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Whether you're working on \ud83c\udf33carbon removal, \ud83c\udf31afforestation, regenerative agriculture or you've doing grassroots community building - with this bundle, you'll have everything you need to prove your impact, access funding and receive rewards.\n\nWith this grant, we're powering up these projects to take the MRV space to the next level\ud83d\ude80. Let's work together to make sure funding is going to the most impactful solutions, and let's make a real difference in the fight against \ud83d\udd25climate change.\n\nWhat\n\nBehind every product lies a hidden infrastructure\u2014a complex ecosystem of factories, ships, robots, processes, and people working in harmony to deliver value. The web3 climate economy likewise requires an infrastructure of technologies, people, and services. That's us.\n\nThe Verification Bundle comprises a range of approaches targeting different pieces of the verification value chain. This includes project evaluation networks, oracles, impact certificates, and MRV protocols. We are also building apps and interfaces enabling climate entrepreneurs to easily plug verification into their projects. We are for climate entrepreneurs like what AWS is for developers.\n\nWhy\n\nCurrent verification methods are expensive, inaccurate, inaccessible, or untransparent. These shortcomings are a bottleneck for both funding and entrepreneurs. Funders, from small donors, to institutional and sovereign funds, will not fund climate initiatives en masse until they can verify climate impact. Meanwhile the legacy, off-chain verification organizations cannot scale to serve the fast-growing, dynamic, and global mix of climate entrepreneurs.\n\nWeb3 technologies, like blockchain, enable new verification solutions that decrease cost, democratize access, increase accuracy, and create transparency. However, these solutions are not automatic. There is tremendous work to be done designing user experiences, aligning incentives, and building applications. Furthermore, we need to tailor solutions for the wide range of climate and sustainability initiatives.\n\nBeyond accountability, verification projects are the foundation for a more immersive, and rewarding impact sector. Impact certificates (NFTs linked to verifiable impact) enable projects to symbolically represent their work with creative smart contract structures. For example, a tree planter could sell tree NFTs that produce carbon tokens for holders. These carbon tokens could then grant holders exclusive rewards from video game skins, to store discounts, backstage concert access, or project voting rights.\n\nIf we are successful, donating to climate impact will soon be as good, if not better, than buying things for oneself.\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nExplore each individual project\n\n\u2b50 Athena Protocol @_AthenaProtocol \n\nChanging the way the world runs on data to include ethics and equity through cryptographic security. Athena Protocol is building the smart contract primitives required to facilitate on chain claim resolutions to claims involving payments for ecosystem services. Our work during q4 of 2022 re our GR15 grant application \u201c ImpactNFTs: An on-chain resource for validating impact\u201d has resulted in the collaboration between several organizations within the dMeter ecosystem to adopt ours as their shared claim resolution framework. We are seeking additional funding to grow our core team, to expand our educational material on the importance of data sovereignty, and to continue development of our claim resolution framework and ImpactNFT primitives.\n\n----------------------------------------\n\n\u2b50 Pozzle Planet @PozzlePlanet \n\nPozzlePlanet is social app \ud83d\udcf1and protocol \u26d3\u00a0where users earn our native token POZ by sharing, joining and documenting planet pozitive \ud83c\udf0e activities via short form video\u2019s called pozzles \ud83e\udd33\ud83c\udffd. On the outside, a social app where people generate positive impact by sharing videos and earning rewards. Underneath the hood, a DeFi protocol that passively farms users activity into NFTs backed by real world assets like CO2. \n\nOur mobile app went LIVE in public beta in November 2022 via AppStore and Goggle Play with 1500+ daily active users. So far 24k+ pozzle videos added, 8k+ activities verified by the community, and the protocol has rewarded the community with 18k+ POZ - see the latest \ud83d\udcc8\u00a0real-time stats here https://www.pozzleplanet.com/ \ud83c\udf0d\u00a0\n\nLinks \ud83d\udd17\n\nVideo Demo: https://twitter.com/PozzlePlanet/status/1591662766947201025?s=20&t=zsAvCXhjeJpGyAQpVV6R6Q\n\nWeb:\nhttps://www.pozzleplanet.com/\n\nPurple paper:\nhttps://pozzle-planet.gitbook.io/poz-purplepaper/\n\nTwitter:\nhttps://twitter.com/PozzlePlanet\n\nMedium:\nhttps://pozzleplanet.medium.com/\n\nDune Analytics for POZ:\nhttps://dune.com/swarthyhatter/POZ\n\nGITHUB: \nhttps://github.com/PozzlePlanet/\n\n----------------------------------------\n\n\u2b50 Digital Gaia @_digitalgaia www.digitalgaia.earth\nIf you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking. (Buckminster Fuller)\n\nThe funding from this grant will support the launch of Digital Gaia's first product, called Gaia. It is the culmination of Digital Gaia's MVP sprint in Q3 and Q4 of 2021, which was partially funded by Gitcoin GR 14 and 15. \n\nBackground on the research and thought leadership that goes into Gaia can be found at: https://docsend.com/view/s/gexztbntbf5vxsn9\n\nGaia is an AI-augmented assistant that helps the global regenerative community achieve more impact faster and with greater confidence. It is built on a novel decentralized AI platform and backed by state-of-the-art science. Gaia provides context-specific information, knowledge, decision support, and Impact assessment for the first mile of Impact rooted in the collective intelligence of a global network of practitioners, experts, scientists, data providers, and indigenous communities.