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(Months)", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "This project proposal aims to incentivize current DeSci operators and stewards who committed their time and effort to make this DeSci GG21 round a success.\n\nThe DeSci QF GG21 represents the third iteration of the decentralized science funding round on Gitcoin, aimed at fostering innovation and collaboration within the decentralized science (DeSci) community.", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe your project in a few paragraphs (ideally including a problem statement, solution, roadmap, and timeline for implementation)", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The DeSci rounds on Gitcoin emerged from the Longevity Cause Rounds (GG12-GR14), which transitioned focus to the broader DeSci ecosystem for GG15. Keith Comito, although he didn't directly steward the DeSci round, provided crucial advisory support. His major contributions included creating high-traffic articles and videos that promoted Gitcoin and DeSci, significantly raising public awareness and engagement. Keith's media outreach included influential pieces on platforms such as CoinTelegraph and Lifespan.io, significantly boosting the visibility of the DeSci rounds.\n\nThrough his advisory role and extensive publicity work, Keith helped shape the early success of the DeSci rounds on Gitcoin.\n\nhttps://x.com/KeithComito\n\nhttps://cointelegraph.com/news/keith-comito-is-at-the-intersection-of-blockchain-longevity-and-decentralized-science\n\nhttps://www.lifespan.io/news/gitcoin-gr12-is-a-win-win-for-aging-research/\n\nThe total of the matching pools of the 3 DeSci rounds that have run on Gitcoin stands at over $650K. Not only that but the rounds came with the side effect of enabling and unlocking an incredibly rich community.\n\nRef:\nhttps://gitcoin.mirror.xyz/Gxx9Ne8c-TdeIQ9d84CFt78rnvFfWSikY3gNKia9oAQ", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project support the mission or goals of DeSci?", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The Genesis Round\nThe inaugural DeSci Round in late 2022 marked a pivotal moment for those advocating for decentralized approaches to scientific research and was a fundamental milestone for the DeSci community.\n\nWith the support of notable partners like Protocol Labs, Vitalik Buterin, Stefan George, Ethereum Foundation, SCRF (Smart Contract Research Forum), Molecule, Orange DAO, GreenPillCN, AlchemixFi, and Springer Nature, the genesis DeSci Round during GG15 galvanized significant support, attracting 2,309 donors who crowdfunded $67.9k to support over 82 projects. Leveraging matching contributions from various partners, the total pool exceeded $567k. This initial round had a significant impact on many projects that used the funds to do research, grow their communities, and develop new tools and services. As highlighted in the DeSci Landscape Analysis, it also showed the need for more consistent funding streams, market fit exploration, and the desire to understand what other projects were building, so it would be easy to collaborate and grow the ecosystem together.\n\nVincent Weisser played a crucial role in initiating and executing the DeSci (Decentralized Science) Round during GR15. This effort was significantly supported by various key figures within the Gitcoin and DeSci communities. The notable contributors include Kydo, Shady, Erik, Eugene, Ben, Janine, Annika, Caro, J Ringo, Azeem, Carl, Vishnu, Sage, Umar, James, Scott, and Joseph Cook, among many others.\n\nGitcoin Beta\nFor the Gitcoin Beta Round, a community-led initiative emerged, spearheaded by Gitcoin\u2019s previous DeSci lead, Boris Dyakov. Seeking to sustain the continuous funding of ecosystem growth in DeSci, Boris rallied previous sponsors to continue funding the efforts.\n\nAn onchain election using the Jokerace platform was established to elect 4 round stewards from the DeSci community including Boris Dyakov, Manuel Olariu from Deep Venture DAO, Sarah Rouse from SpaceBioDAO, Jelani Clark and Carolina Menchaca from DeSci World.