Sympoiesis as an organization has received approximately 1100 DAI from the "Gitcoin Program Beta Round Climate Round" on April 2023, which has been used towards its operational expenses (including the setting up of the website sympoiesis.xyz and associated database capacity). Now, funding related to this specific proposal has come from gitcoin grants by the Zuzalu community for previous iterations/foundational aspects of the idea presented here. That's so because Zuzalu Montenegro (2023) represented a landmark for the project via the participation of Sympoiesis' members in the "Zuzalu Nature Hackathon", with the use of LLMs to serve as a voice for nonhuman entities, like rivers and other ecosystems. Since then, the "Zuzalu Continuous Innovation" round financed 1.819,13 DAI for the [SymbioDome concept](https://builder.gitcoin.co/#/chains/42161/registry/0x/projects/0xdd599364a88630e2982a7c6f56756095b168a6ac044160fca49705d9ebc46082) in Aug 2023, and the "Zuzalu Q1-Tech Round" round financed 1,9592 ETH for the [SymbioTotem concept](https://builder.gitcoin.co/#/chains/42161/registry/0x/projects/0x6c2901a11eb503c25a734451adf51e2e02d95a14d8a0d76070975409a9867d56) in Jan 2024. The procceding from these grants have been used towards the continuous acquisition of hardware and software for the development of the Rio Sagrado AI-vatar (including water sensors and compute units), as well as the work hours put into this work - including those of Genadir, the native artist who has crafted the physical sculpture to represent the river's avatar.

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