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Hi team, thanks for the submission. After reading the application alongside the W3F template, I have a few points and questions. I’ve grouped them for clarity:

Template compliance (must-fix)

  • Payment Details: Please add the DOT address for payment.

  • Add the section “What your project is not”: The Project Details section should explicitly list out-of-scope features or future ideas that will not be delivered.

  • Add Future Plans section: Please add the missing ## Future Plans header and address long-term maintenance, promotion, and funding.

  • Previous W3F grants: Under “Team’s experience” explicitly state whether anyone on the team has already received W3F funding; if none, please say “None”.

Clarification & technical questions

  • Do you know KILT protocol? How does your DID layer differ from / integrate with KILT?
  • I'm trying to understand how human oracles & dispute resolution will work in the system. Can you explain more on how people will be trusted in the system? Furthermore, how this differ from prediction markets?
  • The diagrams are in Spanish and mention Polygon. It would be nice to fix.
  • Zero-Knowledge Proofs are mentioned in one use case, what kind of ZK are you planning to use, can you tell me more about that?
  • Link to “Tu Voto Decide”. Which parts of that codebase are reused or open-sourced for this grant?
  • Moonbeam / EVM vs Substrate – Is the plan to stay on an EVM parachain or migrate to native Rust pallets (or even Ink! Smart Contracts)?

Market demand & potential other funding sources

  • Which concrete customers, partners, or regulators have confirmed a need for “Human Oracles”? Please share user studies, pilot feedback, or signed letters of intent.
  • Have you received (or applied for) grants, accelerators, or treasury proposals from Polygon, Arbitrum, Moonbeam, or others for the same deliverables? If yes, list the program, amount, status, and how the scope differs from this proposal.
  • Beyond the three pilots (electoral, agriculture, mining), what concrete adoption pathway or paying customer pipeline do you have?
  • Which existing oracle or DID projects (e.g. Chainlink, KILT, Litentry, etc.) address similar problems? Why is a new network necessary?
  • What revenue or token-economic model will keep the verifier network alive once grant funding ends?

Answering these questions will help reviewers gauge both alignment with W3F’s funding guidelines and the real-world viability of the project.
Thanks in advance for the clarifications!

@diogo-w3f diogo-w3f self-assigned this Sep 25, 2025
@semuelle semuelle added the changes requested The team needs to clarify a few things first. label Oct 1, 2025
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semuelle commented Oct 1, 2025

Pinging @SaulChoque. Please also follow the steps to sign the CLA as described above.

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@SaulChoque please note that the grants guidelines have recently changed
. It would be helpful if you could provide information showing how your project fits what we’re looking for, and how it avoids the categories listed under What Doesn’t Fit Our Program.

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