{"signature": "0x6759de18603626a58b53b6e5612179d86cc6cad92433a0dd26841921472be81c7f6a7fbd0a3daef432059c197c3d88523e6fc8fc4e7c811a0e2bb8f65e1dd44c1c", "application": {"round": "0x3ac78e1ae5086904d53b41c747188216789f59a7", "answers": [{"type": "email", "hidden": true, "question": "Email Address", "questionId": 0, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "Jsj8a70gtICi5ZgwOvrUOMbfUSWOsKQAFze5+rhmugwwYNBE+2/MqknRJyeN4ADE", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "25db7f7e1f1f4cd4d5e95ac3469df7281d1dbd711a368ed8b49b9bde93f838c8c060b5edfdb1f0bbf8db3ddbddbff70afd923186d06b62757d1867b86ab8fe44dc043396218de4d9e04eaf22005737d6b1cb8d497c171dd49eb01adcadc061ab6e08d04f505324a0ecb8435137c3035d0107ee979c8a146f10d961d41555b09b00000000000000201f533e58351abebad89948ef5edaf67c07ea6539e61f1fec8d22cc3d2cf72ab919b47d23af64d39a6d331be0308523ac"}}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "0x5820cC992b19947651D13663964A009748B0Cf94", "hidden": false, "question": "Funding Sources", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "I have been contributing to the Arbitrum ecosystem since January 2023, but writing about it ever since it launched. ", "hidden": false, "question": "How long have you been working on this project ?", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Through my efforts as an analyst and researcher working with Castle Capital I have contributed in analyzing proposals on the Arbitrum Forum. In particular, as a collective we have commented on over 45 proposals, contributing to increasing overall awareness of the governance process as well as demanding accountability and transparency from grant recipients. By providing an unbiased opinion from a collective of on-chain native, we help projects align with their grassroot communities as well as with the overarching ecosystem goals of Arbitrum. Last but not least we hope to have encouraged smaller delegates and individuals to contribute and make their voice heard. \nWe have been very satisfied with our impact: over 35 projects engaged with us in the forum after our response. 21 updated their requests, including 14 projects who lowered their amount requested. \n\nIn total, our impact consists of more than 12m ARB saved that the DAO could allocate to other projects. \nFurthermore, both as an individual and through Castle Capital, I have written tens of threads and articles, who have contributed to increase awareness on the governance process, as well as to the Arbitrum tech stack and ecosystem, contributing to abstract technical complexity and educate/attract users to the Arbitrum ecosystem.\n How do you measure your impact? (e.g. viewers, forks, branches, likes, etc)Public\nThe most immediate way to measure our governance impact is through the amount of ARB that we saved to the DAO following our comments: over 12m.\nFurthermore, over 50% of the projects we commented on updated their request. As our suggestions were mainly to ensure a broader alignment of the grant with Arbitrum, through our contribution we have acted as a steward of the ecosystem - even though this impact is rather non-quantifiable practically.\nThrough my research efforts, over 200k users (conservatively) have viewed and interacted with my articles and threads, both on Twitter and Substack. In this way, I have contributed to onboarding many new users, and educating them on Arbitrum.\n", "hidden": false, "question": "What impact do you hope to have (or have had) on the Arbitrum ecosystem with your contribution? ", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The most immediate way to measure our governance impact is through the amount of ARB that we saved to the DAO following our comments: over 12m.\nFurthermore, over 50% of the projects we commented on updated their request. As our suggestions were mainly to ensure a broader alignment of the grant with Arbitrum, through our contribution we have acted as a steward of the ecosystem - even though this impact is rather non-quantifiable practically.\nThrough my research efforts, over 200k users (conservatively) have viewed and interacted with my articles and threads, both on Twitter and Substack. In this way, I have contributed to onboarding many new users, and educating them on Arbitrum.\n", "hidden": false, "question": "How do you measure your impact? (e.g. viewers, forks, branches, likes, etc)", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "No, my work as an individual has never been funded.  I have never participated in any Arbitrum grant program.", "hidden": false, "question": "Has this work been previously funded? If so, by who and for how much? Did you participate in another grant program on Arbitrum?", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Through governance, my effort in commenting on proposals for the Arbitrum STIP has contributed to make governance more efficient, as well as increasing the DAO performance, transparency and accountability. With over 21 projects changing their proposals for the better, we have indirectly contributed to improving the overall governance process and making it more efficient. \nFurthermore, our contributions have held projects accountable for their request, initiating an open and public debate that benefits the ecosystem, helping everyone make better decisions on the issues at stake.\n\nThrough the creation of research reports, articles and threads, I have contributed to increasing users' awareness of the Arbitrum ecosystem, tech stack, and governance. Unbiased educational content also contributed in reducing user bias towards the chain, and to onboarding new users to the Arbitrum ecosystem.