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", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Our repo is empty as we have not started the project build out phase (this begins in August)", "hidden": false, "question": "Is there anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other affiliations? Is there anything else you'd like to add that may help determine project eligibility?", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Bharat https://twitter.com/BH1991 https://www.linkedin.com/in/bharat-h-2447a0b4/  Erin Magennis https://twitter.com/erinmagennis https://www.linkedin.com/in/erinmagennis   ", "hidden": false, "question": "What are the names and social links of your team members?", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Yes, Bharat was at the full duration of both Zuzalu and ZuConnect ", "hidden": false, "question": "Was at least one core team member at Zuzalu or ZuConnect for at least two weeks? If so, who and at which ones? ", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We align with core aspects of Zuzalu including the following: \nOur focus is on producing boundary-pushing tech using the Ethereum tech stack\nCollaboration through our fellow, mentor, and partner network  \nOpen knowledge sharing & discovery through our open research efforts\nEducation through the phase 1 peer-to-peer education\nReputation & recognition through credentials for fellows and experimenting with hypercerts/retroactive payments \nCross-pollination of ideas by mixing scientists and developers\nBottom-up opportunities by supporting Fellows’ project ideas \nTooling & product development through projects developed in phase 3 \nOnboarding of scientists into web3 & DeSci \nAdditionally we provide grants to support fellows attending Zuzalu events IRL to onboard new people & connect them with the broader Zuzalu community \nWe feel that DeSci is one of the most important use cases for web3 and supporting this is an aligned and worthy cause for the Zuzalu ecosystem. ", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project create value for the Zuzalu ecosystem? ", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "10k USD from Ethereum foundation (of which 5K had been released) 6.667 ETH + 3,020 USD from Zuzalu Gitcoin Round #1  ~650 USD from Gitcoin DeSci round", "hidden": false, "question": "Have you received any other funding for this project? If so, how much and from what sources?", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We have used approximately 60% of the funds given to us. \nThe vast majority of this (~90%) has been used to bring value to the Zuzalu ecosystem. We used it to send Fellows (currently 10) to ZuGeorgia during the science week. We felt this was the most appropriate use of funds (ie instead of paying Fellows stipends or using it as prize money) as it allowed them to attend an event that they would not otherwise have been able to & connect with the larger web3/Zuzalu ecosystem. One person received support to be able to attend Crecimiento (they are based in Colombia and it was too expensive to get them to Georgia)\nApproximately 5% has been used to support MuseMatrix operations", "hidden": false, "question": "Did you participate in a previous Zuzalu Gitcoin round? If so, how did you use those funds?", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Funds from this round will focus on supporting Fellows in Cohort 1 and Cohort 2.  \nSupport may include covering IRL participation costs (especially at Zuzalu ecosystem events), neurotech hardware, experiment budgets, & publishing reports. \nThe more support we get, the more support we can give fellows and the more we can invite them to engage with the Zuzalu community ", "hidden": false, "question": "What is your project budget? And if your project is accepted, how will you use the funds from this round? ", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Yes, core projects are built using the Ethereum tech stack", "hidden": false, "question": "Is your blockchain-facing tech maximally compatible with Ethereum and common Ethereum ecosystem standards(https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/standards/)? If so, how? ", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Yes, code will be open source", "hidden": false, "question": "Is your project open source? If any code is a closed source, why? ", "questionId": 14}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": false, "question": "Do you agree by January 1st, 2025 to declare how the funds were used via Zuzagora or its successor? ", "questionId": 15}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "We would love to partner with any Zuzalu projects that are compatible with or advance science/DeSci. We can add them to our partner network where they can suggest project ideas for Fellows to work on. 