DeSci community round working group

This round directly supports Gitcoin’s mission to build and fund public goods, emphasizing open, accessible, and inclusive scientific research. It fosters collaboration and innovation in the DeSci space, aligning with Gitcoin’s essential intents for community empowerment to build and fund impactful initiatives and sustainable funding in science with a bottom-up community-driven effort such as DeSci QF on Gitcoin.

GG23 DeSci communigy round working team

• swiftevo

• Goreti__Freitas

• 0xZaff

• Scott

• Godfather

GG23 Stewards:

Brenda
Trinity
0xKenichi

GG23 Round coordinator
https://x.com/planetos_eth

Managing the DeSci round community on Karma GAP
https://gap.karmahq.xyz/desci-on-gitcoin/

Highlight of GG15 (Oct 2022)

2,309 donors

$67.9K crowfunding

82 projects

$567K total matching pool

(Ref:https://www.gitcoin.co/blog/gr15-results)

According to the DeSci Landscape analysis of GG15 after 6 months, 41 DeSci projects achieved Publication, Partnerships, Educational efforts, Participation in events, New implementations/updates and Shipped new products/services with the support of GG15 fundings.

(Ref:https://mirror.xyz/erinmagennis.eth/rSAHHVavkVHVqrKsp9C0w-GScJzKcJMnGxYBw0IrQUg)

Highlight of DeSci round May 2023

267 donors

$18.6K crowfunding

65 projects

$75K matching pool

(Ref:https://reportcards.gitcoin.co/1/0x6e8dC2e623204D61b0E59E668702654aE336c9f7)

Highlight of GG20 Round

• Number of Applications: 34
• Approved and Funded Projects: 29
• Total Funds Distributed: $25,000
• Donor Participation: 292 individuals
• Community Growth: 20% increase in social media followers

(ref: https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/gg21-community-round-proposal-desci-qf-gg21/19092)

Highlight of GG21 Round

Est. Donations Made: $11,420.93

Matching Funds Available: 39000.0 USDC

Unique Contributors: 390

Number of Contributions: 1,154

Avg. Contribution: $29.28

Participating projects: 49

GG21 DeSci Round Impact report:
https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/gg21-retrospective-desci-round/19465/2

(Ref: https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/gg21-retrospective-desci-round/19465)

How large is your community approximately?

Our community spans across various DeSci Telegram groups and Discord servers. Our DeSci X Gitcoin Community Telegram group 10 has 411 active members as of today, engaged in discussions, planning, and collaboration.

Approximately grantees

Based on past rounds and community growth, we estimate between 20-40 projects could be eligible and benefit from this funding round.

Please describe the eligibility criteria you envision for this proposed round.

Projects must advance open, inclusive scientific research using Web3 technologies.

• Innovation in data sharing
• Addressing publishing biases
• Promoting accessible education and science funding
• Compliance with Gitcoin’s core rules
• A complete project proposal with a clear problem statement, solution, roadmap, benefits, and timeline for implementation
• A budget and funding plan

Eligible criteria:

• having 3 milestones on @karmahq_
• At least 6 months to 1 year past contributions on DeSci
• The applicant must be one member in the core team
• Grantees must be one type of the following DeSci projects:
  • Data in Healthcare
  • Education and Community
  • Funding & IP
  • Infrastructure
    (for infrastrucutre, at least 3 months contribution in DeSci)
  • Physical and digital product related to DeSci
  • Publishing & Research

Ref:
https://gap.karmahq.xyz/community/desci-on-gitcoin/

Highlight of previous 4 DeSci Community rounds

| Date | Round | Donors | Crowfunding | Projects | Matching Pool | Ref |
| Oct 2022 | GG15 | 2309 | $67.9K | 82 | 567K | https://www.gitcoin.co/blog/gr15-results |
| May 2023 | Beta round | 276 | $18.6K | 65 | 75K | Report card |
| Jul 2024 | GG20 | 292 | $9.4K | 29 | 25K | Impact report |
| Oct 2024 | GG21 | 390 | $11.4K | 49 | 39K | Impact report |
| Total | | 3267 | 107.3K | 225 | 706K | |

There is no bounty and reword for the DeSci community round workers and it is difficulty to find sponsor for coming DeSci community round.

We set up this project to participate in the DeSci community round QF to get matching fund for supporting the working team and also looking for funding to prepare the next DeSci community round.

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