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", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Social Layer co-hosted ZuSocial - a hacker house in Istanbul for decentralized social infrastructure.", "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": "Jiang (Tech Lead)  https://github.com/jiangplus;   Eggy Ji (Community & Research Lead)  https://x.com/eggy0o0;    Nico (Operation Lead)  https://www.syntonikka.xyz/;", "hidden": false, "question": "What are the names and social links of your team members?", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Yes. Jiang and Eggy are full-time residents in ZuConnect Istanbul. ", "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": "For the past two years, we have been iterating our DApp to align with the real needs of decentralized society in general.", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project create value for the Zuzalu ecosystem? ", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Yes.  Before Q1 we received total prior funding for Social Layer in 6000U; We received 17000U (5.477 ETH)  from Zuzalu Q1 Tech Round; Then we received 4000U from GG20 and 2500U from 0xParc Zupass Summer Working Group.", "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": "Yes, after the Zuzalu Q1 Tech Round, we continued to improve our UX and developed new features, such as a more customizable venue management module, recurring events, manager and co-host invitation system, calendar views, private events, and our ticket payment system, which is currently in beta testing.\nWe collaborated with Vitalia, muBuenos, Zanzalu, muAccra, and Edge Esmeralda. In this process, we provided our coordination tool as the infrastructure for these popup cities and facilitated the sharing of experiences between them.\nWe have curated a popup cities “portal” for Zuzaluians: https://app.sola.day/event/popupcities/timeline?date=2024-01-01", "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": "Our project budget is 120,000 USD for half a year. This funding will provide basic support for our team of six, as well as subsidize our travel expenses to different popup cities for on-site support in the second half of the year. These funds will be used to achieve the following main objectives for Q3-Q4", "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": "Social Layer allows using sign-in with Ethereum (ERC4361) to create account as the Web3-native social identity, and we also integrate with Zupass to provide ZK-proof based authentication and attestation. The Zupass integration also allows collaboration with the broader Zuzalu community.\nSocial Layer also allows creating on-chain soulbound token as a community credit and credentials, which is going to be deployed on Ethereum layer2s.\nSocial Layer is building Web3-native community infrastructures to showcase real world crypto use cases with the Ethereum ecosystem.", "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. The frontend part of our project is now fully open source. However, our backend and smart contract components still require auditing and security checks before they can be open-sourced. We have already commenced work on this aspect.", "hidden": false, "question": "Is your project open source? If any code is a closed source, why? ", "questionId": 14}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Yes, we agree.", "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 integrated with Zupass to make it easier for community members to log in and prove their tickets for different events within the Social Layer.  (Our need to prove multiple tickets has, in turn, driven the iteration of the Zupass project. ) Additionally, we are integrating with various DID projects and Social Credential-type projects.  We are also collaborating with multiple projects related to community events to jointly define the underlying data structures in the future.  We are developing our API, which will further enhance interoperability with other products.", "hidden": false, "question": "How could your project interoperate with other Zuzalu projects? ", "questionId": 16}, {"type": "link", "answer": "https://app.sola.day", "hidden": false, "question": "If your project is a working product, share a link to a demo video ", "questionId": 17}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Q3 2024\n\n- Integrate Native Ticketing with USDT on Social Layer WebApp\n- Bring Social Layer to Crecimiento, Gathering of Tribes\n- Webapp refactor, backend optimization, UX flow optimization\n- Social Layer Standalone App Design\n\nQ4 2024\n\n- Bringing Social Layer to Edge City Lanna, Devcon side events\n- Create CitizenHub\n    \n    A place for Social Layer users to track events they went to, keep consistent information, have easier access & application process to future events, integrate with other DID services.\n    \n- Composable & Opensource Standalone App Development\n    \n    Turning Social Layer into a standalone app for easier access to community events and a better UX experience, curate deeper integration with other projects of the Zuzalu ecosystem.", "hidden": false, "question": "Write out your roadmap if not already included in your project description", "questionId": 18}], "project": {"id": "0xe6d91cb48e7c88749c115c28fae149aa6eee52f438cdf14f031c81782f46dc2c", "title": "Social Layer", "logoImg": "bafkreig7qckolxki5b57d5y6sdmjnnl63vpw657mb57s7f3tdgnk5yufdi", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreigc56xzdbvxoyas6rfbtylz6jlgl56bbs4udumrkp7gbcqdkbw2pu", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://www.sociallayer.im", "bannerImg": "bafkreidh63deqolfnia3llyx6znxreocyqpmbfjbmib6q4u3o4vbrf73fm", "createdAt": 1720938601513, "userGithub": "EggyJ", "credentials": {"github": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..iQst2_0zP3SsSGPoCZ4VYYJkm-h4vAt4HK3-y1ZMTLJuyL6rEK1WyOb6wPGVNRqlWgwi3gSHTqUvEkc06YM-Ag", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2024-07-14T03:34:29.879Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2024-07-14T03:34:29.878Z", "expirationDate": "2024-10-12T03:34:29.878Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x85a9E96da1aA2A8870FB18889e6db461861Af067", "hash": "v0.0.0:AAI8Ybd8yias775e8ABSlsMiWcvrH7nRj/4+X8JJQZM=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextGithubOrg#sociallayer-im#27666814"}}}, "description": "Social Layer is a turn-key modular social infrastructure to help design, scale, sustain and connect pop-up cities, intentional communities, and cultural hubs worldwide.