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We envision rabbit holes like creating digital organizations based on real-life experiences, and a game engine may surface as we continue our experiments.\n\n\n# Deeper Dive On the Technical Stack\u2019s Vision\nThe Soulbound Expeditions are a pilot testbed, an experiential space that can modularly be attached to any Zu-themed short and long event where the right conditions (i.e. time, physical and mental effort, exposure to the elements, etc.) to test the technology can arise. \n\n\n\ud83d\udea8 No funds from this grant will go to operational costs of any of these experiences.\n\n\nThis grant application is to further pursue the development of a stack to enable programmatic outcomes (using smart contracts) based on achieving set criteria of biological signals \u2013 and possibly under specific environmental conditions (using a sentiment analysis model). Both the smart contract layer and the sentiment analysis model require extensive field tests with smart devices before committing to a technical architecture and coding it.\n\n\nHere\u2019s an example of the process and product goal:\n> (\ud83c\udfd4\ufe0f,\ud83e\udd7e) You go hiking for a full day with your friends in Georgia wearing a smart device (i.e. SmarKo [current choice for web3 and Zupass/zk privacy compatibility], Fitbit, Oura, or others) and you take time to log the way you feel during the experience (i.e. \ud83d\ude0d\ud83d\ude42\ud83d\ude41\ud83e\udee0). After coming back the device suggests peak journey moments both individual and collective (which could enable token value flows, but that's another discussion).\n\n\nThe final stack will be open source, serving use cases around biological and environmental data (for context) in individual and collective settings, leveraging web3, zk, IoT, and AI, and integrating the research on neural annealing by Qualia Research Institute.\n\n\n# Soulbound Expeditions x Zu, a word by [@Kosmostasis](https://t.me/kosmostasis)\nThe concept of this technology has been floating around my mind for a couple of years.  It consolidated after I managed to destroy a Fitbit during a six am cold plunge in Kotor Bay while running a small test on myself during a long celebration at Zu in Montenegro. At Zu in Istanbul, I convinced my friend Celin to test some ideas using her company\u2019s clinical research device, the SmarKo. We won a couple of accolades at ZuHack and our research has since expanded, with her focused on the health aspects and my personal research focusing on experiential settings, interoperability with other wearables/attestations, and neural annealing.\n\n\n![LIOS Labs' Desert Transformation Lab](https://www.goethe.de/resources/files/jpg1297/5_oasis2021-formatkey-jpg-w983.jpg)\n\n\nEarlier this month, I spent 11 days camping in the B\u0142\u0119dowska Desert in Poland at [LIOS Labs\u2019 Desert Transformation Lab](https://experience.lios.io/) (hosted by a Zu Montenegro attendee) where I ran another experiment capturing my vital signs while also capturing the humidity and temperature of the desert environment. While the tech isn\u2019t fully ready yet, we are now confident to start running more ambitious experiments alongside Zu-themed events where participants can meaningfully spend time in nature while pondering and shaping the future of coexistence.\n\n\n# Roadmap Draft\n\n\nLate July\n- New SmarKo devices ready and small test in Venezuela (pending availability)\n\nAugust \u2013 September (smol batch pilots with prototype devices)\n- Test during Zuiterland\n- Test during ZuBled (TBC)\n- Brand & Community Development\n\nOctober \u2013 November\n- Community-signal-driven pilots in Asia (with more devices/participants)\n- Work/code on mintable (bio) moments platform\n\nDecember \u2013 January\n- Soft launch at Ayllu alongside a Soulbound Expedition to Mount Roraima\n\n\n---\n\n\n**Find us [@soulboundexpeditions](https://t.me/soulboundexpeditions)**", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}, "projectGithub": "Soulbound-Expeditions"}
Soulbound Expeditions
**TL;DR** At its core, a Soulbound Expedition is an experience where a small group of people embarks on an intentional journey of self-discovery, with a clear start and finish, and with an opt-in digital record from both their collective and individual perspectives, measuring and visualizing both the sum of the journey and its peak moments.


