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Pain Points Being Addressed:

  1. Lack of Transparency: A major concern in crowdfunding is knowing exactly how the funds are being utilized. The platform ensures transparency by utilizing Hypercerts, which provide clear details about the project and its financing.
  2. Impact Verification: Many funders wish to see tangible evidence of the impact of their investment. With the integration of evaluators, the platform ensures that the promised impact is being achieved.

Naturelink is a blockchain-based social network for ecological crowdfunding, featuring on-chain reputation to ensure transparency and trust in environmental projects. It uses evaluators and native tokens for validation and compensation.

Tools

  • Lens
  • Thirdweb
  • Hypercerts
  • Chainlink
    • Functions: Notifying the donation in projects through an AWS lambda powered by Twilio.
    • Keepers: Programmatically checking if the project's funding period has finished and deciding whether to return the crowdfunding or to mint the hypercert.
    • VRF: Used to select the evaluator for each project.

Naturelink is a blockchain-based social network focused on ecological crowdfunding. It utilizes on-chain reputation to ensure transparency, reliability, and effectiveness of the presented projects. Users on this platform can present, fund, and evaluate projects centered around ecological and environmental causes. Operating on a blockchain ensures the immutability and traceability of interactions, as well as building a trustworthy digital reputation for its users.

Main Features:

  1. On-Chain Reputation: Users build a digital reputation based on their interactions, submitted projects, funding activities, and evaluations. This reputation is immutable and transparent, fostering trust among network participants.
  2. Hypercerts: These on-chain digital certificates provide details about each project, ensuring that funders have all the necessary information to make informed decisions.
  3. Reputable Evaluators: Certain users are selected as evaluators within the community, based on their on-chain reputation. They are responsible for verifying the actual impact of funded projects, adding a layer of trust and validation to the process.
  4. Community Participation: The network facilitates discussion and debate around projects, promoting a culture of transparency and cooperation. Interactions are recorded on the chain, contributing to each user's reputation building.
  5. On-Chain Impact Verification: Beyond presenting projects, the platform offers tools and mechanisms on-chain to ensure that raised funds are used appropriately and that projects create a real impact, validated by the community and recorded on the blockchain.