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Gitcoin Grantees | Beta Round | Shill & Chill 🔥
Recorded: April 26, 2023 Duration: 1:48:15Space Recording
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Can you hear me?
I've sent you a card host invitation as well.
Oh nice, I'll share it in the telegram group, I'll share it in the
key coin group.
Yeah, and the other thing I need to do is, are you good with Madonna?
Shall we go for something?
Hey Salvo man, how are you doing?
I haven't made Salvo speak because I'm an idiot.
Salvo's been invited to speak.
And we have Lunko as well.
Good to see you guys.
Why don't we do a jukebox of a music session to get us started.
Whoever suggests the first song, I'll just put it on.
Salvo's going to suggest some opera music from Italy, I bet.
That's fine, we can do that.
Some Fabri Fibra, I think he said his favourite rap band.
Fabri Fibra, speak English.
Speak English.
Speak English.
Yeah, fire away man, put on whatever.
I'll share it in a few more places.
And Lunko, if you don't mind retweeting it.
Salvo, I know you've got a legendary community here, so if you don't mind retweeting it,
I'm sure we'll get some more people as well.
But yeah, play some music down and let's get started in a few minutes.
Alright, let's do...
Stick to the original plan.
I just wanted to jump in and propose to listen for a track Watch the World Burn by Falling in Reverse.
I don't know why, but it's quite aggressive.
That's fine, we'll do that.
Thank you for the suggestion.
That will YouTube adverts.
Bloody hell.
There we are.
We're good.
Maybe I just want to become a cyborg.
You know, it would be really convenient.
Well, everybody wants to watch the world burn, man, so I appreciate the sentiment.
But yeah, I don't know if you're playing there or not, Daniel, but it's not coming through, am I?
It's not coming through?
No, nothing.
I see we've got some more people though.
I see Desai Ukes is here.
A bridge for young scientists to get involved in Desai.
That's pretty interesting.
Climb check.
I'm going to guess you guys are in the climate round.
And then I see Devansh Mata, which is a very cool name.
But yeah, I don't know what project he's part of, but yeah, it'd be great to hear about your guys' projects.
And then as we, as we fill out, then let's, let's get more and more people to talk about.
As you know, Desai Youth, I'd love to hear what you're doing exactly.
Yeah.
Feel free to request to speak, Desai, and tell us a little bit more about what you're doing.
I think you might have to invite them to speak or they can request to speak.
Yeah.
So maybe while we're, while we're waiting there for that, so like, Lunko, how are things going with you, man?
How was the, how was the first day?
Have you gotten any donations coming in or how are you getting on with your project?
I think Lunko received around seven or six donations.
And today I had the shilling session in real life.
I'm in Thailand on Kopangang.
And we have around like three or five projects on Gitcoin.
So it's nice to see how, you know, the thing starts to work in real life when you can talk to people who are already there.
And everyone has the same feelings, same emotions.
So it's quite nice.
But unfortunately on my ride back, I've got into a bike accident.
So I had to go to the hospital.
Yeah.
I was too focused on, I made really stupid mistake.
I was too focused on Gitcoin.
And actually I'd suggest everyone to keep in mind that Gitcoin is not everything.
So you have to be really careful.
For me, it was a good lesson.
Lessons learned.
Absolutely.
That's so cool you were in Kopangang though.
I actually spent a month there in September last year.
Whereabouts on the island are you?
I'm in Chalaklam.
I've been living here for a year.
It's so shame that we had no chance to meet.
I mean, we had a chance to meet actually, but we didn't meet.
Yeah.
I think I was by like...
Yeah, I was actually by Chalaklam as well.
That's so funny.
Yeah.
I stayed in like a...
I stayed in an Airbnb there at the top of the hill and it's just like the most beautiful
part of Thailand.
Like it's so, so nice.
Like...
That's crazy, man.
Nice.
There's a...
There's a Web3 community in Kopangang then it sounds like.
Yeah, now it exists and not so long time ago.
It was an accident by the guy from Giveth.
He helps Giveth with the Twitter.
He was on Bali and then he decided to...
He said that he...
He's waiting...
He's going away from Bali.
And I dropped him a message.
Like, hey, if you'll be on Kopangang, let's meet.
And he responded, oh, I'm already here.
So I said, let's meet in two hours.
He said, let's meet in four hours.
And we met like, so Web3 community is global.
And we already have, like, people who are already on Gitcoin.
And actually, we will be shooting Pangan projects this Saturday at 1500 UTC.
So feel free to jump in to get in touch with the local guys.
They are on Gitcoin.
Or they really want to be on Gitcoin.
Some of them were declined.
And show your projects as well.
But it's more about, you know, projects are different.
It's more about local community.
Local Pangan community.
I mean, projects from people here.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, I'll definitely check that out on Saturday.
That sounds pretty interesting.
And yeah, I feel like a few of my friends as well, Web3 friends,
applied for different projects and got denied.
And I think, like, most of the time when you get denied,
it's because there's just no evidence that you've done very much work
because there's so many projects to apply.
And there's also so many people who just put in bullshit projects as well,
where they're not really working on them.
They're just trying to get some money.
And they're trying to make something that's a bit popular.
Which I guess is kind of what Gitcoin is trying to weed out.
But I see that DSAI youth is here.
So what's your story, DSAI youth?
How are you going to get young people into DSAI?
What's your project all about?
Yeah, sure.
And thank you for giving me this opportunity.
So this is Victor behind the DSAI youth account from Abadeya in Kenya.
So DSAI youth is, yeah, from Kenya.
So DSAI youth is decentralized the science youth movement.
That's its own mission to nurture the upcoming generation of scientists
around the movement of change in the next iteration of the web.
This is what we are all working towards.
And when I talk of the movement of change, this is DSAI, LIFI,
and also the regenerative science, that is LISAI.
So the problems that we are trying to solve,
especially here in Africa, is scientific brain drain.
And we shall do this by introducing the DSAI and LISAI philosophies
and workflows to model the next generation of scientists.
So already here in Africa, there are already well-established students' clubs
on the tech side.
That is the Google Developer Students' Club.
We have the Web3 student clubs and also environmental clubs.
These are already established clubs in our universities.
And I feel that they will be a good shielding zone for the DSAI and also LIFI,
as we spread the vibe that science is dating technology,
so that we can have more science students coming and joining into these clubs
and driving the DSAI initiative together with people who are learning how to develop
and also the Web3 societies in our universities.
So another thing, we shall also be providing educational links to students.
that is resources and communities for the Web3 projects.
For example, we already have the Public Good Student Association,
alongside with the Forensight Institute.
We also have Active Inference Institute.
We have also DreamDAO and TalentDAO.
Some of these projects are also in the Gitcoin Betaloud,
and I'm excited about that and also happy to collaborate with them
because I'll be driving students here in Africa towards their project
so that they can learn more about DSAI.
So another problem we are solving as DSAI youth,
it's the harm posed by digital exposure, especially to the young generation.
So we have this, the addiction and also traumas
that have come along with the design of Web2 platforms,
that is issues to do with attention economy.
For sure, all over the world we have had a lot of young people
who are victims of these Web2 platforms.
And as we all know that Web3 prioritizes on the user privacy,
decentralization and also community ownership.
So the next digital well-being paradigm lies on this impact project
we are all building, especially those arising from the roots of science
and regeneration.
Can I ask you, like when you're saying that people are like the victims
of the Web2 platforms, like what's an example of like a Web2 platform
that someone is a victim to, like what kind of like bad things have you seen
or how do you see that people are struggling in Kenya or in your area
as a result of a Web2 platform?
Yeah, sure. That's a good question.
So I have been diving deep in the topic of digital well-being.
And for now I've seen that the screen addiction is one of the most perversive addiction.
And this is something that people are shunning of.
They are not talking about this issue.
So with the Web2 platforms, they spread very, very fast.
And some of their aims is not really to drive impact,
rather having just people to be allowed there as they are a form of driving people
towards their attention economy.
So this is generally how these Web2 platforms are designed.
And they have brought about problems due with doomsclotting,
also fabbing, aside from addiction that I talked about.
So yeah, yeah.
Doomsclotting. What is that exactly?
Yeah, doomsclotting is when we are having people scrolling through the media
and generally absorbing negative information.
Oh, doomsclotting, yes.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
I've seen many, many, many people doing that.
And yeah, it's such an addictive behavior.
And you can just spend hours scrolling through various posts and whatnot.
So I guess, like, what will you do with any funds that you get from Gitcoin?
And like, is this your first Gitcoin grant?
And then, yeah, how will you spend the money if you get anything?
Yeah, this is my first Gitcoin now.
And this is a movement that started on last year in November.
So I have already experienced on what was happening on the Gitcoin Alphaloud.
And I decided also to join in to get some funds.
So some of the things that I do with the funds is funding the initiative.
We already have a team, although it's a small team, that we shall be joining these clubs to form collaboration.
I mean, these students clubs that are already established here in Africa.
Another thing on this issue of the digital well-being, we are already in collaboration with Happily Ever After.
This is a network of health and well-being spaces to nurture our mind, our body, and our soul.
So at Happily Ever After, we are outsourcing digital well-being spaces.
So these are spaces that will be aimed at connecting individuals to impact projects that are aimed at healing and nurturing our Mother Earth.
All these impact projects on science, regeneration, and also technologies so far, we have allowed 70 projects.
And I look forward to adding more projects after learning more of these projects from the Bitcoin beta cloud.
And also for the teenagers, we shall also be introducing our digital well-being space, which will be more of learning on how to be saved in the digital world.
Very, very good, man.
Really appreciate that.
Really appreciate you helping us through it.
Thanks, Deesai.
If you want, by the way, if you haven't done already, if you reply to the spaces thread, this one with your Gitcoin grant, and a short introduction on what you do so that people scrolling through can see it and check it out and potentially donate.
So yeah, that goes to anyone here.
Do feel free to reply to this.
And as a speaker, we'll be able to pin it whilst you're speaking as well.
Cool.
So we also have Rodman and Sungura Majanja.
