Welcome to the Fund Public Goods Hackathon and the Berlin Builder Residency for Public Goods Funding! There is an array of projects and ideas that are currently seeking collaborators. This list is to serve as guiding directions for exploration. Collaborators are encouraged to contribute to various aspects or subcomponents of a project. Please note that this list is not exhaustive, but aims to inspire and provide direction. Projects are categorized into the following themes: public goods funding infrastructure, impact evaluation, impact certification, and integrations.
These are projects which aim to productionalize an end use-case of public goods funding infrastructure or related technology. Our objective is to bring these technologies to fruition by developing real-world use cases.
Point of contact: TBD
Status: New project, seeking potential collaborators.
Description. This product aims to design and implement a comprehensive tool for filtering and downloading lists of addresses based on various specific attributes or activities. The focus lies on creating an encompassing data repository of users who have engaged with distinct platforms or fulfilled certain actions within the decentralized space.
For instance, the users who have completed a Rabbit-hole quest, contributed to projects like Giveth, clr.fund, Gitcoin grants, or are part of a specific protocol guild. Moreover, it aims to capture properties from their @gitcoinpassport or data from their @discoxyz backpack. It seeks to expand to incorporate users from all major products in the space, hence creating a versatile tool for targeted airdrop campaigns.
Key implementation challenges lie in ensuring accurate data aggregation, maintaining privacy, and enabling efficient filtering capabilities to cater to the diverse needs of users. The overall objective is to demonstrate the feasibility and utility of such a data directory tool in the growing decentralized landscape.
Point of contact: Toni Wahrstätter
Status: Ongoing project, seeking potential collaborators.
Description. The Stealth Donations project aims to design a platform that ensures a higher degree of privacy for users making donations to public goods. The central idea involves utilizing "stealth meta-addresses", a term coined for the necessary information required to generate an unlimited number of stealth addresses for a user.
This concept borrows from the likes of a prior hackathon project "stealthdrop" and the existing Umbra protocol. In our envisioned project, users register with their "stealth meta-address", allowing the system to generate stealth addresses for the respective users and route the funds to these accounts. Such a design would mask the links between the organizer and the accounts receiving funding, preserving the privacy of the transactions and making it more challenging for chain analytics companies to trace the funds.
An additional application could be for private airdrops. During an ICO, a participant could provide their stealth meta-address to the ICO organizer in the same transaction where they deposit funds. The organizer can then use this meta-address to send ICO tokens to a stealth address generated on the fly, maintaining the privacy of the ICO participants.
There are several key considerations including adhering to KYC regulations, preventing misuse, and ensuring security while maintaining privacy. This project aims to explore these aspects to make private funding for public goods a reality.
This could look like a Gitcoin or Giveth extension that: