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(Months)", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Problem: Scientists need to be educated abt web3 and DeSci. There are also not enough developers interested in DeSci (and the ones that are, there is no clear and direct way for them to get involved)\n\nSolution: MuseMatrix tackles this by running six-month fellowships aimed at creating open-sourced DeSci tools. These fellowships bring together scientists, developers, and experts in Web3, AI, and more to collaboratively build products that solve real scientific problems. The program is designed to be flexible, allowing participants to contribute while managing other commitments.\n\nRoadmap/timeline:\nPhase 1 (March - July): Educate fellows on DeSci, Web3, and essential project development skills.\nPhase 2 (July - August): Conduct user interviews to define the scope of projects, with a focus on real scientific needs.\nPhase 3 (August - October): Develop and launch a tangible DeSci product or research paper by the end of October.", "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": "If DeSci is to progress and become a revolution in science, there need to be spaces where scientists (who know nothing abt web3) and developers (who know nothing abt science) interact. This is needed to cross-pollinate ideas, learn from each other and brainstorm to create products. Musematrix serves a core, central need in DeSci.", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project support the mission or goals of DeSci?", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Support operations, support fellows to attend DeSci events, and support DeSci project development", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe how funds from the grants program will be used for your project. ", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "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": "For context, the Fellowship is a six-month programme where by the end we have an economically sustainable DeSci product.\n\nIt is broken into three Phases:\n\nPhase 1: Teaching\n\nPhase 2: Project Scoping/User Interviews\n\nPhase 3: Project Buildout\n\nCohort 1 is currently in Phase 2\n\nPhase 1 Recap\n\nMarch\n\nWe went live with applications at the end of March. It was officially launched at the DeSci London conference on 23/24 March.\n\nApril\n\nThe majority of April was spent promoting the Fellowship and we are happy to report we received almost 100 applications, far more than we expected!\n\nMay\n\nThe last week of April and the beginning of May were spent interviewing potential applicants and the cohort officially kicked off at the end of May.\n\nJune/July\n\nCohort 1 began with 25 amazing fellows who have now been fully DeSci-pilled! The majority (80%) had not used a wallet before nor had any prior knowledge of blockchain, web3 or DeSci.\n\nHalf of the fellows participated in person weekly at a partner office in London, while the other half were remotely connected. We had frequent syncs where the in-person cohort met the remote cohort.\n\nThe weekly sessions involved peer-to-peer learning about science, blockchain, and DeSci subtopics. See here for the curriculum with links to the Fellows presentations.\n\nWe have also kicked off the Product and Marketing working groups, covering the basics of building out a product, doing validation before actually writing code and the basics of marketing. The marketing squad promoted an open call for ideas on Twitter which was the most-viewed episode of The DeSci Mic! We will be kicking off the Developer, Business and Article writing squads next week.\n\nPhase 2\n\nFellows are moving into phase 2 (as of July 15th), where they will spend 2 to 3 weeks conducting user interviews (with scientists, universities, and biotech companies) to fully scope out our main project idea (Causality Network) which is a DePIN protocol to authenticate scientific data.\n\nAdditionally, we will productise the peer-to-peer learning element to make it easier to run further cohorts (this will be built on EAS). See here for details. This will be built out over August.\n\nTwo of the fellows were keen to work on an idea they came up with by themselves to which MuseMatrix will be giving support.", "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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We take a pragmatic approach focused on tangible outputs, namely open sourced DeSci tooling. We run cohorts of approximately 20 fellows (a mix of scientists, web3 developers, ZK, AI and more) who work collaboratively to build out a product. It is designed in an additive way that scientists & developers can participate whilst also having other commitments.\n\nWe are already running one cohort and have learnings to improve how we deliver it for future cohorts. See below for updates since our previous gitcoin round.\n\n**Update Since Previous #1:**\n\nLink to the previous round project for more details on the structure of the Fellowship\n\nThanks to your support in Round #1 we launched and completed Phase 1 of the MuseMatrix Fellowship program.\n\nFor context, the Fellowship is a six-month programme where by the end we have an economically sustainable DeSci product.\n\nIt is broken into three Phases:\n\nPhase 1: Teaching\n\nPhase 2: Project Scoping/User Interviews\n\nPhase 3: Project Buildout\n\nCohort 1 is currently in Phase 2\n\n**Phase 1 Recap**\n\n**March**\n\nWe went live with applications at the end of March. It was officially launched at the DeSci London conference on 23/24 March.\n\n**April**\n\nThe majority of April was spent promoting the Fellowship and we are happy to report we received almost 100 applications, far more than we expected!\n\n**May**\n\nThe last week of April and the beginning of May were spent interviewing potential applicants and the cohort officially kicked off at the end of May.\n\n**June/July**\n\nCohort 1 began with 25 amazing fellows who have now been fully DeSci-pilled! The majority (80%) had not used a wallet before nor had any prior knowledge of blockchain, web3 or DeSci.\n\nHalf of the fellows participated in person weekly at a partner office in London, while the other half were remotely connected. We had frequent syncs where the in-person cohort met the remote cohort.\n\nThe weekly sessions involved peer-to-peer learning about science, blockchain, and DeSci subtopics. See here for the curriculum with links to the Fellows presentations.\n\nWe have also kicked off the Product and Marketing working groups, covering the basics of building out a product, doing validation before actually writing code and the basics of marketing. The marketing squad promoted an open call for ideas on Twitter which was the most-viewed episode of The DeSci Mic! We will be kicking off the Developer, Business and Article writing squads next week.\n\n**Phase 2**\n\nFellows are moving into phase 2 (as of July 15th), where they will spend 2 to 3 weeks conducting user interviews (with scientists, universities, and biotech companies) to fully scope out our main project idea (Causality Network) which is a DePIN protocol to authenticate scientific data.\n\nAdditionally, we will productise the peer-to-peer learning element to make it easier to run further cohorts (this will be built on EAS). See here for details. This will be built out over August.\n\nTwo of the fellows were keen to work on an idea they came up with by themselves to which MuseMatrix will be giving support.\n\n**Next Steps: **\n\n**Phase 3:**\n\nPhase 3 is focused on project build out. We are focused on tangible outputs which we define as products or research papers. The first Fellowship group ends in October so this is the deadline to have a product live by.\n\nCohort 2:\n\nWe are also running additional an cohort (in LATAM and Africa) which started last week.\n\n**Building DeSci Products is hard!!!**\n\nDespite DeSci being three years old, there are very few live products (the bulk of the ecosystem is BioDAOs focused on funding whereas our focus is on tech products). In the entire ecosystem, there are just a handful of products that are live (most of which are in beta). DeSci products take alot of time and effort to effectively build out. This is why our Github repo is still empty. We want to make something that solves real problems in science. This required us spending the first two months educating scientists/developers about DeSci to allow for effective cross-pollination of ideas.", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "MuseMatrix_"}, "recipient": "0x17e4285BeE986aE686504131D3D5ABE0009f297A"}}