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", "hidden": false, "question": "Please expand on how much funding you\u2019ve received from each funding source and when? (VC, grants by foundation, token sales, etc)", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "number", "answer": "1", "hidden": false, "question": "Total team size", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "number", "answer": "4", "hidden": false, "question": "How old (in Months) is the project?", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here:", "questionId": 7, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "hNSp+dSmCubAjHHNKbt7HgVANMIBplteXhTu2kMnS34=", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "afe76e9487287a96b82ea03a83c89688c59a7005b33ddcee41e757bcf1d5f6449a8be4e7d9ecbe85bf230d12b706ce0af3027898634a40e75e3f5d4d5181b1ed95f99d12d739b77a858d4f19913d025433ae70813d070e3c3f8836b08579d0aafe34a2f05eeac4a2ad654c936f6e1d323839b8a8da402adf0333906809d7f5c9000000000000002092bc26de5f7e9219987ab67e4af0b8dc5d01c5132f30753b951651f529eb07dde5f22c3eb2a862a1d1f4e701584895a2"}}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "@CultistArtorias (https://t.me/CultistArtorias); https://twitter.com/Artorias_eth", "hidden": true, "question": "Profiles or socials of other main team members publicly associated with the project: ", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["yes"], "hidden": true, "question": "Have you read and confirmed your grant abides by the Program General Eligibility Policy? https://gitcoin.notion.site/GG18-Eligibility-cb4a5754c56043d4b3ed34eddbac261c?pvs=4", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "In late March this year, Wastelander begin crystallizing an education vision he had been thinking about for some time, MetaCulture. \n\nThe purpose of MetaCulture is intercommunity education and bridging gaps between existing protocols and communities, beginning by coordinating discussion between Solarpunk and Lunarpunk communities to discover possible shared vision and how to best leverage it; \n\nLearning from this and bridging to further community interop; \n\nAnd ultimately helping to bridge crypto's adoption gap from the current limited global public perception of the potential of Web3 and crypto more broadly, to a phase in which crypto is delivering its true potential in relation to existential crises, including epistemic and translation dimensions of the metacrisis. ", "hidden": false, "question": "Please explain how your project meets the round-specific eligibility criteria. ", "questionId": 10}, {"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": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "August's QF Round will help jumpstart MetaCulture in the following ways which lay the essential groundwork for a successful Cult DAO QF Round in September.  \n\n(a) Cultural Development:\n\n1.  Excitement and network effects will help spur a successful discussion series between Solarpunk, Lunarpunk and other (x)Punk communities in the form of Twitter Spaces and other social media platforms. Wastelander is in discussion with folks from DarkFi, LunarDAO and Kevin Owocki's team in coordinating initial dates for these Spaces. \n\nThe Spaces and/or other events Web3 discussion will seek to address how various subcultures can best combine or re-envisioned in fruitful ways. While the primary purpose of this series is to ignite sustained social interoperability between Cult DAO and the broader crypto ecosystem, it will also be interesting to see whether MetaCulture can spark new ideas and introductions. For example, Solarpunk is associated with pure transparency, whereas it is perfectly valid that anonymity tooling be integrated within Solarpunk building in the right ways. On the other side, we will explore potential vulnerability to collusion which Lunarpunk DAOs may have vis-a-vis being completely anonymous, and how to solve for this without sacrificing privacy and censorship resistance.  \n\nWe will ascertain post-series our successes, any negatives, and development changes and further ideas to implement from participants. Our purpose is to sustainably contribute to Web3 education and subculture synthesis rather than creating flash-in-the-pan moments which do not build sustained progression.  \n\n2. A Medium article or series by Wastelander, potentially co-authored with others from aligned communities taking part in the discussion series. \n\n(b) Financial: We hope to raise at least $5,000 to be earmarked for our contribution to a Cult DAO: MetaCulture matching pool in September. This is where things really heat up, with much more time and energy going into developing MetaCulture as a protocol and accelerating education programming leading into 2024 and beyond. \n\nIn general, I think that our objectives are currently best captured in these open-ended qualitative terms given that the project is now accelerating under public attention yet still in exploratory phase and, in all likelihood, will undergo some degree of change over the next few months. \n \nOver time, as the project's pace increases and patterns in activity emerge, it is also completely conceivable that quantitative metrics will reveal themselves in trackable and helpful ways.  ", "hidden": true, "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": 12}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "MetaCulture is a project developed by Wastelander, a Cult DAO contributor. \n\nOn the Safe multisig is Artorias, Co-Founder of Cult DAO. We may add a third signer for this Round, and definitely for September. \n\nThe development of this August Round kicked off when Kevin Owocki reached out over Twitter suggesting Wastelander utilize Gitcoin grants for the purpose of incentivizing Cult DAO contributors. I was thrilled when he subsequently provided invaluable coordination by lining up a team of wonderful Gitcoin folks to help shepherd this proposal process. \n\nI am nearly a complete beginner with Gitcoin, and therefore extend my genuine and heartfelt thanks to those who have been so patient and incredibly helpful leading up to this phase. ", "hidden": true, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? Anything you'd like to add that may help in determining project eligibility?", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": true, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? Anything you'd like to add that may help in determining project eligibility?", "questionId": 14}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["yes"], "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to future messages from Gitcoin for updates, information, and/or interviews? ", "questionId": 15}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["yes"], "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to us sharing your information with select third-parties for potential opportunities for them to invest in your project? ", "questionId": 16}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Somewhere in the Metaverse", "hidden": false, "question": "Location/Region where the project is based ", "questionId": 17}], "project": {"id": "10:0x8e1bD5Da87C14dd8e08F7ecc2aBf9D1d558ea174:922", "title": "MetaCulture: A Cult DAO Community Initiative ", "logoImg": "bafkreicalu7kwk5zmysmkak27z6hlmwzzelckoihxngmzxv5hcavx4m34a", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreihncte6c3mn6dseu3epevujgayew3ghhaujtzp3n3keggzk3ygqda", "protocol": "1"}, "website": "https://cultdao.io", "bannerImg": "bafkreieyt4ygg2wtznnsodyo3wnvlwa3seqapehsfxcbtq226qvp62xvey", "createdAt": 1691941622284, "credentials": {"twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..mQ5A3FcFNZqAGw6MJTQytjgzChF4ENj-8V9kMUEsVJNvzkyDgerLrYxJ7MYGnQnJntVE9aAu6cpRvAFZVLphDg", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-08-13T15:18:25.554Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-08-13T15:18:25.554Z", "expirationDate": "2023-11-11T15:18:25.554Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x325F04eEb726849Ebf51B48Cb8b912c252e33317", "hash": "v0.0.0:mGvscxIs8wijbDwGzdkHYHMjIExjN2isu4O+YcnSBsE=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#wastrelwander1"}}}, "description": "MetaCulture is a community initiative from Cult DAO, which itself launched in February of 2022. \n\n**Cult DAO: Background**\n\nAs a summary of purpose from The Cult Manifesto: \u201cCULT serves to fast forward the collapse of the old financial system, to end the tyranny of sovereign nations and central banks. The current financial system serves to keep the people poor, a society built on debt needs inflation to function, and inflation serves to rob the poor and allow them to never catch up with their overlords in the ruling class.\u201d \n\nThe Cult Manifesto reads directly as Cypherpunk and Lunarpunk with clear statements of the generator functions underlying accelerating global issues. In combination with defining the problem space and elements for addressing it, The Manifesto and permissionless nature of the DAO\u2019s governance provide open conceptual space for interpretation and fertile ground for builders of all creeds. \n\n\n**Problem Statement**\nBecoming a maximally impactful contributor to Web3 requires revitalizing social and cultural value exchange between Cult DAO and value aligned communities across and beyond Ethereum.