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📖 Project Guidelines

Who Can Sign Up?​

Anybody can sign up who is considered a public good.

What is A Public Good?​

You provide more valuation creation than value capture

Categories Explained​

Soon we will be enabling to choose multiple categories

Public Good​

Your project is oriented towards creating social benefit and improving some corner of the world somehow.

Open Source​

  • A project in which majority of code base is open source
  • Must be a culture of encouraging additional contributors and open source development
  • Recent Activity: There must be meaningful GitHub activity within the past 3 months, demonstrating ongoing work aligned with the project's mission.
  • The project does not have to be a Web3 project

We recommend your codebase follows the Public Code Standard https://github.com/publiccodenet/standard/tree/develop

Climate​

  • A project that addresses climate issues
  • Not everything needs to be non profit for climate round
  • Private corporations in climate that bring more positive impact ot environment can be eligible (exception for this round)

A non profit organization​

  • 501c3 organizations are automatically qualified
  • An organization that does not distribute its profits to owners or shareholders. Reinvests profits back into the organization for its mission-driven activities.

DeSci​

  • Projects promoting decentralized science space and democratiziing or disrupting the traditional science space

Education​

  • Your project is dedicated and provide some type of free and accessible education program or resources
  • Not limited to just Web3 education\

As part of your application you will be required to justify why you are a a public good as well as putting funding to date

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Projects That Don’t Qualify​

  • Extractive; closed source projects. Purely in it for profit, and does not create more value creation
  • Software that is not open source
  • Educational initiatives that do not have a free element or provides accessible resources
  • Projects that are meant to enrich only a few individuals

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Quality Submissions​

A project is likely to get unlisted due to the following:

  • ❌ No project description
  • ❌ Vague project description
  • ❌ No unique or custom banner photo
  • ❌ No justification as a public good

Flagged Projects​

Projects that are found to exhibit "unacceptable behavior as outlined by our Code of Conduct will be flagged from our public registry immediately with proper justification on-chain. Flagged projects and unapproved rounds from the protocol can be soon found at uncensored.potlock.org

Examples of unacceptable behavior include:​

  • ❌ The use of violent or sexualized language or imagery, and sexual attention or advances of any kind
  • ❌ Trolling, insulting, derogatory, abusive or vulgar comments, and personal, political, or religious attacks
  • ❌ Public or private harassment
  • ❌ Publishing others’ private information, such as a physical or email address, without their explicit permission (including doxing)
  • ❌ Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting


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How to get on our registry​

  • Projects get listed automatically
  • DAO or admin can put projects on graylist if they do not fulfill the aforesaid criterion
  • If their is a complaint for status please join the Potlock Community telegram and in the feedback section explain why.
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Technical Details​

When you sign up for POTLOCK you are signing up for a public profile that information is stored on the blockchain with a project account. This means you must secure your private keys.

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