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", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "short-answer", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here:", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "@djimoserodio", "hidden": true, "question": "Profiles or socials of other main team members publicly associated with the project: ", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "dropdown", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Have you read and confirmed your grant abides by the Program General Eligibility Policy? https://gitcoin.notion.site/GG18-Eligibility-cb4a5754c56043d4b3ed34eddbac261c?pvs=4", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We are a climate project with proven traction and growing partnerships. Gitcoin has helped us both develop technology as well as subsidize natural capital funding on the ground, primarily in Kenya. With every iteration, we have introduced new funcitonality such as smart contract, filecoin implementation, automatic payouts, app improvements, partnerships etc. And we have now crossed the 100k tree mark!", "hidden": false, "question": "Please explain how your project meets the round-specific eligibility criteria. ", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Since the last Gitcoin round, we have launched v2 of the app which we've included new screenshots details in the proposal. That means we are on our third phase of pilots and second iteration of the app. \n\nMajor updates:\nWe have built a methodology builder which allows us to program custom sequence of events and payout amounts.\nWe have built a batch accounting system that lets us aggregate claims and group units of measurements into batches.\nWe have 2 new incredible partnerships. With GoodDollar, our claims settlement and methodologies trigger their UBI payouts.\nBlkburd Genes, we plant trees whose NFTs are embedded into their t shirt collection\n\n", "hidden": false, "question": "What previous Gitcoin grant rounds has this project been a part of? Please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months.", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Recently we measure success based on success rate for propagation and methodology accuracy. We also measure success in total number of trees and stewards we onbard/create ", "hidden": false, "question": "How do you measure the impact of your project? Please provide examples and/or standard metrics. This might be used in future impact reports ", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": false, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? 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This budget is a tree commitment that is released as milestone-based rewards to incentivize tree stewardship\n\n\ud83d\udccd\ud83d\udd2d **Extreme traceability** and attribution of new trees, not just for accountability and inventorying, but to unleash the community effects needed for tree-planting to become a thing!\n \n\ud83d\udcd2\ud83e\uddee **Batch Accounting**: Silvi's robust batch accounting system efficiently manages groupings of TreeForwards, ensuring that each tree within a batch receives its requisite funding and care. This feature enhances scalability, ensuring large-scale reforestation initiatives with area based accounting are as meticulously managed as individual trees as well as for pre-planting propagation and logistics.\n\n\ud83d\udccb\ud83d\udcc8**Adaptive Methodologies**: A proprietary app functions as the nexus between conservation strategies and their tangible outcomes, ushering in an era of precise, adaptive reforestation.\n\n \n\ud83d\uddfa\ufe0f \ud83e\uddfaPortfolio Management: Embodying the democratization of reforestation, we believe that global efforts should be cohesively managed and brokered.\n\n \n\ud83d\udcd6 \ud83c\udf33OpenTrees Initiative: Beyond a mere data model, this is Silvi's clarion call for collaborative, transparent, and standards-driven reforestation.\n\n \nLet's unpack that \ud83d\udc46\n \n**Tree Forwards:**\nSilvi is collateralizing the net present value of New Trees. Further, tree investments are low risk instruments because they are performance-based payouts depended on verifiable milestones. \n![](https://i.imgur.com/IgNyZYw.png)\n\nTree forwards define the unit economics of reforestation but because there are 50-60k tree species, tree forward claims are themselves tied to species and location-specific methodologies. For this Silvi is supporting a p2p library of species-specific methodologies. Think of it as tree wikis for tree science  and a participatory model for the ground work/truth \ud83d\udc47\n \n**Ground truth and MRV:**\nOur focus has been on building a stack to serve the human-centric stages of the tree lifecycle while setting a strong and reliable foundation from which other Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) can happen. V1 of our app incorporated the registering of trees and saplings. For v2 of the app which was launched in the last Gitcoin grant, we have completed IPFS, Tree data NFTs, claim settlement payout contracts and also started work on methodology smart contracts.\n \nInterface:\nSilvi has been building an app where we're leveraging social media mechanics with citizen science frameworks to develop a Pokemon-Go-like experience for gamified tree planting and stewardship ![](https://i.imgur.com/4P7RVc3.jpg)\n![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/HJoOYHVnn.png)\n\n\n \nFurther, We're collaborating with Orgs such as Ecolabs, dMeter, Athena and Regen Network on a Filecoin grant to deliver Claim Resolution for reforestation claims. Further, we'd like to collaborate and interop with other projects and technologies on techniques for statistical sampling of ground truth as well as remote sensing inference. And ultimately, we'd like to vertically integrate with carbon-certifying projects. \n \n**Tokenomics:**\nOur long term plans involve launching a native governance token issued through tree commitments. Governance tokens will spawn utility NFT pairs that contain all the data and contracts for each tree.\n\n**Pilots:**\nTo date, Silvi has already deployed several pilots:\n\nIn the United States we've partnered with Fire Flies Forest Festival to plant 5 hardwood species and pines in a retired golf course in Tennessee as well as an Agroforestry planting in Miami.\n\nWe've also partnered with Sustainacities, a netzero toolkit working with Miami to validate our Urban Theory of Change that we can grow more trees in the cities by directly compensating citizens to be agents.\n\nHowever, Silvi's biggest focus is currently in Kenya, where it is connecting communities such as schools and small holder farmers to Kenya's last rainforest, Kakamega forest. Silvi is building a methodology to help establish small, distributed nursery beds around the forest with the goal of improving supply of saplings.  ![](https://i.imgur.com/Y0nniCy.png)\nWith the help of Gitcoin funding, Silvi has established operations in a dozen schools and 30+ small holder farmers and propagated more than 100k trees from seed. The project is in close conversation with the Forestry services and the Forest-run nurseries because Silvi is helping expand capacity of reforestation via its theory of change that a greater number of independent nurseries run by community members via a participatory model will help increase capacity and coordination. Silvi is close to being assigned an exclusive area for planting and forest management where our MRV and methodology will be put to the test over the following years.\n![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/HyzddHNnn.jpg)\n![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/H1uu_rEnn.jpg)\n\nWe wrote more about our Theory of change here https://medium.com/@silvitree/introducing-silvi-the-tree-steward-platform-eb30fe9a2644\n\n**Partners**:\nWe're so happy to be part of dMeter where other awesome dMRV projects like EcoLabs, Athena, Avano, Interform,  Ogallala and Orgo are working together to solve planetary restoration and natural capital creation! We're partnering with Ecolabs and AgroForestDAO on the development of an agroforestry methodology and with Sunflower Ecotech (Formerly Ecolabs) on a nursery pilot in Barichara, Colomboia who we recently won first prize for OpenTrees, a structured tree data submission we applied to Filecoin's Sustainable Blockchain hackathon. We're also proud to be supported by Celo and the Climate Collective and incorporating Celo's stables for payouts in Kenya. We are also partnered with Good Collective who are leveraging our methodologies to distribute conditional UBI to stewards on the ground. And we just recently partnered with Blkburd Genes to plant trees for every tshirt they sell.\n\nPlease reach out to us if you or anyone you know would like to be an early adopter of our tools and methodology towards hyperlocal reforestation ", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "SilviProtocol"}, "recipient": "0xa7CA400d49BBa87EB606ee05af93689BD21FaB99"}}