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We're also working to make our virtual mobile numbers available as NFTs on Arbitrum.  We're also in the early stages of developing a Uniswap v4 Hook to make Ultimate Digits mobile numbers usable within Uniswap.", "hidden": false, "question": "Application detail", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "number", "answer": "200000", "hidden": true, "question": "Amount requested (in $)", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "dropdown", "answer": "ARB", "hidden": true, "question": "Payout token", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "This fund request is intended to fund our community airdrop farming campaign to incentivize product usage, to pay developer salaries and to pay for smart contract audits. ", "hidden": true, "question": "How do you account for this fund request?", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "1. Community airdrop farming: We plan to spend ~$100k on this over 9 months. Here, Ultimate Digits users will earn $ARB for completing transactions and referring users to Ultimate Digits. \n2. $75,000 will be used for development expenses. \n3. $25,000 for smart contract audits. ", "hidden": false, "question": "How will you use these funds? Please make a detailed plan for expenditures.", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "dropdown", "answer": "Uniswap on Arbitrum Ecosystem tools or products", "hidden": false, "question": "Which RFP is this project covering? ", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "For the Uniswap mobile wallet, users can send crypto to their friends just by selecting the recipient's phone numbers from their address book. They'd no longer need wallet addresses or web3 domain handles.  If both sender and recipient are registered with Ultimate Digits, the funds will deposit instantly into the connected wallets, else the recipient will get a request to join via an incentivized referral. They'd also then become users of Ultimate Digits and the Uniswap mobile wallet. ", "hidden": false, "question": "How do you think this project fits in with Uniswap?", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "P2P asset transfers of tokens on Arbitrum will be transacted via Uniswap at a much higher frequency since we're planning to incentivize users for p2p asset transfers. This increases Uniswap's usage, both on Arbitrum as well on Uniswap's mobile wallet.  ", "hidden": false, "question": "What benefits will this project bring to Uniswap in the Arbitrum ecosystem?", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Not yet, but planning to undergo. ", "hidden": true, "question": "Has this project undergone a security audit? If not, are you planning to undergo it?", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "https://github.com/ayanuali/ud-backend", "hidden": false, "question": "Is this project open-source? (If yes, share the repository link).", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "- Backend: Node.js\n- Frontend: React.js/vue.js\n- Infra: MongoDB, next.js\n- Libraries: Infura\n\n**The full technical overview is here:** https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ibb5lVEFUVTBkjieca1NnEQjngV1j28Fir7pq4Y6-qQ/edit?usp=sharing", "hidden": true, "question": "What is the workflow chosen for this project? (You can mention development practices, tools, programming languages, etc.)", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "beta.ultimatedigits.com", "hidden": true, "question": "Does this project have a demo? If yes, share a public link.", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "We have a detailed launch plan and a condensed version of it in presentation format here: https://pitch.com/v/ultimate-digits-gtm-strategy-v2g2bk  To summarize, we\u2019re teasing an airdrop to get user engagement. We\u2019ll retain users with variable rewards for transactions and incentivize them with social capital and platform currency for referrals. In parallel, we\u2019ll run joint awareness campaigns with our integration partners to onboard their users onto Ultimate Digits.\u00a0  Initial users will be Web3 domain holders and other crypto-natives who\u2019ll try out Ultimate Digits for the tech. We\u2019ll also get a lot of participation from airdrop farmers in regions including Asia Pacific and North America. The core JTBD of Ultimate Digits is most relevant to users from countries where UPI (or equivalent systems) are prevalent. So think of countries such as India, Vietnam, Singapore, and UAE. Here\u2019s a table we\u2019ve made where we\u2019ve defined in more detail some ICPs and their use cases, beyond the aforementioned: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BgFO5khTrxJFEIHHMClW5YxyJgupdgP8SsGepw8XztY/edit?usp=sharing ", "hidden": true, "question": "What is the target audience for this project? (Mention if there is a market launch plan).", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "**Core team:**\n- Ayan Uali, CTO\n- Atharva Sabnis, CEO\n\nDevs helping us part-time:\nShashi Kant\nAbid Merchant\nPriyanshu Mundhra", "hidden": false, "question": "Who are the members of the team?", "questionId": 14}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Core team:\nAyan Uali, CTO: Ayan\u2019s ability to write quality code, as well as to screen talent, and effectively manage engineers and developers, over the last 11 years, makes him well-positioned to be CTO of a fast-growing consumer tech startup like Ultimate Digits. After finishing a double major at RIT (fully sponsored by the KZ Government as part of a Presidential scholarship), Ayan worked at Fidelity Investments, Freshop, and Philip Morris in various