JUNE 2023 | EARTHFUND PLATFORM UPDATE
Calling all Earthlings! Try out the new demo of EarthFund 2.0
This month, we’re releasing a demo of EarthFund 2.0 so you can see our progress in real-time.
👋 We’re EarthFund, the decentralized platform using blockchain, decentralization, AI, and crypto to revolutionize the giving economy and give you more of a voice in the shape of tomorrow.
This is our June 2023 update where you can preview the groundbreaking new features we’ve been working on and get your hands on the EarthFund 2.0 demo site to see the first stages of our AI-powered launchpad in action.
Happy June, Earthlings 🌍
Last month, we gave you an in-depth look at what EarthFund 2.0 will look like.
We talked about things like the leaderboard, AI-powered community creation, AI suggestions for grants to fund, donate-to-join functionality, done-for-you token design and content writing, and much more…
(Missed it? Here it is 👇)
Since then, we’ve been hard at work making those plans a reality.
Our product team has been head-down building out the backend, adding all of the new functionality, and fine-tuning the UX so that the new platform is as intuitive as humanly possible.
That means we’ve been working on:
🌍 Integrating with OpenAI and Stability.ai to create the graphics and content for your communities → Complete ✅
Our platform is fully integrated with the best AI tools to make it even easier for anybody to start and launch a community.
🌍 Fine-tuning our prompts to ensure a consistently high-quality output → in progress 🟧
We’re 75% there, but some images and content are coming back a little wonky. In June, we’re going to continue to train the AI with content, images, and token icons to ensure an even more consistent output.)
🌍 QA on the AI-suggested grants → Complete ✅
We’ve run extensive tests to make sure all suggested organizations aren’t just genuine, but trustworthy too. So far, every non-profit our system has suggested has been legitimate and relevant to the test communities we’ve set up 🙌
🌍 Creating “claim community” functionality → Complete ✅
This functionality is complete. You’ll now be able to create a community and then register yourself as the founder before you invite your team.
If you create a community and then change your mind, we’ll automatically offer the idea to other members of the EarthFund community to step in and make it their own.
🌍 Creating waitlist functionality → Complete ✅
This feature is built out. Now, as you build out your community, assemble your team, and work out the finer pre-launch details, you can create a waitlist of people who want to buy tokens the moment it goes live.
And as a community member, you can join a waitlist to get notified (via email and on the platform) when they go live.
The result? Instead of walled-off, siloed communities, we’ll have an entire ecosystem of people and groups who are passionate about doing good. That will make it easier for founders to grow their communities and start making an impact as quickly as possible.
🌍 AI-assisted tokenomics → in progress 🟧
We’ve integrated with AI to suggest tokenomics for your communities, but we need to fine-tune the results a little.
We are making exciting progress on this front though. The AI can now suggest a number of tokens related to your goal.
For example, here’s what happened when we asked it how many tokens we should mint to protect the rhinos in Africa?
There are around 27,000 rhinos across Africa. You could use this number as inspiration and mint 2,700,000 governance tokens to raise $100 for each rhino.
You might want to change this to $1000 for each rhino, but it’s a good starting point to help you figure out your tokenomics.
(And, ultimately, that’s the point of our AI integration. We’re not trying to ship thousands of 100% AI-generated communities, we’re trying to make it easier for real people to launch communities they’re passionate about by editing the AI-generated starting points.)
🌍 Product Hunt-style leaderboard and comment/like functionality → complete ✅
This is built out and ready to roll. Now, every week, you’ll be able to use your 1Earth to upvote communities in the global leaderboard to get featured on the website and across our marketing in the following week.
🌍 Social media functionality → in progress 🟧
Building social media functionality is not a small lift, so our team has prioritized the core functionality of the platform this month. In June, we’ll start building out the social media elements of the site, including profiles, likes, comments, and following.
🌍 Discord bot → in progress 🟧
We’re working on the Discord bot so that it also automatically creates a Discord channel on the EarthFund server when a community is launched with a #prelaunch channel that anybody can join to chat with the community, suggest ideas, or volunteer as a co-founder.
