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If so, please name the rounds or link the builder profile associated with previous rounds.", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Open-Source Matchmaking Engine: We share scripts and workflows for our AI-powered matchmaking engine using vector-based search and OpenAI, offering developers a replicable framework for personalized recommendations in other applications.\n\nOpen Database of Regenerator Pathways: We are creating an open, accessible database of regenerative pathways that stores data transparently. This fosters collective knowledge-building and enables developers and communities to build new tools and projects on top of this shared resource.\n\nBioregional Passports & DIDs: We plan to open-source the frameworks for verifiable credentials to recognize contributions and reputation across ecosystems, promoting interoperability and trust within Web3 communities.", "hidden": true, "question": "How does your project contribute to the growth of the OSS ecosystem? Please provide specific examples of how your application enhances or expands the current ecosystem.", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "RegenPath is a digital platform designed to onboard and empower environmental stewards or \u201cRegenerators\u201d to earn a regenerative income through actionable pathways in regenerative finance (ReFi) and ecological projects. Our app presents several key features and use cases:\n\nCore Features:\n1. AI-Powered Matchmaking Engine: Uses a vector-based search to match users with regenerative pathways based on their unique context\u2014such as skills, location, and resources\u2014by leveraging OpenAI and Pinecone. This personalization differentiates RegenPath by effectively guiding users toward relevant income opportunities.\n2. Bioregional Passports: Provides digital verifiable credentials (VCs) that recognize skills, contributions, and reputation across projects. This is a critical innovation for creating decentralized identity frameworks in the regenerative space.\n3. Multi-Chain Wallet Integration: Planned feature to simplify interactions across multiple blockchains, enabling users to manage digital assets and credentials seamlessly.\n4. Open Pathway Database: A curated and open-access database of regenerative pathways. By storing pathways transparently and making them publicly accessible, RegenPath contributes to a collective knowledge base for developers and communities to build on.\n\nUse Cases:\n1. Pathfinding for Regenerative Income: Onboards users into regenerative pathways, allowing them to find and engage in projects that compensate positive environmental actions.\n2. Ecosystem of Recognition: Facilitates peer-to-peer recognition of regenerative efforts through the Bioregional Passport, helping track contributions and reputation within communities.\n3. Reputation Sensing and Community Building: Identifies skill gaps or community needs, helping Regenerators and organizations align more effectively.", "hidden": true, "question": "What features or use cases does your dApp/App present? How is it differentiated?", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "With our matchamking engine & database complete, we are ready to launch a prototype of RegenPath. Next we need to add the multi-chain wallet creation functionality, and then Bioregional Passport feature. The Grant funds will be used for software development work, as well as to conduct user testing. ", "hidden": true, "question": "What are your plans for further development, and how will the grant funds be used to achieve these goals?", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": true, "question": "For any project deploying smart contracts on blockchain networks, please list all your deployer addresses and their corresponding blockchain networks. Use this format for each entry: [deployer_address], [chain_id]\u2014for example, 0x123abc..., 42161 (This represents a deployer address on the Arbitrum network). 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To turn this vision into reality, our mission is to transform regeneration into an occupation. Our immediate goal is to streamline the onboarding process into Regenerative Finance (ReFi) and make the verification of small-scale impact both feasible and cost-effective.\n\n### **But why \u2754**\n\n\ud83d\udea8 The planet's ecosystems are under threat, with degradation outpacing regeneration. Small-scale regenerators hold the key to reversing this trend, but face barriers like the high costs of originating environmental assets and complex, fragmented onboarding processes in the ReFi space. We're bridging the gap, enabling regenerators to earn a living through tangible impact.\n\n[![Screenshot-2023-11-07-23-55-51.png](https://i.postimg.cc/q7M8F1Tq/Screenshot-2023-11-07-23-55-51.png)](https://postimg.cc/w1Zyyc3Y)\n\n[![Screenshot-2023-11-07-23-55-56.png](https://i.postimg.cc/ryt57dv1/Screenshot-2023-11-07-23-55-56.png)](https://postimg.cc/YjM4WS20)\n\n### **So, what are we actually building \u2754**\n\n1\ufe0f\u20e3 **RegenPath:** A dApp designed to simplify and enhance the onboarding process for regenerators looking to make an income while making an impact. It will help non-tech savvy obtain a non-custodial multi-chain wallet, match-make them with opportunities for regenerative income, and provide peer-to-peer credentials & attestations.