Sorry if I've got that wrong.
Oh, that's you as well.
Yeah, sorry.
I mean, Rod is on the founder of Funko, but I'm right now using Lomka account.
All good.
All good.
And Climb Check as well.
So if any of you guys would like to introduce yourselves, I've got a request here.
That's from Sungura.
Yeah, anyone who'd like to introduce their project, tell us a little bit about what you're doing and how Gitcoin is going to help you.
Go ahead.
Oh, sorry.
That can be your turn as well.
Yeah.
That's you as well.
Okay, sorry.
I thought that it was not to me and then that to me...
Just to whoever wants to.
So it looks like you've taken the stage.
So go for it.
I didn't want to jump in.
So I'm trying to...
I have a lot of explanations what Lomka is, but I think right now one of the best that I was able to find.
It's an open source platform for industrial and robotics engineering.
I'm a professional space systems engineer.
I have an open source platform for industrial and robotics engineering.
I'm a professional space systems engineer.
I have experience designing payloads for the moon.
And basically everything that flies in space, it's a robot.
Moreover, the rocket itself, it's a robot.
And a lot of things around us could be considered as a robot.
There are different definitions.
It doesn't matter.
But after all, when you design complex stuff that has to work, the complex electronics, machines, everything.
The processes in general are the same.
You have several stages of engineering.
During those stages, you have to create models.
Everything works in a loop.
So you make one design, then you do a couple of iterations.
On top of that, you have to write down a lot of documents, a lot of technical drawings, diagrams.
You have to manage the project.
And right now, the huge issue is that you have software for all of the stages.
And it's a really advanced and cool software.
However, in most cases, it really costs a lot.
It's proprietary and it's super expensive.
One engineering, like SOLIDWORKS license could cost up to 10k per year per one engineer.
And there is a huge end that you'll need to use several software.
So, and one of the biggest issues is that all of those software, they can export into open source, but, sorry, into open source format, but they are not compatible.
Like, the information, all the models, they are disconnected.
So the main idea of LUNK is to provide a medium of exchange for industrial and robotics engineers, space engineers, allowing them to exchange models directly using a P2P approach like IPFS and publish the results of their design on chain, things like that.
But at its core, it's all about boring stuff.
Well, if you are not a space engineer, like requirements management, desertization, processes, and things like that.
That's pretty sick, man.
So, if we donate to your project, like, how are you going to, like, what are you, where is it going to go?
Is it just all going into, like, software development or?
Oh, it's really complicated.
I mean, in general, it's not the first Gitcoin, but that's the project I'm working on it full time.
I have a couple of other guys, but they're helping, they're contributing.
And, right now, I need a new computer.
I'm using really old computer, Linux, to develop it.
The good thing is that I know, oh, yeah, and the prototype is working.
It has a multiplayer version, so you can run a server, you can calibrate, but, like, it's a prototype.
It's a core that has to be extended, and you can download it right now on GitHub.
So, we are talking about developing a project, and, for sure, a significant part would go into development.
If I'll raise enough funds, then I'll open bounties.
If I raise not much funds, or if I raise no funds, then I'll be just continuing developing, mostly by myself, looking for other source of funding.
So, in general, everything will go into development of the project, just to make it work.
But it really, like, there are a lot of options what could happen.
By the way, London, I don't know if it's just my computer, but I've clicked on your Gitcoin link on your bio, and it seems to be broken.
So, I don't know if that's an issue with my... I thought I'd just let you know in case it was broken for anyone who was trying to see it.
Yeah, I have to fix it. I have to fix it. I'll send the right link. I haven't undated my local profile.
Yeah, sorry. Thanks for... I'm happy that you found that you issued with that issue.
It's really great to know that it works. Thanks so much.
No, no worries at all. No worries at all.
Also, apologies. Pinsave. I fat-fingered trying to approve your speak request. Totally accidental.
So, if you just request to speak again. Pinsave. Sorry about that.
The approve button is not too far away from the deny button. I didn't mean it.
But, yeah, it looks like Tree, in the meantime anyway, Tree Gens, if you'd like to come up and speak and introduce yourself again.
What's happening? Regens, Gitcoiners, Grant Explorers, how we doing?
Alright, we're sending love. I'm seeing some hearts. Much love to all of you.
Pinsave, thank you for coming into that test space we started earlier.
Started the space up. Friends, I do want to share with you.
We are launching something, the Solapunk Guild, which is Gitcoin Radio.
So, this is a 24-11 space for 11 days straight. We'll be live for 24 hours.
So, you guys can always come up and show you a space at any hour of the day.
You can type in Gitcoin Radio and you'll be able to see what's going on there.
So, yeah, we want to make sure that everyone has opportunities to come speak and connect.
The connections that you formed during this time, guys, will be just as valuable, if not more, than the funds that are raised.
Because, you know, teamwork makes the dream work and we're all going to make impact.
That is the new WAGME.
So, this is a shill session. Should I pitch? I feel like some of you guys already know this.
So, I don't want to repeat myself.
Sungur, you have your hand raised? Did you want to chime in?
Are you raised up for next?
Sungur and Janja.
Keep going. Keep going.
Okay. All right. All right.
I want to hear more about your project.
All right. Cool. So, well, where to start?
I mean, transparency is something that's really important to me.
That's why the Impact Verification Fund was something I supported earlier today.
And, you know, for eight years of my life, I've been fundraising for good causes.
I used to organize charity parties, charity festivals, sell products, knock on people's doors, convincing them to give to charities.
And, honestly, the transparency was kind of lacking.
I think everyone's kind of experienced this to some extent.
One time I got an update that had a logo that was so ancient on it.
It was from two logos ago.
And I realized that updates are fungible.
They're recycled and it kind of represents the impact.
It's not really seeing and connecting with the impact.
And once people can fully connect with the impact that they're making, I think they're going to double down.
Then more people are going to feel way more secure to put funds where it's really needed this decade.
And so that's why transparency is one of the core pillars of tree gens.
It all starts with on-chain trees.
So we've developed a trees token, which is pegged at $0.1.
So 10 cents.
That's what we've developed since the last Bitcoin round.
And now we also have an AI tree counting technology.
I also run a tree planting organization out of East Africa.
My brother is doing a lot of the operations there.
But basically, we have an AI tree counter, which counts all the trees.
And we overlay that tree counting software on top of the videos.
And we send non-fungible updates to people so they can see exactly what their impact is.
They can see every single tree.
They can see GPS coordinates.
And it's counted with more than 97.5% accuracy.
It's sent kind of like an NFT.
The video NFT is sent to the holders.
Now to kind of gamify this and also make this rewarding, because currently our economy is rewarding degeneration of nature a lot more so than it rewards regeneration of nature.
And so to transition the degens into tree gens, which is a subset of regens, we are trying to gamify and reward people.
So basically, we're launching something called the DSST.
So this stands for Dynamic Semi-Soulbound Token.
So it's dynamic in two ways.
So you see there's a mind orb and there's a heart orb on my baby tree gen.
That's the small Genesis collection that we're launching soon.
And the mind orb gets brighter the more trees that you fund by buying the trees token.
And the heart orb gets brighter the more trees that you plant.
So you can send us videos and we'll also verify that those trees have been planted and that makes your heart orb get brighter.
So that is that form of gamification.
And as it levels up, you unlock utilities such as VIP access to certain refi events around the world.
And then and also the way that we can scale the regeneration and reward the holders is through something called carbon forwards.
I'm very bullish on carbon forwards.
It's basically where you sell the future value of the carbon that will be sequestered, which is not yet.
So you sell these carbon forwards at a reduced rate, right, because they're taking on some risk.
But it's still an order of magnitude more than what it actually costs to plant the trees.
So there's an amazing amount of exponential regeneration that we can do.
A hundred thousand trees is only eight carbon forward deals away from five trillion trees.
So we're really excited to announce we just formed a partnership with Blue Sphere Carbon, which is a pretty big player in the carbon space.
And they have a lot of investors and they've built companies to more than a hundred million dollar valuations.
And they're helping us with this carbon forward piece to really scale that exponentially.
But we're also going to take a portion of those carbon forward revenues and back the tree tokens and send more to them in a liquid market such that such as people get rewarded for a generation.
Hopefully making them far more bullish on it.
And that's how we plan to transition the D gens into tree gens.
It's so refreshing to hear because you hear so much about people in crypto being anti, you know, anti climate change acknowledgement, anti, you know, all progressive forces in the world.
So it's, it's good to know that, you know, there's diversity of builders and web three, and they don't just all belong to a hive mind of, of people who don't really think that the planet is getting warmer.
So, so yeah, it's, it's just really great to hear about what you're doing.
And I wish, I wish more builders and web three could be of that philosophy.
I appreciate that a lot.
Sangora, you've been waiting patiently.
So yeah, go ahead.
Hey, how's it going?
Thank you so much for the opportunity to speak to you lot.
So nice to see some familiar faces and looking forward to becoming familiar with the remaining lot.
So anyway, in a nutshell, my name is Nick.
So I'm the founder of Sinkuram Janja Refine.
So we are on a mission to re-engineer and redesign sort of the carbon credit value chain, you know, and, and, and we are trying to make it make sense, you know, more towards the, the do gooders, the people who actually take majority of the, of the, of the work to sort of the upstream people, the farmers.
And, and the people who plant the trees and all this, we're trying to, to give them more of a speaking voice and giving them an opportunity to, to play in the, in the carbon credit market, you know, before, you know, before the whole issue of decentralization, you start mentioning carbon credit.
You also had to, like, you had to go to big exchanges, New York, Singapore, whatever, London to buy the carbon credit, but at least now with the whole issue of decentralization, you're not able to sort of have like a farm to market approach with a carbon credit.
And this is what we're trying to, to bring to the space.
And we also believe in sort of selling what you've sort of made with your own hands, you know, so we just, we're not trying to be one of those markets that, you know, sells a carbon credit.
We believe in aggregating it and creating a methodology around it and being able to, to, to forward sell this carbon credit.
