1. Application
Applicant name or organization: Chainweb (WebChain254)
Primary contact / forum handle: CHAINWEB
Social handle (X): CHAINWEB (@WebChain254) / X
How did you hear about this grant program? Shutter DAO 0x36 Impact Pilot Round 1 Grant Guide and Application Template.
Wallet address for payment (if approved): 0x3beEedDAE0489Da174866e6F1B766137B3C4f25d (Etherium Mainnet)
Application type: Round 1 — Proactive grant for defined future work.
Round 1 objective: Objective 5 — Package a Repeatable Shutter Workflow.
Contribution areas:
- Education, documentation or contributor support.
- Ecosystem development, partnerships or business development.
- Operations or coordination.
Amount requested: $1,600 USD.
1.1 Team and Relevant Experience
Chainweb (WebChain254) is a Kenya-focused Web3 community initiative working to expand blockchain education, community engagement and ecosystem participation. The team combines community coordination with blockchain development experience to help participants understand emerging Web3 technologies and explore practical applications.
For this initiative, Chainweb will develop accessible Shutter learning resources, facilitate community onboarding activities in Kenya and document practical use cases for Shutter’s encrypted mempool and private voting capabilities.
Core Team
1. Roylex Obuya — Project Lead and Community Engagement
Roylex will coordinate the project, oversee milestone delivery, manage community engagement, coordinate team activities, and prepare progress updates and the final report for Shutter DAO. Through Chainweb, I will lead the initiative’s focus on Kenyan Web3 communities, educational activities and ecosystem onboarding.
2. Mureithi Geoffrey — Blockchain Development and Technical Research
Mureithi Geoffrey brings experience in Rust/WASM development, with previous project references including Hirola, Apalis, and Plugy. For this initiative, his proposed responsibilities include reviewing Shutter’s technical documentation, researching the encrypted mempool and related infrastructure and helping identify technical requirements and potential integration considerations for relevant use cases.
GitHub: geofmureithi (Njuguna Mureithi) · GitHub
3. Mathew Pratt — Smart Contract Research and Technical Documentation
Mathew Pratt’s previously described technical experience includes Rust, Solidity and Stylus. His proposed role is to support technical research, assess how Shutter’s capabilities may apply to relevant blockchain applicationS and contribute to practical technical documentation and the use-case assessment.
GitHub: matthewpratt13 (Matthew Pratt) · GitHub
4. Sam (4SAMU) — Full-Stack Integration and Developer Support
Sam has previously been described as a full-stack blockchain engineer with experience in frontend integrations and Wormhole-related cross-chain wallet work. His proposed contribution is to review developer onboarding requirements, help document integration workflowS and identify technical barriers that prospective Shutter users or developers may encounter.
GitHub: 4SAMU (Samuel Nzomo) · GitHub
5. Racheal Muchiri — Web3 Educator and Community Strategist
Racheal is a Web3 educator and a member of Web3Clubs Kenya, with experience supporting Web3 community engagement and educational activities. For the Shutter Kenya initiative, she will support community outreach, participant onboarding, facilitation of educational sessions, and feedback collection. She will help make Shutter’s encrypted mempool and private voting concepts accessible to Kenyan Web3 communities and contribute to evaluating practical use cases and adoption opportunities. X: https://x.com/rxcheal\_
GitHub: github.com/racheallovee
2. The Shutter need or opportunity
What specific need, opportunity, or gap does this contribution address?
Chainweb proposes the Shutter Kenya Education & Adoption Initiative, a focused education and onboarding project designed to help Kenya’s Web3 communities understand Shutter’s privacy technology, identify relevant use cases and take practical next steps toward adoption.
Shutter develops privacy infrastructure that can help protect users from transaction exploitation and improve the confidentiality of governance decisions. Its encrypted mempool technology protects pending transactions from public exposure before execution, while its private-voting capabilities help communities conduct voting without exposing individual ballots during the voting process.
