Projects
![]()
No projects found
Investors
New
DAO Treasuries
DATs
Lend / Borrow APRs
Chains
Categories
Spaces
Gitcoin Beta #DeSci Cornerstone
Recorded: April 26, 2023 Duration: 1:45:21Space Recording
Full Transcription
Hello, hello, everybody.
Hey, Manuel.
GM, GM.
Hey, guys.
Good morning.
Good afternoon.
Good evening.
Wherever you still be on this beautiful planet of ours.
Hey, Harry.
Hey, Joel, Keith, Bruno, Tomer, some of my favorite folks.
Adam, I've never met you, but space rocked apple.
It's glad to meet you.
Matt, I thought it was nice to keep familiar faces.
We'll just give it the opportunity for people to start to populate in.
Looks like we get good traction.
I don't know if we're going to be able to fit everybody in,
but we have a failsafe for that should people not have the opportunity
to show their project, but don't worry about it.
That will come soon.
So just let it populate a bit.
Great turnout, and then we'll start to allow you guys to come on up,
talk about your projects.
A lot of fantastic projects that have been, or grants, I should say,
that have been put forward for this Gitcoin beta DSI cornerstone round.
I should just say this is the DSI round.
Really awesome project.
It's very exciting to see what the next year is going to yield in terms of
DSI projects and cool tech and communities that are going to be spun up.
Very, very interesting.
So we're just going to wait on our co-host, Mundao, their official Twitter,
to come on up, and then we'll open this up and allow people to start talking
about their stuff.
So just bear with me.
Unfortunately, Twitter turns off the music when I start talking.
So a little bit of silence, then we'll get going.
So for those of you who can and are willing to, just feel free to retweet this out.
Just ping those who might have forgotten to come in.
Sure, you know, slow process.
But the engagement will help.
It'll help the communities that are looking to raise funding for their awesome projects.
So this is a communal event, DSI is about community, Web3 is about community.
So help us help ourselves, and we'll make the space a much better space.
Manuel, I don't know if you can, you have an ETA on when Lucas or Ryan will be coming in with the Mundao account?
Yeah, the thing is, I was already in touch with them, and they told me that they will join.
But maybe there was something unclear about the time, because last time we started at 4pm Central European time,
but it was all in the calendar.
So let's give it like a couple of more minutes, and then I think we are good to go.
Awesome. Sounds good.
By the way, for those projects that were present last week to chill,
you guys are more than welcome to come back up and talk more about what you are building.
There are ample opportunities to show your projects over the coming two weeks.
There is another opportunity to do so later on today.
With LabDAO, Jocelyn and that crew is putting together a show session.
So if you don't make it up here now, you have the opportunity to go there.
And even if you did make it up here now, never hurts to put in more marketing efforts to get those funds raised.
So don't worry about it. It'll be cool.
So in the interest of time and to respect people's time, we can get started.
So just brief intro. This is the shill session, shill session number two, for the Gitcoin DSi round.
The applications for those who put in grants started on the 14th, end of the 24th of April.
This actual fundraising period goes from the 25th of April to the 9th of May.
So you have a good two-ish weeks to get that community engagement and that support in.
Remind your participants that it doesn't matter what they donate.
It's simply the fact that they do donate.
This quadratic funding puts a lot more emphasis on the community that you can bring forth.
And less so on how much they can individually put in.
So the funding raised currently is, I believe, 85,000 USD.
I could be a little bit off with that, but there is still opportunity for funders to come in and provide more funding.
So if you do also know people interested in investing in DSi, investing in the prospect of DSi,
you can let them know that there's still opportunity.
The total cap per project is 13.33 periodic percent.
So that's as much as you can be matched.
Anything above that will not go, will not be matched for you.
And so, yeah, the description of the round.
The DSi round includes grants that fall into the domain of decentralized science.
This includes research projects following the principles of open science and projects building public infrastructure for funding,
creating, reviewing, crediting, storing, and disseminating scientific knowledge fairly equitably and using the Web3 stack.
Now, that last piece is not 100 percent true.
We have great entrants like side to side that are currently not building out leveraging Web3 stacks,
but they appeal to the concept of open science and making science more equitable and thus fall into the DSi category for those of us who were determining the eligibility of projects.
So I'm going to shut up now.
I'm going to give the opportunity for projects and I see Moondiles here, which is great.
I'll bring you up as a co-host.
I give this opportunity now for people to come up, show their projects.
So put in a request.
We'd love to hear from you.
We'd love to hear what you're building.
And if also you have any questions or comments regarding the actual process, please feel free to ask those.
We have a few OGs present that may be able to answer that question and help you understand what the actual process is as you go along.
So we have Adam, I see you came first.
So let's go represent Space RocksDAO.
Hi, everyone.
My name is Adam Boyle, and I'm the founder and steward of Space RocksDAO.
Bear with me.
I would actually appreciate some feedback on this, working on some different pitches to kind of capture, you know, what we're trying to do essentially.
But essentially, at the base level, what we're trying to do is create a funding and incubation platform that connects project founders, entrepreneurs, investors to pitch space related projects for funding and support.
At Space RocksDAO, we're all about the common good and public goods.
So these projects must prioritize space as a common good and adopt a Web3 structure to be considered.
Investors would then be able to take ownership of the projects through NFTs or tokens that participate in the development and governance.
We want to align incentives by having everyone who's investing in these projects to be able to participate them through the Web3 stack.
And to promote sustainability, we're aiming to align these incentives through smart contract based reward sharing, ensuring that the projects prioritize long term value for the long term common good of space.
So basically, there's a lot of really great projects out there that won't get funding that aren't traditionally short term, you know, profit incentivized.
And we're trying to build a space where they can come get funding, get the support, get participants, and that would be the incubator.
And then we also are trying to launch a VC fund to the right of that, to the side of that, an arm's length distance that the GPs would then donate their carry over to the DAO to kind of help, you know, fund and power this incubator, this accelerator, hopefully to help kickstart and kick off and help just in general build this sort of deep space ecosystem that a lot of us are working on right now.
So that's the vision. Please reach out if you have any questions. We're super excited to be involved in this DSI round.
We know that obviously science is incredibly important to our future long term health and space.
So these things need funding and thank God for Gitcoin and Moondown, everybody for helping out.
So please let me know if you have any questions. I'll always be here. Thanks, guys.
Awesome, Adam. Thank you for sharing that. As is always going to be the spiel.
If you like a project, even if you don't like the project, to be honest, please follow all these participants.
This is a growing and budding space. There's so much room for these projects to grow and it's going to be exponential as things move on.
And, you know, adding on this collaborative event, this collaborative concept and event will really let projects flesh themselves out and also pivot into angles that they may not have seen originally.
Right. That's one of the beauties of this space is allowing for the growth of project.
And it's almost it's ambiguous in nature, but it comes at least a lot of really cool ideas.
So thanks, Adam, for sharing that. Please follow him.
Follow Space Rock Style and contribute where you can and reach out to them for help.
I know there's a huge DSPACE community. We have participants very clearly here.
Moondown, Manuel with Deep Ventures, Lunco.
So I'd like to see the merging of D-Space and AID-AI and D-biomedical and D-whatever you want to call it in the scientific realm.
Let's have this clash of ideas and innovation that, you know, has never been seen before.
So I'm going to shut up again.
No, Lunco. Rod, you are up. Go ahead.
Tell us what's going on with Lunco.
Yeah, thank you so much.
First of all, I want to say that I'm really looking for a BioDAO who would make a technology that would allow you to instantly heal wounds.
Today I had a bike accident and I cannot stop thinking that, guys, we should, like, it's really a huge issue.
So, and it could be solved in a decentralized manner.
So I really appreciate all the bio projects that are appearing in the, that are in the ecosystem, I think.
A lot of, with the synthetic biology, with the custom human genomes could be made, like, a lot of great projects that it's really needed.
And talking about Lunco, I think I found a great explanation of what it means.
Lunco is an open source platform for industrial and robotics engineering.
I'm a professional space systems engineer.
So Lunco is highly inspired by space engineering.
But at its core, all the processes are the same.
And a lot of models are universal for different areas.
Like, for example, solar power outcome.
It's, like, the model that assesses the solar power outcome from solar panel is almost the same on the Moon and on Earth.
Of course, on Earth we have to consider the atmosphere, but it's just one additional member of the equation.
So, Lunco is an open source software.
You can download it right now.
And the main intent is to make a medium of exchange for engineers, allowing them to exchange their designs and databases and all that boring stuff that actually all the engineering is about in a fast decentralized manner.
Ideally, at some point in time, Lunco should be the only window that any industrial or robotics or space engineer would need in the world.
And actually, a lot of people from climate solutions, from everywhere.
We met with the engineering staff on a daily basis.
So, I've been promoting Lunco for a long time as a space project.
And it's really inspired by space exploration.
But actually, it's applicable to a lot of projects.
And if your project, that's a call to all the founders.
If your project is related to hardware, for example, you could design remote sensing or, I don't know, if you are designing, I don't know, kind of a robotic system for your needs.
So, please reach Lunco.
Let's discuss how Lunco and I personally could support your project.
Fantastic.
And just for everybody to know, Rod has been a pivotal member behind pushing this CSI round together.
Him and Manuel, I think, were the first to start raising funds.
Mundo being one of the funders for the round, putting a very large sum and helping push this thing forward.
So, big shout out to our unofficial stewards in the back end, helping push this forward.