\n\nBut, there is currently no consistently available internal incentive system for contributors to Cult DAO governance, community development, or problem solving more generally. \n\nFurthermore, Cult is trapped in a self-fulfilling feedback loop of being perceived as a memecoin (for more, see the Addendum to the Problem Statement). \n\n**Proposed Solution**\nOpen up Cult DAO\u2019s memetic filters through MetaCulture, allowing current and potential governance members to build a sense of community ownership with an eye towards long term community building. MetaCulture will function as an expansive cultural attractor and flywheel reflecting the values inherent to The Cult DAO Manifesto and much of Web3. For more on grassroots community development read: medium.com/1kxnetwork/how-to-grow-decentralized-communities-1bf1044924f8\n\nWe therefore are seeking support for the building of bridges between what Cult DAO stands for, our contribution across Web3, and in service of the global issues which transcend crypto communities. \n\nCult DAO, vis-\u00e0-vis its design as a decentralized and highly adaptive funding mechanism, has the potential to culturally and materially contribute to long term, positive sum relationships between web3 and the wider world of social impact. For this reason and because we believe strongly in the need for scaling decentralized directions and public goods development, we extend our immense gratitude to Kevin Owocki for initiating this process and generating the momentum for Cult DAO\u2019s first ever Gitcoin Grants proposal.\n\n**The intention for this August\u2019s Gitcoin Grants cycle is two fold:**\n\n**(a)  Cultural** \nFirst and foremost, we seek to initiate cultural value transfer between Cult DAO and aligned communities across Ethereum and beyond. This includes interested folks from value aligned communities , as well as current members of The Many and The Guardians (Cult\u2019s bicameral governance system). \n\nI foresee this beginning with public discussions (probably Twitter Spaces/Q&A across socials) seeking to explore the dynamics between Solarpunk and Lunarpunk communities. \n\n**(b) Financial** \nAll generated funds shall be earmarked for Cult DAO\u2019s September QF Round matching pool contribution. \n\n\nGiven (b), I should say something about Cult DAO\u2019s September Round. The intention for September is to formally build out MetaCulture, a community education Schelling point with the purpose of building the conditions for composability between Cult DAO and Web3 subcultures. \n\nIn other words, MetaCulture will build self-sustaining dialogue between Cult and value aligned communities. This means evolving a distributed education and cultural network with its own decentralized architecture and public goods funding interface with the wider world outside of Crypto as traditionally conceived. \n\nMy current vision is that this begins in a more centrally designed and guided way, with the integration of on-chain tooling over time which functions as a groundwork for MetaCulture becoming a self-organizing and replicating decentralized iteration of this initial stage. \n\nDown the line, my aim is also to generalize MetaCulture such that it functions to bridge barriers between communities and conceptual schemes in general which seek to find value in discovering common ground in service of global issues.\n\n**In a word, the initial objective of MetaCulture is to jumpstart a virtuous cycle of social interoperability by attracting builders and growing a culture of sustained, grassroots value interchange.** \n\nThis involves:\n\n**(1)** Attracting Builders & Contributors, including existing community members and other passionate individuals and communities interested in scaling decentralization and funding public goods. \n\n**(2)** Converting from Cult DAO\u2019s status quo to a hub of sustained contribution to decentralization and public goods funding.\n\n  **a.** This requires that builders perceive a vibrant, open and value aligned CULTure which leads sustainably to value capture. A la Gregory Landua\u2019s parable of the rain, MetaCulture\u2019s aim is cultivating an ecosystem which both receives and then also cultivates various forms of value inputs in a pattern of a positive sum regeneration. The gap to close in this regard largely divides largely into public perception and available incentive for builders and contributors (Cultural and Financial development). \n   \n  **b.** We will hold an initial model discussion series for defining, connecting, and where appropriate composing communities and subcultures across the highly dimensional expanse of crypto\u2019s aesthetic and philosophical spectra. Kicking off this process is discussion on the contrasts and potential syntheses between Lunarpunk and Solarpunk, for example. I am in dialogue with individuals from several communities in this regard. \n\n**(3)** Manifest sustained value capture and regeneration over time, growing a virtuous feedback cycle on behalf of global need for scaled public goods funding. \n\nBuilding this self-regenerating and replicating metaculture requires the natural flywheel effect of sustained quadratic funding and social interop in combination with the right intercommunity translation and composition approach. This includes opening the design space for Cult DAO proposals and antifragile treasury funding mechanism contributing to future Gitcoin funding Rounds, and incentivizing contributors in building public goods which address the memetic perceptual trap Cult DAO has found itself in.