So as I, as, as, as, as, as we proceed with this, this is, we came up with a 10k NF3 collection that's having us plant one million trees in Tanzania.
We also decided to do more of an agroforestry approach.
So we, we are having 70% fruit trees, 30% forest trees.
So with this, as much as we are sequestering carbon, we are creating a long term impact, you know, long term job creations for the, for the farmer that we're working with, you know, because at the end of the day, you know, so many times you plant a tree and, and, and you leave.
Like we've done pilots, you plant a tree, you leave, you know, the tree's no longer there, because nobody's taking care of it.
But at least now with a model that we said, Hey, look, we have forest trees.
We have fruit trees, fruit trees, you know, we have avocado, mango trees that are going to be fruit bearing for the next 20, 30 years.
That means we are sort of assured of the tree being there for 20, 30 years because the community is engaged.
So it's part of ensuring that the community itself is our skin in the game.
And, and, and, and with this, we also have a formula on how we split the carbon revenues between the farmers and, you know, and, and the, the, the, the investors were buying our NFT and, and, and as we, we push it forward.
Yeah.
And then at a curiosity, then kind of, I've got so many questions.
I've also got questions for, for Jimmy over at 3Gems, which I'll come back to, but, but I guess just, just on this.
So it's like, what kind of fruit trees is this?
And then I guess like this might be a really stupid question, but like, do the fruit trees take up more carbon than normal trees because they have fruit or, or is that just a ridiculous question?
Um, not per se, um, uh, at, at the end of the day, they keep saying, uh, science bucks it out that, uh, every tree over its lifetime will sequester almost a ton of carbon credit.
So what, what we believe is there is no one solution to, to the, the whole issue of carbon reversal.
You know, we appreciate people doing, uh, blue carbon projects like Jimmy.
It is basically just spreading the love and, and, and doing projects everywhere because, um, we can't just plant a tree in, in one area.
So when it comes to fruit trees, the reason we like them is because they sort of engage the community more other than just having a piece of tree there.
We are trying to solve other issues, other world issues, like lack of jobs, you know, um, lack of food security, you know, and, and, and, and, uh, matters like this.
So with this, we also increasing biodiversity, you know, we also having, uh, a bit, a bit more, um, uh, cross pollination with the plants and the bees and stuff like this.
So this is part of our contribution.
Yes, we are sequestering more, more, more, more carbon and, and, um, and also creating jobs at the, at the same time.
Now, uh, the more, the more the tree stays alive, the more it sequesters carbon.
So that's why we decided to go on an approach where sometimes, you know, the trees, they are one, two, three years, you know, the tree might, the community, because they're not so engaged in the project.
They might decide, you know what, I might cut down this tree because if they cut down the tree, the tree gives them sort of source of income.
You know, that I cut down the tree, you know, I can get filed from it.
I can get X, Y, Z.
So now we're creating an alternative where like, Hey, look, if the, the longer the tree stays alive, the more we've created an alternative source of revenue for it.
And then you're just seeing the tree and deciding I'm going to chop it down like that.
Interesting. So, so, so then, uh, I guess like one question I always have when I think about different climate projects and I see, I see Gerard Halloran in the audience as well.
I really want to ask him this question, but like, uh, people have been planting trees, uh, long before cryptocurrency and web three was a thing.
So, so I guess like why, why, why web three is it just a way to bring in kind of a community of people who are interested in, you know, financing this or, or what's your, what are your thoughts on that?
Like why, why web three for this project? Why not look for funding through other means?
Yeah. Um, I guess when it comes to web three, we've seen, uh, the whole issue of decentralization and we are able to sort of, um, do good in, in sense that they keep saying, there's a phrase that says, show me where your money is and I'll show you where your heart is.
So now with, with, with, with, with the whole issue of web three, there is a lot of, um, sort of, uh, it's a new way of finance.
It's a new way of money.
So now we need to be like, hello, because this web three is new right now.
We're trying to use it to make people rethink money.
And we are thinking money in the sense that we call it regenerating way that it makes the world better than, uh, at the moment, you know, money is a route of destruction.
You know, the more I sort of destroy the world, the more I make it.
The more I make it. So we're trying to create an article. Hey, look, the more I, I, I, I do good to the world, the more I am making money.
The more I am earning. We're creating opportunities to earn wealth, uh, sustainably, you know, by, by, uh, sort of, uh, um, keeping the world safe.
Because with the old money, I'd like to call it web two money or the old kind of money, the more sort of you pillage the earth, the more you, you sort of your account gets, uh, healthier.
So we are like, Hey, look, let's use web three, let's use the tools.
The whole issue of decentralization where now you can have your carbon credit.
Uh, you can have farmers do this. The farmers can benefit from this.
And one of the things is when we also trying to do it, we also now communications, a lot of shipping lines and airlines, you know, I don't know.
A lot of people talk about how they are one, one, like an avocado coming from Kenya, uh, being sold in, uh, marks and pencils in UK.
That avocado had X number of carbon footprint.
So now they're like, Hey, look, uh, this product, it came from here.
This tree sequestered this carbon.
So now this carbon can be sold to these partners along the value chain, you know?
So this is additional revenue to the farmer.
So like, Hey, look, uh, the, the, the, the shipping lines, who pollute the logistical companies, the airlines and all these people.
They're like, Hey, look, we, we are, uh, um, uh, we are buying this carbon credit.
We are getting to offset our footprint as well.
And we're just looking at now sort of benefit the people who actually did this work, the people now, um, upstream.
Um, upstream.
That's, that's super cool, man.
And like, it's really cool the way they're all tied together from the producers to supermarkets, to people who were like planting, planting the trees, planting the, planting the various different fruits and vegetables and whatnot.
Um, yeah, really, really, really cool project.
And like, I'm, I'm pretty new to the world of refi, but like, um, seems like a really good project.
So hope it's, uh, hope it's successful for you.
Hope you get a bunch of donations and then, um, yeah, hope, hope, hope it goes really well from there.
I did, I did have one, one more question for, um, for tree jam.
Cause I know, I know that he, he was up talking and I was talking to Jimmy yesterday.
It was a good conversation, but I guess like, one of the things I was curious about Jimmy, if you're, if you're still there is like the, um, the, you said like in, I think it was in East Africa or West Africa that your brother is,
or is it sort of your operations person is kind of like running, running, uh, orchard or maybe even kind of growing a forest out there.
And I was kind of curious, like, how did you, how did you get that set up?
I mean, like, I think like the idea of setting up a forest in Africa to me just seems like the most interesting, but also like, I wouldn't even know where to start.
So like, what's the, what's the story with that and how did you, how did you get going with that?
That's pretty cool.
Thank you, brother.
Yeah.
So I'm also the co-founder of four trees club, which is a web to tree planting company.
Um, and how do we sit?
Well, I mean, how do we get started specifically in Africa?
I came to Africa after eight years of fundraising for charities, um, and not being really happy with the level of transparency that we were getting as I was before.
And also I was throwing charity festivals and, and COVID happened.
So we couldn't do that.
And we took, finally took a step back from the events and we're like, well, you know, what's really important to us?
And it's, it was always the impact.
And so my brother and I got a one-way ticket to Uganda initially actually to do clean water projects.
So we're doing a lot of water projects, biosand water filters.
And then things got crazy politically in Uganda.
We're like, we literally drove through, you know, flames bigger than the car.
I heard like 40 tear gas bombs from where we were living and we were always planning to go to Kenya.
But when that happened, we're like, all right, it's time for Kenya.
So we went over to Kenya and I'm actually third generation Rotarian.
My, it's on both sides are from, uh, uh, Rotarians.
It's like a 1.4 million person, um, uh, philanthropy club.
And, um, I finally got involved in, in the Rotary club over in Melindi, Kenya, which is almost like the little Italy of Africa, tons of Italian stuff there.
And, um, while it was there, uh, and, and getting involved in Rotary, we, we started doing some different kinds of projects, which started off with mangrove trees.
And I really became somewhat of a mangrove maxi after this because, um, they're just such an incredible tree.
Not only are they simpler to plant, um, they actually germinate in the ground when you put the propagules in the ground too.
So you're able to plant a lot in a day.
I'm a crazy person.
I did 25,244 and broke the world record for most trees planted in a day.
Not with Guinness.
We're doing Guinness, um, actually in world environment day.
Um, we try to make it happen for this earth day, but we had to push it, but anyway, so, uh, we got more involved in that.
And also the mangrove trees remove eight to 10 times the amount of carbon from the atmosphere, um, compared with all terrestrial forests.
And, um, and my, uh, you know, my mother also, uh, involves, um, me and tree planting from a very young age.
And that's always something that I've cared quite a bit about.
Um, during the 2019 massive forest fires, I was watching these videos of animals getting burnt alive.
And it really hit me that climate change is here and we need to do something about it.
And climate affects everything, including the water crisis because of droughts and all of these different issues that are resulting from it.
So, um, how do we set it up?
I mean, through rotary, we had some pretty good connections, um, to, uh, whether that be government officials, the process to get permits and things in, in Tanzania, it was actually really simple, um, through a collaboration.
And so there was another tree planting group and same day I went to the district government office building with a letter, they stamped the letter and we're good.
And we're like, go plant.
It's great.
Um, so, so yeah, it was really straightforward, um, in Tanzania.
Um, but, uh, Kenya took a little bit of time to set up and I'm now actually in Australia and we got the blessing from some Aboriginal groups here to do a mangrove tree planting project as well.
Might be planting, uh, some mangroves over in Australia as well.
Um, but, uh, East Africa is where the vast majority of it happens.
Okay. Interesting, man.
That's actually pretty cool.
Like, um, and, uh, the, uh, yeah, geez, that's pretty crazy.
Like how long you've kind of been in the fundraising world.
I've been to, um, I've been to Uganda and Tanzania for periods of time, but I, I haven't had the chance to get involved in any tree planting over there.
Unfortunately, I should be doing more for the climate than I actually am.
Um, but you're welcome to, man, we can, uh, we can arrange that.
We've actually, uh, we've actually, um, been planning some, some kind of experiences for people.
