PageDAO: Privacy for Books in EVM onchain environments

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PageDAO

Project Description

Private Books (content NFTs) using Secret Network for EVM environments.

We intend to create a dAPP that will enable a user to own published content assets and transact with those assets on public EVM-based blockchains using Secret Network. In particular, our use-case is books and shorter length content NFTs.

We have been watching Secret Network for years at this point and have a lot of use cases in mind, of which this is only the first.

Problem / Solution
People interacting in the Ethereum ecosystem have poor access to quality publishing tools, and little or no privacy in traditional content-oriented ecosystems. PageDAO is building a variety of projects intended to make it easier than ever to add literary content to public blockchains, and Secret Network can supply the encryption/anonymity to empower people to feel safe and comfortable collecting literature onchain.

Detailed product description
PageDAO will offer a few different products that will, together, constitute a powerful onchain literature application. As a way to bring offchain works into the onchain environment, (d)ISBN is a product that will open the way to the literature that exists so that it can be represented onchain. Readme Books already enables a user to mint an open book for the world to read as a tradeable asset on the Polygon blockchain, and a future offering of this product will empower users to own their own contract as they mint to the blockchain of their choice in the EVM domain. PageDAO Membership NFTs already control access to core PageDAO functions such as Readme Books and Governance, and this functionality can be expanded as development progresses. Finally, PageDAO is rebuilding its website to better represent the brand and offer users access to more information in a more structured way.

Go-to-Market plan
PageDAO’s value proposition is to use the Secret Network technology to offer real value to existing users who are already seeking unlockable books onchain, which showcases the unique Secret Network NFT properties. Privacy-first book purchasing helped Amazon build the internet in the Web1 era, Secret Network can empower privacy-first book purchasing to lead the Cosmos ecosystem to a new height of user adoption in the Web3 era.

Value capture for Secret Network ecosystem
Secret Network will capture transactions involving privacy across the PageDAO application footprint, which is poised to have a historic 2024. Every mint and trade involving an asset created behind the veil of Secret Network’s privacy tools will directly contribute a transaction fee to the Secret Network ecosystem.

Team members

• T. Dylan Daniel
• Robert Pollock
• Rionna Morgan
• Greg R. Fishbone

Team Website

• https://pagedao.org/

Team's experience

T. Dylan Daniel - is a writer with a background in philosophy, science, and information technology. He is a co-founder of the PageDAO and author of half a dozen books, including a peer reviewed philosophy text. Dylan has been working on Web3 publishing solutions since being onboarded to the Ethereum blockchain by the Cent community in early 2020, and published his first book to Ethereum in January 2021.

Robert Pollock - majored in computer engineering at NYU, has been in Web3 since 2020, and has over a decade of experience doing development work on a variety of projects. Robbie is a co-founder of the PageDAO and has done extensive work to support members of the Web3 art community including SphericalArt, Louis C. Rhymes, and others. Robbie was the architect of Readme Books as well as The Mask of Ganymede and a variety of other experimental publishing solutions using Web3 and Solidity solutions. Robbie’s training and skills include the following: Front-End Development, Blockchain, Project Management, Budgeting, JavaScript, New Business Development, Start-ups, Solidity, Smart Contracts, React.js, Node.js, Discord API, and Software Development.

Rionna Morgan - is an attorney with experience in the federal financial sector, contract law, and civil liberties. She is the founder and CEO of Whitney Morgan Media a traditional/Web3 publishing house crossover. Rionna is a best-selling, award-winning author who has been published on multiple platforms in the Web3 space. She is a romantic suspense novelist with Simon & Schuster and a recent speaker at NFT.NYC. Besides being Editor-in-Chief of Vagobond Magazine (a Web3 Lifestyle Magazine), she is also the author and founder of The 7 Love Stories literary nft collaboration collection. Her work has appeared world-wide from local book signings and appearances to a literary nft art show in Paris.