\n\nCheck our community coordination app here: https://app.sola.day\n\n\n\n### **Mission:**\n\n- **Growing Conditional Social Trust**\n    \n    By recording and establishing the **web of trust and collaboration**, linking a variety of communities with different cultures, Social Layer can help people **remain connected while collaborate with different society prototypes**.\n    ![01_Conditional Trust](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/H1myc6eu0.png)\n\n    \n- **Bottom-up Community Curation**\n    \n    The communities we serve create great containers that encourage collaborations and opportunities to spark new ideas. We created coordination tools that enable this culture of \"initiator\" to flourish.\n    ![02_Community Curration](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/HJ_g2pxd0.png)\n\n    \n    \n- **Interconnect Communities to Build Network Societies**\n    \n    By bringing our tools to multiple pop-up cities and permanent communities, we’re able to create greater interconnections between communities so they can share their networks, cross pollinate and evolve into a greater large scale society composed of entangled local communities.\n    ![03_.Socio-technical Transition](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/SyrX26guR.png)\n\n   \n    \n- **Rigorous 3rd Party Integration + Interoperability**\n    \n    We actively integrate from other 3rd party platforms such as ZuPass. We collaborate with a range of protocols that are building for the permissionless decentralized internet. We believe trusting communities need to be enabled by trusting technologies built to enable sharing and transparency.\n    ![04_Social Infra](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/B1gS2Tx_A.png)\n\n  \n\nWith the support of these communities, we have begun our product iterations journey of \"Build within communities\".\n\n\n\n- Shanghaiwoo 2023  [https://sola.day/event/shanhaiwoo?tab=past](https://sola.day/event/shanhaiwoo?tab=past)\n- ZuSocial [https://app.sola.day/event/zusocial?tab=past](https://app.sola.day/event/zusocial?tab=past)\n- MuChiangMai [https://themu.sola.day/?tab=past](https://themu.sola.day/?tab=past)\n- Wamotopia [https://sola.day/event/wamotopia?tab=past](https://sola.day/event/wamotopia?tab=past)\n\n\n\n### Q1-Q2 Project Update\n\nWe brought Social Layer to many pop up cities in 2023.\n- Zanzalu [https://sola.day/event/zanzalu?tab=past](https://sola.day/event/zanzalu?tab=past)\n- Muaccra [https://sola.day/event/themu?tab=past](https://sola.day/event/themu?tab=past)\n- Vitalia [https://sola.day/event/vitalia](https://sola.day/event/vitalia)\n- Edge Esmeralda [https://sola.day/event/edgeesmeralda](https://sola.day/event/edgeesmeralda)\n\n![05_Cases](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/HJKe3RgdA.jpg)\n\n\n\nHere is a list of tools and integrations we supported:\n(https://app.sola.day)\n\n- Group calendar\n- Group map\n- Badge system\n- 3rd party ticketing & DID integration\n- Social profile\n- Community dashboard\n- DID system (Zupass)\n- Community token (∈dges)\n- Gamification design (ShanhaiWoo)\n\n![featurelistpng](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/r15Lf1bdA.png)\n\n![community dashboard](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/SJsrXkZ_A.png)\n\n![zupass](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/SyOkfJWuC.jpg)\n\n![Integration](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/S1jcgyZuR.png)\n\n![06_Gamification](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/SJivyJWuA.png)\n\n\n### **Features:**\n\n- **Trust and Connection**: Our platform fosters both bonding ties within communities and bridging ties between diverse groups. We utilize a web of trust system powered by social tokens and badges, enabling users to build and carry their social reputation across different communities.\n- **Real-World Application**: With successful implementations in Zuzalu-inspired pop-up cities like Edge Esmeralda, Vitalia, ZuConnect, ShanhaiWoo, Zanzalu, Wamotopia, we demonstrate the versatility and impact of our infrastructure. We have been actively integrating community feedbacks at these events, iterating our design by building deep relationships with our users.\n- **Modular Infrastructure**: We provide a comprehensive framework that includes identity management, community coordination tools, event organization, and social credentialing. This ensures seamless integration and scalability for any community model.\n- **Data Portability and Ownership**: Individuals retain control over their data, ensuring portability and ownership, which is critical in maintaining privacy and fostering trust in a decentralized ecosystem.\n- **Open Source Protocols:** We built tools and protocols that are all open source, we are actively creating autonomous pipelines for more collaborators to contribute together to Social Layer.\n\n### **Next Steps:**\n\n- **Native Ticketing with USDT**\n    \n    Integrating ticketing with USDT natively on the Social Layer app.\n    \n- **Q3-Q4 2024 Pop-up Cities & Unconferences**\n    \n    Bringing Social Layer to more pop-up cities and unconferences, such as Crecimiento, Gathering of Tribes, Builder Monastery, Edge City Lanna, Devcon side events, Zulandia, Zuindia and more on the way…\n    \n- **Composable & Opensource App**\n    \n    Turning Social Layer into a composable & opensource app for easier access to community events and a better UX experience, curate deeper integration with other projects of the Zuzalu ecosystem.\n    \n- **CitizenHub**\n    \n    A place for Social Layer users to track events they went to, keep consistent information, have easier access & application process to future events, integrate with other DID services.\n    \n\n### Support Us\n\nWe are beyond excited to bring our project to a wider audience and further our collaboration and integration with the Zuzalu ecosystem.", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "sociallayer-im", "projectTwitter": "SocialLayer_im"}, "recipient": "0xF2486FBec513e94d703aC7D92a712c1a8b77d710"}}