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We grow participation in initiatives like planting food forests, establishing bioregional economies, repairing watersheds, organizing neighborhood potlucks to build relationships, and much more! The token engineering project serves as both a reputation token signifying investment in local and bioregional economic development, as well as a community currency that bootstraps healthy economic relationships locally and on-chain.\n\nBenefits:\nKickstart flywheels for bioregional regenerative economies, by issuing capital to communities that have limited access to any other means of obtaining it.\nIncrease the accessibility of real world impact documentation so smallholder projects, Indigenous and grassroots communities can share their knowledge while upskilling their professional documentation skills\nMake the critical unpaid labor being done by communities all over the world visible, and fundable.\nOnboard over 30,000 real world impactors to the Superchain so their voices, leadership, and wisdom can contribute to development and the directions in which we grow the Optimism economy.", "hidden": false, "question": "Vision Statement and Impact: Describe the long-term vision of your project and its intended impact on the Optimism and broader Superchain ecosystem, including both qualitative and quantitative benefits", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Initial Strategy: Outline a high-level strategy for how you will achieve your intended impact and key goals for the next 3-6 months\nResearch available contracts and standards for incentivizing circulation of the reputation token / cooperative patronage token, so it has community currency properties.\nDialogue with Grassroots Economics about their social approach and technology for circulating surplus among village residents.\nCollaborate with Inverter Network to look into how their token economy tools might support the circulation of the cooperative patronage token. We currently use their bounty contracts.\nDiscuss with Blockscience\u2019s tokenomics research group \nDo a case study with them if possible\nLook at how the global coop patronage token can best interface with local-specific tokens, such as the land stewardship badge system of Diamante Bridge Collective.\nModel the token engineering in cadCAD so we can effectively communicate the valueflows modeling with stakeholders.\nComplete an implementation plan and publish a report of our research and findings for how the token engineering supports our existing social infrastructure design.", "hidden": false, "question": "Initial Strategy: Outline a high-level strategy for how you will achieve your intended impact and key goals for the next 3-6 months", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "This project aims to develop a token on the Superchain, fostering on-the-ground impact leaders and impactors' inclusion in governance processes on Optimism. By integrating real-world place-based communities in impact verification, it innovates retroactive public good funding. Additionally, it provides an on-ramp that transitions people on-chain and into a parallel real-world economic system. This system enables local business relationships and cooperative governance of subsidies for regenerative development, addressing the slow or insufficient response of nation-level governments. Ultimately, this project creates a critical bridge between on-chain and real-world decentralized infrastructure, driving increased adoption and an economy where everyone thrives.", "hidden": false, "question": "Integration Approach: Explain how the project applies token engineering within OP", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "dropdown", "answer": "Social infrastructure", "hidden": false, "question": "Project category ", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Overall: Fully integrated project. Token: Proof of Concept (PoC)", "hidden": false, "question": "Project stage: What stage do you consider your project is currently in? (F.e.: Plan, Proof of Concept (PoC), Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Fully integrated project)", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We are partnered with Inverter Network and will likely engage with Blockscience on this grant. Bloom Network has decades of experience collectively in experimenting with different types of community currencies, enough to know the most common failure points that also happen with tokens.\n\nMagenta Ceiba completed the Ecosystem Value Flows token engineering course, contributing feedback on its development and the token engineering canvas template. She holds a certificate in platform cooperatives design from the New School / Platform Cooperatives Consortium / Mondragon program. Through KERNEL Block 2, she learned user journey mapping from Deep Work Studio's Andrej. And since 2011 she has been researching how to finance grassroots community organizers who work across movement silos, alongside the longstanding alternative economies research and experimentation done among the global Bloom Network community with complementary currencies, time banks, and gift economies. Lastly, she has consulted on multi-stakeholder finance projects in startup ecosystems and regional movement strategy work. Each of these informs the token engineering that has gone into the social, economic, and technical systems that underlie the token issuance and circulation in this project. Currently, she is a project manager at dOrg.tech, where she engages with token engineering, complex smart contract development, and Layer 1 blockchain protocol builds. Her extensive experience