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", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Besides measuring the number of attendees and the extension of the content, we'll measure the connections between attendees and local stakeholders as well as collaborations initiated.", "hidden": false, "question": "How do you measure the impact of your project? Please provide examples and/or standard metrics. ", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Ayllu aims to be a hands-on social event focused on the social-impact aspects of web3 and other technologies, carving out unique components that can be replicated across other events. It also aims to serve as a soft launch space for a network society initiative for LATAM alongside Ashoka that will connect back to Zuzalu.", "hidden": false, "question": "How is this valuable to the Zuzalu community?", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "N/A.", "hidden": false, "question": "Total Prior Funding for the project in USD (N/A in case of no funding)", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "None", "hidden": false, "question": "Which of the following funding sources do you have? Check all that apply", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "This is a new project leveraging our team's extensive network and the work previously done to nurture the Ethereum Venezuela community.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please describe the progress of your project? (note: new projects are also welcome)", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "link", "answer": "", "hidden": true, "question": "If you have any onchain attestations/impact certificates, please share them share(drop the link)", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "@kosmostasis attended both Zuzalu \u201823 as a Visitor and ZuConnect as a Resident. ", "hidden": false, "question": "Which Zuzalu events have you attended for at least a week?", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/knobelsdorf/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaby-prieto-423294139/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/susana-gonzalez-nexans/", "hidden": false, "question": "Profiles or socials of other main team members publicly associated with the project (N/A for solo founders): ", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "short-answer", "hidden": false, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? ", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Ayllu will take place during 1.5-2 months, either in Caracas, Margarita Island, or a mix.", "hidden": false, "question": "Where will the \u201cZuzalu event\u201d: roughly, a long-duration in-person gathering whose goal is to experiment with open frontier digital and social technologies", "questionId": 14}], "project": {"id": "10:0x8e1bD5Da87C14dd8e08F7ecc2aBf9D1d558ea174:1776", "title": "Ayllu", "logoImg": "bafkreige55hkjhfgbg6sf6daezyv3dd5z43j3t57nobwm7p66qci2zqave", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreigffkedindybwtyy7wke54fmmewiv6e74cjlwbzqeefqcmieqtw7e", "protocol": "1"}, "website": "https://kosmostasis.notion.site/kosmostasis/Ayllu-3a192d624b6f48f5a3cd1976abad4877", "bannerImg": "bafkreigclcn7j4p6vpnhgrqskyma7ndzjn37rbgsom74nnjnl7oj2qjotu", "createdAt": 1706477236754, "userGithub": "kosmostasis", "credentials": {}, "description": "**TL;DR:** Ayllu is a one month and a half pop-up city in Venezuela with its focus on well-being, systemic change, and social impact, in partnership with diverse local stakeholders and hosted by the Ethereum Venezuela community.\n\n# The Invitation\n\nThere was once a fabled crypto nation, a land of faux democracy and hyperinflation, where once conquistadores got lost seeking El Dorado, and where the turn of the century saw every possible aspect of the human condition slowly collapse but the ability to dream (we call this \u201crealismo m\u00e1gico\u201d), paving the way for every use case cypherpunks could ever imagine to be tested, from governance to finance, digital identity to privacy, where folks dreamt of transparency from illegally extracted commodities to humanitarian help, where the crypto mining lungs of the Americas were once filled, and where an appetite for risk is still part of our diet.\n\nWhat can we learn from the Venezuelan story? You are invited to find an answer to this question alongside us.\n\n# **The Proposal**\n\nWe plan to host a one month and a half pop up city either in Caracas, Margarita Island, or a mix, with its focus on wellbeing, systemic change, and social impact, in partnership with local and international NGOs and grassroots organizations, private sector groups of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, and the Ethereum Venezuela community. The program\u2019s focus will have a hands-on approach at the core with co-designed tracks by attendees matched with local leaders for guidance in maximizing local impact. We believe a deep dive into these topics will be of great value to Zuzalu\u2019s network.\n\n## **Some of our goals include:**\n\n- Expose 50+ attendees to LATAM from the perspective of Venezuela and to the use cases that inspired the early adopters of crypto and blockchain technologies.\n- Host work sessions twice a week to evaluate restarting the Margarita Network State Project producing a report and solid next steps after the residency.