# First Dive
The overall goal of our upcoming pilot projects is for Kosmostasis Labs (that’s our r&d lab!) to research novel ways of understanding flow states and coexistence among all life forms, and we are pushing forward by enabling experimental experiences that are both meaningful and tech-driven as a means to continuously iterate on our technology.


Each Soulbound Expedition leverages a diverse array of tools from IoT, web3, and AI, along with practices such as journaling, meditation, and circling, to capture unique biomarkers, which help us understand personal growth and progress toward achieving peak performance.


Most of our development so far has happened IRL (process over code) and the open-source stack we are starting to develop is rooted in practices you might’ve heard about, like [neural annealing](https://qri.org/blog/neural-annealing), ludology, Campbell’s hero’s journey, and spiral dynamics, among others. We envision rabbit holes like creating digital organizations based on real-life experiences, and a game engine may surface as we continue our experiments.


# Deeper Dive On the Technical Stack’s Vision
The Soulbound Expeditions are a pilot testbed, an experiential space that can modularly be attached to any Zu-themed short and long event where the right conditions (i.e. time, physical and mental effort, exposure to the elements, etc.) to test the technology can arise. 


🚨 No funds from this grant will go to operational costs of any of these experiences.


This grant application is to further pursue the development of a stack to enable programmatic outcomes (using smart contracts) based on achieving set criteria of biological signals – and possibly under specific environmental conditions (using a sentiment analysis model). Both the smart contract layer and the sentiment analysis model require extensive field tests with smart devices before committing to a technical architecture and coding it.


Here’s an example of the process and product goal:
> (🏔️,🥾) You go hiking for a full day with your friends in Georgia wearing a smart device (i.e. SmarKo [current choice for web3 and Zupass/zk privacy compatibility], Fitbit, Oura, or others) and you take time to log the way you feel during the experience (i.e. 😍🙂🙁🫠). After coming back the device suggests peak journey moments both individual and collective (which could enable token value flows, but that's another discussion).


The final stack will be open source, serving use cases around biological and environmental data (for context) in individual and collective settings, leveraging web3, zk, IoT, and AI, and integrating the research on neural annealing by Qualia Research Institute.


# Soulbound Expeditions x Zu, a word by [@Kosmostasis](https://t.me/kosmostasis)
The concept of this technology has been floating around my mind for a couple of years.  It consolidated after I managed to destroy a Fitbit during a six am cold plunge in Kotor Bay while running a small test on myself during a long celebration at Zu in Montenegro. At Zu in Istanbul, I convinced my friend Celin to test some ideas using her company’s clinical research device, the SmarKo. We won a couple of accolades at ZuHack and our research has since expanded, with her focused on the health aspects and my personal research focusing on experiential settings, interoperability with other wearables/attestations, and neural annealing.


![LIOS Labs' Desert Transformation Lab](https://www.goethe.de/resources/files/jpg1297/5_oasis2021-formatkey-jpg-w983.jpg)


Earlier this month, I spent 11 days camping in the Błędowska Desert in Poland at [LIOS Labs’ Desert Transformation Lab](https://experience.lios.io/) (hosted by a Zu Montenegro attendee) where I ran another experiment capturing my vital signs while also capturing the humidity and temperature of the desert environment. While the tech isn’t fully ready yet, we are now confident to start running more ambitious experiments alongside Zu-themed events where participants can meaningfully spend time in nature while pondering and shaping the future of coexistence.


# Roadmap Draft


Late July
- New SmarKo devices ready and small test in Venezuela (pending availability)

August – September (smol batch pilots with prototype devices)
- Test during Zuiterland
- Test during ZuBled (TBC)
- Brand & Community Development

October – November
- Community-signal-driven pilots in Asia (with more devices/participants)
- Work/code on mintable (bio) moments platform

December – January
- Soft launch at Ayllu alongside a Soulbound Expedition to Mount Roraima


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**Find us [@soulboundexpeditions](https://t.me/soulboundexpeditions)**
Soulbound Expeditions