informs the token engineering behind this project's social, economic, and technical systems.", "hidden": false, "question": "Team Expertise: Provide a brief summary on the team\u2019s background and relevant expertise in token engineering and/or OP", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Existing Work: Provide evidence of any existing work, such as prototypes, research papers, or previous projects. If you have already done work within OP/ Superchain, please include that here too\n\nTechnical whitepaper for Bloom Network, includes a Regenerative Economic Protocol section: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xZFoS7EHlmPfnAKAOHdbK0FTHBMSrItO/view?usp=sharing\nEcosystem Value Flows canvas with stock and flow diagram for token engineering and DAO policies: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lXXOJPM=/?share_link_id=309434080268 \nBloom Network Systems: User journey between IRL/Web2/Web3, token economy, revenue sharing (payment splitters), Member Value Exchange Matrix : https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVPgbh52I=/?share_link_id=37382287163\nAnnouncement Article about the Local Action Rewards (how the cooperative patronage token is distributed and what it\u2019s used for): https://bloomnetwork.earth/view/announcement-local-action-rewards-942c6454c17d ", "hidden": false, "question": "Existing Work: Provide evidence of any existing work, such as prototypes, research papers, or previous projects. If you have already done work within OP/ Superchain, please include that here too", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": false, "question": "Returning grantees: If your project has received prior funding from the Token Engineering Grants Program, please describe the impact that funding has had on the project", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["I agree"], "hidden": false, "question": "Agreement checkbox: By checking this box, grantee commits to participating in the two milestones outlined below (exact dates will be communicated after your admission to the round): September: Milestone 1 requires completion of a grant profile in Grantee Accountability Protocol (GAP). The profile outlines the specific outcomes to be achieved by Milestone 2.  October: Milestone 2 requires a progress report on the grantee's progress towards achieving the outcomes agreed to in Milestone 1. ", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": false, "question": "Have you applied or are planning to apply for additional funding rounds within the Optimism ecosystem? https://sovs.notion.site/d24bc00e3ed14139beb44b82a5e145c5?v=50ae5a8b531641e0b78f39a710f3ffa6", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Through Gitcoin's community rounds", "hidden": true, "question": "How did you hear about the Token Engineering Grants Program?", "questionId": 14}, {"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 has not been covered?", "questionId": 15}], "project": {"id": "0x5e203234e3c289d1a8fcdb87f0d854f6ce8b4acabd6aa3fffb51890cfbd639f3", "title": "Bloom Network: Cooperative Patronage Token Engineering", "logoImg": "bafkreigw7bx3vmaxm43rmdl5mbcp7wjlgrmhmotgedt7ucb3ogjwjaah6a", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreifkncfmq7pxtk3quvvuv4r5mdqxlo7yywlo4m2uxshoghteustts4", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://bloomnetwork.earth", "bannerImg": "bafybeiflsyysbufilhgwczmjpfcndbabem2n6doe5uwpdnwzbxetc6ntlq", "createdAt": 1722895146090, "userGithub": "BloomNetwork", "credentials": {"twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..bfEB-EIswJxAEmjDUrAVixjSJaVjExHWErjyea0ZS9fYQz5xGZZgEpdk0DHiSiPT7cJwQmtYBu9Dmkgek49JDA", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2024-08-05T21:42:48.540Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2024-08-05T21:42:48.540Z", "expirationDate": "2024-11-03T21:42:48.540Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x5219ffb88175588510e9752A1ecaA3cd217ca783", "hash": "v0.0.0:a3bWS40cdiFeFLP5m+dxMR8QjFETXt5aa16VXfBXsp4=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#OurBloomNetwork"}}}, "description": "Bloom helps more people participate in local economic development through a feature-rich social network that helps on-the-ground actors share knowledge and incubate their projects. Governed as a federated DAO of Local Bloom nodes, we've built communities around the world since 2008, through regional food security, Indigenous solidarity, and alternative economies. [https://bloomnetwork.earth](https://bloomnetwork.earth/).\n\n\ud83d\udc4b\ud83c\udffd We are 33 Local Bloom hubs across 11 countries, and 30,000+ people on the ground. We've jumpstarted over 7,000 local urban and agroecology farms worldwide, 400+ community enterprises, and built permanent foundations for regenerative cultures. We have decades of experience building local economies.\u00a0\n\n**The purpose of our project for this grant is to design a [cooperative patronage](https://u.osu.edu/coopmastery/finance-and-taxation/patronage-2/) token that:**\n-  Incentivizes P2P knowledge sharing while funding community-led economic development\n- Has community currency properties so network members can utilize their tokens to receive goods and services they might not otherwise seek out or discover in their local area, to bootstrap local and bioregional economies\n- Establishes stronger real world <> on-chain relationships with the continued development and adoption of the Optimism economy\n- Provides a new innovation at the intersection of platform coops powered by blockchain tech, grassroots community economic development, and tokens that are backed by networked economic activity for resilience.