{"signature": "0xc17590153f5ada777f659e3fba125eea486fa388b0ddc3c52cc1cfed55c5650f540c8d383d463f63633a40fed499dedd05755d5f2b12de502fa807e683cec21a1c", "application": {"round": "0xf1c021df6dc6b2dc2e5a837cdfddc2f42503233b", "answers": [{"type": "email", "hidden": true, "question": "Email Address", "questionId": 0, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "9shwKkB4Odbtpm/zzGB16gJ50m3nvNL+7IwW1wpujkSwdzbaXTUKwuMaqhTp7whh", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "fe0a42b03a105c2cf46aa15b2ed10d33ce3506efadd0d2fcbcb7e68980f7c79c6ac0021810388bffa8709653f648fb14a70f568d554b83a1ca555b28b53187084c5cbcd441bdd1232e01272b0e549cddd66986af219dd5b9fafae26d514fb5b1e7b83632d0efb64356a1ccb8ec8e860a0ccea28d23a92a175a5d5b4d469689bd0000000000000020ac4d98f7b409caaf1691d52c1ac2b2bc323c0ed44664d213cdc670cc6914d464e6167e6db1ac291fbbe825d0218ddc8a"}}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "None", "hidden": false, "question": "Funding Sources", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "number", "answer": "2", "hidden": false, "question": "Team Size", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "At first I have heard about Mantle on Eth For All Hackathon which happened on Devfolio.\n", "hidden": true, "question": "How did you hear about Mantle?", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "\n**FundStarter** is a unique type of crowdfunding ecosystem that has the potential to bring a large wave of web2 users to the web3 world. For this purpose, FundStarter needs a fast layer 2 solution with less transaction fees and high throughput. The **Mantle Chain** seems like the perfect solution for this purpose. \n\n### How FundStarter can be beneficial for the Mantle ecosystem?\n\n**Increased Adoption:** FundStarter can attract more new users to the blockchain ecosystem by providing a practical use case for blockchain technology in the real world which will indirectly make more people aware of the Mantle chain.\nWhenever some creator or project comes on our platform, they will bring their community with them for raising funds which will eventually increase the adoption of the Mantle chain. If a creator has a good experience on our platform, it will market us in the real world and will attract more people to our ecosystem. \n\n**Enhanced Trust:** FundStarter, being a decentralized crowfunding ecosystem can help build trust in the people's minds about Blockchain technology by providing transparent and secure fundraising, supporting and donating mechanism that can help reduce fraud and scams in the real world.\n\n**Innovation:** FundStarter, in itself, is quite an innovative idea. In the future, our focus will be doing more innovation for the betterment of society and people.  \n\n**Community Building:** FundStarter DAO's main focus is to create a community of backers and project creators who are passionate about a particular cause or project, leading to more collaboration and innovation within the blockchain industry and running this project in a decentralized manner with the help of the community.\n\n**Tokenization:** We haven't thought about tokenization yet. But in the future, with the increased adoption of Fundstarter, we can create our token for the platform which will be used for governance and other purposes. The token will be traded on the Mantle chain.\n", "hidden": false, "question": "Tell us how your project will benefit the Mantle ecosystem?", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/0xshikhar/  \nTwitter - https://twitter.com/0xshikhar\nGithub- https://github.com/0xshikhar", "hidden": false, "question": "Can you point to a portfolio, profile page, or platform where we can see your past work?", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "No", "hidden": false, "question": "Have you received grant funding for this or another project before? If yes, did you complete the work? Tell us about the experience.", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "I am a person who just love to build things. I have been developing in web3 space from the last two years and building projects on space. I have won 7 web3 hackathons in the last 2  years including ETHIndia22, Ethernals, Polygon Build It 2021, etc.\n\nI am currently a Polygon Guild Lucknow Tech lead, an active Developer DAO (#1265) member, DeFi talents fellow and buildspace Night & Weekends Season 1 fellow. Apart from attendign lots of online hackathons, I have attended in person hackathons events - Solana Hackerhouse India 2022, Web3Conf India 2022 and ETHIndia2022. \n\nBefore getting into blockchain development, I have been a freelance web developer at Upwork, worked on lots of Web2 projects and helped business by developing their websites and web apps. During that time, i have worked with lots of internation brands and  companies across the globe.  