Hazel - Mobile Game That Fights Climate Change
Mobile game Hazel incentivizes users to fund carbon removal by playing—earning through ad views, in-app purchases, and NFT trades, all contributing to global carbon neutrality efforts.User Review
AI Review
A1
Reviewed on 13 Feb 2024 04:25 PM
Projects must be at least 3 months old. Newer projects should establish themselves and submit to the next round.
The project was launched in February which means it is at least 3 months old at the time of the assessment.
The Grant must be primarily focused on climate solutions (the group may do other work but the grant proposal should be directly related to climate solutions). The proposal should explicitly outline how this project will help reduce GHGs or is an important core infrastructure for web3 climate solutions.
The project Hazel is aligned with climate solutions by mobilizing consumer spending to fund carbon-removal projects and are incorporating web3 elements such as NFTs to raise funds for the cause.
Grantees who received funding in previous rounds should report on project progress since GR15 or the Alpha round. We understand that some projects may have less progress given the timing of Alpha round disbursements. This will ensure accountability to supporters and also help encourage contributors by showing what you’ve been accomplishing.
There is no information provided on previous funding or progress reports since the last Gitcoin rounds, therefore the score cannot be definitively determined without further details.
All returning grantees are expected to update their proposal, in addition to project updates the proposal should include lessons learned from previous work and how they will use the additional funding from the upcoming round. The updated proposal should indicate how additional funding will help the project meet its goals, and include a rough timeline for the project overall.
The provided roadmap and descriptions in the project plan indicate what has been achieved, what is still in progress, and how further funding will support the continuing development and scaling of the project.
There is a general expectation that projects are within the “realm of viability”. Even if a project may be at a very early stage, it still must seem credible to the average person with an understanding of web3 technology and climate solutions. Grantee founders must genuinely intend to build the project, and the project must not broadly be considered an impossibility.
Hazel's mobile game is already in the market, suggesting practical viability, with reasonable application of web3 technology for climate solutions as part of its monetization and impact strategy.
Grantees can be eliminated from consideration in the round if they are found to be encouraging or enabling Sybil attacks or other forms of malicious manipulation of the grants platform or the Gitcoin community.
There is no indicated misuse of the Gitcoin platform or community; the project appears to abide by ethical conduct.