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We take a pragmatic approach focused on tangible outputs, namely open sourced DeSci tooling. We run cohorts of approximately 20 fellows (a mix of scientists, web3 developers, ZK, AI and more) who work collaboratively to build out a product. It is designed in an additive way that scientists & developers can participate whilst also having other commitments.\n\nWe are already running one cohort and have learnings to improve how we deliver it for future cohorts. See below for updates since our previous gitcoin round.\n\n**Update Since Round #1:**\n\n[Link](https://explorer.gitcoin.co/?utm_source=grants.gitcoin.co&utm_medium=internal_link&utm_campaign=gg19&utm_content=independent-rounds#/round/10/0xd875fa07bedce182377ee54488f08f017cb163d4/0xd875fa07bedce182377ee54488f08f017cb163d4-14) to the previous round project for more details on the structure of the Fellowship\n\nThanks to your support in Round #1 we launched and completed Phase 1 of the MuseMatrix Fellowship program. \n\nFor context, the Fellowship is a six-month programme where by the end we have an economically sustainable DeSci product. \n\nIt is broken into three Phases:\n\n1. Phase 1: Teaching\n2. Phase 2: Project Scoping/User Interviews\n3. Phase 3: Project Buildout\n\nCohort 1 is currently in Phase 2\n\n**Phase 1 Recap**\n\n**March**\nWe went live with applications at the end of March. It was officially launched at the DeSci London conference on 23/24 March.\n\n**April**\nThe majority of April was spent promoting the Fellowship and we are happy to report we received almost 100 applications, far more than we expected! \n\n**May**\nThe last week of April and the beginning of May were spent interviewing potential applicants and the cohort officially kicked off at the end of May.\n\n**June/July**\nCohort 1 began with 25 amazing fellows who have now been fully DeSci-pilled! The majority (80%) had not used a wallet before nor had any prior knowledge of blockchain, web3 or DeSci. \n\nHalf of the fellows participated in person weekly at a partner office in London, while the other half were remotely connected. We had frequent syncs where the in-person cohort met the remote cohort (please see the July Zuzalu newsletter for a picture :) )\n\nThe weekly sessions involved peer-to-peer learning about science, blockchain, and DeSci subtopics. See [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g-dLfha0Q3N9Kcj2tTQfgLaVlTj7N3Ar_MY-_0yFVS8/edit#heading=h.wx2jkmylp1g3) for the curriculum with links to the Fellows presentations. \n\nWe have also kicked off the Product and Marketing working groups, covering the basics of building out a product, doing validation before actually writing code and the basics of marketing. The marketing squad promoted an open call for ideas on [Twitter](https://x.com/DeSciMic/status/1803132501222891726) which was the most-viewed episode of The DeSci Mic! We will be kicking off the Developer, Business and Article writing squads next week. \n\n**Phase 2**\n\nFellows are moving into phase 2 (as of July 15th), where they will spend 2 to 3 weeks conducting user interviews (with scientists, universities, and biotech companies) to fully scope out our main project idea (Causality Network) which is a DePIN protocol to authenticate scientific data.  \n\nAdditionally, we will productise the peer-to-peer learning element to make it easier to run further cohorts (this will be built on EAS). See [here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1r8yflS8kES3E7dC_ML1iJZuRwdsLvsPmEF3YAPWwlEg/edit?usp=sharing) for details. This will be built out over August.\n\nTwo of the fellows were keen to work on an idea they came up with by themselves to which MuseMatrix will be giving support. \n\nDuring this phase, one viable project idea is for a Decentralised Pandemic Defence system which we will also be supporting\n\n**Next Steps: **\n\n**Phase 3:**\nPhase 3 is focused on project build out. We are focused on tangible outputs which we define as products or research papers. The first Fellowship group ends in October so this is the deadline to have a product live by. \n\n\n**Cohort 2:**\nWe are also running additional an cohort (in LATAM and Africa) starting at the end of this month, July 2024. \n\n**Building DeSci Products is hard!!!**\n\nDespite DeSci being three years old, there are very few live products (the bulk of the ecosystem is BioDAOs focused on funding whereas our focus is on tech products). In the entire ecosystem, there are just a handful of products that are live (most of which are in beta). DeSci products take alot of time and effort to effectively build out.  **This is why our Github repo is still empty.** We want to make something that solves real problems in science. This required us spending the first two months educating scientists/developers about DeSci to allow for effective cross-pollination of ideas. ", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "Muse-Matrix", "projectTwitter": "MuseMatrix_"}, "recipient": "0x17e4285BeE986aE686504131D3D5ABE0009f297A"}}