{"signature": "0xf35940fd8e84ca56d37a2f204243865d61f5c5827a4f552d649daede6ea442ff50b93c3cf0141f8b439e60617a68b79553ae6556a2d4bb1a5d6a9e6f0d7efe641c", "application": {"round": "0x145052e87140b7309f6ee18ba12fc187560d5d89", "answers": [{"type": "email", "answer": "firefly.network.ch@gmail.com", "hidden": true, "question": "Email Address", "questionId": 0}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "@FireflyDAO", "hidden": true, "question": "Telegram Handle We Can Use To Contact You", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "TBD", "hidden": false, "question": "Project Github Repo", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "link", "hidden": false, "question": "Link to your Public Group Chat", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": false, "question": "Have you participated in a previous Gitcoin Grants Round? If so, please name the rounds or link the builder profile to prior rounds.", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "1. Decentralized social infrastructure\n\nTraditional social platforms are highly centralized, and their content is easily censored and deleted. Your platform is based on decentralized storage (such as Arweave, IPFS) and smart contracts to ensure that the content cannot be tampered with and can be stored for a long time, improving the decentralized application ecosystem of Ethereum.\n\nSpecific indicators: It is expected that 5,000+ active users will be launched in the first 6 months to promote the construction of a decentralized social ecosystem.\n\n2. Community governance driven by smart contracts\n\nYour platform uses Token for community governance and content rewards, and uses smart contracts to ensure a transparent and fair incentive mechanism to improve user participation and platform self-operation capabilities.\n\nSpecific indicators: 60% of Tokens are distributed through airdrops and incentives to form a highly autonomous user community.\n\n3. Promote the fission growth of the Web3 community\n\nUse fission promotion to encourage grassroots workers (delivery workers, online car-hailing drivers, etc.) to invite peers to join, thereby accelerating Web3 cognition and user penetration, and improving the actual use scenarios of the Ethereum ecosystem.\n\n Specific indicators: Plan to fission 1 million users within 1 year, and promote the use of Ethereum wallets to increase by 5%-10%.\n\n4. Layer2 (Arbitrum) application landing\n\nYour project is built on the Arbitrum second-layer network, reducing transaction fees, increasing transaction speed, and promoting the implementation of Ethereum Layer2 expansion plan.\n\nSpecific indicators: It is expected that the number of on-chain interactions will exceed 100,000 times within 6 months, helping Arbitrum to expand.Our project Firefly Network enhances the social application infrastructure of the Ethereum ecosystem through a decentralized short video platform.\n\n1. Decentralized social platform: Based on smart contracts and decentralized storage (IPFS/Arweave), it ensures that content cannot be tampered with and improves Ethereum's Web3 social application ecosystem. It is expected to have 5,000+ active users within 6 months.\n\n2. Smart contract-driven governance: Soundwave Token supports content rewards and community governance, and 60% of tokens are used for incentive mechanisms to promote the development of Ethereum's decentralized economic model.\n\n3. Web3 user fission growth: Workers recommend peers to join, fission promotes the concept of Web3, and plans to exceed 1 million users within 1 year to increase the usage rate of Ethereum wallets.\n\n4. Layer2 (Arbitrum) landing: Reduce Gas fees and improve transaction efficiency. It is expected that the number of on-chain interactions will exceed 100,000 times within 6 months, which will help the scalability of Ethereum.", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project contribute significantly to the Ethereum network's infrastructure? Please provide specific examples and metrics if available.", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Firefly Network improves the Web3 social experience through privacy protection, innovative interaction and decentralized architecture:\n\n1. Enhanced privacy: IPFS/Arweave storage is used to avoid censorship and data abuse; no KYC is required, end-to-end encrypted chat is supported, and user privacy is improved.\n\n2. Optimized operability: Web3Auth is integrated, so users can use it easily without managing private keys; Gas payment mechanism is provided to lower the threshold for Web3 interaction.\n\n3. User experience upgrade: Smart contract-driven incentives, users can get sound wave coin rewards by publishing high-quality content or promoting peers; decentralized AI recommendation algorithm is used to ensure fair and transparent content distribution.", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe any pioneering development work in your project, particularly in enhancing privacy, interoperability, or user experience.", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Core issues to be addressed\n\n(1) Issues with centralized social platforms\n\nCensorship and blocking: The content of existing platforms (such as TikTok and Weibo) is controlled by the government and capital, and users cannot express themselves freely, especially the voices of vulnerable groups are easily suppressed.\n\nOwnership of content: User-created content is stored on centralized servers, and the platform can delete or block it at any time. Users do not own their own content.\n\nAdvertising exploitation: The platform makes profits through user data, but users cannot share the profits, resulting in the exploitation of contributors.\n\n(2) Challenges of decentralized social networking\n\nHigh decentralized storage cost: The amount of video data is large, and the decentralized storage cost is expensive. Existing solutions (such as Lens Protocol) are mainly used for text and short videos and lack optimization.