Grant Proposal: The Graph India Community (old)

Proposal Overview

Hello Graph Team, we would like to propose an idea to grow The Graph in the thriving Indian Community.

Since November 2021, there has been a steady rise in crypto ownership in India, jumping from 14.7% to 30% in April 2022. Many people are investing in popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Indian developers are actively involved in the crypto space, working on open-source blockchain protocols like Ethereum and contributing to developing decentralized applications.

Indian Developers are also participating in blockchain and cryptocurrency-focused hackathons in India, which offer opportunities for developers to collaborate and develop innovative blockchain-based solutions. Moreover, there is also a growing interest in DeFi applications and blockchain-focused hackathons in India. Despite concerns about regulation and potential risks, the Indian crypto community continues to grow and innovate.

With The Graph, developers in India can leverage a powerful indexing technology to build their decentralized applications and query networks with ease. By establishing a strong Indian community around The Graph, we can facilitate the exchange of knowledge and support, and drive the development of a thriving web3 ecosystem in India. Moreover, the tools and resources of The Graph can empower Indian developers to bring their ideas to life and contribute to the growth and evolution of the decentralized web.

The Graph India Guild Vision

Educate: The objective is to raise awareness among developers about The Graph indexing protocol, with the aim of making it simpler for them to build scalable open APIs using the platform’s tools and resources.

Onboard: Our vision is to extend the reach of The Graph to the Indian developer community and increase awareness of the protocol they offer. This will enable developers to leverage The Graph’s powerful tools to build APIs, ultimately fostering the growth and development of the decentralized web in India.

Development: Our mission is to inspire Indian developers to use The Graph’s powerful tools to build scalable open APIs and drive the growth of the decentralized web in India. We aim to empower developers to unleash their creativity and contribute to a thriving web3 ecosystem in India by leveraging The Graph’s indexing protocol.

What do we aim to do?
Our plan is to introduce The Graph to the Indian developer community, web3 influencers, and mass audience, in order to educate and increase awareness about the platform’s powerful indexing protocol. As India has one of the highest rates of crypto adoption and development of decentralized APIs, we see enormous potential for organic growth in the country. Our goal is to drive growth and expansion of The Graph ecosystem in India, by reaching out to the large Indian crypto community through new initiatives in web3, DeFi, NFTs, Dapps, and other areas. By bringing more users from India into The Graph ecosystem, we can contribute to the development of a thriving web3 ecosystem in the country.

Are you applying as a team or individual?:
Team

  1. Hardeep Kaur
  2. Shubham Maheshwari
  3. Ayesha Firdous
  4. Rohit Dubey

What type of grant are you pursuing?:
Long-term (continuous)

Please select the category your project best fits into:
Regional Community & Event Organizer

Have you received funding from somewhere else?:
No

Funding Asked :
4000 USD

Proposal Ask

We have listed the plan for the next 3 months, we would like to take out slow in establishing The Graph in Indian Community. Further, we’ll be driving initiatives to move at in faster pace, and hoping to create more awareness of The Graph in the Indian community through our vision mandate - Education, Experiment, and Onboarding.

The average expense for DAO Program:

1. Translations Translations into regional languages $400.00
2. Twitter $500 x 2 active members on Twitter $1000
3. Offline Events $600 x 1 $600.00
4. Online Events $100 x 6 $600.00
5. Content Marketing $500 x 2 $1000
6. Telegram Community $400 x 1 $400
7 Total Funding Request $4000

Metrics for success

April
Aiming to engage the community on Twitter and Telegram, and targeting to onboard 200-500 followers on both social handles.
Start sharing insights about the project in the regional language.
Host online events like AMAs, Twitter Space, Meme contests, and quizzes.
Host offline events with 200+ developers.
Start Content Marketing through articles that will educate the community about project offerings.
Create YouTube videos on The Graph API & Dapps.

May
Aiming to engage the community on Twitter and Telegram, and targeting to onboard 500-1000 followers on both social handles.
Start sharing insights about the project in the regional language.
Host online events like AMAs, Twitter Space, Meme contests, and quizzes.
Start Content Marketing through articles that will educate the community about project offerings.
Create YouTube videos on The Graph API & Dapps.

June
Aiming to engage the community on Twitter and Telegram, and targeting to onboard 1000-3000 followers on both social handles.
Start sharing insights about the project in the regional language.
Host online events like AMAs, Twitter Space, Meme contests, and quizzes.
Start Content Marketing through articles that will educate the community about project offerings.

Here providing a glimpse of offline and online events we organized for other projects.

Offline Events





Online Events
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  • If you think, the vision we have proposed to build The Graph community in India and the ask for the same is appropriate as per task then kindly vote for our proposal.
  • YES
  • NO

0 voters

Thank you for submitting your proposal. Unfortunately, I suppose it was not done by our usual process and by using the form here: ClickUp?

If that is the case, please re-submit the application via the link above, which would allow the DAO to proceed with the review process and so your application will be more visible for our community within this Forum space.

Thank you :slight_smile:

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I am unable to access the form, kindly share me direct from the link if possible.

Sorry, try the general one for all the types of grants, not only for the community grants - The Graph: Grants Application

Just submitted the form, Whats the next step

Once you submit the form, it automatically get published on the forum in the community grants category. And after that the process of off-chain voting and questions from the DAO and community ‘starts.

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