Proponent:

Date: March 2023

Requested DOT: 60,480 DOT, representing $396,047, EMA-7 DOT (6.12$/DOT) using Subscan on the day of submission

Short description: Make ****supporting creative work and community contributions as simple as they should be: for Polkadot & Kusama ecosystem (first) and for the digital creative market as a whole. We build infrastructure & tools to streamline community support for verified creators and open-source developers.

Context Statement

Vision

Anagolay is on a mission to shift the power from centralized closed systems to individual creators by combining cutting-edge web3 tech with the creative forces of the community. Our goal is to empower and support independent content creators and open-source developers.

With Anagolay, any verified online identity, like a web (sub)domain, a social media account (Twitter, YouTube, GitHub, etc.), or any Mastodon federated identity, can be used to send and receive funds: as community contributions to support a verified creator or their particular project (a repository or even a specific post).

We start with bringing tip-as-you-go functionality to the ecosystem, making supporting quality work much easier: both from a personal account or by suggesting a tip from the Treasury. By doing so, we are creating additional incentives to contribute to the Polkadot community growth: for the existing members and for all the creators & builders in the digital space. From the get-go, in the current implementation, the tips can be sent in IDI (our native token). Eventually, our goal is to enable tips & recurring contributions in any DotSama token (and even in fiat, through DotSama), scale Anagolay solution, and streamline creative workflow from publishing to monetization for all independent creators.

Team’s background

Throughout 2022 and early 2023, the Anagolay team has been building the foundation to make our vision possible, including, most recently: