BETTER
Climate action e-commerce initiative supporting community-driven climate impact projects via a decentralized fund, featuring a web2-web3 onboarding pathway and funded by Gitcoin.User Review
AI Review
A1
Reviewed on 14 Feb 2024 01:06 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 mentions ongoing support from Gitcoin community for previous rounds (GR15 - GR19), indicating it is older than 3 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.
The project is clearly focused on climate solutions, aiming to provide funding for climate positive projects and facilitating involvement through web2 and web3 integrations.
- 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.
The project provides an update including recent initiatives like the BETTER Climate Store, BETTER Climate Fund enhancements, and onboarding improvements from web2 to web3.
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 information discusses how they plan to utilize new funding for various development goals and business expenses, though it lacks specific lessons learned from previous works.
- 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.
The project seems viable with a focus on feasible climate solutions, has an operational online store, and references to advisors from credible institutions like MIT, suggesting team credibility.
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 insufficient information provided to determine if the project has engaged in any form of manipulation or malicious activity. A closer evaluation would be necessary to ascertain this.