\n\n2\ufe0f\u20e3 **Adaptive Agroforestry & Smallholder Stewardship:** A pioneering methodology that facilitates the issuance of eco credits on Regen Network, enabling small-scale regenerators to originate practice-based, environmental stewardship credits from verified regenerative practices like Syntropic Agroforestry in diverse bioregions across the globe.\n\n[![Screenshot-2023-11-07-23-58-01.png](https://i.postimg.cc/6pBR7MTc/Screenshot-2023-11-07-23-58-01.png)](https://postimg.cc/3dbWVCX0)\n\n## **GG22 Update & Next Steps**\n\n### \ud83d\udcd7 **RegenPath: Empowering Regenerative Land Stewards**\n\n[RegenPath](https://regenpath.sunflowereco.tech/) is a digital platform designed to onboard millions of environmental stewards, or \"Regenerators,\" into the world of Regenerative Finance and web3. By leveraging a vector-based matchmaking engine, multi-chain wallet, digital identifiers (DIDs), and issuing Bioregional Passports (a form of verifiable credentials or VCs), RegenPath aims to help anyone find their pathway to earning a regenerative income.\n\nThanks to previous funding rounds, we are ready to launch the first core function of RegenPath, pathfinding.\n\nThe MVP will serve as a matchmaking tool to guide Regenerators on available options for getting paid to make a positive impact. We have built a database of projects that include existing systems for paying people for positive action. After answering an onboarding questionnaire, Regens will be matched with a pathway based on their unique context, like skills, geography, and access to resources that make an individual well-suited for a specific pathway. \n\nWith the matchmaking engine & database complete, the next step will be to add multi-chain wallet creation & abstraction, & explore how the Bioregional Passport feature will serve as a recognized and verifiable system to acknowledge the skills, reputation, and contributions of Regenerators across various bioregions. \n\nUse cases for Bioregional Passports include:\n\n**Reputation Sensing:** Revealing disconnects from the community.\n\n**Onboarding and Tracking Eco Assets:** Facilitating the process of integrating ecological assets.\n\n**Empowering Volunteers and Traveling Regenerators:** Facilitating a peer-to-peer system to issue badges that recognize skills and experiences.\n\n**Tracking Regen Experts and Consultants:** Monitoring their impact on projects over time.\n\n**Engaging Patrons and Contributors:** Facilitating eco-tourism and tracking contributions to regenerative projects, rewarding funding milestones with unique opportunities.\n\nFunds from GG22 will be focused primarily on building out these web3 related features of RegenPath.\n\n### \ud83c\udf33 **Adaptive Agroforestry & Smallholder Stewardship (AASS) Methodology**\n\nWe're developing and implementing the [Adaptive Agroforestry & Smallholder Stewardship](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N6XKjg-XM1vyqvySKWsgP6l2zkF0NH9PwQr6WJhP0Hs/edit?usp=sharing) (AASS) methodology to assist smallholder farmers in adopting agroforestry practices. The methodology is adaptive and flexible, allowing for customization based on varying agro-ecological contexts. It focuses on practice-based eco-credits, with the potential for future outcomes-based credit issuance as carbon and biodiversity modeling can be performed on the collected data over time.\n\nOur monitoring approach will use a combination of decentralized, digital Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) solutions, applying the concept of Data Fidelity. This means eco-credits may be issued with varying levels of certainty, from low-fidelity (one form of sensing technique) to high-fidelity (all sensing techniques present and cross-referenced).\n\nOver the next year, we plan to develop and implement this methodology, which is based on observations from on-the-ground agroforestry projects around the world, including locations in Barichara Colombia, Ndula Zambia, and Lima Duarte Brasil.\n\n## **In conclusion**\n\nAt Sunflower EcoTech, our principles of regeneration, collaboration, diversity, and transparency guide us. We prioritize the needs of regenerators, those on the frontlines of ecological restoration, and strive to create tools and methodologies that support and validate their invaluable work.\n\nWe embrace collaboration, value radical truth and transparency, and prioritize action. We're not just building products; we're fostering a community that seeks to understand and address the complexities of our world.\n\nAs we look to the future, we're excited about our projects' potential to accelerate humanity's capacity to regenerate ecosystems faster than we degrade them. But we can't do it alone. We need your support.\n\nBy donating to this grant, you're investing in a regenerative future. You're joining a community of regenerators, innovators, and dreamers who believe in the power of collective action to heal our planet.\n\n**Join us on this journey. Donate to this grant today. Together, we can sow the seeds for a regenerative future. Let's regenerate ourselves and the world, one step at a time. Donate Now.**\n\n\ud83c\udf3b\ud83c\udf3b\ud83c\udf3b\ud83c\udf3b\ud83c\udf3b\ud83c\udf3b\ud83c\udf3b\n", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "Eco-Labs", "projectTwitter": "SunflowerEcoTec"}, "recipient": "0x59490C362C54C1b60158F19CE499C82aa3669820"}}