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We were in 2 previous rounds including the Oceans & Forest bundle in the Alpha Round & have not received substantial funding since. Our intention is to open source the technology & integrate into other ReFi initiatives such as Atlantis DAO.  Our roadmap is viable & more than 3 moths old", "hidden": true, "question": "Please describe how your project meets the round eligibility criteria. ", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "1) Developed our TREES stable coin (each equating to one mangrove tree planted)\n2) Partnered with Bluesphere for development of Dynamic Semi-Soulbound Token & Carbon Forwards\n3) With For Trees Club, planted 600K mangrove trees ", "hidden": false, "question": "Please share any new updates or milestones from the prior season.", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We're very closely affiliated with For Trees Club, which is our tree planting partner & AI tree counting tech developer. 2 rounds ago we fundraised for For Trees Club and last round we focused on Treegens which is very similar though Web3 focused. ", "hidden": false, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? 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Donor updates are often reused, leading to a demand for better communication and more accountability.\n\n**Misaligned Incentives**\nOur economy tends to favour activities that harm nature over those that help it. Carbon credit programs, while crucial, require significant investments and time to show results.\n\n \n\ud83c\udf33 **HOW WE PROPOSE TO SOLVE IT**\ud83c\udf33\n\n**On-Chain Impact**\nBy tokenizing each tree as a TREES stable coin, every tree funded and retired is on chain. \n\n**Non-Fungible Updates (NFU)**\nEvery TREES token holder also receives updates on-chain. Our For Trees Club partner films every single tree planted and has built an AI tree counter which is overlayed on the videos airdropped to wallets. \n\n![AI Tree Counting Software](https://i.postimg.cc/nh6P5gDS/AI-Tree-Counter.webp)\n\n**Dynamic Semi-Soulbound Tokens (DSST)**\nDynamically display your impact metrics - number of trees planted and number of trees funded, both verified with AI. Orbs on the heart and mind grow as these numbers change. While the underlying artwork is transferable, these overlaid orbs are not and will display on whichever Treegen used as a PFP.  Higher levels unlock utility rewards. \n\n**Carbon Forwards - Rewarding Exponential Growth**\nWe will be unlocking the full potential of carbon forwards becoming catalysts for exponential regeneration while rewarding Treegens. \n\nHere are some numbers as an example:\n- 10c per mangrove tree\n- 1 mangrove tree will sequester .308 tonnes of C02 \n- $0.324 to plant enough trees to sequester 1 tonne\n- $6 per carbon forward tonne\n- Up to 18.47 multiple\n- 100,000 mangrove trees are 8 carbon forward deals away 5+ trillion trees assuming 50% reinvested back into regeneration & 40% for sustainability programs and tree insurance to make impact investors comfortable buying carbon 25 years into the future. \n- 10% of this carbon forward revenue goes towards backing TREES, which are sent to Treegens holders to reward their regenerative efforts. \n\n![Exponential Regeneration](https://i.postimg.cc/PrhB4gjt/Untitled-design-28.png)\n\n\ud83c\udf33 **WHAT WE HAVE ALREADY BUILT** \ud83c\udf33\n\n**Tokenized Trees**\nThe TREES stable coin is pegged at 10c with 1 token equating to 1 mangrove tree planted.\n\n**Treegens Art**\nThe highly talented permaculture expert, prompting artist and designer TreeDjinn has spent many months creating the Treegen DSST artworks and designing the dynamic orbs. We have gotten substantial feedback from the community to co-create the ideal genesis DSST.\n\n**Partnerships**\n- Jimi Cohen is also the co-founder of For Trees Club, which oversees the tree planting of Treegens and has developed the AI tree counting software used in the non-fungible updates\n- Bluesphere Carbon is planting 1 tree with Treegens for every dollar raised for their The World's Most Inclusive Global Trading Platform for Carbon Credits, equating to 1,235M mangrove trees\n- Many NFT projects such as Ecosapiens are leveraging our Non-Fungible Updates & Forest Hero Club has also pledged 1M mangrove trees to be funded through Treegens. \n\n**Regeneration**\nFor Trees Club and Treegens have planted over 600,000 mangrove trees to date \n\nJimi also personally planted 1 tree per follower on our 3 Twitter pages:\n1) @fortreesclub - 1395\n2) @thetreegens - 1359\n3) @jimicohen - 7626\n\n280+ episodes of MAX IMPACT - empowering changemakers to maximise their positive impact by leveraging the latest & greatest technology\n\n\ud83c\udf33 **WHAT WE WANT TO BUILD** \ud83c\udf33\n\n**Carbon Forwards**\nThrough our partnership with Bluesphere Carbon, we will have a steady flow of carbon forward investors to achieve our vision of exponential regeneration. \n\n**DApp platform**\n50% of the Treegens mint goes towards the DAO treasury for members to vote on impactful projects to invest in.\nThe other 50% of the mint goes toward the fortreesclub.eth wallet to directly fund mangrove tree planting.\n\n![Roadmap](https://i.postimg.cc/PxTzRpWJ/Treegens-Pitch-Deck-6.png)\n\n\ud83c\udf33 **TEAM** \ud83c\udf33\nJimi Cohen - Tree Planting World Record Holder, organised charity events & music festivals for 7 years, reached 3.5M people online with Digital Impact Festival in 2020\n\nTreeDjinn - Permaculture expert, environmental advocate & talented AI artist\n\nShidan - One of the earliest investors in blockchain technology, backing several key development companies in their early stages. Scaled companies such as Gamesquare to 100MM valuations. \n\nRose - Rotaract club President that turned an inactive club into the most successful and active in Tanzania. Now coordinating Rotaract district leaders around the world to break the next world record - 355M trees in 1 day. \n\nKim Bolitho - Worked in PR and advertising for over 20+ years, handling media relations. Also an environmental activist & regenerator overseeing land steward coordinations. \n\nEddie has served the last two decades as a Founding Partner at Lynx Capital Partners, a private quantitative trading and software development firm specializing in the automated trading of equities on the NYSE and NASDAQ with offices in four countries.  ", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "thetreegens"}, "recipient": "0xfC9265A28f66CF4561D74A4E25D7Bbd3F482B8e6"}}