PapaBase

PapaBase

Making public goods donations accessible to everyone through crypto and fiat. Donate, receive an NFT, and access a token-gated chat with the project builders and donors to receive automated updates.

PapaBase

PapaBase

Making public goods donations accessible to everyone through crypto and fiat. Donate, receive an NFT, and access a token-gated chat with the project builders and donors to receive automated updates.

The problem PapaBase solves

PapaBase is a crowdfunding platform dedicated to support builders making and maintaining public goods and open source projects.
Builders and devs contributing to open source projects struggle with receiving donations to support their work. The existing few platforms do not allow donations by fiat but only by crypto, furthermore making it less accessible for non-crypto users.
PapaBase uses USDC as the default receiving token for any campaign. However, people can donate in different tokens and the amount is automatically converted into USDC or they can easily make an on-ramp using Coinbase Pay.

In addition, current platforms do not give tools for donors to stay up to date on the project or be able to talk to the builder(s). PapaBase donors access a token-gated chat (XMTP) with the project builders being able to stay up to date with the project with both automated and manual updates.

Challenges we ran into

We didn't find any particular bug or hurdle while developing PapaBase. Everything was quite smooth other than the "standard" hackathons problems when using new technologies.
The only thing is that too often projects are deployed on different chains and different testnets. This make very very difficult to test apps on testnet and we needed to go on mainnet spending real money. So please projects talk to each other to support all the main testnets.

Tracks Applied (8)

Impact & Public Goods

PapaBase wants to make public goods donations accessible to everyone through crypto and fiat. There are too few apps/pro...Read More

Simplify DeFi with 0x APIs

0x APIs make our application flow smoother by allowing us to offer a simplified UX and on-ramp experience: PapaBase has ...Read More

0x

Connect the world with Chainlink

Chainlink makes our application powerful by allowing us to offer recurring donations in PapaBase. We leverage Chainlink ...Read More

Chainlink

Build on Account Abstraction

Base AA makes our application streamlined by allowing us to offer a signless and gasless experience for users. We use Pr...Read More

Base

Public Goods Funding Platform

PapaBase is a public goods funding platform and it's a public good itself. Receiving donations for public goods should b...Read More

Base

Best use of QuickNode's QuickAlerts

Quicknode makes our application complete by allowing us to offer real-time notifications to donors in PapaBase. We use Q...Read More

QuickNode

Build a Token Gated Group Chat using XMTP + Airstack

XMTP and Airstack make our application unique by allowing us to connect donors and builders of public goods projects int...Read More

XMTP

web3 Notifications Alerts for XMTP Users

We used notification alerts to notify donors on a previously created token-gated group chat. We integrated XMTP with Qui...Read More

XMTP

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