Defining statements
Mission
Onboarding next billion to Ethereum, one city at a time.
Vision
One billion people improve their communities through Ethereum
Values
Sustainability, community, innovation, and collaboration
Onboarding next billion to Ethereum, one city at a time.
One billion people improve their communities through Ethereum
Sustainability, community, innovation, and collaboration
Muqa started as an idea to try running Quadratic funding campaign for public goods in City of Split, Croatia. The idea was first approved by Ivica Puljak, major of Split, and then incubated by Funding the Commons. We continued working on the project, mostly focusing on research, design and communication with key city officials. Project was then selected by Ethereum Foundation to be included in the Next Billion Fellowship program in 2024.
We are now in process of building our app for the pilot in City of Split. The first campaign will run in Q4 of 2024. You can track our progress in our blog, newsletter and github.
Although we started as project focused on trying out QF in real life, and generally public goods funding, our plans for future have evolved beyond that. In our customer research we have realised that there are various other ways cities and citizens could use Ethereum for their benefit. There are numerous fully functional and mature Ethereum protocols and applications which could be already be useful to cities.
This is why, our plan has shifted to a broader purpose of onboarding cities to Ethereum. We are building an application that will make it easy for cities to utilise Ethereum in different ways. We are starting with public goods funding, continuing with digital democracy and citizen participation and exploring possibilities of introducing solutions for identity, ownership, auctions, tenders, and other.
