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A platform for everyone to add and derive value.\n\n*Art and culture*: Wild Sherpas plans to collaborate with deep-impact artists worldwide, supporting valid causes & voices of Free Speech. NFT holders can host Art and Craft exhibitions free of cost. Sponsor educational expenses for tribal children especially girls as they are the most vulnerable. \n\n*IRL Crypto-themed Infrastructure*: Build DAO-themed cottages with Origin stories, Educational & Developer resources to onboard and integrate various protocols. Provide free facilities to host meetups and small events for DAO communities, volunteers and advocates to form regional guilds. ", "hidden": true, "question": "How does your project fit into the Community & Education round eligibility criteria? ", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": false, "question": "If you've participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We are collaborating with Prominent DAOs focused on Public Goods, Privacy, Climate, Free Speech and impactful initiatives.\n\nOur membership NFTs will have an exquisite collection themed in Nature, Social injustice, Free Speech, Thinkers, Explorers, Architecture, CryptoArt, Geoglypghs, Megaliths, AI, History & Narratives.\n\nOur core team members had humble beginnings in our crypto journey and were lucky to find projects and initiatives like Gitcoin and the newfound enthusiasm to be a part of a bigger revolution that was taking place. The idea resonated with us in natural harmony. We wanted to incorporate those values in our project on the foundational level and start with Wild Sherpas Camping.", "hidden": false, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? 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We plan to build DAO-themed cottages concentrically surrounding the Grand Hall resembling the Ethereum logo designed to be a functional Crypto Geoglyph. Cottages will facilitate Remote workers with robust internet and home office infrastructure. Residents and visitors will have a dedicated library with books & educational resources. Member communities can host free events, meetups, exhibitions, webinars, seminars, and other activities at the facility to build strong regional communities and encourage volunteers and advocates to step up and coordinate initiatives.\n\nSupport artists with seamless onboarding, launching and connecting them with mentors and potential collectors. With provisions and infrastructure for physical exhibitions for Artists, and overall spreading the vision and adoption of crypto with education.\n\nWild Sherpas DAO will have a mechanism to fund Gitcoin, Protocol Guild, Giveth and plant trees in perpetuity. The DAO will sponsor education for tribal children (especially girls), and a portion of onchain revenue will be dedicated to deserving artisans. Wild Sherpas will integrate leading protocols to offer a Dex widget, a customized NFT platform, On ramps, and educational resources on the front end. The platform will also run Ethereum nodes and accept payments in crypto (subject to regional regulations).\n\nTalent initiative and Business to DAO onboarding will be a primary social focus. We plan to connect Artists, Job seekers, and Entrepreneurs with a tailored aggregate platform. In addition to these initiatives, Wild Sherpas DAO will also focus on matching talents and entrepreneurs to collaborate and co-create. This will be achieved through various programs and initiatives, such as hackathons, incubator programs, and mentorship opportunities.\n\n## ## Roadmap & Milestones\n\nFrom the date of commencement of construction of the new facility, the first 3 to 6 months will go into approving the design including paper works for the new facility. The Ethereum-themed Multi-purpose structure of the hub will be constructed in the first 5-7 months along with landscaping. In the next few months huts/cottages will be erected in DAOs aesthetics telling their purpose and origin story. \n\nIn parallel,\n\n1. We will start the Tree planting initiative (June - August is the ideal window for the region).\n2. We are planning two [Tiers of membership,](https://www.notion.so/Wild-Sherpas-DAO-0252d4d53a69478e8c507d73d34fc46a) Tier 1 will be $25 redeemable ticket NFTs with a portion of proceeds & royalties going to Gitcoin and Giveth. Tier 2 will be $600 Contributors ticket NFTs redeemable for a 1-month free stay with some of the proceeds going to Gitcoin & Protocol Guild. Both NFTs can be used to stay at the residence, host events and steer the DAO to our collective vision.\n3. Develop the concept and design of the DAO-themed cottage, including branding and aesthetic elements.\n4. Begin indexing and linking educational and developer resources to use and integrate protocols in businesses and a roadmap to becoming DAO.\n5. Form a Metagoverance structure with the participation of supporting DAOs for an initial framework.