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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": "**Products**:\n- https://app.vocdoni.io\n- https://onvote.app\n- https://farcaster.vote\n\n**Published +100 public OSS repos**:\n- https://github.com/vocdoni/\n- https://github.com/vocdoni/vocdoni-node\n- https://github.com/vocdoni/keccak256-circom\n\n**Impact in the real world voting**:\n- https://twitter.com/vocdoni/status/1754831386660286531\n- https://twitter.com/vocdoni/status/1770482818444939441\n- https://twitter.com/sio_eth/status/1641049866213228544\n\nMore than 300K votes submitted in our Blockchain by citizens over the world\n", "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": "- Crowdfunding round 2019: $200k\n- Aragon grant: 2021 $800k\n- Aragon grant: 2022 $1M", "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": "60", "hidden": false, "question": "How old (in Months) is the project?  ", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Europe", "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": "Vocdoni offers a comprehensive suite of voting applications that make use of the Vocdoni Protocol:\n\n\n##### **Vocdoni App: Bridging Web2 and Blockchain for Inclusive Voting**\nTarget Audience: Traditional organizations.\nInnovation: Vocdoni App facilitates seamless transition into blockchain-based voting without requiring users to have prior knowledge of or investments in cryptocurrency. Users can participate in votes using familiar authentication methods such as social media accounts, ensuring ease of use and broad accessibility.\nCore Features:\n- Gasless Transactions: Allows participants to vote without incurring transaction fees, removing financial barriers to participation.\n- Privacy and Security: Ensures voter privacy through advanced cryptographic techniques, including anonymous and verifiable voting mechanisms.\n- User-Friendly Onboarding: Simplifies the transition to blockchain by creating blockchain accounts in the background and allowing login via social media.\n\t\t\n\n##### **Onvote App: Empowering Web3 Communities with Flexible Voting Solutions**\nTarget Audience: Web3 communities and DAOs\nInnovation: Onvote offers a Web3 voting platform that supports multiple voting and census types including multi-network token-based, Gitcoin Passport-based, GitHub-based, and custom data integrations. This flexibility allows for tailored voting setups that align with the unique governance structures of any Web3 community.\nCore Features:\n- Gasless and Anonymous Voting: The first platform to offer gasless anonymous voting in the Web3 space, ensuring cost-effective participation and maintaining voter anonymity.\n- Diverse Census Options: Supports multiple ways to create census for voters eligibility, catering to different community preferences and security needs: Multichain token voting, Gitcoin Passport census, NFTs, Whitelisted Address List, Github Users & Orgs, Custom Data.. \n\n\t\t\n##### **Farcaster.vote: Community governance within a social feed**\nTarget Audience: Web3 Communities and DAOs that make use of Farcaster protocol.\nInnovation: Introduces the first E2E verifiable and decentralized polls within Farcaster Frames, enabling users to engage in quick, community-specific polls without leaving their social feed\nCore Features:\n- Gasless Social Voting: Allows users to vote on polls directly through the Farcaster protocol without incurring gas fees, promoting higher engagement and interaction.\n- Flexible Polling Options: Supports community and channel-specific gating for polls, ensuring that voting is relevant and targeted to specific user groups.\n\t\t\n\n##### Unified Benefits Across All Products:\n-  Open Source and Secure: All three platforms are open-source and built on the open-source Vocdoni Protocol, ensuring transparency and security.\n-  Censorship Resistance: Leveraging blockchain technology, the platforms offer tamper-proof and censorship-resistant voting processes, crucial for maintaining integrity in democratic engagements.\n-  Universal and Scalable: Designed to be adaptable and scalable, these platforms can serve a small group to large-scale global elections, maintaining performance and security at scale.\n\nVocdoni's suite of applications demonstrates a robust commitment to enhancing democratic participation across various digital landscapes. From traditional organizations transitioning into blockchain to fully integrated Web3 communities, Vocdoni ensures that every vote is secure, private, and impactful. ", "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": "Vocdoni's applications are designed to enhance the user experience in the Web3 space by focusing on accessibility, usability, and seamless integration of advanced blockchain technologies. These design choices are tailored to ensure that all users, regardless of their technical knowledge or blockchain familiarity, can engage with decentralized applications effectively. \n\nHere\u2019s how Vocdoni's suite of applications achieves this:\n\n1. Simplified User Onboarding\nVocdoni App is specifically designed to ease the transition for Web2 users into the Web3 ecosystem. Recognizing the potential barriers that typical blockchain interfaces pose, the app integrates familiar authentication methods such as social media logins. This lowers the entry barrier for new users who may not be comfortable with or understand the complexities of blockchain technology. By managing blockchain accounts in the background, Vocdoni removes the need for users to interact with blockchain wallets directly unless they choose to, making the onboarding process as straightforward as using a conventional web application.