\n\nTogether, both of these contributions ensure Arbitrum is a more efficient and scalable system, making it future-proof. \n", "hidden": false, "question": "How has your work supported the strategic priorities of Arbitrum? https://x.com/ArbitrumGrants/status/1715056760044552449?s=20", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": false, "question": "Only individuals are accepted, are you a project or individual?", "questionId": 7}], "project": {"id": "42161:0x73AB205af1476Dc22104A6B8b3d4c273B58C6E27:204", "title": "(FINAL) Francescoweb3: contributing to Arbitrum governance and education", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreigvbl37rwk7sd3j4umwoq4kyqai4cfngcaebt6gnyjolfhrlrrrb4", "protocol": "1"}, "website": "https://fraxcesco.substack.com/", "createdAt": 1699546129476, "userGithub": "francescoweb3", "credentials": {"github": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..TKQrRJE3IG68Nbtkmb0bJRboCv9pGvhSXIP4pFNHawHdWGC2-QMdaxzwsAeQCu0gDUTfRURHSgLOMi-p9gGnAw", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-11-09T16:08:43.166Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-11-09T16:08:43.166Z", "expirationDate": "2024-02-07T16:08:43.166Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x5820cC992b19947651D13663964A009748B0Cf94", "hash": "v0.0.0:YBvnuc9d6j+xgM+kSrODyCMO7BukMR996JeB7y/71W4=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextGithubOrg#francescoweb3-github#150247211"}}, "twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..-99CoyttHQyCLFrU9qXG3G6qf0VR2aJpUe45cctm_heOdw5u3lS4GoVsLZRE1EzVNGsgx8xp6LB9BbDhCnaLAg", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-11-09T16:08:19.215Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-11-09T16:08:19.215Z", "expirationDate": "2024-02-07T16:08:19.215Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x5820cC992b19947651D13663964A009748B0Cf94", "hash": "v0.0.0:TJMw8H5yOAAMq8TiCDHYszE8Nwia37ezacuchfGF2qc=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#francescoweb3"}}}, "description": "As an individual my contributions to Arbitrum are two-fold:\n\n1) I am a member of Castle Capital, an Arbitrum native community that has been contributing to research on Arbitrum and governance.\nI have contributed as an analyst in investigating the sustainability of proposals for the STIP grants.\n\nWith this efforts, we have contributed to provide context and clarity in the interests of other delegates which had to analyze 100+ proposals, as well as contributing with our on-chain native perspective to the discussion.\n\nWe have also created free and public tools that simplified and summarized the proposals.\n\nThe values driving our STIP votes:\n\nhttps://0xatomist.notion.site/3f6e523ef9c041a38464de9194ef5923?v=911678fe70794950b24694bcb1ae0565&pvs=4\n\nOur comments on STIP: 46 responses, 35 projects engaged with us and 21 updated their proposals reflecting some of our comments https://twitter.com/Castle__Cap/status/1721158651161760071\n\nWe've also shared extensive content on our governance efforts on Twitter:\n\nARB Staking: https://twitter.com/Castle__Cap/status/1721158651161760071\n\nCoalition: https://twitter.com/Castle__Cap/status/1722290843904524524\n\nDrawing attention to the STIP forums and our work there: https://x.com/Castle__Cap/status/1709383239326904520?s=20\n\nPresenting our STIP Methodology: https://twitter.com/Castle__Cap/status/1709614532854005930\n\nSharing in public our STIP Codex with our rubric for assessing STIP applicants along with all of our comments and opinions in one single database: https://twitter.com/Castle__Cap/status/1709856079440650309\n\nEncouraging voting on STIP fund value: https://twitter.com/Castle__Cap/status/1701282470149365935\n\nPost-mortem of voting and reasoning for STIP fund value: https://twitter.com/Castle__Cap/status/1704797881759080506\n\n2) As an inividual I am a researcher and writer that has been creating extensive educational content on Arbitrum. My articles are mostly educational and have touched different aspects of Arbitrum: governance, tokenomics, projects building on it. One of my favourite article format consist in allowing all users to have a simple understanding of the technical updates happening in Arbitrum. Translating complexity into simple terms is fundamental to empower users to understand the key values, and unique proposition of Arbitrum.\nAll of my articles are also shared on Twitter as threads to increase their reach.\n\nExamples of articles include:\n\nhttps://fraxcesco.substack.com/p/on-arbitrum-governance-and-the-stip\n\nhttps://fraxcesco.substack.com/p/on-l2-security-and-the-trade-offs\n\nhttps://fraxcesco.substack.com/p/arbitrum-is-getting-more-decentralized\n\nhttps://fraxcesco.substack.com/p/how-to-create-your-l3-on-arbitrum\n\nhttps://fraxcesco.substack.com/p/arbitrum-in-2023\n\nhttps://fraxcesco.substack.com/p/an-introduction-to-arbitrum-governance\n\nhttps://fraxcesco.substack.com/p/making-defi-options-capital-efficient\n\nhttps://fraxcesco.substack.com/p/crypto-reinnassance-on-arbitrum-new-defi-protocols-are-super-impressive-15051328c718\n\nhttps://fraxcesco.substack.com/cp/103022559\n\nhttps://fraxcesco.substack.com/p/there-is-no-home-like-arbi-is-arbitrum-winning-the-layer-2-race-633b45cea3cf\n\nhttps://fraxcesco.substack.com/p/choke-driving-liquidity-innovation", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "francescoweb3-github", "projectTwitter": "francescoweb3"}, "recipient": "0x5b3Fe5ab16F747E1d342c85630c2c30afdA11907"}}