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", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "- We received 99,999 $BRIGHT in funding from BrightDAO in August (https://gardens.1hive.org/#/xdai/garden/0x1e2d5fb385e2eae45bd42357e426507a63597397/proposal/147)\n\n- We received 5 ETH in funding from PublicNouns in early November (https://publicnouns.wtf/vote/29)", "hidden": false, "question": "If you've participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months (N/A if you haven\u2019t participated previously). ", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "In addition to measuring social media metrics and discord members, we aim for:\nOnboarding 2000 new users to BrightID\nOnboarding 500 new members to the Web3 Ambassador program\n\nThese foundational members will participate in referral programs and help us in our mission to onboard more users.", "hidden": false, "question": "How do you measure the impact of your project? Please provide examples and/or standard metrics. This might be used in future impact reports ", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "number", "answer": "15000", "hidden": false, "question": "Total Prior Funding for the project in USD", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Grants", "hidden": false, "question": "Which of the following funding sources have you received? Check all that apply", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "number", "answer": "5", "hidden": false, "question": "Total Team Size", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "number", "answer": "12", "hidden": false, "question": "How old (in Months) is the project? 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Its plants, animals, elements and laws of physics are all derived from core concepts of web3.\n\nAs players explore, build and level up, they learn the fundamentals of blockchain...without even realizing it!\n\n## \ud83c\udf1f Learn, Grow, and Evolve with Meliora\n\nBlockchain empowers people with unprecedented opportunity, autonomy of identity, financial freedom and ownership of data. So, why aren\u2019t more people using it?\n\nThe answer is clear: value of blockchain is difficult to understand. There is no desire to learn about how to use blockchain without the initial appreciation of what makes it special. Without seeing clearly how decentralized ledgers and consensus mechanisms make web3 different from web2, \u201ccrypto\u201d just sounds like a scam. To most people, \u201cblockchain\u201d is just a buzzword, and nothing more.\n\nThis problem is not alleviated by any project, product or platform. Coinbase Learn and MetaMask Learn claim to be onboarding new users, but they\u2019re really just making existing users click through boring slideshows. This method of torture has become ubiquitous amongst crypto exchanges, which are the largest and most successful \u201cweb3\u201d platforms. Indeed, the biggest \u201cteachers of web3\u201d are not teaching at all, while simultaneously eliminating the fundamental values of blockchain by holding ownership of their users\u2019 assets. This is a colossal failure.\n\nCourses about blockchain available on LinkedIn, Coursera and Binance Academy suffer the same ailment of being boring, plus another common problem - they entirely focus on developers. All of their instructions, resources and tools are only for software engineers, and no one else. This issue is even seen in the remarkable and noteworthy Crypto Zombies game. While it offers a compelling solution to the problem of education, it\u2019s a Solidity course built for coders. It\u2019s not for everyone. Right out of the gate, most people are excluded. Alchemy University, Polygon Academy, Read to Web3...the list goes on. The world of educational resources for developers is robust. The world of educational resources for new users is barren.\n\nEnter Meliora.\n\nThe game world of Meliora is a decentralized universe built on blockchain. Its plants, animals, elements and laws of physics are all derived from the core concepts of web3. As players explore, build and level up, they learn the fundamentals of blockchain...without even realizing it!\n\nTo state that \u201cwe learn better when we\u2019re having fun\u201d is to state the obvious. We know from our own personal lives that, for example, the experience of learning how to play Super Smash Bros. and the experience of learning how to use the sin() function are very different. We know which types of experiences we liked more, and which engaged us more. Most importantly, we know which experiences inspired us, leading us to do even more learning on our own. After school, there was homework, which meant we had to learn about past participles, historical dates and trigonometric functions. And then, after homework, we got to learn about Monopoly, Pokemon, football and Call of Duty.\n\nUnsurprisingly, experiments and data support the same conclusion. Playing Super Mario 64 builds hippocampal grey matter (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5718432/). Playing Super Monkey Ball helps doctors perform laparoscopic surgery (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27631319/). Bleeding edge machine learning algorithms are being written by college students to win Pokemon battles (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhvj7CmTRkg). Why would anyone learn ML just to play Pokemon? Because Pokemon is fun. It only takes one drop of fun to inspire a sea of learning.\n\nMeliora is not just a single game, but an entire fantasy universe whose characters, nature and magic exemplify and illustrate the fundamental values of decentralized ledger technology. The trees and fungi of the forests communicate with each other through trustless networks of roots and fungal nodes, redistributing resources throughout the woods to sustain their inhabitants. Adjacent to nature, democratic utopian cities with unimaginable technology flourish and grow, all thanks to their use of decentralized governance and distributed computing. Everything in Meliora is derived from the basic elements: the fires of proof of work, the winds of peer-to-peer communications, the waters of decentralized governance, and the groundedness of immutability. The legendary Ledger of Fate contains every event that has ever occurred in Meliora, and ever will. This gives it the mysterious quality of being the only distributed ledger whose future transactions are already filled in...but what does this mean? You\u2019ll have to play to find out!\n\nIt\u2019s worth noting that the word \u201cblockchain\u201d does not appear in the above paragraph. The word \u201cblockchain\u201d is not important. The values are.\n\nNo one needs another blockchain course - there are at least 21 million of them, and they\u2019re all failing. Rather than repeating an ineffective strategy, Meliora features a wide array interactive experiences for different learning styles. RPG adventure games are very popular amongst younger people, whereas word games are more popular with older individuals. Story-driven games and interactive shows engage users with comedy, drama and suspense. Meanwhile, other users are drawn in by the soothing challenge of fun puzzles and simple text-based games. There\u2019s always something fun to do in Meliora!\n\nThere are already so many incredible dapps, and so many more to come. Despite their value, most of these dapps will struggle due to lack of users. In a painful irony, most potential users will also suffer due to a lack of web3 understanding. Meliora is the bridge that connects people to blockchain. In this way, Meliora provides more value to other blockchain projects than any other dapp. Every web3 builder, artist, creator, company and DAO benefits from Meliora\u2019s onboarding. That\u2019s why, through fun, Meliora is onboarding the world to web3.\n\n## \ud83e\udd1d Partnering with BrightID and Unitap\n\nWe've partnered with BrightID and Unitap to provide you with the most seamless and simple process possible. BrightID is the key to identifying individual users, preventing bots and giving true legitimacy to test results and player progress. Unitap provides easy and free access to gas tokens for users to spend on their blockchain journey, as well as a rewards system through the PrizeTap.\n\n![Our Partners](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FuRBtrCXsAI1uwQ?format=jpg&name=large)\n\n## \ud83d\udd17 Blockchain Agnostic\n\nMeliora is not limited to a specific blockchain. We support every protocol and smart contract language out there. Our platform teaches users about the core fundamentals of web3, which apply to every chain. Through partnerships, Meliora also offers games and adventures that teach about specific chains, their merits, their histories, and their limitations.\n\n## \ud83c\udf0e Supporting the Entire Blockchain Community\n\nBy increasing the number of blockchain users, we're supporting every project, company, DAO, artist, collector, and engineer working with blockchain. Our success benefits the entire blockchain community, and we're proud of that.\n\n## Explore our game platform:\n\n![Game Select UI](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F--KxIbWQAAb7oY?format=jpg&name=large)\n\n## Learn blockchain with Andrea LTP in the world of LearnTap!\n\n![LearnTap Preview 1](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F--K_HhXoAAQwQs?format=jpg&name=large)\n\n![LearnTap Preview 2](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F--K_IFW8AA5Mgp?format=jpg&name=large)\n\n## Help the LMNTL Guardians defeat the wicked forces of FUD using teamwork, problem-solving and blockchain!\n\n![LMNTLs Preview 1](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FuQwP8caIAAiF7g?format=jpg&name=large)\n\n![LMNTLs Preview 2](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FuQwgk5aUAAybv2?format=jpg&name=large)\n\n## Watch a preview of gameplay [here ->](https://twitter.com/EvanOnEarth_eth/status/1654195976398344192)\n\n## Watch a full video description of Meliora [here ->](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX7poeLYGhc)\n\n## Enter Meliora today and start your journey towards becoming a blockchain expert. \ud83c\udf93", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "NoFunLabs", "projectTwitter": "NoFunLabsXYZ"}, "recipient": "0x290a1112310c09de18CA8a932456E4e5FAA77E17"}}