Graphic novel NFT

[GENERAL] Name and surname of main applicant

Shlomo Cohen

[GENERAL] Email address of main applicant

shlomo@shlomocohen.com

Additional applicants

Benjamin Ben Zvi

[GENERAL] Please specify how many months you expect your project to last (from 2-12 months)

8

[GENERAL] Please indicate if your proposal has been auto-translated into English from another language.

No

[GENERAL] Does your project have any dependencies on other organizations, technical or otherwise?

No

[GENERAL] If YES, please describe what the dependency is and why you believe it is essential for your project’s delivery. If NO, please write “No dependencies.”

No dependencies

[GENERAL] Will your project’s output/s be fully open source?

Yes

[GENERAL] If NO, please describe which outputs are not going to be open source. If YES, please write “Project will be fully open source.”

Project will be fully open source

[METADATA] Category of proposal

NFTs

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

Shlomo Cohen is a Caricature artist, he has already a lot of experience in drawing and creating art. 

Nevertheless, we fill that the awareness about climate issues and the trash in the oceans is not really impactful enough. Through this project, we want to try to incentivize people to understand more the subject and the impact pollution has.

Shlomo Cohen already wrote a book called “Sharkids”, Here is the link of the annex of the book : 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/19tM3IvorD9IaU1weWvoa1Nz1hLNgl92w/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112280552193774135074&rtpof=true&sd=true

I invite you to read that in order to get an overview of what the book is. The book is really interesting since through the story, you grow some awareness about pollution and how our oceans are getting dirtier.

Shlomo wants to create an impact in people’s minds through his Graphic Novel bring some awareness. 

This Graphic Novel will be poster on Book.io and will be shared through different media for the people to be able to read it. 

The benefits that we get from this book would go to NGOs that focus on cleaning the oceans, this is very important for us and we believe that we can really have an impact.

[IMPACT] How does your proposed solution address the challenge and what benefits will this bring to the Cardano ecosystem?

For this project, we will use book.io, that uses NMKR as an NFT platform. By doing this project, we will support NMKR and show that there can be different tools to use NMKR. In this case, we can do NFT Books, which can be really interesting and be impactful for a different public.

Moreover, we can show that we can make an impact on climate thanks to NFTs.

[IMPACT] How do you intend to measure the success of your project?

The success of the project will be measured by the number of readers we have to our graphic novel as well as the feedback we get from it.

[IMPACT] Please describe your plans to share the outputs and results of your project?

The graphic novel will be available on Book.io and all the benefits we get from it will go to NGOs that are related to water cleansing.

We will also share the written version for the people that are interested

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability?

Shlomo is a really great artist that is also really interested in the Blockchain world. He actually got 2 proposals funded in fund 8 about his art. 

Benjamin is a young student that has already participated in fund 8 and 9, he is really learning a lot about Blockchain and studies International Business, so has basic knowledge in all business related areas.

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] What are the main goals for the project and how will you validate if your approach is feasible?

The main goal for this project is to create awareness, to make people understand, through art, that the situation we have here is really negative, and if all of us give at least a slight effort, we are sure that the impact will be great in the end. So we just want to motivate people through art and Blockchain.

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed breakdown of your project’s milestones and each of the main tasks or activities to reach the milestone plus the expected timeline for the delivery.

It will take around 6 months to write the graphic novel

During this time, Benjamin will start doing some marketing and advertising as well as some R&D for some NGO’s.

Further Marketing and advertising will be done when the book is published, this implies : 

• Talking about it on Catalyst Townhalls
• Informing the community on several telegram groups
• Collaborate with C4C ?

The project Should last around 7 -8 months according to how much time the novel takes to be written.

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] Please describe the deliverables, outputs and intended outcomes of each milestone.

The main deliverable will be the Graphic Novel posted on Book.io

We will also share all the info about the number of readers, how much NGO’s we have contacted, how much money we gathered for them. This info will be shared on the Monthly report

[RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown of the proposed work and resources.

Marketing and advertising : 20h x 115 ADA = 2300 ADA

Creating the novel (Team of 3) = 233000

Keep track of the sales = 10h x 115 ADA = 1150 ADA

Share the benefits from the NFT to an NGO (including R&D on the NGO)= 20h x 115 ADA = 2300 ADA

Total : 238750 ADA

[RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] How does the cost of the project represent value for money for the Cardano ecosystem?

This project might really create an impact as well as promote art thanks to Blockchain. We think that contacting an NGO will also incentivize them to start getting interested into Blockchain and to use it as a tool to improve their projects. 

Moreover, we would be using some tools to promote NFTs and NMKR which for us is a really important aspect of the Cardano Ecosystem.

[IMPORTANT NOTE] The Applicant agreed to Fund10 rules and also that data in the Submission Form and other data provided by the project team during the course of the project will be publicly available.

I Accept