\n- Explore alternative funding methods for cyber-physical public goods like parks and neighborhoods, running at least one pilot alongside local partners.\n- Soft launch [Ayllu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayllu) (think Afropolitan for LATAM) alongside [Ashoka](https://www.ashoka.org/) Diaspora Networks.\n- And more to be co-designed alongside participants.\n\nThis grant\u2019s funds will be used to set up operations, develop our brand, launch our online presence, and continue to expand on the ideas presented here in an open way, allowing the community to take part in the design and have a say from day one in the programming, and choosing the specific location and dates of the gathering.\n\n# **Why Venezuela?**\n\n## **An Early Network State Promise**\n\nVenezuela once had an independent digital jurisdiction plan very similar to how network states are envisioned today. The years are 2017-18 and the setting is Isla de Margarita. It is mostly unknown that in parallel to the regulation of crypto mining and exchanges and the creation of the government-sponsored \u201ccrypto-currency\u201d, [Petro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_(token)), the local powers had the plan to turn the island [Estate of Nueva Esparta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nueva_Esparta) and its core two peninsulas of Margarita, with its 1,151 km2 (444 sq mi) and almost half a million inhabitants into an independent digital jurisdiction backed by currency, governance, and identity blockchain systems. This plan came to be with the support of governance OG crypto startup, [Bitnation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitnation).\n\n## **Crypto-Savy Population**\n\nGreatly in part to achieving an [overall inflation rate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Venezuela) of 53,798,500% since 2016, Venezuela has commonly been known across the blockchain space since its early days, slowly declining in relevance but once hailed almost as the holy grail of crypto adoption. The country once held a top place across most indicators, from [trading](https://medium.com/open-money-initiative/latin-american-bitcoin-trading-follows-the-heartbeat-of-venezuela-71a28cb86ba0) to [mining](https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/cryptocurrency/cheap-electricity-a-boon-for-bitcoin-mining-in-cash-strapped-venezuela/articleshow/85824225.cms?from=mdr), only to fall fast and hard after government regulation, but in parallel having crypto set front and center by this same government\u2019s own token initiative, the ([recently defunct](https://www.barrons.com/news/venezuela-kills-off-petro-cryptocurrency-1e2b0317)) Petro. To this day, even if the average Venezuelan has a slight know-how of what crypto is, the population has moved 92.5% of total transactions to CEX\u2019s, according to [Chainalysis](https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/2023-global-crypto-adoption-index/). And Binance and USDT are top of mind when chatting to locals. Regardless, and in the same Chainalysis report, you can find a dedicated section on \u201c[cryptocurrency as a weapon against authoritarianism](https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/latin-america-cryptocurrency-adoption/)\u201d in Venezuela. So, what changed and what can we learn from it?\n\n## **Sacred Nature & Healing**\n\nWe\u2019ve partnered with [Eposak](https://www.eposak.org/), the social impact branch of Grupo Maso, the most influential tourism operator of the country, to explore having an offsite to Canaima and visit [Mount Roraima](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGv_MitUe7A), one of Earth\u2019s oldest geological formations, composed of Proterozoic age sandstone formed about 1.7 to 2 billion years ago and the inspiration for the Disney/Pixar movie Up. Alongside Eposak and Ashoka,  our team leader is currently exploring the use of web3, mixed-reality, and other technologies in generating alternative sources of income for local communities in the area.\n\n# **Team, Contacts & Other Round Eligibility Questions**\n\nThe team is made of four of the 28 Ethereum Venezuela volunteers and is led by one of its co-founders, Daniel K. ([@kosmostasis](https://t.me/kosmostasis)) who has been in the space since 2010. He\u2019s been a former contributor to Bitnation, Democracy Earth Foundation, RadicalxChange, Commons Stack, Token Engineering Commons, and IoTeX, among others. He\u2019s a co-instigator of the B Corps and Singularity University communities in Venezuela, as well as the civic innovation space LABO Ciudadano, former Alumni Network Vice-Chair of the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative and a Kernel Block II fellow, he\u2019s also supported many different initiatives both locally and regionally that allow him to keep a multi-stakeholder approach to systemic change. K attended both Zuzalu \u201823 as a Visitor and ZuConnect as a Resident. Here\u2019s his [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/knobelsdorf/) for a more complete profile. We aim to recruit other leaders of the web3 space of Venezuelan origin as advisors or core team members.\n\nYou can find us at https://t.me/ayllufam and [ayllufam@gmail.com](mailto:ayllufam@gmail.com). The initiative has no prior funding, or on-chain attestations/impact certificates.", "lastUpdated": 0}, "recipient": "0xbbaB4f43E0fd8bc5BFB7D4551A688467398dB2EC"}}