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This resource, consisting of cleaned, normalized, and aggregated data from public sources and Etherscan, serves as a foundation for token engineering advancements.\n2. **Educational Content**: In collaboration with partnered experts, we intend to develop educational materials on token engineering best practices. These resources aim to enhance ecosystem resilience and fairness for builders and investors alike by promoting well-informed approaches to token mechanisms and design.\n3. **Open-Source APIs**: We will provide open-source APIs either for free or at cost, depending on funding availability. These APIs form the basis for the growth of the web3 security ecosystem, empowering developers to access trustworthy scam data and create secure, transparent, and decentralized applications.\n\nSafeShores actively **supports the token engineering ecosystem by keeping the community first in mind** when building and distributing our products. Our project\u2019s emphasis on **low-cost access to information** and resources fosters collaboration and innovation, with the goal of a safer web3.", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project contribute to token engineering?", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": false, "question": "Please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Having designed the smart contracts for **insurance product** [**Health Potion**](https://www.healthpotion.xyz/) on Ethereum I've had firsthand experience with the potential **pitfalls of token engineering** and the importance of **robust smart contracts**. I've also had the challenge of **reliably sourcing scam and fraud data** in crypto, using sources from Etherscan to Chainalysis to build the insurance risk model.\n\nSafeShores addresses these challenges through **access to data and education to promote a safer ecosystem**.", "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}], "project": {"id": "1:0x03506eD3f57892C85DB20C36846e9c808aFe9ef4:711", "title": "SafeShores", "logoImg": "bafkreihpmpgivknisefzhcvimbkkboxogxtr35vmqe2lveclnfm4wlgpxi", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreicmzgzhtz47nbj3zep25ecqi2lacg7ve3mgleie4ofuwo6tzhvxgu", "protocol": "1"}, "website": "https://safeshores.xyz", "bannerImg": "bafkreigs2fht5jdjlbanl7b2kahksdvttipkmy276h2qkjfitveggmarui", "createdAt": 1682063750437, "credentials": {"twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..mcYsqCn8Idh6x8MKXme8AvF7rY_wJQHaDaclTwow0yRXLvaKMjB9HkP6VyXs0mjUBPIqtVKec9IlQQNgsKI_BA", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-04-21T07:43:21.516Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-04-21T07:43:21.516Z", "expirationDate": "2023-07-20T07:43:21.516Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0xA41a4f78DB50835519bD624a5F447D59Ce7F47C2", "hash": "v0.0.0:DdAv0eKnzoUpm+lrpImN+9+Bywvlebv5s8qGKZBg9L8=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#SafeShoresXYZ"}}}, "description": "## Summary\n\nSafeShores is a **public good API and Twitter bot** designed to **protect investors and promote transparency** in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. By aggregating real-time public data on cryptocurrency scams, SafeShores aims to provide a trustworthy and accessible platform that offers reliable information on fraudulent projects, current vulnerabilities, and advised best practises from the security community. SafeShores will **democratise how users access, report, and track scam data**, making it easier to identify and avoid harmful projects and scam pitfalls.\n\n## The Challenge\n\nThe current landscape of the cryptocurrency ecosystem is plagued by misaligned media incentives, information bubbles, and a general lack of transparency. This environment allows malicious actors to thrive, **putting investors at risk**. Access to reliable scam data is expensive and limited, creating a centralized ecosystem where most scam data is found on Twitter, restricting its availability to those who do not use the platform. Furthermore, tracking down scams and holding perpetrators accountable is difficult due to their scattered presence across various platforms.\n\n![Lifering](https://safeshores.xyz/assets/lifering.png)\n\n## Our Solution\n\nSafeShores addresses these challenges by providing:\n\n- A comprehensive, real-time aggregation of scam data, accessible through a Twitter bot, website, and other media channels.\n- Elimination of the need to follow specific individuals on social media platforms.\n- A database containing information on scams, poorly designed tokens, and bad token engineering systems.\n- Analysis of token engineering systems, easily understandable by laypeople.\n- Open-source funding to eliminate media bias.\n\n![Light](https://safeshores.xyz/assets/light.png)\n\n## Project Phases and Deliverables\n\nSafeShores will be developed in three distinct phases:\n\n#### Phase 1: Twitter Bot and Token Engineering Education Tool\n\n- Development of a Twitter bot leveraging APIs, AI Agents, and GPT to provide users with comprehensive information on scams, badly designed tokens and security risks\n- Creation of an educational tool that simplifies token engineering concepts for laypeople\n\n#### Phase 2: Website Development and Open-Source Setup\n\n- Development of a user-friendly, open-source website for accessing scam data, educational tools, and token engineering analysis\n\n#### Phase 3: Growth and Integration with Other Services\n\n- Integration with existing services such as scam sniffer, blocksec, and other web3 services\n- Establishment of an open-source database that serves as an API for scams in web3\n\n\n\n## Grant Fund Allocation\n\nThe grant funds will be allocated to:\n\n- Development costs such as servers to run the Twitter bot, educational tool, and website.\n- API costs for machine learning models such as LLMs\n- Building and maintaining a reliable database of scam data and security data\n- Integration with existing services like scam sniffer, blocksec, and other web3 services.\n- Provision of open-source funding to ensure transparency and independence.\n\nBy delivering a decentralized platform for easy access to reliable scam data, SafeShores aims to protect investors and foster trust in the cryptocurrency ecosystem.\n\n\n## Team\n\nSimon is a full-stack builder in web3 who\u2019s worked on several projects to improve the safety and awareness of crypto investors. At his previous startup Health Potion he built a decentralised insurance product that protected investors against phishing scams and successfully insured $43K of assets for the MVP. He has a Masters in Risk Management & Financial Engineering from Imperial College London.\n\n![Lighthouse](https://safeshores.xyz/assets/logo.png)", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "SafeShoresXYZ"}, "recipient": "0xeeeCbB65a5b15089d80c9Cb6fa800642a96E524f"}}