We want to like, again, have radical transparency, right?
So not just trees on chain updates on chain, but also like people can come and see their trees, right?
And plant trees as well if they want.
And so we're definitely going to be creating those kinds of experiences.
So if you do want to go back to that part of the world, I spent three years in East Africa and we'll definitely be back.
Um, we can definitely curate some experiences for you to, um, to, to get your hands dirty if you want.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Let me, let me pack my mangrove seeds into my suitcase and I'll get the next fight over.
But, uh, but no, I appreciate it, man.
I see a bunch of hands open.
I don't know who's next.
So Daniel, do you?
Uh, I think.
Yeah.
Pinsave was next followed by Jer and then John.
And, um, just before we move on, uh, just a reminder, if you'd like to give a little blurb
about your project underneath, uh, the thread for the spaces and the link to your Gitcoin application,
please feel free to do so.
So yeah.
Pinsave go ahead and then we'll go on to, to Jer and then to John and to Devon.
Oh, yeah, definitely.
Yeah.
So it's really nice to meet you guys.
Uh, like I've been to like four Twitter spaces yesterday and like, this is the first one for
the day.
Yeah.
So, um, like we're actually, we built the project in say for about like a year.
Uh, we've like been to accelerator.
Um, we like, um, yeah, we've been to multiple.
We applied for a grant and, uh, like we've met with my.
Uh, get going bounties.
Uh, like I've personally.
Contributed to get going down as, uh, like as a source of data scientists.
I mean, like very simple, like graphs and like, I've made a very popular, uh, get going,
um, down, like forum posts, uh, which kind of, um, outline the key areas that are, uh, getting
the more, the, the most of the, of the funds and the funds like still go to like Western,
Western, uh, developed areas other than like, uh, like instead of those areas that are probably
more deserving.
More deserving.
And, um, yeah.
So like, I'm, I'm, I'm working with, uh, like my teammate who is from Romania.
He is from, uh, um, um, yeah.
So, so he studies computer science at this moment in time.
And I'm like, I'm really happy to, to work with him, uh, on this project.
And, um, like we're more than happy, uh, to collaborate with, uh, other developers with
other projects.
And we really, we really like just community building and, uh, the process of, uh, yeah,
public goods.
And, uh, yeah.
And like, yeah, we like the process.
We like the public goods.
We, and yeah, we love everything essentially.
Yeah.
And everybody.
Thank you so much.
Yeah.
But very cool, man.
We, we, we love everybody and everything.
I mean, that's the most, the most positive sentiment you could be putting out there.
So, uh, I, I appreciate it.
Um, yeah, I mean, so, so I guess like, I'm not sure how, how we could collaborate.
What we're doing is kind of like, uh, ensuring people against scams, ensuring them against fraud
in this space.
Uh, so I'm not, not a hundred percent sure how we could collaborate, but kind of curious to
hear kind of what, what would you do now if you're, if you're able to get as, as much
funding from good coin as possible, what would you, what to the next depth look like?
If you had that $10,000 or that many thousand dollars today, what would you spend it on tomorrow?
Uh, to be honest, we would probably spend it on, uh, like on auditing smart contracts,
but like the smart contracts, like, uh, the price for auditing smart contracts is pretty,
like it's very, very high and, uh, that would probably would not be enough for, for like
an audit.
Um, but like we would probably spend this on marketing and just, uh, getting more users
into the application and, uh, just, um, I guess, educating, um, like another bunch of, uh,
people to join the web free space and the public goods.
Yeah.
Very, very, very cool.
It sounds like a really cool project.
Um, and I think, I think I did see you yesterday either with, with Jimmy or within another space.
So it's cool, cool to see you again.
Um, and, uh, yeah, yeah, let's, let's check out your project later on.
And we're definitely going to make a few, make a few donations to the projects here today
as well, because some of them are really cool.
And even if it's only a dollar going to each project, it can, it can make a difference
with the, with the quadratic funding and whatnot.
Yeah.
Very, uh, very cool.
Um, but, uh, yeah, I don't know who Daniel, I think you said chair was there.
Yeah, that's right.
Go ahead.
Joe.
Thanks very much for seeing me up there in essence.
Um, good to see, good to see you again, Nesson and, and three gens and others as well
from the space yesterday.
Um, can you, can everyone hear me?
Okay.
Yeah, you can.
Yeah.
Brilliant.
Great stuff.
Uh, yes.
I'm actually just taking a break from a, taking a quick lunch break from, from my actual job
that pays me, um, to come into this space.
Like, I just want to say it's absolutely brilliant to, to hear about so many like tangible projects.
I know like from three gens, uh, like making a difference and taking actual climate action.
You know, I, I do a lot of, uh, climate advocacy work in my spare time and, uh, there's a lot
of, uh, reports and, and, and plans, but it's great to see plans being translated into action
on the ground, you know, um, and, and, and focusing on maximizing our impact and the carbon
sequestration of such projects.
I think it's a really clever use.
I'd say focusing on, on the mangrove trees, their tree gens, uh, it's brilliant to maximize
the carbon impact.
My, my project is biodiversity in a box.
Uh, I live in Dublin city in Ireland and, um, a lot of concrete around, uh, a lot of heat
stress, a lot of flooding events as well, because everything is just like hard paving.
So, um, I do a lot of climate work with it, with local community groups to try and alleviate
this and make this better.
And I, basically my idea is to have biodiversity in a box, you know, allow people to take climate
action.
The climate crisis can be a really overwhelming thing.
Like how do, how do we even begin to, uh, to take action?
But we start with ourselves and our local community.
And so I try and empower action in, in, in the local community and, uh, the mini meadows,
the meadows in a box is a way to do that.
Uh, native, uh, Irish wildflowers, uh, in a, in a, in a, in a box to, uh, boost, uh, local
air quality and, uh, provide a habitat for, for pollinators and bees, which as we all know,
like our keystone species there, they're really, really important.
Um, we'd love to collaborate with other people in this, uh, in this funding round as well.
Like, I think there's huge scope.
I'm always looking to try and like, how do we expand the reach of the projects as well?
Um, I think someone, some people said it mentioned in the calls that like our, our economy and our society
is rewarding, uh, unsustainable and degenerative behavior.
I think three Jones used that, that word.
Um, so yeah, like all about promoting, uh, that switch to more sustainable behavior and rewarding sustainable behavior.
So, uh, open to ideas and, and, and collaborations and how to, and how to, uh, expand the reach of the projects
and, and to start enacting local system change on multiple different, uh, in multiple different, uh, cities
and, and, and, and hopefully countries as well, because that's the only way we'll, we'll really turn the whole system around
is, is by enough of us acting all over the world to, uh, to enact a system wide change.
That's, that's, that's class, man.
And I remember, um, when I, when I met you in Dublin last or maybe it was the, even the time before,
I remember you were talking about, like, you were bringing wildflowers from the Wicklow mountains
and planting them in Dublin.
And like, I remember it was just like one of the most annoying things ever was like,
you planted them in like a public space, but then like the local council would be like mowing the lawns
or mowing the gardens and like, you ended up cutting some of the wildflowers one time.
And it's like incredible to me that like that kind of the, the, the system as it were will come out
and kind of disrupt some of your hard work and that you're able to kind of get back on it and like,
keep going and keep, keep planting and like moving forward with the biodiversity in the box.
Like, uh, how do you sort of manage those challenges?
I guess for, for some of the people here who were like starting off their projects or in the early days,
because honestly I would get so frustrated with that, that I would be like, you know, screw these flowers.
Like I'm, I'm going to, I'm going to try something else.
But, uh, how did you, how did you get through that?
I guess.
Yeah, of course.
Like my, my partner, she has a great phrase called feel all your feelings.
I think it's good to like feel the frustration.
Um, but then I, I guess what's, what's more important as well as perspective.
And, and it's kind of like acknowledging this as it was mentioned before, like the system is rewarding unsustainable behavior.
And we're not going to change the system overnight.
And so if the system is, is rewarding unsustainable behavior, you're going to be obstacles and roadblocks.
And like, I'm sure everyone here has, who's been involved in any kind of climate action.
Um, it's, it's really tough to make any kind of change to the status quo.
Um, but I guess it's just like chipping away and learning from our failures and not kind of like looking at failure as being, um, Oh, like I'm a failure because I failed.
Is that like, Oh, I failed.
How, what, what a potential, what a great opportunity to actually learn and then do better next time.
Because the next time you'll, you'll try something is that you'll actually have so much wisdom gained from having tried it before.
And you'll learn and you'll grow.
So like, I, that's my point, but, uh, like that same council, like that, that happened two years ago with those wildfires being cut down.
Like now I actually work closely with the council and they help support some of the, uh, some of the planting projects that we do in the community, you know, and that's only after two years, two years can be a long time, but like two years in the grand scheme of things is actually nothing, you know?
So I think a bit of persistence and understanding of the, of the system and how, and how like wider system change doesn't just happen overnight and, and, and how, um, just chipping away and a cumulative effort, uh, can, can, can really, uh, yield fantastic results.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
No, I love, I love the, um, I love like the longterm view of it.
Do you know what I mean?
Like you're looking at it from like two years perspective, like where can we be two years from now?
And, and further beyond that, like, that's pretty sick because I do know that like a lot of people will kind of get into something and it's like a three month project and this is the best thing ever.
And like, it's all excitement and go, go, go.
Whereas I think for you, it's been like building steadily over the last few years and like kind of continuing to, to build this out, which is pretty sick.
And then when I, when I, I just, I just, I pinned your thing up the top for mini meadows.
Um, and I looked, uh, I looked through your grant, like it's, it's really well written.
So fair play to you.
I just saw on there that, um, you know, depending on how much you donate, you can go towards kind of five bucks can go towards kind of, you know, getting X many flowers, 20 bucks can go towards X many flowers or X many meadows boxes.
So what, what, what, what's that based on?
Is that kind of based on your own costing?
Is it, or have you, have you figured that?
Yeah.
So we have, uh, like full transparency with costings.
We have a collaboration and a partnership with a local social enterprise and they actually provide employment opportunities for people just, uh, for former prison inmates.