There's a lot of teamwork going into here.
And that's what I love to see in this space.
So, thank you, Rod.
And obviously, follow Lunco.
See what they're up to.
I think you just released a really interesting platform for people to actually leverage and utilize.
And so, it's really interesting to see all these tools start to come online in the B-side space.
Things that people can actually use to push science forward.
So, next up, we have Joel from Future Folklore.
Please unmute yourself.
Share what you have to do.
It's been a while.
I haven't spoken to you, Joel, man.
How are you doing?
Hey, it's good to be back.
Good to catch up.
Thanks so much.
Yeah.
Time flies, right?
I mean, I just feel like GR15 was like yesterday.
Here we are again.
So, yeah.
I'm really glad that Future Folklore is in the round.
We have a bit of an unusual focus area.
If you click on my profile, you can get caught up on our website.
Our grant is also linked on our pinned tweet.
So, we're focused on unidentified aerial phenomena research.
Yeah, that's UFOs.
That's sort of the sort of scrubbed nomenclature these days.
And we're focused specifically on funding materials analysis on artifacts that are related to what I would call like high fidelity sighting events.
So, these are events that have multiple groups of independent eyewitnesses that have seen something really unusual.
And there are some cases where there are materials recovered from these sightings.
So, you might have heard of Gary Nolan.
He's a biotech wizard at Stanford.
He's really into this and he published a peer review paper on a very extremely interesting case just about a year ago.
So, there's a lot of traction.
I mean, NASA has a project related to this stuff.
There's a very high profile effort going on at Harvard.
There's like several postdoc positions you can study UFOs at Harvard with now.
Stanford, obviously the DOD and the intelligent communities are into this.
Congress just had a hearing like last week.
So, anyway, the design is perfect for this project.
I mean, it's a very sort of overlooked, underfunded, fairly stigmatized research area.
But in my mind, if there's a 1% chance that there's a there there, that this really represents some kind of anomalous, exotic technology from who knows where, from who knows who, then my goodness, it's absolutely worth every single penny and every single hour devoted to researching this.
I mean, it could be the greatest mystery of our time, right?
So, that's my conviction.
Desai, I just feel like it's a welcome home for, you know, sort of misfit projects like this.
And I'm just really grateful to be in the company of all of your efforts.
And, yeah, super proud and happy to answer questions and to connect, you know, outside this space if you want to.
So, thanks all.
I am very, very glad that you finally come up, Joel, to talk about this, because I think this really sediments the value proposition that Desai has, allowing more, quote unquote, esoteric signs to come into fruition.
And the ability to actually just ask questions, right?
It may not necessarily lead anywhere, but the option to be able to do this, and to have a community that supports you, makes things that we thought were impossible, much more possible.
Just like ChatGPT.
Just like crowdsourcing funding, right?
So, go ahead, Rod, if you had a question for Joel.
Yeah, yeah.
I just want to jump in with a side note.
Hey, guys.
Let's increase the impact of this event and let's share everyone the link to this event.
It's super easy.
Just click on the comments button in the lower bottom side of your screen and then click on the retweet button.
And we'll get more people here.
Sorry for interruption.
Awesome.
Thanks for that, Rod.
And Joel, thank you for that.
So, I pinned you guys at the top here.
If you guys are interested, again, even if you're not, go check out what Joel is building.
It's a fantastic community.
Very much open-minded.
And I think it aligns with a lot of the ethos that we have up here in terms of open-minded science.
I will say that if you are finished your commentary to maybe pop up, because I think there's a limit to how many people we can pull up at one time.
Sure, by all.
I mean, I'll jump off the stage.
All right, cool.
Bye, Rod.
Next up, I believe we had Athena Dal.
Laura, if that's you, go ahead and unmute yourself and talk about your project.
Hi, it is me, Jelani.
Thanks for hosting this, and thanks for all the hard work everybody has been doing, all the volunteers.
And thank you for actually having our project be one of the grants.
So today, I'm going to talk about what Athena Dal does quickly.
We are a decentralized collective looking to fund women's health research, education, and access.
And our project in particular is a continuation of our first Gitcoin grant.
With the first Gitcoin grant, which we funded, which we got last, I don't know, last time.
I was going to say last year, but it hasn't been a year.
Thank you to all our funders and supporters.
We actually published our first reproductive health report.
So we got $12,000, and everything went to the researchers, scientists, writers, designer, and everything else we've done in between,
including a seminar on YouTube, which we'll publish tomorrow, and you'll be able to see.
So our second grant is for the second volume of a reproductive health report, and it's going to be focused on endometriosis and PCOS.
It is something that it's sort of silent diseases for women.
One in 10 women has endo.
There's a lot of women that have PCOS.
And the biggest thing about this is that women suffer through this from the moment they get their menstrual periods.
So it's something that they could have their entire lives.
They are conditions that are not as much talked about because reproductive health in general is not something that we talk that openly about.
But with what we're raising, we're going to publish another report.
We are going to send some researchers to a couple of conferences.
And our main thing is already to also onboard more scientists and reproductive health into DSI.
So on our success on the last round, we got about almost 10 new researchers that discovered what DSI is and who are now also some of them active contributors in our community and around the DSI in general.
They went also to Vita Dow and a couple of other places.
So basically, that's what we are raising money for.
We look to publish the report.
We have all our accounting done for GR for that.
Was it GR 16 or GR 15?
Oh, my God.
I need more.
And then it was your data round.
And then there's this.
Yeah, now there's beta now.
But when you in the GR 15, we basically did all our tally.
Then the Dow, so like myself, I did, I guess, the management and editing.
Nobody in the Dow got paid.
It was only our contributors.
And it's going to be the same on this round.
Nobody in the Dow.
We donate our time.
Everything goes to the people that are actually working on the Reproductive Public Report who are writing.
And some of them are new to DSI as well.
So supporting this, you're supporting publishing and academic, well, of academic publishing.
If you read our second or first Reproductive Health Report, there is an opinion piece by a very well-known researcher who speaks about how women's health research is not published in academia as much.
Because people like Nature or Cell say you need to publish on journals dedicated to this, which do not exist.
So by publishing a Reproductive Health Report, we're providing opportunities to researchers in these domains to actually get their ideas out there.
So that's about it.
Thank you so much again for having us on this round.
And thank you for supporting us.
And I look forward to also donating to other amazing projects.
Awesome.
Thank you for sharing, Laura.
And thank you for being an absolute beast in terms of blitzing and busting down doors that should have been open long, long, long, long time ago.
You guys are doing such fantastic work.
And the proof is in the pudding.
I very much encourage everybody to go and read the first Reproductive Report.
And if this upcoming one is anything like that first one, it's going to be amazing.
Also, a reminder, Laura, as well as the rest of the BioXYZ cohort, is going to be having a demo day.
I believe that is tomorrow.
So if you're interested in learning more about what they're doing, the upcoming roadmaps and potentially NFTs and tokenization and all that kind of stuff, be sure to tune into that tomorrow.
Right?
Yes. Thank you so much for mentioning, Jelani.
I didn't want to take up space on that.
So I'm glad that it was you who mentioned it.
It's 1130 Eastern Time.
And if you go to our link that Jelani posted up and read our submission, you'll get the link for a report.
You can download it there and read it and share it with your sisters, with your girlfriends, with your mothers even.
It's supposed to be for the general public and demystifying science.
And that's how we get more people into decentralized science by making them understand that they, too, can be involved.
Thank you again so much.
You're very welcome.
Awesome.
Next up, Atlantis Dao.
Please unmute yourself.
Let us hear about your project.
Ooh.
Atlantis?
Oh, sorry.
Sorry.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm here.
Am I audible?
Yeah, we can hear you.
Go ahead.
We want to hear about your project.
Is this manual behind TSI World?
No, this is Jelani.
Jelani.
Thank you so much for doing this space, Jelani.
I got the request from Manuel to come speak today.
And I was really glad that you guys thought of us.
And thank you so much.
I can see a lot of speakers over here who had come in and spoken at the Solar Punk Guild space yesterday as well.
Really glad to see this kind of synergy happening between the rounds this time.
And really glad that our grant got through to TSI also.
We may not be doing TSI alone, but then it's always very crucial that, you know, the science behind everything that we are building should go back to the community as well.
So a little bit about what we are building right now.
We are basically a peer to peer impact network, which will allow builders, entrepreneurs and regenerators in the climate and social impact sector help onboard their organizations, their DAOs and build on top of this.
They could be focusing on climate solutions, decentralized science or even to tackle meta crisis.
That's why we have applied and got through in these three buckets.
What have we done so far with our project?
We have basically created around 600 green jobs with the majority of those going to women in underserved communities in rural India.
These are based out of two pilot projects that we have right now.
One in a police station called as Chick Mangalur and another in a coastal town called as Kumta.
Secondly, we have designed and engineered the Atlantis Citizen app, which is almost on the verge of releasing in the coming few weeks.
So it's going to be a beta version and we'll be onboarding the NGOs and our on-ground partners who are currently working at the pilot locations.
So use it firsthand and then we will be sharing it with the rest of the community as well.
We are in the process of onboarding more DAOs to come try out our app.
So in case if anyone's interested to know more and how they can contribute, if they want to test out, do reach out to us, do DM me.
We would love to collaborate and work together.
Other than that, we have established a decentralized water network across 15 rural villages in India.
This again is located in one of our pilot projects.
