{"type": "project", "title": "Bundle: Climate Research Alpha Round", "logoImg": "bafybeidgeo5rhrpc4lly4e3gpjwim4zyatofeg4wbflpmmbhr26dh23bpy", "website": "https://www.notion.so/Climate-Research-Bundle-Project-Description-4254cf8973f14b428feacc157dbc2021", "bannerImg": "bafybeifz6aj2a2vo4aqrqe7hp3dopjkuqseamp6c6vuyf6mauuyhivbaxy", "createdAt": 1673501426873, "credentials": {}, "description": "Mission Statement:\n\nTime is running out. Climate research today needs to focus immediately on practical solutions. We need research that leads to mass movements and exponentially growing impact. Like the US Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), the Climate Research bundle will be a key engine of climate innovation and climate action. While fixing our sights on the high bar set by ARPA-E is wildly ambitious, we know that blockchain technology can exponentially increase effective and efficient scientific research. Integrated indicators make the research replicable and scalable and allow improved documentation and verification. The ambitious and innovative projects in the Climate Research bundle will architect many systems of the new infrastructure of climate research and scientific collaboration. \n\nThis bundle is comprised of 8 critical and interrelated projects address various challenges of climate research by generating:\n\n\u26a1 Clean, cheap, abundant, and reliable sources of energy and the need to mitigate the negative impacts of climate change on cities and urban areas.\n\n\ud83d\udca8 Increased speed and efficiency of traditional methods for conducting and translating scientific research\n\n\ud83e\udd2f Solutions to the complex set of root causes that contribute to the long time it takes for scientific research to be implemented in real life\n\n\ud83d\udd0d Increased transparency, traceability, and access to funding for scientific research\n\n\ud83e\uddbe Effective mechanisms to protect intellectual property, reduced investor risk in, and increased investor access to the scientific and technological innovation process\n\n\ud83e\udd11 Profitable ways for companies to align with community values related to climate change\n\n\ud83d\udd2c More effective research, and strategies for promoting and supporting scientific innovation that positively impacts the world and its inhabitants\n\n\ud83c\udf31 Developing regenerative data tech, storing digital data in the DNA of plants and trees, to create carbon absorbing data storage\n\nThe projects contributing to this effort are:\n\n\ud83c\udf0e FrontierDAO\n\ud83c\udf0e SCINET\n\ud83c\udf0e Option\n\ud83c\udf0e ScienceFund\n\ud83c\udf0e Internet of Animals\n\ud83c\udf0e Defi Biolabs\n\ud83c\udf0e Circonomy\n\ud83c\udf0e Grow Your Own Cloud DAO (GYOC DAO)\n\ud83c\udf0e OpenCampusDAO\n\nFrontierDAO @FrontierDAO;  Collectively incubating scientific and engineering innovations and innovators, using Web3 tooling (linktr.ee/frontierdao).\n\nOne of our key focus areas is \u201cfusion energy as a climate solution.\u201d Fusion energy, while still in its infancy, is the technology that will usher in a new era on this planet - one where cheap, clean, abundant, baseload energy is available for all. \n\nNuclear fusion energy is the energy of the stars and sun. It is the opposite of nuclear fission.. \n\nTo help usher in this new era of transition to clean energy, FrontierDAO has released in BETA an IP NFT on-chain scientific publishing platform called FrontierRegistry. By publishing research on the blockchain, we aim to foster greater collaboration while protecting authors\u2019 IP rights. frontierda.xyz/faqs-projects\n\nFunds raised from GR15 were used to partially underwrite a 12-week Fusion Energy As A Climate Solution weekly workshop series that ran from November to mid-January. Interviews can be found on Youtube.com/@frontierdao.                           \n\nSCINET, INC @scinet_inc. At SCINET, we are increasing the speed, efficiency, and effectiveness of life sciences research from \u201clab to life\u201d by developing a suite of software applications in a decentralized (\"DeSci\") life sciences ecosystem that addresses the complex set of root causes for why it takes 17 years for life sciences research, including climate solutions, to get into real life (see here for socials, media mentions, website, etc.).\n\nWe help scientists conduct and translate research faster, more accurately, and more efficiently by offering them a unique confluence of decentralized funding, blockchain-protected IP, unique trust mechanisms, and commercialization strategies that reduce investor risk, increase scientific innovation, protect intellectual property, and positively impact the world and its inhabitants.\n\nOption, @option_hq: Option is a prediction market for governance that incentivizes companies to align with community values, including those related to climate change, by making it profitable for them to do so. An example of climate governance using Option could be creating a market where players can make predictions about a company's carbon emissions reduction targets. If the company meets its targets, those who predicted accurately would be rewarded. This would incentivize the company to align with community values and reduce its carbon emissions in order to profit from the market. Furthermore, the funding provided by the market could be used to support research and journalism focused on climate change and carbon emissions reduction.\n\nScience Fund, @sciencefund_io: Fund basic science with donations recorded for posterity on the Ethereum blockchain. \n\nScience Fund is empowering scientists to freely, openly, and rapidly pursue their best scientific ideas. To achieve this, we are reimagining how discovery is funded. No grant applications. Transparent, traceable funding records. Rapid funding cycles that support more ideas early and continue funding what\u2019s working. In this Gitcoin Round, we plan to test some of the mechanisms we thought out. At least 80% of the funds collected in this round will go towards our first Climate Action funding pool, the \u201cUrban Climate Impact Mitigation Pool\u201d. \n\nSpecifically we will support \u201cUPP\u201d - the \u201cUrban Planting Project\u201d incubated at the AKASHA Hub in Barcelona. UPPs mission is to turn every available city space into green islands of chill. By easing heat stress, UPP is helping to mitigate the effects of climate change and promote new sources for local food production in cities. UPP has already formed partnerships with local universities and communities to deploy its \u201cUPP toolbox\u201d and will apply S.M.A.R.T. principles to quantify the project's impact both through technology including real-time tracking, and satellite imagery as well as by documenting the social impact of their project.