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List of Mask Network's first batch of Mask Grant-winning projects
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Original title: "Ecology｜Mask Network Web3 Social Ecosystem Grant Round 1 Review"
Original source: Dimension Tech
Mask Grant program aims to fund selected projects and enhance their value in the Web3 or Mask Network ecosystem. With rich experience in product creation, good reputation and extensive resource connections, Mask DAO will share resources and collaborate with each other Ways to promote the accelerated growth of the entire Grant project ecology.
Mask Network is very pleased to announce the list of the first batch of Mask Grant selected projects , and donated $10,000 worth of $MASK tokens to each selected project. After several rounds of screening, a total of 18 projects were selected for this round of donations.
In the social area, we were delighted to see that the 9 selected projects came from different directions. Including DID wallets, feed streaming protocols, data analysis tools and platforms, and Web3 identity, these projects highlight the vibrant and diverse development of the Web3 social space.
In addition to social networking, Mask Grant attaches great importance to the development of Web3 public goods and is willing to provide continuous support. In this round of donations, 9 projects are in the social direction, and 9 are public goods (non-social direction). It is worth noting that we do not require projects in the direction of public goods to have any connection with the Mask social ecology.
In the field of public goods, the 9 selected projects come from a wider field, including creative platforms and entrepreneurial communities , Rollup, Web3 note-taking tools, security solutions, wallet tools, and decentralized science, the support for these public goods fully reflects Mask's commitment to building the entire Web3 world.
At the same time, 18 selected projects come from China, the United States, Russia, Japan, France, Germany and other countries and regions; this also shows Mask Grant's active support for the diversity of Web3 development regions.
For more information about Mask Grant and Mask Ecology, please View this article.
Web3 Social Field
1. Soul Wallet
Soul Wallet is the first smart contract wallet that supports ERC-4337. It realizes the abstract account of Ethereum through plug-ins and mobile clients, and can realize: 1. Create a wallet by email, 2. Receive funds without deploying a contract, 3. Change signing keys through social recovery, 4. Pay and trade with ERC-20 (eg $WETH, $DAI).
Soulwallet realizes the Ethereum community's vision of account abstraction and recovery through social , able to restore lost wallets in minutes, lowering the barrier to accessing Ethereum for billions of users. Soul Wallet won the first place in the "Account Abstraction" category at the ETHGlobal Bogota Hackathon.
2.Interface
Interface is a social feed stream application that will interact on the chain Behavior and data become user-readable and easy-to-read information feeds, and developers can develop independent plug-ins based on these information and data, such as independent information recommendation algorithm engines.
In the future, Interface plans to enable users to interact with on-chain contracts directly in the app information push stream. Users can not only keep track of the latest on-chain activities of the users they follow, such as the release of new NFT Collections, OpenSea’s new NFTs, etc., but also directly interact with the activities in the Interface, such as direct purchases, participating in NFT auctions, etc. , only need to pay a small fee to Interface. Interface is also the first external project to access Mask Network and RSS3 social data.
3. Bfrenz
Bfrenz strives to be the best crypto native Social media, products include Bfrenz app and bfrenz DAO. The Bfrenz app is an aggregation application focusing on Web3 news and on-chain data, discovering interesting new worlds of Web3 through users' likes and comments. In the past two months, more than 1,000 users participated in the closed beta of the iOS version and expressed their love. bfrenz DAO is a learning organization advocating the dissemination of Web3 cutting-edge technologies. Currently, bfrenz DAO has more than 5,000 active people and plans to help more than 100,000 users within a year. The founder of Bfrenz used to be the No. 1 product manager of WeChat.
4. TwitterScan ｜ NNS
< a href="https://twitterscan.io/" target="_blank">TwitterScan Website & NNS Website
TwitterScan Twitter & NNS Twitter
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TwitterScan and NNS are collaborating to create a cross-chain name service network that connects users, information and assets.
TwitterScan is an open, user-driven, collaborative information aggregation platform offering both cryptocurrency markets and NFTs Market data analysis. TwitterScan captures Twitter information related to the cryptocurrency and NFT market, and presents multi-dimensional key information such as the degree of attention seized by the project, the number of giant whales following the project, and project pricing, helping to quickly locate popular projects, judge high-quality users, and discover new ones. Projects and hot topics are identified, which greatly simplifies the process of user information acquisition and effectively helps users make investment decisions. TwitterScan builds a bridge between project parties and KOLs, and helps project parties expand their user base and brand awareness through the influence of KOLs.