This is in partnership with Mercy Corps Ventures as well.
Apart from this, I think our Twitter would have showed the story of how we had organized the first ever week long Green Pill Festival in India with over 100 participants.
And it was a blast and we had a lot of fun.
We brought together a lot of regions, a lot of young builders in the space, showed them what it's like to be in ReFi at this day and age.
Showed them it's not just, you know, doomsday and dark days ahead, but there's a lot of hope and opportunity if you're building in the right space with the right people.
So it was really coming to a full circle kind of a year for us so far and Gitcoin beta couldn't have come anytime sooner.
Apart from this, we are currently on the process of doubling down on our efforts to rebuilding Turkey along with EarthisDAO and Anka fund over there.
We have some fund which EarthisDAO is looking to disperse into regenerating and basically rebuilding a few infrastructure around the earthquake hit Turkey regions.
And we think our Atlantis app would be the right tool for them to help coordinate and make sure that all of these funds that are being dispersed into projects on ground can be tracked transparently.
So we are in a pilot stage over there as well. So it's still in the works.
Other than that, you could see we are in collaboration with Solar Punk Nomads to basically go on our electric tuk-tuk here in southern India,
which will be driven around across these pilot projects in the western guts, basically educating and raising awareness about climate change.
And there are a lot of thoughts put behind that project.
But we are yet to reveal what we are planning to do immediately, but that's soon to follow in the coming few days.
And yeah, there's a few more projects that I want to list about, but I have a thread ready at my end that I'll just post over here so that I don't take too much of my time.
Also, I just want to give a shout out to the rest of the DCI community over here.
I know a lot of you all from the past few weeks, we have interacted, I think so on DMs and on tweets and on other spaces.
And I just want to let you know that Gitcoin is all about collaboration over competition.
So it's all about supporting each other and growing together.
So with that in mind, let me just say that I want to be here for supporting each and every one of you.
So please go out and share your grant links, everything over here in the Jumbotron or in the comments section so that everyone can help support each other.
That's all from me today.
Go ahead.
Thank you so much.
Awesome.
Thank you for sharing Atlantis.
And I love to see the clash, not the clash, but coming together of ReFi, DeFi, DeFi, all these different impacts, all these different tool sets to push forth impact.
So thank you for sharing.
And yes, again, do reach out and support each other.
Tomer, you want to come up and unmute yourself and share what's going on with Adam?
Yo, yeah.
Thanks guys.
Thanks Jelani and Mundao and Manuel for hosting.
And yeah, I am a co-founder of Adam, who's kind of sitting there in the in the crowd somewhere if you want to follow us.
So, yeah, I mean, we all know about the problems in academia, right?
The publishing monopoly, the kind of the fact that peer review is just kind of simply broken.
We at Atom are focused on solving these problems from the root cause, which we believe to be funding.
So there are kind of like zero incentives to collaborate in academia.
Academics are led into like short term thinking rather than like working on the things that they care about, their passions, and they're being led by grants currently.
And so all of these problems sum up to basically stifled innovation.
And if you look at kind of the progress of science in the last 50 years, it's kind of stagnated.
And so at Atom, we're focused on bringing the beautiful contribution that Gitcoin has brought to open source science, open source software, but to science.
So we're really focused on launching our first kind of quadratic alpha rounds for early stage basic basic research for the hard sciences, physics, chemistry, engineering problems and moving grants, which are currently allocated by small biased opaque groups to community driven funding.
We've kind of seen how successful Gitcoin has been and, you know, we're all participating in the DSI round currently, but we really believe that we can take what we've done for software and apply it to the sciences.
And there's a couple of challenges that we have to overcome along that journey.
You know, I actually ran for a steward for the DSI round and I was trying to encourage us to start funding early stage research in this current DSI round.
And we decided to go against it because like rightly so, because, you know, it's hard to verify and validate the researchers.
And, and so that's kind of like the work that Atom will do is we'll, we'll, we'll curate these rounds, we'll raise the funding, we'll help, we'll help you guys help science.
And, you know, after all, science is the like OG public good.
So, yeah, I just shout out to all of the other projects as well, you know, love what like Sight to Sight are doing, Research Hub, Athena Dow.
Um, and yeah, looking forward to learning more about other projects in the space and, um, yeah, uh, join along our, join us for our journey and, uh, funding science.
Thanks, Farmer.
And absolutely agree.
Uh, basic research, very difficult to fund, but is still an undervalued niche that does need funding.
It is the crux, the fundamental foundation that is everything else that's on top of.
So we can fund, you know, preclinical stuff, um, or just preclinical stuff and, and, you know, terminal use therapies and all that kind of stuff.
And that's very good in terms of the impact.
But if our foundation is weak, then it doesn't matter.
We're going to end up falling back into the same cycles that we have in the same issues that are going to come up.
So big shout out to you, Tomer and Hamato and the rest of the team from Adam.
There are a few other projects that are doing something or looking to tackle this similarly.
Shout out to them as well.
I'll allow them to come up once they do.
And Sight to Sight is indeed in the audience here.
And so Angelina, if you want to come up, I'd love to have you up to talk about what you guys are doing.
Um, and so, yeah, we'll move on.
So Wawiru from Shamba Network, please unmute yourself and share what you guys are working on.
Thank you, thank you so much.
And I'm glad to be here with the whole Desai community.
I'm loving all the wonderful projects that I'm hearing.
And I'm really shilling for you guys.
So Kennedy Nganga, also known as Wawiru, I represent Shamba.
I don't know if the handle is not here in the audience.
But yeah, Shamba is one of those projects that has been in the RFI space for quite a while.
Uh, we have been building, uh, digital and decentralized MRV systems.
We believe that, uh, when it comes to the carbon market, we need to have systems that are suitable for the global south and small scale projects.
So we've been building these systems.
Uh, we've been a part of Gitcoin and, uh, we've made quite a lot of progress.
Uh, since the last round, we've been able to deploy pilots in four different places in Kenya.
Uh, applying a lot of satellite data, a lot of, uh, MRV, especially decentralized MRV working with a lot of people collecting this data.
And now we are taking it a notch further, uh, tapping into AI in order to analyze some of this satellite data and, uh, create carbon stock maps and other things.
So we are looking for your support, uh, with our project, back our grant to support us to build some of these AI tools that can contribute to DMRV.
Because at the end of the day, uh, for us to be able to have a solid and sustainable impact, we must be able to measure, quantify, and actually prove that our impact is occurring from regenerative projects.
So I've been hearing a lot of regenerative projects in the audience, and I'm sure all of you guys need MRV in order to be able to prove and to be able to capture the good work that you're doing.
So back our grant, uh, at Shamba, we are building AI tools to enable DMRV.
And we are really looking forward to continuing to being part of this great community and to develop tools that, uh, can be used by others as well, uh, in some of the work that they are doing.
So thank you so much for having me here on this stage and, uh, good work guys hosting this space.
Thanks.
I appreciate it.
And thank you for sharing.
Definitely need more DMRV.
Um, there are so many projects coming out of climate solutions that, that overlap very heavily with DSI.
So the more monitoring, the better, the more robust anti-fragile monitoring, um, technology infrastructure that we can have, the better.
Uh, thanks for sharing.
Uh, next up, we'll bring up Victor from DSI use.
Go ahead, unmute yourself, share your project.
Let us know what's going on.
Uh, sure.
Yes.
This is, uh, Victor Karioki, the founder DSI youth.
And, uh, here we are on a mission to nurture the upcoming generation of scientists allowed the movement of church in the next iteration of the web.
So these, uh, movements include, uh, DSI, LIFI, and also LISI.
So the problem we are solving, uh, our first priority is, uh, Africa where we have a scientific, uh, brain drain.
So we shall be introducing DSI and LISI philosophies and workflows to model the next generation of scientists.
And so far we have identified the sheeting zones for universities where we have the different student, student clubs, such as the Google developers clubs and also the web three students clubs, which are already well established in most of the universities here in Africa.
And, uh, here we shall be providing links to, uh, educational resources, also projects and, uh, communities such as the public goods, uh, student association, and also dream now.
So we shall be doing this so that, uh, the student can also tap on, uh, whatever is happening into the, uh, web three and also the DSI space at large.
So another problem that, uh, we aim to solve is the harm posed by the digital exposure to the younger generation.
And this has, uh, led to some of the traumas and, uh, addiction that comes along with the web two platforms, uh, using the attention economy.
Because, uh, we all know that, uh, web three prioritizes on the user privacy decentralization and thus, uh, healthier and a more equitable online environment.
So on this, uh, we, on this, we, I be, we believe that, uh, the next digital wellbeing paradigm lies on the impact projects arising from the roots of science and, uh, regeneration.
So that's tagging all the projects, uh, from the intersection of science, regeneration, and technology.
So on this, uh, we are on collaboration with Happily Ever After, which is a network of health and, uh, well-being spaces to nurture our mind, body, and soul.
Whereby we shall be connecting individuals to impact projects, uh, that are aimed at, uh, healing and nurturing our mother earth.
So also for the teenagers, we shall also be building, uh, space at Happily Ever After to, for, uh, digital wellbeing space that is more of, uh, learning and, uh, equipping them, uh, with knowledge on how to navigate the online or the digital world.
Yeah.
Awesome.
Victor.
And yes, we need more of these holistic approaches.
We need more of this infusion of technology into psychosocial, into climate environment, that solar punk dream as earth-based soul would, would claim.