\n\n## ## Success Factors\n\n1. The existing Wild Sherpas camping property and its connections will also influence the new facility's launch and growth. The region offers the best climate in southern India with an average of 18 \u00b0C throughout the year, the location of the property and the surrounding landscape are truly unique with the [finest sunrise](https://www.instagram.com/p/CXv-iV3ozZW/), which is not an overstatement. With over seven years of successful operation and an average of 350+ unique visitors per month, Wild Sherpas has established itself as a reputable and reliable destination.\n\n2. Building a Crypto native facility will lead to building strong regional communities and encouraging volunteers and advocates to form regional hubs is a totally new concept in the region. The new infrastructure will be mainly for co-living, remote workers and crypto events. The architecture will mimic the Ethereum logo from the top view and will have sufficient capacity to host events, meetups, exhibitions, webinars, hangouts, seminars, and other activities.\n\n3. We want to pave the path for other businesses and communities to embrace regenerative ethos, values and the collective intelligence that our crypto space is projecting. We have seen many extractive marketing shenanigans by countless brands and evidently proved to be value misalignment. Hence, our initiative funds public goods by default.\n\n4. The impact potential with respect to realistic & low-resource goals is exponentially high. Planting a Tree with maintenance for 1-year costs ~$1.30/Tree. Most of the construction will leave a minimal ecological footprint while maximizing comfort and experience for the event visitors, Digital nomads, long term Remote workers alike at a downward cost spectrum compared to average crypto fundraisers.\n\n5. The revenue stream from the IRL properties will add to the sustainability of the DAO and support its long-term success. With a high population in their youth with sufficient English language proficiency in the nation, the education and adoption of crypto will be much easier and faster when they can experience the IRL communities & events, further adding to the legitimacy and long-term vision of this space to the uninitiated.\n\n6. We had a rollercoaster journey in crypto and we were lucky enough to find Gitcoin in our early days and truly learn the principles of the Ethereum community, our onchain interactions proved to be the threshold to further participation and eventually becoming full-time DAO contributors. Statistically, in India, we have 100M+ crypto people but less than 50K on-chain users, and with such enormous potential, we believe our initiative has achievable and practical goals.\n\n7. We believe such a novel mechanism which combines various elements of our space with the wider audience in real life with a \u2018DAO first\u2019 model has never been tried. With clear lack of such facilities and enormous potential especially in a natural destination for backpackers and curious explorers adds to the advantage.\n\n## ## **Challenges**\n\nThe DAO initiative has been in the making for over a year. We faced several obstacles during the planning and devising execution methods of our project since there is no legal clarity for DAOs especially when you have a physical property tied to the project, we had to overhaul our design multiple times to factor in the sustainability and longer runway to be antifragile. One of the main challenges was reiterating the DAO mechanism to synergistically bring Art, Culture, Nature, and Crypto together to fit the value engine seamlessly. From architecture to landscaping and the perpetual funding funnel to integrate Public goods funding were primary objectives to optimise in a meaningful way. \n\nThough four of the team members are full-time in the Web3 space still, this is our first crypto project in the founding role, and we do not have external funds or VC backing, we are going the DAO first route. To build a real DAO hub native to crypto with the facility for remote work, hosting meetups, events and exhibitions, our total project budget is only $400,000 and considering impactful initiatives in the pipeline, it is achievable and realistic. Hence, we may not be able to create social media buzz, but the impact potential of such novel on-demand hubs is about sending a strong message of real-life use cases of DAO initiatives.\n\nDespite the challenges, we have managed to successfully overcome the presented roadblocks thus far. We have demonstrated resilience, and adaptability in navigating the complexities of IRL operations along with the DAO initiative, and have remained committed to our vision of creating a platform that promotes public good activities and collaborations without any huge investor backing. We want to be an ideal DAO model to show the world how a business could be transformed into a value engine with tools and values of Web 3 in harmony with nature and social constructs. As we move forward with the implementation of our project, we are well-positioned with expertise from advisors and mentors from various prominent DAOs to tackle any future challenges that may arise.", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "wildsherpas"}, "recipient": "0xeD6721efb825550b22432914BE33208047285457"}}