\n\n2. Gasless Transactions\nTo address the often prohibitive cost of transaction fees on blockchain networks, Vocdoni products implement gasless voting mechanisms. This feature is particularly critical in promoting inclusivity and participation. By removing the financial barrier associated with gas fees, these applications ensure that every member of a community, regardless of economic status, can participate in governance and voting without financial strain. But not only financially, also not having to own a token to vote or being able to vote by simply filling a private data form input reduces significantly the onboarding friction for all kinds of voters.\n\n3. Socially Integrated Voting\nFarcaster.vote integrates directly with the Farcaster protocol, enabling users to participate in governance without leaving their social feed. This integration is crucial as it meets users where they already are, significantly enhancing participation rates and engagement. The ability to conduct quick, community-specific polls encourages active and ongoing participation in governance processes, making them a natural part of daily social interactions.\n\n\nThese design choices and features collectively work to demystify blockchain technology, making it more accessible and useful to a broad audience, thereby enhancing the practical utility of Web3 applications. By focusing on user-centric designs and solving real-world problems related to participation and governance.\n\nMoreover, we have invested considerable effort in optimizing the public voting page to ensure the onboarding process is exceptionally user-friendly, accessible, and responsive across all devices\u2014PCs, laptops, tablets, and mobile phones. This aligns with the foundational values of Vocdoni.\n\nA significant challenge we tackled was the implementation of the 'anonymous voting' feature. This required us to balance stringent security measures with our commitment to maintaining a user-centric focus, ensuring that both aspects are seamlessly integrated to enhance user trust and engagement.\n", "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": "Vocdoni's project substantially contributes to financial inclusion and social impact through its innovative use of blockchain technology for digital voting. Here are specific ways Vocdoni is making a difference in these areas, along with the target audiences or communities we serve:\n\n##### **Financial Inclusion**\nVocdoni enables communities, especially in underserved areas, to participate in decision-making processes that directly affect their economic well-being. By lowering barriers to participation through digital technology, we empower individuals to have a voice in local financial decisions, such as participatory budgeting.\n*Real-World Example*: \nIn the Berga municipality, Vocdoni's technology facilitated participatory budgeting for 2024, achieving a notable 36.2% turnout among youth. This high engagement rate demonstrates the platform's effectiveness in encouraging financial participation from traditionally less active demographic groups, thereby promoting financial inclusivity.\n\n\n##### **Social Impact**\nOur project enhances social impact by enabling political parties, associations, NGOs and other social organizations to conduct their governance digitally. This increases operational efficiency and broadens participation, ensuring that decisions reflect the community's voice.\n*Real-World Examples*:\n\u00b7 Plataforma per la Llengua, an NGO with over 25,000 members, used the Vocdoni Protocol for their AGM and board elections. This event highlighted the practical application of digital voting in strengthening organizational governance and member engagement.\n\u00b7 \u00d2mnium Cultural and Footbol Club Barcelona, with tens of thousands of members, have adopted Vocdoni's digital voting protocol, illustrating its scalability and effectiveness in large organizations. These implementations demonstrate Vocdoni's impact on enhancing engagement and transparency in significant social and cultural entities.\n\n##### **Broader Impact**\nVocdoni's technology ensures that voting is accessible to anyone with internet access, regardless of location. This global reach is particularly important for diaspora communities and members of decentralized organizations who wish to participate in governance activities from abroad. The use of blockchain technology not only secures the voting process but also makes it transparent and auditable, fostering trust among participants.\n\nThrough these initiatives, Vocdoni is actively contributing to a more inclusive, educated, and socially engaged world, leveraging cutting-edge technology to bridge gaps in traditional participation and governance models.", "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 our code is published as open-source code under the AGPL-3.0 license. Also, our Blockchain acts as a public-good voting protocol. ", "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": "Vocdoni has dedicated the past few years to developing open-source blockchain technology that prioritizes privacy, anonymity, and security. Our efforts have centered on leveraging advanced cryptographic techniques, including zk-SNARKs and other blockchain technologies.