\n\nThe DeSci stewards were elected to oversee decision-making and grantee review, securing sponsorship totaling $75K.\n\nAccording to the reportcard, the Beta round attracted 267 donors who crowdfunded $18.6k to support these 65 projects.\n\nAfter this last round in May 2023, Manuel Olariu continued to organize DeSci on Gitcoin while several community leaders stepped up to support this effort for sustainable ecosystem growth in Decentralized Science.\n\nCelebrating Successes of GG20\nWith a matching pool of $25K, the #GG20 round supported 29 projects, attracting 250 individual donors who collectively contributed $8.5K in funding.\n\nRef:https://mirror.xyz/erinmagennis.eth/rSAHHVavkVHVqrKsp9C0w-GScJzKcJMnGxYBw0IrQUg", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe how funds from the grants program will be used for your project. ", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "arb1:0x50AE1aD21ACa30e9B54315502Efc7945aeC37C5d", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds (i.e. DeSci GR15/ Beta) using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here.", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Celebrating Successes of GG20\n\nWith a matching pool of $25K, the #GG20 round supported 29 projects, attracting 250 individual donors who collectively contributed $8.5K in funding.\n\nNotably, Jeffrey Koury from Research Hub Foundation and Sky Mine from the PublicNouns Community funded the GG20 matching pool.\n\nGG20 operators included Swift Evo from DeSci Asia, Maria Goreti Freitas from DeScier, Lana Ugrcic and Tomislav Mamic from Blocksplit, and Manuel Olariu who stepped up to make the round a reality.\n\nThe DeSci round garnered the most community likes out of all the rounds in the Gitcoin Governance proposal for Community Rounds.\n\nThe DeSci round in #GG20 was the first multi-language Gitcoin Grants round that engaged and enabled community members to submit projects in a variety of languages including English, Chinese and Spanish. Swift Evo and Twone organized X spaces together with Uncommons and the Global Chinese Community of Universal Digital Commons to onboard DeSci communities in Asia.\n\nDespite being a relatively small community, the DeSci round boasted a solid core of grantees, operators, and supporters who have demonstrated unwavering commitment and enthusiasm.\n\nRef: https://gitcoin.mirror.xyz/Gxx9Ne8c-TdeIQ9d84CFt78rnvFfWSikY3gNKia9oAQ", "hidden": false, "question": "If this project participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones since the last round.", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": true, "question": "Is there any other information you would like to share about your project, previous work, other project affiliations, or potential conflicts of interest? 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Supported by previous sponsors the Public Nouns community, and Gitcoin Grants, this round was in preparation for two months organized by a diverse team led by community leaders in DeSci, including Rodrigo, Twone, Maria Goreti Freitas, Swift Evo, and Manuel Olariu.\n\nWho is the team?\n\nOur team consists of 5 main round operators, including Rodrigo (Founder, MesoReefDAO), \nhttps://x.com/Cypherpunkfish1\n\nTwone (Contributor, Uncommons), \nhttps://x.com/tokyo10086\n\nMaria (Founder, DeScier), \nhttps://x.com/Goreti__Freitas\n\nSwift Evo (Founder, DeSci Asia)\nhttps://x.com/swiftevo1\n\n and Manuel (Founder, Deep Venture DAO).\nhttps://x.com/ManuelOlariu\n\n\nAdditionally, the DeSci community elected 5 stewards, including \n\nScott Itepu (brand strategist), \nhttps://x.com/0xthefuture\n\nHamzatiii (DAO Maxi, communications), \nhttps://x.com/hamzat_iii_eth\n\nOlokoji (VP, Web3Unilag),\nhttps://x.com/olokoji1\n\n Captainzaff (DAO operation lead, AxonDAO), \nhttps://x.com/0xZaff\n\nDeen (Fellow, MuseMatrix),\nhttps://x.com/DeenSomally\n\nGG21 DeSci round Co-ordinators, \nOsaborme, \nhttps://x.com/0x_borme\n\nAguda Toluwani,\nhttps://x.com/aguboss_eth\n\n to review incoming applications and ensure smooth onboarding of new DeSci grantees.", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "DeSci_Round_Ops"}, "recipient": "0x0779777924D364C0946929eB1BB72Bb6d1EE508C"}}