TwitterScan's API can help all projects in the Mask ecosystem to filter out real Influencers collaborate. In addition, TwitterScan's powerful traffic pool can help projects in the Mask ecosystem guide and convert users, and help projects gain more user and market attention in their operational activities. It will also guide more Web2 users into Web3 users.
NNS (NFT Name Service) is a decentralized identifier name service network based on Ethereum (later Based on multi-chain), connect individuals, data, assets and services in the cryptocurrency field in a secure manner. By enabling individuals to manage the connections between their personal information and assets, NNS aims to create a fully composable, decentralized social network.
5.Superfans
Superfans aims to build an infrastructure of user contributed data and a community data platform to accommodate The next billion active contributors to Web3. Superfans aggregates and monitors fans' Web2 and Web3 on-chain and off-chain activity, allowing businesses to better understand their fans, and reward fans for their contributions and discover relevant partnerships.
Superfans will provide Mask and the entire Web3 ecosystem with a community manager-driven version of Etherscan that supports multiple chains, And extend it with social data.
6.Port3 Network
Port3, as the entrance of Web3 social user insights, is currently in There are more than 3.3 million users on Telegram, Twitter and Discord, with an average of 11,000 daily active users. Port3 crawls and aggregates data (on-chain and off-chain data) from Telegram, Twitter, and Discord through robots, and finally generates statistics and analysis results. Currently Port3 has covered 8 Layer1s and most EVMs. In addition, Port3 provides social data aggregation capabilities for other Web2 applications. Currently Port3 is building new products, which will provide open and composable modules for use by many project parties including Mask Network.
7. Jolocom
< a href="https://twitter.com/GETJolocom" target="_blank">Twitter & Website
Since 2014, Jolocom has been supporting and promoting self-sovereign identity. Jolocom is a founding member of DWeb, INATBA, Bundesblock, and a long-time supporter and active member of DIF, IIW, and W3C. Jolocom is committed to upholding the principles of SSI and has developed a fully open source technology stack for this purpose, including a library, an SDK and a smart wallet for end users. In the early stages of digital identity, JOLOCOM is at the forefront of German and European development agencies, while also attracting the attention of regulators and lawmakers, JOLOCOM is the technology supplier of choice for three-quarters of the German government's secure digital identity presentation projects .
8.Aspecta
Aspecta creates new digital identities for users with groundbreaking AI solution: Aspecta ID . The core of Aspecta ID lies in the in-depth understanding and aggregation of data. Users can obtain Aspecta ID (an automatically generated personal webpage) by connecting their Web2 and Web3 accounts, such as Github, Stack Overflow, wallet address, etc., which can display thousands of skills Insights under the dimension, highlights of hundreds of experiences, potential for future career development, and links to users with similar skills and potentials. At the same time, according to such a personal webpage, users can further obtain their own digital twin identities, including NFT, Metaverse avatar, etc. Aspecta is made up of serial entrepreneurs from Yale University, UC Berkeley and Tsinghua University, with Dr. Steve Liu, former Chief Scientist of Tinder, as a technical advisor.
Aspecta ID is every user's port and portal into the world across Web2 & Web3. Aspecta starts with developers, brings more Web2 developers into the Web3 world, and greatly expands the application of Mask Network's DID protocol Next.ID in professional scenarios. Developers and project parties can also use Aspecta to quickly form teams in hackathons.
9. The Rift (Hyper XP)
The Rift (HyperXP) is a Gaming Identity Protocol, a protocol that enables developers of Web3 projects to implement an on-chain trustless, decentralized XP system that recognizes and rewards user activity and participation (gameplay, governance voting, community engagement).
The Rift originally wanted to be the game identity/experience system of the Loot universe, but he has evolved into the Loot ecology In addition, it has evolved from various CC0 NFTs to the entire Web3 game world.
For Web3 project parties, implementing a shared on-chain XP system can motivate, identify and reward the most active and participating users, and build bridges to other projects in the wider Hyperverse. For users, a well-designed XP system can reward their participation with value, such as unlocking mints, gaining privileges, discovering hidden entrances, earning airdrops, etc.