Now I am thinking to go into full-time developing a product and I started actively working on FundStarter. I am currently working on the MVP of the project in Mantle testnet. There is lot to come soon. To know more about me, feel free to refer to my social profile.", "hidden": false, "question": "Tell us a little about you & your experience in crypto / web 3?", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "good", "hidden": false, "question": "Public goods are ____", "questionId": 8}], "project": {"id": "250:0x8e1bD5Da87C14dd8e08F7ecc2aBf9D1d558ea174:174", "title": "FundStarter", "logoImg": "bafkreif3ppxxhlur7l2d5wejir3pcge2hdcn433ld4dautanetgq7zyiwq", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreid4lxjchpi3hqjxswhcxnoesvw6tdzibgkb7k2zrbzub755u5m7wy", "protocol": "1"}, "website": "https://fundstarter.xyz", "bannerImg": "bafkreicvzejtqipxlqqnrwrurtp5nwkm2g4kqiikirswk7sxth7y6xhdh4", "createdAt": 1682009326337, "userGithub": "0xshikhar", "credentials": {"github": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..OOpXwmzIFpTvXKZQDLdJc8gBX3CSRSJAL4l12fookbYE593XdIFLSSkAs5SzN-dj80nVV5NGmjYGo5JMsSONDA", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-04-20T16:48:21.584Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-04-20T16:48:21.583Z", "expirationDate": "2023-07-19T16:48:21.583Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x30BCD2e90B3C05e54446568d823408B2ddfa7A01", "hash": "v0.0.0:vmOaYetJitBjtO0cnFcf0l54Pv3YhDfClOorTfIvAPk=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextGithubOrg#0xfundstarter#64684053"}}, "twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..GVJW4trRIZSqNrGKVPbVHkOFIfMoM-7aSEVEsliuymz6ewpR6LEvYL4-WKJzagjZ2o7pAgfou90E4PYJIQFsDQ", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-04-20T16:46:49.802Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-04-20T16:46:49.802Z", "expirationDate": "2023-07-19T16:46:49.802Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x30BCD2e90B3C05e54446568d823408B2ddfa7A01", "hash": "v0.0.0:kpKpFHjyNOJRe13Dl3JoiXLuAEl9mpF3ci8eLCcz73E=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#0xFundStarter"}}}, "description": "FundStarter is a decentralized ecosystem for raising funds, supporting creators, and making donations to support needy people and non-profit organizations. We are trying to solve real-world problems using the concept of Decentralized Autonomous Organisation.\n\n ## Core Objectives & Features -\n\ud83d\udd17 Connect: We bridge the gap between the real world and the web3 world by enabling projects, creators, and non-profit organizations to get funds and support seamlessly. We enable people to create their own NFT DAOs. \n\ud83d\ude4f Support: We aim to support real-world projects by leveraging Blockchain at its core. FundStarter is providing a much better approach to solving crowdfunding and donation platform problems that exist in current web2 platforms.\n\ud83d\udcb5 Reward: FundStarter provides a new way of raising funds. Everyone who funds, support, or donates via FundStarter will get a unique project-related NFT for their contribution that can be verified on-chain. Later, by holding NFTs, HODLers can earn yield whenever Creator or Project makes profits.\n\ud83d\udd14 Update: With the help of EPNS and FundStarter DAO, users are notified whenever there is any update from the project, creators, or organizations after they got funding.\n\ud83c\udf0d FundStarter DAO: DAO members will take all the essential decisions like accepting the listing proposal, distribution of funding, and distribution of profit for the smooth functioning of the platform.\n\ud83c\udfafGOAL: Our Ultimate Goal is to connect & support people using blockchain in such a way that they can leverage the technology and bring some positive changes in the world.\n\n### Main features\n* For Projects - Verified Projects by DAO will be listed on the platform to raise funds. NFTs will be distributed to every project funder. Later when the project earns profit, there will be a distribution of profit on basis of NFT type to all project funders.\n* For Creators - Verified Creators can raise funds for their new work like releasing a new song, a short movie on Youtube, etc, and get initial support from their supporters through FundStarter. Later creator will share part of their profit or exclusive access to all of the supporters who bought Supporter NFT.\n* For Donations - It is our initiative to support a non-profit organization in creating a real impact in the world by using the power of decentralization. Using FundStarter, you can support and help verified non-profit organizations. Every donator will get a unique NFT for their donation.\n* Our Donation platform solves the issue of making donations in a secure and trustless way.\nIt provides an opportunity for donators to make donations by being completely anonymous but on the other hand they can prove to someone that they have donated to this organization by showing their NFTs and on-chain transactions.