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If so, please name the rounds or link the builder profile associated with previous rounds.", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Akashic is committed to advancing open-source public goods funding infrastructure through the integrations of Ethereum (Celo), Allo, Kickstarter’s Creative Crowdfunding Protocol, Filecoin, and Hypercerts as the backbone for impact certification.\n\nAkashic is a decentralized digital archive and fundraising platform that allows refugee creators and displaced communities to monetize and preserve their work via blockchain-based crowdfunding and storage tools. Akashic ensures long-term accessibility of crucial historical and cultural artifacts using IPFS and Filecoin.\n\nBy integrating Allo and other key infrastructure in the public goods funding stack, Akashic pioneers a valuable real world use case for blockchain, while providing open-source tooling that can be forked and utilized by others developing public goods funding infrastructure.", "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": "Akashic stands out through its **practical deployment of open-source funding tooling** for funding real world public goods. Key factors include:\n\n- Last-mile financial access for displaced communities: Akashic gives displaced persons around the world access to basic financial services like the ability to receive money, access to inflation-resistant currencies (USD), and the ability to generate an income.\n- ZK-based identity for refugees and stateless persons: Akashic is working with Holonym (Human Passport), Refunite, and Opera MiniPay to build a novel KYC system from the ground up, maintaining compliance\n- Novel crowdfunding mechanisms: Our integration of Allo enables quadratic funding via matching pool, and  community-driven funding allocation . , while providing  funding rails for creators affected by displacement or financial exclusion by integrating Kickstarter’s Creative Crowdfunding Protocol with Gitcoin’s Allo Protocol. Backers receive Hypercerts in exchange for their contribution. These Hypercerts may have shared IP rights for the media file, or other forms of value-sharing in the future.\n- Distributed storage and archiving: Displaced creators publish media assets to the Filecoin blockchain, preserving crucial cultural data and bolstering censorship-resistance and immutability.\n- Composable PGF infrastructure: we are creating a composable PGF stack behind Akashic, enabling OSS developers to fork and deploy innovative products, dapps, front-ends, and experimental funding mechanisms on top of for countless use cases\n- Multisector integration: Collaborations with institutions like UNICEF, Filecoin Foundation, Numbers Protocol, Gitcoin, Celo, Holonym (human.tech), and Refunite bring web3 funding solutions to Web2 and public sector use cases", "hidden": false, "question": "What features or use cases does your dApp/App present? How is it differentiated?", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Akashic is scaling its funding infrastructure to reach more displaced communities, NGOs and humanitarian organizations. The Gitcoin GG23 grant will support:\n\nExpanding Allo-powered funding rounds\n\nLaunching Akashic in Kenya this May, with Allo pool matching funds provided by Celo’s Prezenti\n\nPartnering with Refunite, Grassroots Economics (Sarafu Network), and Kickstarter’s Creative Crowdfunding Protocol to reach a talented network of displaced creators in Kenya\n\nAdvancing Akashic’s decentralization stack\n\nDeveloping a mobile-first interface for ease of use by non-crypto-native users\n\nIntegrating Allo with Kickstarter’s Creative Crowdfunding Protocol in a way that can be forked by other builders coming through the Funding the Commons talent pipeline to build new PGF dapps\n\nIntegrating Opera MiniPay", "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": "0xb4beF264785fd51D80347f578E0245fCcdF3C055, 44787", "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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