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## Word Count

```
2'500 words minimum.

3’000 words expected

4'000 words at most
```

## General

* I expect a deep article, with a detailed analysis
* Use data to highlight what you say
* Provide as much data as you can. Duneanalytics is a must to get a lot of public data, from dashboards other people made for you (totally free)
* Insert chart pictures when needed
* Source when you can
* Enhance the content with dynamic content (tweets, videos, keynotes from meta for example)
* Write in a friendly, fun, cool style


**Part 1**: What is a metaverse = Definition, why we need it, value

**Part 2**: How it’s working = technology (gaming or virtual reality) how to use it, set up, hardware

**Part 3**: Metaverse history: what happened before 2021 (early versions, Second life, Ready Player One, tech)

**Part 4**: What happened in 2021: Facebook become Meta, Rise of metaverse projects (Sandbox, Decentraland), links between crypto and metaverse, links between nft and metaverse, etc...

**Part 5**: Focus on best Metaverse projects (for each= short presentation with data, how it’s works, why it’s special)

**Part 6**: Metaverse market numbers: use data and analytics dashboard to illustrate
The rise of metaverse (with crypto & nft market, audience, democratization)

**Part 6**: Current and future trends in the Metaverse (epic games with fortnite, gaming…)

**Part 6b**: focus on NFT in Metaverse

**Part 7**: Centralisation (Meta for example) vs open metaverse (blockchain projects)

**Part 7b**: Issues= Introduction with Matrix (kind of a metaverse), tech, legal, transhumanism, ethic, 

**Part 8**: People to follow about Metaverse


State of metaverse: overview & analysis

## Process

1. Apply to task 
2. Approve lead -> lead is @arjun
3. Feedback period: [5 days after the deadline](https://countingdownto.com/?c=3944502)

## Requirements

Word Count:
* 2.000 words minimum
* 3.000 words expected
* 4.000 words if you must

## Topics to cover

Part 1: What is an NFT & How to create an NFT

Part2: Back on what happened in 2021: NFT summer / bull market / who were the big successes of the year, why it took off, etc...

Part 3: NFT Market numbers: use some duneanalytics dashboards to illustrate

Part 4: NFT Marketplaces: Overview, with opensea as the number one leader

Part 5: Road to the democratization of NFTs: visa story, coinbase launch to come, universal with the apes rock stars, mainstream people coming in the market like jimmy fallon, stephen curry, etc...

Part 6: Current trends in the NFT Market

Part 7: Issues = scams, the way the drops are made, current ethereum gas fees, high volatility, owners rights vs copyright, etc…

Part 8: People to follow about NFT

**Global information**
- I expect a deep article, with a detailed analysis 
- Use data to highlight what you say
- Provide as much data as you can. Duneanalytics is a must to get a lot of public data, from dashboards other people made for you (totally free)
- Insert chart pictures when needed
- Write in a friendly, fun, cool style 


State of NFTs: overview & analysis of the current market 

## How to apply

### Application Process

In bullet-point format, write a small timeline + deliverables and post it on the discord before EOD Sunday, November 21

### Application Reviewer
@hotkartoffel will give you the green light 


## Rules
* at least two other DAO members should participate
* the grant text should be published on notion or google docs
* there should be at least one clear person taking the lead
* the person taking the lead is responsible for redistributing the tokens as they see fit
* come up with a clear timeline for deliverables

## More Info

We're in this together. So let's make our story together. If you're reading this, you're part of Newsroom DAO as much as its founders.

Suggestions:
* kick-off call to discuss the newsroom long-term vision
@hotkartoffel 
* nft launch for contributors
* adding a newsroom.xyz/about page to reflect whatever the grant will say

Publish the Newsroom DAO Gitcoin grant

**Feedback round**: 7 days | [countdown](https://countingdownto.com/?c=3936171)

**Voting round**: 4 days | [countdown](https://countingdownto.com/?c=3944965)

**Voters**: 
* @virtual -> 0.005 ETH
* @davanac -> 0.02 ETH
* @Luke's Donut Mind -> 0.005 ETH
* @ola_afe -> 0.01 ETH
* @Evgeny -> 0.01 ETH


## Description

Make a small history about the history of communities. What is a community? How did communities look like before the internet? How did web 1 and web 2 communities look like? And what's different (if anything) about web 3 communities?


Make a blog post about: Web3 and the future of online communities

**Feedback round**: 7 days | [countdown](https://countingdownto.com/?c=3924981)

**Voting round**: 4 days | [countdown](https://countingdownto.com/?c=3938107)

**Voters**: 
* @newsroom -> 0.03 ETH
* @evgeny -> 0.01 ETH


## What are you researching?

If you're a developer, you can just hop on gitcoin and earn crypto while contributing to DAOs but what happens if you don't know how to code?

Explore how people can participate in DAOs currently and how we could increase the surface area of participation.

## Submission Process

1. Submit on Discord
2. Improve text based on feedback





Research: How can DAOs increase the surface area of participation?

NFTs have mostly enjoyed wide adoption as a new way to collect visual art. However, the technology offers a wide variety of use cases. This article should dive a bit deeper into those use cases:

* Which use cases are there out there
* Which of those use cases have seen some adoption
* Which platforms do those projects use

The author accepts that the article will be published on the Block0 blog.

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