Um, and the rest.
So thank you for your efforts.
I love to see DSI project collaborating with each other, DSI use slash, uh, or X Happily Ever After.
I want to see more of that.
I want to see more projects coming together, um, and pooling their efforts and their resources to push an initiative forward.
So thank you for that.
Um, next up, Bao, please feel free to unmute yourself and talk about Archimedes Lever.
Hey everyone.
Uh, great to be here.
Thanks for hosting.
Uh, and yeah, I think, um, you know, many of the projects are, are, are aligned in the similar vision of just the public good that, uh, Web3 has to offer.
And it seems like, uh, GR15 was just yesterday.
I think somebody else said that as well.
So, um, my project, well, this project, the Archimedes Lever, it grew out of the previous project, um, from GR15, which was this idea of the neuroscience of Ethereum.
And, uh, you know, I really want to thank everybody who contributed to the project because, uh, that kind of thing goes a very long way to furthering the ideas, right?
I mean, ideas don't grow in a vacuum.
The whole point of ideas and knowledge is to, is to share it.
So I'm glad that we're here.
And I think, uh, there's a lot of good that we can do together.
So in the context of decentralized science, um, what the project does is, uh, it helps, like, I'll, I'll keep it short.
That's a kind of a very broad idea.
And in this context, funding will help us to, um, collect EEG data at scale, which is very important for mental health today because, um, there are no biomarkers.
There is no objective biomarker for mental health today.
And, uh, especially, you know, in the context of, uh, frequent daily interactions with the internet, our neurotransmitter profiles are fluctuating way more, way more.
It's way more volatile than it's ever been before.
And for that reason, we really, really need this.
And I see this in our youth every day.
I'm a psychiatrist myself.
I see, um, oftentimes many of my patients, whenever, uh, you know, they're struggling, I asked them to share their screen time for me with me, for example.
And almost a hundred percent of the time, it's some ridiculous amount where it's like, you know, they're spending 12 hours glued to the screen every day.
It's kind of, um, it's really, really alarming.
So we need to take, uh, we need to really just push forward and take the lead here and, um, democratize access to this data because it's there.
The equipment is there.
The models are there.
Everything is there.
The only thing that's not there is the money to make it happen.
And that's what Web3 is all about.
So I hope that, uh, you know, we can all collaborate together to, to make this happen.
And also all the DSI projects here and all the projects in Bitcoin grants can also benefit from many of the insights that I have.
I don't want to take this stage up to kind of show myself, but there's a new type of decentralized finance that's on the horizon.
Now it's called, um, it's called elastic decentralized finance where the assets are supply elastic instead of price elastic.
And that comes with, uh, all kinds of benefits and properties for value accrual to tokens.
So I think a lot of the DAOs here that are doing a very important work and benefit from that.
And I would love to collaborate with everybody.
And I look forward to, uh, listening and hearing more about what everybody else has to offer.
Wow.
Thank you for sharing.
I think your perspective as a clinician is, is very valuable and we need more participants of your end.
We have a ton of scientists, sorry, I shouldn't say that we have a ton of scientists in the space.
We have a ton of citizen scientists as well.
We have much fewer, uh, official clinicians or, or formally trained clinicians in the space.
And so your insight, very, very valuable.
And it's true.
I'd love to see, I think the last frontier or one of the last frontiers for DSI this coming year is that merger between DeFi and the leveraging of DeFi tooling to help push these forward,
whether it be from the funding perspective or in terms of community engagement or the fusion of the both.
I think there's a lot of innovation in DeFi that is coming that will very much be pertinent for DAOs and even non-DAOs in terms of their sustainability and their survivability in the coming times.
So thank you for that.
Thank you for sharing.
Um, disclaimer, for those of you who don't have a Twitter that has a pinned comment about your round, please feel free to stick it in the comments below so that others can explore and learn more about it.
Um, next up.
Uh, so other disclaimer, I see that there are a few parts of projects here from not the non-DSI space.
Um, we, uh, you can come up and talk, but I'll leave that towards the end just to give the more DSI focused projects around.
So DLTO, please unmute yourself and share your project.
Hey, how are you?
Um, thank you so much for the stage.
Um, uh, how to explain us.
This is a very tough question.
So basically, um, you can send us in a, um, in three ways.
Uh, the first thing is that we want to help, uh, monetize the satellite data, uh, for the constellation operators because the difficulty of the, uh, of the market and to help them monetize the satellite data will also help the end users to get cheaper and more, um, um, like friendly, uh, data access.
And the most important thing is that, uh, we are actually helping the JS researchers to monetize their research.
So we can be think as, uh, be taken as the later stage as, for example, uh, is, uh, what's the name? Sorry.
Uh, uh, the, uh, the, uh, uh, Shamba protocol.
Is that what?
Shamba network.
Yeah.
Shamba network. Sorry.
So for example, if you have an algorithm with AI for the MRV data that not, you can, not only you can use it for yourself, but also you can put, uh, put it on the blockchain and monetize it with other people.
The other people can use it as a building block for their other purposes.
Uh, so the same logic is here.
Uh, so the same logic is here.
We encourage the JS researchers to upload their algorithms, like, uh, removing the cloud to identify the corpse and predict the yield, um, predict the weather, extra, extra, um, to, to the same place.
So that the end user can use these algorithms to compute the, uh, encrypted data uploaded by the constellation operators and generate the insight, which means for the end user, things will be much easier because you don't need to have expertise on it.
You just use what is, uh, given and, uh, use the existing building blocks to create your, uh, insight for your, um, adventure.
So this is actually a, uh, collaboration project that relies on many different, uh, uh, DAOs and the communities to make the platform alive.
So we're quite happy to see so many projects are doing, uh, pretty much same.
And we hope that one day we can, uh, share our infrastructure with all the similar projects and to, uh, help each other monetize, um, the existing problems and creating new solutions.
Thank you for sharing.
Um, I like that you bring up the point that there are other projects that may potentially be doing similar things.
So Tom made reference to this previously, that web three and DSI is more collaborative than competitive.
Um, but I think that competitive edge is still very important as it relates to science.
Uh, iron sharpens iron, steel sharpens steel.
Um, we need that kind of friendly competition without malice perspective.
Um, Manuel, go ahead.
Yeah, I, I also want to say, uh, something about that because yeah, Yelan, you're totally right.
And I think we both feel the same, uh, if we think about competition and collaboration in this web three and especially DSI space.
Um, because you know, in the best, in the best case as the ecosystem to grow, uh, we, we have to, we, we have both, uh, you know, we can, we can integrate our systems with each other.
Um, we can grow our customer basis.
Um, we can grow our customer basis.
And then what, what, what, what, where, where, where I see our, uh, decentralized science really heading towards.
It's like a hyper fragmentation.
Um, so that really, you know, the hyper niche, um, people.
Yeah.
We'll have a competitive advantage if you want to frame it like that.
But in the end, um, we, you know, saw that if you go with the mindset that everybody around you is like a competent potential competitor, uh, you, you will pretty much end up alone.
And this is not how it should be.
And we all in here are so open-minded, uh, you know, that there are no, no barriers, uh, to collaborate, to start joint ventures and to start exploring, uh, our, our shared future together as well.
So this is, um, again, um, I I'm advocating for, for a lot of collaboration because yeah, then we, we just can create the better future together and build on top of, of, of the shoulders of each other.
Instead of thinking in this, you know, traditional startup terms, uh, of, of beating the competition.
I think this is, yeah, not, not up to date anymore.
And especially not in the web three space that we're operating in.
Absolutely.
I couldn't have said it better.
Do you say Latin?
I see you have your hand up, but, uh, I just want to allow Chris from ax on doubt because he's been here for a while to kind of unmute himself.
And then I'll pull you up afterwards.
Hello.
Hey, Chris.
Hey, I appreciate, uh, everyone.
Uh, everyone, uh, being here and Jelani and, uh, Moondau, Deci world.
Um, I guess I'll kind of keep it brief, but excuse me, just to note on everything that everyone's been saying, um, in the shared collective.
Um, the idea just really to kind of bold what everyone else was saying is we found that we kind of have to put a value on this data, this health data.
And if we're able to do so, we're going to get more eyes and we're going to be able to get the attention that, you know, this needs.
And like everyone was saying web three, you know, this whole, you know, Deci community is great.
Um, compared to last year and this year, I feel it's very much invigorated and I'm pretty excited to be part of it.
Um, and to see that change, um, I guess, uh, you know, just kind of cap on that, but a little bit about what we are.
We started as, uh, a kind of research token, kind of an investment fund.
And we realized through the legalities that we can only do so much with and following in the legal realm.
So here we are as we're an operational Dow LLC.
And so through that, we're able to, you know, seek our mission and becoming, um,
an entity and decide that not only granularly shows how to monetize health data and data and decide and other platforms using all the means and methods that we have now.
But in addition to help support the community as well.
So, you know, it's our intent to later be able to invest in other projects.
But right now we're trying to do a proof case of and a use case of, you know, how do we monetize this data?
Web three can afford all these things.
Health care is changing.
Um, let's be the frontier of that.
Let's kind of catch that.
So, you know, we didn't realize we were going to get in this whole legal mess, um, in terms of trying to do this legally.
So we've been really, um, bogged down in that side, but, um, we were kind of on the other side of that.
So it's exciting to, you know, feel that we're on the edge.