\n\nGaia is built on Digital Gaia's open technology platform and will enable multiple high-value services missing today that are essential to scaling regenerative agriculture and healthy bioregional economies, including:\n\n1. Expert Assistance for the first mile of Impact: Each instance of Gaia is a standalone AI for a specific ecosystem and community context. It supports and gathers context from land stewards and experts through local inputs and the use of multi-tiered remote sensing and other forms of MRV.\n2. Open Access to a global commons of data, information, and knowledge: Individual Gaias are interconnected in an AI-augmented global network. Digital Gaia's AI tools autonomously integrate all the local information and knowledge into continuously improving scientific models. These consensus-based models feed back into the network, enabling exponentially faster learning and continuously improving performance against targeted outcomes at the local level.\n3. Transparent and Immutable Proof of Impact on Regenerative Outcomes: Gaia produces real-time project assessments from pre-feasibility stages to end-of-life. It serves as an Oracle for both future predicted performance and realized impact across the life of projects that can scale from project, to portfolio, to bioregion.\n\nObjectives\n\nOur objectives for the first six months of the Gaia launch are:\n\n- 125 Project Onboarded with >10,000 Hectares impacted\n- A pipeline of over 1250 Projects in the onboarding pipeline with >100,000 Hectares impacted\n- 7+ project aggregators integrating Gaia into operating models\n- 55+ SMEs, Experts and Data Providers engaged in our global community\n- 7+ SME organization, academic institutions, data aggregators integrating internal resources with the Gaia Network and Gaia POI oracle services\n- Integration of Gaia POI Oracle Services into 3 Marketplace channels\n\n----------------------------------------\n\n\u2b50 Katalyst.earth @KatalystEarth www.katalyst.earth\n\nScaling Nature Positive Credits through Digital MRV\n\n----------------------------------------\n\n\u2b50 POCA: Proof of Climate/Community Action \n @Poca_earth \nis like a POAP but for climate and community action.\n\nIt\u00a0is a reward badge to add to a collection of actions you participated in, whether it is building a community or taking part in a climate action.\n\n----------------------------------------\n\n\u2b50 LunarPunk Labs @LunarPunk_Labs \nFacilitating community articulated Active Inferencing Models.\n\n----------------------------------------\n\n\u2b50 SproutUp @sproutupapp \nThe impact certificate fundraising platform for web3 charities. Turn good deeds into NFTs and earn crypto donations.\n\n----------------------------------------\n\n\u2b50 EverGreenCoin @evergreencoin_ evergreencoin.org\nEverGreenCoin (EGC) is a native blockchain PoW/PoS hybrid cryptocurrency, now full PoS, launched in 2015. The EverGreenCoin Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)3 public charity launched in 2017. Proof of Environment (PoE) is a program of the foundation's, by which it rewards environmentally-conscious activities and observations with EGC, launched in 2019. PoE rounds run monthly and the reward pool is grown throughout. Submissions are publicly scored. The reward each submission receives after month's end is proportionate to how it did in public scoring. We believe we have an amazing platform established for people to share, and be rewarded for, any environmentally-conscious activity. We are requesting grant funding to scale EGC\u2019s PoE and ready it for a global stage.\n\n----------------------------------------\n\n\u2b50 ORGO @orgo_earth \nORGO is on a mission to regenerate the planet by creating an economy for environmental and social causes. Impact organizations that are focused on making a difference need better visibility and access to funding. ORGO\u2019s philosophy is rooted in liberating impact data. ORGO aims to close the gap in sustainable finance, reward positive behaviors, and eradicate greenwashing and fraud.\n\nWebsite\nhttps://orgo.earth/\n\nJoin our Discord\nhttp://discord.gg/qhg6wqWE5j\n\nBlog\nhttps://medium.com/@orgo_earth/our-philosophy-279431efc41a\n\n----------------------------------------\n\n\u2b50 Earthbanc Protocol @earthbanc\n\n----------------------------------------\n\n\u2b50 Project Themistoklis @p_themistoklis \n\n----------------------------------------\n\n\u2b50 Buan @buan_fund\n@buan_fund on twitter / mirror.xyz/buanfund.eth / https://t.me/buanthereum\n\nB\u00daAN is minting digital twins of RWA on Ethereum with a focus on environmentally valuable areas of land which can form the backing for impact certificates which can be sold to businesses. With the ultimate goal of rekindling societies relationship with nature. Think of us as The Federal Reserve before it moved away from the gold standard except our treasure is biodiversity. 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Bundle #3: Verification Infrastructure (Impact Certs, Measurement, Reporting & Verification (MRV) and Oracles)
Verification Bundle - 12 innovative projects proving impact and unlocking critical funding in the climate and sustainability space.

