- Challenges we have faced in achieving our vision include:
    - Scaling geospatial registry due to technical limitations; building this solution will likely entail multiple interactions to understand and identify technical challenges and considerations. Additionally funding allows us to compensate the work of our core team and potential contributors to allow them with the time to develop solutions.
    - Coordination across various working groups: while we’ve helped organize and herd cats, there is still the challenge in coordinating across stakeholder groups to establish geospatial standards for Web3. Providing funding allows our team to continue investing in these relationships and even fund projects that align with our objectives.
    - We are navigating a bear market with various partners and builders in this space, losing funding and interest due to macroeconomic conditions. For example, we have been coordinating and working with partners on public good projects and have seen these efforts have to be placed on hold due to funding issues. Acquiring funding allows us to circumvent funding challenges and focus on building.
- Lessons Learned
    - Throughout our journey, we’ve learned that it is critical to foster community and collaboration among Web3 GIS and climate projects. We’ve realized that various projects are operating in silos and building custom, bespoke solutions. Commonly, these solutions overlap and lack interoperability. This further highlights the criticality of our work and the necessity to break down silos.
    - Equally as important, we’ve identified the criticality that we operate as a public good. We focus on driving impact instead of profit. While we see countless applications and use cases for Web3 GIS tools, we recognize a larger order impact by focusing on building standardized tools and solutions. This focus intentionally allows us to sit at the intersection of various applications and communities.
    - Lastly, we’ve learned that we can’t go alone and it is critical to invest in individuals, researchers, and projects that progress and achieve our mission. We’ve achieved this by funding projects like ZKMaps, promoting communities like Climate Collective, forming others like the Decentralized Geo-spatial working group, and enabling the success of others by providing mentorship and our solutions.