\n* It solves the lots of issues that people are facing in making donations in the current web3 system like they can not verify that they have done a donation without revealing their identity to another person. But in FundStarter, they can hide their identity and still verify their donation on-chain.\n\n* It has the potential to bring the next wave of users to the blockchain, making web3 stronger than ever.\n\n## Problems We Are Solving\n* FundStarter solves the major problems with Web2 platforms like Limited Accessibility due to restrictions by Governments; High fees by platforms which reduces the amount received by Project; A single entity that controls the whole platform leads to issues such as censorship and biased decisions.\n* FundStarter provides a decentralized, trustless, and community-controlled way to support which is not possible with traditional platforms. Being decentralized, we can process payments quite fast using crypto, especially for cross-border transfers.\n* FundStarter provides ownership to users on projects and creators\u2019 content that they have supported. It solves the issue of funding digital content creation which still poses difficulties to creators.\n* Everyone can create NFT - Despite the rapid growth of the NFT space in recent years with many platforms springing up here and there, funding digital content creation still poses difficulties to creators. Many of these platforms lack the features that meet the requirements of creators, investors, buyers, and/or fans from minting to monetizing NFTs.\n\n* FundStarter Donation platform solves the issue of making donations in a secure and trustless way. It provides an opportunity for donators to donate by being completely anonymous but on the other hand, they can prove to someone that they have donated to this organization by showing their NFTs and on-chain transaction.\n## Roadmap\n**Current MVP**\n* FundStarter Web App where people can fund, support and donate by buying NFTs. Currently, we have 3 types of NFTs(Funder, Supporter, Donator) with 3 tiers namely Silver, Gold, and Platinum.\n* Users can now submit their proposals for listing on Platform. Once we verify it, we can list their proposal on Platform with their own personalized NFTs.\n\n**2023 Q3**\n* Development of FundStarter DAO for selection of listing proposals on the platform.\n* FundStarter Web App will have the support of Lens Protocol( users can have their on-chain profile)\n* Integration of Push Protocol ( to send notifications to users), and other such features in the public beta version.\n\n**2023 Q4**\n* General availability of FundStarter Web App and we'll be using these Gitcoin grants to incentivize the devs for their contributions to improve this open source project.\n* Development of Project-based DAOs within FundStarter DAO in which project funders will receive equal rights to take decisions.\n\n**2024 Q1**\n* We\u2019ll start building the FundStarter Mobile App for both iOS and Android.\n* We have aim to have 1000+ listings on our platform.\n\n\n### Some Screenshots of the current Web App\n**Landing Page**\n![Landing Page](https://fundstarter.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/fundstarter-landing.png) \n**Project Page**\n![Project Page](https://fundstarter.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/fundstarter-project.png)\n**Donation Page**\n![Donation Page](https://fundstarter.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/fundstarter-donation.png)\n**Single Project Page**\n![Single Product](https://fundstarter.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/project.png)\n**NFT Perks**\n![Single Product](https://fundstarter.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/select-nft.png)\n\n## Why a Gitcoin Grants?\n* We want to make the FundStarter app more accessible so that people can get a better way to fund the projects, support creators and donate to non-profit organizations.\n* We need support to make it next level. We want to scale the application by informing people through different social media channels.\n* We are looking for developers to develop a robust web application and make it more awesome.\n* We will be looking for mobile app developers to develop and ship FundStarter iOS and Android apps.\n\n## Tech Stack & Tools\n* Next.js as a frontend framework\n* TailwindCSS for CSS design\n* ENS for user profiles names\n* Mantle(L2) for low cost & fast on-chain transactions & NFT collection\n* Hardhat for Smart Contract Testing\n* IPFS & Pinata for file and nft metadata storage\n* Web App - https://fundstarter.xyz\n* Twitter - https://twitter.com/0xfundstarter\n\n**Support us in revolutionizing the creator ecosystem across the globe. Let's make a difference together with FundStarter.**", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "0xfundstarter", "projectTwitter": "0xFundStarter"}, "recipient": "0x7174c29C73ca0fB48Da91AA5CfDC361Bae4C87D2"}}