gm gm everyone ! Mash aka marvelgirl back here with an August update!
Our goal for Aug 2024 was to help projects kickstart their milestones and make sure that they are enroute to successful completion by Sep 15
Key achievements and KPIs we achieved :
Helped 12 + teams get advances of 750 ARB to kickstart their projects
8+ projects are building dapps using Arbitrum Stylus across verticals such as DeFi, Stablecoins, savings protocols, payments , NFTs , and music applications
5+ teams are hosting events across Ghana, Nigeria, LATAM, Costa Rica, Lebanon and the Carribbean
Around 1/3rd of our cohort have finished all of their technical milestones ( woohoo!)
All other grantees are well on their way to finish by Sep 15
Here are new updates from key teams:
EthAccra hosted a successful campus and workshop for 135+ attendees
Web3 Afrika just surpassed 250+ registrations for their upcoming Buisld with Arbitrum workshop
Upe Local hosted a local Beer Olympics with 300+ attendees and are onboarding 12+ NGOs to participate in Arbitrum governance
Espacio Cripto is planning to bring on 50 new builders to build dapps / projects on Arbitrum
Bitsave is using Arbitrum Stylus to build a savings protocol
Kairos has finished ther portfolio tracker frontend
MusicaW3 has finished planning out their event to onboard artists in Argentina to do drops on Arbitrum
Gmetrave has finished their ingame assets + UI functionalities
Wam is launching their wallet on Arbitrum in a few weeks
Vifi is finishing up tests for their stablecoin protocol in 2 weeks
Forkinwisdom has finished their dapp and community dashboards and are working on voting functionality
DaoAshe has launched an minting workshop on Arbitrum and multiple NFTs for artists for their upcoming metaverse exhibition.
We are excited to continue supporting our grantees closely o help them get to the finish line by Sep 15. Hopefully by the end of the month, we can plan to host a demo day. We are also looking to provide key feedback in our upcoming post-grant interview with the commitee. Thank you again to @ThankArb for all of their support and we hope to be back here very soon with our final updates!