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(VC, grants by foundation, token sales, etc)", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "number", "answer": "3", "hidden": false, "question": "Total team size", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "number", "answer": "36", "hidden": false, "question": "How old (in Months) is the project?", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "address", "answer": "0x2Edaa86197A839792a9Befd71DafB328422be84E", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here:", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "@JoshAFairhead\n@blanktablets", "hidden": true, "question": "Profiles or socials for other main team members publicly associated with the project. These may be used to determine eligibility of the project.: ", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Have you read and confirmed that your grant abides by the Program General Eligibility Policy? https://gitcoin.notion.site/GG19-Eligibility-50843c8b3ab44ad297731a00efa6e389?pvs=4", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Meets all criteria. Was part of the 'Impact Verification Infrastructure' bundle and minted hypercerts then. Going solo this time so will do it after this round.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please detail how your project meets the Climate Solutions Round eligibility criteria. https://climate-coordination-network.notion.site/Climate-Solutions-Round-Eligibility-bf14ea78d9d24a2f8952cb5270f11b00?pvs=4", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Have mentioned updates in project description. We were part of a bundle which we have at least temporarily dissolved. \n\nOne of the challenges we have faced is in collaborations with other projects on Gitcoin as this goes into the gray area of collusion. This places stress on keeping value within the ecosystem. Clear directions on how projects may be allowed to collaborate would help foster more liquidity sinks and flows within gitcoin projects ecosystem. ", "hidden": false, "question": "If you've received funding in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months. You can also include the challenges you've faced. ", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": false, "question": "Have you minted a Hypercert for your project? ", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "link", "answer": "https://hypercerts.org/app/view?claimId=0x822f17a9a5eecfd66dbaff7946a8071c265d1d07-14526313961487942066787998616654753178845184", "hidden": false, "question": "If Yes, please provide a link to your Hypercert (https://hypercerts.org/app/gallery-all) ", "questionId": 14}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Pre-product. Our collaboration and library of knowledge graphs is our primary wealth of impact at this point, not including our systems architecture designs and UX wireframes as well as our network of collaborators. \n\nWe have also made a magazine on solving climate with web3 which has been circulated during multiple events across the world.", "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": 15}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Won the Digital Identity track during Odyssey 2020 Hackathon", "hidden": false, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? Anything you'd like to add that may help in determining project eligibility?", "questionId": 16}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "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": 17}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to us sharing your information with select third-parties for investment opportunities? ", "questionId": 18}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Oracles & DMRV", "hidden": false, "question": "Which of these categories best represents your project? Choose from: ", "questionId": 19}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["Somewhere in the Metaverse"], "hidden": false, "question": "Location/Region where the project is based: Choose from: ", "questionId": 20}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["Somewhere in the Metaverse"], "hidden": false, "question": "Primary Location/Region where the project is making an impact: Choose from: ", "questionId": 21}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": false, "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. ", "questionId": 22}], "project": {"id": "10:0x8e1bD5Da87C14dd8e08F7ecc2aBf9D1d558ea174:1560", "title": "LunarPunk_Labs", "logoImg": "bafkreietclkjbrvlbwdkuzpf5o4d2igsvb7fcuvz2tfqatgmgn4pt42bee", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreibchym5zx2ozninlji7kyrj3o6u4kruyiyf3bjr235ysamogkgjfq", "protocol": "1"}, "website": "https://www.lunarpunklabs.org/", "bannerImg": "bafkreidcixjldbhh3ytfn4hkrmiknc2b2t7z6zfih6lgjd25xwi3yh67zq", "createdAt": 1700076401500, "userGithub": "LunarPunk-Labs", "credentials": {"twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..