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We will be providing additional updates on these during the course of GG18 as we have grant milestone dates during this period.\n\nOur primary focus is on supporting decentralized content and storage networks within the Ethereum ecosystem. If you haven\u2019t already, you can check out [Sam\u2019s talk from this year\u2019s Swarm Summit](https://swarm.streameth.org/session/DUAQZ7)", "hidden": false, "question": "Please explain how your project meets the round-specific eligibility criteria", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We're excited to say this is Protobox\u2019s first Gitcoin round!", "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": "We are measuring the impact of our project in several different ways including: amount of visitors to our site, amount of meaningful Github interactions, quantity of fiat and/or stablecoins onramped for storage, quantity of data processed by our gateway and quantity of bandwidth consumed by users.", "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": "Thank you for taking the time to learn about Protobox and what we\u2019re creating to support existing decentralized storage and content distribution networks and their users.\nIf you have additional questions that we haven\u2019t quite answered, or you have any ideas for how we can improve on and add to our project \u2013 please reach out to our team.", "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 may help in determining project eligibility?", "questionId": 14}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "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": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to us sharing your information with select third-parties for investment opportunities?", "questionId": 16}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Somewhere in the Metaverse", "hidden": false, "question": "Location/Region where the project is based", "questionId": 17}], "project": {"id": "10:0x8e1bD5Da87C14dd8e08F7ecc2aBf9D1d558ea174:1035", "title": "Protobox", "logoImg": "bafkreib7h2cumti24d767qnxekntmwh7mdufg75wchsiw5stnfghex4boe", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreidpckm6tcms55zwkteqosq5wygkurneiirphb4teeionbrqqejs2u", "protocol": "1"}, "website": "https://www.protobox.xyz/", "bannerImg": "bafkreichvee3tgnvnhbddb5tp5xfjec2qqka2eqia3rec5g7atrm7blayq", "createdAt": 1692112267866, "userGithub": "H4ndyD4ndy", "credentials": {"github": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..N9g2bSFXNUmH6Wyv-fx2zCxwJLpFOes2BOr9X2EETj1RNKypeHAFILyoWogXOSIGzAN2CSw9jWZKine-8YQbAQ", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-08-15T14:28:23.391Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-08-15T14:28:23.390Z", "expirationDate": "2023-11-13T14:28:23.390Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0xc358e0105E59D5055917314B6770ebaAcf948830", "hash": "v0.0.0:Ib1XbmBT0Kt/PiuHkKTOKbyg84GNe41W4v45nsX18wE=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextGithubOrg#Protobox-xyz#56882659"}}, "twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..H6KrBbkTlU1R04D70c1RNQbqodLc-NX38jML71PQ3uMqfc6WOgCCrh2v4N2cg_MqvCy2AUQOKPYzAhShE_uGBw", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-08-15T14:28:08.904Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-08-15T14:28:08.904Z", "expirationDate": "2023-11-13T14:28:08.904Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0xc358e0105E59D5055917314B6770ebaAcf948830", "hash": "v0.0.0:utXKBY+uRnH36XqYZNF1yTeArKL4JORKE6y4woVSMWI=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#protobox_xyz"}}}, "description": "#### Protobox: Your Gateway to Decentralized Object Storage\n\n#### What is Protobox?\n\nProtobox is a decentralized object storage product and OSS tooling suite that makes it easy for  users familiar with Web2 object storage solutions to access the inherent benefits of distributed storage networks - increased resilience, redundancy and censorship resistance.