\n\n![GG20.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/28vPZy0z/GG21.jpg)\n\n*Rifai Sicilia, moringa agroforestry + mutual aid + web3 onboarding. Broadfield Enterprises, Uganda, African food and economic sovereignty.*\n\n# Cooperative Patronage Token\n\nThis builds on our existing Local Action Rewards protocol, which finances collaborative community labor and bioregional innovation. \n\n\ud83c\udf38 How it works now:\n\n-   **Earn FLO (Flowers) / [X token]:** Local Bloom members earn FLO by documenting the outcomes of their community actions.\n\n-   **Impact Reporting Interface:** A user-friendly web2 UI allows rich image uploading and social networking features, making it easy for the public and peers to engage and learn.  Automatic deployment to on-chain systems for grants interoperability.\n\n-   **Grants Distribution:** A verifier (increasingly local as we scale) reviews the report for completion and truthfulness. FLO is issued using [Inverter Network's](https://www.inverter.network/) bounties contracts. Grants are then distributed based on FLO earned, benefiting individuals and local treasuries. [Details.](https://bloomnetwork.earth/view/announcement-local-action-rewards-942c6454c17d)\n\nThe local treasury can be used to pay a stipend to community organizers, venue rental, farm equipment, or invest in a local business. It's up to each Local community to self-manage their treasury.\n\nGrants, as well as profits as the coop becomes profitable, are routed to the members on the ground who are doing the kinds of place-based labor that humanity needs to massively scale to mitigate climate impacts and solve common societal problems.\n\nIt's worth noting that we have already workshopped the legal side of our approach, with an all-female legal team, using the Colorado Limited Cooperative Association as the initial example, to reduce risk for existing real world communities who are new adopters of Web3.\n\n# Phase 2: This Grant's Funds Go Toward the Following\n\n## We aim to enhance FLO with community currency properties to support local business discovery and economic development, expanding local-first on-chain connectivity.\n\nFor example, say I live in the Lisbon area. I have 300 FLO / [X network token] from helping plant a local food forest. I type that into the UI, and see offers from near me that I can receive in exchange for the token. I learn about local businesses near me who are values-aligned with this network, \n\n![community-Currency-nodescrip.png](https://i.postimg.cc/cJY52P2q/community-Currency-nodescrip.png)\n\nThis mechanism allows locals to share our surplus and establish relationships with potential customers. If you're a techie, it helps you deepen your experience with people and projects working around you. \n\nThis token approach and the social architecture around it is designed to kickstart flywheels for bioregional economies. It does some of the heavy lifting of the initial marketing bootstrapping to get a business revenue-positive. It onboards more people to the Superchain. Importantly, more people participating in real world environmental and social regeneration will be able to participate in Optimism governance, so growth is anchored to real world use cases.\n\n**Your contribution will help us:**\n\n-   Design a hybrid cooperative patronage token/community currency.\n\n-   Research mechanisms for token backing and grants distribution. For example, perhaps the person I paid with my token is the one who gets the grant/profit distribution at the end of the period. [Inverter Network](https://www.inverter.network/#tokenization)'s bonding curves for token economies is another path we're considering.\n\n-   Collaborate with other network states on the Superchain for interoperability. Examples: Cabin, ReFi DAO, Cohere Network, GreenPill, and Celo Regional Nodes.\n\n-   Consult with [Grassroots Economics](https://www.grassrootseconomics.org/), Local Bloom organizers and Web3 protocol users.\n\n**Imagine if you're able to work 4 hours per day at your tech job and earn money for 2 hours of your day doing gardening at your local agroforest to break up the screen time and touch grass.**\n\n**Benefits of This Approach:**\n\n-   **Legally above-board** as per cooperative legislation.\n-   **Diverse Value Programming:**  what is eligible for funding from the company can be liberated from only building apps or products, to include social missions, with transparent and easily understandable reporting and accounting.\n-   **Enhanced Governance:** Reputation scores can be used to assign Web3-native governance power, **increasing Web3's connectivity and leadership by real-world operators.**\n\n\n# Why Bloom?\n\n\n\ud83d\udc69\u200d\ud83d\ude80 **Experienced Team:** Our platform team is 100% women-led with decades of experience in technology transformation.\n\n\ud83d\udc69\u200d\ud83d\udc69\u200d\ud83d\udc67\u200d\ud83d\udc66  **Community Builders:** Local Bloom organizers have been building communities since 2008.\n\n\ud83c\udf3f  **Proven Impact:** We excel in achieving local food and economic sovereignty and are now scaling what we know works, in relationship with Web3.\n\nWe welcome your support and [volunteering.](https://bloomnetwork.earth/bloomers-without-borders)\n\n[Roadmap](https://drive.google.com/file/d/17dfUA0mtyOlDQcoowi5Ekd91Nrq39ZQh/view?usp=drive_link)\n\n![northbay.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/g2CfqSnL/northbay.jpg)\n\n*Pictured: IntegriTea Cafe and community center, Vallejo*", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "Bloom Network", "projectTwitter": "ourbloomnetwork"}, "recipient": "0x5219ffb88175588510e9752A1ecaA3cd217ca783"}}