Inspiration
Qualified business entities receive grants from the government. While the government can promise that they're funding certain programs a certain amount of money, that is just the promise. A blockchain-enabled platform where the grantor has to lock in the money when they create a funding program ensures promises will be fulfilled. With the traceable transactions, we also gain insight into where the money goes after the business entities have been funded.
What it does
Grantors can post funding opportunities. Applicants can sign up and apply. The legal process is expected to happen off-chain. Once an applicant is approved, the money is transferred to the applicant's project and the funding opportunity is closed.
How we built it
Built on Rinkeby Testnet. Used NextJS for the high-performance web page, Solidity to build smart contracts, Truffle to test and deploy smart contracts, Chainlink Price Feed to get the conversion rate, The Graph to listen to events and index data, Apollo Client to query subgraph data.
Challenges we ran into
A lot. Had to figure out how each technology works given little experience working with them prior to the hackathon.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
First hackathon and little experience with blockchain development so it's not much.
What we learned
How to build a dapp.
What's next for GovTrack
UI/UX could be improved.
Built With
- graphprotocol
- graphql
- nextjs
- react
- solidity
- thegraph
- truffle
- typescript
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