Type.fund

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

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