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If so, please name the rounds or link the builder profile associated with previous rounds.", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The Tor Project is an open source software community. Openness and transparency are core values in the Tor Project's [Social Contract](https://community.torproject.org/policies/social_contract/). We are committed to transparency; therefore, everything we release is open and our development happens in the open. We expect the code and research we publish will be reviewed and improved by many different people. \n\nWe contribute to the growth of the OSS ecosystem by promoting these values with all of our partners and working to make Tor welcoming to new contributors. We do so by mentoring researchers, offering paid internship that help traditionally marginalized folks gain experience in the tech industry, and making many different avenues of volunteering and participation available.\n\nWe also collaborate with other projects that share our goal of advancing human rights by building open source software that protects people's privacy, provides anonymity and helps them bypass censorship. Instead of using the model of competition and surveillance capitalism, we aim to work *together.* [One example with this is our partnership with Mullvad VPN to create Mullvad Browser.](https://blog.torproject.org/releasing-mullvad-browser/)\n\nWe hope to inspire other tech builders and organizations to take a page out of our playbook\u2014and think of privacy as a 'feature' that can enhance user experience\u2014and not as an afterthought. This collaboration with Mullvad illustrates that it is possible to build opens source privacy-preserving technology that protects users like ours does together, rather than in competition with each other.", "hidden": true, "question": "How does your project contribute to the growth of the OSS ecosystem? Please provide specific examples of how your application enhances or expands the current ecosystem.", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The Tor Project develops free and open source software for privacy and freedom online, protecting people from tracking, surveillance, and censorship\u2014the Tor network and Tor Browser. The Tor network is a decentralized privacy network designed to help people exercise their human right to privacy, freedom of speech, and access to information. Millions of people use the Tor network every day, most through [Tor Browser](https://torproject.org/download), a privacy-hardened version of the open source web browser Firefox.\n\nThe Tor network, Tor Browser, and all other software, tools, and documentation produced by the Tor Project are free and open source. The Tor network and Tor Browser are designed to be used, built, and stewarded by a large community with different interests, needs, and perspectives. The Tor network is volunteer-run, with thousands of community members donating server capacity to create a piece of collaborative infrastructure that is free to use.\n\nTor occupies a unique position in the ecosystem of decentralized privacy applications. No other tool offers the free end-to-end anonymity, security, censorship circumvention, tracking prevention, and privacy features provided in the Tor network and Tor Browser. The decentralization of the Tor network, as well as the sophistication of how it handles its decentralized infrastructure, does what no private VPN or proxy server can do. Many anonymity, privacy, and security technologies in the internet freedom space build on top of and depend on our network, including file sharing tools, whistleblowing platforms, instant messaging, and even Facebook.", "hidden": true, "question": "What features or use cases does your dApp/App present? How is it differentiated?", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Gitcoin supporters will help the Tor Project with our longterm goals:\n\n* **Improve the health of the Tor network:** Continuing our work over the last several years, we are working to better defend the network against denial of service attacks, build community with relay operators, and make scalability improvements to the network. As a result, all users have a safe, stable experience on the Tor network.\n\n* **Write an implementation of Tor in Rust (\u201cArti\u201d):** The current Tor implementation bears the signs of age. We\u2019re on year two of the project to write a Rust implementation of the Tor protocols called \u201cArti,\u201d built from the ground up for flexible embedding, easy maintenance, and good performance. As a result, Tor will be faster, safer, and easier to embed in third-party products and services.\n\n* **Build community through training & user support:** We\u2019ve integrated UX research, feedback collection, & digital security training into a combined program through which we reach a diverse audience of human rights defenders in the Global South in countries where censorship and surveillance threaten their work. As a result, users who need Tor for safety, security, and privacy in adverse conditions have the support they need from the Tor Project.\n\n* **Track censorship and improve circumvention:** Tor is widely used for censorship circumvention. Many repressive governments block access to Tor. We track that censorship, work to improve existing mechanisms of circumvention, and make adjustments to those circumvention tools when censorship methods change. As a result, users in places where the Tor network is censored as less negatively impacted by this censorship.\n\n* **Increase Tor availability where it\u2019s needed most:** Part of making Tor easy to use is localizing our tools in languages spoken where censorship is severe. We prioritize localizing our tools and creating relevant support, outreach, and marketing materials in those languages. 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