QCs is not in the early stages - it received 25k dollars last year in a filecoin grant. It has many people using it and a big Discord but not enough resources to continue developing it, marketing, etc.
Is i
Is it a backend or a dApp?
Is QC, a platform and SDK, eligible for funding given that it previously received a Filecoin grant and already has users?
Is this initiative on Quest Chains, that I’m about to describe, eligible for funding?
Myself and one other person in MetaGame are working to transform a peer-reviewed research paper on Decentralization, written by DAO Research Collective (DRC), into a Quest Chain. Quest Completers will be onboarded into a NFT token gated Discord channel where they will have access to an educational hub and community and their NFT will unlock more benefits (we are still ideating these benefits, but we want to make sure they are educational).
We’re building an onboarding building block to help onboard more Ethereum users into DAOs.
piloting a mini-cohort-based course (gamified and "cryptofied" with soulbound NFTs and tokens) “decentralization” to onboard more users into Web3. We want to create an onboarding building block for DAOs and are using thi
We will be using an existing platform called Quest Chains (a DAO that spawned out of MetaGame) to create the course. DAO Research Collective will be collaborating with us in the pilot, providing the educational material and co-marketing the course.
Source: https://esp.ethereum.foundation/applicants/small-grants
As the public facing allocation arm of the Ethereum Foundation, ESP provides funding and other forms of support to eligible projects working to improve Ethereum. We focus on work that strengthens Ethereum's foundations and enables future builders, such as open source tooling, building blocks and libraries, research, community building, educational resources, open standards, infrastructure and protocol improvements.
ESP support is generally directed toward enabling builders rather than end-users: strengthening Ethereum's infrastructure, expanding the range of tools available to those building on Ethereum, gaining a deeper understanding of cryptographic primitives, and growing the builder ecosystem through education and community development. We're open to supporting work from people and teams of all kinds.
We don't often fund dapps or front-end platforms, although this is not a hard rule and there are exceptions - for example, where an application serves as a research or educational tool, or a reference implementation of a new standard.