Astral continues to develop open-source core tools, libraries, and frameworks to enable the decentralized geospatial web. Our mission is to provide tools that foster the development of 1000s of onchain location-based applications.

We’ve developed and launched Astral’s Location Proof Protocol, an open-source, extensible standard for creating and verifying user-controlled, cryptographically verifiable, and (optionally) private location proofs. Location proofs are a new primitive designed to enable developers to build location-based applications quickly.

We’ve also developed Astral’s Logbook, a consumer client application built on the Location Proof Protocol. The Logbook lets users register geotagged log entries onchain to share the spaces and places that matter.

We’re also conducting the necessary research and standards development for onchain GIS, developing the Spatial.sol, a collection of spatial data structures and geospatial algorithms built for the EVM.

We believe that Web3 developers are overlooking a significant category — location-based applications. We exist to help overcome a coordination failure regarding onchain location-based tooling, inhibiting the growth of this category of apps and infrastructure. Astral’s work directly addresses this by providing the core tooling, fostering a community of builders, researchers, and protocols, and establishing the necessary standards.