Web3 public goods domain (non-social)
1.Genesis Scroll (Creative Writing Project for the Loot Universe)
Over a year ago, Dom left the world with a masterpiece Loot that cannot be duplicated. He intentionally left blank without drawing pictures and only kept the text, which brought infinite imagination space to everyone and firmly caught everyone's attention. After the short-lived hype boom passed, many people thought that Loot was dead, but in fact, for more than a year, hundreds of developers and writers have worked tirelessly and almost for nothing to improve the Loot universe. Such contributions have gradually filled the imagination space left by Dom for everyone, and have turned the Loot universe into a very rich existence with dozens of projects and hundreds of legends. The previous The Rift (HyperXP) is one of them.
We think Loot is a public good belonging to the Web3 world, it is a developer, writer, musician, etc. It is a great canvas and a good experimental field for creators to participate in the co-construction. As Timshel, a core contributor to Loot, said:
“The game will be more interesting if it has a story behind it, and it will be more attractive if there is a worldview behind it The world is more alive with games"
Timshel is responsible for Genesis Scroll, one of the most active projects in the Loot universe One, this is a creative writing project for the Loot universe, hoping to bring a rich story background to the entire ecology. Have you ever tried to write your own Song of Ice and Fire, or Romance of the Three Kingdoms, or Zhuge Liang, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun in Romance of the Three Kingdoms? Now is your chance. Dom created 8,000 basic Loot universe characters, and secretly arranged the rules and timeline in the contract. From this foundation, each character has a story that belongs to them and their ancestors, and you can be the writer of those stories.
Genesis Scroll is laying the groundwork for a decentralized, expansive, multimedia sci-fi world. As a catalyst for Loot's world-building, and to inspire more communities beyond Web3, Genesis Scroll is directing the creation of a Web3-native "book" that will include a collection of short stories from the Lootverse and provide writers with unconditional grants, And it will be published in the public domain to facilitate everyone's participation in co-creation. This is the first ever truly on-chain "book" that will simultaneously (1) be on the Eth Layer 1 chain (2) be within an NFT (3) be a physical book.
In addition to the donation received from Loot's official DAO, Genesis Scroll received the Figma founding donation more than half a year ago Donation support from Dylan Field worth more than $30,000 in support (10 ETH at the time). This donation has been used to support more than 70 authors who have collectively contributed more than 100,000 words of work.
2. Notfellows
Notfellows is a 100% crypto-native and distributed in A community of outstanding young builders around the world. Most researchers in the community are entrepreneurs themselves and have a strong technical background. The goal of Notfellows is to support the builders of the encrypted world with a diverse set of value-providing systems, including hacker houses, close-up fireside chats with high-quality celebrities, and support for ecological partnerships.
Notfellow started out as a group of young people who were rejected as Paradigm Fellows. Since the Paradigm Fellow acceptance rate is only in the single digits, the competition is fierce. And yet it accidentally kicks off an epic journey, why don't the rejected ones hang out together? Who says these guys can't build great products? Now, Notfellow’s ETH Bogota home has produced 11 winning projects and one ETHGlobal finalist.
Notfellow also has a dropout scholarship spirit similar to Mask Network. With the support of Mask and other partners, Notfellows will tirelessly support young people in the Web3 field and introduce these young talents to the entire Web3 ecosystem.
3. Moonshot Commons Workshop
Moonshot Commons was established In early 2021, more than 20 young Gen-Z engineers at the time decided to get together and do something a little different. They built a brain-computer interface application, rocket propulsion and many other interesting small projects in three days, and a year later, the Moonshot Workshop has formed a vibrant community of engineers. Moonshot Commons aims to be the "South Park Common" for Web3 Gen-Z engineers. Moonshot Commons currently has more than 6,000 members, and 30 projects in the community have received investment from venture capital funds. Moonshot Commons has supported the technical founders of Generation Z from the first day, and firmly believes that the next SpaceX must be technology-driven and belong to Generation Z. They may be misunderstood at the beginning, but they will eventually set off waves around the world .
Moonshot Commons focuses on campus talent by engaging, mentoring and incubating Gen Z builders To support Mask Network and Web3 ecology. These talents become founders or early engineers after graduation, and benefit from Moonshot Commons' technology and community to become Moonshot Commons' ecosystem partners. Outside the campus channel, Moonshot Commons Moonshot Workshop also builds brand influence and expands its influence among early entrepreneurs by publishing industry interviews, research reports, founder dialogues and other activities. At the same time, Moonshot Commons Moonshot Workshop also holds hackathons twice a year to provide entrepreneurs with an occasion to build and iterate Web3 ideas.