For Kenyan Web3 participants, developers, DAO contributors, and community organizers who are unfamiliar with these technologies, understanding the underlying problems is only the first step. They also need accessible learning resources, practical examples, guidance on relevant Shutter tools and a clear process for assessing whether those tools fit their needs.
Chainweb will use its experience in Web3 education, community engagement, and onboarding in Kenya to bridge this gap. The project will connect educational activities to practical use-case evaluation and produce a reusable workflow that other Kenyan community educators and ecosystem contributors can use.
This is not intended to be a general blockchain awareness campaign. Every activity will focus on a relevant Shutter capability and a practical next step, while the project will produce measurable learning outcomes, documented user feedback and evidence of potential adoption opportunities.
Why is it relevant to Shutter now?
Shutter DAO 0x36’s Impact Pilot prioritizes contributions that demonstrate tangible value, advance adoption opportunities and leave behind reusable ecosystem resources.
Kenya has an active Web3 community that includes developers, blockchain learners, DAO participants and community organizers. Introducing these groups to privacy-preserving technologies through practical education can help them understand where Shutter may be useful and how to evaluate its suitability for their activities.
However, education alone is not proof of adoption. The initiative will therefore connect learning activities to structured feedback, use-case assessments and an onboarding process that helps interested participants identify concrete next steps.
Shutter will receive a reusable education-to-adoption package and evidence of the questions, requirements, and barriers that emerge when its technology is introduced to prospective users in Kenya.
The project is designed for completion by the week of November 30, 2026, subject to grant approval and the agreed milestone schedule.
What specific demand signal supports this work now?
The immediate program-level signal is Shutter DAO 0x36’s published Impact Pilot, which identifies repeatable workflows and ecosystem adoption as eligible areas for contribution.
Chainweb proposes to investigate a specific onboarding gap in Kenya rather than assume that general interest in Web3 automatically translates into demand for Shutter.
During the initial phase, we will engage prospective participants and community organizers through Chainweb’s existing Kenyan Web3 community network. We will seek structured feedback on their understanding of transaction privacy, governance confidentiality, existing decision-making practices, and barriers to evaluating privacy tools.
This feedback will inform the educational materials and onboarding workflow. It will also help determine whether a community has a sufficiently defined use case to justify further engagement with Shutter.
We do not claim that Shutter has commissioned this work or that a Kenyan community has already committed to a pilot. Identifying and validating a suitable adoption opportunity is part of the proposed project.
Who benefits from the outcome, and how?
Primary beneficiary: Shutter Network and its ecosystem.
Shutter will receive accessible educational resources, a reusable onboarding workflow, structured feedback from prospective Kenyan users and evidence of potential use cases that can inform future ecosystem engagement.
Secondary beneficiaries: Kenyan Web3 communities.
Community members, developers, DAO participants, and organizers will gain a better understanding of Shutter’s privacy capabilities and how those capabilities may address practical problems in transaction execution and governance.
Community educators and organizers.
Local educators will receive reusable learning materials, session plans, and onboarding guidance that can be adapted for future workshops and community engagements.
Potential adoption partners.
Communities that identify a relevant use case will have a clearer starting point for evaluating requirements and deciding whether to pursue a Shutter-enabled workflow or pilot.
Value pathway
Primary value pathway: Durable ecosystem, adoption or public-goods value aligned with Shutter’s mission.
Supporting value pathway: Validated path toward a pilot, integration, or repeatable workflow.
The project is not premised on immediate revenue generation. Its value will be demonstrated through completed educational resources, documented onboarding outcomes, validated use cases and a reusable process for progressing suitable Kenyan communities toward adoption.
Who is the relevant decision-maker, operating owner, funder, partner, or beneficiary group?
Chainweb will be the operating owner, responsible for project coordination, educational content, community engagement, onboarding activities, documentation, and reporting.
The target beneficiaries are Kenyan Web3 community members, blockchain developers, DAO participants and community organizers interested in privacy infrastructure and its practical applications.
The relevant external decision-makers will be community organizers, DAO governance contributors or other representatives responsible for the use cases identified during the project.
