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", "hidden": false, "question": "Previous project funding sources (VC, grants, token sales, etc)", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "number", "answer": "200000", "hidden": false, "question": "Total prior funding for project in USD", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "number", "answer": "5", "hidden": false, "question": "Number of team members", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "[Griff Green](https://twitter.com/thegrifft), [Tamara Helenius](https://twitter.com/tamarandom), [Livia Deschermayer](https://twitter.com/_liviade), [Emilia Regen](https://twitter.com/MowgliRegen), [Ivy Bagay](https://twitter.com/iviangita)", "hidden": false, "question": "Profiles or socials of other main team members publicly associated with project", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "number", "answer": "42", "hidden": false, "question": "How old is the project? (Months)", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The prevailing economic system often undervalues endeavors like open research, leading to insufficient incentives for these types of public goods. Current funding streams rely on states and educational institutions to sacrifice funding for open research or corporations come in with perverse incentives to keep the research focused on their area and often promising open research is halted to be done in a closed manner for their sole benefit. This is inefficient and is slowing the advancement of science unnecessarily. \n\nCommons Stack aims to tackle these challenges by placing a strong emphasis on radically open token engineering research in the development of effective tools and frameworks for decentralized governance and resource allocation. By leveraging technologies like blockchain and token engineering, Commons Stack promotes new governance models that can incentivize funding open research through innovative solutions such as the Augmented Bonding Curve for continuous funding of public goods and the Conviction Voting mechanism for community-driven resource allocation.\n\nOur patterns were used to launch the Token Engineering Commons (TEC) and since its launch in mid-2021, the TEC has quickly become a thriving community, working together to fund and create better opportunities for token engineering projects. The $TEC token price has performed about as well as Ethereum. This is unheard of for a small market cap DAO which focuses on giving out grants to advance open token engineering research and education.\n\nWe are actively finding partners to improve this model.", "hidden": true, "question": "Describe your project in a few paragraphs (ideally including a problem statement, solution, roadmap, and timeline for implementation)", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Commons Stack takes a holistic approach to identify opportunities for high-impact research, working closely with our ecosystem partners to explore a range of topics, from systems modeling and engineering to DAO2DAO interaction patterns and scaling the global commons. We\u2019ve collaborated with esteemed organizations, such as BlockScience, 1Hive, Curve Labs and cadCAD, to advance our open-source scientific knowledge of new token engineering primitives. \n\nOur research collaborations with these organizations have led to the development of our novel web3 tools that can support the public good startups and communities:\n\nAugmented Bonding Curve (ABC): A pioneering mechanism that offers more flexibility and liquidity for token bonding curves, making them more effective for a variety of use cases. \n\nCommons Simulator: An innovative tool that allows for the simulation of decentralized systems to identify potential issues and optimize system design. \n\nConviction Voting: A governance mechanism that enables participants to express their level of support for proposals in a dynamic and transparent manner. \n\nPraise: A social reward system that allows community members to recognize and reward contributions within decentralized communities. \n\nWe believe these patterns are uniquely positioned to help DeSci communities advance their own missions and we hope to build the tooling out further so that the DeSci ecosystem can use them for their own DAOs.\n", "hidden": true, "question": "How does your project support the mission or goals of DeSci?", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We\u2019re aiming to use the funds to develop the Commons Incubator program to empower communities to raise funds and steward their locally focused shared resources by launching their own commons-inspired DAOs. This approach allows DeSci communities to take ownership of their resources and develop solutions that meet their specific needs. The Commons Incubator program also emphasizes open-science research by introducing the works of scholars such as Elinor Ostrom, Peter Barnes, and David Bollier and by promoting collaboration and knowledge-sharing. By leveraging the expertise and studies of these scholars, the Commons Incubator program can help DeSci communities to develop evidence-based solutions that are grounded in rigorous research and analysis.\n\nFunding from this grant will also enable us to build out a modular configuration dashboard, including the ABC and Conviction Voting which will provide greater flexibility and control over the fundraising process and resource allocation in many DAOs. This tool can enable DeSci communities to easily configure, launch, and reconfigure successful and sustainable token economies. Throughout the process, we will work closely with token engineers and researchers to ensure the dashboard is highly functional and dependable.\n\nThe end goal is to enable the DeSci community to design and launch their own token economy that can reward them fairly for the value they create, with or without the direct help of Commons Stack.", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe how funds from the grants program will be used for your project.", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "address", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds (i.e. DeSci GR15) using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here.", "questionId": 11, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "7F3mg3/VIWdAQYt4dnZ1RM8XP2zLN6YSiowwJnast38=", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "7ebd54f2f03798e9d9e8bed50f2b3d90cfc0e0569c02b508129e8f19a54d6eaa2a2e3e319f4697b16c3ab706f02ad606a1cd4dfa214e139df9ae636a8f8e52a879f36c50a8b8fc228ceed24cd1b37f36bc346cb4e1bb1ae8d59dfd4d221923b7915bb48050926a45335bf42b1975841794e5fd1a0373e9240d87fd2b79cad7d800000000000000203d0bb0a6fa7dc76bd80ab1e6c05f1c7ae6d85c2a5e436a287f800624905fc0cf04db6bcc390cbb3a32f09ac05e6971b5"}}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Donations from the Gitcoin Alpha Round helped our team accomplish the following in the past quarter:\n\n- We\u2019ve supported the TEC in the recent proposals on their strategic framework, stakeholder study, formation of the Bonding Curve Research Group, and more!