an interactive frontend. \n\nVia the hyperboards widget this can be easily embedded into any website and shared easily on social media.", "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": "Hypercerts are a tool to fund public and collective goods that provide social and environmental impact.", "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": "The hypercerts project is dual licensed under MIT and Apache-2.0. All code is available in public repos.", "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 build the core functionalities and piloted them with partners. Multiple additional features will be fully released in the coming months in a new frontend.\n\nNext steps\n- Release the core protocol on additional EVM-compatible chains, especially FVM\n- Add full evaluations to the current attestation tool\n- Build and release new frontend to integrate all current components, i.e. the hypercert minter, the evaluator, indexer, hyperboards, and the marketplace features\n- Support Voicedeck to release their platform to retroactively fund journalism\n- Cooperate with funding platforms and projects to integrate hypercerts\n- Integrate hypercerts into EasyRetroPGF and pilot it with FIL RetroPGF", "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 will use the funds to support the development of the new frontend and to advance the evaluator components.", "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 would like to thank all contributors, financial and non-financial, as well as the core hypercerts community, the Funding the Commons community, the Protocol Labs Network, and the Gitcoin community. \n\nThis project is the result of a magical collaborative effort.", "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": "0xa87df39f52e703cab5d5c8e27eebebefc2867f34ac9aeb28097095c8fe41a839", "title": "Hypercerts Foundation", "logoImg": "bafkreied6uke2zajadrgaibp4x2rboofi4dzorezg42kcpjulb3l2dxnry", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreihrmf4oujvkoilahjfoiuip7woe6k3gdsw7mq7dxx3wbtmof4gome", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://www.hypercerts.org", "bannerImg": "bafkreihkmyyjjcdydvxc3rzvl63uwxyh3t4yozhpsjl3oxya4ud5qgpjea", "createdAt": 1710236960893, "userGithub": "holkeb", "credentials": {"github": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..Lm2tMW9A0voO5W13ZeNXSV9oyNh68jwKb3nlLKIyxYNWFFUpVWSc8y7-taqS2-czcPfUYdx1v2WogDfcXarlCQ", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2024-03-12T09:35:44.251Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2024-03-12T09:35:44.251Z", "expirationDate": "2024-06-10T09:35:44.251Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x627D54B88b519A2915B6A5A76fA9530FD085cE26", "hash": "v0.0.0:vHdWrtBC6ChZLKIBvNUj+ahpI1f9hZ4cFGL5tZ/aOpI=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextGithubOrg#hypercerts-org#103380539"}}, "twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..4jdz4U-tZ4d5WceHFw9Bs63e2yagQjMq4G9F_ld_58jdbBapZwY562xJ_UoEQBqPZVTy1WfRILTf3QwBFWOSCA", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2024-03-12T09:35:13.375Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2024-03-12T09:35:13.375Z", "expirationDate": "2024-06-10T09:35:13.375Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x627D54B88b519A2915B6A5A76fA9530FD085cE26", "hash": "v0.0.0:MeUg24RSbgmg+75CyXcjx6C8F5escUT/iMoadJR01p4=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#hypercerts"}}}, "description": "# Where are we headed\n> The Hypercerts Foundation pioneers open-source protocols to transparently fund and reward positive impact. Hypercerts are the web3 standard to account for impactful work, tracking financial and non-financial contributions. \n\nImagine a world where positive impact was one of the most highly valued creations in our society; where entrepreneurs who pursued high-uncertainty, high-upside moonshots to radically improve society were rewarded directly for that impact; where becoming a patron of impactful causes was something people aspired to and displayed proudly; and where the methods used to evaluate impact were credible, transparent, and independently verifiable. \n\nThat world might seem a distance away, but it\u2019s one we can build towards. Specifically we\u2019d like to see more impact markets, retroactive funding and innovation in the way we fund public goods. In order for this to occur, we need protocols to track and fund impact.\n\n# What are hypercerts? \nA single hypercert is a semi-fungible token that accounts for work that\u2019s intended to be impactful, and whose ownership can be fractionalized and even transferred under specific conditions. Each hypercert represents a unique impact claim capturing the following basic information:\n- Who: Set of contributors\n- What: Scope of work\n- When: Time of work\n\n\n## Avoiding silos \u2013 interconnected funding system\nAs an extension of ERC 1155 semi-fungible tokens, hypercerts create a single, open, shared, and decentralized database for funding mechanisms. This database avoids the creation of new funding silos, as hypercerts can be integrated into any existing funding platform, thereby creating an interconnected funding ecosystem.