This was our second project funded through the community round. With my funds, I (Dr. Brad Necyk) was able to hire a web3 consultant (Shawn Anderson, founder of Long Tail Financial) to run eight workshopping sessions to develop my vision for a decentralized, self-governed, global community that would create and share fun and educational psychedelic art, film, and music. It allowed us to write our whitepaper for a community network that provided custom AI tools to create and collaborate and would be built on the blockchain. We also envisioned a custom chatbot interface allowing DAO visitors and members to navigate content and the DAO itself easily.

With the whitepaper, I have been able to secure a private Bitcoin donation to develop our first NFT collection that will be central to fundraising and DAO governance. Further, I am using the whitepaper to apply for a Phase 2 Prototyping grant from York University, where I am a postdoctoral fellow researching AI and blockchain applications. This will enable me to hire graduate students to develop the chatbot DAO interface and AI tools.