And I'll be, you know, like I said, in the telegram, be willing to have anybody that's interested in communicating with me on, you know, any of the legal challenges and that, because that's also a big part of that.
Like, we can't be a viable thing unless, you know, we are legal, uh, at least in the U S where we are.
So we're trying to, you know, navigate that properly, but, um, coming back, you know, we have a great team.
Uh, everyone's passionate, you know, people have been really working for nothing.
Um, but we, we try to, we're trying to prove that there's value in what we're doing.
And, um, you know, we've been here for, for quite a while and we're just trying to solve the problems like everybody else.
And, uh, that's where we are.
So I appreciate the time and, you know, again, very excited to be part of it and, uh, see the change and the positive, uh, people in this community.
So thank you.
Thanks for coming up, Chris.
And for those of you interested, um, Axon Dow did launch an NFT, um, which proceeds go to funding, uh, scientific research.
Um, so please do check out their proposal, check out their platform, see what they're doing.
And yes, please reach out to Chris as it relates to the legality and the more corporate bureaucratic, um, side that these sides going to be facing.
Um, I think his insights are going to prove invaluable.
Um, and we'll actually have Chris up to, I'll be reaching out soon to have this opportunity, um, to talk about this in a much more wider format.
So thanks again, Chris.
Um, DCI Latin, please feel free to unmute yourself and share your project.
Hello, Shailani.
Hello, everyone.
Uh, actually I'm, I'm watching a lot of questions that I really like and I want to say congratulations to get their submission approved.
So this will be quickly.
So here we go.
Uh, our mission is, is to become a public group and empower the Latin America scientific community by building a foundation for pushing science and the blockchain ecosystem.
Um, the same attempt seeks to spread scientific research by supporting small foundations like scientific organization and research, giving them visual visibility and essential tools to build their project.
Um, we aim to create a bond with the scientific community through educational sports, events, Twitter space, and other platforms.
We are coming to addressing a wide range of challenges that affect our society.
We are determined to work, collaborate to overcome this challenge and engage our quality of life in Latin America.
Um, one of our major obstacles is that science and scientific knowledge have become an evolutionary problems as resourcing for science in Latin are relatively scarce or not in existence.
Um, that's why we seek to make a social impact.
Um, we, with this, the central science, knowledge and funding resources.
sources. So the last thing, our project aims to address the critical gap in the current
ecosystem by focusing on this site in Spanish, making scientific progress more access to
a wider audience. With most information of the central science currently available all
in English, I don't know if you noticed that, language barrier limits access to important
scientific knowledge, but it's pretty safe in our language, we can break down these walls
and promote really scientific collaboration and innovation. And if you are interested
in what we have done so far, go through to our Twitter, this side of the town, and watch
what we are doing, and all the events that we have done so far. Thank you for the space
and for the time.
Thank you for sharing. And I think the absolute explosion of DESAI presence in Latin America,
whether it be from DESAI Latin, I Biro AM, DESAI Brazil, DESAIers, speaks to, it's a testament
to the power of DESAI or the importance of DESAI in terms of bringing people who are traditionally
been left out of science, whether it be from language perspective or financial perspectives,
online into this space. And so thank you for your efforts. I highly encourage everybody
as usual, follow them, but also leverage their networks in terms of translational capacity
and plugging into these participants that traditionally have been left out of science. If you need a
translation in Spanish or Portuguese or any of the other languages that are present in Latin
America, of which there are many, please reach out to them and they can help you in terms of bridging
this or crossing this divide. Thanks again. Next up, let's bring up Fileverse. Love to hear what you guys
are talking, what you guys are working on.
Hey, hey, everyone. Thanks for organizing such a nice space, actually, for everyone to discuss.
Shout out to every project on here. I've heard really incredibly interesting things. I don't think I could
have just gotten such a good summary just by browsing through Gitcoin. Shout out to AthenaDAO. I think that
they were the ones mentioning doing more endo research. It's crazy how common and painful that problem is,
and yet, you know, just so completely understudied and underdiagnosed in so many people. So yeah,
really, really happy to hear about everyone's amazing work. So a bit about Fileverse and the people
building it. So our contribution to DSi, I would say, is foundational, if I may say so myself,
in the sense that it solves for information accessibility, visibility, and censorship resistance.
So those things are close to my heart. The DSi theme is close to my heart. I'm a PhD student in AI and
human control at Oxford. And I pull my hair out of my head almost daily because of the horrible
treatment that academics get for something that is so fundamental to human knowledge. So
our contribution to it is twofold. So Fileverse, our main goal when we started was to solve one of the
remaining points of centralization in the space. So that is online collaboration. So how people or
DAOs or groups collaborate with each other, create files, collaborate live on documents.
Today, even the most on-chain groups are using Google Suite or Notion. And it's problematic. It's
problematic because you depend on data silos. You get almost zero privacy guarantees. There is no such
thing as end-to-end encryption on there. You have zero on-chain functionalities. Your anonymity is
constantly being challenged. Storage is not cheap either, etc. So we wanted to intervene there. We
created the Fileverse and Fileverse portal more specifically. And within that, I just wanted to
highlight maybe our biggest contribution so far to DSi, which came out during East Denver, which is
our IPFS search engine. So just one minute on this. I think that one of the most important
pieces of tech that has come out of Web3 and that will be foundational to DSi is content addressing. So
most of you will know that we use peer-to-peer storage networks to store our files, IPFS,
are we, those things are great. The few benefits that they bring to you is that they sold link rot.
Every year, there are thousands of research papers that disappear forever because of links being broken
or rotten. Why? Because we constantly store our data in some big centralized servers that we don't know who
owns or who owns or who manages. And so we're dependent on a terrible infrastructure. So IPFS and R, we've
solved that to some extent. And we wanted to make sure that everyone, whether you're technical or not,
you can take advantage of it. So yeah, content addressing helps you with the link rot. It increases the
integrity of data. You can make sure that it's actually, you know, your favorite academic, let's say,
Max Tegmark that actually published that paper that there hasn't been any changes to that data.
And if there has, it comes from him and his public keys, etc. It's harder to attack as well. It's easier to recover
data from there. And it reduces the dependence on big tech centralized servers. So just to finish on this,
this, maybe something to help you visualize why this is so important. Right now, you can go on beta.filevers.io
slash IPFS and put any content hash from the IPFS network, even a 3D file, a PDF, a video, and you'll be able to
visualize it, download it, see who pushed it on the network. And soon you'll be able to do much more. And the main thing we
wanted to solve with that is, last month, I published a paper on AI, and it got fragmented
across archive, across research gates, across different journals and servers, which disappear
with time. And that adds paywalls on research, on important research, that the researcher themselves
cannot say no to. So, you know, paywall was slapped onto my own research. And I can't do anything about
it. And the big advantage with things like IPFS and Arweave is that you can create this one unique
link, that content hash, that points to that one paper of that one researcher, without depending on
centralized servers, and ensuring that all the discussion that happens around that paper, your
favorite research paper, can be found very easily. Because everyone is pointing to the same content hash,
rather than pointing to a Reddit link, archive link, Google link, etc. So I'll stop here. Otherwise, I can
speak about this site for a long time. But yeah, again, shout out to everyone. Hope you check
PowerBus out. I really think that it's a tool for everyone on this call. I think it can be very useful
for everyone, both in terms of encryption, content addressing, information accessibility. So yeah,
hope you try it. If you have any feedback, let me know. And thanks again for organizing the space.
Absolute pleasure. Thank you for sharing. Next up, we'll have Bruno, please unmute yourself and share
what's going on your proposal about ClimbCheck.
Hi, guys. So brief, I basically talk about two things. One is about ClimbCheck, and two is about
ReSci. That's the merge between DeSci and Regenerative ReFi. So firstly, what is ClimbCheck? ClimbCheck is a global climate
commons. So what we basically do is build hardware, climate sensors, and basically distribute it to the
community. So our goal is to create a hyperlocalized detection of climate information. And why is that
necessary? So most of the climate data we get today, basically, here are financed by government,
financed by big entities. There's no third voice in the space, which is community source data. And for
something as important as climate change, climate science, we feel there needs to be a community voice
towards solving that. So initially, we built air pollutant sensor monitors, which we are testing
the on-chain connection in, and so that the integrity of the sensor. With time, we're going to build water sensor.
Oh, might have been rubbed by Twitter there.
Bruno, we can't hear you anymore. So maybe reconnect and come back. In the meantime, just to be respectful
for time. Keith, you want to unmute yourself and come up and talk about your two projects that were
submitted by Lifespan.
Double whammy. Absolutely. Yes. First of all, hi, everyone. I'm Keith Camito, president of Lifespan.io,
which, as some of you probably know, is a nonprofit focused on raising funds and awareness for
aging research and overcoming age-related disease. I'm happy to participate in this round again,
as we have in many others, going back to, I believe it was round 12. And I love the spirit of
collaboration and collective work that's being spoken of by everybody here. I think this is the
way forward. In particular, the two projects that Lifespan.io has in this round. Number one is called
Lifespan.io Meets Web 3, Crowdsourced Clinical Trials, Inverse Quadratic Funding, and You. And what this
project is about is essentially developing new mechanisms for both doing crowdsourced clinical
trials and also new regenerative finance funding models that hopefully the whole ecosystem can use.
