Funded Projects
Funded Projects#
These projects have received funding through the HUMAN Grants Program. Each project contributes to the growth and adoption of HUMAN Protocol across different industries such as data annotation, decentralized identity, liquidity automation, and more.
Project List#
Below you can explore all funded projects. Click each one to expand details.
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Ramblist#
🚨 Decentralized News Platform
Grant: $50,000View details
Ramblist was founded by Jay Zalowitz and his co-founder Aly to address the problems of centralized news platforms with weak fact-checking.
It is a decentralized newsroom where:
- Articles are crowdsourced from contributors
- Content is vetted by algorithms and third parties
- Journalists, editors, and other workers are paid based on their contribution
HUMAN Protocol awarded a $50k grant to:
- Integrate the work-request API to power news request calls
- Support a settlement mechanism for the platform
- Provide a float to reward the first wave of contributors
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VeritaTrust#
⭐ Decentralized Product Reviews
Grant: $50,000View details
VeritaTrust was founded by Brahim Ben Helal, who previously helped grow Trustpilot from early startup to IPO and saw how blockchain could transform online reviews.
VeritaTrust aims to:
- Build a fully transparent, decentralized customer feedback and review system
- Let customers own their reviews and be rewarded with tokens
HUMAN Protocol funding is used to:
- Integrate HUMAN into VeritaTrust’s tech stack
- Use the Job Launcher to request reviews
- Reward contributors in HMT for verified reviews
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DataUnion#
📊 Collaborative Dataset Creation
Grant: $50,000View details
DataUnion, founded by Mark and Robin, is a DataUnion-as-a-Service platform designed to build a decentralized, democratized data ecosystem.
They provide infrastructure that:
- Lets organizations, companies, and individuals form DataUnions
- Shares the value of created datasets across all participants
DataUnion creates datasets from thousands of contributions, which requires efficient quality control.
The HUMAN grant funds:- The design of a Reputation Oracle System
- Tracking of contributor quality over time
- Automated QA for large collaborative datasets
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Blockchain Helix#
🛡️ Decentralized Identity Infrastructure
Grant: $50,000View details
Blockchain Helix focuses on innovation and sustainability, offering a digital identity solution called helix id for individuals and companies.
helix id:
- Gives users control over their digital identity
- Provides 1-click registration
- Stores data encrypted and protected by blockchain
HUMAN Protocol awarded a $50k grant to:
- Develop an alternate version of the HUMAN App
- Include a KYC solution
- Add a job marketplace powered by HUMAN infrastructure
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Audino#
🎙️ Audio Annotation Tool
Grant: $25,000View details
Audino is an open-source audio annotation tool created by researchers at IIIT-Delhi who work on multimedia systems for social impact.
The team is part of the MIDAS group, an AI/ML research group that built a chatbot to help ASHAs (community health workers) access important information quickly.
This project aims to:
- Facilitate translation of queries between Hindi and English
- Potentially build a comprehensive language database of India’s regional languages
HUMAN Protocol provided an initial $25k grant to:
- Integrate audio recording tasks into the HUMAN App
- Collect a usable audio dataset in the first phase
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Hummingbot – "Humming Human"#
📈 Liquidity & Market-Making Automation
Grant: $50,000View details
Hummingbot is open-source software for building market-making and arbitrage bots that run across centralized and decentralized exchanges.
HUMAN Protocol funded the “Humming Human” project with a $50k grant to:
- Create on-chain smart contracts for reward distribution
- Build an off-chain recording oracle layer
- Enable decentralized reward pools so anyone can earn tokens for providing volume and/or liquidity to participating platforms
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Me Protocol#
🎁 Universal Loyalty Layer (Web3)
Grant: $36,100View details
Me Protocol is a blockchain protocol for the first decentralized multi-vendor loyalty ecosystem, focused on brands operating in the Web3 space.
It allows users to:
- Earn rewards for brand-related bounty completions
- Exchange loyalty rewards from different brands
HUMAN funding supports:
- A modified version of the HUMAN Job Launcher for brand bounty creation
- Autonomous creation of decentralized challenges and bounties
- Automated payouts to open more earning opportunities
- Integration of HUMAN Protocol so that HMT rewards can be exchanged for other loyalty tokens within Me Protocol’s marketplace
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Signa X#
🔤 3D Asset Creation & Web3 Gaming Economy
Grant: $25,000View details
Signa X offers a 3D asset creation platform for the metaverse and gaming, working with gaming guilds to build characters, environments, weapons, power-ups, and more.
In addition, Signa X:
- Provides minting and leasing capabilities for gaming projects
- Helps support web3 economies around in-game assets
Through the HUMAN grant, the project aims to:
- Embed Signa X + HUMAN Job Launcher as a feature for game developers
- Let developers design challenges and tasks with HUMAN-powered payouts
- Use Recording and Reputation Oracles to track and reward work
Signa X also plans to:
- Incorporate Proof of Humanity into signup flows for game developers and 3D creators
- Use it for gamer registration as well
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What’s Cookin’#
🍽️ Worker Credentials & Reputation API
Grant: $25,000View details
What’s Cookin’ is building an API endpoint for worker credentials and reputation.
The project will:
- Verify and import existing worker credentials from sources like GitHub
- Sign and store those credentials on decentralized storage
- Provide them to workers as NFTs
- Offer aggregated results that can be queried by other systems
This API can be integrated into:
- Systems that discover new workers
- Tools that evaluate worker skills and history before hiring or assigning tasks