- Permet (fka HibiscusDAO) has been part of past Gitcoin Climate + DEI + OSS rounds.
- Our goal is to onboard new demographics into the blockchain ecosystem by creating new use cases on the application layer — especially for people of color and other traditionally overlooked demographics (who are the next generation of creatives and the next billion ETH users).
- Since the last grant round that Permet participated in (alpha round) — distributed just under $25K to supply chain / participants,  proving out a prototype model for alternative incentives in garment production.
- We’ve also built an MVP supply chain of micro-factories and at-home producers in Toronto and have started producing samples of our first garments produced with this open-source supply chain.
- We also created a research publication to open-source the core ideas/philosophy behind the work we are doing — with the goal of creating a community of the next generation of garment producers — and a garden of complementary initiatives and products that work in tandem / synthesis to Permet.
- In the continuing spirit Virgil Abloh’s “Free Game” — we are open sourcing the principles and ideas behind leveraging blockchain technology as a way to give the people in the garment production supply chain (who actually need it) access to the life-changing use cases blockchains and OSS can enable.
- Launched Visual Maintenance System e-zine advocating for sustainable fashion — has been adopted by prominent artists like figure31, shl0ms, and terra0.
- We firmly believe that once the youth “hustlers” (or “shooters” — as we call them) realize the potential use cases of blockchain — adoption is inevitable. This ongoing initiative be viewed at [permet.co/research](http://permet.co/research).
- Permet onboarded a new team member (who happens to be a black woman) — the team continues to be 100% POC + black-led.