So to briefly speak about some of those elements, one of these is a new type of dynamic NFT that we've
been calling proof of philanthropy. Think of it as a scaling NFT that powers up and powers down based on
your tracked on-chain philanthropic giving that can be used as a powerful social proof and a way to
organize large-scale philanthropic giving. Related to that is another type of dynamic NFT called bio
avatars that can pull in currently like lightweight physiological biomarker data like your steps and your
sleep tracking into NFTs. So you can create, say, an interesting game mechanic where your character in
the game might power up if you are taking care of yourself. So you create incentive models for
people to take care of their health. And lastly, one aspect of this is new crowdfunding models as
well based off of variations of quadratic funding. So one of these is I've been calling inverse quadratic
funding, which is kind of like a way to flip the model of quadratic funding that becomes useful when you
have one project that everyone already has consensus on but requires like $100 million. And how do we get
that funded in a very exciting way? And I may or may not have more news on that soon. There's a couple of
major organizations that everybody in the world knows that may be interested in doing some very large-scale
kind of DCI-related crowdfunding, which could be amazing. So I don't mean to tease, but so that's
what that project is about. And thanks to the previous funding rounds, we've developed working
prototypes of these proof of philanthropy NFTs and kind of have the, I guess you could say, wireframe of
the inverse quadratic funding model ready to go for that project that I was teasing. And with the
additional funding that hopefully we'll raise in this round, we'll be able to build a more robust
conversion of that proof of philanthropy NFT to be used in a forthcoming regenerative funding model
for the hopefully the entire field of longevity and maybe other fields that we've been calling
Ouroboros. And I'd also like to shout out many organizations that we are working with to build
this out, which includes Gitcoin itself, Endowment, Angel Protocol, VidaDAO, WeaveChain and many others.
So to that point of collaboration earlier, I've been so overjoyed by how many organizations in
Web3 are just ready to jump in and build and work together, which is amazing. And then the second
project that kind of dovetails off of that first one is a specific decentralized clinical trial that
lifespan.io is working on laying the groundwork for called stopping Alzheimer's with light and sound.
That's the name of the grant name. And this is based on some very promising research that shows
that literally flickering lights and sounds of certain frequencies can remediate the effects of
dementia in mice. But this hasn't been sufficiently pushed out in human populations because for various
reasons. And one of them is being that it's not really like a traditional funding model for this.
It's very alien to the normal drug trial approach that the NIH might be used to. But I think we all
here can understand that if after 30 years and a trillion dollars in U.S. taxpayer funding that has
bared essentially no results against Alzheimer's disease, if a decentralized group on the internet with
blinking lights and sounds can do anything to remediate dementia, that not only would be amazing for the
thing itself, but would also create an earthquake in just how clinical trials are done and really wake
up the existing system. And I have that like directly from the horse's mouth and talking to many people
that are entrenched in the current system that are basically telling me, oh, my God, you all have to
do this because if you do this, then we can do this. So I'm really excited. Just a note of positivity.
I think what I'm about to say kind of maps to the entire field of DSI that I think the existing world
is we can catalyze a shift to decentralized science and refi and all these things that we're talking
about much faster than we might think if we can just demonstrate one or two amazing and undeniable
proof of concepts. And I think we're hopefully close. Knock on wood. Don't want to jinx it.
Uh, and then the last thing that I'll say is, uh, we're looking for collaborators help, not just
funding. So feel free to look up lifespan.io on all socials or me, Keith Camito. Somehow I'm the
only person in the world with my name. I don't know how I managed that. So I'm easy to find and
looking for, uh, looking forward to working with anybody. And my last point on the value proposition of
aging, uh, of the work that we do at lifespan.io and itself of aging research is that, you know,
basically 80% or more of all deaths are due to, uh, age-related diseases. And I actually like to
think that everything, even things like COVID-19 are age-related diseases. So if you really want
quote unquote effective altruism, this is treating the trunk of the tree rather than a branch of a
branch. And every second someone dies of age-related disease. So if whatever you do in your life or on
this call, you talk to a friend at a dinner table, if you just move up the fruition of this
kind of lifesaving work by just one second, you will have saved someone's life. So that's my call
to action. Get involved in our projects, get involved in everyone's project. Decentralized
Science is the way. And I'm very happy to speak about these projects with you all. Thanks for the
time, Jelani. Awesome, Keith. And great way of finishing it off. Very powerful statement and very
powerful call to action. And if you want to talk about bringing Desai closer to sci-fi and removing
the fiction from the sci-fi, I think Desai really is the space for this kind of open-ended brain
functioning that people like Lifespan are working towards and the rest of us are building up
platforms to help push forward. So thank you for that. Bruno, I see you're back. Hopefully Twitter
won't rug you again. Just a note to everybody, in the interest of time, please do try to keep your
proposal shilling as brief as possible so that we can get in as many people as possible. So go ahead,
Bruno, unmute yourself and finish off what you were saying.
Okay. So ClipNote, we're basically distributing sensors around the world to provide sort of like
a third data feed of climate data. Why that is important is because we all need to know what's
happening in the Earth ecosystem. Like when this spill happened in the U.S., there is no community
source data for that. The government and the environmental agencies were numb about it.
So if we have sort of like a third data factor that is open-sourced and is out there, we can
actually do real climate science research and the open-source data will be driven towards
research. And so while engaging in the Gitcoin grant, so I think we talked about Risa at some
point. So looking at the collaboration with people in the DSA and regenerative science and regenerative
finance aspect of it. So what DSA can do for refi is to be able to aggregate data because like refi is
impact. DSA is basically research, part of DSA is research driven. So if impact projects can
contribute that data to DSA project, like ClimCheck, we could basically analyze that data. So in case of
climate change, so ClimCheck design tools that can use for monitoring and evaluation. So we could
partner with re-site projects that are doing regeneration, farming and afforestation and gather
those environmental data and feed into climate models. So while we are capturing the sort of like the negative
effect on the climate, but also capturing the positive effect on the climate. So that's sort of like
more robust and balanced data for scientific research, predictive analysis and all of that.
So guys, support ClimCheck, join our community. We'll be giving out sensors when we start launching our
sensors and we can come on board, contribute, get to know what's happening to the climate from a
decentralized science point of view. Thank you, Jilani.
Oh, you are more than welcome. And I like how you emphasize the DSAI refi flywheel and we can throw
a defi into that as well. Very much point. This is a cyclical attribution of value into each of
these cycles. And we all help kind of push each other forward in our own kind of way. Speaking of
that, Impact Finance. Brett, I'm assuming that's you. Go ahead and unmute yourself and talk about the
platform that you guys have developed. Awesome. Thanks. Yes, it's me, Brett. I'm one of the founders
of Impact Finance. If you go to our website, you'll see that our goal is to build interactive
digital economies that support high impact causes, which might sound a little abstract,
but I think it makes more sense when you see In Theory, which is the first thing that we're
building that's here in the DSAI space. We're really trying to connect the metaverse and gamers
to scientists. And so our goal within theory is to leverage 3D avatars and generative artworks
to really gamify the process of funding science. So essentially, you'll be able to build your own
3D avatar that has attributes like poses, accessories, backgrounds that are all reflective
of your different contributions to various different types of science. And you'll also be able to collect
digital generative artworks that are inspired by the projects that you're funding that you can
showcase in a digital trophy room. We'll have things like leaderboards, as well as achievements,
various different gamification strategies to really make the process of funding
decentralized science a really fun and interactive thing that can be then exported into different
game engines or other metaverse platforms. So you can really take your pride of science elsewhere
with you when you're playing your favorite video game in say Unreal Engine or interacting on some
metaverse social platform. So that's the gist of it. We have a pretty robust grant this time that
really, I think, lays it out all in really good detail. So really encourage you to go check that
out if you want to learn more. And we also do have a live beta right now of the In Theory platform that
is currently working on the Celo Alpha Jores and the Polygon Mumbai testnet. All the projects on
there right now are currently generated by chat GPT. So they're not real projects. We're in the
process of onboarding researchers, research groups, DAOs, projects to the platform so that they can get
some free exposure and some crowdsource funding for their work. So if you'd love to have your
project or your group on our platform, certainly reach out as well. And yeah, I promised to keep it
brief. So I guess I'll leave it at that. Thank you all. And then certainly reach out if you have any
questions. Appreciate it. Fantastic. Thanks, Brad. And if you guys haven't heard, that's two projects
now that are fusing the divide between DSI and Gamefire. Maybe a trend coming soon. Keep an eye
on it. Thanks, Brett, for sharing that. Next up, Kenneth, please unmute yourself and talk about
the Lion Initiative. Maybe, maybe not. Ken? From Talento? Not yet? All right, cool.
