Democratizing support for content creators
asia
2024-cohort-4
impact
funding
UnitedStates
Guo
US
Guo
Guo Liu's project combines advertisement protocols and quadratic funding on Matters Town(opens in a new tab) to support high-quality open-access content. By using advertisement revenue as a matching fund, the project aims to democratize support for content creators, drawing on Guo's experience in building decentralized digital public spaces and his commitment to freedom of information. MattersTown is widely used by content creators around the world (predominance of Chinese-speaking, Russian, and Korean). It is experimenting with a new way to fund journalism and content creation.
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Eddie
Kenya
On-chain credit scores for smallholder farmers and co-ops in Kenya
defi
2024-cohort-4
africa-east
farmers
Eddie's Antugrow platform digitizes farmer production records and farm metadata to create reputation scores on-chain, with a goal to access to affordable working capital for smallholder farmers and cooperatives in Kenya
Lefteris
Greece
Fishing for the Commons
2024-cohort-4
europe
climate
Lefteris is focused on reducing marine plastic pollution by engaging with fishers in Greece and the Mediterranean and adopting cleaning and sustainability practices.