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We already have an open source SDK to implement token gated applications. In the next step we want to develop the validation standard as a stateless and serverless open source project.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please explain how your project meets the round-specific eligibility criteria", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": false, "question": "If you've participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The main measurements are users of the Whal3s framework.\n\nWhal3s has got some strong traction with 350 developers on the platform that have been helping and testing our infrastructure since its launch. These individual developers will not make revenue for now, instead make up the core of our community and help find bugs, test the infra etc. Instead, Whal3s concentrates on winning lighthouse customers across key industries that are converting into customers throughout late 2023.\n\nWhal3s has already secured 12 launch customers that are going to build with our solution in late 2023, including agencies, white-label platforms, a German liquor brand, a first league football club, and a creator community with more than 100 million followers. The company has also signed letters of intent with 15 other businesses and has a sales funnel of 50 companies that it is currently in contact with.\n\nAdding to that we are particularly targeting agencies and NFT consultancies as multipliers as we call it. Multipliers are companies and or organisations that sell our product indirectly to the brands they are working with.", "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": 13}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "- Homepage: https://whal3s.xyz/\n- Demo: https://whal3s.xyz/demo (Scroll down)\n- Documentation of SDK and API: https://docs.whal3s.xyz/\n- Whal3s App: https://app.whal3s.xyz/\n- Github: https://github.com/Whal3s-xyz\n- SDK and React library: https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=%40whal3s\n", "hidden": false, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? 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Extremely fast transactions at very low transaction fees, backing by the Ethereum blockchain and an already incredibly established ecosystem including developer tools make us big fans of the network.\nThis makes Optimism a network that we would be very happy to recommend to our customers.\nThe Optimism Network especially the L2 construct is still very confusing for new developers. Especially for Web2 developers. Developers have to understand the concept of EVMs and Rollups, how to use the new standards, how to access NFT attributes, how to interact with Smart Contracts, etc. . That is way too much knowledge that is assumed. An adaptation into the mainstream will not be able to take place in this way.\nWhal3s eliminates this complexity and takes the user by the hand. 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