Why: Verification as proof of impact

How: MRV, Oracles, Impact Certs, Active Inference, Digital Identity

What: An anti-greenwashing toolkit

Bundle Description

🌍💡 Introducing Bundle #3: Verification Infrastructure 🛡️- the ultimate toolkit for proving 💚impact and unlocking 💰funding in the sustainability and climate solutions space.

This bundle brings together 🔥 12 cutting-edge projects that are changing the game for measuring, reporting, and verifying (MRV) impact. With our bundle, you'll be able to confidently prove that your projects are delivering real, tangible results.

Let's be real, in order to fund the solutions we need to save the planet, we need to show that our projects are 💯 and that the impact is 💪. That's where MRV comes in - it's the bridge between 💰 and 💚impact. These projects included in the bundle offer MRV solutions through 🔮oracles, 💻impact certificates, and MRV protocols which are making it simpler and more transparent for projects to prove their impact and secure funding.

Think of this bundle as your one-stop-shop for proving your impact and unlocking funding 💰. Whether you're working on 🌳carbon removal, 🌱afforestation, regenerative agriculture or you've doing grassroots community building - with this bundle, you'll have everything you need to prove your impact, access funding and receive rewards.

With this grant, we're powering up these projects to take the MRV space to the next level🚀. Let's work together to make sure funding is going to the most impactful solutions, and let's make a real difference in the fight against 🔥climate change.

What

Behind every product lies a hidden infrastructure—a complex ecosystem of factories, ships, robots, processes, and people working in harmony to deliver value. The web3 climate economy likewise requires an infrastructure of technologies, people, and services. That's us.

The Verification Bundle comprises a range of approaches targeting different pieces of the verification value chain. This includes project evaluation networks, oracles, impact certificates, and MRV protocols. We are also building apps and interfaces enabling climate entrepreneurs to easily plug verification into their projects. We are for climate entrepreneurs like what AWS is for developers.