So while he figures out, he or she figures out what's going on, Harry, unmute yourself. Share what's
going on with health exchange. Hi, everyone. I know I've already given this example a billion
times with policies in advance in Manuel and Jelani. They've sort of heard this, this tirade a few
times. But today in the United States, health data is bought and sold all the time. I think the
examples I keep going back to are Optum United, which is the largest health insurer in America,
has over 100 million American citizens' health data in a database that they sell out to pharma
and other sorts of companies. And obviously, that's almost one in three Americans. However,
you know, one in three Americans aren't getting compensated. I actually read an even bigger
stat. Globally, there's a health data company called IQVIA. They actually have access to 1.2
billion patients globally in a de-identified level. But still, it's that data. And how this works today
is when you go into a hospital, you sign certain things on your HIPAA release form. And hospitals
essentially take advantage of the fact that people don't really read it. And they scrub that data and
they turn it anonymized, even though that data was still generated by a real person. And then they sell
that information. And because it's de-identified, because it's, you know, potentially scrubbed,
they don't feel the need to pay patients, or even for in some cases, let patients know that this is
going on, right? It's all something that happens at the back of an office somewhere. And so that's
what we're trying to change. Health Exchange essentially wants you to get paid for your
health data and when your health data gets used for research, because it's something that we believe
patients truly own, that's something that they should be able to profit off of. So we plan to create
a platform where you can request and view all your health data. And then essentially, we're going to
run a managed service where we work with pharmaceutical companies and do deals with
them. But we take a portion of that revenues and then funnel it back to our users. I think
Chris, a few minutes ago from Axon, started talking about the legal and regulatory challenges
as it relates to getting something like this off the ground in the US. And that's something we're
running into as well, but something that we have hope for. I think I'll just show one other thing.
A few days ago, I believe Coinbase partnered with Gitcoin to create this stand with crypto,
sort of free NFT. It's a free mint and the gas fees go towards advocacy, towards essentially
lobbying governments to come up with really responsible regulations for crypto that still
allow for innovation. So that's something we're really excited about, and obviously something
that we rely on, being in such a regulated industry. So again, we're HealthExchange. We
want to get you paid for health data that's pretty much already being sold. And thanks again
to TSI World and Moondout for co-hosting this space. Really appreciate it.
Awesome, Harry. And I never get tired of hearing about it. So it's all good. Thank you for sharing.
Please do check that out. And thanks for the information on the Coinbase Gitcoin round. People,
please do check that out. And crypto advocacy as a whole supports everybody's initiatives here.
Ken, I heard you beeping a few seconds ago. Are you live? Can you tell us about what your
what your Bitcoin proposal is? Yeah, definitely. Sorry about the beeping. I didn't realize it was
going to be so dramatic. I thought it was just like one of those hand raising things. But thanks for
bringing me up. Yeah. So our project, and I actually have my partner here, Stanley, who's
been helping to build this out. It's called Project Lion. So we were actually in the GR15 round as well.
It's our project is sort of a collaboration between TalentDow and LabDow. Initially, our goal was to
build sort of this data bridge between Discord and using state-of-the-art AI to analyze the Discord data and
feedback communities health analytics. We built that out last, I think actually,
about three months ago, released it as a repository called LionOS and then saw GPT-4 and quickly realized
that there's a lot more potential in building Discord bots that can help manage communities.
So that's what we've been focused on now. We're building a Discord bot named Leo. And right now,
we're focused on helping these communities better manage their knowledge and manage the influx of new
contributors. So what it does at its core is you could chat with the bot, just like you can with
chat GPT. You could also ask questions to the bot. And how the asking questions works, there is a place
where you can upload any sort of document that is owned by your DAO. And that could be anything from
a list of your projects to your entire Notion database or like a bunch of research papers you've
written. And you could actually ask the bot questions about those things. So the aim is to help better
inform new contributors about your projects, about what's being worked on, the status of things,
and just onboard them a lot easier so you could focus on the things that are important to you.
So the latest feature we built that was actually a project recommender. So if you type slash onboard
in your channel, it will look at the recent introductions messages from people and recommend
projects that are in your Notion or your Charmverse, whatever system you use to track knowledge to them
based on the characteristics they kind of listed in their interest. The thing we, so the two things
we kind of want to focus on going forward is one, building out a community around building community
agents. And I say community agents, because as I mentioned, I'm super focused on these sides. So the
next thing I want to implement is you may have seen something like auto researcher, which is sort of like
an agent that you could say, you can ask a research question like, what is the impact of COVID-19 on
the teenage population or something like that. And it will search over a database of research papers, it will
find ones that are related, it will summarize those, and it will summarize all the summaries and give you
all the sources. It sort of does like a pretty low level literature review for you. So something like that,
and just continuing to build on that and having a community of people around designing different
integrations, different kind of outputs for agents, different processes and tasks that you might
want to run in your DAO, and offering bounties to people who contribute to the project. So it's truly a
community agent built by the community.
Amazing. Anything that adds more coordination to the chaos that is Discord, especially as it comes
to onboarding participants into the space, social space as technically savvy or as technically heavy
as Desai is very much appreciated. Side note, we're going to reach out to you about that. We're
currently in the process to kind of build out, or not build out, but come up with something similar.
Shout out to Stanley, our resident super genius in Desai, in the crowd. Definitely check out
TalentDAO and LabDAO. That is a super-powered collaboration event happening right there.
So follow both if you haven't already, and help push forward and implement these tools that
they're putting. Oh, well, you know what? I'll bring Stanley up himself, and he can talk about anything.
Stanley, do you want to talk about something? No problem. Good morning to this exciting public
goods funding community. Awesome, Stanley. Thank you for coming up. And just as an FYI, I'm going to pin
it in the comments or in the jumbotron here that there's going to be a LabDAO follow-up
Desai killing sessions. If you want to repeat and talk about your stuff more, which is always good,
please do go there. Great community. Jocelyn, I believe, is leading that. Fantastic member of the
space. Another super genius in Desai. So please do check them out afterwards, as well as any of the
other skill sessions that are happening across this week. Sonic, you want to say something?
Yeah, I would like to ask two questions when there will be time.
Yes, well, go ahead and ask your questions now. I think we've wrapped up the Desai dedicated projects.
We have a few other entrants who have come up to talk. They're from slightly different rounds, but
this is a communal collaborative space, so they'll be able to shield their stuff as well. But Sonic,
if you have a particular question to the projects that have already spoken, please feel free to ask
away. Oh, thanks. It's more like a general thing. I'm a PhD architect and been doing this PhD for nine years and
been through a lot of stuff through academia. So there are two questions that I'm concerned with
when it comes to decentralized science. The first is, how is censorship working? Is there any censorship
involved? Is it going to be involved? And the second question is, in traditional academia, there is always
like this very rigid process of verification of the work, you know, of the research, where in decentralized
science, like who is the authority to kind of verify or evaluate or give points to specific researchers?
So these are just to my concerns. Thank you. I've been listening and, you know, I've followed almost
everyone. Thank you for the space. Well, thank you very much for asking those two questions. Those are,
I think, the two prominent questions that I get when I speak to new entrants in the space or people who
I'm trying to get onboarded in the space. What I will say that there are there are checks and balances
in the Desai space. I believe most projects, and as you've heard about recently, both Axon Dow and
Health Exchange, Desai is looking to cooperate very, very closely with regulatory bodies. I mean,
we have to, by definition, to be able to achieve the impact that we're driving forward. So it's a
little bit less, you know, F the system as other particular Web3 niches. As it relates to individual
projects, if it's a DAO, usually DAOs are structured in such a way that you have key opinion leaders,
specialists, THDs, like yourself, myself, and others in the space that sit at a validation layer
when it comes to inbound proposals or inbound projects. Projects such as like the tooling ones,
like LabDAO, Desai Labs, and those ones, they are professionals that are building out tools. So
they're more of a classical structure, a Web2S structure, but are building tech that can be leveraged
to help facilitate the open access nature of science, whether it be publishing or funding and the
like. So there is always that professional, vetted, skilled, and not necessarily from a,
like from a traditional standpoint in terms of traditionally trained, but people who can
verifiably demonstrate their skills and expertise to be able to do something, there is that layer
that exists there. Now, does that mean that there's not going to be things that slip between the cracks
and some, you know, ethically questionable science that gets pushed forward? That's kind of
part and parcel for the concept of more open. Decentral Desai is not going to be decentralized in the
same way as financial systems can be. Those can be fully automated. Science cannot be fully automated.
So there are inherently going to be more checks and balances there. So I hope that answers a few
of your questions. If you have more questions, feel free to reach out to me at DesaiWorld or my personal
Twitter account, JelaniC3. And we can have this conversation further. But thank you for those
great questions. These are really important points to bring up in terms of talking about decentralized
science. So moving on now, I didn't say if you've been requesting to come up and talk,
please feel free to unmute yourself and talk about the project that you're shilling for, I believe,
the open source software round.
Yeah, absolutely. I'm very grateful that I've got my turn to speak on decentralized science. I'm
really sorry if it offends anybody that presented on decentralized science only, but we're definitely
developing a cutting edge technology on blockchain. And we have implemented a couple of standards that are
based on anonymity. And we're currently like I'm currently in Thailand learning ZKPs. And we're
definitely looking forward to integrating more of the cutting edge technology into Pinsafe and just
helping the community grow. And we're currently in the open source and social media rounds. And we're
definitely looking forward to seeing you again. Thank you so much. Thank you.
You're very welcome. And just as a note, Lunko, which was here online previously, Rod, their founder,
is also located in Thailand. So that would be a great opportunity for you guys to kind of collaborate,
talk together, and see what avenues of collaboration can exist in your project and
the larger D-space space or D-space space. So definitely check them out. Check him out and
reach out to him. Super friendly person and open to talk. Thanks for sharing. Data Latte.
Please unmute yourself and share about your project that I believe is also in the open source
software round. Hi, everyone. I get coiners, desires, refires, everybody. Thanks a lot for the time.
And they can come up here. My name is Amir. I'm founder of Data Latte. And the reason I would have
liked to come to the D-space space is how I feel Data Latte can actually relate. And I should have
probably applied to this round as well. So basically what we do at Data Latte is we have one mission,
and that is for people to have the ownership of their data and to be able to earn from it.