Chainweb will seek to identify these counterparts during the initial validation phase and document their feedback and any agreed next steps. Participation in an educational activity will not be presented as a formal partnership or commitment to deploy Shutter.
The Shutter capabilities being advanced are:
- Encrypted mempool technology: Shielded Trading | Setting the New Standard for Trading
- Shutter Network technical resources: GitHub - shutter-network/rolling-shutter: A threshold encryption framework for L1 & L2 EVM-compatible chains. · GitHub
- Shutter Governance: https://shuttergovernance.com/
Educational materials will use official Shutter resources and distinguish between existing capabilities, requirements for practical implementation and potential future applications.
What problem are they solving, and what evidence supports the value of addressing it?
Web3 participants may encounter privacy-related risks without fully understanding how those risks affect their transactions or governance processes.
For example, users may not understand how publicly visible pending transactions create opportunities for front-running or sandwich attacks. DAO participants may also be unfamiliar with how private voting can help reduce pressure to follow visible voting trends or reveal individual choices before voting concludes.
The project will investigate which of these problems are relevant to Kenyan communities and use the findings to shape the educational and onboarding experience.
Evidence will include:
- A documented summary of privacy-related problems and learning needs identified during participant engagement.
- Pre- and post-session assessments measuring changes in participants’ understanding.
- Feedback on the usefulness and clarity of the onboarding materials.
- Documented use cases identified by participants or community representatives.
- A suitability assessment for any prospective Shutter adoption opportunity.
- A final recommendation describing the most credible next step and any unresolved technical or operational requirements.
Attendance, social media impressions, and expressions of general interest will not be treated as proof of adoption. Claims about qualified opportunities or prospective pilot interest will be supported by documented evidence.
What Shutter product, deployment, service, or capability would this contribution advance?
The initiative will advance awareness and practical evaluation of Shutter’s encrypted mempool and private-voting capabilities among Kenyan Web3 participants.
The educational approach will explain the problems these capabilities address, introduce relevant official resources and help participants identify whether their transaction or governance workflows could benefit from them.
The project will develop a reusable onboarding workflow covering:
- Identifying a privacy-related problem.
- Matching the problem to an appropriate Shutter capability.
- Understanding relevant technical and operational requirements.
- Assessing the suitability of a proposed use case.
- Preparing the next steps toward a possible pilot or integration.
The scope does not include building a new cryptographic protocol, claiming a completed integration, or deploying functionality without the necessary technical support and authorization.
What decision, implementation step, or next action should this contribution enable, and by when?
By the week of November 30, 2026, the project will provide Shutter DAO with a decision-ready report and reusable adoption package.
The work should enable Shutter and relevant Kenyan community stakeholders to determine:
- Which privacy-related use cases are most relevant to the participants reached.
- Whether the educational and onboarding materials improve practical understanding of Shutter’s capabilities.
- Which communities, if any, have a sufficiently defined use case to justify further engagement.
- What technical, operational, or governance requirements must be addressed before a pilot.
- Whether to proceed with a qualified pilot opportunity, revise the approach, or prioritize a different use case.
The recommended next step will be grounded in the evidence gathered during the project.
What evidence will show progress beyond outreach, general interest, or a speculative concept?
The project will deliver the following reviewable outputs.
Deliverable 1: Shutter Kenya education toolkit
Accessible learning materials covering relevant Shutter capabilities, privacy-related problems, practical examples, and links to official technical resources.
Deliverable 2: Kenyan community education and onboarding sessions
Structured sessions for prospective users and community participants. Each session will have defined learning objectives, a practical use case and a feedback or assessment mechanism.
Deliverable 3: Reusable onboarding workflow
A documented process that other community educators can use to guide participants from learning about Shutter to evaluating a relevant use case and identifying next steps.
Deliverable 4: Use-case validation report
A report summarizing participant feedback, recurring questions, learning outcomes, potential applications, and any evidence supporting further engagement with a prospective community.