\n\nHigh threshold for on-chain interaction: Existing Web3 social networking requires users to pay gas fees, which affects the experience and leads to slow user growth.\n\nLack of fission growth mechanism: Decentralized social networking lacks a strong incentive mechanism and is difficult to achieve the viral spread effect of Web2 social networking.\n\n ---\n\n2. Solutions & Advantages\n\n(1) How does Firefly Network improve existing solutions?\n\n(2) Core technology innovation\n\n1. Decentralized storage optimization: Combine Arweave (long-term storage) + IPFS (instant storage) to solve the problem of high storage costs.\n\n2. Zero-knowledge privacy protection: Use ZK-SNARKs to ensure that user identity and data privacy are not tracked by third parties.\n\n3. Smart contract incentives: Use Sonic Coin for content rewards, community governance, and invitation fission incentives to increase user growth.\n\n4. Web3 friendly experience: Support social wallets (Web3Auth), no private key management is required, and provide Gas payment to lower the threshold for Web3 interaction.", "hidden": false, "question": "What specific problems or challenges in the Ethereum ecosystem does your project address? How does your solution improve upon existing alternatives?", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Phase 1 (Crowdfunding & Technology Development): Use Gitcoin funding and community crowdfunding funds to complete the core development of the decentralized short video social platform, including smart contracts, decentralized storage, and Web3 account system.\n\nPhase 2 (User Fission Promotion): Establish Firefly communities in first- and second-tier cities, organize volunteers for offline promotion, and the main target groups include food delivery workers, online car-hailing drivers, factory workers, etc. Using the fission promotion model, users can get the platform token \"Soundwave Coin\" reward by inviting peers to join the platform, further expanding their influence.\n\nPhase 3 (Community Governance & Ecological Expansion): After the platform user scale reaches 1 million, the community voting governance mechanism will be launched to make the platform truly decentralized, and continue to optimize security and expand ecological functions, such as DAO governance and advertising revenue sharing.Funding plan:\n\n40% for smart contract development and platform infrastructure construction.\n\n30% for marketing and user growth, including community operations, fission promotion incentives, etc.\n\n20% for security audits to ensure the security of the platform's smart contracts and decentralized storage systems.\n\n10% as reserve funds for future upgrades and maintenance.", "hidden": false, "question": "Outline your project's roadmap and how the grant funds will be used to achieve your development goals.", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Promote decentralized social interaction: Our decentralized short video platform is based on blockchain and decentralized storage technology (such as Arweave/IPFS), ensuring that content is not deleted or tampered with by centralized institutions, providing users with an environment of freedom of speech.\n\nUse smart contracts to enhance security: The economic system within the platform relies on Ethereum L2 (such as Arbitrum), and uses smart contracts for trustless rewards, revenue distribution and community governance to improve transparency and security.\n\nPromote the popularization of Web3 economy: Through Sonic Token, empower grassroots workers to obtain economic benefits by participating in the platform, while promoting the application of cryptocurrency in real-world scenarios.\n\nEnhance privacy and anti-censorship capabilities: Combined with Ethereum's ZK-SNARKs privacy technology, ensure the security of user information and transaction data, and resist censorship and malicious attacks.", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project contribute to the decentralization and security of the Ethereum network?", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "0x4e508Cb9B6982253Fb7fcA76C20Be1b79B5fCD9F", "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": 10}], "project": {"id": "0xf8abf6590b8e8f6a447620f194b45592402cc6b6d0fe2e3c2265fe6a175b9578", "title": "FireflyDAO", "logoImg": "bafkreig6dwgkrf5d7llwt3twkvpbbpiqkfrv5bbu62oxcdywessljpgs5u", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreielggwul3jba2l2emb4m76e4kru3knfjkbbkp5d5rcvxrcz6dbwhy", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IIS4v37EbhrQc3tjX3u3-_jbRy0WjN2JIFfnBjsy0Bo/edit?usp=sharing", "bannerImg": "bafkreicblkvsqkl4lphwndb63s2uaxtctniutbnxyngudag7tr6atevahq", "createdAt": 1740663548424, "credentials": {}, "description": "Our organization is committed to promoting social justice and freedom of speech, especially for those labor groups that have been exploited and oppressed by capital for a long time. These people, such as China's food delivery workers, online car-hailing, freight, 12-hour shifts in blood and tears factories, etc., most of their income is eroded by the high commissions of platforms and capital parties, resulting in their inability to guarantee basic living. In all this, the government's inaction and suppression of freedom of speech have exacerbated social injustice, and many voices that reveal the truth have been blocked and blocked in China. The Chinese people are now very angry, and the people are suppressed and can no longer breathe. There is an urgent need for an organization, a community, and a platform to organize everyone to fight against all this injustice.\n\nIn order to break through this suppression, we decided to establish the Firefly Organization and build a decentralized social platform to help these oppressed groups unite and fight for their due rights. Here, people can speak freely, expose real social problems, fight for labor rights, and achieve self-protection through the platform.