\n\nDonors to our Gitcoin grant will be recorded in the funding pool through their Ethereum addresses and will receive certificates of the impact that allows them to unlock information and data about the project\u2019s success at regular intervals in the future. \n\nInternet of Animals, @WildlifeMovemnt: Our mission is to create a community of scientists that promotes the design, development, implementation, and improvement of accessibility to software, hardware, and knowledge resources related to wildlife movement ecology. To realize that vision, we formed The Wildlife Movement Institute, a nonprofit organization to be a hub for this community for local, regional, and international collaborations \u2013 whether you are an expert or someone passionate about wildlife and technology. Since the end of GR15 we have established a bank account, set up a business account on CoinBase and are now preparing to invest in web development and getting 501(c)(3) tax status. \n\nDefi Biolabs, @Defibiolabs: Bioengineering algae to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. \nGR15 Grant: https://gitcoin.co/grants/7497/defi-biolabs-is-engineering-cyanobacteria-to-prod\n\nCirconomy, @CirconomyDAO: Recycle & Reuse 2 Earn 2 put the \u201ceco\u201d in \u201ceconomy\u201d (https://www.circon.me). \n\nWe aspire to become a DAO platform to proliferate circular economic projects all over the world. We'll accomplish this by building a dapp which will have a combination of on-chain registration of hardware-based circular economic projects such as Precious Plastic. This will be crowdfunded to ensure common ownership and stakeholdership. This will be supported by on-chain tracking of all recycling activity which will have a recycle-2-eajjrn cryptoeconomics model underpinning it.\n\nWe are currently creating a crypto-back solution for the world of recycling & reusing. We\u2019ll accomplish this by tokenizing existing points-based recycling/reuse-2-earn programs administered by not-for-profit organizations such as Circulr.ca and RedeemClothingRecycling.com. This allows us to better empower end users with an interoperable incentive that would have a unified reward pool amongst all of our partners as well as grant more autonomy to our partners to scale their operations.\n\nThe high-level summary of our tokenomics is as follows - there will be a dual-token system whereby:\nThe token users will earn will be created by coalitions between brands and nonprofits so what we mean by this is - depending on the material in question and/or other factors, we\u2019ll have coalitions of for-profit and nonprofit organizations that will mint a utility token together for earning. As an example - ideally, all clothing-recycling will have one utility token governed by all nonprofits that handle clothing recycling whilst the for-profits will be sustainable fashion brands. Likewise, all plastic-recycling will have one utility token governed by all nonprofits that deal with plastic recycling whilst the for-profits will be sustainable toy/merch companies. In that latter example, there may be multiple coalitions given that the toy industry is a specific/niche market. But regardless, we\u2019re starting with the fashion industry as our MVP.\n\nThis utility token will not be tradable in the exchanges because Circonomy itself will have a token that will be liquid in the exchanges out there. This token will be token-bonded to the utility tokens within Circonomy\u2019s ecosystem and thus in order for users to either obtain other utility tokens or liquidate them, they\u2019ll have to exchange their utility token for the Circonomy token. Each utility token will be exchangeable for rewards such as discounts or exclusive access to brand events that are token-gated or NFT phygital goods. But if they don\u2019t care about those things, they may simply liquidate by way of exchanging for the Circonomy token and then selling their Circonomy token, or they may stake the Circonomy token for gains of course and helping to drive value.\n\nGrow Your Own Cloud, @_GYOC: develops regenerative data technology, storing digital data in the DNA of plants and trees, to create carbon absorbing data storage. \n\nIt works! We\u2019ve just been awarded the science breakthrough of the year from Falling Walls for our functional prototype 'Data Garden'. We\u2019ve also just finished an EU-funded research project that demonstrates how urban scale implementations of GYOC could absorb megatonnes of carbon and store terabytes of data.\n\nNow we\u2019re developing a unique Web3 offering we call \"Non-Fungible Plants\" (NFPs). NFPs are physical plants with data encoded within their DNA. Data like JPEGs and MP3s. They\u2019re the first truly plant-based NFTs ever created. They\u2019re the first step to build data systems that work in harmony with living systems for maximum positive impact.\n\nTo enable our vision, within Web3 we are forming GYOC DAO: an internet-native organization dedicated to accelerating the transition to truly green data storage. Funds raised through this bundle will help the continued growth of an organization which more closely resembles a public good than a traditional tech company. Together we can create a future where server farms could be replaced by data forests. \n\nOpenCampusDAO, @OpenCampusTR: \nOpenCampus, Evolving into a DAO Based ReFi and DeSci Space\n\nOpenCampus provides the essential resources and motivation for scientific research and studies and allows interdisciplinary collaborations with its inspiring environment. It is a co-living and co-working space for scientists, Web3.0 communities, designers, and digital nomads. OpenCampus is now evolving into a DAO-based ReFi and DeSci platform. \n\nOur top priorities are nature, sustainability, equality, and inclusion. Minimalism, productivity, efficiency and collective well-being characterize our OpenCampus community.\n\nIn OpenCampus we formed a working group and began projects in which we learned and experienced so far. The following are some of the projects we are currently working on at OpenCampus:\n\ncForest - Blockchain & Community Based City Forest Platform\nBioBased: BioComposite Materials R&D\nMobius: Smart Mobile Home Platform R&D\nSustainability and Border Carbon Tax Calculation and Legislation Training for Industrial Institutions\nOpen BioLab: (Endangered Tree and Plant Species Reproduction in a Lab Environment Using Tissue and Root Cultures)\n\n\n", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}}
Bundle: Climate Research Alpha Round
Mission Statement:

Time is running out. Climate research today needs to focus immediately on practical solutions. We need research that leads to mass movements and exponentially growing impact. Like the US Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), the Climate Research bundle will be a key engine of climate innovation and climate action. While fixing our sights on the high bar set by ARPA-E is wildly ambitious, we know that blockchain technology can exponentially increase effective and efficient scientific research. Integrated indicators make the research replicable and scalable and allow improved documentation and verification. The ambitious and innovative projects in the Climate Research bundle will architect many systems of the new infrastructure of climate research and scientific collaboration. 

This bundle is comprised of 8 critical and interrelated projects address various challenges of climate research by generating:

⚡ Clean, cheap, abundant, and reliable sources of energy and the need to mitigate the negative impacts of climate change on cities and urban areas.

💨 Increased speed and efficiency of traditional methods for conducting and translating scientific research

🤯 Solutions to the complex set of root causes that contribute to the long time it takes for scientific research to be implemented in real life

🔍 Increased transparency, traceability, and access to funding for scientific research

🦾 Effective mechanisms to protect intellectual property, reduced investor risk in, and increased investor access to the scientific and technological innovation process

🤑 Profitable ways for companies to align with community values related to climate change

🔬 More effective research, and strategies for promoting and supporting scientific innovation that positively impacts the world and its inhabitants

🌱 Developing regenerative data tech, storing digital data in the DNA of plants and trees, to create carbon absorbing data storage

The projects contributing to this effort are:

🌎 FrontierDAO
🌎 SCINET
🌎 Option
🌎 ScienceFund
🌎 Internet of Animals
🌎 Defi Biolabs
🌎 Circonomy
🌎 Grow Your Own Cloud DAO (GYOC DAO)
🌎 OpenCampusDAO

FrontierDAO @FrontierDAO;  Collectively incubating scientific and engineering innovations and innovators, using Web3 tooling (linktr.ee/frontierdao).