Greg R. Fishbone - is an attorney with governmental and corporate experience, and founder of a Web3 start-up in the NFT publishing and marketplace industries. Skilled in all aspects of contract drafting, review, and negotiation. Expert in discovery protocols, communications, policy review, project management, and intellectual property law. Proficient with technologies including blockchain, cryptocurrencies, website development, SEO, and Internet security issues.

We've been a team for 3 years, and received funding from Polygon as well as a private investor to build Readme Books. Now, heading into the next bull market, we are more excited about building infrastructure for books onto public blockchains than ever.

Team Code Repos

https://github.com/pagedao

Team LinkedIn Profiles

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylan-daniel-abb61173/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-pollock-6042261b2/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rionnamorgan/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfishbone/

Overview:

Every author, reader, and publisher using PageDAO’s platform will have a Secret Network smart contract account and benefit from Secret Network’s PaaS. Some durations listed in each section overlap.

Summary:

The total grant funding request is $20,000. At startup, 15% or $3,000 will be transferred to initialize the relationship. The remaining 85% of grant funds will be distributed after completion of two technical milestones, first launching the mainnet MVP application and second driving users to that application, in the amounts of $7,500 and $9,500.

All sums are acceptable in $SCRT tokens sent to the PageDAO Treasury on Osmosis.

PageDAO Treasury Address:
osmo1a40j922z0kwqhw2nn0nx66ycyk88vyzcs73fyjrd092cjgyvyjksrd8dp7

Signing Bonus: $3,000

GOAL 1: Buildout website to support minter/user accounts/smart contract (weeks 0 - 6) $7,500

Milestone	Notes	Est. Duration	Status
Create new react website + Strapi CMS for author profiles	Deployment on Akash with funds from DAO Treasury	2 weeks	In progress
User login with Dynamic.xyz and author profile building in CMS		2 weeks	In progress
Use Secret PaaS to call Fiftywei contract and save encryption key for IPFS data (using account pubkey/privkey from Dynamic)	1st - implement a proof of concept minting tool… 2nd - integrate with React/Strapi Frontend	3 weeks	Not started
Onboard 12 web3-native authors to the platform	Allow authors to “attest” to their created contracts	3 weeks	Not started

Notes: many web3 authors have issued assets on multiple chains. Maintaining provenance across chains increases trust and asset value. Future-proofing assets by removing the requirement of a third-party hosting website is a critical concept in our architecture. Risk areas to mitigate include RPC URL transience, IPFS pinning longevity, and web hosting longevity/uptime.

GOAL 2: Implement transactions involving Secret Network assets

(weeks 6 - 12) $9,500

Milestone	Notes	Est. Duration	Status
Allow creation of Secret Network Native assets - target: 12 new original literary assets & 500 transactions	Goal: get authors to submit authentic, original work using the platform.	4 weeks	Not started
Implement rudimentary lending and gifting	Using secret view capabilities	3 weeks	Not started
Implement incentives for actions	Actions include referral and subsequent quest fulfillment: profile creation, purchase, gifting, lending	2 weeks	Not started
Collect and process user feedback	Use on-chain attestation and rewards for feedback	2 weeks	Not started

Notes: Our outreach will include prominent Web3 authors and their feedback will be critical to tuning the UX flows, and discovering features

Additional Goals & Milestones

Milestone	Notes	Est. Duration	Status
Verify system functionality using a target of 500 transactions including minting, sales, and lending	500 transactions reflects 12 authors minting and subsequent user actions.	3 weeks	Not started
Create rudimentary user dashboard for insights with sharable achievements	Dashboard includes stats on page views, asset views, comments, revenue, shares, and referral performance	2 weeks	Not started
Onboarding 100 DAO members	In addition to users of the platform, we will incentivize users of the platform to participate in governance	4 weeks	Not started

Notes: Our goal is not to prevent secondary market trading of assets on their native/home chains. The goal is to entice users on those chains to read and interact with the content using our platform and Secret Network PaaS features.