And it comes as a no surprise that like all the big tech companies are massively profiting out of our
data. And we can see recently that some of these companies like Reddit are claiming that the AI
companies need to pay them for our data to be able to train on it. And what we like to bring
with the power of ownership that grants with Web3 is to give that ownership of data actually to people
so that they can monetize it for themselves. And what we do today is we have
basically surveys that people can respond as easily as that to monetize that data. And then we offer it
for researchers to be able to gain insights and build upon it. And what we do is actually tomorrow we are
publishing a survey for the targeting of the Gitcoin community, the Gitcoin donors to gain insights on how to
engage further with the donors for all the projects. And we will be publishing these insights publicly.
And as a survey protocol as well, we are reaching out to any DSi project that likes to conduct the research
on the community or any other targeted community to come to us. And we will design a survey for you and
we can conduct it on our platform. That's what they want to offer. And I think that we align very well
with the decentralized science community, as long as the science needs data to build upon it. And we are
there to create this and decentralize and democratize the access of data.
Amazing. Thank you for sharing. I think this project in particular synergizes very well with
what Talendao is doing. Beyond just the Leo project, there's also looking into the impact of the Gitcoin
rounds. So please do reach out to them and ourselves, because one of our resident specialists at DSiWorld,
Carolina, who's in the crowd here, is also helping push that along. And the kind of insight that you will
be generating in your survey that you'll be releasing tomorrow would be invaluable for that.
So welcome to the DSi community. We're glad to have you and we'll look forward to collaborating with
you further into the future. Thanks for sharing. Fighters, I see you're up. Please unmute yourself and
tell us what your project is.
Wait, we already do fighters? All right, if we already did fighters, it's my bad.
Tregent, please go ahead, unmute yourself and share what your project is.
GM, everybody. Wow, it's been incredible learning about all these
wonderful DSi projects. Thank you so much, DSiWorld for putting this together. This is a great space.
Kudos to you. You know, I also have a bunch of spaces. Some people have been asking me like,
why are you crazy enough to go live on Twitter spaces for 60 hours straight,
speaking for 45, sleeping for 45 minutes, or plant trees for 21.5 hours straight like an insane
person to try to beat a world record? Well, you know, really, the reason why I'm able to do all
these ridiculous things is because of the potential of how much positive impact is really possible in
this space that we're all kind of in this broader Web3 arena. And it's so motivating and so inspiring
that it really pushes me to do these ridiculous things. So just to recap, so Tree Gens is pioneering
some of the most transparent and rewarding tree planting solutions. We have a partnership with
Four Trees Club to plant mangrove trees, and we have those trees planted, funded on chain. So the first
thing that we've launched and we've already built this is tokenized trees. So it's 10 cents per mangrove
tree, which removed, you know, eight to 10 times more carbon from the atmosphere compared with old
terrestrial forests. And then those updates are also then delivered on chain. So we have non-fungible
updates. We've developed an MLAI tree counting technology. So basically we can count the trees
just from a video film with a phone, as any smartphone, with more than 97.5% accuracy. And then we
airdrop those videos with the AI tree counter overlaid to the holders. And that transparency
gap is really, really key. I've been raising funds for good causes for about eight years,
and transparency has always been kind of lacking. And so that is what we're hoping to solve first and
foremost to fuel all these different things. And then in terms of also trying to make it gamified and
more engaging and also rewarding, because right now the economy is incentivized as a degeneration of
nature over regeneration of nature. We are launching the first DSST. So this stands for
dynamic semi-soulbound token. It levels up. It's a dynamic NFT, basically, the mind orb and the heart
orb according to how many trees that you fund or plant respectively, counted through the AI tree
counting tech. And then it's semi-soulbound in that you can still trade the underlying art,
but the impact metrics, which are overlaid, are non-transferable. So that's the DSST.
And then lastly, we're launching Carbon Forward. So we recently partnered with Blue Sphere Carbon
in order to, you know, they've built $100 million companies in the past. They're pretty
established in the carbon space to basically work with carbon forward investors. So these impact
investors will buy the future value of the carbon of the trees that we plant in the short term. Even
though it's at a reduced rate, it's an order of magnitude more than what it costs to plant those
trees, which means we can reinvest back in the trees and scale the trees exponentially and also
reward the holders, the holders of the tree gens, DSSTs and trees tokens, such that people become more
bullish on trees, more bullish on regeneration. And that's how we will transition the dgens into tree
gens. So thank you for the opportunity to share. You can check my pins if you want to learn more.
Awesome. And I love that, changing the dgens to tree gens. That's exactly what we need.
We need to orient the dgens so that their effort, their energy, their zeal, their zeal,
their zealotry can be put towards impact causes that actually change the world around them. So
very much appreciate that. Very much synergize that thought. Thank you for sharing.
Fighters, come on up and share what you guys are working on.
Hello, hello, Julio. Am I audible?
Yeah, we can hear you.
Yeah. First of all, thank you so much for your amazing space. I've learned a lot of things during
this space. I know this is amazing, actually, area in refi, refi, refi area. But we are coming from
different, different area climate solution. By the way, I'm Sonny, founder of Fighters Gang.
And Fighters Gang is coming from different area. We are NFT collection, one of one NFT collection,
trying to fight climate change with the help of NFTs and Web3 and blockchain technology.
We started this collection around 2022, in early 2022, when we are working for and looking for an
alternative way to continue our fight against climate crisis and help endangered animal species.
And find Web3 and amazing, amazing technology. And with table and unstoppable force for a long run.
And we don't know that climate change is a global coordination problem and must be tackled and
reserved. Because we know that and everyone knows without any physical work, there is no digital work.
And we decided to come up with NFT to fight climate change, because in this way, climate action become
more accessible for more people and also can act as a proof of impact for the Minter.
And we are going to donate 50% of not-profit from Mint to plant trees and reforest in Tanzania with a
collaboration with 4Trees Club, our amazing partner with Jimmy Cohen. Jimmy Cohen is the person behind 3GNs2.
We're going to plant around 100,000 trees at the first part of the meet. And we're going to reduce
carbon footprint 10x more efficient, as you know, mangrove trees is 10x more efficient from the money side and from the
offsetting carbon emission. And in this way, we're going to make sure that the next generation,
the future generation, the future generation can enjoy the beauty of the nature.
Also, this partnership will bring future carbon credit to future holders. And also,
the holders will receive non-fungible updates on the blockchain, on their wallet.
And again, thank you so much, DeSoivort. And please support us. Check our pinned tweet. The link is there. And please,
yeah, you can join our Discord. The link is in the bio. And we are going to apply for Launchpad after the
Gitcoin beta ramp. And we are going to be live after the Gitcoin beta ramp. Thank you so much, Julio, and everyone that
is here. And listen to us. Shout out to you, everyone here.
Thank you very much for sharing. It is a pleasure from our end to do so. We're here to serve, as we said,
multiple times, both myself, Mundao, Manuel, and the many other stewards and participants in the space,
this collaboration with a little bit of competition, a competition, but without malice. Thank you for
sharing. Thank you, everybody who has come to share their project, whether you be from the DSI round or the
climate round. And I think to that particular point, no matter what round you're particularly
interested in, please peruse the project that exists in the other rounds that you might find
something that is at a spiritual level, intellectual level, commitment level. Donate where you can.
Anything helps. It doesn't have to be a lot. We're all in this together. We're one gigantic family,
despite the different niches that are forming. And we all kind of got to tackle it together.
So we've reached beyond the top of the hour. So if you have to read it, I'm not in my car driving.
So if there's nothing else to be said, again, thank you everybody for coming up and chilling
their projects. Currently, there is another shill session happening at LabDAO. I've pinned it at the
top at the Jumbotron. So please check them out. Go there and show your project again.
Go learn about other awesome projects that may not have come here. Make sure you participate.
Manuel, do you want us to have anything to say on your end before we close out?
Yeah, thanks. Thanks to everyone who joined us today. Thanks to the people who joined us here on
stage. Thanks to the audience. One more thing, because we already heard that there are some
scammers, you know, going around in our round. Watch out if you got a bad feeling and someone asks you
for crypto directly. There's a high chance that they might not be the official Gitcoin team or Moondown
team or DCI World team. So always, always be prepared. Zero trust, you know. But yeah,
thanks to everybody, everyone who joined us today and hopefully see you soon. Let's make it happen.
And one more thing. Moondown and Manuel are hosting a series of Gitcoin focused
marketing and talks and Twitter spaces. There will be one at Deep Space Cornerstone on Friday,
as well as others happening tomorrow and Friday. So please check those out. Support the community
where you can. And yeah, there's nothing else to be said, guys. Thanks again for coming and we'll be
in touch. We'll have another session next Wednesday. It's time for people to ask questions in terms of
what to do once your funding has come in, the process of getting it unlocked and how to apply it,
and what to consider for the next round. So we want to hear about your testimonials,
your critique, what the next round needs, and how can we make this next DCI round better than it was
last time. So take it easy. It was a pleasure. Follow Moondown, follow Manuel, follow myself.
Come to DCI World. If you're a project that exists, the DCI World dashboard is free to list on.
It'll get you out there into the community. People will be able to learn about you. So
all projects are welcome as long as they fit within the DCI criteria. And yeah, that's it.
Take it easy, guys. Have a great rest of your day. Bye, everybody.