Why

Current verification methods are expensive, inaccurate, inaccessible, or untransparent. These shortcomings are a bottleneck for both funding and entrepreneurs. Funders, from small donors, to institutional and sovereign funds, will not fund climate initiatives en masse until they can verify climate impact. Meanwhile the legacy, off-chain verification organizations cannot scale to serve the fast-growing, dynamic, and global mix of climate entrepreneurs.

Web3 technologies, like blockchain, enable new verification solutions that decrease cost, democratize access, increase accuracy, and create transparency. However, these solutions are not automatic. There is tremendous work to be done designing user experiences, aligning incentives, and building applications. Furthermore, we need to tailor solutions for the wide range of climate and sustainability initiatives.

Beyond accountability, verification projects are the foundation for a more immersive, and rewarding impact sector. Impact certificates (NFTs linked to verifiable impact) enable projects to symbolically represent their work with creative smart contract structures. For example, a tree planter could sell tree NFTs that produce carbon tokens for holders. These carbon tokens could then grant holders exclusive rewards from video game skins, to store discounts, backstage concert access, or project voting rights.

If we are successful, donating to climate impact will soon be as good, if not better, than buying things for oneself.

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Explore each individual project

⭐ Athena Protocol @_AthenaProtocol 

Changing the way the world runs on data to include ethics and equity through cryptographic security. Athena Protocol is building the smart contract primitives required to facilitate on chain claim resolutions to claims involving payments for ecosystem services. Our work during q4 of 2022 re our GR15 grant application “ ImpactNFTs: An on-chain resource for validating impact” has resulted in the collaboration between several organizations within the dMeter ecosystem to adopt ours as their shared claim resolution framework. We are seeking additional funding to grow our core team, to expand our educational material on the importance of data sovereignty, and to continue development of our claim resolution framework and ImpactNFT primitives.

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⭐ Pozzle Planet @PozzlePlanet 

PozzlePlanet is social app 📱and protocol ⛓ where users earn our native token POZ by sharing, joining and documenting planet pozitive 🌎 activities via short form video’s called pozzles 🤳🏽. On the outside, a social app where people generate positive impact by sharing videos and earning rewards. Underneath the hood, a DeFi protocol that passively farms users activity into NFTs backed by real world assets like CO2. 

Our mobile app went LIVE in public beta in November 2022 via AppStore and Goggle Play with 1500+ daily active users. So far 24k+ pozzle videos added, 8k+ activities verified by the community, and the protocol has rewarded the community with 18k+ POZ - see the latest 📈 real-time stats here https://www.pozzleplanet.com/ 🌍 

Links 🔗

Video Demo: https://twitter.com/PozzlePlanet/status/1591662766947201025?s=20&t=zsAvCXhjeJpGyAQpVV6R6Q

Web:
https://www.pozzleplanet.com/

Purple paper:
https://pozzle-planet.gitbook.io/poz-purplepaper/

Twitter:
https://twitter.com/PozzlePlanet

Medium:
https://pozzleplanet.medium.com/

Dune Analytics for POZ:
https://dune.com/swarthyhatter/POZ

GITHUB: 
https://github.com/PozzlePlanet/

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⭐ Digital Gaia @_digitalgaia www.digitalgaia.earth
If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking. (Buckminster Fuller)

The funding from this grant will support the launch of Digital Gaia's first product, called Gaia. It is the culmination of Digital Gaia's MVP sprint in Q3 and Q4 of 2021, which was partially funded by Gitcoin GR 14 and 15. 

Background on the research and thought leadership that goes into Gaia can be found at: https://docsend.com/view/s/gexztbntbf5vxsn9

Gaia is an AI-augmented assistant that helps the global regenerative community achieve more impact faster and with greater confidence. It is built on a novel decentralized AI platform and backed by state-of-the-art science. Gaia provides context-specific information, knowledge, decision support, and Impact assessment for the first mile of Impact rooted in the collective intelligence of a global network of practitioners, experts, scientists, data providers, and indigenous communities.

