{"signature": "0xa7b1f0f07a52ad11197ec1a9797953c7f23b2e20df1a7badd6349e04058a0e3350322c7223cec0eb44384bdaf517c73ad087f8e41a51740133efec810abaa6051b", "application": {"round": "0xeec3725cd5e58a86437743a520c09e832b112f8a", "answers": [{"type": "email", "hidden": true, "question": "Email Address", "questionId": 0, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "B6UZJM4MogQ6U18LXznlsZSobM9m96hoSscLN07+Q9+ClE8yTAmwNACv5dk/+NxV", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "302f82f155124e4ee2c9cc9fe4f6e6c869bba17323d4c5950362a34006a981fef43c1d6b4e501db955a893e8830204088005c4974d3f2ecc1097339d1a5b145faf27509de86f41ddafd1670d4c475b0e4f70fc02c64fa24ed1640f0ddd79169614c060c6c2aca003189674baecf2839658d7d28e9e6f270dd0a346d86018c74c0000000000000020afb65d342700807849163dde2b132ee39f8b255d5cc1c20d478d3d98c4870ee3d63388747c2650252bbbc6307fa9ba8b"}}, {"type": "link", "answer": "https://t.me/kiwinewsdevs", "hidden": false, "question": "Link to your Public Group Chat (e.g. Discord or Telegram)", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Since the last round (GG20), we redesigned our app, organized writing contests with Gnosis & Lens, made comments more visible inside the feed, and optimized the app’s performance.", "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": "TKPkaL7jCricbbDOPOWGrgHDcY9FJ9qLbTNzampPRgM=", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "2fe966417cb679d09fb96403f1965c34a14aa030b9574c690b019ad9a7aacb8840611b96698688741c6fff657419610b02629f0925b1292165d7cefb3d55369ab2cb762d04729186540353220f14c3ebd74ec6c3d54aaed44b82bf29893badb60b654e9cbe68cc52b2fda745bf5f38447ce3179358a79ad8954960fd0da9d3bd0000000000000020685184cb79faf1592c981b6d32af1f6476a4f3595d01f5aecc19ddd618f7b6260d8907c120960cd4bc7269e50e305a94"}}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We participated in Gitcoin Rounds [#18](https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/projects/0xba1c6642d56c43d020777a42f2291a8e150395fb8d7000b3ffccb40462aedade) and [#20](https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/projects/0x19b8fdb6bdea6cdb71a19f43c0ec0962ec08b563c57f4c2307d0b954123dd67e)", "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": " https://gap.karmahq.xyz/project/kiwi-news", "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": "Kiwi helps Ethereum builders find quality crypto content. From top news, essays, and products up to Dune dashboards, GitHub repos & security breach case studies.\n\nWe believe that quality content feeds & conversations that are not limited to quick dunks on Twitter are essential for the broader Ethereum community.\n\nThe Kiwi community often shares & discusses [ideas related to public goods funding](https://www.google.com/search?q=public+goods+site%3Anews.kiwistand.com&sca_esv=3e171935153702ef&sca_upv=1&sxsrf=ADLYWIKfSFcDUn4AEKqNMvl1SGln50UniA%3A1726052477854&ei=fXjhZqPjM5CG7NYP1aKB4QY&ved=0ahUKEwjjlbnG3rqIAxUQA9sEHVVRIGwQ4dUDCA8&uact=5&oq=public+goods+site%3Anews.kiwistand.com&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiJHB1YmxpYyBnb29kcyBzaXRlOm5ld3Mua2l3aXN0YW5kLmNvbUi5DFAAWLYKcAB4AJABAJgBbKABjAiqAQQxMS4xuAEDyAEA-AEBmAIAoAIAmAMAkgcAoAecBA&sclient=gws-wiz-serp), which helps to educate our readers about its impact and complexities.\n\nWhat’s more, we offered Octant projects free onboarding, which means they could share their updates on Kiwi and join our community of 500+ crypto founders, devs & creators who are in crypto for the right reasons.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please describe how your project contributes to the growth and development of the Octant ecosystem.", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "For the last 1.5 years, we have been sharing high-quality crypto content via our app (read by 1,400+ crypto natives per month) and our weekly newsletter (read by 1,200+ people per month). \n\nOn top of that, we have been building a supportive 500+ people community of crypto devs, founders & creators.", "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": "Here are things that we want to work on in the next few months:\n\n1) Onchain ads.\n\nWe’ve recently launched onchain ads powered by Harberger tax. There isn’t a user interface yet, so our customers currently have to use Etherscan to set up ads. We already had some customers using them, but we want to make the UX much easier.