Astral builds open source tools + infrastructure for location-based dapps. This year, we:
- developed the Location Proof Protocol (built on EAS — deploying on Arbitrum mainnet very soon)
- built the Astral Logbook, a dapp for telling place-based stories using location proofs
- designing Spatial.sol, a Solidity library of geospatial data structures and algorithms, to make it easy for location-based builders
- developed resource guides, code examples and documentation to enhance the developer experience

This strengthens Arbitrum's foundational infrastructure through the introduction of new smart contract protocols, improves developer efficiency by offering open source, forkable solutions to hard engineering problems, and accelerates the adoption of novel applications by introducing primitives to serve a new vertical on Arbitrum.