**Matrix Jouyou** promotes an innovative approach to language education where Web3 is leveraged to tie up a learning objective to actually owning what you learn. By owning lovingly crafted jouyou character NFTs from the collection, learners of Japanese will have a chance to better memorize them as well as unlock unique, specially tailored educational content. Financially, by buying the tokens, the users will directly invest into developing of the quality educational content they will have obtained as part of owning the NFT—a Web3 crowdfunding model of sort. Esthetically, a unique serial graphical tune characteristic of NFT collections is certainly present in this The Matrix-inspired collection, allowing Matrix Jouyou to smoothly fit in the existing Web3-ecosystem.

It is not news that Japanese kanji characters can be rather difficult to master for native speakers of languages not based on logograms, e.g., English. If successfully funded, Matrix Jouyou presents with an opportunity to create an original, frequency-based kanji-learning project based on studying the most popular words containing a given kanji, with specific focus on uniting various meanings and readings into one logical narrative. At the same time, the Web3-based learning flow Matrix Jouyou provides opens up an opportunity to showcase Web3 to a more general audience previously largely unfamiliar with it as well as to debunk the myth about NFTs being a Ponzi mechanism as often perceived by a Web3 outsider.

Clearly, Matrix Jouyou is focused on improving the Web3 ecosystem and popularizing it among the general audience. The project is more than a year-old, which is proven by its [GitHub history](https://github.com/p1m-ortho/p1m.github.io/commits/main/matrixjouyou.md). Matrix Jouyou’s team has demonstrated their capacity in the Web3 space by actually creating the [entire collection](https://nftstorage.link/ipfs/bafybeiedpoblybh4qsvlqgs6exn3eztw7xakzio7crglidzbcrnnleww5q) and [launching](https://goerli.etherscan.io/address/0x9Ce5E4355cCA39965791473485F6B5eE44dA8A79) it in the sandbox. Several test NFTs have been minted as a proof-of concept, e.g., [#32 Ten Thousand](https://market.sandbox.immutable.com/inventory/assets/0x9ce5e4355cca39965791473485f6b5ee44da8a79/32), [#48 Fire](https://market.sandbox.immutable.com/inventory/assets/0x9ce5e4355cca39965791473485f6b5ee44da8a79/48), or [#18 Mountain](https://market.sandbox.immutable.com/inventory/assets/0x9ce5e4355cca39965791473485f6b5ee44da8a79/18). You can verify that the contact creator’s wallet is the recipient wallet of this Gitcoin grant application.

Matrix Jouyou’s long-term goals and recent milestones are [specified](https://p1m.org/matrixjouyou/) on the collection’s website and go as follows: The long-term goal is the creation of original educational pages about each of the kanji in the collection. The recent milestone is launching the collection to mainnet and reaching 20 token holders to begin creating original educational content for the first most popular kanji. To launch the collection to mainnet, we basically need to fund gas fees, that is, about 0.1­–0.2 ETH (ca. $200­–400 DAI) given the approximate gas usage of the [test contract creation transaction](https://goerli.etherscan.io/tx/0xcd08d666ffe7caf705812174c1ed9a41edc848debd0fc6ef12df440816b25ad5) and rates at the time of writing.

In addition to conforming to the Web3 Community & Education Round Eligibility policy, Matrix Jouyou satisfies the general Gitcoin Rounds eligibility policy. It has a [verified GitHub account](https://github.com/p1m-ortho), did not apply to any other core rounds except for this one, applied to only one Core Round pool, and is not involved in any of the not permitted activities. This is the first Gitcoin round Matrix Jouyou applies to.