Ocean Sole
Transforming washed-up flip-flops into art and functional items to tackle plastic waste and support local communities in Kenya.User Review
AI Review
A1
Reviewed on 14 Feb 2024 01:24 PM
Projects must be at least 3 months old. We 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 website and Twitter account indicate that the project has been established for longer than three months.
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. Examples include: Renewable Energy, Oracles & DMRV, Supply Chain Analysis, Carbon Accounting, climate activists / collectives, Natural Systems CO2 Sequestration
Ocean Sole's recycling of flip-flops and turning them into art and functional items addresses environmental pollution and indirectly aids in reducing GHG emissions by mitigating the impact of waste on natural systems.
Grantees who received funding in a previous round(s) **must provide a new update on their progress and impact.** You can also include the challenges you've faced. This will ensure accountability to supporters and also help encourage contributors by showing what you’ve been accomplishing. We encourage grantees to mint Hypercerts for the work and the impact they have accomplished. Priority review will be given to grantees who have minted a Hypercert.
There is not enough information provided to determine whether Ocean Sole has received funding in previous rounds and whether they have provided updates or minted Hypercerts.
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.
There is not enough information provided to determine whether Ocean Sole is a returning grantee and if they've updated their proposal accordingly.
There is a general expectation that projects are within the **“realm of viability”**. Even if a project is very early, it must still seem credible to the average person with an understanding of web3 technology and climate solutions. Including information about the team's expertise, qualifications and skills will help us review your grant. Grantee founders must genuinely intend to build the project, and the project must not broadly be considered an impossibility.
The project appears to be within the realm of viability as it already has processes in place for recycling flip-flops and creating products, thus demonstrating the project's credibility and the founders' genuine intent to build.
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 publicly available information to suggest that Ocean Sole is involved in encouraging or enabling Sybil attacks or other malicious activities. However, without comprehensive monitoring, it cannot be determined with certainty.