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Membership contributions", "hidden": false, "question": "Previous project funding sources (VC, grants, token sales, etc)", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "number", "answer": "99000", "hidden": false, "question": "Total prior funding for project in USD", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "number", "answer": "7", "hidden": false, "question": "Total team size", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "number", "answer": "18", "hidden": false, "question": "How old is the project? (Months)", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "address", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here:", "questionId": 5, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "53N6r7uFscN36zygrIvIjdyLC9x3ypCvKcrZ4oYRGcU=", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "690d8376edbaf67984803296de3571e84faf37624dba8631787087a6a2b14784f7bbc4c1215a2e5609fc5c05c245280f588107becca7705c574681bb597b2dafd2863e670e408686a693859f651aef6a2b1ef2996704f57e5967361c885b8092db035be3c721c1d095e4861dd3cf22f1acd3de395fa3b073978783f9f133ac1300000000000000204ec6efe1e73a441c39864e07abdec60730760184bce3768152f1050a4f243acd31498a62c0bbf24db446cb44b48e2d8a"}}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Co-founders\n1. https://twitter.com/simonpolrot\n2. https://twitter.com/MarinaMarkezic\n3. https://twitter.com/heckerhut", "hidden": false, "question": "Profiles or socials of other main team members publicly associated with project", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Have you read and confirmed your grant abides by the Program General Eligibility Policy? https://gitcoin.notion.site/Gitcoin-Grants-Beta-Round-Eligibility-b7fca9fd3c26450b89ded11caaa6497f", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The idea of the EUCI as an EU-wide organization started from the observation that the regulators do not get how the Web3 industry work. Regulation is inevitable, we just can make it smarter.  In our routine work analyze law proposals, receive feedback from the industry, and organize workshops. Clarity in laws requires comprehensive approach and inclusion into the dialogue different parties: industry players, regulators, researchers, supervisory and standard-setting authorities, cybersecurity experts etc. That is a right way to make Europe fit for the digital age which has a place for decentralized technologies.  ", "hidden": true, "question": "How does your project fit into the Community & Education round eligibility criteria? ", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "\n- organized our own conference Reg3.EU in Lisbon, which gathered builders, researchers, lawyers, and local regulators. \n- organized an Anniversary event in Brussels to have a discussion with EU regulators and industry leaders.\n- launched Youtube channel with our materials.\n- keep running periodical Twitter spaces on the most acute topics.\n- keep analyzing the new law proposals, participate in public consultations and issue position papers as our vision of the subject of the regulation.\n- planning to launch our new web site this summer.\n- planning to talk at the upcoming  ETHCC about regulation.\n- keep organizing workshops to focus on specific topics (in Denver, Brussels, Lisbon, Tel Aviv, Paris etc). \n- we plan to work closely with standard-setting organizations, which strive to make web3 a safer place. \n", "hidden": false, "question": "If you've participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We are really happy to participate in the Beta Round. At the same time, we are wondering if there is a chance to take part in the Advocacy featured round. ", "hidden": false, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? Anything you'd like to add that has not been covered?", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "hidden": true, "question": "Does 50% of your team reflect the diversity of the community your project serves with a particular emphasis on including women, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPoC), individuals with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQ+ community?", "questionId": 11, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "w0sjiQzULGFjYCIaM/Uf2nvGi/4wsez9KDpQMP09g3g=", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "9c609910e98791153980313f58422ee7de5a804d8a109e2b5340aa0904f029cf5cb70cdad3643523325274585b4c29199205bfe026e061c26f7e8ee67373e2ebbdf305c15cc7a4472cc1c4f716fef2c93be25842470f49b3693982e70f88bbb6038701fe680aef056e5023595834314e0bd282d83f2d43b0adde7f1a27fae9b200000000000000207e294971c7c4ed59e0f8b51c31c5395c5897268055ecf2a9a1719e95989e89c089d36efa7699ae5019c2caf0f412bfab"}}], "project": {"id": "10:0x8e1bD5Da87C14dd8e08F7ecc2aBf9D1d558ea174:142", "title": "EUCI - European Crypto Initiative - educating policy makers on decentralization", "logoImg": "bafkreihnekzkxdn7eflggax46caznhddhx7v272sa7t7pfnqlr4qdwhksy", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreiduzt7as6a72euo46l4p5637pvoq6bkdo7qqvyqsnicfbnz6awfpm", "protocol": "1"}, "website": "https://www.crypto-initiative.eu/", "bannerImg": "bafkreibg5e2tcr2tcdgsfnllwjqg6r4t2g6qtdnse53mvu4pt5tvrv6b3e", "createdAt": 1681827993034, "credentials": {"twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..nx1VoHy01dTbUIK4PKJ75MLdwMf9-TYWXtdE_pcliB1KvvYF3e28MIiZrlq1wgsYxlzW116QnOV07d_z2_jyBg", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-04-18T17:56:14.714Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-04-18T17:56:14.714Z", "expirationDate": "2023-07-17T17:56:14.714Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x755E5590151842720f4E54e1C6Cb3475cB50661B", "hash": "v0.0.0:34g+9fw37REmLQuAYYWO0fSB/d/uJbLYgTVKPz6sGzk=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#EuCInitiative"}}}, "description": "**The European Crypto Initiative supports innovative & innovation-friendly regulation, adapted to decentralised applications that leverage blockchain technologies.