{"title": "Ethelo-Gitcoin Integration", "logoImg": "bafkreifvdunv5mtmdhkqf5pqf27knboh74dq6aev5sml45ym3qnl373rmm", "website": "https://ethelo.com/", "bannerImg": "bafkreicbls3l3pff6c2f3jsnkoib7xghspgsnuwugr5bb3nreunlmya2iy", "createdAt": 1682127209669, "credentials": {}, "description": "*Ethelo: Enhancing Web3 Governance and Grant Decision-making* \n\n**Executive Summary**\nEthelo, a world leader in digital governance, is seeking a GitCoin Grant to integrate its multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) functionality into the GitCoin Grants Protocol. By collaborating with GitCoin, Ethelo aims to improve collective decision-making and participatory grantmaking on the platform. This will ultimately benefit the web3 governance space by offering a cutting-edge, versatile solution for various types of group decisions, including, budgeting, grantmaking, planning, design, elections, conflict resolution, impact evaluations, and eligibility assessments.\n\n**Company Overview**\nEthelo is a veteran company with a web3 mentality! We’ve been operating in the governance space for over a decade, fighting an uphill battle to onboard communities into digital decision-making systems. The advance of web3, however, has opened a new era in digital democracy, one where the vast experience of Ethelo and the accelerating power of web3 can come together to create transformational impact. So, who are we and what do we do?\n\nA globally recognized digital democracy platform, Ethelo empowers communities to solve complex problems in a fair and democratic way. We were named “Best for the World” in governance by a B Corp and our decision-making engine has been used by over 400 organizations, including 150 cities. Our platform has been successfully utilized by governments, businesses, and nonprofit organizations and over past years we have gained increasing traction with DAOs, working previously with GitCoin to support grant eligibility assessments, and as the core participatory grantmaking engine for Big Green DAO.\n\n**Project Description**\n- **The objective of this grant** is to forward Ethelo’s integration with GitCoin’s Grant Protocol, in order to enhance collective decision-making and participatory grantmaking capacity. \n- **Funds will be used** to integrate key features for determining: Grant eligibility, grant discoverability, and grant performance evaluation using Ethelo's MCDM functionality. \n- **Integration and implementation** will be carried out through collaboration with GitCoin on the “manager” component of the protocol, focusing on simplifying the grant approval process.\n\n**Project Roadmap**\nOver the past year, Ethelo has taken significant steps to integrate its original web2 platform with web3 protocols, and now has Metamask integration with token-gating capabilities. This development was completed with the aim of deeper integration of Ethelo into the GitCoin Grant’s protocol, after the initial and internal use of Ethelo by GitCoin to facilitate assessment of Grantee eligibility during previous granting rounds - both general eligibility, as well as ecosystem-round eligibility.  \n\n- **Sprint:** In this engineering sprint, we aim to scale access to the above grant eligibility feature, so that it can be used in both GitCoin- and community-run granting rounds.\n\n- **Deliverable:** Aligning Ethelo’s API with GitCoin’s Grant Protocol, we will design and produce a minimum viable product Ethelo dApp, that is able to be integrated into the “Manager” pathway of the Grants Protocol. \n\n**Request for Support**\nEthelo aims to become a key piece of the governance toolkit for all DAOs and the broader crypto space. Our focus, however, is on impact and supporting the public good.  To achieve this, we are seeking support to help integrate Ethelo tools into the right web3 environments. Alignment with GitCoin and support from the GitCoin community, will help ensure our technology is utilized in ways that align with our values, and help foster a web3 environment that is committed to collective betterment over singular pursuit of profits. This project is a “Development Sprint” within Ethelo ’s larger web3 roadmap.\n\n**Future vision for taking DAO Governance** \nAlthough our focus for this grant will be an integration with the Gitcoin Grants stack, our vision for Ethelo is to provide a highly configurable solution to problems of decentralized governance generally. Ethelo has been used to find consensus for dozens of different kinds of group decisions, including policy, budgeting, planning, design, elections, conflict resolution and much more. Furthermore, it can be used to find legitimate, credibly neutral solutions to a wide range of problems - from big decisions such as treasury allocations and hard fork arbitration to operational decisions such as compensation and performance assessment. \n\nWe believe that there is a gap in the governance/decision-making process that DAOs currently use. Most decision-making processes in DAOs do not have a robust deliberation phase in between the proposal and ratification phases - we hope to provide the tools to support Gitcoin and the larger DAO community to fill this gap and make better collective decisions.\n\nWANT TO SEE ETHELO IN ACTION, AND HOW IT HAS BEEN USED BY GITCOIN? \n\nCheck out this case study and Ethelo Demo: \n\n- Case Study: https://ethelo.com/case-studies-directory/gitcoin-case-study/\n- Ethelo Demo: https://gia-testing.ethelo.net/page/welcome-to-the-gia\n", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}}