One of our key focus areas is “fusion energy as a climate solution.” Fusion energy, while still in its infancy, is the technology that will usher in a new era on this planet - one where cheap, clean, abundant, baseload energy is available for all. 

Nuclear fusion energy is the energy of the stars and sun. It is the opposite of nuclear fission.. 

To help usher in this new era of transition to clean energy, FrontierDAO has released in BETA an IP NFT on-chain scientific publishing platform called FrontierRegistry. By publishing research on the blockchain, we aim to foster greater collaboration while protecting authors’ IP rights. frontierda.xyz/faqs-projects

Funds raised from GR15 were used to partially underwrite a 12-week Fusion Energy As A Climate Solution weekly workshop series that ran from November to mid-January. Interviews can be found on Youtube.com/@frontierdao.                           

SCINET, INC @scinet_inc. At SCINET, we are increasing the speed, efficiency, and effectiveness of life sciences research from “lab to life” by developing a suite of software applications in a decentralized ("DeSci") life sciences ecosystem that addresses the complex set of root causes for why it takes 17 years for life sciences research, including climate solutions, to get into real life (see here for socials, media mentions, website, etc.).

We help scientists conduct and translate research faster, more accurately, and more efficiently by offering them a unique confluence of decentralized funding, blockchain-protected IP, unique trust mechanisms, and commercialization strategies that reduce investor risk, increase scientific innovation, protect intellectual property, and positively impact the world and its inhabitants.

Option, @option_hq: Option is a prediction market for governance that incentivizes companies to align with community values, including those related to climate change, by making it profitable for them to do so. An example of climate governance using Option could be creating a market where players can make predictions about a company's carbon emissions reduction targets. If the company meets its targets, those who predicted accurately would be rewarded. This would incentivize the company to align with community values and reduce its carbon emissions in order to profit from the market. Furthermore, the funding provided by the market could be used to support research and journalism focused on climate change and carbon emissions reduction.

Science Fund, @sciencefund_io: Fund basic science with donations recorded for posterity on the Ethereum blockchain. 

Science Fund is empowering scientists to freely, openly, and rapidly pursue their best scientific ideas. To achieve this, we are reimagining how discovery is funded. No grant applications. Transparent, traceable funding records. Rapid funding cycles that support more ideas early and continue funding what’s working. In this Gitcoin Round, we plan to test some of the mechanisms we thought out. At least 80% of the funds collected in this round will go towards our first Climate Action funding pool, the “Urban Climate Impact Mitigation Pool”. 

Specifically we will support “UPP” - the “Urban Planting Project” incubated at the AKASHA Hub in Barcelona. UPPs mission is to turn every available city space into green islands of chill. By easing heat stress, UPP is helping to mitigate the effects of climate change and promote new sources for local food production in cities. UPP has already formed partnerships with local universities and communities to deploy its “UPP toolbox” and will apply S.M.A.R.T. principles to quantify the project's impact both through technology including real-time tracking, and satellite imagery as well as by documenting the social impact of their project.

Donors to our Gitcoin grant will be recorded in the funding pool through their Ethereum addresses and will receive certificates of the impact that allows them to unlock information and data about the project’s success at regular intervals in the future. 

Internet of Animals, @WildlifeMovemnt: Our mission is to create a community of scientists that promotes the design, development, implementation, and improvement of accessibility to software, hardware, and knowledge resources related to wildlife movement ecology. To realize that vision, we formed The Wildlife Movement Institute, a nonprofit organization to be a hub for this community for local, regional, and international collaborations – whether you are an expert or someone passionate about wildlife and technology. Since the end of GR15 we have established a bank account, set up a business account on CoinBase and are now preparing to invest in web development and getting 501(c)(3) tax status. 

Defi Biolabs, @Defibiolabs: Bioengineering algae to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 
GR15 Grant: https://gitcoin.co/grants/7497/defi-biolabs-is-engineering-cyanobacteria-to-prod

Circonomy, @CirconomyDAO: Recycle & Reuse 2 Earn 2 put the “eco” in “economy” (https://www.circon.me). 

