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Gitcoin, Climate Collective, Filecoin, Celo", "hidden": false, "question": "Please expand on how much funding you\u2019ve received from funding sources and when? (VC, grants by foundation, token sales, etc)", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "number", "answer": "7", "hidden": false, "question": "Total team size", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "number", "answer": "17", "hidden": false, "question": "How old (in Months) is the project?", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "address", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here:", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "@djimoserodio", "hidden": true, "question": "Profiles or socials for other main team members publicly associated with the project. These may be used to determine eligibility of the project.: ", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Have you read and confirmed that your grant abides by the Program General Eligibility Policy? https://gitcoin.notion.site/GG19-Eligibility-50843c8b3ab44ad297731a00efa6e389?pvs=4", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We are primarily focused on climate even though we don't look at tree planting through the lens of carbon alone. The Climate space is evolving in environment and ecology as well and we are also addressing this space.\n\nWe have continued to share progress on our project including it now being public Beta! Further, this round is pledging 25% to fund reforestation activities around the world.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please detail how your project meets the Climate Solutions Round eligibility criteria. https://climate-coordination-network.notion.site/Climate-Solutions-Round-Eligibility-bf14ea78d9d24a2f8952cb5270f11b00?pvs=4", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We launched public beta of the app which can be seen at app.silvi.earth\n\nDjimo also got a chance to visit the pilot sites in Kenya for the first time. A more extensive twitter thread will be published on @Silviprotocol twitter page ", "hidden": false, "question": "If you've received funding in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months. You can also include the challenges you've faced. ", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": false, "question": "Have you minted a Hypercert for your project? ", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "link", "answer": "https://hypercerts.org/app/view#claimId=0x822f17a9a5eecfd66dbaff7946a8071c265d1d07-18219058207313966272292539856504301809565696", "hidden": false, "question": "If Yes, please provide a link to your Hypercert (https://hypercerts.org/app/gallery-all) ", "questionId": 14}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Number of app users (almost 100), number of trees, (140k), number of sites we're working with (8), and overall delivery on our roadmap\n", "hidden": false, "question": "How do you measure the impact of your project? Please provide examples and/or standard metrics. This might be used in future impact reports ", "questionId": 15}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": false, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? Anything you'd like to add that may help in determining project eligibility?", "questionId": 16}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to future messages from the Climate Coordination Network (CCN) for updates, information, and/or interviews? ", "questionId": 17}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to us sharing your information with select third-parties for investment opportunities? ", "questionId": 18}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Oracles & DMRV", "hidden": false, "question": "Which of these categories best represents your project? Choose from: ", "questionId": 19}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["North America"], "hidden": false, "question": "Location/Region where the project is based: Choose from: ", "questionId": 20}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["North America", "Central and South America", "Europe", "Africa"], "hidden": false, "question": "Primary Location/Region where the project is making an impact: Choose from: ", "questionId": 21}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": false, "question": "Would you like to be included in an additional 150k sub-round funded by Shell? All grantees must agree to a KYC process to be eligible to receive these funds. ", "questionId": 22}], "project": {"id": "1:0x03506eD3f57892C85DB20C36846e9c808aFe9ef4:121", "title": "Silvi", "logoImg": "bafkreia2lxh62vyemnumlun3kzafdqlsuszyvneipn67xacw6nfs445nd4", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreieuexpcpj6etctsfmykhuqlv55xkqjy4scdi3va2al24q5dr6ibn4", "protocol": "1"}, "website": "https://silvi.earth", "bannerImg": "bafybeif4gscd7hssgankvzfrs4a4i6tka5ewbc44ydw4bkrwl5zllkyida", "createdAt": 1673447166774, "credentials": {"twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..nLitIT43emhjrcjILezsd4sydj0S0Fo78zua62K0T4-komIfnpALNxk9BxWXZ-UrZ9YtCzqI5EQjCKFLSC7pAQ", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-08-11T23:55:42.566Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-08-11T23:55:42.566Z", "expirationDate": "2023-11-09T23:55:42.566Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0xa7CA400d49BBa87EB606ee05af93689BD21FaB99", "hash": "v0.0.0:cglwTY+aA6w6HFHckDOpK33/HUBoT3nF9ZyhbH57oLg=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#SilviProtocol"}}}, "description": "\ud83c\udf33\ud83c\udf33 **GG19 main update** \ud83c\udf33\ud83c\udf33\nFor GG 19, we are pledging 25% of the funds raised to launch a global reforestation movement by working closely with web3 and ReFi communities around the world including ReFi DAO Local Nodes, Greenpill Chapters and Regens Unite events to name a few. We will be deploying the 25% percent to projects that adopt reforestation practices in alignment with the [Guidelines](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TLI_5oA6zBmMq08ptyVwDvYGjhMHUTWLbKSxMK85Gu8/edit?usp=sharing) we are co developing with partners. Prizes will be announced and some projects will be funded directly via TreeForwad contracts.