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Yoseph Ayele  has been to Zuzalu and Zuconnect, Andy Tudhope has been to Zuzalu, and Songyi Lee has been to Zuconnect.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please explain how your project meets the round-specific eligibility criteria. ", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "1. Stronger peer to peer support amongst African builders working onchain.\n2. Intergrations and partnerships amongst Africa focused DApps.\n3. Quality mentorship, support, and integration into the global Ethereum ecosystem facilitated by supporters joining.\n4. Builders making better technical and non-technical decisions with deeper access to the Ethereum world.\n5. Establishing a strong foundation and open source culture to grow the magma community overtime, and the IRL experience accelerating ongoing coordination amongst builders and applications. ", "hidden": false, "question": "How do you measure the impact of your project? Please provide examples and/or standard metrics. ", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "- Bridge the global Zuzalu community with more African builders working on crucial financial and economic infrastructures the continent desperately needs. \n- Have Zuzalu members be useful hands on towards Africa centric tools, which on use cases that have clear utility and can bring the Ethereum vision to life in reaching a billion+ users.\n- Take the Zuzalu concept of residencies and apply it in a more focused and curated way in Africa.\n\nmagma is free for all participants, and we are covering accommodation, food, local transport, and programming for the duration of the residency.", "hidden": false, "question": "How is this valuable to the Zuzalu community?", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "$63k grants confirmed and signed so far ($30k will be unlocked in Oct 2024)", "hidden": false, "question": "Total Prior Funding for the project in USD (N/A in case of no funding)", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Grants", "hidden": false, "question": "Which of the following funding sources do you have? Check all that apply", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "- Venue, program, dates all locked in.\n~100 individuals have applied for the first cohort of magma, and we are selecting 25 as we speak for the March 2024 residency.\n- 90% of the global supporters and mentors have been confirmed to join.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please describe the progress of your project? (note: new projects are also welcome)", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "link", "hidden": true, "question": "If you have any onchain attestations/impact certificates, please share them share(drop the link)", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Zuzalu Montenegro, Zuconnect Istanbul", "hidden": false, "question": "Which Zuzalu events have you attended for at least a week?", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Songyi Lee @iamsonge, Andy Tudhope @cryptowanderer  ", "hidden": false, "question": "Profiles or socials of other main team members publicly associated with the project (N/A for solo founders): ", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "We have been driving more Ethereum presence in Africa, and bridging the worlds for the past 2 years. This includes leading a trip with Vitalik and EF across Africa, L2 learning trips with Scroll, Arbitrum, and ETHGlobal; meetups, ZK workshops, and supporting grassroots communities in key centers of gravity. We decided to do a more focused and curated residency to drive global support towards builders who are working on DApps/protocols with ability to scale.  Other projects our team has worked on prior: Edmund Hillary Fellowship and the Global Impact Visa (cohort based IRL community and immigration program), Kernel (Ethereum education, community, and culture), SeoulBound (cross cultural coordination amongst crypto community builders), and several more experiments.", "hidden": false, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? ", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "2 weeks long residency. QJ is planning to join and we are identifying which open source community tools to use (including those built for Zuzalu)", "hidden": false, "question": "Where will the \u201cZuzalu event\u201d: roughly, a long-duration in-person gathering whose goal is to experiment with open frontier digital and social technologies", "questionId": 14}], "project": {"id": "10:0x8e1bD5Da87C14dd8e08F7ecc2aBf9D1d558ea174:1764", "title": "magma African founder residency", "logoImg": "bafkreifjjks6fbp7qvtl3dvqts7t3zcyjynrixgx2335sjzvxkfkcanbem", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreidgkmprswwrww4g56vrqhvixd3lunwxljxkxs26zmxckuz4hugpiq", "protocol": "1"}, "website": "https://borderless.africa/magma", "bannerImg": "bafkreigvrfi2zxnef2rpg6ff6hp2w6mcae2fnmcsvjhajglpp5ednfgxjq", "createdAt": 1706427310921, "credentials": {}, "description": "https://borderless.africa/magma\n\nmagma is a peer-to-peer coordination point for founders building Africa\u2019s economy and finance onchain.\n\nIt's a two week residency for ~25 builders working across the African continent, where we also have ~10 global researchers, infrastructure builders, and leaders from the Ethereum ecosystem joining.\n\nWhy does magma exist?\n- The African builder community is very fragmented (54 countries, and long distances between them). If we are building decentralized applications for the large African user bases, it makes more sense to build interoperable and modular tools instead of monolithic projects. So we need stronger coordination amongst ourselves. And while several builders are in shared TG groups, IRL gatherings are critical for strong coordination and trust.\n- There is a huge disconnect between African ecosystems and the global Ethereum world. No major global Ethereum conference has taken place in Africa recently (yet!), so bringing builders and researchers from overseas to the continent is going to be critical.\n- magma is here to build community, and create the foundations for peer to peer support.\n\nStructure of the 2 weeks:\n- peer to peer learning, coordination, workshopping individual projects, open space.\n- structured workshops and office hours by global builders on ZK, account abstraction, smart contracts, security, tokenomics, governance and DAOs, product building, etc. More 1:1s than 1:many.\n- space and time for builders to build, hack, do heads down work.\n- community and trust building activities, open sharing circles, fireside chats on discussions that are only able to happen IRL.\n\nWe had over 100 individuals apply for magma Cohort 1, and are selecting 25 builders the residency this March. We are doing a cohort 2 in September 2024. Our goal is to run 2 cohorts year, and do active community engagement online and regionally throughout the year to facilitate learning and cross-pollination.\n\nLocation: 90 minutes out of Nairobi. Kenya has a visa free policy, which makes it accessible for all builders from across Africa and the world.\n\nWho: For Cohort 1, ~80% will be founders of DApps and protocols, as well as projects coming onchain.  ~20% individual builders who are working on multiple projects, researchers, and really talented folks working in Ethereum. We also have global researchers from the PSE team, EF EcoDev, Ethereum L2s, founders, community builders, and individuals playing key roles in the Ethereum ecosystem coming to support. 5 out of 10 supporters will be individuals who have been to Zuzalu before.\n\nDo Cohort 1, learn from various experiments, and hone the path to building and growing a community of African builders bringing our economy onchain.\n", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "borderlessaf"}, "recipient": "0x4a8aB737cdB7DC3c56Dd59266591B9D2EB1e55aB"}}