-vTf6SnWAanQqLkFS_GlqbZUoTpbMSOWevAVfBumVViuDoa6dzIRuWOoiwKacIKXg2egJDEDRvN_jG4rKZ0PCg", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-11-15T18:16:10.423Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-11-15T18:16:10.422Z", "expirationDate": "2024-02-13T18:16:10.422Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0xeC0bAC229c1ea758383FbD31229F3bc0Add6a0b7", "hash": "v0.0.0:Anirnb/jCa/6m71kgaFYxiADGVLT+Aqv6KDVar+Tihk=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#LunarPunk_Labs"}}}, "description": "**LunarPunk\\_Labs** - a decentralized intelligence agency, for R&D to ground the unstoppable.\n\n**We recently heard a story** about a businessman who decided to sell one of his father\u2019s petrol pumps to **buy forest land**. He claimed that carbon sequestration was a **\u201clazyboy\u201d way to make money** with little effort. He bought 100 hectares of deciduous forest land in Northern Russia and **planted fast-growing birch trees, which are not indigenous to the area**. To make way for the new trees, he **cut down rich biodiversity, leading to the destruction of the local ecosystem.** The situation was worsened by the use of fertilizers and other **short-term solutions, which caused soil erosion, over-extraction of the water table, and displacement of local species.** \n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/K1DczKp84Gbt8vyU4pdXL5p4kvlGsC1it7rvR5Da9PaskjFVlwCM5plWEEuxLUCiMezN2GpBBrdx-aKXxSKlfYft9-EPkssgKXnmtBr69SVSY8kcV40QfzZeAaj3k8wFnI9l7jbwv0yaZJq3GULwNCA)\n\nTraditional Impact Metrics that use **simple quantities like carbon credits incentivize such behavior** that can have **devastating long term consequences**. **This is not what regeneration should look like.**\u00a0\n\n**This is where LunarPunk\\_Labs comes in.**\n\n**LP\\_L is a decentralised intelligence agency.** Best envisioned as a praxis learning microDAO, and best collaborated with as a guild who\u2019s core dynamics are situated around **R\\&D of what we call \u201cAdaptive Capital\u201d.** \n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/slY5b6EQyQrK9ypeFyxnA1-nsY-_mneyyFyyq9u68Z7BU9du0D0qlukwqCS1leaJjWT9AKdyqvCSpF6QgeSOG6d4bnPbzzIBCRhAsCo4PdPuOvoPhTuKllTeX6YX7xX4nmfNbZoOf4w9ZdFWJfOP3Co)\n\n\nOur fundamental proposition is that the **living systems are \u2018complex adaptive systems\u2019** that grow and change; our conception of **a \u2018healthy ecosystem\u2019 is dependent on our own anthropocentric world views and priors\u2026 speculative values which are based on facts and wisdom.**\n\nAny global design means facing some really difficult questions like: **which values or heuristics? embedded in which context? and for whom?** Clearly **there is NO single answer, but we can develop an interoperable infrastructural substrate capable of holding such plurality**, which is precisely what we are working on. This changes the impact specification game from a top-down mandate to **bottom-up and fit-to-ground metrics selected by social mutation.** All powered by **composable grounded blankets of local wisdom**. **This will be the difference that web3 empowers over traditional impact which is stuck in top-down capture games that will cause significant pain when the towers have to come down.**\u00a0\n\nPut more explicitly, **we are building multi-modal knowledge graphs that can progressively approximate the adaptive landscape through human and machine inference.** This is analogous to what AI developers call the \u201cmixture of experts\u201d methodology, just in a more tightly refined and explicit embedding space that is **human-auditable with \u201cdouble-click to zoom\u201d hierarchies of abstraction.**\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/cTlYCez9I0QqEmJ-BEB24VZlMACUcRta8V5GApvIm0YAdRJaHDji3EF7n-aR-ByiHQcFkfTrcCLkccXBPhWBohk5UbwHiexUbAVzQz2j4nIZ45ASdtY0gQ8AiHiYsbEkn7zzURc5LZRTjAI2agWMLhE)\n\nOn a high-level of abstraction, LP\\_L is deeply **concerned and building competency within the field of action between** :-\n\n- **The Ideal of Cosmology:** beyond the hydrogen and computational universes, towards living towards something more conscious and meaningful.\n- **The Ground of Ecology :** beyond alarmist narratives and material reductionism towards living ecologies centered around the phytogenic, germinal and animal worlds.\n- **The Instrument of Technology:** beyond blockchain incentives towards distributed hash tables, edge computing, sentient agents and AGI.\n- **The Directive of Philosophy:** beyond the rock of knowledge (epistemics) looking towards the bread of wisdom through techne and phronesis.&#x20;\n\nWe are **platform and network agnostic** and provide our services and systems design under permissive licenses. **Your funding allows us to keep our R\\&D open source and to benefit the ecosystem, as real impact shouldn't be constrained by our current models of profitability and survival. Our ability to speak truth to power and build for good is provided for by the safety net of your donations.