Mask Network participated in the 2022 Moonshot Web3 Summer Hackathon as a sponsor and partner, and witnessed 523 teams registering Participate and eventually 25 teams will demo their products at South Park Commons NYC.2. Moonshot will help Mask Network continue to expand its reach among early-stage entrepreneurs and help Mask Network continue to reach the brilliant entrepreneurial ideas of each generation of young people.
4.Intmax
The scalability of Intmax makes the gas cost of zkRollup Less than 1% of the traditional zkRollup, and the first Rollup to achieve ultra-scalability and privacy. Phase 1 of Intmax supports hyper-scalability and privacy for limited purposes like transfer/exchange/minting of ERC20/NFTs. Intmax's biometric interface makes it easy for non-encrypted users to get started with Layer2.
The second stage provides hyper-scalability and privacy for general functions. This enables the usual web applications to be deployed on zkRollup, which will bring a source of value to DeFi from outside the crypto world. Intmax is able to send thousands of NFTs and ERC20s to multiple people in one transaction with a transaction fee of less than $0.0001. The Intmax technical architecture has been widely discussed in the ETH community and received good reviews (including from Vitalik).
The recent wedding of Intmax founders Leona and Mai (ex-Miss Bitcoin) is also an event in the Japanese cryptocurrency world important event. Mai is a core influencer of Web3 in Japan and will also play an important role in the Intmax project.
5. Word Block
Word Block is an open and interactive A Web3 note-taking tool built with block references. All users can publish their own notes (or articles, websites) composed of text units with wallet signatures.
Word Block will continue to build a Web3 note-taking tool and a literature system with aggregation. Word Block is keen to explore the possibility of new interactions between content and individual users, and firmly believes that this is a bridge connecting the Web2 environment and the Web3 signature economy, and it is also the "container" of the new publishing era.
6.Scam Sniffer
Scam Sniffer is a Web3 anti-scam solution that integrates API, Chrome plugin and Discord bot. Scam Sniffer identifies scam sites and malicious transactions in real-time to protect individual users. Scam Sniffer's vision is to create the most respected and widely adopted anti-scam platform, built and owned by the community.
Currently the gateway to Web3 is the digital wallet, but this has limited anti-fraud efforts. While MetaMask has its built-in anti-phishing blacklist, it is not updated frequently enough to block newly created phishing sites. The Scam Sniffer team originally built a Mask Network-based post-tweet detection extension and won an award at the ETH Shanghai Hackathon.
7.Secure3
Secure3 is the next-generation intelligent competitive audit platform dedicated to making , More responsible Web3 security ecological empowerment. Through AI and manual corrections, and a bounty mechanism based entirely on the performance of auditors, the Secure3 platform motivates the top talents in the community to help Web3 project parties find the most serious, most easily overlooked, and most serious auditors in the shortest possible time. Challenging bugs and paying lower prices.
8.Mest
Mest is a wallet analysis tool that allows users to understand what is in the wallet, Trading history, and how to trade better. Product features include only a search box and a set of wallet portraits. Mest will focus on analyzing and drawing the most direct and easy-to-understand wallet portrait: 1. Calculate transaction costs and profits, 2. Analyze transaction behavior characteristics, 3. Discover better transaction decisions. Mest plans to build widgets for the Gitcoin community so that the community can gain a comprehensive view of how Gitcoin and its grants are working.
9.Opsci
OpSci's mission is to incubate the development of web-native tool. OpSci will work closely with the community to integrate existing Web3 technologies with academic account and credential systems.
OpSci goals include seamless login with traditional Web2 systems, low barrier to entry zero-knowledge account creation, linked identities Cryptographic verification of , creating a publicly available distributed, immutable and versioned social graph, imported activity profiles, papers, repositories. The developed tools will be made available as open source in a distributable format and as a free or minimal cost service to early adopters of DeSci.
Mask Network continues to support the expansion of non-profit organizations in various fields in the encryption world, and hopes that OpSci can Bring about changes in the field of scientific research.
Mask Network would not have been able to achieve what it is today without the support of our partners, so we have decided to integrate Web3 The spirit of mutual support in the world is passed on. Our goal is to fund approximately 50 projects in the first year, with each project being supported by an average of $10,000 worth of $MASK tokens (a total of 500,000 USD worth of $MASK tokens)
Mask Grant will be conducted four times a year, with the next one scheduled for early 2023. We welcome and look forward to applications from enthusiastic Web3 entrepreneurs!
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