{"signature": "0xf2e003a64bcad75f9fbe18df91541b89de6414a713b8164161bf0eefbf842ac258f9c4473ae6158af2649673827989f7ceeffd19188fcc135de94eb4e22fcaaa1b", "application": {"round": "0xeec3725cd5e58a86437743a520c09e832b112f8a", "answers": [{"type": "email", "hidden": true, "question": "Email Address", "questionId": 0, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "ljKV11LbrlUM+/ImbPABMnFG51VzfPcEy84/DAUYHMDgLSpFz0+MaITxUw+ebc9s", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "55d652147ff99152550bd0cf555574880ac00227f79fc917891f95ef1d278e7bbc1142271f02bfca9f1eab1f4bfd3d015acccc18eab550813d53aed2e6d434e4cbe583e99e4d7f435ce680554f25f81e94e643cf4896039256370e7dd34ce9829f5480c63a32f2413f530265cfad95cd814c74445ff0ba04aa637d56e0edd59c00000000000000208b3671ccf7975c29e951dd1c76e307da6737ef874ddb14beb0313cd13f41164d95e25563804659ff6260dc48836fed8c"}}, {"type": "link", "answer": "https://t.me/descilondon", "hidden": false, "question": "Link to your Public Group Chat (e.g. Discord or Telegram)", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Have participated in previous gitcoin rounds, the most recent one was 20 days ago so not enough time has passed for significant updates. We also participated in a gitcound round a few months ago and the main application page shows the progress since then", "hidden": false, "question": "If you've participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months (N/A if you are yet to participate).", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "short-answer", "hidden": true, "question": "Telegram Handle We Can Use To Contact You (you can answer N/A)", "questionId": 3, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "8j95JxxtlGW9ujK7FF4Yor9WSnM3I1h9kYhOnhhAPds=", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "73352df2217d900b2e4ad9aca55255d6f8b7a31c4e413bd943c0abd12cb19bff24f1feca3c0187cbddf3716c77c8bc05be6e249210f9843bbac85b54c730c9cda68e29e278c373897c41ccdd153c4176998313f2cda56a87e19d5bf9c515ccb86c3b7c3aa29020f269f002963adaabc1d491ab9d731b0c145bf333c292bff7fc00000000000000204198db6a9608e1b7e6fd1a886b8bea71c276ab33df11ddbf8119e14f8c4728cf77c571f9c5f84a7b7d97e29d7ed827ad"}}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Yes, previous gitcoin rounds, see here: https://gap.karmahq.xyz/project/musematrix/grants", "hidden": false, "question": "Have you participated in any Octant epoch (Epoch 0 through Epoch 4) OR a previous Gitcoin Grants round? Please provide details and evidence of your participation.", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Yes - https://gap.karmahq.xyz/project/musematrix/", "hidden": false, "question": "Do you have a Karma GAP set up? If yes, please provide proof. If not, can you set one up before applying?", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "MuseMatrix Fellowships fit right into Octant's mission to support public goods and collaboration across Web3. Through our six-month fellowships, we're helping to accelerate decentralized science (DeSci) by creating open-source tools for the scientific community. This aligns with Octant’s focus on sustainable, impactful projects.\n\nWe empower scientists and developers to build decentralized apps, like the Causality Network, a protocol for authenticating scientific data. By open-sourcing these tools, we ensure they’re accessible to the entire Web3 and Octant ecosystem, sparking further innovation.\n\nThis is also useful to Octant as it exposes the ecosystem to DeSci which is a rapidly growing sector of web3 that's highly relevant to public good due to its focus on Open Science", "hidden": false, "question": "Please describe how your project contributes to the growth and development of the Octant ecosystem.", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "MuseMatrix is all about community and education, which aligns perfectly with Octant's goals. We bring together scientists, developers, and more, offering peer-to-peer learning opportunities. Our sessions break down DeSci and Web3 for newcomers, encouraging cross-disciplinary collaboration.\nWe also emphasize inclusivity, actively involving underrepresented groups; this fosters a more diverse and impactful Web3 ecosystem, directly contributing to Octant’s commitment to public goods and education.", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project align with the round's focus on community and education within the Octant ecosystem?", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Cohort 1\nPhase 1 (May-June) - Already Finished: Educating 25 fellows on Web3 and DeSci, building a solid foundation.\nPhase 2 (July - August) - Already Finished: Conducting interviews with scientists and biotech companies to define the scope of our key product, the Causality Network.\nPhase 3 (August - November)- In progress: Building and launching the Causality Network, a tool for authenticating scientific data. Present at the end of November at a DeSci London meetup\n\nCohort 2\nPhase 1 (August - September):  In progress - We have launched cohorts in LATAM and Africa.\nPhase 2 (October) - Cohort 2 will choose their idea for a open source project\nPhase 3 (November-Feb)- Cohort 2 will build out their project and present at a DeSci London monthly meetup\nEach phase ensures we deliver meaningful products and education, building real-world solutions that benefit the Octant ecosystem and beyond. Our commitment to open-source development ensures that everything we create is accessible to the broader Octant ecosystem. This fosters collaboration, encourages further innovation, and contributes to sustainable, long-term growth by continually adding valuable tools to the Web3 and DeSci landscape. Through these efforts, we’re building an enduring impact that aligns with Octant’s mission of driving public goods and decentralized solutions.", "hidden": false, "question": "Provide a clear roadmap of your project, detailing future milestones and deliverables. How does this demonstrate your commitment to long-term impact and growth within the Octant ecosystem?", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Both of the team members have deep roots in DeSci and Community Building. Bharat has been in the space for over two and a half years and is the founder of the largest in-person DeSci community. Before this, he worked as a medical doctor, a scientist and has experience in web3. Erin has been in the DeSci space for three years. She is a neuroscientist with experience in marketing, tech startups and web3. Erin helped launch 18 science-tech ecosystems, led the DeSci Research Landscape Analysis, and is core team at the largest blockchain ecosystem in the Midwest (conference, monthly workshops, & hackathons)", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe your team's expertise and how it contributes to