Gaia is built on Digital Gaia's open technology platform and will enable multiple high-value services missing today that are essential to scaling regenerative agriculture and healthy bioregional economies, including:

1. Expert Assistance for the first mile of Impact: Each instance of Gaia is a standalone AI for a specific ecosystem and community context. It supports and gathers context from land stewards and experts through local inputs and the use of multi-tiered remote sensing and other forms of MRV.
2. Open Access to a global commons of data, information, and knowledge: Individual Gaias are interconnected in an AI-augmented global network. Digital Gaia's AI tools autonomously integrate all the local information and knowledge into continuously improving scientific models. These consensus-based models feed back into the network, enabling exponentially faster learning and continuously improving performance against targeted outcomes at the local level.
3. Transparent and Immutable Proof of Impact on Regenerative Outcomes: Gaia produces real-time project assessments from pre-feasibility stages to end-of-life. It serves as an Oracle for both future predicted performance and realized impact across the life of projects that can scale from project, to portfolio, to bioregion.

Objectives

Our objectives for the first six months of the Gaia launch are:

- 125 Project Onboarded with >10,000 Hectares impacted
- A pipeline of over 1250 Projects in the onboarding pipeline with >100,000 Hectares impacted
- 7+ project aggregators integrating Gaia into operating models
- 55+ SMEs, Experts and Data Providers engaged in our global community
- 7+ SME organization, academic institutions, data aggregators integrating internal resources with the Gaia Network and Gaia POI oracle services
- Integration of Gaia POI Oracle Services into 3 Marketplace channels

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⭐ Katalyst.earth @KatalystEarth www.katalyst.earth

Scaling Nature Positive Credits through Digital MRV

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⭐ POCA: Proof of Climate/Community Action 
 @Poca_earth 
is like a POAP but for climate and community action.

It is a reward badge to add to a collection of actions you participated in, whether it is building a community or taking part in a climate action.

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⭐ LunarPunk Labs @LunarPunk_Labs 
Facilitating community articulated Active Inferencing Models.

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⭐ SproutUp @sproutupapp 
The impact certificate fundraising platform for web3 charities. Turn good deeds into NFTs and earn crypto donations.

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⭐ EverGreenCoin @evergreencoin_ evergreencoin.org
EverGreenCoin (EGC) is a native blockchain PoW/PoS hybrid cryptocurrency, now full PoS, launched in 2015. The EverGreenCoin Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)3 public charity launched in 2017. Proof of Environment (PoE) is a program of the foundation's, by which it rewards environmentally-conscious activities and observations with EGC, launched in 2019. PoE rounds run monthly and the reward pool is grown throughout. Submissions are publicly scored. The reward each submission receives after month's end is proportionate to how it did in public scoring. We believe we have an amazing platform established for people to share, and be rewarded for, any environmentally-conscious activity. We are requesting grant funding to scale EGC’s PoE and ready it for a global stage.

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⭐ ORGO @orgo_earth 
ORGO is on a mission to regenerate the planet by creating an economy for environmental and social causes. Impact organizations that are focused on making a difference need better visibility and access to funding. ORGO’s philosophy is rooted in liberating impact data. ORGO aims to close the gap in sustainable finance, reward positive behaviors, and eradicate greenwashing and fraud.

Website
https://orgo.earth/

Join our Discord
http://discord.gg/qhg6wqWE5j

Blog
https://medium.com/@orgo_earth/our-philosophy-279431efc41a

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⭐ Earthbanc Protocol @earthbanc

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⭐ Project Themistoklis @p_themistoklis 

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⭐ Buan @buan_fund
@buan_fund on twitter / mirror.xyz/buanfund.eth / https://t.me/buanthereum

BÚAN is minting digital twins of RWA on Ethereum with a focus on environmentally valuable areas of land which can form the backing for impact certificates which can be sold to businesses. With the ultimate goal of rekindling societies relationship with nature. Think of us as The Federal Reserve before it moved away from the gold standard except our treasure is biodiversity. By developing the rails to on board RWA to the blockchain in a legally indemnifiable way we hope to encourage others to innovate within the same framework.
Bundle #3: Verification Infrastructure (Impact Certs, Measurement, Reporting & Verification (MRV) and Oracles)