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  • ๐Ÿ‘‹Welcome to POTLOCK
    • ๐Ÿ”“POTLOCK Protocol
    • ๐Ÿš€Value Proposition
    • ๐Ÿ’ธRevenue Model
      • ๐Ÿ’ตCurrent Fees
    • ๐Ÿ”ฎRoadmap
    • โ™จ๏ธUnderstanding Pots (Funding Rounds)
    • ๐Ÿš€End Game
  • โ“FAQ
    • ๐ŸšงPot Not Deployed
  • User Guides
    • โž•๐Ÿ’ผProjects
      • ๐Ÿ“‹ Create Project
      • ๐Ÿ—ƒ๏ธCreate Project As DAO
      • ๐Ÿ“–Project Guidelines
      • ๐Ÿ™Donate to A Project
      • ๐Ÿ’ธCreate Project Referral Link
    • ๐Ÿš€Project Tips for Success
    • ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸณPot Owners & Chef Training (Pot)
      • ๐ŸŒŸ Key Roles in a Pot
        • ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸณChef
      • ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ปDeploy Pot
    • ๐Ÿง Planning A Pot
      • ๐Ÿ”ŽChoosing a Chef
      • ๐Ÿ˜ฉ Biggest Challenges of A Round
    • ๐Ÿ“ฌApply to A Pot
      • ๐Ÿ›๏ธApply to Pot as a DAO
        • ๐ŸŒฑCreate A DAO
    • ๐Ÿ’—Matched Donations | Donate Through A Pot
    • ๐Ÿ’ฐSponsors | Funding A Matching Round
    • ๐Ÿ“ฃFor Approved Projects in Pot
    • ๐ŸฅŠChallenging Pot Results
      • ๐Ÿ“How to Create A Challenge
      • โœ…Resolve A Challenge
    • ๐Ÿ˜‡Donors
      • ๐Ÿค–Verify As Human
    • ๐Ÿ‘€Soon / Personas
      • ๐Ÿ›๏ธPotluck Foundation DAO
      • ๐Ÿ˜’Observor
      • ๐Ÿ“Projects
    • ๐Ÿ“คCampaigns
      • ๐Ÿ”ŽExplore Campaigns
      • ๐Ÿ“ฌCreate Campaigns
      • ๐Ÿ—ž๏ธCampaign Page
    • ๐Ÿ“‹ Lists
      • Create List
      • Edit List
      • Apply to List
      • Donate to List
    • mpDAO RPGF
      • Apply to mpDAO Pot
      • Voting Mechanism
      • How to Vote
  • Contracts
    • ๐Ÿ“ƒContracts Overview
    • ๐ŸญPotFactory [live]
    • ๐ŸฒPot [live]
    • ๐Ÿ™Donation [live]
    • ๐Ÿ“œLists [live]
    • ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธRegistry [deprecated]
    • ๐Ÿ’ฒCampaigns [live]
    • ๐Ÿค–Sybil Contract - NADABOT
    • ๐Ÿ—ƒ๏ธAttestations [WIP]
      • ๐Ÿ’ฌOther Attestation Services (Research)
    • ๐Ÿ“‡Staging and Test Environments
  • ๐Ÿ“šTerms
    • โฃ๏ธQuadratic Funding
  • Front-End
    • React (NextJS)
    • ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™‚๏ธBOS Gateway + Workspace
      • ๐ŸŽBrand Kit (WIP)
  • Get Involved
    • ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ปFor Devs
      • Using NEAR API JS
    • โœ๏ธCreate Guides
    • ๐Ÿ’‘Volunteer
    • ๐Ÿ‘€Watch Us Cook
  • General Information
    • ๐Ÿ“šCode of Conduct
      • ๐Ÿ“QF Rules
    • ๐Ÿ›Beta Phase
    • ๐Ÿ“ŠData
  • Products
    • nada.bot
    • Potlock App
    • GrantPicks
    • AI-PGF
    • Agentoor
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General FAQ

What is considered a public good?

  • A public good is generally considered a project that provides more value creation than extraction. For projects that approved on our registry; check out

What if I don't qualify as a public good?

  • You can check out our uncensored version showing all pots and unapproved projects in registry soon. Will be hosted at uncensored.potlock.org

Why do you have referrals?

  • To gamify and incentivize a decentralized referral network. A donor can always take out the referredId from URL and this will make it so referrer does not get fee. Also on pots fees can be zero and this can be used to keep track of who brings in more people.

Are fees mandatory?