\n\nOver the last year, we have launched a Long-Term Support (LTS) blockchain and an SDK built on this platform, alongside various user-centric products. These innovations facilitate seamless integration and onboarding for both Web2 and Web3 users. While Vocdoni's applications are currently in an early-to-mid stage of development, our underlying protocol technology has undergone rigorous testing through several successful deployments. These projects showcase the robustness and practical utility of our solutions in real-world scenarios.", "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": "Funding from this round would crucially support the Vocdoni project by:\n\n- Development: The majority of the funds will be dedicated to compensating our development team. This ensures ongoing improvement and maintenance of the Vocdoni platform, enhancing features, security, and user interface.\n\n- Partnerships and Integrations: Additional funding will help expand our network of strategic partnerships and integrations, broadening our impact and enhancing our platform's capabilities and reach.", "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": "Here's an overview highlighting our project\u2019s dedication to advancing democracy through innovative, censorship-resistant, open blockchain technology:\n\n- **Open-Source Commitment**: Vocdoni is built on an entirely open-source platform, ensuring transparency and collaborative improvement, vital for projects committed to public good.\n\n- **Proven Impact**: Our technology has significantly enhanced democratic processes, with successful implementations for organizations like Berga municipality and Plataforma per la Llengua. These case studies demonstrate Vocdoni's practical utility in real-world democratic engagements.\n\n- **Advanced Security Features**: Our protocol incorporates zk-SNARKs to ensure voter anonymity and vote verifiability, addressing key concerns around security, privacy, and transparency in digital voting.\n\n- **Scalability and Accessibility**: Vocdoni's platform is designed to support elections of any size, making it accessible to a global audience, which is crucial for inclusive democratic participation.\n\n- **Strategic Partnerships**: Collaborations with recognized organizations have validated and extended the reach of our technology, enhancing its credibility and impact.", "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": "0xcf324fb6eca9c6b44ac7f613f07315bbad9cf4027c16ec150adb7d0a84054583", "title": "Vocdoni - Secure digital voting", "logoImg": "bafkreidwmtunbranukh7tlapdehdcxb2sbjiiwn5h73upoibjoop2b4ywm", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreigwwrtx3vsc7ujokw4yypgjrthzfxyyalhw45nnajjbl3turchjxm", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://vocdoni.io", "bannerImg": "bafkreibgj6f5aon7flfme3cl7e44xvc5u4ipuaxgo5isrspmiskgbcfene", "createdAt": 1673255879702, "userGithub": "", "credentials": {}, "description": "TL;DR: Vocdoni is an open-source blockchain voting protocol that is scalable, auditable, censorship-resistant & anonymous\n\n---\nVocdoni's vision [1] is to improve democratic health and promote participatory governance using decentralized and open-source technology. To achieve that, we are building the Vocdoni Protocol, a censorship-resistant, secure, anonymous (using zkSNARKs) and transparent voting protocol to facilitate decision-making for communities and organizations regardless of whether they are digital natives or traditional organizations.\n\nFor implementing the voting protocol, Vocdoni developed the Vochain [2], a public voting blockchain, as well as a set of tools that facilitate its usage such as an API [3], an SDK [4] and dApps. Today, this technology serves numerous organizations around the world by providing them with a secure, transparent, easy-to-use and low-cost voting system.\n\n\nAlong with the Vocdoni Protocol we have 4 sub-products:\n\n- Vocdoni APP: A digital voting platform for traditional organizations that allows for many types of voting methods and censuses, is agnostic to authentication methods and allows for anonymous voting using zkSNARKs.\n- Onvote APP: A digital voting platform for DAOs and Web3 communities that allows for many type of web3 census including Gitcoin Passport, NFT-based, ERC20-based or whitelisted. It also allows anonymous votes using zkSNARKs\n- Farcaster.vote: A digital voting platform that allows users to create polls that can be voted on directly in Farcaster's social feed.\n- Vocdoni SDK: An SDK that enables easy integration of the Vocdoni protocol into any platform and service.\n\nAll our code is published as open-source code under the AGPL-3.0 license. Also, our Blockchain acts as a public-good voting protocol. \n\nMore info at:\nhttps://vocdoni.io\nhttps://developer.vocdoni.io\nhttps://onvote.app\nhttps://vocdoni.app\nhttps://farcaster.vote\n\n [1] https://elastic-point-f85.notion.site/Mission-Vision-Values-bbdfee47eb9a43caaae2b05af9d2b3f2?pvs=4\n[2] https://github.com/vocdoni/vocdoni-node\n[3] https://developer.vocdoni.io/category/vocdoni-api\n[4] https://developer.vocdoni.io/sdk", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "vocdoni", "projectTwitter": "vocdoni"}, "recipient": "0x74D8967e812de34702eCD3D453a44bf37440b10b"}}