**\n\nWe fight for the financial inclusion of all humans, the inviolable rights of innovators building and operating decentralised services, a level playing field for open, permissionless networks, the legal recognition of decentralised governance, and the wide-scale adoption of privacy-preserving technologies,\n\n### What is happening? ###\n\ud83d\udcda EU-wide regulations, such as the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) and the AML Package - containing the Transfer of Funds Regulation (TFR) and the Anti-Money Laundering Regulation (AMLR), have massive implications on socio-technological innovation, monetary freedom and financial privacy. These regulations come with heavy operational burdens for crypto-asset service providers and even DeFi developers.\n- End of June 2022, the TFR and MiCA's texts were finalised on a political level.\n- We work closely with EU regulators to ensure a good implementation of MiCA, TFR and AMLR.\n- TFR & AMLR do not consider blockchain-specific issues, in particular privacy implications.\n- The EU Comisison is working on the new laws addressing DeFi.\n- EUCI is continuously engaging with new regulations on new laws like Data Act and DAC8.\n\n## Our mission is to: ##\n\n\u2b50\tEDUCATE. Share the latest updates, trends and development of the ecosystem with policymakers.\n\n\u2b50\tADVOCATE. Propose amendments to regulatory proposals which support European crypto industry actors.\n\n\u2b50\tCOOPERATE. Work with other initiatives and industry bodies to amplify shared positions and gain support from lawmakers and the broader private sector.\n\n## EUCI\u2019s Goals: ##\n\n\ud83c\udfaf **Ensuring adequate DeFi Regulation.** Outreach to the EU institutions responsible for MiCA's interpretation & implementation. Work \"on the ground\" with and educate the competent authorities on a member-state level.\n\n\ud83c\udfaf **Shaping the understanding of AML\u2019s impact of crypto.** Sending out official opinions about the impact of the proposed regulations on the industry. Fighting to DeFi outside of AMLR's scope by providing valuable context to the regulators. Actively participate in the upcoming Trialogues and directly discussing the issues with the responsible policymakers in the EU institutions.\n\n\ud83c\udfaf **Continuous monitoring and lobbying on relevant upcoming regulations:** for example, on tax data exchange, data act, [smart contracts](https://twitter.com/EuCInitiative/status/1625503162865188865), NFTs, data center sustainability (PoW), open finance and other related policy movements.\n\n\n\n\n### Policy work: ###\nDays after the MiCA release, the EUCI founders kicked Events off an informal task force to rectify the worst mistakes of MiCA. We haven't stopped since. \n**250+ touch points with dozens of MEPs, workshops,including with 100+ MEPs and substantial position papers yielded results.** [Learn more about our Policy Work]( https://euci.notion.site/Production-e14906a7a3a64c15bc9419f3028f4f56)\n\n## Events    \ud83d\udcfa\ud83d\udd17 [Records on our YT channel]( https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0r_U6TbfWoLAq2FcGHbIaZEiQV2vQcUk) \n\n\ud83c\udf93 **Education for web3 builders.** \n- Workshop during EthCC (2023, upcoming)\n- [Workshop](https://twitter.com/EuCInitiative/status/1631278617044090882) during ETHDenver (2023)\n- [Workshop](https://twitter.com/EuCInitiative/status/1622531782615908357) during BuildingBlocks in Tel Aviv (2023)\n- Organising EUCI's Anniversary Conference and [Workshop](https://twitter.com/EuCInitiative/status/1601159726527840258), Brussels (2022)\n- Organising Reg3.eu [Conference](https://twitter.com/EuCInitiative/status/1588470469963173889), Lisbon (2022)\n- Speaking at Solana Breakpoint, Lisbon (2022)\n- [Speaking at Devcon](https://twitter.com/EuCInitiative/status/1580511668865363969), Bogot\u00e0 (2022)\n- Speaking at Blockchain Association\u2019s Policy Summit\n- Eth BCN (2022)\n- Crypto Valley Conference, Zug (2022)\n- Devconnect, Amsterdam (2022)\n- EthCC4 & [EthCC5](https://twitter.com/EuCInitiative/status/1551516200877887488), Paris (our talks 2021, 2022)\n- LisCon & The DAOist (2021)\n\n![EUCI Team and EUCI\u2019s friends at Anniversary event last December](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjnW6VOXgAAQFNI?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)\n## The Team ##\nIn our respective countries, we have gathered the industry players to make sure that at national level the voice of the crypto companies is being heard. We bring years of experience in the blockchain space and are uniquely positioned to understand the complex technical component and the challenges it brings to the centrally designed regulation framework.\n\n\nThe EUCI is on [Twitter]( https://twitter.com/EuCInitiative), [LinkedIn](https://be.linkedin.com/company/european-crypto-initiative), and [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/@europeancryptoinitiative)! \n", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "EuCInitiative"}, "recipient": "0x4273A8E57a1Fab8cB5F7cf2D68ad16bEd061520a"}}