. was conceived in the Arweave<>Gitcoin Hackathon in July 2020, we used to call it Dgit at the time.
Archive Link: web.archive.org/web/2021011705
Looking back, we have come really far gitopia.com
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Their chain agnostic and sovereign approach made us rethink our vision to build an ecosystem for web3 developers instead of a helper tool.
This is where Gitopia was born.
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Gitopia comes from "git" and "utopia"
Utopia is an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.
Gitopia is an ideal place for Open Source Code to Live and for people to collaborate. A Metaverse for Code and its authors.
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We then pivoted to building our application logic using cosmos-SDK and we have not looked back since then.
Standing on the Shoulders of Technical Giants ( /Tendermint, -SDK) helped ease our experience while building and didn't stifle us from innovating.
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We had raised a relatively small amount of $1.29 Million last year from
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This gave us time and patience as we didn't need to raise 100's of millions of $ to build this. We needed long-term investors who shared and supported our vision. We made sure of that by our long vesting schedule.
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Raising from developers would have been ideal but the Legal risks involved with retail investments and the KYC overhead make it unfeasible. Hence we are trying to do a fair distribution via Game of LORE and other mechanisms which would be announced as we move forward.
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Our plan is to have more distribution to the community and contributors. There will be several distribution programs run by during the course of the Gitopia Janus Testnet so that early contributors get rewarded on the Mainnet genesis.
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Once the network is sufficiently decentralized and all distribution channels for the initial Genesis unlock are exhausted, the community would have access to the tokens allocated for community distribution which will be governed via Proposals
gitopia.com/gitopia1dlpc7p
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Here is the team:
I am so honored and proud to be working on Gitopia with all of you 🙏 🙌
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This is just the beginning - stay tuned to the official Twitter/Discord/Medium for announcements and launches 🚀
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LORE comes from Linus Torvalds (the creator of git) and Sir Thomas More (the first person to write of a 'utopia').
Lore in itself means: a body of traditions and knowledge on a subject or held by a particular group, typically passed from person to person by word of mouth
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$LORE will be used as a utility token on the platform, it will also play a crucial role in the governance of the platforms and would empower the developers to have their say via a vote in the proposal or Initiate new improvement proposals on the Platform.
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A few important links:
Gitopia Web: gitopia.com
Docs: docs.gitopia.com
Medium: gitopia.medium.com
Telegram: t.me/Gitopia
Discord: discord.gg/vCaFgKHj
Forum: forum.gitopia.com
Twitter:
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The wait is finally over
The Game of $LORE is live now
A total of 3,250,000 $LORE tokens minted and unlocked at genesis will be rewarded to the community with the incentivization mechanism
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Also, please open any issues you encounter while using the platform on its code repository on Gitopia
gitopia.com/gitopia1dlpc7p
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Issues on @gitopiaDAO are a great way to keep track of tasks, enhancements, feedback, and bugs for your projects
Issues have their own tab in every repository
A thread on tips to contribute in building gitopia.com by raising issues that matter 
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Opening issues and contributing to Gitopia will add to your Open Source contributions, increase your points in Game of LORE, help you get some $LORE tokens in the Mainnet, and last but not least it will help us improve the system perpetually.
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