📖Project Guidelines
Understanding project guidelines for getting accepted into official POTLOCK Public Goods registry
Who Can Sign Up?
Anybody can sign up who is considered a public good.
What is A Public Good?
You provide more valuation creation than value capture
Categories Explained
Soon we will be enabling to choose multiple categories
Public Good
Your project is oriented towards creating social benefit and improving some corner of the world somehow.
Open Source
A project in which majority of code base is open source
Must be a culture of encouraging additional contributors and open source development
Recent Activity: There must be meaningful GitHub activity within the past 3 months, demonstrating ongoing work aligned with the project's mission.
The project does not have to be a Web3 project
We recommend your codebase follows the Public Code Standard https://github.com/publiccodenet/standard/tree/develop
Climate
A project that addresses climate issues
Not everything needs to be non profit for climate round
Private corporations in climate that bring more positive impact ot environment can be eligible (exception for this round)
A non profit organization
501c3 organizations are automatically qualified
An organization that does not distribute its profits to owners or shareholders. Reinvests profits back into the organization for its mission-driven activities.
DeSci
Projects promoting decentralized science space and democratiziing or disrupting the traditional science space
Education
Your project is dedicated and provide some type of free and accessible education program or resources
Not limited to just Web3 education
As part of your application you will be required to justify why you are a a public good as well as putting funding to date
Projects That Don’t Qualify
Extractive; closed source projects. Purely in it for profit, and does not create more value creation
Software that is not open source
Educational initiatives that do not have a free element or provides accessible resources
Projects that are meant to enrich only a few individuals
Quality Submissions
A project is likely to get unlisted due to the following:
❌ No project description
❌ Vague project description
❌ No unique or custom banner photo
❌ No justification as a public good
Flagged Projects
Projects that are found to exhibit "unacceptable behavior as outlined by our Code of Conduct will be flagged from our public registry immediately with proper justification on-chain. Flagged projects and unapproved rounds from the protocol can be soon found at uncensored.potlock.org
Examples of unacceptable behavior include:
❌ The use of violent or sexualized language or imagery, and sexual attention or advances of any kind
❌ Trolling, insulting, derogatory, abusive or vulgar comments, and personal, political, or religious attacks
❌ Public or private harassment
❌ Publishing others’ private information, such as a physical or email address, without their explicit permission (including doxing)
❌ Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting
How to get on our registry
Projects get listed automatically
DAO or admin can put projects on graylist if they do not fulfill the aforesaid criterion
If their is a complaint for status please join the Potlock Community telegram and in the feedback section explain why.
Technical Details
When you sign up for POTLOCK you are signing up for a public profile that information is stored on the blockchain with a project account. This means you must secure your private keys.
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