https://docs.juicebox.money/blog/jb-for-open-source-software/
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Open source software plays a crucial part in the digital economy, in the same way that highways and communication systems play a role in our cities. With the emergence of blockchain, developers can now turn to funding their software onchain, as it allows builders to raise funds permissionlessly, transparently and make use of tokens. In this article we’re going to focus on how you can use Juicebox to fund your open-source software project.
You can follow along in this article, or a video by Matthew on the JBDAO YouTube:
Juicebox is an open-source protocol that is permissionless, community-owned, and built on the Ethereum blockchain. Juicebox is built by hackers, for hackers, making it a great launchpad for developers to take their projects to the next level. Let’s dive into some examples of projects using Juicebox to fund open-source software.
Planet is an open-source tool built by Xin, aka Livid, who previously built V2EX.com which is a popular community for developers in China. Planet lets you build decentralized websites using IPFS and ENS, so instead of hosting your website on a centralized server, Planet uses IPFS for peer-to-peer content distribution and lets you use an ENS address that you own or control as the URL. Planet has raised nearly 7 ETH on Juicebox, worth over 12.5 thousand dollars at the time of recording.
Planet logo and preview of blog post on mac OS app
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To learn more about how the Planet got started, listen to episode 25 of The Juicecast: Building decentralized websites using IPFS and ENS with Xin (Livid) from Planet
Etherfunk is a tool that lets you interact with any contract on the Ethereum blockchain. Simply enter a contract address and Etherfunk makes it easy to interact with its read and write functions. You can also generate links with pre-filled values to easily share contract interactions in a predefined way.
View on the same contract on Etherscan (left) and Etherfunk (right)
Etherfunk was developed by Aeolian, one of the frontend devs at PeelDAO who manages the juicebox.money frontend. In order to make Etherfunk sustainable, he launched a project on Juicebox, stated upfront how much it costs each month to keep running, and managed to secure funding for an entire year in less than a month.