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At purchase, the domain nft offsets a portion as BCT. The domain also use yield from staking the KLIMA token to lock up carbon credits with a portion committed to offsetting carbon credits. With this, we  can make significant impact accelerating climate action even with micro offsets. The bigger idea is that institutions will be able to allow their unused funds actively take climate actions on their behalf using kns domains and be able to socially represent that.  ", "hidden": true, "question": "Please describe how your project meets the round eligibility criteria. ", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We have been able to build the new front end for kns from the funds received previously. However this is not yet completed hence not launched. \n\nOur product was used by well known defi organisation such as goldfinch to connect their climate action to their project's name. \n\nWe are on-boarding a new marketing manager who will help us accelerate our social presence and educate people about our goals.\n\nWe are also on-boarding a front end engineer for greater user experience.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please share any new updates or milestones from the prior season.", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Our goal is to accelerate climate actions which involves redirecting finance to project developers to scale their efforts in mitigating climate change. Our hypothesis is that the more credits are being offsetted, the more finance is being passed on to project developers. We believe that a crucial way to create the necessary outflow of finance is to use Defi tools such as yields, NFTs and social representation.  ", "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 has not been covered?", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "hidden": true, "question": "Does 50% of your team reflect the diversity of the community your project serves with a particular emphasis on including women, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPoC), individuals with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQ+ community?", "questionId": 11, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "crI2u8Gcrj6wyOaTLIAYRnAfoj/CqPXekNsxXLfXZUU=", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "adc12ddaca18b3d48f51188d843bfed641ce544c1580243ff148028691088e1924a4a9e11d13ca55c28e847d8ad65200f149871722f61c561756c53a778f71188e92475e4c892815473063b97b9817070c27b4fcd1079e2a53b5309bea0d5cb0072add44e9143059af28dac2b1bce95affd73d70480e63167d2e0e440a4058a10000000000000020cef21c494045da1ed0286d076e42c4ef356026d13ee5f0bb91995612763dfe6a4e0a9fc2d9561795cbce7a9182b6a0ab"}}], "project": {"id": "10:0x8e1bD5Da87C14dd8e08F7ecc2aBf9D1d558ea174:172", "title": "KNS Domains", "logoImg": "bafkreibo7vo76ryt3txgimftprxblzjczilcnkojn3xwd4jcicmaccl37y", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreifkgxtksjgc63cpd4tvsz2n6vglpbd4d62v5cozglcwsyn62k5z2u", "protocol": "1"}, "website": "https://www.kns.earth/#/", "bannerImg": "bafkreiedemk5ofh67ss2jv4nyhe3oiib7gqiphxjvxf3xzt4krkxxvpza4", "createdAt": 1681913462184, "userGithub": "NFT-timmy", "credentials": {"twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..MbEJ-tu-GnjRVUqGSzH_EVsgHwq38osi-G5eLPE86tdniOR9ZMR5wCMYbkY7Rs_xbbCTXBFh_LBY35YsxSwoDg", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-04-19T13:28:18.176Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-04-19T13:28:18.176Z", "expirationDate": "2023-07-18T13:28:18.176Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x931884dFeAac21aC4b7809F032Ae850432A0D1c0", "hash": "v0.0.0:7ushvQfYVrlhbl976C2VEtcs/pZhccRnGhESxhqwz6g=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#knsdomains_"}}}, "description": "Introduction: \n\nKNS domains formerly known as KlimaDAO Name Service  is a domain on the polygon blockchain that continuously offsets your carbon footprint, bonds carbon assets into the KlimaDAO treasury and is a way to socially represent your carbon neutrality. It is a carbon backed and carbon-offsetting NFT. KNS also enables users to map human readable names to blockchain and non-blockchain resources, like Ethereum addresses, IPFS hashes, or website URLs.\n\nHow it works:\n\nKNS currently uses BCT (Base carbon tonnes) which are Verra-certified digital carbon credits (renewable energy) for offsetting through KlimaDAO's retirement aggregator. When a user mints a KNS, a portion of that is used to immediately retire BCT to become climate positive. Another portion is used to buy and stake the KLIMA token, and then committed to a contract that redirects 1/3 of the rebases to purchasing and offsetting BCT permanently. This enables the KNS to be carbon backed using the underlying carbon assets backing the KLIMA token and also a continuous offsetting tool. Additionally, another portion can be committed to purchasing MCO2 Token which are nature based digital carbon credits that are then bonded to the KlimaDAO's treasury thus accelerating the price of carbon. \n\nOther Features: \n\nLove letter to the planet: Users are able to write a love letter to the planet at mint, which will live forever on the polygon blockchain. Your love letter is forever attached to your .klima name and can be seen on KlimaDAO's love letter site as well as shared to your twitter page. \n\nReferrals: \n\nAnyone can earn up to 10% of a user's mint fee, if they referred KNS to the user. A KNS currently cost a one time mint fee of 100USDC and belongs to the user forever. KNS can also be traded on secondary markets like opensea. \n\nKNS is currently being built on the polygon blockchain. The mission of KNS is to accelerate financing for climate actions through passive yields and build refi adoption through social identity. \n\nTo put this into further context, the current total Ethereum Name Service (ENS) minted is around 1.2M ens domains. A KNS of that level of adoption would have retired around 2M+ carbon tonnes on average from just minting alone. \n\nAbout Team:\n\nTimmy: Timmy is the founder of KNS domains and leads Sales/Solutions at KlimaDAO and Carbonmark.  He has since been an advocate for building various utilities on the refi ecosystem and reducing the barrier of entry into refi. Timmy has great experience in NFT utilities and digital carbon offsetting strategies both for NFTs and web3 protocols. \n\nAnimesh is the marketing lead for KNS domains. He has a background in Marketing operations, Brand management and account management.  \n\nPrevious Grant:\n\nFunds from previous grant was used to pay the dev working on the new front end which has not been completed. \n\nHow the grant will be used: \n\nWe started building a v2 version for the KNS domains, however the software engineer we hired was not able to complete the work. Hence we want to onboard a new frontend engineer to accelerate the delivery of the v2 of KNS domains. \n\nhere is a sneak peak (this is still in the works and will be revamped): https://v2-kns.netlify.app/\n\nWe want to also create extra features that will allow onboarding of institutions. The core idea will be to use yield mechanisms to accelerate climate action. Hence we need to onboard another smart contract engineer. \n\nWe hope to get funding, so we can continue to build on refi and drive adoption to make climate action the only option.\n\nNote: KNS is completely independent of KlimaDAO. We are however building on refi and the KlimaDAO ecosystem.\n\nTimeline:\n\nBuilding KNS domains have been slow moving due to limited funding. A timeline for us is having the new frontend our within the next 3 months.\n\n\nSome useful links: \n\nhttps://opensea.io/collection/knsdomains\n\n https://www.kns.earth/#/\n\n https://github.com/GwamiLabs", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "GwamiLabs", "projectTwitter": "knsdomains_"}, "recipient": "0x931884dFeAac21aC4b7809F032Ae850432A0D1c0"}}