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Shipyard launchpad
Shipyard on Base holds USDC in a vault nobody controls and releases it to the builder only as work ships; you alone can refund if it does not. Here is what people actually do with it, gathered from 4 solved problems and 1 Unlock.
Uses the community found
what people really do with it
The under-marketed use of Base is escrowed freelance work: clients pay as work ships and can refund, which solves trust for both sides.
from: Fund a build with escrow that pays only as work ships →
Unmarketed uses
the oh! list
No unmarketed uses charted yet.
Where it matters
who needs it most
village and church groups in West Africa: Bank accounts for informal groups are hard to open.
from: Fund our group with no bank account →open-source communities: Members are spread across many countries.
from: Fund our group with no bank account →diaspora hometown associations: Members abroad can donate and see every spend.
from: Fund our group with no bank account →small business owners in Africa and Asia: Dev agencies are costly.
from: I need an app but can't code →community leaders: They need simple tools.
from: I need an app but can't code →event organisers: Ticketing or voting apps are needed fast.
from: I need an app but can't code →rural communities with diaspora: Family abroad can see where their money went.
from: Our village wants to pool for a well →savings groups and chamas: A multisig adds an approval rule to an old practice.
from: Our village wants to pool for a well →school or clinic building projects: Staged payouts tie money to visible progress.
from: Our village wants to pool for a well →neighbourhood projects: Many small local donors are exactly what quadratic funding rewards.
from: Raise $10,000 for my community →open-source maintainers: Gitcoin and Giveth rounds are built for public goods.
from: Raise $10,000 for my community →creators with an active audience: A study coin can turn attention into fees, if you tell holders plainly it is not an investment.
from: Raise $10,000 for my community →
Token utility ideas
a job for every holder, not a price
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Build on it
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A milestone template library for common small software builds, such as a landing page or a token-gated app, with suggested USDC splits per milestone.
from: Fund a build with escrow that pays only as work ships →A donation page with a live Safe balance, a spend log in plain words and receipts for each payout.
from: Fund our group with no bank account →A template marketplace for small-business onchain apps such as loyalty points, deposits and bookings.
from: I need an app but can't code →A village fund page in local language that shows the balance, each gift, and each stage photo of the well.
from: Our village wants to pool for a well →A community raise planner that asks three questions, then routes you to a matching round, an escrow raise or a coin, with the honest downside of each.
from: Raise $10,000 for my community →
Solutions that use Shipyard launchpad
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