Track Awards - 7,000 DAI
Defensive Tooling:
Choose this track if you're interested in developing tools that enhance security and privacy. Focus on creating projects that prioritize defense, decentralization, and resilience to foster a more secure and freer world. Potential topics include encryption, counter-surveillance, identity protection, anonymity, anti-identity, security, local data handling, and safeguarding individuals from intrusive data collection practices.
Freedom to Transact
This track is ideal if you aim to ensure that anyone, anywhere, anytime can facilitate unrestricted transactions. We're seeking projects that enable people to access and send money or value across borders without restrictions, promoting financial inclusion. Focus on developing peer-to-peer solutions, building censorship-resistant applications, and ensuring that transactions are private and secure.
Social Technologies
This track centers on platforms and tools that enable informed and collective decision-making, transparent governance, and collaboration among decentralized communities. If you're interested in creating credibly neutral systems for voting, governance, and social interaction, and countering the disproportionate influence of centralized powers, this track is for you. Other potential projects include consensus-finding algorithms, sybil resistance, and decentralized social reputation systems.
Infrastructure
The backbone of the revolution, this track is dedicated to the architects and builders laying down the underlying infrastructure needed for robust distributed public goods to run efficiently and reliably. Potential projects include protocol specification and implementations, networking, developer tools, and hardware.