Holon Lab was born in January 2024 as an open space for regenerative research and learning experiences, where members can vote to allocate funds for research or experience proposals by the community. Initially focusing on Brazil with content in Portuguese, we plan to include experiences in English in the near future.

So far we have hosted 3 regenerative experiences, about tooling for a regenerative society and a web3 community enabling Hackathon. The POAPs generated by the participation on these events serve as a membership badge for joining the Lab. We currently have 38 members and we meet every month to share the news and sync about new experiences and events. All content produced is an open source commons and ever will be, because we truly believe in open knowledge.

We have been keen on starting our own DAO to manage Lab resources, but so far we have been using a multisig wallet. So far proposals are created and voted by the community using CharmVerse.

With Gardens there is a huge opportunity for us to use this revolutionary DAO technology to allocate Lab resources and also signal agreement decisions on-chain. I, personally, have been a follower of Token Engineering Commons and Conviction Voting for a while and truly believe this can help us adopt a more regenerative decision making tool.

We are experimenting with creating our own tokens as well to map community engagement and enable investments, and we decided to partner with the Groweco / Greenpill Brasil Ecossystem and seek this Gitcoin grant to help with this process.

This Gitcoin grant will be used mainly on the next 6 months for:

- Hosting 3 more events / regenerative experiences with the following themes:
  1) Governance and financial tooling for regenerative villages (partnering with an ecovillage network in the southeast of Brazil)
  2) Workshop on Using Gardens and Conviction Voting for Web3 Communities
  3) Supporting the development of a boardgame for Commons based resource management for regenerative villages

- Build usage videos and support materials in Portuguese and English for Gardens v2 for our communities to use

- Empower at least 3 communities on using Gardens v2 and Conviction Voting