This way, we can make sure that the community-specific channels — where you can talk about projects, fundraising, etc… safely — remain safe from scammers and spammers while also giving communities the space to chat with people that are perhaps on the fence about joining or have more questions.
Plus! A new admin dashboard to take control of your community
We’ve built a whole new admin area that makes it even easier for you to take control of your community.
The new dashboard makes it easy to:
- Edit your overview page with new content and images
- Generate new images with MidJourney
- Choose a theme for your community with custom colors
- Edit the metadata and images that show up whenever somebody shares your link
- Add keywords so that people can find you on the platform when they’re looking to join communities similar to yours
- Turn KYC on and off for safer communities
- Georestrict your community to certain areas (for example, if you want to create a community run by locals)
- Choose a minimum token amount for people to propose grants
- Set a maximum and minimum grant amount
- Control who can enter your Discord community (only token holders or anybody?)
- List your token on CoinMarketCap and Etherscan
Take EarthFund 2.0 for a spin and give us your feedback
To give all of you Earthlings more insight into what we’re doing, we’ve made a demo version of EarthFund 2.0 live here.
(You can also see an early demo of how the communities will look here. New sections are being added soon.)
Now, a few important caveats before you dive in:
- This isn’t the finished product. A lot of features we’ve built haven’t been pushed live on this demo. (This is for a number of reasons, from protecting our ideas to making sure they work correctly before we make them public.)
- A few relics from the old design are still here. We’ve put this together using old architecture so you can try the AI integration and get a sneak peek of the new platform in action. However, we’re only 5 weeks into the rebuild so a lot of features aren’t fully ready to launch. That means we’ve reused the old homepage, old UI, some old interstitial screens, etc… to approximate the experience.
- There are going to be bugs. This demo doesn’t work perfectly. If it did, we’d be launching the entire platform today. However, it does give you a good idea of where we’re heading. Even better, we can stop just talking about the AI integration and let you see for yourself how freaking awesome it is.
- The community launcher is a little slow. We’re working on speeding it up significantly before launch.
Now that’s out of the way…
We’re so excited to share this with you all. Like we said, it’s not finished yet, but we’ve passed an exciting milestone:
EarthFund 2.0 can generate complete decentralized fundraising communities quickly, accurately, and in a way that we’re certain will make it easier for anybody to get started and make the world a better place.
So log in and see for yourself. Try creating any world-changing community you can think of and see where the platform takes you.
Saving the rhino in Africa, reforesting the Amazon, tackling inequality around the world, closing the world education divide, researching green technology…
Whatever you’re passionate about, give it a spin.
We’re all so excited about EarthFund 2.0. We hope you are too.
Help us spread the word
- Make some noise about our AI update on social media! 🔥
- Leave a positive comment on KuCoin’s new comment functionality
- Follow us on Twitter and give our posts a like/retweet → this would be huge for us. Our Twitter profile is key to spreading the word beyond crypto and into the kind of spaces where future DAO members (and maybe even founders) hang out.
- Join our Telegram community (if you’re not a member already)
- Talk about EarthFund in EarthFund-adjacent spaces (maybe mental health communities or carbon/climate change communities on Twitter)
- Tweet about EarthFund or interact with us on social media (got to feed those social media algorithms!)
- Ask us questions — we’re always available to answer questions in Telegram. (And if our community team doesn’t have the answers, we’ll get them for you.)
- Leave a positive comment and bullish rating on CoinMarketCap
- Like 1Earth on CoinGecko
Until next week, a massive thanks for being part of this journey with us!
Let’s build a better tomorrow, together.
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EarthFund takes the power of centralized organizations like governments and global charities and gives it to communities dedicated to causes.
It allows everyday people like you to affect change. And using crypto and the blockchain, it lets you have a voice in decisions and fund the causes you believe in.
Powering it all is the 1Earth token, an ERC-20 token that can be staked in exchange for governance tokens that give you a voice on the platform.
By buying the token and joining the EarthFund DAO, anybody in the world will have a vote on how the EarthFund treasury is used to fund planet-saving projects around the world.
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