Section 1 - DAO/Project Information
Organization Name: Chatafisha
Proposal Title: NDC Chatafisha Carbon-backed NFT Marketplace | HOM-004P-1-1-4 Ecosystem
When was your DAO / Project established? September, 2022.
DAO’s Category (Ecosystem/Gaming/NFT/Regional Development/Marketing): Ecosystem, NFT, Regional Development
Project’s Category (Community Led, Gaming/NFT/Defi etc): Community Led, NFT
Section 2. Previous Funding
Have you received funding for this project from any source?
Any source of funding. This may include NEAR Foundation Grants, and existing GDAOs, among others.
Yes, Near Foundation regional hub (East Africa)
Section 3. DAO URLs
- DAO / Project Website: https://chatafisha.com
- Social Media Distribution Channels: Discord, WhatsApp, TikTok, Instagram, Youtube;
- Is Your DAO/Project Targeting a Specific Country? No.
- Which region will your DAO/ Project support? Globally
Section 4. Applicant Information
Name of Point of Contact (The pseudonymous name the community knows you is acceptable. However, note that you will have to complete KYC to be able to receive funding from NDC): David Machuche
Link to Governance Forum/near social Profile: https://gov.near.org/u/machuche/
NEAR Wallet ID: chuche.near
Wallet ID that will be receiving funds: chatafisha.near
Country of Residence: Tanzania
Twitter, Telegram: Telegram: Contact @machuche1
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-machuche-1a9954b7/
Additional Relevant Links (add any other links to resources that highlight your work or involvement with the NEAR ecosystem. This may include your portfolio, GitHub, etc.): GitHub - chatafisha/Chatafisha_nft_marketplace: Nft-carbon credits marketplace for Chatafisha
Section 5. Team Members
Please provide information about Team Members.
David Machuche - Product manager.
Victor Muhagachi - UI/UX, designs & graphics
Firas Belhiba - Web3 developer, Full-stack, rust
Rasta Bujo - Web3 developer, rust
Meave Akinyi - Community manager
Section 6. Experience
What related qualifications, experience, or track record does your team bring to this initiative?
Short Summary of Your and Team’s Professional Experience
- David Machuche
David Machuche has 4+ years experience in Web3 and Regenerative Finance. Previously contributed to major DAOs such as Bankless, PrimeDAO, Gitcoin and Inverter Network. Previously built a digital streaming app for indie artists in Africa that got over 10k users. Also board member for Blockchain Association of Tanzania.
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Firas Belhiba: have 5+ years of Web3 development experience, Rust, Angular. Ecosystem development for Lightency & Web3 North African community. Deep passion for technological advancement of marginalized communities
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Victor Muhagachi: Has 3+ years of experience building projects. Worked at launching multiple products in the financial sector in Tanzania, in policy making, micro lending and financing. He is dedicating to foster social infrastructural growth in East Africa leveraging technology
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Rasta Bujo: Web3 developer for 4+ years building both evm and non evm based solutions. Successfully contributed to web3 organizations such as Chainlink, PrimeDAO. Full stack developer, rust.
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Meave Akinyi: 3 year community manager, Meave Akinyi has emerged as a dynamic professional, excelling in the realms of Digital Marketing, Community Management, Data Analytics, and Social Media Strategy. Worked with major African blockchain organizations such as African Blockchain Center, Metaverse Architects as well as Stem Labs.
List Web3 Projects You Have Completed:
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- Eth-Safari challenge winner
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- Dot Safari hackathon winner
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- Filecoin hackathon winner
Live Links to Examples of Relevant Work:
- ReFi event & Ecological Benefits framework: https://x.com/ReFiTanzania/status/1731617463542915283?s=20
- Youtube Blockchain club Tanzania: https://youtu.be/MRXHUiacmdQ?si=G2puQkXMI-iSWKyb
- Eth Safari hackathon: https://x.com/ethsafari/status/1709097863983059355?s=46&t=hj2iETJ0AG45JhGdjSLNcg
Section 7. DAO/Project Charter/White or Litepaper and Goals
Project Overview:
- To verify, streamline and monetize eco-credits through verified impact projects, aligning with web3 principles of transparency and trust.
- Leverage NEAR Protocol’s carbon friendly chain and seamless onboarding for transparent, decentralized transactions, ensuring trust and traceability in waste management and Regenerative Finance.
- Be the leading infrastructure for verifiable impact certificates for funders offsetting their carbon footprint and waste pickers.
- Introduce a financial inclusion model that will onboard marginalized communities such as waste pickers to Web3.
