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(Months)", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "address", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here:", "questionId": 5, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "PbO0K5EohlhJ5OxRo1hPxkgUdHXt9ADL3VVDYcFv6P8=", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "17fe6ea7d628ad0a26c560533cb8c81c6b48718e7ef2ff0e6aa6f3b120b51fe1eba03adbe7dd5b14e822fe33fc0f28172f9632f99e26e6bbf9b37c573e3ec18494504440daf7dfdf741d7408953fc8689c550984911c85561379f952a8bf8b8491af2fa1b541d05f22106bb1dfa1fd4d3b1fbab2875617600e399d0c433acd5200000000000000207be7edf41ebb670a3fb093580c8fff67f440eefb3f782057af2e887cdf090927dd74532c7d332e7938d156e593ff69ad"}}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Devansh Mehta\nhttps://twitter.com/TheDevanshMehta\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/devansh-mehta-670192109/\n\nVishnu Prasad\nhttps://twitter.com/vishnuprasadk\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/vishnu-prasad-5690a01a0/\n\nSiddique Patel\nhttps://twitter.com/hodler_fo_lyf\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/siddique-patel/", "hidden": false, "question": "Profiles or socials of other main team members publicly associated with project", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Have you read and confirmed your grant abides by the Program General Eligibility Policy? https://gitcoin.notion.site/Gitcoin-Grants-Beta-Round-Eligibility-b7fca9fd3c26450b89ded11caaa6497f", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We are trying to bring investigative reporters into the fold of web3, by having them mint any outcomes arising from their story as hypercerts.\n\nWe are also reaching out to folks in the Effective Altruism community to get them to buy these hypercerts for funding proven, impactful interventions.\n\nWe are thus onboarding new communities to web3. I am also a regular tweeter who puts out educational resources & content along the journey", "hidden": true, "question": "How does your project fit into the Community & Education round eligibility criteria? ", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "First time on Gitcoin! ", "hidden": false, "question": "If you've participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We have got shoutouts from our journalism partners Video Volunteers, CGNet Swara and OCCRP!\n\nhttps://twitter.com/jessiekmayberry/status/1471103881895682058?s=20\n\nhttps://twitter.com/DrewOCCRP/status/1531938058039328768?s=20\n\nhttps://twitter.com/CGNet_Swara/status/1529074401190514688", "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 has not been covered?", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "hidden": true, "question": "Does 50% of your team reflect the diversity of the community your project serves with a particular emphasis on including women, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPoC), individuals with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQ+ community?", "questionId": 11, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "MOl8kFtS9viwH6gZxHX0cBvzF4vk5xcbGJz5bsk1Hy4=", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "f5e16352a40c735bdb234184f68e1d17e07a42c6d3c344271492d9f69c3748e4e938c6fac32cf41289fad868bb7d751809dece55add423932f50de5936fb5406291efb7cdeb3f967a2964446b497d030ab9d03e45dccd56bfb83dcb47d9899b6d74270cda4102d621f118e6098637ce70cd2b0929312a0881386060cb453e5f30000000000000020b7da76897ae8c8b4a137fa0fa52a12acf42c1a921800d19e5b422fd6e9456be8dfd1f591c25c2a459af38cc72540beb1"}}], "project": {"id": "1:0x03506eD3f57892C85DB20C36846e9c808aFe9ef4:801", "title": "VoiceDeck: A Marketplace for Journalism Impact Certificates", "logoImg": "bafkreiedqmkb3erwqm4wj6fa25eerfoolyc4ywreegkhsojcowix2ehr7u", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreibd5lidjjwstqehscoazwzen7hzwokbh2tjli7dvtd6mlvyb7ep54", "protocol": "1"}, "website": "https://voicedeck.org", "bannerImg": "bafkreihhg6vklwk6umus3bwtbuv3o6c6wwkkzd3yyambjjavildv7pyrse", "createdAt": 1682104154322, "userGithub": "devansh76", "credentials": {"twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..JhXi-mj2F2BUnR7Bufgyk7rUt8kC3Ssy7I6oUAEMQRM5YPfQ-noPUC1kJ1cHlICcV1V7fP2ccJggQbgBfNE3CQ", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-04-21T19:07:55.361Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-04-21T19:07:55.361Z", "expirationDate": "2023-07-20T19:07:55.361Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x3FFD0C300fa4a021364Ae7e85a7b0d3a02133f99", "hash": "v0.0.0:T24IsOz+c0eXy7k6bNeycDPeebPuPbWCEXb3lgH5rlU=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#TheDevanshMehta"}}}, "description": "Bringing investigative reporters into web3 by funding them retroactively through hypercerts\n\n**Story**\n\nMy master's theses at the Columbia Journalism School looked at Silk Way Airlines, partly owned by the Azerbaijan President's daughter. My story found that they had taken part in $420 million in Pentagon contracts and a $400 million export-import bank loan guarantee.\n\nThe CEO resigned during the reporting of my story. Despite this huge impact, my investigation was grant funded from start to finish. It made me wonder: what if I were paid after achieving an outcome like the CEO resigning?\n\nhttps://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/8493-airline-once-linked-to-azerbaijan-s-ruling-family-got-us-loan-guarantees-military-contracts-planes\n\n**Impact Markets**\n\nFirst proposed in 2014 by Paul Christiano, impact certificates are like carbon credits but along any impact vector. They represent an alternate approach to donating, where you 'buy' impact similar to how one might buy a t-shirt.\n\nProtocol Labs has built out a web3 protocol for impact certificates (hypercerts.xyz) while Optimism has allocated millions of dollars in its retroactive public good funding (RetroPGF) rounds. However, they are mostly used by projects already in the web3 ecosystem - I am looking to leverage the same infrastructure for funding investigative reporters as and when their stories produce tangible outcomes like court cases, resignations, asset seizures or policy change.\n\nIf we succeed, newsrooms will mint hypercerts of outcomes arising from their story and effective altruist donors will purchase them. Unlike other cause areas, donors can verify the outcomes for themselves through other news reports and press releases in the aftermath of an investigation's publication.\n\n**Use of Funds**\n\nThe tools are already built - what's lacking is awareness among donors & journalists of how they can be used.\n\nI will use any funds donated to raise awareness of these tools, by traveling to ;\n\nThe Global Investigative Journalism Network conference in Gothenburg, Sweden from 19th-22nd September.\nhttps://gijc2023.org/\n\nThe Effective Altruism conference in Boston from 27-29th October\nhttps://www.effectivealtruism.org/ea-global/events/ea-global-boston-2023\n\nI regularly tweet so you don't need to worry about radio silence - you will know exactly what happens at these conferences and how journalists & donors are reacting to this model for funding the media", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "TheDevanshMehta"}, "recipient": "0xe82a0dB3Cf329844f22547FE0eF84eCa8108e008"}}