software engineering and tech leadership roles, where he ended up working at startups as well as corporate behemoths and managed teams as large of 70 developers. Ayan was the primary engineer responsible for Freshop\u2019s mobile products, pivotal to its acquisition by NCR of the USA. \n\nAtharva Sabnis, CEO: Atharva is experienced in b2c product growth and b2b ecosystem development across early and later-stage startups over the last nine years - the skills he's acquired through these years are already proving valuable while building Ultimate Digits. Post his education at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in 2014, Atharva founded Fractal Media (consumer adtech), then founded Atron Digital (consumer hardware), and exited to the BVG Group. He then worked as a Product Head for IN-D.ai (b2b SaaS) and Growth Head for Eugenie.ai (enterprise SaaS), before founding NFT Labs in 2020. Atharva then had the idea for Ultimate Digits in 2023 and has been working on it since. Atharva was also part of the Antler Singapore Founders Program (https://www.antler.co), Draper University (https://draperuniversity.com/), and GrowthX (https://growthx.club/). \n\nPart-time devs:\nShashi Kant: Telegram bot and mobile app\nAbid Merchant: Telegram bot and mobile app\nPriyanshu Mundhra: Web app and Metamask Snap\n\n", "hidden": true, "question": "Describe team members' experience and current roles for this project.", "questionId": 15}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We have three Northstar metrics:\n1. Number of wallets connected to real or virtual mobile numbers\n2. Transaction frequency per wallet per week (for sending assets)\n3. Average value per transaction (fungible token)\nOur TVL equivalent metric is #1 x #2 x #3. \n\nAll this data will be available to the team via an analytics dashboard (Mixpanel or Hotjar) but can also be tracked on-chain. \n\nOur near-term key project milestones are:\n1. February '24: Integrate Coinbase embedded wallet. Trackable via our web app. \n2. March '24: Release Ultimate Digits web-app beta. Trackable via our web app URL. \n3. April '24: Release Ultimate Digits Telegram bot (here we'll enable you to also link your Telegram handle to your wallet, in addition to your real and virtual mobile numbers). Trackable since we'll list the bot name, and hyperlink to it on our website. \n\nWith milestones #1 and #2, we aim to achieve traction of 20k connected wallets, of which, 10% i.e. 2k would be transacting users, at an average frequency of once every two weeks. We estimate the average transaction value (not median) to be ~150 USDT. We also estimate the referral K-factor at this point to hover around 1.3. All this data can be available on-chain and we also intend to expose a partial view of our analytics dashboard to our community to win their trust. \n\nOur longer-term roadmap includes decentralized VOIP and other features being built atop the Ultimate Digits protocol - some of these would be by us, but most by other developers, whom we'll incentivize via hackathons. \n\nBelow are the longer-term milestones:\n\n**Current:**\n- Testnet v3 (React web app);\u00a0\n1. Purchasing virtual mobile numbers as NFTs.\n2. Linking mobile numbers to crypto wallet addresses.\n3. Using phone number identifiers instead of wallet addresses to send/receive crypto.\n- Registry for virtual NFT phone numbers.\n- Classification of phone numbers into categories for price determination and auction rules setup.\n- NFT contracts with virtual phone numbers.\n- Rule-based AI for recommendation algorithm to suggest people virtual phone numbers for purchase based on their searched integer strings.\n- Magic Labs integration.\n- WalletConnect integration. (Ongoing)\n- Coinbase integration (Ongoing)\n\n**Milestone 2 (July to October 2024):**\n- Mainnet v1 (React web app).\n- Fiat onramp integration.\n- Two token utilities go live.\u00a0\n- NFT checkout integration with Transak.\n- Twilio integration (for onboarding).\n- CMS v1 with Plerdy integration. CMS = admin dashboard.\n\n**Milestone 3 (November to January 2025):**\n- DAO governance setup via Snapshot **(completed early).**\n- Flutter app testnet v1 (feedback via Canny).\n- SendGrid or Brevo integration.\n- Fractal ID integration (for optional user KYC).\n- Fractal ID integration (for Fractal logins).\n- REST API for dAapp integration (wallet-focused).\n\n**Milestone 4 (February to April 2025):**\n- REST API for dAapp integration (wallet-focused).\n- Flutter mainnet - release APK and TestFlight access.\n- Mainnet v2 (web app).\n- V1 release of Web3 notifications service -> text/SMS messages (additional token utility)\n- CMS v2.\n- Staking pool (additional token utility).\n- Produktly or Appcues integration to improve user activation rates.\n\n**Milestone 5 (May to July 2025):**\n- V1 release of Web3 notifications service -> push notifications.\n- Web3 phone numbers <> RWA numbers relay.\n- Ultimate Rewards module v2.\n- Play Store and App Store release.\n- Multi-Factor Authentication v1 (additional token utility).\n\n**Milestone 6 (August to October 2025):**\n- Decentralized VOIP (dVOIP) testnet.\n- Integration exploration with BlockLess for node management for dVOIP.\n- Molly fork testnet.\n- MVNO integration commencement.\n\n**Milestone 7 (November to January 2026):**\n- Decentralized VOIP v1 (additional token utility) [feedback via Canny or ProductLift].\n- Molly fork v1 (additional token utility) [feedback via Canny or ProductLift].\n- CMS v3.\n- Additional chain support.\n- Tawk integration for community support.