Type.fund
TypeFund is a typography foundry DAO powered by the FVM. Much like music, the typography business is concentrated in a few foundries that take most of the profit. TypeFund aims to be a community-owned foundry, where type designers are able to access fairer distribution channels.
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About
TypeFund is a DataDAO for typography/type designers and a CDN for fonts. On TypeFund, type designers can: - Join the DAO by pledging a new typography design. Fonts become an ERC1155 token on the FVM chain - Govern the DAO and curate the DAO’s font offering - Commercialize their font designs in a variety of licensing models - Decide how the profit from font sales should be divided between DAO and designers - Host font files on the FVM chain - Serve fonts to customer websites on-demand
How it's made
We were able to build a few components of TypeFund that together help us create a proof of concept: - We created a licensing smart contract that enables anyone to purchase a font design on our website, pay with crypto and download a font. To do so, we used Medusa to encrypt and unencrypt files on IPFS. Our current solution lets users download a file from IPFS once the transaction is successful. However, in the future, we hope to build a more complex mechanism to track the usage of a font from websites to design more complex licensing models. - We also created a Submit Font experience that lets font designers upload their designs as DAO proposals. Then, DAO members are able to vote on accepting a new font design and with that a new member of the DAO. - We were able to create a simple CDN (Content Delivery Network) for fonts that let websites call fonts hosted on IPFS. - Finally, we created a dapp front end that combines all the functions explained above. - Our project is deployed on the FVM chain and stores files on IPFS. It also uses Lighthouse to store files perpetually