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(Reminder: projects must have proof of being over 3 months old)", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "number", "answer": "370000", "hidden": false, "question": "Total prior funding for the project in USD", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "- Filecoin - 25,000 - Gitcoin - 150,000 - Climate Collective / Celo - 150,000 - dClimate - 25,000 - Arbitrum - 20,000", "hidden": false, "question": "Please expand on how much funding you\u2019ve received from each funding source and when? (VC, grants by foundation, token sales, etc)", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "number", "answer": "1", "hidden": false, "question": "Total team size", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "- [Ron E](https://twitter.com/ronerlih): Tech Lead - [Danny G](https://twitter.com/DannyGattas): Organization + Operations Lead - [John X](https://twitter.com/johnx25bd): Architect + Project Lead - [Brittney]: Creative", "hidden": false, "question": "List the team Name/Role/Experience/Socials ", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Astral's project is pivotal in addressing the climate crisis by providing open-source tooling + infrastructure to underpin dMRV systems, and to allow Web3 builders to develop more efficient transport + logistics products and protocols. Our Location Proof Protocol and spatial registry toolkits are core to this mission, offering developers the infrastructure to authenticate and accurately verify climate-related data and actions.\n\nWe\u2019ve worked with various climate-aligned projects, including Celo and Kolektivo. Here, we developed the GeoNFTs to connect real ecological impact areas with onchain data. This project allowed us to create NFTs that were able to track and monitor real world spaces.\n\nTo enhance our impact, Astral joined the Climate Collective as a Founding Member and co-founded the Decentralized Geospatial Web Working Group, two initiatives that leverage community collaboration to tackle climate challenges.\n\nAstral's contributions are foundational, not just in developing tools but also in creating and nurturing a community of builders and researchers dedicated to using decentralized systems to address the climate crisis. By establishing and supporting these communities, Astral ensures that the innovations in blockchain and geospatial data are effectively applied to make a meaningful impact on environmental sustainability.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please explain how your project is a part of the solution to the Climate crisis.", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "link", "answer": "https://gap.karmahq.xyz/project/astral-2", "hidden": false, "question": "Please provide a link to your GG20 Karma GAP link. (Reminder that you need to provide two milestones with updates.)", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Astral has:\n    - Organized and presented at the Decentralized Geospatial Working Group Symposium - April\u201924\n    - Completed Ethereum Attestation Service Fellowship, being on the Shortlist for the Demo Day - May\u201924\n    - Developed the Location Proof Protocol - June\u201924\n    - Developed a consumer application to support social and other climate related use cases, including dMRV - Summer\u201924", "hidden": false, "question": "Please provide 2-3 top impacts your project had in the past 12 months. You can use the CCN Metrics Garden (https://climatecoordination.org/climate-solutions-metrics-garden-1) or use your project-specific metrics. 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", "questionId": 14}, {"type": "dropdown", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": false, "question": "Have you read and confirmed your grant abides by the GG21 Climate Solution Round Eligibility Criteria?", "questionId": 15}, {"type": "dropdown", "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": 16}, {"type": "dropdown", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to us sharing your information with select third-parties for investment opportunities? ", "questionId": 17}, {"type": "dropdown", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "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. 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We're doing this by researching and developing a set of open source standards and software tools that help Web3 developers work with geospatial data.