\n\n### Quick Links\n\n[Swarm Summit Talk](https://swarm.streameth.org/session/DUAQZ7) | [Livepeer Grant](https://github.com/livepeer/grants/issues/154) | [Documentation](https://docs.protobox.xyz/protobox-overview/what-is-protobox)\n\n#### Overview\n\n### Web2 - Centralized Cloud Storage\n\nThe current S3 object storage market is heavily centralized. Amazon\u2019s S3 enterprise object storage solution has over 900,000 users. This represents roughly a 93% market share [^1] in a $4.83 billion dollar market with a compound annual growth of 13.6%. [^2]\n\nCentralized hosting exposes user content to increased censorship risks. Decentralized storage has already been praised in the U.S. Congress by Sen. Pat Toomey for protecting the free press in China. [^3]\n\nCentralized hosting can provide fault tolerance, high availability and redundancy - provided users pay extremely high premiums for these services. \n\n### Web3 - Decentralized Cloud Storage\n\nDecentralized storage options are designed to address the issues mentioned above. \n*However* - In order to encourage more users to incorporate decentralized storage, we need to address the following key friction points.\n\n**For End Users**\n\n - UI/UX quality varies greatly in Web3. Interfaces must be intuitive for Web2 users.\n - Fiat onramps/cross-chain bridges often come with a learning curve - which not everyone has the time and patience for.\n\n**For Developers/Storage Management**\n\n - Decentralized storage protocols lack native compatibility with existing software solutions.\n - Payment and storage management is complicated and difficult to integrate.\n\n\n#### Our Solutions\n\nProtobox exists as an active response to the above considerations and our roadmap of tools and integrations is continually evolving.\n\n### What we've achieved so far (Q1-Q2 2023)\n\nOur initial product offering is S3 API tooling that enables data transfer between S3-compatible storage endpoints/vendors and the decentralized Swarm Network. Our gateway has been tested and technically demonstrated to the Ethereum Swarm grants committee.\n\n### Roadmap (Q3 2023 and beyond)\n\nWe are currently working on the following implementations:\n\n* **Migration Tool:** Migrates existing S3 compatible storage to Ethereum Swarm.\n* **GUI/UX**: Easy user interface for managing Swarm storage.\n* **Payment integrations/balance monitoring:** Integrated fiat onramp solutions with automated postage stamp creation and renewal/top-up, simplified storage cost calculator, simplified bandwidth cost calculator and options to enable pre-payment of bandwidth cost on behalf of end users.\n* **Livepeer integration:** The Protobox team is working closely with Livepeer to enable data transfer between the Livepeer protocol and the Ethereum Swarm network. This integration will allow Livepeer users to both record and playback content from the Swarm network. More details on our grant from Livepeer can be found [here](https://github.com/livepeer/grants/issues/154).\n\n\n\n### Funding/Grants\nWe are proud to be developing these solutions with the assistance of grants from Ethereum Swarm and Livepeer.\nPublic goods rounds like this are our only supplementary funding source - so any contribution you can make is *immensely* appreciated and goes directly to helping us develop OSS tooling and integrations in support of data and content decentralization.\n\n**If you like what we stand for - please help where you can and share our page!**\n\n---\n### References\n\n[^1]: \u201cAmazon s3 - Market Share, Competitor Insights in Enterprise Data Storage.\u201d Slintel, https://www.slintel.com/tech/enterprise-data-storage/amazon-s3-market-share. Accessed 25 January 2023.\n\n[^2]: \u201cThe Cloud Object Storage Market in 2022.\u201d Enterprise Storage Forum, 16 May 2022, https://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/cloud/cloud-object-storage-market/. Accessed 25 January 2023.\n\n[^3]: \u201cCryptocurrencies: What are they good for? | United States Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.\u201d hearing | Hearings | United States Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, 27 July 2021, https://www.banking.senate.gov/hearings/cryptocurrencies-what-are-they-good-for. Accessed 25 January 2023.\n\n\"Web2 vs Web3.\" Ethereum Development Documentation, September 26, 2022, https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/web2-vs-web3/#web3-limitations. Accessed 10 August 2023.", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "Protobox-xyz", "projectTwitter": "protobox_xyz"}, "recipient": "0x4cDd1e206386d4d13ff61c54C42589cAEa7e4cE9"}}