We aspire to become a DAO platform to proliferate circular economic projects all over the world. We'll accomplish this by building a dapp which will have a combination of on-chain registration of hardware-based circular economic projects such as Precious Plastic. This will be crowdfunded to ensure common ownership and stakeholdership. This will be supported by on-chain tracking of all recycling activity which will have a recycle-2-eajjrn cryptoeconomics model underpinning it.

We are currently creating a crypto-back solution for the world of recycling & reusing. We’ll accomplish this by tokenizing existing points-based recycling/reuse-2-earn programs administered by not-for-profit organizations such as Circulr.ca and RedeemClothingRecycling.com. This allows us to better empower end users with an interoperable incentive that would have a unified reward pool amongst all of our partners as well as grant more autonomy to our partners to scale their operations.

The high-level summary of our tokenomics is as follows - there will be a dual-token system whereby:
The token users will earn will be created by coalitions between brands and nonprofits so what we mean by this is - depending on the material in question and/or other factors, we’ll have coalitions of for-profit and nonprofit organizations that will mint a utility token together for earning. As an example - ideally, all clothing-recycling will have one utility token governed by all nonprofits that handle clothing recycling whilst the for-profits will be sustainable fashion brands. Likewise, all plastic-recycling will have one utility token governed by all nonprofits that deal with plastic recycling whilst the for-profits will be sustainable toy/merch companies. In that latter example, there may be multiple coalitions given that the toy industry is a specific/niche market. But regardless, we’re starting with the fashion industry as our MVP.

This utility token will not be tradable in the exchanges because Circonomy itself will have a token that will be liquid in the exchanges out there. This token will be token-bonded to the utility tokens within Circonomy’s ecosystem and thus in order for users to either obtain other utility tokens or liquidate them, they’ll have to exchange their utility token for the Circonomy token. Each utility token will be exchangeable for rewards such as discounts or exclusive access to brand events that are token-gated or NFT phygital goods. But if they don’t care about those things, they may simply liquidate by way of exchanging for the Circonomy token and then selling their Circonomy token, or they may stake the Circonomy token for gains of course and helping to drive value.

Grow Your Own Cloud, @_GYOC: develops regenerative data technology, storing digital data in the DNA of plants and trees, to create carbon absorbing data storage. 

It works! We’ve just been awarded the science breakthrough of the year from Falling Walls for our functional prototype 'Data Garden'. We’ve also just finished an EU-funded research project that demonstrates how urban scale implementations of GYOC could absorb megatonnes of carbon and store terabytes of data.

Now we’re developing a unique Web3 offering we call "Non-Fungible Plants" (NFPs). NFPs are physical plants with data encoded within their DNA. Data like JPEGs and MP3s. They’re the first truly plant-based NFTs ever created. They’re the first step to build data systems that work in harmony with living systems for maximum positive impact.

To enable our vision, within Web3 we are forming GYOC DAO: an internet-native organization dedicated to accelerating the transition to truly green data storage. Funds raised through this bundle will help the continued growth of an organization which more closely resembles a public good than a traditional tech company. Together we can create a future where server farms could be replaced by data forests. 

OpenCampusDAO, @OpenCampusTR: 
OpenCampus, Evolving into a DAO Based ReFi and DeSci Space

OpenCampus provides the essential resources and motivation for scientific research and studies and allows interdisciplinary collaborations with its inspiring environment. It is a co-living and co-working space for scientists, Web3.0 communities, designers, and digital nomads. OpenCampus is now evolving into a DAO-based ReFi and DeSci platform. 

Our top priorities are nature, sustainability, equality, and inclusion. Minimalism, productivity, efficiency and collective well-being characterize our OpenCampus community.

In OpenCampus we formed a working group and began projects in which we learned and experienced so far. The following are some of the projects we are currently working on at OpenCampus:

cForest - Blockchain & Community Based City Forest Platform
BioBased: BioComposite Materials R&D
Mobius: Smart Mobile Home Platform R&D
Sustainability and Border Carbon Tax Calculation and Legislation Training for Industrial Institutions
Open BioLab: (Endangered Tree and Plant Species Reproduction in a Lab Environment Using Tissue and Root Cultures)



Bundle: Climate Research Alpha Round