\n\n**Also**, we are incredibly grateful for all the support we have received from Gitcoin. As a project that has not raised venture capital or investment, the Gitcoin rounds have been instrumental in supporting us financially and by bringing exposure to our development. We are excited to announce that Silvi is now in public beta as an mvp stack for reforestation \ud83d\ude00 Anyone can use our [app](https://app.silvi.earth) to register and report on tree plantings. Note: Only projects which have been vetted and configured with methodologies prescribed by TreeForwards are eligible for stewardship and MRV payments  \n\ud83c\udf33\ud83c\udf33 **//GG19 main update** \ud83c\udf33\ud83c\udf33\n\n\ud83d\udc47 **Grant Page** \ud83d\udc47\n\nIf you're new here, welcome to our grant. Silvi's mission  is to contribute to the trillion tree target by building financial and coordination tools for hyperlocal reforestation.\n \n \nWe are building a protocol with the following tools and features:\n \n\ud83d\udcb0\u23f3 **TreeForwards** - Every TreeForward, at its core, is a distinct bond that provides not only the backing for a tree but a commitment to its holistic contribution to the ecosystem. This budget is a tree commitment that is released as milestone-based rewards to incentivize tree stewardship\n\n\ud83d\udccd\ud83d\udd2d **Extreme traceability** and attribution of new trees, not just for accountability and inventorying, but to unleash the community effects needed for tree-planting to become a thing!\n\n\ud83d\udccb\ud83d\udcc8**Treekipedia**: A Tree Intelligence Commons i.e a library of species and location-specific tree methodologies\n\n\ud83d\udcd6 \ud83c\udf33**OpenTrees**: Beyond a mere data model, this is Silvi's clarion call for collaborative, transparent, and standards-driven reforestation.\n\n\ud83d\udcd2\ud83e\uddee **Batch Accounting**: Silvi's robust batch accounting system efficiently manages groupings of TreeForwards, ensuring that each tree within a batch receives its requisite funding and care. This feature enhances scalability, ensuring large-scale reforestation initiatives with area based accounting are as meticulously managed as individual trees as well as for pre-planting propagation and logistics.\n \n\ud83d\uddfa\ufe0f \ud83e\uddfa**Portfolio Management**: Embodying the democratization of reforestation, we believe that global efforts should be cohesively managed and brokered and we're growing a portfolio of impact across various forest and projects worldwide. Our goal is to operate this portfolio via a DAO structure.\n\n \nLet's unpack that \ud83d\udc46\n \n**Tree Forwards:**\nSilvi is collateralizing the net present value of New Trees. Further, tree investments are low risk instruments because they are performance-based payouts depended on verifiable milestones. \n![](https://i.imgur.com/IgNyZYw.png)\n\nTreeForwards define the unit economics of reforestation but because there are 50-60k tree species, tree forward claims are themselves tied to species and location-specific methodologies. For this Silvi is supporting a p2p library of species-specific methodologies. Think of it as tree wikis for tree science  and a participatory model for the ground work/truth \ud83d\udc47\n \n**Ground truth and MRV:**\nOur focus has been on building a stack to serve the human-centric stages of the tree lifecycle while setting a strong and reliable foundation from which other Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) can happen. V1 of our app incorporated the registering of trees and saplings. For v2 of the app which was launched in the last Gitcoin grant, we have completed IPFS, Tree data NFTs, claim settlement payout contracts and also started work on methodology smart contracts.\n \n**Interface**:\nSilvi has been building an app where we're leveraging social media mechanics with citizen science frameworks to develop a Pokemon-Go-like experience for gamified tree planting and stewardship ![](https://i.imgur.com/4P7RVc3.jpg)\n![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/HJoOYHVnn.png)\n\n\n \nFurther, We're collaborating with Orgs such as \ud83c\udf3b Ecotech, dMeter, Regen Network on a Filecoin grant to deliver Claim Resolution for reforestation claims, ReFiDAO on local note activation and pilot sites most recently at Traditional Dream Factory and Rifai Sicily. Further, we'd like to collaborate and interop with other projects and technologies on techniques for statistical sampling of ground truth as well as remote sensing inference. And ultimately, we'd like to vertically integrate with carbon/ecocredit certifying projects, particularly through the lens of Ecological Benefit Framework. \n \n**Tokenomics:**\nOur long term plans involve launching a native governance token issued through tree commitments. Governance tokens will spawn utility NFT pairs that contain all the data and contracts for each tree.\n\n**Pilots:**\nTo date, Silvi has already deployed several pilots:\n\nIn the United States we've partnered with Fire Flies Forest Festival to plant 5 hardwood species and pines in a retired golf course in Tennessee as well as an Agroforestry planting in Miami. Most recently we also partnered in Portugal with Traditional Dream Factory and in Italy with Rifai Sicily in the planting of 600+ trees in each location.\n\n\n\nHowever, Silvi's biggest focus is currently in Kenya, where it is connecting communities such as schools and small holder farmers to Kenya's last rainforest, Kakamega forest. Silvi is building a methodology to help establish small, distributed nursery beds around the forest with the goal of improving supply of saplings.  ![](https://i.imgur.com/Y0nniCy.png)\nWith the help of Gitcoin funding, Silvi has established operations in a dozen schools and 30+ small holder farmers and propagated some 140k trees from seed. The project is in close conversation with the Forestry services and the Forest-run nurseries because Silvi is helping expand capacity of reforestation via its theory of change that a greater number of independent nurseries run by community members via a participatory model will help increase capacity and coordination. Silvi is close to being assigned an exclusive area for planting and forest management where our MRV and methodology will be put to the test over the following years.\n![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/HyzddHNnn.jpg)\n![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/H1uu_rEnn.jpg)\n\nWe wrote more about our Theory of change here https://medium.com/@silvitree/introducing-silvi-the-tree-steward-platform-eb30fe9a2644\n", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "SilviProtocol"}, "recipient": "0xa7CA400d49BBa87EB606ee05af93689BD21FaB99"}}