Uh, because obviously that can be, it can be hard for former inmates to, to get work.
So they provide, uh, woodworking opportunities, uh, for them and they actually make, uh, the planters.
Um, so all those costings are like, they're fully costing.
We get our seeds from a local seed charity in the north of, of Ireland as well.
Um, so yeah, it just kind of gives people an opportunity to kind of, uh, see the, the impact that they're making.
And, you know, like five, five, five, five dollars or five euros we have over in Europe.
Like it's, it's nothing really to people in the grand scheme of things.
It might be like an expensive coffee, but it can, it can supply like five wildflowers, you know, for, for five meadow boxes, which can make a huge impact.
Absolutely.
That's, that's pretty sick on it.
Well, listen, I hope, I hope, I hope everything goes your way and you get your, you get your donations and everything.
Cause it's just such a, such a grassroots project.
Um, and like, it's really kind of making a, making a difference at the, uh, at the ground level.
So yeah, really, really appreciate it.
But, um, but yeah, I'll, uh, I'll hand it back over to Daniel and see who's, who's up next Daniel.
Cause you're, you're keeping track of everything here and I'm, uh, yeah.
Yeah.
Uh, by the way, yeah.
If I've just demoted anyone who's already spoken, nothing personal.
I'm just trying to make sure that everyone who requests to speak, uh, can, cause there's a maximum of 10.
Uh, so John, you've been waiting very patiently.
Uh, after that, we'll go to Devon and then to switch and then to Juan.
So yeah, John.
Um, GM, GM, great to be with you all.
Thanks so much for holding this space.
Um, yeah.
So, uh, I work with Gitcoin, so I'm helping to run the round.
So, uh, saw the space pop up and, and, uh, wanted to at least hop in, in case there was
any Gitcoin related questions.
I do have only a few more minutes until I have a call here in about seven minutes, but
I have a few minutes to answer any questions if that's helpful.
And then also always happy to do a real quick shill on, uh, my project or one of my projects
called the solar foundation.
Uh, the solar foundation is a foundation we spun up.
That's a web three based foundation focused on funding, uh, solar projects in the global
South.
Uh, right now we've been working on some projects in Uganda as well as, uh, we just funded a
project in Nigeria at a school.
Um, we're looking at some other projects in Kenya and other places in, in, uh, in Uganda
as well.
We're doing a lot of different things.
We're kind of, uh, slowly finding our fit in terms of where we really want to focus our
energy and not be too spread out.
But, um, we're really feeling like Uganda may be sort of our, our home base.
We're looking at maybe setting up, uh, some, some larger installations or a little larger
than we have been doing.
Um, so that, um, and we're also looking at how we may be able to start working with some
of the UBI providers out there, such as good dollar on some collaborations to sort of bring
UBI to local communities and allow them to spend UBI on electricity is sort of, uh, part
of the idea of what we're trying to maybe pull together.
Uh, we also, and I know there's been a little talk about, uh, nonprofit work in general.
I know, uh, I think maybe he's out of the speaker realm, but I know my brother Jimmy was in here.
Um, and, uh, you know, all of his work in, in nonprofits, but we really want to work on
helping to reinvent the nonprofit world.
And, and, uh, when I say that, what I mean is that, you know, nonprofits in general spend
80 to 90% of their time raising funds and 10% of their time actually doing the great work
that they set out to do in the first place when they started an organization.
And so, uh, we believe that there is a potential to begin to use web three tools to optimize,
uh, the way people manage their treasuries.
Um, you know, I think that there's, uh, safer ways to, to, you know, earn a yield on your
treasury, such as we are, we're looking to spin up a, uh, Ethereum node so that we can
receive the staking rewards as being a part of that.
Um, and we're also looking at, uh, new ways to create kind of a circular economy through
hyper certs and impact certificates.
Uh, the idea being that we could begin to mint, uh, impact certificates for the work that we
do, and then sell those onto a marketplace, uh, people that want to purchase that impact
and, and sort of claim that impact and then use those funds to do more work.
So it becomes sort of a circular way to use our treasury and, and maximize the work that
we can get done.
So that's a little bit about, uh, the kinds of things that we're thinking about and working
on, uh, when I'm not working, uh, full time in 87 telegrams for this or for Gitcoin.
So, um, anyway, uh, you've, you've, you've been super helpful with the, uh, with the applications
as well.
I know, I know me and probably quite a few other people here have been bombarding you
with questions.
So, uh, much, much appreciate it.
And great to hear about, good about your project as well.
I didn't actually know about that until now.
So, um, that's, uh, that's pretty cool.
I've got to check that out for sure.
Um, and, and then I guess, like, how did you, how did you kind of get into that then?
Have you, have you always been non-profits?
Are you coming from a technical background or a commercial background or are you sort
of a, a, a lifelong non-profit fundraising type individual?
Um, we don't play out time for the whole story, but I'll give you, I guess the abridged.
Um, I, uh, in terms of the solar work, I had been working in the traditional solar, uh, industry
for the last 15 years or so, built about 400 megawatts of large scale utility solar around
the U S. Um, which is, that means something to some people, but it's basically a lot of
solar.
If you just imagine fields and fields of solar, that's the kinds of things that I've been
building the last 15 years.
Uh, and really started looking at web three, um, kind of, as I re-entered, I was originally
in the space in like 16, 17 and then kind of re-entered in, in 2020 or so and started
looking for ways that we can begin to use this technology for good.
Uh, at the end of the day, uh, you know, if, if we just created all this new money just
to go to the moon and buy Lambos, I think we failed honestly.
Like, yeah, everybody wants to, to, uh, you know, have some money and have some nice things.
But at the end of the day, if that's like all we use this technology for, like, I really
don't think that's maximizing for what's possible.
And so, um, my core thesis is just at the intersection of the digital and physical world, that there's
really going to be a lot of magic that's going to happen over the coming years.
Now that we've given ourselves sort of permission to print our own money, now we can begin to
develop new forms of money that are actually backed by real world impact.
And, you know, whether that's tokens that represent planting trees or tokens that represent installing
solar or tokens that represent some other agroforestry or, or carbon credit sort of, uh, uh, projects,
all of these types of things began, begin to be possible in this new, you know, world that
we're building where you can actually create a new form of, of money that actually is backed
by something besides, you know, not to get political, but here in the U S I mean, I might
buy a big war machine that just goes all around the world, killing people, generally speaking,
like the fact that my dollar is where the dollar is only because we have a big ass army and nobody
is trying to come in and mess with the U S maybe not for much longer.
We'll see in the long run.
But, um, you know, I, I just don't think that that's the way we should be living.
And I don't think that my money should be, you know, backed by those sorts of things.
So I'm really trying to build a new world where our money really is doing good in the world.
Yeah.
Cool.
Uh, just before we move on to the speakers, uh, who had their hands up for a while, does
anybody have any questions for John before he has to head off?
Because I know his time is precious.
Uh, and that can include any of the current speakers.
So if anybody has a question for John, either unmute yourself or request to speak now.
Um, maybe one, one quick question, John, I know you gotta go like pretty much right now,
but one good question is kind of, you know, for the projects across the different rounds,
uh, I was assuming you've been involved with Gitcoin for a long time.
Is there, is there a particular target of donations that people should be aiming for to, to get
to the, the kind of like max out there kind of matching cap or, or is there, is there any
kind of rule of thumb or anything around that, um, that you've seen in previous rounds or anything
like that or does it really depend right around?
Um, yeah, sure.
I can at least speak a little on it.
It definitely depends a little on the round that you're in and kind of how active it is and, and how big
some of the projects might be that might have a bigger community.
Um, I would generally set more of a contributor number than I would a dollar number.
So like I would say, you know, okay.
And then during this round, we want to get a hundred contributions.
Let's maybe start with that as your baseline.
I think if, if every project out there is like shooting for a hundred dollars,
shooting for a hundred contributions, that's a great start.
If you hit that tomorrow, amazing.
Now let's shoot for 200, but it's really because of the magic of, uh, and the power of quadratic
funding, the number of contributors that contribute to your project is really going to amplify
that matching fund that you're going to receive.
So it really is a lot more about the number of people that actually come and donate even
a dollar.
Now there is a point where hopefully a few of those donate a little bit more because that
is going to help you in the equation as well.
The bigger really like factor is really the number of people.
So it really is sort of driving this much of your community and, and other communities.
I think all these folks that are out here shilling today and every day, that's, that's
kind of the way to do it.
Get your, get your project out there and, and hopefully you get some organic growth and
whatnot.
But I, I long story short would shoot for, you know, a contributor number and, and that's
probably going to be a good start.
Um, unfortunately I have this other call running through, uh, y'all can find me on telegram.
You can find my project on my pinned tweet and I appreciate y'all.
Thank you so much for your time, John.
Thanks for stopping by.
And, uh, yeah, we'll hit you up.
Come on.
See, see you, John.
Take it easy, man.
Thanks for, thanks for coming.
I appreciate that.
Um, and then I guess, uh, if there are people here, it's like, I think most people
are in the climate round and the DCI rounds, but, um, what we might do is if, um, if you,
if you, if you go to the top, you can click into our, our project on Twitter.
And if you make a donation, even if it's just a dollar and send us over the ether scan link,
then what we'll do is we'll, we'll make like two, two donations to your project.
And even though there'll only be a small amount of money, it'll increase your contributor
number.
So if you want to do that for us, then DM me the ether scan link of the transaction and
then your project link, and then we'll get you back later today with, uh, with two donations.
But, um, but yeah, I handed over to Daniel cause I don't know, I don't know who's next
and Daniel doing a great job of keeping track of everybody.
So, uh, I believe Devon's next.
He's been next for a very long time.
So Devon, yeah.
Take it away.
Yeah.
No, it's a hard act to follow after John, but it's also a good act because we are also
trying to use hyper search.
So, uh, like, I mean, I've been an investigative reporter for about five to seven years now.
And while I was a student at the Columbia journalism school, the Panama papers released
and it was like a big story.