** We are **not playing network effect games** and want to use our intelligence to **accelerate the coming of a better world by empowering the wise and rooted** with the tools, methodologies and patterns we build and collect. **Our exit will be in consultancy/advocacy** for inducting implicit grounded values into machine readable knowledge graphs.\u00a0\n\n**Below are our updates :-**\u00a0\n\n\n\n**Dreaming**\n\n- Translation Engine for Impact Frameworks and multi-perspective Reputation\n\n- Narrative Sensemaking Oracles\n\n**Doing**\n\n- Comic Production Engine for storytelling vehicles of ineffable truths\n\n- Regenerative methodology codifications\n\n- Travels and explorations: tothecosmos.org\n\n**Designing**\n\n- Foundational knowledge graph schema\n\n- dMRV Sensemaking Oracle\n\n**Developing**\n\n- Data sets of Regenerative Value Models/Markov Blankets\n\n- LLM Auditable Graph Memory & fine tuning\n\n- Process Pipelines for consistent characters Image generation Models\\\n**Intersecting**\n\n- weco.io and The WWW (auraura, noo/nao, ad4m, CSensemakers)\n\n- h3uni.org (wisdom wheel, qual systems, cosmic ecology)\n\n- AtlantisDAO (oracles, narratives)\n\n- Liminal Village (ecology)\n\n- Commons Hub\n\n- Olbia\n\n- Fests ( ReFi & GreenPill India, Metaphorum, bonfire.link, The Turn, MetaFest, Boom)\u00a0\n\n\n**How we have used the funds until now**\n\nAll travels have been personally financed. Funds received from previous gitcoin rounds have gone towards a laptop for Rishi, with the remainder pooled into a DAO multisig and ear marked for infrastructural / operational costs. Lean basics.\n\n**Learnings**\u00a0\n\nSince starting the project our prime directive has been informed by philosophy and our search for wisdom in a turbulent world. In other words we\u2019ve undertaken a significant amount of research into fundamental understanding; a path fraught with peril due to the metaphysical implications. Who\u2019s metaphysics? And why theirs?\u00a0\n\nThankfully we don\u2019t need to be so specific and can reason about the genus instead; what is metaphysics? The answer to this question is usually pretty uncontentious; it\u2019s the reconciliation of ontology and epistemology. So what can we learn about these fields? Plenty for sure but let\u2019s keep things high level for now build our fundamental proposition from some general statements:\n\n- Ontology is about the specific nature of being\u00a0\n- Epistemology is about the general nature of knowing\n\nInterestingly, many long standing wisdom traditions are densely codified and you need not look too far to find this out whether christian, buddhist or hindu. Yes, they use their own domain specific terminology (ontology) but the form of their transmissions are nearly always geometric (epistemology).\u00a0\n\nFrom these two areas we can continue with deductive reasoning through the garden of forking paths. The dyad of ontology and epistemology is triplicated into the classic Trivium of logic, grammar and rhetoric. Most LLMs are trained on such a corpus.\u00a0\n\nExpanding further we get the classic Quadrivium of maths, music, geometry, astronomy. In the west the trivium and quadrivium have traditionally been considered the seven liberal arts to inner and outer perfection. We could further bifurcate these terms into higher resolution systems, but what of tantric Yoga? Or other wisdom traditions? Yes, they seem to build their own metaphysics through similar \u2018stacked geometries\u2019 and \u2018knowledge graphs\u2019.\n\nSince the last round we\u2019ve concentrated on filling out this high level picture and increasing their resolution at more fundamental levels. We can repeat our method on any given term to articulate what amounts to a qualitative and quantitative infinity of measures and values.\u00a0\n\nAt this point you may ponder how this is related to the environment? Good question. Let me ask what do you really know about ecology and how do you know it? Or permaculture? How do you frame and validate a methodology to know its actually effective?\u00a0\n\nPermaculture for example has three fundamental principles; earth care, people care, fair share - but what do we validate these values against? An answer of monitoring, verification and reporting might suffice for some, but precisely what kinds? Sky, ground, human, reputational sensing? And just to throw a wrench in the works, should we really go with the permaculture principles or ESGs? The answer is of course contextual is a matter of subjective ontology.\n\nCan we sort this mess out with technical infrastructure? Well, we can codify both global and local knowledge in graphs, but you will always need a human in the loop for wise stewardship\u2026 which is why we are attempting to model what \u2018wise stewardship\u2019 actually means in a descriptive manner and building out a resource library.\n\nThis quest has taken us around the world in search of the miraculous; please see tothecosmos.org to further monitor and verify this and other reports.\n", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "lunarpunk_labs"}, "recipient": "0xeC0bAC229c1ea758383FbD31229F3bc0Add6a0b7"}}