{"signature": "0x4c58183d0575e11b625c4f947aacafbd259049fc40362ab3bbe0b8228ed499fe4a468a4ffd2d56bd1f670c3c86e6e66b995b389309f45ae9e59901c60245ce121b", "application": {"round": "0x3e93205b786796cf7ea70404e89c7dda3b84d07a", "answers": [{"type": "email", "answer": "david@fundingthecommons.io", "hidden": true, "question": "Email Address", "questionId": 0}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "@davidcasey", "hidden": true, "question": "Telegram Handle We Can Use To Contact You", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "https://github.com/Akashic-fund/akashic/       https://github.com/Hyperstaker", "hidden": false, "question": "Project GitHub Repo", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "link", "hidden": false, "question": "Link to your Public Group Chat", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "- GG20 - dApps & Apps\n- GG21 - Celo Real World Builders\n- GG22 - OSS dApps & Apps", "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": "Commons Lab is committed to advancing open-source public goods funding infrastructure through the integrations of Ethereum, **Allo,** Kickstarter’s Creative Crowdfunding Protocol, Drips, and Hypercerts as the backbone for sustainable funding mechanisms. The Lab serves as an incubation and development hub for projects like **Akashic**  (http://app.akashic.xyz) and **Hyperstaker** (www.hyperstaker.com), both of which leverage decentralized coordination tools to enhance the OSS ecosystem. Commons Lab is the incubation arm of Funding the Commons.\n\n- **Akashic**: A decentralized digital archive and funding platform that allows refugee creators and other underserved communities to store and monetize their work via blockchain-based microgrants. Akashic ensures **permanent accessibility** of crucial historical and cultural artifacts using **IPFS** and **Filecoin**.\n- **Hyperstaker**: A novel staking mechanism enabling upfront funding for public goods builders, repaid through retroactive public goods funding (rPGF) mechanisms such as **Optimism retroPGF**.\n\nBy integrating **Allo** and other key infrastructure in the public goods funding stack, Commons Lab facilitates **more efficient capital allocation**, prototypes real world use cases, and automates public goods funding flows, and provides an **open-source stack** that can be forked and utilized by others developing decentralized coordination tooling.", "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": "Commons Lab stands out through its **practical deployment of open-source funding models** for both funding real world public goods and funding the open source developer ecosystem behind the PGF infrastructure. The Lab provides infrastructure that allows for **efficient, transparent, and scalable funding solutions** for both public goods builders. Key factors include:\n\n- **Allo-powered funding rounds**: Our integration of **Allo** enables **quadratic funding**, **direct grants**, and **community-driven funding allocation**.\n- **Hyperstaker financial innovation**: It enables **upfront capital injection** into OSS developers, removing traditional reliance on speculative token models.\n- **Akashic’s decentralized crowdfunding system**: A first-of-its-kind system preserving crucial cultural data, while providing  **funding rails** for creators affected by displacement or financial exclusion by integrating Kickstarter’s Creative Crowdfunding Protocol with Gitcoin’s Allo Protocol.\n- **Composable PGF infrastructure**: we are creating a composable PGF stack enabling OSS developers to easily 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**, **NEAR Foundation**, **Gitcoin**, and **Refunite** bring OSS funding solutions to Web2 and public sector use cases\n\nThrough the integration of Allo and other PGF protocols, Commons Lab ensures that public goods developers, climate tech innovators, and open-source contributors have **continuous funding streams**, allowing those OSS developers to both bootstrap and “dogfood” the development of PGF infrastructure that will be deployed for broader adoption in the real world.", "hidden": false, "question": "What features or use cases does your dApp/App present? How is it differentiated?", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Commons Lab is scaling its **funding infrastructure** to reach **more builders, governments, and humanitarian organizations**. The Gitcoin GG23 grant will support:\n\n1. **Expanding Allo-powered funding rounds**\n    - Launching **regional public goods funding experiments** in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America.\n    - Funding local builder communities to **prototype and test funds distribution** using **Allo**.\n    - Running an **Akashic integration pilot** with displaced creators in Kenya to distribute **quadratic funding-based microgrants**.\n2. **Advancing Akashic’s decentralization stack**\n    - Developing a **mobile-first interface** for ease of use by non-crypto-native users.\n    - Integrating 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\n3. **Scaling Hyperstaker’s lending pool**\n    - Increasing **rPGF-backed early-stage funding for OSS developers**.\n    - Piloting **auto-repay staking models** with **Optimism’s retroPGF fund**.", "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": "Akashic\n\nexport const NFT_METADATA = \"0x73258C5813AB9494473d34eD57869531B2dd6ac2\";\nexport const CAMPAIGN_NFT_FACTORY = \"0x41ab8cf665f931B010d13D46b5178551594EE2DA\";\nexport const AKASHIC_NFT_REGISTRY = \"0x41b40AB343E607e59de62930D726A324B3b7cf63\"\n\nHyperstaker\n\nconst contracts = {\n[11155111]: {\nhypercertMinterContract: \"0xa16DFb32Eb140a6f3F2AC68f41dAd8c7e83C4941\",\nhyperstakerFactoryContract: \"0xFa9525E19196285Dc69D178C9Fc9F210F9e7F718\",\nhyperstrategyFactory: \"0x48880b8a4Fcb2deE00Ede91F837835135B794c13\",\nalloContract: \"0x1133eA7Af70876e64665ecD07C0A0476d09465a1\",\ndirectGrantsSimpleStrategy: \"0x8564d522b19836b7F5B4324E7Ee8Cb41810E9F9e\",\nhyperStrategy: \"0x1be52A8f4c05379cb6516Cc403e08DF7AdE47bC1\",\nusdc: \"0x1c7D4B196Cb0C7B01d743Fbc6116a902379C7238\"\n}\n}", "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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