And, and like my masters was related to it as well.
So I got this incredible opportunity to be working with those folks who did that.
But what I saw was that all of those organizations are asking for grants every year, which I
just felt like was an incredible waste of their time and potential.
So, and I saw the impact they had, right?
Like they've got like billions of dollars seized in assets, court cases filed, the prime
minister of Pakistan and Iceland resigned, and still they don't have a viable business
model.
So I was attracted to web three by the, by the kind of mechanisms being built, like
retrospective funding, like optimisms, retro retroactive public goods funding round, hyper
search as a tool.
So basically I'm like what my project is trying to do.
It's called voice deck.
We are in the web three community and education round is that as a journalist, if my story creates
impact, like my master's thesis got the CEO of an airlines to resign.
At that point, I mint it as a hyper search and a funder can come and buy that.
So drastically changes the incentives of investigative reporters where I'll actually follow up on my
stories to try to track what impact is happening from it, because that's how I'm going to get
paid.
And it doesn't mean I need to keep writing grant applications all the time, which is a big waste of our time.
But we can do stories, get impact, and then we get funded for that impact.
So that's the circular economy we're trying to create.
Interesting.
And then, and then just when it comes to your, can you talk a little bit more about like the
thesis or like what, what exactly, what exactly was kind of like the core insight from your
thesis that got that, to got that CEO to resign from their position?
Like what, what was it exactly in your research that was, that made that happen?
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's a great question.
So it was that we found that the CEO was like a government bureaucrat.
And then suddenly he came to control this multimillion dollar airlines.
And when I actually dug into the documents, I found that it was actually owned by the Azerbaijan
dictator.
And what made the story really big was that the US Pentagon had given military contracts
to Silkway Airlines, the airline that I investigated.
So it was basically a case where the US wanted access to Afghanistan, which had to go through
Azerbaijan.
So they had to give a contract to this airline, which the dictator owned.
And I managed to blow that story wide open and show that the CEO was just propped up by
the dictator.
And that's what kind of got him to step down for a few years.
He was, he's back again as CEO, that, that same person, but at least he had to resign for
a few years after my story.
Wow.
That's insane.
And, uh, what was your, um, what was your sort of process in terms of like researching
that, where I feel like, um, I have to research like very powerful people who are in the commercial
world, but also in the government world.
And then you have to like publish that research kind of hosting them or showing them to be,
you know, maybe doing something bad or possibly even evil in some way.
Um, I mean, it takes, take some courage to publish that article.
And, uh, yeah.
What, what was your process?
Like, did you have any people, you know, coming after you and saying, Hey, don't publish this
piece of work or don't do this investigation or.
Yeah.
So the bigger danger for investigative reporters today is actually not physical threat to their
life, but it's a like online hacking and doxing.
So that's why the rule of thumb, which I, which my professors gave me at the J school was that
act as if every email is going to be on the front page of the New York times.
So, because what they'll do is they'll try hacking your email and they'll see, and they'll
find some, some innocuous email you sent.
And they'll say, and they'll say that, see, this reporter was biased from the start.
He's like a proxy of the Armenian government.
Look at this email he sent.
And then like, so you have to be very careful in like your communications and you have to
assume everything is going to be public.
Uh, so, so that's really the bigger danger.
And as to how you go about investigations, a lot of it is just like painstaking work on documents.
So you try to find activists who've been involved in the issue for a long time.
They'll give you leads.
And then I file document, I file for documents based on those leads.
So an activist told me that, Hey, I've heard from my member of parliament that Silkway Airlines
got a Pentagon contract and they have shady links in Azerbaijan.
So then I actually filed a freedom of information act request to the government.
And they are, and they had to reply to that.
And then, and that's when they mentioned the numbers of the contracts and other things
given to them.
So it's not sexy.
Like you have to, it's not like the full Watergate scandal meeting in like a garage and
like, you know, all that secretive work, it's actually more just being an online ninja
and kind of digging through documents.
Yeah.
That's a, that's pretty crazy, man.
Fair play.
Like that's a really impressive story and like very, very cool.
So, so, so then I guess just like that last question that I, I'm kind of fascinated by
this and I know some other people have their hands up, but just really quickly.
So it's like, where does the money go then?
Like, let's say, let's say you get $10,000 from Gitcoin today.
What, what, what do you spend it on?
Yeah.
So that's the cool part that like the, the tech is already built because unlike, I mean,
I know like tree gen and a lot of other folks talked about impact, like, like verification,
which is a big part of any climate project.
The good thing of investigative reporting is all of the impact is online.
That when the CEO resigned, I can give you the press release saying that the CEO resigned.
So here's the proof.
So what we really need is just awareness of some of these tools like hyper certs and kickstarting
an impact market as well.
Like what John had said about getting that impact market and people to buy these hyper certs.
So the money would really be spent to kind of spread awareness of it.
So there's an investigative reporters conference happening in September in Gothenburg, where
the entire fraternity comes and meets.
And there's an effective altruist conference happening in Boston in October.
So if I get the money, I would basically go to Sweden, get investigative journalists to actually
start minting their outcomes as hyper certs, and then go to Boston in October and get donors
to start actually buying these hyper certs.
So that's what the money would be going for.
That's unreal.
Well, I hope it goes really well for you.
I'm sure we'll be talking in more spaces over the next few weeks.
But thanks.
Thanks so much for that, man.
That's such a cool project and such a cool work history as well.
But yeah, I'll give it back over to...
Sorry, go ahead, Tariji.
Sorry, if I could just interrupt super quick, not to pitch anything.
I just want to say something.
With love, I think it might be your first round, and everyone's kind of learning.
So there is a rule of Gitcoin that you're not allowed to say, I will donate if, or any
kind of tit-for-tat is not allowed.
So just so that you know, I'm just saying that with love, nobody's tattling, all right?
You probably didn't know.
But just so that you guys know that that's the case.
So you cannot say if, or any tit-for-tat.
But yeah, much love, everybody.
Okay, nice.
Okay, yeah.
Thanks so much, man.
Yeah, because I saw stuff like where it's like, you can't give free access to tooling
and NFTs and whitelists and all that kind of stuff.
But no, that makes sense.
I appreciate you sharing that as well and keeping it kind of ethical and fair and everything
and just letting us know as well of the rules because it is our first time doing this.
But much appreciated.
But yeah, I'll hand it over to Daniel and on to the next person.
Yeah, so I believe Switch followed by Juan Carlos followed by Civil Monkey.
So Switch whenever you're ready.
Hello, everyone.
My name is Ifain Christwin.
I'm the CEO and founder of Switch Electric.
So we are actually in the zero knowledge tech category of the kids coming around.
We are designing an IoT hardware that is used to measure electricity usage in solar installations
and then take those values and create attributions on chain for those solar power projects.
So this is especially important for the global south countries such as Nigeria, where I'm from,
where it's very difficult to get subsidies from renewable energy credits for rooftop solar panels
because you don't have, say, the scatter system that the utilities use.
So in those kind of markets, you see that actually it's the small guys that actually bear the brunt of the cost of switching to renewable energies.
So we kind of found out that it's much more economical to actually begin to issue these renewable energy certificates on chain,
backed by real-world data collected by our smart meters.
So using the meters, we'll be able to collect information about these devices
and use them to generate zero knowledge proofs that will be attributed to those renewable energy certificates,
like as metadata on each certificate.
So each certificate that is being minted comes along with its proof that can be mathematically verified
by whoever is buying that renewable energy certificate.
It also gives people the ability to pool their energy resources together.
To say, in a community, you have solar panels installed on the rooftop
and you would like to participate in this subsidy program of renewable energy certificates,
but you know it will take you a very, very, very long time to be able to create the one megawatt of electricity
that is required to issue a renewable energy certificate.
So you could pool your energy impact together with all the other members of the community
through our platform where the meters track what everybody in that community is producing from their solar panels
and then reward them with these renewable energy certificates once they have reached that one megawatt capacity mark.
That certificate could be sold on chain to businesses and other protocols that would like to buy certificates
to offset their own carbon footprint.
And then the revenue is distributed once more to the various parties that contributed in the creation of that certificate in the first place.
So that's basically a brief overview of the project.
It's built using zero-knowledge technologies on the IoTeX blockchain,
but it's actually also compatible with any other EVM blockchain.
So we're currently developing on IoTeX,
and we're working towards deploying on Polygon in partnership with the SolarPunk DAO.
So we actually have a partnership with them where they use our smart meters for their solar installations
that they have been doing in the African region.
So we provide them the smart meters and they use it to tokenize the asset itself.
So basically the end revenue back from that asset is usually done on a commercial building,
and the asset itself pays revenue into the DAO's treasury.
So smart meters are also able to help them with that,
even though that's not the purpose of this particular grant application.
Very cool.
And can I ask you then, where did the zero-knowledge proofs come into it?
Like how did they help the system or how did they improve the system?
Okay.
So the data actually is being collected to an infrastructure that was developed on the IoTeX network called WebStream.
So think of it as a decentralized database table that can be owned by a network of participants
where everybody is keeping a synchronized database table of all the data that is being streamed by an IoT network
or an IoT ecosystem.
So the data is being stored there.
And on those databases you could compute zero-knowledge proofs.
You could use that data to compute SNACs that you send to a smart contract on the blockchain.
That contract is able to recompute the validation of that proof without actually having to receive the data.
So you save on the cost of gas for sending such data to the smart contract to make your renewing certificate
and also create an attribution that could be associated with each certificate that it creates wherever they go on the blockchain.
So the attribution leads to them.
It's part of the metadata of the renewable institute once it's created.
It's always going to be on-chain forever.
That's very cool.
Very interesting.
And a good description of it as well.
I really appreciate that, man.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, thanks so much for talking about it.
And best of luck in the round.
I really appreciate you coming up.
I'll go back over to Daniel and see who we should be going to next.
But yeah, thanks, man.
Yeah, thank you for that switch.
Juan Carlos, you've been waiting a while.
So yeah, welcome.
Thank you and everyone for this space and for the amazing projects and for being such a collaborative support network.