  • Fees on the pot level are determined by pot owner. However from the factory contract that is locked (check https;//potlock.org/changelog) has max fees for protocol, chefs, and referrer to prevent abuse by pot owner. Additionally a pot deployer can see fees for all parties to zero (or less than max). For direct donations fees are also optional. Front ends may not reflect this at the moment.

What blockchain and currencies do you currently support?

  • We are on the NEAR Blockchain, a highly performant layer 1 blockchain,. Our quadratic funding contracts support the nativer crypto currency NEAR, while our direct donation contract supports any fungible token. (We are still adjusting front end). Star our core contract repos for any relevant update

What is quadratic funding?

  • Quadratic funding is a novel funding mechanisms that incentivies smaller unqiue contributions against a matching pool. Learn more at

Do you have a token?

  • We currently do not have a token. But we are interested in providing incentiv ies for those who provide regular impact. If you do tokenomics or want to contribute to a discussion like this, check out the POTLOCK community telegram?

What is next after quadratic funding?

How is nada.bot related to POTLOCK?

Is POTLOCK a platform or a protocol?

Project FAQ

Why isn't my project showing up on explore section of main POTLOCK gateway?

  • need to be approved by an admin.

How much do projects usually get funding?

  • You can see average donation amount for approved projects on our registry at statistics at potlock.org/flipside and we will be having more data dashboards soon. Currently funding rounds in total would not exceed $40,000 about as February 2024 when we are launching, so consider that a cap. However we are using participation in round and growth in impact and justification for higher rounds in the future. We encourage other funding mechanisms and plural funding mechanisms, and creating a profile with attestations will increase the odds of getting other funding sources. Join the POTLOCK ecosystem chat if you need support with higher direct grants from a funding vertical on NEAR, a multichain ecosystem grant, or if you are looking to transition to a private company with appropriate accelerators. We are here as a public good to support projects making an impact in the space, and even if you don't consider yourself a public good, we are here to help!

How to do I get on the featured projects page?

Developer FAQ

Is there a place to test on testnet?

Who is involved in ecosystem?

What license is POTLOCK front ends and contracts under?

  • We are under a MIT open source license, and encourage others to fork us and build new funding mechanisms

How do I get involved building?

What are ways you mitigate risks?

  • Opsec. Locking our contracts and after audits so their is no backdoor. Redundant front ends and decentralized gateways with different einvronments. Open source building so anyone can fork us if they dont like us.

Do you have any middleware or any indexers?

What tech stack are you building on?

  • We build on BOS, which is a React like JSX framework, our smart contracts are in Rust, and use NextJS for our traditional app we are building. Our Indexer is in python. We also use Shell for some scripts, and Markdown for documentation. Data analysts use SQL and Python for data queries. If you are looking to contribute and build in the POTLOCK ecosystem, we can support a wide array of stacks.

Do you have a security audit?

We are working on public goods legos on how to compose these interfaces. Currently we are designing campaigns for anyone to launch. More information can be found in our roadmap (also checkout our designs at

It is a sybil contract aggregator we are spinning to address our immediate sybil needs in the ecosystem. We aggregate with outher sybil providers. Check out if you have any questions and to integrate

POTLOCK is a protocol, a collection of platforms, and an ecosystem for public goods funding, and impact tracking. however, anyone can fork or use our technology at standard for reoutfitting funding mechanisms for any set of accounts and changing donor requirements. Check out our on how to get started

Contact . Currently we are just randomly picking projects we like and that are undervalues. In the future with creation of a more robust curation system we can better democratize this or automate this based on trending donations>

No currently we are justing on staging you can test on our BOS app. As we build a traditional app you can check testnet there. Our testnet contracts can be found at

Their are alot of different contributors to potlock ecosystem, check them out at

Check out our for "good-first-issues" and join our chat ot introduce yourself

Yes we have spun up an indexer

We have two from Ottersec and for our contracts and can be found in "audits" repo, but as we develop more contracts for the funding stack, we will get more audit programs. We currently do not have an active bug bounty program, but reach out to owner on community telegram for responsible disclosure so we can address in a timely fashion

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https://potlock.org/guidelines
https://github.com/potlock/core
https://wtfisqf.com
https://potlock.org/figma
https://nada.bot/support
https://docs.nada.bot
ecosystem ideas board
Potlock Community
https://docs.potlock.io/contracts/contracts-overview
https://ecosystem.potlock.org/#active-contributors
backlog
Potlock Community
https://github.com/PotLock/django-indexer
Guvenkaya
github.com/potlock/core