Deliverable 5: Adoption-readiness checklist
A practical checklist for assessing whether a proposed Kenyan community use case is appropriate for Shutter and identifying outstanding requirements before a pilot.
Deliverable 6: Final public report and evidence index
A consolidated report linking to completed materials, summarizing results against the project’s targets, and recommending next steps. Sensitive participant information will not be published without appropriate permission.
The resources will be published in a public repository or another accessible, reviewable format, subject to relevant privacy and publication constraints.
Proposed success indicators
The following are project targets, not claims of completed work or guaranteed outcomes.
- Produce at least four educational resources or practical learning modules.
- Conduct at least two structured education and onboarding sessions in Kenya.
- Engage a target of at least 20 participants across the sessions.
- Use pre- and post-session assessments to measure learning outcomes.
- Document at least three substantive participant feedback findings or questions that inform the materials.
- Complete at least one evidence-based use-case assessment, where sufficient stakeholder evidence is available.
- Publish one reusable onboarding workflow, one adoption-readiness checklist, and one final report.
- Document a recommended next step for at least one qualified use case if the evidence supports it.
If a suitable pilot opportunity cannot be validated, the final report will state that clearly rather than overstate the results.
3. Funding request
Amount requested: $1,600 USD
Proposed use of funds
| Budget item | Amount |
|---|---|
| Educational content development and learning resources | $350 |
| Community onboarding sessions and facilitation | $400 |
| Stakeholder engagement and use-case validation | $300 |
| Reusable onboarding workflow and adoption-readiness toolkit | $350 |
| Measurement, reporting and publication | $200 |
| Total | $1,600 |
The requested funding will support the defined project activities and deliverables. It will not be used for unrelated organizational expenses or duplicate compensation for previously funded work.
Proposed milestones and payment review
Milestone 1 — Education foundation and initial validation : $900 USD
Target completion: October 30, 2026.
Deliverables:
- Define the Kenyan target audience and educational objectives.
- Prepare the initial learning materials and session plan.
- Document the Shutter capabilities covered and their relevant official resources.
- Begin stakeholder engagement and record initial feedback.
- Publish or submit a reviewable first-stage progress package.
Evidence for review: Initial educational resources, session plan, use-case assessment framework and documented validation progress.
Milestone 2 — Onboarding delivery and adoption package : $7,00 USD
Target completion: Week of November 30, 2026.
Deliverables:
- Complete the planned education and onboarding sessions.
- Finalize the learning resources based on feedback.
- Publish the reusable onboarding workflow and adoption-readiness checklist.
- Complete the use-case validation report.
- Publish the final report, success-indicator results and recommended next steps.
Evidence for review: Published materials, session summaries, assessment results, documented stakeholder feedback, completed workflow and final report.
The milestones provide reviewable evidence for the DAO’s milestone assessment and payment process. Final payment remains subject to the applicable program rules and DAO approval.
4. Prior compensation and disclosures
Have you, your organization, or a related party received or requested compensation for this work from Shutter or another source?
NO
Do you have any financial, professional, or organizational conflict relevant to this application?
Applicant response: No
5. Public discussion
Forum post link: This thread
Questions or feedback requested from the community:
Chainweb welcomes feedback from Shutter contributors and community members on the proposed Kenya-focused education-to-adoption approach.
In particular, we would appreciate guidance on:
- Which Shutter capabilities should be prioritized for education and onboarding in Kenya.
- Which existing educational resources should be incorporated rather than duplicated.
- What evidence would be most useful when assessing whether education has produced a qualified adoption opportunity.
- Which operational and technical requirements should be included in the adoption-readiness checklist.
Our intention is to complement Shutter’s existing technical and educational resources with locally relevant community engagement and a reusable process for progressing from learning to practical evaluation.
- Applicant attestation
I confirm that the information in this application is accurate to the best of my knowledge; that relevant prior compensation and conflicts will be disclosed; and that I understand any award remains subject to the published process and DAO approval.
Name / handle: Chainweb CHAINWEB (@WebChain254) / X
Date: October 9, 2026