I want to show two projects.
The first one is Gravity DAO.
That is a project that I've been leading for over two years.
And our idea is that conflict management should be basic infrastructure for DAOs.
And we see many DAOs that oversee the need of a conflict management system inside their organization.
And somehow when conflict arises, we see a lot of drama and not a proper management of the situations.
So we want to raise awareness of conflict management.
We have an online course in our page that we'll be launching very soon where hopefully everyone in the world can learn basic skills to manage conflict.
And also we are trying to certify people who have enough conflict management skills to mediate interpersonal conflicts in an organization.
We call that Gravitons.
So this project is very transversal to the Web3 space because conflict is inevitable.
And the better we are at managing it and processing conflict, the more resilient our organizations would be.
So, yes, that is Gravity DAO and you are all invited to join.
And the other one is Ethereum Colombia.
I am from Colombia and we have a really nice community here.
Last year we hosted DevCon and that has had a very good impact in our community.
We have five local nodes between like inside the country.
And we are managing our treasury collectively through a DAO.
So it's a really cool experiment because we are also like using the tools to have an internal governance.
And it's going good.
There are new nodes coming and frequent events in each node for research, development and adoption of Web3 technologies.
That's pretty sick, man.
So with the Gravity DAO then, so it's helping with like conflict resolution.
But like within DAOs specifically, or is it kind of like wider conflict resolution?
And I think looking at your site as well, it looks like you even did your masters in alternative dispute resolution, which is pretty cool.
Yes, thank you.
Well, the thing is that there are certain arbitration protocols already in Web3, but we don't do arbitration because arbitration somehow has you in this position of there is a winner and a loser.
And our focus is more in prevention and in mediation.
So we do trust creation activities, community building and like deep networking, deep relationship.
And like we try to be like include the no voices and include the unconscious into into the conscious so that there is more collective wisdom.
So we don't arbitrate and we don't say like the outcome of a conflict.
Instead, we try to train people to be competent, to manage their own conflicts.
And we offer mediation where there can be a graviton trying to facilitate communication between two parties, but we don't commit to the to any outcome.
And that's because we think that the best outcome is always a negotiated one between the parties and that the parties know better than than than anyone.
How can like they get into into an agreement?
So we facilitate getting into an agreement, but we don't make the agreement or take any decision for the parties.
It's a lot for each organization to have like its own group of people being able to manage the conflict inside the organization.
So it's it's normal that we have conflict with within our groups and for coordination and looking for goals and and so many interactions that we have and like time zones and culture, culture changes.
So it's it's a very cool project.
And and it's something that I am proud that that yes, I am I am able to be shielding here and and sharing with all these amazing projects.
Absolutely. Yeah.
Thanks so much for sharing and good luck with this and good luck with eat Columbia.
I'm sure we'll be we'll be talking again soon.
I know.
It looks like civil civil monkey is the last person with their with their hands up and then we're going to go to helpers after that.
And civil civil monkey if you want to go first.
Yeah, I always appreciate the the get kind rounds and it's just a great place to find awesome projects.
And people but like the thing thing I keep noticing is that these like also other charitable projects, but especially the the good kind project, I think would be interesting to many people in the in the wider Web3 space.
And so I was I was I was thinking that maybe when the space ends, a few of you could could come and try to to get on the on the bigger kind of Web3 morning show stages.
And yeah, if anyone interested, if anyone is interested, I could also pin some up that are that are currently live.
I'm in talks with someone for next Tuesday to have a good coin segment on their on their morning show Twitter space.
That's yeah, I've retweeted a few and like not not with all of them, like not not all of them that people have to speak.
But some do.
Yeah.
So, yeah, I just think it's pretty cool.
Yeah.
Yeah, definitely.
Definitely.
We're trying.
It's like there's a bunch of like bigger spaces like because we're doing we're doing an insurance product where you can insure yourself against loss of funds up to one hundred thousand dollars.
And we looked at like doing like rogue radio and some of the other spaces like the nifty.
Yeah, exactly.
So like the the one that I'm in talks with for next Tuesday.
And again, it's not final with that, but I'm pretty sure that like their audience would be quite receptive is the real good news show from Rachel Wilkins.
And the other one that I could really imagine that it could be quite easy to to get up on is the one hosted from everything metaverse.
So those are like I would say midsize maybe with like I guess like 20 to 60 people concurrently listening.
And then, of course, would be it would be amazing to get on a DJ network or Nifty portal or work radio stage.
But from my experience and knowledge is a little more difficult to get on those stages.
But I mean, if like multiple people request to speak, then like the the likelihood of someone being able to to speak is as high.
It's high. So, yeah. So, yeah, I encourage everyone to to go check those.
I've retweeted a few and pinned up a few. So, yeah, I would encourage everyone who knows a bit about Bitcoin to try to talk there or maybe maybe even like tweet something in the comments or something,
because like as awesome as it is to talk to people who are like minded and who understand each other and are quite aligned.
It's also important to like the people who do like Web3 overall to kind of show them other ways of using it besides the kind of mainstream PFP use.
So, yeah, if you haven't already, by the way, Civil Monkey, feel free to to post below the spaces with the links where we can find you.
So, I think Helpers was next. Yeah, you've been. Yeah.
Yeah. Hi, everyone. It's a pleasure to be here. My name is Sokekechidi.
I'm the chairman of Hepatio Foundation.
Hepatio Foundation has been a humanitarian organization reaching out to those people in need in our communities,
most especially children who do not have someone who can stand up, speak for them,
because in a situation where we have, we have children, 20 million children at our school,
and which causes us due to, government is not doing what they're supposed to do.
So, we have been supporting the children through school supplies, classroom renovations,
and building us scientific facilities. So, without it, the impact we achieve today
will not be possible. So, and we are grateful for all the whole community,
including GITCON grants that will help us to achieve what we have achieved today.
So, in this grant today, we are, our aim is to build a classroom block so that more children can have access to education.
So, because we believe we have the, we can make a difference by enrolling those children,
out-of-school children, giving access to education. This can, will enable them to break a cycle of poverty,
because education empowers everyone. No one can succeed without education.
So, that's why we focus on our attention today in this ongoing GITCON grant to build classroom blocks
and provide a basic school supply that will ensure that those children stay in school
and learn and progress in order to give back to society. So, we want to collaborate to envy any of the members out there
to work with us, other information, raising awareness, donating to our course as well.
So, we can check out our profile and see what we, our page, our GITCON page there, see how it can support.
And any donation we give here will help us to buy building materials which we can, we use to construct classroom blocks
to ensure that those children under our care will have access to education.
The benefit of building the classroom block is not just a build need, but for it to have ownership of the classroom for a lifetime.
So, and through that place, we can run more other initiatives, like train those children through computer skills, digital marketing,
everything that concerns information technology and other initiatives. So, supporting this initiative, we're going to benefit the site at large, even the children as well.
So, we're happy for you to support us. One dollar donation to our course will make a difference in their child lives. Thank you.
Hey, thanks so much for that, man. I know we, I know we, you're, you're at the mechanics today, so I appreciate you, appreciate you dialing in.
So, so, so, so I guess I'm like, what, what, what would you do then if you, um, let's say you were to get money tomorrow from, um, from Gitcoin.
What, what, what will you do with this and how would you spend this?
So, if you say how will I spend it? Yes.
Yeah, yeah, what would you spend it on?
Yes, okay. Yes, we'll use the phone we raise, uh, to buy, uh, buy school supplies, like, uh, test books, uniform, books that children needed to stay in school.
And also buy some, like, uh, computers in our school and, uh, build classroom.
The first aim we want to achieve from 90 August is to complete a six classroom block, which we already started.
The video I have not posted online. We're going to post it. We have fenced, the compound have been fenced.
We have mounted the gates. We, we currently digging, uh, putting, trying to put this water there so that we can start, start the, the construction work.
As soon as we received the fund we needed, the construction work, the fund we will receive will enable us to buy, uh, building materials and complete the construction within two months.
By September time of September this year, new academic session will start. With the school, we started, we start functioning.
So, we already have a school going on. This is another location we want to establish school.
We have a school that, the school now is functioning well. We want to grow an under-community and establish school.
So, by donating to our course now will help us to achieve the dream.
That's very cool, man. Very admirable project. And I hope, uh, I hope Gitcoin helps you raise those funds to help people out on the ground.
So much, much appreciated. Um, but yeah.
Yeah, do feel free.
Yeah, yeah. Sorry about that. Didn't mean to interrupt. Yeah. Um, no, thanks for that.
Uh, and do feel free also to, uh, to show your project quickly in the thread below this space is full, just with the link to your, your Gitcoin application.
That's what we're here for today, really. So, um, I think there were two more people that wanted to speak.
I think first up was, uh, Rebioka and then also dream, uh, dream brand. So yeah, Rebioka, if you'd like to go first.
Hello there. This is Enes from Rebioka. Uh, we are based in Turkey. Our, uh, group is, uh, consisting entomologists and refi enthusiasts.
So what we do is basically, we are creating and designing organic waste processes, which are, uh, with the help of, uh, nature's gifts, black soldier flies and insects.
So we have been working in our laboratory for two years now. And with, with these insects, we can, uh, do the organic waste process with, uh, less carbon, uh, emissioning way.
Uh, but also the physical outputs of the organic waste is actually really valuable, meaning the organic fertilizer and the protein rich, uh, and products, which can be fed to the poultry, the aquaculture and many other things.
So, uh, as I shared the tweet, uh, you can see one of our, uh, test, uh, environment. Uh, what we're planning to do actually is to build our facility.
And then you can see there's a box over there. So the users of Rebioka will be able to rent those boxes as an NFT.
And then, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the carbon removals, the tokenized carbon removal removals will be directly sent into their, um, their wallets so that we can create a collective impact.
And at the same time, since we have scientists in our team, uh, if any other members from different communities or countries, they want to build the same facility.
Uh, we are here for the Desai community as well. So we are, uh, willing to help them.
So thank you all for, uh, supporting us and giving us this, us this chance to, uh, pitch our, uh, project.
