Decentralized Science on Gitcoin

Decentralized Science on Gitcoin

The DeSci community seeks to raise $10K to host a Gitcoin Featured Round in Q1 2024, following a previously community-managed round that raised $85K. Responsibilities for the upcoming round include stewardship election, fundraising, marketing, and partnerships.
Application
Applied on: 8 Nov 2023 06:15 PM
Pending
User Review
AI Review
A1
Reviewed on 14 Feb 2024 02:30 PM
The Grant must be in support of or directly advance the Global Chinese Community ecosystem; At least one founder or core team member uses Chinese as their daily language
The provided information does not specify if any of the founders or core team members use Chinese as their daily language.
Projects haven’t received significant external funding via venture capital, token launches, or NFT sales
Based on the project description, funding appears to have come from a Gitcoin grant and community contributions, not from venture capital, token launches, or NFT sales.
Projects must be at least 1-month old and have a PoC/MVP. We will use Twitter, web domain registration date, and other public info to determine this. Newer projects should establish themselves and submit to the next round.
The project has a history of activity including a previous round which suggests it is at least a month old with a Proof of Concept or a Minimum Viable Product.
Grantees who received funding in a previous round(s) must provide a new update on their progress and impact.
The project description includes detailed updates on the previous activities, strategic planning, community engagement, and outreach, indicating the progress and impact since previous funding rounds.
The Grant owner must be directly affiliated with the project, the funds must go to the project and be used for the purposes stated in Grant’s details.
The grant description outlines that funds are managed by a selected group of the DeSci Round Operators from the community, which indicates direct affiliation with the project.
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 evidence in the provided description of any encouragement or enabling of Sybil attacks; in fact, it is mentioned that they carry out Sybil (fraud detection) analysis to prevent such activities.