Astral’s mission is to enable the development of 1,000s of onchain location-based applications. Funding from Gitcoin’s OSS - Developer Tool GG22 will continue to enable us to pursue our mission. We’ve outlined our core focus areas for the next quarter and listed the specific milestones to achieve these objectives. Funds will be used to support these activities:
- Conduct Research and Establish Onchain GIS as a Science
    - Host a Decentralized Geospatial Web Working Group session (DGWWG) - Q1’25
    - Merge with the University of Maryland's EASIER Data Initiative to establish a hub for decentralized geospatial research, development and community - Q1’25
    - Publish decentralized geospatial vision paper — Q1’25
- Foster development for onchain location-based applications
    - Fund, sponsor, and support application developers building on Astral via Funding the Commons x Earth Commons public good hackathon - Q4’24
    - Integrate recipes into Astral’s Location Proof Protocol - Q1’25
    - Deploy Astral’s Location Proof Protocol to additional EVM mainnet’s and L2s - Q1’25