\n\n---\n\n## Updates / Milestones:\n\nThe next phase:\n- Launch the Astral Logbook, add features - Q3'24\n- Develop the first location proof strategies + recipes - Q3'24\n- Deploy ZK Location Proofs - Q3\u201924\n- Progress with Spatial.sol research - Q4'24\n- Strengthen partnership with EASIER Data Initiative-Q3'24\n\nSince GG20\n- Create the docs site: docs.astral.global\n- Deploy EAS Location Proofs on Sepolia and Celo mainnet - Q2\u201924\n- Complete and pitch at Ethereum Attestation Service Demo Day - Q2\u201924\n- Integrate Location Proof Protocol with IPFS - Q3\u201924\n- Develop the Astral Logbook - Q3\u201924\n\nSince GG19\n- Deployed Spatial Registry Contract - April\u201924\n- Gained pilot users\u2019 confirmation - Jan-April\u201924\n- Hosted and Presented Decentralized Spatial Web Workshop for Web3 Projects - April\u201924\n- Accepted to Ethereum Attestation Services Fellowship - March\u201924\n- Attended & presented at ETHDenver - Feb\u201924\n- Defined product and growth strategy - Feb\u201924\n- Develop technical architecture- Jan\u201924\n\n## Architecture\n\nThe Astral Protocol has three components:\n\n- **Spatial Registries** \u2014 smart contract-based registries of spatial features like points, lines, polygons and raster images;\n- **Location Proof Protocol**, to serve as presence claims in the Astral ecosystem, and \n- **Web3-native geospatial data technologies** so the data backing these systems is user-controlled, cryptographically verifiable, uncensorable and permanent.\n\nSince the project was founded, we have focused on building open source standards and tools, and have been fully funded through public goods funding and grants. \n\n## Our Work\n\nWe've developed and led several projects, including:\n- **[Kolektivo GeoNFTs](https://medium.com/kolektivo-co/regeneration-needs-location-b538cae97ff7)**, which serve as an on-chain spatial data registry\n- **[Hyperaware](https://github.com/wearehyperaware/hyperaware-core)**, a spatial governance protocol for connected devices targeted at transport and mobility applications\n- **[Sprout](https://astral.global/sprout)**, a proof-of-concept sustainability-linked bond in Solidity that aligns loan terms to environmental metrics \u2014\u00a0one of the first ReFi smart contracts\n- **[Spatial.sol](https://github.com/AstralProtocol/spatial-sol)**,  a library of geometric and topological functions in Solidity\n- **[Geolocker](https://devpost.com/software/geolocker)**, a prototype verifiable spatial data registry built on Ethereum and 3Box\n\nOur work is primarily focused on building core infrastructure and open source standards to enable and empower Web3 builders to work with spatial and location data.\n\nAstral tools and standards will be useful in a range of different use cases including: \n- Regenerative project development and dMRV\n- DAOs / digital governance: geofenced local and regional DAOs, local currencies, spatial demurrage\n- Mobility: defining policy areas like congestion zones, capturing the position of connected devices like IoT and smartphones\n- Natural capital currencies: defining ecological zones, storing physical measurements of ecosystem conditions\n- Metaverse / gaming: virtual land registries like Decentraland and Cryptovoxels, and AR games like Pokemon Go\n\n## Funding\n\nGrant contributions will fund the development team building these public goods. \n\nSpecifically, funds will support the development of:\n- a Solidity library of topological and geometric functions\n- Web3 GIS tools\n- Location Proof Protocol standards, examples and software tools\n- coordination across decentralized geospatial working groups, co-led with the EASIER Data Initiative\n\n## Team\n\n- [Ron E](https://twitter.com/ronerlih): Tech Lead\n- Danny G: Organization + Operations Lead\n- [John X](https://twitter.com/johnx25bd): Architect + Project Lead\n\n\n## Accomplishments (so far)\n\n- KERNEL Genesis Block final presentation\n- Kolektivo project partner, developing GeoNFTs\n- Filecoin Development Grant for storing satellite imagery on IPFS using decentralized identifiers\n- Presenting to the Open Geospatial Consortium\n- Winner, Arweave Prize, Future of Blockchain 2020\n- Speaker, European Space Agency's Living Planet Symposium 2022\n- Grant recipient, dClimate\n- Coordinated the forming of the GeoSpatial Decentralized Collaboration Group 2023\n- Presented Astral\u2019s work at Decentralized Geospatial Web Working Group\n- Member, Climate Collective\n- Co-lead, Regeneration Guild, KERNEL\n\nFunded:\n- zkMaps, finalist at ETHDenver 2022 building zero-knowledge location proofs\n\n## Challenges\n\n- Scaling of verifiable spatial data registries due to technical limitations.\n- Coordination across various working groups; while we\u2019ve helped organize and herd cats, there is still the challenge in coordinating across stakeholder groups to establish geospatial standards for Web3.\n- Navigating a bear market with various partners and builders in this space losing funding and interest due to macroeconomic conditions. 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