Bankless Africa
Project Champion: @thinkDecade
Squad: @kutubu @Abidemi @Crossvic @MissPurple @Bintu @Salvi @Paulito @LordRanchoatos1813 & more😅
Purpose: Public good
Affiliation: Writers Guild, education department
Authors; Editors: @thinkDecade , @Abidemi @kutubu
Date created: 30-03-2023
Date posted: 7-04-2023
Funds requested: 2,097,500 BANK
Project wallet(s): 0xCA27C5813c314586434512ab139Cad96F6b71750
Discord server: Discord
PROJECT TEASER
An impact/media DAO enabling Africans to discover decentralized money and blockchain technology while driving capacity building and economic empowerment.
SUMMARY
Bankless Africa continues to grow as the go-to education and information source for many everyday Africans on all things crypto and web3. Truly embodying the bankless mission and vision. Season 7 was a parabolic season for Bankless Africa, we grew exponentially.
RETROSPECTIVE
Bankless Africa Podcast
- The Bankless Africa podcast experienced parabolic growth, especially in our downloads.
- We tripled our download target in s7. We initially targeted 6,500 All time downloads and ended the season with over 21,000 all-time downloads.
- We developed Sponsorship packages for the podcast
- We also prepared a new Pitch deck
https://www.canva.com/design/DAFZ4g2WyRM/kQjLyhMxn8zfnwGnwo15Xg/view?utm_content=DAFZ4g2WyRM&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=publishsharelink
- We have 5 sponsorship leads we are chasing
Pidgin Parlour Crypto Podcast
- We have picked steam. We targeted 1,500 All time downloads and completed the season with 3,000 plus downloads.
- We also expanded our reach with LinkedIn and Facebook.
Newsletter & Publication
- The Bankless Africa newsletter was relaunched in February
- 7 issues shipped
- Subs are growing steadily and currently at 345
- It currently has an open rate of 43%
- We launched the Bankless Africa mirror publication - BlocScribe.
Community and tokenization
- The Bankless Africa NFT has progressed into the concept stage.
- We launched a series of marketing campaigns
- We also represented the DAO in various events across Africa - especially during Vitalik and Reps from ethereum visits in Africa.
- Official partnership with Bankless Academy as we have integrated the site and helping to drive users to take the courses
SEASONAL KPI
We will continue building Bankless Africa into the ideal crypto education and information hub for the everyday African while inspiring a new breed of cryptonatives to add value to the Web3 space. We also aim to improve our content strategies to optimize for high-impact and potential revenue generation.
KPIs for season 8👇🏾
Bankless Africa Podcast
Downloads → 30,000
Episodes → 20
sponsorship → atleast 1
Pidgin Parlour Crypto podcast
Downlaods → 5,000
Episodes → 10
Newsletter
Issues → 15
Subs → 1000
NFT
finalize concept
Commission Artwork
FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS
In season 7, Bankless Africa clawed back 10% of net inflow to the DAO treasury. Parcel | PaymentOS for Contributor Economy
Here is our season 8 budget breakdown.
Bankless Africa Podcast
| Role/Work | Week | Total -15 weeks |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting | 12000 | 180000 |
| Editing | 12000 | 180000 |
| marketing/publicity | 10000 | 150000 |
| Production | 10000 | 150000 |
| Tools/softwares | 50000 | |
| Podcast ops | 4000 | 60000 |
| Writing | 5000 | 75000 |
| Research | 3000 | 45000 |
| Design & Graphics | 3000 | 45000 |
| Total | 935,000 |
Pidgin Parlour Crypto Podcast
| Role/Work | Week | Total -15 weeks |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting | 4000 | 60000 |
| Editing | 5000 | 75000 |
| marketing/publicity | 3000 | 45000 |
| Production | 5000 | 75000 |
| Tools/software | 30000 | |
| Ops | 3000 | 45000 |
| Writing/Translation | 3000 | 45000 |
| Research | 2000 | 30000 |
| Design & Graphics | 2000 | 30000 |
| Total | 435000 |
Newsletter & Publication
Writers Pod Coordinator - Responsible for coordination and operations with Bankless Africa’s mirror publication as well as the pod.
- 4000 Bank x 15 = 60000
Publisher: Responsible for coordination and curation of an issue
- 3000 Bank x 15 = 45000
Editorial writer: Responsible for feature headline piece
- 2500 Bank x 15 = 37,500
Design (Header)
- 3000 Bank x15 = 45000
Copy editor
- 3000 Bank x 15 = 45000
Total = 232,500
Operations & Community
| Role | week | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|
| Project Coordinator | 7000 | 105000 |
| Community/Talent management | 7000 | 105000 |
| Treasurer | 2000 | 30000 |
| Bounty Pool | 150000 | |
| Marketing Coordination | 7000 | 105000 |
| Total | 495,000 |
Budget Summary
Bankless Africa podcast = 800,000
Pidgin Parlour Crypto Podcast = 435,000
Newsletter & Publication = 232,500
Operations & Community = 495000
Seasonal Total = 2,097,500
COMMITMENTS
→ 10% of revenue generated will be used to add value to the DAO
→ 10% of tokens/NFTs sales will be used to add value to BanklessDAO - not determined yet. Some thoughts might be token buybacks or direct eth transfer to treasury via sales, etc.
BRANDING
We continue to align strongly with the mission and vision of bDAO. We continue to use the Bankless brand in our various projects and initiatives.
FURTHER PROJECT CHANNELS
Discord: Discord
Notion: Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
Commonwealth: Commonwealth
Twitter - https://twitter.com/Bankless_Africa
Linktree - banklessafrica | Twitter, Instagram, TikTok | Linktree
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