{"signature": "0xd42c61ba00e9a4852979d1b4be81f70f0f8de7f73f742ad497a11c238a885f8f2f33c8da1632291456d241b83ac5af9c86c9660dfdb43b28c502a4923ec66cf41c", "application": {"round": "0x3e93205b786796cf7ea70404e89c7dda3b84d07a", "answers": [{"type": "email", "answer": "blockchaingazette@gmail.com", "hidden": true, "question": "Email Address", "questionId": 0}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "https://t.me/VB01901", "hidden": true, "question": "Telegram Handle We Can Use To Contact You", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "https://github.com/Blockchain-Gazette", "hidden": false, "question": "Project GitHub Repo", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "link", "answer": "https://x.com/Blockgazette", "hidden": false, "question": "Link to your Public Group Chat", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "No", "hidden": false, "question": "Have you participated in a previous Gitcoin Grants Round? If so, please name the rounds or link the builder profile associated with previous rounds.", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We are deeply committed to the growth and sustainability of the open-source (OSS) ecosystem by providing, high-quality blockchain education and developing an open, decentralized media infrastructure that anyone can build upon.\n\n## Key Contributions to OSS Growth:\n**1. Open-Source Knowledge Infrastructure:**\n\nOur upcoming Decentralized Media Protocol will be fully open-source, *allowing* developers to integrate permissionless, on-chain publishing, content curation, and incentive mechanisms into their projects. This expands OSS by enabling Web3-native knowledge-sharing applications beyond traditional media platforms.\n\n**2. Empowering Open-Source Projects with Visibility & Education:**\n\nWe create and distribute open-source educational content that enhances developer onboarding and community growth for OSS blockchain projects. For example, we’ve amplified the OSS works of the DFINITY and Sia Foundations, by providing accessible, unbiased insights to the community.\n\n**3. Decentralized Governance & Incentives for OSS Media:**\n\nOur protocol might introduce DAO-governed editorial models where open-source contributors can earn rewards for fact-checking, translating, or curating blockchain content. This incentivizes participation in the OSS ecosystem, making blockchain education more sustainable and community-driven.", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project contribute to the growth of the OSS ecosystem? Please provide specific examples of how your application enhances or expands the current ecosystem.", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "## Key Features & Use Cases:\n**i) On-Chain Publishing & Content Verification**\n\nArticles, research, and educational content are **minted** as NFTs, ensuring provenance, authenticity, and resistance to censorship. **Soulbound tokens (SBTs)** for verified contributors create a trust layer within decentralized knowledge-sharing.\n\n**ii) Decentralized Curation & Fact-Checking**\n\nA DAO-governed reputation system rewards fact-checkers, educators, and content curators.This ensures that quality, not clickbait, drives blockchain education.\n\n**iii) Incentivized Knowledge Economy**\n\nDevelopers & educators could integrate our API into Web3 apps, allowing communities to fund, govern, and reward media contributions. DAOs and DeFi projects can deploy their own media hubs, ensuring transparent communication without intermediaries. DAOs and DeFi projects might also deceide to deploy their own media hubs within our tech stack.\n\n## How we Stand Out\n\nUnlike centralized blockchain media platforms, Blockchain Gazette dApp provides a permissionless, open-source framework where content is community-owned and uniquely algorithmically curated.", "hidden": false, "question": "What features or use cases does your dApp/App present? How is it differentiated?", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "## Next Development Milestones\n\n**i) Phase 1: Smart Contract & Protocol Testnet Release**\n\nDevelop and deploy the core publishing and content validation contracts, enabling on-chain article minting, curation mechanisms, and contributor reputation tracking.\n\n**ii) Phase 2: dApp & Community Governance Integration**\n\n- Build a user-friendly interface for decentralized publishing and fact-checking.\n- Integrate DAO-driven governance, allowing communities to fund, curate, and verify blockchain content.\n\n**iii) Phase 3: Ecosystem Expansion & Developer Tooling**\n\n- Open APIs for projects, DAOs, and DeFi protocols to integrate our media framework into their platforms.\n- Expand educational initiatives to onboard new users and contributors.\n\n## Use of Grant Funds:\nThe grant will directly support:\n* Smart contract audits for security & scalability.\n* Development of the protocol’s governance and incentive structures.\n* Front-end (UX/UI) development.\n", "hidden": false, "question": "What are your plans for further development, and how will the grant funds be used to achieve these goals?", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "TBD", "hidden": false, "question": "For any project deploying smart contracts on blockchain networks, please list all your deployer addresses and their corresponding blockchain networks. Use this format for each entry: [deployer_address], [chain_id]—for example, 0x123abc..., 42161 (This represents a deployer address on the Arbitrum network). Please include a separate line for each unique deployer address and blockchain combination.", "questionId": 8}], "project": {"id": "0x5207007e08e27310562ad63f3fdb8bd83cbd3bc8ecdab190ea04b7c7e05ce646", "title": "Blockchain Gazette", "logoImg": "bafkreieendbzyalsiobpqfbskczel5kx5vvatq7hgqza4xgics74djubmq", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreifywosucaceaeum5ideydgs5ewzkolekk5fxag6ltqod5xo6ygg7i", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://linktr.ee/blockchaingazette", "bannerImg": "bafkreicpal4ce4sg4dcabxxq63n6hwcismz6qwjdmdwwrwbrcikq5dvwuu", "createdAt": 1742251012587, "userGithub": "cryptoford", "credentials": {}, "description": "\nWhat if **blockchain news, information and education** isn’t controlled by \"centralized media\" but instead thrives in an open and permissionless ecosystem?\n\nThis is the future **Blockchain Gazette** is thriving for and building.\n\n\n\nThis project began as an open-source media experiment, empowering blockchain projects (such as the [DFINITY Foundation](https://x.com/Blockgazette/status/1690442696697999360), and the [Sia Foundation](https://x.com/Blockgazette/status/1765457090762461689?t=yF9pGy-Lt-S5rf2ZZvr44w&s=19)) with well-researched blockchain-based educational content in a variety of digital formats.\n\n![Headline Image](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/S1gMBmfInkl.png)\n\nNow, we intend to take the next leap: soon, we will launch a **Decentralized Media Protocol**—a permissionless framework where contributors, curators, and consumers interact seamlessly to scale blockchain education!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "Blockchain Gazette", "projectTwitter": "blockgazette"}, "recipient": "0x9203EB178e5c9C1239745C8ABF5772FCA8F050A4"}}