\n\nWith the funding, we want to build a simple user interface to grow the revenue generated from these ads. We also want to work on designing and marketing the offer to customers. We’ve seen that providing white glove service to potential customers is a way to get them engaged in running a campaign.\n\n2) Drive growth to the product.\n\nThe unromantic reality of building a social media protocol is that without people using the product, there also won’t be anyone using the protocol. Hence, we are pursuing a dual-focus strategy. We believe in building the protocol over the long term, but short term this means making the product so good that it drives the usage of the protocol.\n\nAs for how to drive the product, this is based on adjusting configurations in the right places to increase retention, the onboarding throughput and so on. It’s not straight forward, but the processes is such that, one day, we actually become independent from being funded by grants.\n\n3) Harden the protocol.\n\nKiwi News is built on a p2p protocol. It needs constant maintenance with more and more people running nodes and using the product. Our goal here is to harden the protocol such that we are as good as possible prepared for when more people will start using us.\n", "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": "Tim Daubenschutz (Tech & Product) \n- Worked on the precursor of NFTs @ ascribe.io [2015], \n- Co-created Soulbound tokens. Authored EIP-4973, EIP-5192 & ERC-4973 Reference Implementation \n- Ran rugpullindex to protect investors from rug pulls\n\nMac Budkowski (Community & Growth) \n- Founded & hosted web3 talks - one of the most popular builders-oriented crypto podcasts,\n- Co-built Goerlinator that distributed 20,000 GoerliETH to Ethereum builders and was mentioned in Week in Ethereum News \n- Used to run a marketing agency.\n\nWe have been working together for 1.5 years and have been able to build everything just with the two of us and support from our community.\n", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe your team's expertise and how it contributes to the successful execution of your project.", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Kiwi can be used by anyone looking for crypto content for builders. Octant projects can also use Kiwi to share their links and receive extra distribution among crypto natives. ", "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": "We treat the community very seriously because it’s a critical element of our project. So, our community is being engaged via our app (by submitting, upvoting, and commenting on links every day) and a Telegram group chat where we co-create the product with our users.\n\nWe also share our community-building learnings via [articles](https://kanfa.macbudkowski.com/community-building-lessons-kiwi) and [talks](https://cfp.ethwarsaw.dev/ethwarsaw-2024/talk/7WCCQX/)\n\nWhen it comes to funding, we rejected VC offers and decided to build an independent social media project based on public goods funding & revenue. If we succeed in that path, our story could encourage other builders to follow this path - just like ENS has been an inspiration to us.", "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": "All funding will go to the ongoing development of the Kiwi app & protocol. We’d also be happy to educate Octant projects on how they can use Kiwi to spread the word about their actions.", "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": "Since we are a link aggregator, we primarily helped distribute the content already created - some [examples can be found here](https://www.google.com/search?q=octant+site%3Anews.kiwistand.com&oq=octant+site%3Anews.kiwistand.com&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQLhhA0gEIODUzMGowajSoAgCwAgE&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)\n\nOn top of that, we did some [announcement posts](https://x.com/KiwiNewsHQ/status/1830615487467958775), and Mac educated people about Octant in a few group chats.", "hidden": false, "question": "What unique educational content or resources have you created for the Octant ecosystem? How has the community received these? 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If it really matters, they will find it on Kiwi.\n\nAll our links, upvotes and comments are stored on a decentralized P2P protocol with an architecture similar to Farcaster. This means that anyone can build their own Kiwi app with different algorithms, designs, and moderation.", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "attestate", "projectTwitter": "KiwiNewsHQ"}, "recipient": "0x1337E2624ffEC537087c6774e9A18031CFEAf0a9"}}