No, thank you. It's a very noble cause. I, I just really, the question that came to mind for me anyway, was, um, so predominantly you're looking at the, uh, you're looking at recycling organic waste to bring down carbon emissions and bring down the use of water and so on.
Uh, but where would the, the tokenization or blockchain element come in there? I guess that I didn't quite understand.
Okay. So, uh, the, the measurement of the facility, the measurement of the facility will be, uh, directly transferred to the cello blockchain.
We'll be deploying on cello. And then we have our methodology ready.
If anybody wants to read it and give comments, we'll be happy to share.
So we will be tokenizing to reduce, uh, reduce carbon. And, uh, when we sell the actual physical product, we will be sharing our revenues with the, uh, NFT owners, uh, with the, one of the cello, uh, stable coins of, of their choice.
There is not a token for, for the project itself, like a native token, but maybe like three steps further.
If we have reached to another community in other country, we are trying to take people into this.
Like if they bring some of their organic wastes, uh, they, they, they will be able to, you know, reward it with the actual token.
But, uh, I think it's, it's a really further step to think about what we trying to do right now is to, uh, give this, uh, solution to the, to the community at the first place.
Right, right. So, uh, your first active community, I'm guessing is in Turkey where you're based.
And then, uh, do you know where you might be looking to expand to next?
Um, I think, uh, somewhere much hotter than Turkey would be beneficial because, you know, in order to maintain the ecosystem that the, that gives the best conditions for insects to work, uh, you need some, uh, warm weather.
So in order to do that, I think we can look into more South, uh, but yeah, this is, this is really up to the community itself.
It's really the logistics parts is really important as well.
When you look at the, uh, waste processes, especially with the landfill, uh, they don't mostly include the logistics, the carbon emission that logistics brings to you.
So we are looking for places where it's really important to, to have, uh, logistics in, in, in calculation as well.
Yeah, definitely a holistic approach is sort of needed because I think it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking, okay,
there's one particular activity that reduces greenhouse gas emissions, but actually to set up that activity, you've used up a lot more energy.
It always reminds me of, uh, Madagascar and all the, um, all the quinoa that's grown in Madagascar as a sort of vegan, uh, environmental alternative.
And while stays, uh, uh, it's very harsh on the soil and has actually reduced like the crop yields massively since, uh, since the demand for it grew.
It's not a very relatable, uh, example, but I, I do understand what you mean with regards to factoring in logistics when really determining the impact of,
of, of, of something environmentally overall.
Um, so yeah, thanks for that.
Thanks for that Ruby.
Okay.
Um, uh, one more speaker who requested to talk today was, uh, was dream brand.
Uh, yeah, I hope I got that right.
So yeah, go ahead.
Dream brand.
Dream brand.
Yo, um, hello guys.
What's up?
What's up?
How are you guys doing today?
Hope you're doing well today.
Pretty good.
Pretty good.
How are you doing?
Yo, bro.
I'm here.
I'm here.
I'm good.
I'm good.
I'm fine also.
Well, for me, I'm a one-on-one artist on Web3.
So I would just love to talk a little bit about myself, um, my artwork and, you know, probably
a little bit about my background and what I want the future of my artwork to be.
Cause I see this face as a face over.
You could actually, um, talk about what you want to, um, grow and the future of your project.
But yeah, without further ado, my name is Dream.
I'm from West Africa, probably Nigeria.
And I've been an abstract artist since over a decade ago.
And, um, I joined Web3 for over a year.
I came from a background that, whereby artists aren't always supported.
Whereby, um, when you say you want to become an artist, then you get a total 100% tone down.
Because they see an artist from my own particular background as people that aren't always successful.
And they've got nothing to do in life.
But yeah, I decided just to chase my, um, dream.
And, you know, um, seeing Web3, when I was able to discover it, I see it as an opportunity
to bring my dreams and my passion just to be able to bring it out alive.
And, um, basically right now, I've been working really, really hard and really cool.
For me, I have this passion for building a brand that is just more than art.
And for that reason, I decided I just want my, um, actor to be on merchandise.
I actually, um, had this thought of bringing it alive for some months back.
But due to some reasons and some requirements, I was not able to do it.
Um, I was asked to provide SSN, state security, I think, um, numbers and some other things
just to be able to make, um, the sites valid for people to be able to put their work.
But, um, I mean, the merchandise.
But due to that, we don't have yet that year in Nigeria.
So it has to, I have to put a pulse in it.
But yeah, without further ado, I have some art talking which I've created so far.
Being an artist, I love to bring my artwork into, um, feelings and passion.
And I always, always love as much as possible to bring people, um, and to make them understand
what I am creating and basically the purpose of me creating.
So yeah, for this particular collection, which I pinned up, it's titled The Act of Heart.
This particular collection, you can see four different types of arts currently in it,
which is The Realm of Colors, The Pride in Red, In Tawoven, and The Universe of Possibilities.
For The Realm of Colors, I added a poem to it, In Tawoven, In the Realm of Colors,
A Tapestry of Hues and Shades, A Canvas Painted by Nature, and A Masterpiece That Never Fits.
So yeah, you guys can actually check this particular collection out.
It's something that really, really resonates with me a lot.
And, um, currently there are just these four artworks in this collection.
And the full price is 0.025.
I also have another artwork, an object, which is called The Void, currently, and it's just five Tezos.
Yeah, because I love exploring a lot.
So I decided just to explore, um, Tezos blockchain, which is pretty, pretty successful so far since I onboarded last year.
So yeah, um, this is actually just what I just want to, um, let you guys know and, you know, a little bit about myself.
So yeah, thank you very much, guys.
And I really appreciate it.
This is the first time I'm up in this space and it is, it has been very, very welcoming.
So big love to you guys and thank you very much for having me.
Thanks for being here.
Um, what, could you mind me asking what, uh, way, what medium of art you used before you entered Web3?
Can you come again?
So what kind of art were you doing before you entered Web3?
Yeah, basically I'm into abstract art.
Yeah, I do abstract art, but the kind of abstract art in which I create is just the 2D version of abstract art.
I started creating this 3D form of abstract art like four to five months ago to six months ago.
And that was because I met the founder of the softwares in which I use in creating.
So I was able to learn more, um, from the, um, founder.
And, um, I created this particular, each of these artwork from five different softwares digitally.
So yeah, this is how I create.
But before I onboarded into Web3, I was an abstract artist.
The only thing that makes it a different was that before I onboarded into Web3, I never made a dime from my artwork before.
I just create it for passion and give it for free.
Yeah.
I give it for free to my friends, my families, and some other people that, you know, cherishes it.
So yeah.
But when I got into Web3, I got to understand more about how I can use my artwork for a living.
So basically it has been really, really cool.
Been over, been here for over a year already.
And yeah, it's been an amazing journey so far.
But yeah, when you talk to probably some other things, I really enjoyed Web3.
A lot, a lot of lessons, a lot of things to learn also.
Yeah.
Very, very cool, man.
Thanks for sharing your history and your project and your abstract art.
I'll definitely check it out and have a look at your project too.
I'm going to give you a follow right now.
I have got to get moving, so it was great to talk to everybody here.
And no doubt I'll see you guys again soon.
And over the next two weeks, we'll be talking a lot.
So yeah, thanks a million, guys.
See you later.
See you later, Nessun.
Yeah.
And Dreambrand, feel free to post the link to your Gitcoin application underneath this
space's link, just so that people can see it and can check it out and potentially donate
and so on.
I think there was one more speaker and then I think we'll be on another call in about
15 minutes from now.
And that was Ayoeka from Uganda.
Thank you so much.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Afternoon.
Evening, everyone.
My name is Jonathan Luenyi.
I'm the founder of Ayoeka Uganda.
Ayoeka Uganda is a community-founded non-government organization that's working on environment
and social development.
We are so happy with your contribution last time from Gitcoin.
We managed to plant fruit trees in 69 schools and 46 health centers.
So, we are really grateful and we hope to plant more this year.
And also, we are introducing them in churches that we are going to plant them.
And also to mention, we were requested by National Environment Authority of Uganda to replace
the colonial trees that were planted in colonial times that they are no longer bearing fruits.
So, we really appreciate your support and we shall continue asking for your support.
Just as you gave us the support and we executed.
Our organization runs a series of activities like agroforestry.
That is to say, we raise seedlings on our own.
We also train communities and local farmers on regenerative agriculture and also…
Hello?
Yeah, we can still hear you.
Can you hear us?
Yes, we train communities and local farmers on regenerative agriculture and also give them seeds.
We run wetland and pitland restoration campaigns, plastic waste and management.
We also train young adolescent girls and women on how to make reusable sanitary towels.
We give children scholastic materials to help them access and attend school.
We are so happy with all your support.
I believe maybe two or three or all of you in this school, you have ever donated to our grant page last year.
So, in the Gitcoin beta round, we are live and our project name is Ioweka, Uganda.
So, big thanks to you all and God bless you.
Bless you.
Thanks for that.
Thanks for the pitch and it's really noble work what you're doing.
As a lot of projects really today, I'm blown away by the drive there is within Web3 to protect nature and fight climate change.
So, if you like Ioweka, if you haven't already, you can comment below the spaces link with a link to your own Gitcoin application so that people can check it out and potentially donate.
So, that's just this spaces call itself if you just comment below it and that will help the visibility, at least I hope it does anyway.
So, yeah, that's for today I think all we have time for.
We've got to be in a call very shortly.
So, unless there's any final questions or comments, happy to wrap it up there.
Cool.
Yeah.
All right.
So, thank you so much for joining us and we hope to be holding more of these in the future in conjunction with the Gitcoin community.
I think whoever you've come across today who's building something that has some kind of synergies with what you're building, do reach out to them as well.
That's what we're here for.
That's what the point of these spaces are is to foster connections as well as just shill for donations.
So, I hope good has come out of that in that sense as well.
Otherwise, yeah, have a great day and we'll hope to see and hear from you soon.
So, take care guys and enjoy the rest of your days.
Bye-bye now.
Bye-bye now.
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