{"signature": "0x00d86bffaf54337e882144e08aa4717678b9ce767c505dae4aacd2b69c5b593f4df1231d95b9f79851c8f80f89dcf7afbfd1ab67ed70560614c59af5710ea1271c", "application": {"round": "0x3e93205b786796cf7ea70404e89c7dda3b84d07a", "answers": [{"type": "email", "answer": "tim@peeramid.xyz", "hidden": true, "question": "Email Address", "questionId": 0}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "@peersky", "hidden": true, "question": "Telegram Handle We Can Use To Contact You", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "https://github.com/peeramid-labs/rankify-contracts", "hidden": false, "question": "Project GitHub Repo", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "link", "answer": "https://discord.gg/EddGgGUuWC", "hidden": false, "question": "Link to your Public Group Chat", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "GG20 OSS Program\ndApps & Apps\nApr 2, 2024 - Apr 28, 2024\n\nThank ARB: GG21\nGG21: Thriving Arbitrum Summer\nJul 24, 2024 - Aug 10, 2024\n\nGG22 OSS Rounds\nGG22 OSS - dApps and Apps\nSep 30, 2024 - Oct 30, 2024\n", "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": "Rankify directly addresses key challenges hindering the sustainable growth of the open-source software (OSS) ecosystem, particularly within Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). Here's how:\n\n* **Enabling Semi-Open Source Models:**\n    * Rankify facilitates \"semi-open source\" models. This allows projects to maintain open-source principles while implementing access controls based on active contributions. This addresses the \"free-rider\" problem, where individuals benefit without contributing, which often hinders OSS sustainability.\n    * Example: An underfunded protocol can use Rankify to grant full access to its codebase and development discussions only to those who have demonstrated active participation and earned a certain rank. This creates a \"skin in the game\" dynamic, incentivizing contributions.\n* **Improving Contribution Recognition and Incentivization:**\n    * Traditional OSS projects often struggle with recognizing and rewarding contributions beyond code commits. Rankify provides a transparent and verifiable system for tracking and valuing diverse contributions, including discussions, proposals, and community engagement.\n    * Example: A project using Rankify can automatically generate a \"Proof of Competence\" score for each contributor, reflecting their overall impact. This score can be used for token distribution, governance rights, and other incentives.\n* **Facilitating Decentralized Governance and Decision-Making:**\n    * Rankify empowers DAOs and OSS projects to move beyond centralized decision-making by providing tools for structured discussions, collaborative decision-making, and transparent governance.\n    * Example: A DAO can use Rankify to host discussions on proposed protocol upgrades, allowing community members to contribute their ideas and vote on proposals based on their reputation and expertise.\n* **Bootstrapping and Scaling New OSS Projects:**\n    * Rankify provides a framework for new OSS projects to bootstrap their communities and establish decentralized governance from the outset.\n    * Example: A new project can use Rankify to manage its initial token distribution, allocate governance rights, and foster community engagement through structured discussions and collaborative tasks.\n\nIn essence, Rankify fosters a more sustainable and equitable OSS ecosystem by:\n\n* Incentivizing valuable contributions.\n* Promoting decentralized governance.\n* Enabling innovative funding models.\n* Lowering the barrier to entry for new OSS projects.", "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": "##   Rankify Features and Differentiators\n\nRankify is a platform designed to streamline discussions, recognize contributions, and optimize decision-making within online communities, particularly DAOs.\n\n**Key Features:**\n\n* **Unified User Experience (UUX):** Rankify breaks down silos to create seamless experiences, even across competing businesses.\n* **Meritocratic Governance:** The platform uses tokenized expertise (\"Rank Tokens\") to ensure fair recognition and rewards for contributions.\n* **Decentralized & Trustless:** Cryptographic protocols and verifiable scores guarantee transparency and integrity.\n* **AI-Powered Collaboration:** Rankify uses parallel management with AI agents to optimize outcomes and free up human expertise. AI summaries fuse stakeholder opinions.\n* **Open Source Capitalization:** Rankify unlocks the full potential of open-source development with its innovative model.\n* **Competitive Collaboration:** Enables businesses to collaborate on user experiences.\n* **Verifiable Recognition:** Provides a trustless and decentralized scoring system.\n* **Auditable Data:** All data is transparent and secure, using digital signatures and ZK-proofs.\n* **Decentralized Discourse:** Formalizes participation and connects it to ecosystem value.\n* **Vectorized Datasets:** Enables trusted AI processing of community discourse.\n* **Semi-open source:** Autonomous control of access to valuable data based on rank and participation.\n\n**Use Cases:**\n\n* **Decentralized Marketplaces:** Reward users and vendors with tokens for participation and improvements.\n* **Semi-Open Source Data:** Token-gate access to valuable datasets, creating new revenue streams.\n* **AI Workforce Migration:** Optimize workflows by integrating AI agents and upskilling employees.\n* **Project-Based Learning:** Enhance collaboration and reward contributions in educational settings.\n* **Team Empathy & Conflict Resolution:** Use engagement metrics to proactively address issues.\n* **Decentralized Organizations (DAOs):** Enable meritocratic fellowships and progressive decentralization.\n* **Token Launches:** Facilitate community-driven token launches.\n\n**How Rankify is Differentiated:**\n\n* **Game-Theoretic Alignment:** Rankify incentivizes collaboration, even among competitors, by enabling a frequency domain approach for quorum control modulation.\n* **Focus on Proof of Competence:** Rankify creates a ranking ladder that represents \"Proof of Competence,\" rewarding contributions based on time, assets, and peer recognition.