- Empower marginalized communities such as waste pickers, students with web3 education, fostering financial inclusion through blockchain-based interactions.
- Expand the impact by integrating web3 technologies, driving Chatafisha’s growth in the evolving landscape of decentralized solutions.
(Mission, Vision, Core programs and how they align with NDC’s NDC CoA Vision, team, and requested budget for the next three months Dec, Jan, Feb)
Chatafisha is a Regenerative Finance project based in Tanzania that operates as a DAO with a vision of gathering Web3 and ReFi enthusiasts to learn and build a robust Web3 ecosystem through education, sustainability, pilot application, and talent nurturing.
We onboard the next generation of regenerators with the know-how and benefits of building on a carbon friendly chain such as NEAR as well as onboard marginalized communities to Web3.
Core Programs:
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We want to market “sustainability using technology” and onboard sustainability stakeholders to utilize NFTs as impact certificates on NEAR through our carbon-backed marketplace as well as other platforms such as Mintbase, Paras and many more. We aim to market NEAR as the go-to chain for building ReFi (Regenerative Finance)& sustainability projects
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Build a local NEAR node and Introduce a learn2earn model to attract and onboard more users to NEAR through our gamification system and leaderboard. By:
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Leveraging climateTECH ecosystem (ReFi)
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Translating web3 terminologies to Kiswahili
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Toolkits and whitepaper
Onboard next wave of regens to build on NEAR and make use of their seamless onboarding, Near wallets and Near names.
- We decentralize education in NEAR by attracting experts and motivating them to create lectures/courses for NEAR education
- Building a permissionless credit class methodology that can be replicated throughout various communities in the global south. This means that various communities all over the world will be able to use the methodology and streamline verified ecological credits (We are working with Regen Network on this)
Chatafisha objectives:
- Attracting experts, NGOs and non-web3 organizations offsetting their footprint in the ReFi field to support the NEAR ecosystem through outreach and Chatafisha Carbon-backed NFT marketplace.
- Transform them into educators for decentralized education for NEAR and motivate them to collaborate to create competitively high quality education content for NEAR through train the trainer program
- Motivate them to attract their peers and students to learn about Web3, ReFi, NEAR, and dev through their lecturing and mentoring, to create a trained dev&tech community for NEAR in Tanzania and Swahili
- Account acquisition and on-chain activities through a learning process with lecturers and affiliates. (Impact2earn model)
- Transparency and accountability for community led community building
- Chatafisha is designed to optimize the cost for account acquisition by the time.
Language:
- Main language in the forum and Tech Series: English
- Course: English or local language (Swahili)
KPI, Milestones, and Budgets:
Chatafisha initiative is designed to contribute to the ecosystem in multi-levels by the time and the executive strategy chosen is step-by-step to ensure the quality and risk control.
Milestone 1: Account Acquisition & Impact2Earn model gamification (by Chatafisha)
- Gamification of carbon-backed NFT marketplace with Leaderboards,
- Test and quiz systems for members, as well as gamification with leaderboards
- NEAR on-chain POAP completion certificate / NFT
KPIs:
- ReFi on NEAR bi weekly Twitter spaces
- 100 new NEAR accounts, BOS profiles
- 100 likes, and followers / 10k views & impressions
Milestone 2: User Engagement and dApp Integration
- Onboard next wave of users to Near & interact with Near dApps
- Live event attendance checking plugin
- Affiliate system for NEAR account acquisition and leaderboard system onboarding
- Integrate the graph
- Front end improvement
KPIs:
- Users interacting with at least 5 dApps used by P95 accounts retained for 1+ week
- 100 retained accounts
- Integrated graph
- Integrated wallet connect
- Database management system (SQL)
Milestone 3: Onboarding Non-web3 communities & Organizations
- Onboarding sustainable / Green NGOs, startups, organizations offsetting their footprint to Web3 and NEAR through Chatafisha platform.
- NEAR & Chatafisha account acquisition affiliate program running
- Sub-wallets for non web3 organizations under Chatafisha
- Gamification for learning on our Impact2earn carbon-backed marketplace
KPIs:
- 10 non-web3 organizations onboarded to Near. (Green startups, sustainable NGOs, clean ups & Web2 Regens)
- Outreach: 50+ experts
- At least 2 irl events and workshops with NGOs, startups and sustainability organizations to NEAR and Chatafisha platform on NEAR
Chatafisha is working to grow and retain not only builders to develop NEAR Ecosystem and build climate solutions, but also non web3 organizations. However, we believe it is a gradual process that needs to test & optimize in each step to improve the efficiency in operations and optimize funding/performance. Therefore, we select a step-by-step approach to implement and execute further plans to contribute to the NEAR ecosystem.
