Developing Decentralized Journalism

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About

We will develop ways for journalists harnessing blockchain's strengths -- transparency, immutability and censorship resistance -- to create a better and more trustworthy newsgathering process.

Impact

The loss of local news outlets has led to new levels of polarization, civic disengagement and withdrawal from community in many countries. Meanwhile, surveys show most people no longer trust what news remains. We will rebuild with new, better tools.

Progress

We have raised a small amount of seed $$, built a dedicated core team and spread our message at media, news and Web3 conference as well as podcasts and publications.

Team

There are very few people with strong backgrounds in both journalism and Web3. I think we've gathered most of them in one place!

Funding

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Leaderboard page (offline): https://artizen.fyi/projects/1680478013133x600218374138864300
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