\n* **Emphasis on AI Integration:** The platform is designed for parallel management of human teams and AI agents, with quantifiable feedback loops to optimize outcomes. It also creates vectorized datasets of discourse, enabling trusted AI processing.\n* **Addresses Fragmentation:** Rankify directly tackles the fragmentation of user experience by providing a unified platform for various interactions.\n* **Enables Semi-Open Source Models:** Rankify facilitates models where access to data and resources is controlled based on rank and participation, balancing open access with incentives for contribution.\n\nIn essence, Rankify aims to provide a more aligned, efficient, and equitable ecosystem for collaboration, particularly within DAOs and OSS projects, by focusing on verifiable competence, AI integration, and novel governance mechanisms.", "hidden": false, "question": "What features or use cases does your dApp/App present? How is it differentiated?", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Rankify is currently in open beta, and we have ambitious plans for its continued development. Our primary goal is to achieve a 1.0.0 mainnet release, solidifying Rankify as a robust and reliable platform for decentralized collaboration and governance.\n\n**Development Plans:**\n\nOur development roadmap includes the following key areas:\n\n* **Enhancing AI Capabilities:** We plan to further integrate and refine our AI-powered collaboration features. This includes improving the accuracy and utility of AI summaries, expanding AI-assisted moderation tools, and exploring new ways to leverage AI for community insights and decision support.\n* **Improving User Experience:** We are committed to continuously improving the user experience based on feedback from our beta testers. This involves optimizing the user interface, streamlining workflows, and ensuring accessibility across different devices.\n* **Expanding Functionality:** We will be adding new features to the platform, such as advanced analytics dashboards for community insights, enhanced token management tools, and deeper integration with other Web3 platforms and protocols.\n* **Strengthening Security and Scalability:** We will continue to prioritize the security and scalability of the Rankify platform through rigorous testing, security audits, and infrastructure improvements.\n\n**Use of Grant Funds:**\n\nGrant funds will be instrumental in achieving these development goals. Specifically, the funds will be allocated to:\n\n* **Development Expenses:** A significant portion of the funds will be used to pay our development team, including software engineers, designers, and project managers. This will enable us to accelerate development, implement new features, and address technical challenges.\n* **Infrastructure Expenses:** Funds will also be used to cover infrastructure costs, such as server maintenance, hosting, and database management. This will ensure the platform's reliability, scalability, and security.\n* **Beta Testing Support:** We will allocate resources to support our beta testing program, including providing incentives for testers, gathering and analyzing feedback, and implementing necessary improvements.\n\nBy strategically utilizing grant funds, we are confident that we can bring Rankify to its full potential, fostering a more collaborative, efficient, and equitable future for decentralized communities and organizations.\n\nSources and related content\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": "0x6Cf8d74C7875de8C2FfB09228F4bf2A21b25e583,421614", "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). 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To achieve this, they must innovate.\n\n## For Undercapitalized OSS Protocols\n\n* Rankify enables semi-open source models.\n* Autonomous protocols can be developed and remain open-source, but with access gated to active contributors (\"skin in the game\").\n* Replace fully open forum boards with Rankify-powered discussion spaces.\n* Automated token-gated access based on participant rank.\n\n## For Founders & Bootstrapping DAOs\n\n* Simplify initial token allocation.\n* Address challenges of centralized on-chain entities.\n* Answer key questions:\n    * How to allocate tokens across the community?\n    * How to account for contributions?\n    * How to identify legitimate delegates?\n* Bootstrap community through transparent, verifiable, and secure discussions and actionable items.\n\n## For Established DAOs\n\n* Move beyond single token distribution events or capital-based markets.\n* Counteract power compounding.\n* Foster development and innovation after founding developers move on.\n* Re-think DAO structure with a dual-token system.\n* Clearly separate roles for contributors, managers, and shareholders.\n\n## For Education & Fun\n\n* Rankify can be gamified.\n* First use-case: collective music playlist generation.\n* Now supports fully-fledged content contribution.\n* Engage communities, create fun experiences, and run educational programs.\n* Allow students to collaborate on autonomous discussions and task submissions.\n\n# Why Does It Work?\n\n* We create a ranking ladder representing \"Proof of Competence.\"\n* Proof of Competence is defined as: \"time and value one was willing to contribute and resulting peer-level recognition one received in return.\"\n* In depth explanation of the theory is available here: [https://peeramid.xyz/research/](https://peeramid.xyz/research/)\n\n# Impact\n\n* Create more secure and lasting open-source organizations.\n* Make them more efficient and competitive than traditional organizations.\n\n# Grant Purpose\n\n* Support continued protocol development.\n* Reach the 1.0.0 mainnet release.\n\n# Links\n\n* Our team: [https://peeramid.xyz](https://peeramid.xyz)\n* App (beta): [https://tma.rankify.it](https://tma.rankify.it)\n* Discord: [https://discord.gg/EddGgGUuWC](https://discord.gg/EddGgGUuWC)\n\nRankify depends on following projects: \n\n[Ethereum Distribution System](https://builder.gitcoin.co/#/chains/42161/registry/0x/projects/0xd4427d0ffc2b8f58c4ef28410deed1158a7d5e405d6cd5bedb0487441d2ba452) \n\n[Multipass](https://builder.gitcoin.co/#/chains/42161/registry/0x/projects/0x9aa1813681cbc4c7acdad3f7687ee68b6c21a055f2df0d771551ad3d0a9e9d4d)", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "peeramid-labs", "projectTwitter": "peeramid_labs"}, "recipient": "0x8F29e5660d967c9e7308BE3697b9C7D5Ebd853aE"}}