Topics of interests by Chatafisha to focus but not limited to: Rust programming, Regenerative Finance (ReFi), BOS development, Defi, NFT, Gaming, NEAR dapp and smart contract programming, Enterprise blockchain, Account Abstraction, DAO and governance structures as well as different NEAR Technologies.
- First time period: $9/ account acquisition (lower than the current cost of account acquisition at NDC), with the requirement that the account has to learn and complete at least 25% of our challenge.
- When the total incentive exceeds the incentive pool due to a high number of new user acquisition, the incentive per account will be: The incentive pool amount / total number of new user acquisition. This is our way to optimize the user acquisition cost by time, supporting one of the important objectives of NDC.
How can your DAO / Project achieve NDC priorities, goals, and KPIs?
Chatafisha achieves NDC Core Value through:
- Empowering NEAR Ecosystem Decentralization: Chatafisha is a ReFi led community and provides incentives to attract talents to create next generation talents for NEAR ecosystem.
- Renowned by ecosystem: all results in Chatafisha are reliable, transparent and accountable in the software system.
- Committed to decentralization: The solution is scalable, open source and organized in a decentralized way to motivate community experts to educate the community. The total incentive for user acquisition is also fixed at an upper bound monthly to optimize the cost per account acquisition.
- Efficient operation: cost of account acquisition is lower than the current cost of account acquisition and the cost is optimized by the time.
Chatafisha achieves NDC priorities through:
- Outreach to new local sustainability experts in ReFi to NEAR, new marginalized and non-web3 communities, to learn about blockchain and be onboarded to NEAR, as well as train existing members with knowledge and coding skills.
- Chatafisha helps educate local communities including both tech & non-tech people, non-blockchain tech experts, and ReFi KOL (through local language courses) and global communities (through English as main language) to have better tech knowledge and dev skills as well as how to interact with NEAR dApps and make the most of NEAR’s carbon friendliness.
- Chatafisha aims to help improve NDC operations through attracting new contributors and transparent results tracking with a clear report dashboard.
Roadmap of your DAO/project, Milestones, and achievements: as presented above.
- Launch Carbon-backed NFT marketplace and onboard DAUs
- Pilot onboarding marginalized communities such as waste pickers to web3 and financial inclusion
- Establish a permissionless credit class methodology for waste replicable in the whole global south
- Streamline verified projects to Regen network for sale of eco-credits
- Establish a ReFi community (web3 and non web3)
- Launch $Chata token
Milestones achieved:
- Launched Carbon-backed NFT marketplace on Mainnet
- Successful pilot onboarding the first 10 waste pickers, next 100 collection points
- Launch of Blockchain community in Tanzania with University of Dar es salaam
Section 8. Budget
Budget details:
UI UX improvements, Frontend: 1,000$
Smart contracts update: 2,000$
Near wallet connect integration: 500$
Create and maintain marketplace databases
Intergrate and buy into ecological credits with reference to nep-141, 148 standards. 1,000$
Intergrate the graph for indexing: 500$
Total- $5000
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Projected Budget for the improvements in 5,000$ allocated to software improvement, community engagements, referral system incentive, and operational expenses.
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What is the length of Commitment to Delivering Your Project? Will your team be working on this project full time? Chatafisha is already working full time on the project. We are building on NEAR and aim to onboard and improve developments on the NEAR blockchain as well as align with NDC priorities.
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Will your team be fully remunerated from this budget? No, the team will be remunerated only partially from this budget. We are also requesting a partial grant support for the software improvement cost for our dev team to integrate and develop features to support NEAR and Chatafisha.
Section 9. Project/DAO longevity
- Does your project/DAO require one-time or continuous funding?
We will require one time funding to ensure a runway and completion of the mvp revampment. We are currently working on ways for sustainable financial sources.
- Will your DAO/Project devise a way of sustaining itself after this round of funding?
Chatafisha is currently working towards achieving better results and supporting NDC operations and priorities efficiently in time. We are working to develop a sustainable revenue model.
- What are the possible roadblocks to the success of your project/DAO?
Despite Regenerative Finance being a new concept, we firmly believe it is one of the utmost real use cases for crypto, web3. We are aiming to make most of NEAR’s carbon negative chain and friendly onboarding to onboard the next wave of regenerators, NGOs, startups and non-web3 organizations. Localization & extensive funding could be a possible roadblock for Chatafisha.
We have already launched on NEAR mainnet and are currently onboarding active users. Starting with Tanzania, we believe this added synergy will enable us to achieve our goals as well as widen NEAR adoption in the global south communities.