\n\n## Selling impact \u2013 moving beyond donation\nWhile hypercerts may be useful for any funding mechanism, they\u2019re particularly valuable for retroactive funding as they provide baseline invariant guarantees that impact claims will not be forgotten. Projects create and sell impact, building financially sustainable and scalable revenue models. With hypercerts, we move beyond donations.\n\n## Certifying impact \u2013 open evaluation system\nCertifying impact is a process, and it should be an open and dynamic one. Hence, with hypercerts we create the foundation for an open evaluation system for credible and transparent impact assessment. Every hypercert can receive multiple evaluations from different evaluators using a variety of methodologies. This creates incentives to innovate evaluation methodologies and builds trust.\n\n# Where do we go from here\nLooking ahead, we aim to expand to more chains, enable evaluations with existing and new tools, enhance visualization with hyperboards, create marketplace tools, and collaborate for broader integration. With your support and a growing network, we're building a transparent interconnected funding ecosystem for positive impact.\n\n# The work so far\n- We released our whitepaper (draft): https://hypercerts.org/docs/whitepaper/whitepaper-intro \n- We have build the core protocol and released it on Optimism and Celo as well as Sepolia as testnet\n- We have created a frontend for anyone to create hypercerts \u2013 available at https://www.hypercerts.org/ \n- We have build an SDK for anyone to build on top of the protocol: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@hypercerts-org/sdk \n- We have piloted hypercerts with the last Gitcoin Rounds (Alpha, Beta, GR18, GR19) to show how they can be integrated into funding platforms \u2013 you can read more about it here: https://go.gitcoin.co/blog/hypercerts-for-public-goods-funding \n- We have piloted hypercerts with the pop-up city Zuzalu, ZuConnect and Edge City Denver retroactively raising more than 100,000 USD, e.g. https://zuzalu.hypercerts.org/ \n- We have created hyperboards to visualize the contributions from multiple hypercerts to a project and piloted this with the conference series Funding the Commons\n- We developed the hypercertExchange, which are marketplace features to enable the sale of hypercerts\n- Supported of Voicedeck to use the hypercertExchange\n- Built attestations to help users identify the correct hypercerts and establish trust\n- We have a core community (TG group: https://t.me/+YF9AYb6zCv1mNDJi) with many projects and platforms exploring how to use hypercerts, e.g. Greenpill+Hypercerts+Gitcoin (https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/better-impact-funding-the-greenpill-hypercerts-gitcoin-combo-move/16477), Gainforest (https://gainforest.earth/), da0/g0v Hypercerts Studio (Taiwan) (https://da0.g0v.tw/), Momus.eth & gitcoinreviews.co: Evaluation platform (https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/reviewing-gitcoin-grantee-impact-momus-eth-gitcoinreviews-co/15215), Longevity prize (https://www.longevityprize.com/)\n\n# The work ahead\n- Release the core protocol on additional EVM-compatible chains, especially FVM\n- Add full evaluations to the current attestation tool\n- Build and release new frontend to integrate all current components, i.e. the hypercert minter, the evaluator, indexer, hyperboards, and the marketplace features\n- Support Voicedeck to release their platform to retroactively fund journalism\n- Cooperate with funding platforms and projects to integrate hypercerts \n- Integrate hypercerts into EasyRetroPGF and pilot it with FIL RetroPGF\n\n# Testimonials \n\nJuan Benet (founder and CEO of Protocol Labs):\n> We are proud to be an early supporter of the Hypercerts Foundation, which will bring even greater focus and resources to this important area of innovation. The Hypercerts Foundation is helping build a more transparent and interoperable environment for funding public goods. We are excited to contribute to its mission in any way we can.\n\nKevin Owocki:\n> This is an exciting moment for the Hypercerts Foundation and for the future of impact funding. We are committed to advancing the development of decentralized protocols and novel coordination mechanisms.\n\n[See the announcement of the Hypercerts Foundation](https://hypercerts.notion.site/Introducing-the-Hypercerts-Foundation-d956203fe0fc4792980da138015e770a)", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "hypercerts-org", "projectTwitter": "hypercerts"}, "recipient": "0x627D54B88b519A2915B6A5A76fA9530FD085cE26"}}