the successful execution of your project.", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Rather than competing, we bridge gaps by creating a platform for scientists unfamiliar with Web3 and developers new to DeSci. This cross-pollination enhances the ecosystem by contributing both practical tools that other initiatives can leverage as well as increasing the talent pool of scientists that are familiar with web3 (and dev familiar with DeSci) that can go on to work or build other projects. ", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project complement or enhance existing initiatives within the Octant ecosystem rather than competing directly against them?", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Our approach is all about community collaboration and inclusivity. We bring together scientists and developers who are often new to Web3, creating a platform for peer-to-peer learning. Fellows share ideas and skills, working closely through syncs and working groups to develop real-world projects. Our fellowship is designed to build a global community of scientists, developers, and innovators who share the common goal of advancing decentralized science.\nEverything we do is open-source, so anyone can build on the tools we create, and we prioritize transparency by sharing updates and discussions on platforms like GitHub. By encouraging cross-disciplinary engagement, we’re breaking down barriers between scientists and Web3 developers, building a more connected and constructive funding environment.\nThrough these methods, we are actively creating a constructive funding environment where ideas are openly shared, and progress is driven by the contributions of a global community.", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe your approach to community engagement and how you plan to contribute to a collaborative and constructive funding environment.", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "If selected for funding, we’ll use the resources to scale and maximize the impact of MuseMatrix within the Octant ecosystem by focusing on three key areas:\n\nSupporting Fellows: The funding will enable us to provide more financial and educational support to our fellows, allowing them to dedicate more time to building decentralized science tools. This will help push out more high-quality, open-source projects like the Causality Network, driving innovation in DeSci and Web3.\n\nExpanding Cohorts: We plan to grow MuseMatrix into new regions, including running more cohorts in LATAM and Africa, broadening the diversity of our participants. This will foster global collaboration and bring fresh perspectives into the Octant ecosystem, enriching the Web3 space with new ideas and solutions.\n\nSustainability and Long-Term Impact: By securing this funding, we can enhance our operational capacity, ensuring the fellowship program remains sustainable and continues producing valuable tools and research that benefit not only DeSci but the broader Octant and Web3 ecosystems.\n\nIf selected for funding, we’ll focus on three key areas to scale MuseMatrix's impact:\n\nSupporting Fellows: Funding will help provide more financial and educational resources, enabling fellows to dedicate more time to building open-source DeSci tools.\n\nExpanding Cohorts: We'll run further cohorts in regions like LATAM and Africa, fostering global collaboration and diversity within the Octant ecosystem.\n\nSustainability: The funding will enhance our operations, ensuring the program remains sustainable and continues producing valuable tools for both DeSci and the wider Octant and Web3 ecosystems.\n\nThis will help us reach more communities, build better products, and support Octant’s mission of innovation and collaboration.", "hidden": false, "question": "How do you plan to use the funding to maximize your project's ongoing impact within the Octant ecosystem if selected?", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We have held weekly Twitter spaces over the last few months which attract a large and diverse audience. Feedback for these has been super positive. Please see: https://x.com/DeSciMic", "hidden": false, "question": "What unique educational content or resources have you created for the Octant ecosystem? How has the community received these? Please share any relevant links", "questionId": 13}], "project": {"id": "0x0887a0662d9d62d3d9197534c10ed19f03da7cafe267ba2dd4983a7cc7432315", "title": "MuseMatrix", "logoImg": "bafkreifwswijtan7msnbowhq4axyqlf3tadgkyzycvsrxh4tzkjjsjwjmu", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreicvaqfefmdv44ffnyegbtaufgxdpsuynhfhai62syjwunq3pwgcdi", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://musematrix.xyz/", "bannerImg": "bafkreihmyrw3rx3yl2j5i7oukic2jdyf6junumoyqwwgaf6p64kejkqro4", "createdAt": 1723496848585, "credentials": {"twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..9WnWg84cuG_yX_Vbuwp_P1ln4SDkt-LBBjfbXs6VmPrcPncH3OmuQUm9YmXGr_f-PP1rYSl1JIqMZJ-wNc2kAA", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2024-08-12T21:07:18.393Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2024-08-12T21:07:18.393Z", "expirationDate": "2024-11-10T21:07:18.393Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x17e4285BeE986aE686504131D3D5ABE0009f297A", "hash": "v0.0.0:sKzdZhBlxrjddcT0cu6w5zen4uKZe5IyDwwinrHUahc=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#MuseMatrix_"}}}, "description": "Community-run DeSci Fellowships focused on the production of open sourced DeSci tooling.\n\nMuseMatrix runs six month long fellowships; helping educate, fund and coordinate builders interested in advancing decentralised science. 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 Previous #1:**\n\nLink 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\nPhase 1: Teaching\n\nPhase 2: Project Scoping/User Interviews\n\nPhase 3: Project Buildout\n\nCohort 1 is currently in Phase 2\n\n**Phase 1 Recap**\n\n**March**\n\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**\n\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**\n\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**\n\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.\n\nThe weekly sessions involved peer-to-peer learning about science, blockchain, and DeSci subtopics. See here 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 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 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\n**Next Steps: **\n\n**Phase 3:**\n\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\nCohort 2:\n\nWe are also running additional an cohort (in LATAM and Africa) which started last week.\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, "projectTwitter": "MuseMatrix_"}, "recipient": "0x17e4285BeE986aE686504131D3D5ABE0009f297A"}}