\n", "hidden": false, "question": "What are the Project Milestones? (Be very specific and write a roadmap highlighting critical deliverables of the project; mention how you will ensure to supervise and track them).", "questionId": 16}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "To achieve our user traction, we're doing below activities:\n1. Integrating Coinbase embedded wallet: We're on track to complete this before ETHDenver. \n2. Release beta web app: This is almost ready - we're currently debugging it and are 100% confident on meeting the timeline. \n3. Releasing Telegram bot: Our timeline is 20th March, considering buffer. So far, we're on track. \n\nMost of the above is dev-intensive work that is self-funded by us. For marketing traction, we're in the final stages of negotiating a deal with two marketeers to work with us part-time on an advisory model. ", "hidden": false, "question": "How do you plan to reach these milestones? (Explain the project feasibility).", "questionId": 17}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "No", "hidden": true, "question": "Has this project already been funded by other Grant Programs?", "questionId": 18}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["I confirm."], "hidden": true, "question": "I confirm that I have read the Code of Conduct and that I have filled out this form correctly and truthfully.", "questionId": 19}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["I understand."], "hidden": true, "question": "I understand that I will be required to provide KYC information by the UAGP team in case my application is accepted.", "questionId": 20}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Gitcoin Grants Google Search results", "hidden": true, "question": "How did you find out about UAGP?", "questionId": 21}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We're selected an alpha launch partner by Coinbase for their new wallet-as-a-service product. There will be some PR around this post ETHDenver. We were alum of BNB Chain incubator. ", "hidden": true, "question": "Additional information", "questionId": 22}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "NA", "hidden": true, "question": "Special requests", "questionId": 23}], "project": {"id": "42161:0x73ab205af1476dc22104a6b8b3d4c273b58c6e27:492", "title": "Ultimate Digits", "logoImg": "bafkreifw6revr6jtv6ktxhccxraarrcmgkdrmruwlxfa4qgltbg7b3sz74", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreid2zf6ov55te5ctkhpvlrh5pmjbix2jxigxtf6zasyglvzijx4qay", "protocol": "1"}, "website": "https://www.ultimatedigits.com/", "bannerImg": "bafkreigbmltyxlakcvmpytuv7hppe3frat54xplitas6iobwzc4ornf2vq", "createdAt": 1707732430674, "userGithub": "ayanuali", "credentials": {"twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..fjY8TY5PYXRZJxJQEVmd1J9c6aw-6niB7Rh6O0xLRktXiG4UrEdooOhHEQze5CkxzMJ4WPPSKkZtWzYC-TWEBw", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2024-02-12T10:06:41.909Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2024-02-12T10:06:41.909Z", "expirationDate": "2024-05-12T10:06:41.909Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0xdDD293F635f2793E418Ad5Fd5044c1A49C2EF84D", "hash": "v0.0.0:XmxRov4uFPBm1Jm/Q5SHv7w1NmRJP1sH3MWWFm91jiw=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#UltimateDigits"}}}, "description": "# Ultimate Digits is a public good, a basic piece of the digital payments infrastructure that belongs to the community. \n\n**Why Ultimate Digits?**\nMost of us have a mobile number but not a domain name. Why should we be forced to learn a new behavior in Web3, and get a domain name as a wallet identifier? Since we already have mobile numbers, why don\u2019t those become our wallet addresses?\n\nThis has been very successful in web2 fintech, where the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) enables users to abstract their bank account details to their mobile numbers. With UPI, users send bank transfers to their friends and merchants' mobile numbers. The transaction reaches the recipient bank account registered to that specific mobile number. This has made the sharing of complete bank details redundant. UPI is so successful that its usage has surpassed the other payment instruments by both transaction frequency and volume, in countries like India\n\n**What's Ultimate Digits?**\nUltimate Digits makes users\u2019 existing mobile numbers their existing crypto wallets\u2019 addresses.  For the privacy-conscious, we provide virtual Web3 mobile numbers as NFTs on Ethereum. These Web3 identifiers are ITU E164-compliant mobile numbers, starting with our unique +999 country code. Since most people are familiar with mobile numbers and use them in apps like WhatsApp, this system offers an intuitive Web2.5 bridge. \n \n**Ultimate Digits is to ITU what ENS is to ICANN.** We start as a Web2.5 app, evolving into a super-app with decentralized VOIP, text alerts for wallet transactions, and hash key-based micro-transactions. \n\nOur system securely links users' existing cryptocurrency wallets to their mobile numbers. This allows users to transfer cryptocurrencies and NFTs simply using the recipient's mobile number. Currently, users can send digital assets across different blockchain networks. \n\nOur long-term goal is to integrate with UPI. This integration means that when you send cryptocurrency from your wallet, it can be converted into fiat currency and deposited into the recipient's bank account if they don't have a crypto wallet. If the recipient has a crypto wallet, they receive the assets there. If they have both, the sender can choose the destination account. This integration aims to make crypto transactions as convenient and frequent as fiat transactions.", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "ultimatedigits"}, "recipient": "0xb44bfDC2a7a1E753a58241Ec101159a20a111fF8"}}