\n\nProject Overview and Importance\n\nIn the current social environment in China, speech is restricted, and the government suppresses speech that does not conform to its interests. Through the decentralized short video platform we developed, we hope to provide a platform for free expression, so that long-term oppressed workers and ordinary people can speak out and expose those unfair social phenomena. The platform will be deployed on the blockchain to ensure decentralization, so that everyone can have their own voice and will not be censored, deleted or blocked.\n\nWe will first promote the Firefly Organization in China's first-tier cities, and help all workers in industries oppressed by bureaucratic capital, such as food delivery, online car-hailing, freight, and blood and tears factories, to join our decentralized platform so that they can get fairer treatment and support through the platform.\n\nWhy support is needed\n\nWe need funds to build the Firefly Organization and decentralized social platform and promote the development of the platform. With your help, we can:\n\nBuild a platform to provide workers with a free speech space.\n\nRecruit volunteers in first-tier cities to promote the platform, gradually form a spontaneous community, help workers unite and protect their rights and interests.\n\nIssue sound wave tokens, reward supporters through token airdrops and encourage more people to join.\n\nYour support will help us achieve a more fair and open social platform and fight for the dignity that those exploited groups deserve.\n\n---\n\nMore information\n\nHow it works\n\nOur decentralized short video platform will run on the blockchain to ensure user data security and content freedom. The core functions of the platform include:\n\nContent publishing: Users can freely publish videos, articles, pictures, etc., share their stories and opinions, and expose social problems.\n\nRewards and rewards: Use Sonic Token for rewards and rewards within the platform to encourage users to share valuable content.\n\nDecentralized management: The platform content is governed by the community to ensure that no single party can control the platform content.\n\nTechnical information\n\nBlockchain technology: The platform will be deployed on Ethereum-compatible blockchain networks (such as Arbitrum or Optimism) to ensure low gas fees and efficient transaction processing.\n\nSoundwave Token: We will issue Soundwave Token as an incentive, reward and reward mechanism on the platform, and 80% of the total issuance will be distributed through airdrops to those who contribute to the development of the platform.\n\nBackground Story\n\nAs part of society, we have witnessed long-term exploitation and oppression, and have personally experienced the helplessness when speech and information are suppressed. We hope to light up the hearts of more people through the Firefly Organization, help them awaken, unite, and fight for their rights. This is not only to change the lives of these workers, but also to change the fundamental injustice of society.\n\n---\n\nRewards\n\nIn return for contributors, we will airdrop Soundwave coins in proportion to those who help us promote the platform, contribute funds and support our ideas. The airdrop will account for 60% of the total issuance of Soundwave coins, and the rewards will be distributed based on the amount and proportion of the contribution.\n\nParticipants will not only be able to obtain Soundwave coins, but will also become part of a decentralized social platform to help promote freedom of speech and the improvement of workers' rights.\n\n---\n\nFuture Planning\n\n1. Phase 1: Organization establishment and platform development\n\nJune 2025: Establish Firefly Organization branches in first-tier cities in China.\n\nSeptember 2025: Complete the development of a decentralized short video platform and launch the beta version, and use the sound wave currency as a reward for rewards and high-quality video publishers on the platform, and launch TOKEN transactions on the decentralized exchange.\n\n2. Phase 2: Platform promotion and user growth\n\nOctober 2025: Officially launch the decentralized platform and begin to widely promote it to workers who are exploited in various industries such as food delivery, online car-hailing, freight, and factories.\n\nMarch 2026: Expand to more cities and add more functions (such as social interaction, rights protection, etc.).\n\n3. Phase 3: Platform governance and community building\n\nJune 2026: The platform realizes decentralized governance, and users can participate in platform decision-making through sound wave coins.\n\n2027: The platform becomes a widely used decentralized social platform and an important tool for exposing social injustice and safeguarding the rights of workers.\n\n---\n\nRisks and Challenges\n\nAlthough our goal is to change the existing social injustice and promote freedom of speech, we may face the following challenges in the process:\n\nLegal risks: In China, freedom of speech is restricted and the government may restrict the operation of our platform through various means.\n\nTechnical challenges: Developing a stable and secure decentralized platform requires a lot of technical support and testing.\n\nWe will gradually overcome these challenges through legal compliance and technical iteration to ensure that the platform can continue to operate and maximize its benefits.\n\n---\n\nCall for action\n\nSupporting our project means supporting social justice and fairness, supporting oppressed workers, and supporting freedom of speech. Whether it is contributing funds or sharing projects, it will help us achieve our common goals. With your support, we can light up the darkness together and change the future!\n", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "OpenEyesEthan"}, "recipient": "0x4e508Cb9B6982253Fb7fcA76C20Be1b79B5fCD9F"}}