The problem Progress Pool solves

Most hackathon projects die. Progress Pool is a new funding mechanism that rewards those pursuing their projects beyond the hackathon weekend.

Example:

• Organizers allocate a percentage of hackathon bounties (e.g., 10%) to a future pool
• After 90 days, participants submit proposals demonstrating project progress
• Evidence includes GitHub commits, Twitter marketing, etc.
• 30-day community voting period with tokens for all participants (hackers, speakers, organizers, sponsors)
• Approved proposals receive an equal percentage of the future pool
• Applicable beyond hackathons: grant programs, startup accelerators, open-source funding

We talked to the Cohera team, who also hack here at ETHPrague, and we got an idea to integreate our protocols to promote sustainable funding and development.
|https://devfolio.co/projects/cohere-83ac

Challenges we ran into

Deployment on some chains was buggy at times. Hosting on NEAR BOS was a new experience and we needed to adjust our normal workflow quite a lot.