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", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "address", "answer": "", "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": "Where to look to see impact: \n* https://nft.storage/blog/25-april-2024-nft-storage-community-update\n* https://nft.storage/blog\n* https://classic.nft.storage/stats/ \n\nKey stats:\n* Number of Users: 165,000 NFT.Storage Classic accounts, and 2,017 NFT.Storage accounts\n* Volume of Data: Over the six-month period, we handled over 15 million new uploads, accounting for 50 TiB of data to NFT.Storage Classic. \n* Data available through the NFT.Storage Gateway: 137.6 million uploads and 660TB of data retrievable through the NFT.Storage Gateway.", "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": "* April 2021 - March 2024: Funded privately by Protocol Labs\n* April 2024: $250,000 - PL Filecoin Blue Fund\n* April 2024: $2272 - Revenue from storage fees and DAO Membership fees\n", "hidden": false, "question": "Total Prior Funding for the project in USD", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["Grants", "Sales"], "hidden": false, "question": "Which of the following funding sources do you have? Check all that apply", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "number", "answer": "37", "hidden": false, "question": "How old (in Months) is the project?  ", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Oceania", "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": "NFT.Storage enhances Ethereum's ecosystem by providing open source, long-term storage for off-chain NFT data like metadata and images. By ensuring the data is content-addressed and decentrally stored on the Filecoin Network, our service addresses critical gaps in data integrity, accessibility and preservation.\n", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project significantly contribute to the Ethereum network\u2019s infrastructure, addressing foundational needs and innovative solutions to current challenges?", "questionId": 16}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "NFT.Storage will elevate the Ethereum ecosystem by integrating NFT.Storage solutions with Ethereum, L2s, and L3s as a primitive. This deep integration ensures off-chain NFT data is securely and verifiably preserved in the Filecoin network, improving interoperability, user experience, and fostering broader adoption and sustainable preservation of digital assets.\n", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project promise to elevate the Ethereum ecosystem, particularly in enhancing privacy, interoperability, and/or user experience?", "questionId": 17}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "In April 2024, NFT.Storage spun out from Protocol Labs to become a standalone social enterprise, currently seeking not-for-profit status. Historically free, our service maintains low pricing for broad accessibility, relying heavily on grants to sustain our mission of preserving NFTs as timeless assets.\n\nRead our litepaper here: https://nft.storage/litepaper", "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": 18}, {"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": 19}, {"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": 20}], "project": {"id": "0x1bb64e87b901e6e0f4d7877a99bc5a035ca4be1ec2517fd3f2e00337e636daf7", "title": "NFT.Storage", "logoImg": "bafkreie3koczbz6ynlf3cel4a7mbfj5pwclok3x2gezt5tlnjkuei7gzbe", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreigeytgr54t6r6tpflmpdps7pdc6ssejwix2oqf2rxmw2bka563s7m", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://nft.storage", "bannerImg": "bafkreibu27r5oo2bwiw42rhfpnyjhg4wn5wadgzw3ouupj2d2dxtrgpcse", "createdAt": 1713966177796, "credentials": {}, "description": "# WHAT IS NFT.STORAGE\n**NFT.Storage** is an open-source long-term storage service designed for off-chain NFT data (like metadata, images, and other assets). Our foundational service, **NFT.Storage Classic**, is a free product widely used by numerous marketplaces who upload and retrieve NFT data through the **NFT.Storage Gateway**. The new version of NFT.Storage, launched in early April 2024, introduces a small one-time fee for endowment-backed long-term storage on Filecoin, highlighting our commitment to the sustainable preservation of NFTs.\n\n## TRUSTLESS VERIFIABILITY\nData is content addressed using IPFS, meaning the URI pointing to a piece of data (\"ipfs://\u2026\") is completely unique to that data (using a content identifier, or CID). Embedding these IPFS URLs and CIDs in NFTs and their metadata does not itself guarantee permanent access, but thanks to NFT.Storage\u2019s technology, the associated content remains retrievable through the **NFT.Storage Gateway** and long-term Filecoin storage. This infrastructure aims to mitigate the risk of losing access to NFT data and the IPFS CIDs make it possible to verify trustlessly what content an NFT is associated with.\n\n## DATA REDUNDANCY\n**NFT.Storage Classic** manages data through dedicated servers facilitating IPFS availability and decentralized Filecoin storage. Since IPFS is a standard used by many different storage services, it's easy to redundantly store data uploaded to NFT.Storage on any other IPFS-compatible storage solution from pinning services, to your local IPFS node, to other storage networks like Arweave or Storj. And as time goes on, NFT.Storage will increasingly decentralize itself as a public good!\n\n## PUBLIC GOOD\nSince launching in April 2021, NFT.Storage has evolved into a trusted public good for NFTs, hosting over 660TB of data from our vibrant community. We're excited to have recently announced and launched the next phase of NFT.Storage, building on our solid foundation. This includes the evolution of the NFT.Storage product focused on long-term preservation of NFTs, alongside the newly formed **NFT.Storage DAO**, to foster greater community involvement and support sustainable NFT preservation. Discover more about our journey towards decentralization and our latest developments on our DAO page: [https://nft.storage/dao](https://nft.storage/dao).\n\nView highlights from our recent event where we invited leaders across arts, culture, and technology to offer \"hot takes from the hot seat\" in lightning round interviews. \n\n## WATCH THE VIDEO\n[![Watch the video](https://img.youtube.com/vi/_cXlP-AK_UY/0.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cXlP-AK_UY)\n\n\n## HELPFUL LINKS\n- [How to onboard your NFT data to IPFS](https://nft.storage/blog/onboard-nft-data-to-ipfs)\n- [How to work with pinning services](https://docs.ipfs.io/how-to/work-with-pinning-services/)\n- [How to set up your local IPFS node](https://docs.ipfs.io/install/ipfs-desktop/#windows)\n- [The next chapter for NFT.Storage](https://nft.storage/blog/the-next-chapter-of-nftstorage)\n", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "nftstorage", "projectTwitter": "NFTdotStorage"}, "recipient": "0x8366aDcAdBc63B2C22cc3F48979c837D890054d0"}}