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+# Case Study Template [DRAFT]
+
+This document serves as a template for case study submissions (made via pull-requests). Case study submissions will be reviewed + accepted by the maintainers of this repo. Submissions that do not provide AT MINIMUM the following information will NOT BE ACCEPTED.
+
+
+# Project Intake + Scoping
+Submitter bio:
+- please tell us about yourself and the experiences you carry into this project
+
+Project brief:
+- who is project being built for (can redact company names if confidential)
+- who is intended audience
+- summarize functionality in no more than two sentences
+- summarize interesting design points (if any) in no more than two sentences
+
+Project dependencies:
+- who will be maintaing this project? is it important that dependencies are kept to a minimum to ensure viability into the future?
+- if so, what are the dependencies
+
+Project styling:
+- how will project be styled? will users be able to customize the site? if yes, where will customization parameters be stored/accessed
+
+
+Project Data:
+- Chains
+    - Please list the networks (Ethereum, Solana, etc) and networks (Mainnet, Optimism, etc) the project will use
+- Sources
+    - Please describe all OFFCHAIN data sources (if applicable)
+    - Please describe all ONCHAIN data sources (if applicable)
+- Retreival + strorage
+    - Please describe how data for the project will be fetched + stored. Will you use direct RPC calls? Will you use indexers to access onchain information? Are there any offchain data sources to trad backends?
+
+Onchain Interactions
+- Please describe all of the onchain interactions your project facilitate
+    - if your project has plans to abstract any onchain interactions for users, please describe that as well
+- Please describe the role gas costs will play in your project
+    - If you have plans to mitigate them for the user, please describe
+
+Authenticaton
+- Please describe how your project will authenticate users
+    - ex: traditional wallet sign in, account abstracted wallet sign in, non-wallet forms of auth, etc
+
+# Project Build Process Notes
+## TODO
+
+# Project Build Retrospective + Analsysis
+## TODO
+