\n\nWe of course also will incentivize educational and cultural development on zk-EVM Modulus with a portion of matched funds. MetaCulture itself will launch as an intercommunity education network on Modulus. \n\n**Looking to the Future**\nAn attribute of Cult DAO\u2019s online presence is the passion and dedication demonstrated by governance members who have found personal meaning, purpose, and a sense of self-efficacy within The Cult Manifesto and our community. \n\nI hope that Cult DAO\u2019s capacity to provide decentralized, automated public goods funding at scale will grow as governance members recognize and leverage the potentials afforded by Gitcoin and other QF funding mechanisms.\n\nWe are incredibly excited to synthesize this passion with quadratic funding with an eye towards translating the stone soup of a single community into Stone Soup as a public goods meta. \n\nQuadratic funding converts ideas, passions, and diverse representation into sustainable value capture vastly more reflective of broad public preferences than traditional funding mechanisms. For Cult DAO, this helps resolve the memetic gravity well which contributors have struggled to break out of. \n\n**Extending this, MetaCulture bridges from where crypto\u2019s public reception and leverage is today, to addressing our multifarious global metacrisis via scaled public goods funding, memetic momentum, and transcultural decentralized contribution on (x)Punk rails.**  \n\n**Recent Milestones**\nCult DAO is a decentralized community currently without a formal roadmap and milestones, with several intraDAO subcultures having their own focuses and objectives.  This being said, recent major events in Cult DAO from the anon founders & devs include: \n\nFebruary 2023: Launch of second ecosystem project, The Rug Game, a blockchain implementation of cooperative game theory and strategy.\nJuly 25, 2023: Deployment of zk-EVM Modulus\u2019s public testnet build v0.9. More information here: https://wearecultdao.medium.com/modulus-testnet-v0-9-eb149f606574\n\n**Addendum to the Problem Statement**\nSeeking funding within Gitcoin as a respected Ethereum ecosystem Schelling point provides the immeasurable help of addressing a core factor inhibiting Cult\u2019s growth and contribution to decentralization and public goods across Ethereum and beyond: Cult\u2019s self-fulfilling memetic prophecy. \n\nIn brief, Cult has been stuck within the bounds and dynamics which allowed it to grow in the first place. What does this mean? It was only via the medium of memetics in March of 2022 that Cult first gained traction on its message. \n\nCurrently, on the outside, Cult is often perceived as a memecoin. Effectively, this generates a self-fulfilling prophecy and illusion of dependence on \u201cmemecoin tactics\u201d, Cult\u2019s innovative tokenomics, vision, and other intrinsic features notwithstanding. The initial phase of MetaCulture is to break this pattern.\n\n**About Cult DAO: Addendum**\nAll proposals must conform to at least a majority of the following open-ended criteria: \n\n\u25cf Fight Against Centralisation\n\u25cf Further the Cause of Decentralisation \n\u25cf Directly Benefit a Noble Cause. \n\nIn addition, Cult\u2019s liquidity on Ethereum is locked for 263 years and ownership renounced of the smart contracts. Since these two factors are held constant, my interpretation of the above proposal criteria is that they provide general direction while also being adaptive across cultural boundaries, and responsive to evolving and diverse needs. \n\nSince Cult does not have a single set of agreed upon \u201cgoals\u201d per se set by the community outside of supporting \u201cthose building and contributing towards our decentralized future\u201d, the following partial list of objectives reflect the ethos & values of The Cult Manifesto:\n\n\u25cf An expansive, decentralized, and flourishing web3-world education & onboarding interface including automated consensus building\n\n\u25cf Sustained, permissionless funding and social support available to anyone who meets proposal criteria\n\n\u25cf Education in relevant domains (technical, philosophical, community development) at scale. This might include: Decentralized Web3 education in programming, mathematics, and economics; political philosophy and history of political economy; phygital grassroots community outreach and development. \n\nFor more about Cult DAO, read: \n\n\u25cf The Cult Manifesto: cultdao.io/manifesto.pdf\n\n\u25cf wearecultdao.medium.com/a-declaration-of-the-independence-of-cyberspace-a-reminder-for-the-many-f3cc9a5f4596\n\n\u25cf wearecultdao.medium.com/cult-is-a-public-good-3525181ade26\n", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "wastrelwander1"}, "recipient": "0x645682C8644FC4db1f9BE285C5A7108D7A77c147"}}