\n\n- Significant progress was made on the open-source documentation of Phases 1 and 2 of our Commons Deployment protocols. Phases 3 and 4 are still in the initial stages.\n\n- We have defined the Commons Deployment timeline which outlines the phases of the deployment process and identifies the deliverables, work sessions, and other milestones.\n\n- We supported ReFi DAO in launching the ReFi DAO Local Node Prize to find a community in the Global South to establish a community-owned treasury, token, governance, and initiatives, with the goal of creating a regenerative startup ecosystem \n\n- Our team members delivered inspiring talks on public goods coordination and regenerative economies at various blockchain events. \n", "hidden": false, "question": "If this project participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones since the last round.", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": false, "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 can't wait to see more Commons launched across the globe!\n\n![The Commons Are Coming](https://imgur.com/YD3fAaR.png)\n\n\n# \ud83c\udf0f WHAT IS COMMONS STACK?\n\nCommons Stack started as **a think-tank primarily focused on crypto-economic primitives to underpin a design framework for a Commons, a tokenized community with a mission benefitting a public good.** We aspired to scale commons as a way to realign incentives with public goods. To achieve this, we elaborated cultural designs that reinforce commoning principles and create novel tools such as the Augmented Bonding Curve (ABC), [Conviction Voting (CV)](https://medium.com/commonsstack/conviction-voting-f6f83a5d392a) and the [Praise](https://givepraise.xyz/) reward and reputation system, which have come straight out of our research collaborations. We also use Collaborative Economics, a methodology for enabling the community to collectively propose, iterate and finalize the parameters of their Commons\u2019 economy.\n\n![Augmenting Public Goods](https://imgur.com/sRiFjP9.png)\n\n\nOur Commons design patterns are made up of a suite of cultural frameworks and a curated library of tools for governance, funding, proposal, analytics and initialization of a Commons. **We see the work of Elinor Ostrom as our North Star and set out to weave her principles of governing commons into the cultural fabric of a Commons.** Our Cultural Build defines practices for clear boundaries, conflict resolution, monitoring, participatory decision-making, and other principles. \n\n\n# \ud83c\udfc6 RECENT MILESTONES\n\n- Helped ReFi DAO launch the [ReFi DAO Local Node Prize](https://mirror.xyz/0x7340F1a1e4e38F43d2FCC85cdb2b764de36B40c0/FABiu5AhpAR6LBLZxlGSfjOrHsHYj2J8VT4QJWPxbpk) to find a community in the Global South to establish a community-owned treasury, token, governance, and initiatives, with the goal of creating a regenerative startup ecosystem \n\n- Delivered inspiring talks on public goods coordination and regenerative economies at various blockchain events. Watch our co-founder Griff Green\u2019s talk  **[\u201cCombating the Metacrisis\u201d](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-q8zzpmxdg)**  at ETHDenver!\n\n![Griff Green's Combating the Metacrisis talk at ETHDenver](https://imgur.com/f60iZik.png)\n\n- Deployed the Token Engineering Commons (TEC)\n\n- Launched the [Trusted Seed](https://trustedseed.org/) \n\n- Developed the edutainment program [Commons Simulator](https://sim.commonsstack.org/) \n\n- Supported BlockScience in open-sourcing [cadCAD](https://cadcad.org/) \n\nWhile we\u2019ve already had some success, we\u2019ve only just begun. Our research continues. The lessons learned from a first field test, the TEC, are being rolled into new deployment protocols and our curated commons library of tools and processes continues to evolve. \n\nWe did not get this far alone. We have collaborated on research and development with BlockScience, Blossom Labs, Metagov, Curve Labs, PrimeDAO, Giveth, 1Hive, Aragon, Token Engineering Academy, Token Engineering Commons, General Magic and many others.\n\nMuch of our [Github activity](https://github.com/commons-stack) is collaborative. We work hand in hand with  [Token Engineering Commons](https://github.com/commonsbuild), [General Magic](https://github.com/GeneralMagicio), and [Praise](https://github.com/givepraise).\n\n\n# \ud83d\udc65 OUR TEAM\n\nWe are committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and prioritizing diversity and inclusion in all of our initiatives. We have an 89% female team with five (5) individuals from diverse cultural and geographic backgrounds, including **women from the Philippines, Brazil, and Argentina**. We believe that our diverse perspectives and experiences make us better able to understand and address the needs of a broader range of users and stakeholders. \n\n![Women are leaders](https://imgur.com/e4CVXjM.png)\n\n\n# \ud83d\udcb0 PLANS FOR BETA ROUND FUNDING\n\nFunding from the Beta Round will go towards programming for a **Commons Incubator**. The purpose of this program will be to educate on commons and commoning (introducing the work of Elinor Ostrom, Peter Barnes, David Bollier, LabGov urban commons, etc.). We have sketched out an 8-module program skeleton to introduce commoning, define the community\u2019s vision, design token allocation for contributions to the mission, collaboratively design parameters for a fund raise and, lastly, design and launch an Augmented Bonding Curve (ABC) for the community. A large part of our program will be focused on developing a strong culture and robust governance mechanisms designed by the community that will be governed by them.  \n\nAdditionally, donations to our project will fund the development of an open-source **ABC configuration dashboard**, allowing users to customize and configure various parameters of an ABC to create a primary market for their tokens. This revamped version of the [TEC co-developed dashboard](https://config.tecommons.org/config/2) will provide greater flexibility and control over the fundraising process, democratizing access to ABC-based projects.\n\nThank you for your generosity! \ud83d\ude4f", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "commons-stack", "projectTwitter": "commonsstack"}, "recipient": "0x8110d1D04ac316fdCACe8f24fD60C86b810AB15A"}}