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(VC, grants by foundation, token sales, etc)", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "number", "answer": "4", "hidden": false, "question": "Total team size", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "number", "answer": "4", "hidden": false, "question": "How old (in Months) is the project?", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "address", "answer": "", "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": "https://twitter.com/hardmoustache\nhttps://twitter.com/kanesugar111\nhttps://twitter.com/C_raw_Ford\nhttps://twitter.com/Jimmy_Grow\n", "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": "Our project meets the Climate Solutions Round eligibility by directly growing coral and out planting them into reefs. Each coral grow captures specific amounts of CO2 all measured by the AI. Coral is the world's second largest carbon sink and unlike trees which can release carbon back into the soil, coral sequesters carbon permanently. This is because it is the base of its skeletal structure. In this way, alive or dead, Coral and coral farming offers an intelligent and sustainable alternative for capturing carbon and restoring reefs unlike trees.", "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": "Recent milestones include :  \n \nPartnerships with the Indonesian government, Palauan government, and Reconnect Island eco resort for installation of Coral Connect including the CHARM robot.\n\nThe challenges have been many, but we have pushed through and are on the cusp of setting a new gold standard for coral regeneration, biome repair, and ocean stewardship. Our team is determined and highly skilled to make sure we complete the job.", "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": "No", "hidden": false, "question": "Have you minted a Hypercert for your project? ", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "link", "hidden": false, "question": "If Yes, please provide a link to your Hypercert (https://hypercerts.org/app/gallery-all) ", "questionId": 14}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Our measures of success are determined by our S.M.A.R.T  goals.\n\n1: Engage 10,000 individuals in marine conservation efforts in 3 years. This will be tracked by the number of on-boarded users and donations made on the Coral Connect platform. Our current agreements with the Indonesian government, Palauan government and future global collaborations will ensure the set-up of more locations.\n\n2: Restore 1 square kilometer of coral reef in 3 years. We will monitor data collected by CHARM and count the number of coral transplants including GPS locations. This will be achieved by utilizing CHARM's automated capabilities for efficient large-scale coral cultivation.\n\nWe will know our project is successful if we have achieved the above goals.\n\n", "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": "Our website, notessential.io has most of our previous work showcased. However, since this project is recent there is much more to share with you.\n\nCoral Connect links directly to the Coral Husbandry Automated Raceway Machine known as CHARM. This technology offers a working solution to create and adapt existing efforts of sustainable land-based nurseries providing the capability for more streamlined locations worldwide. The marriage between CHARM and Coral Connect ensures large-scale, consistent, and precise coral restoration by merging machine automation and deep vision learning with AI-driven management. This means that tank health, diversity, stability, and viable coral ratios are directly improved in an efficient and measurable process making it possible to create more coral per meter cubed in a shorter period. All coral grown by CHARM is farmed sustainably in solar powered scalable tanks on land.\n\nCoral Connect efficiently combats the problem of disengagement by leveraging blockchain technology to provide a transparent platform where donors can witness their contributions in action through a digital asset that mirrors the growth of the actual coral they support. Coral Connect solidifies trust and encourages real-time engagement between donors and reef restoration efforts. Each coral is grafted to discs which can be personalized. Users are invited to experience live-data updates including current GPS location, coral feeding, and live streams of growing coral. This project aims to create a scalable, efficient, data-driven approach to coral restoration that can serve as a model for global efforts and become the gold standard for charitable stewardship.\n\nOur solution is adaptive to increased tank size and tooling allowing it to accommodate an exponential increase in the number of corals grown, users, and data features. The set up is a modular system making it easy to install in multitudes of locations allowing it to be tailored to a stakeholder's specific needs and economical limitations. The complete set up cost and maintenance for each site is kept to a minimum by operating on renewable energy with the ability to be accessed and monitored remotely. This ensures the project can be implemented across diverse economies with a large reduction in labor costs and skill set requirement making the proposed solution affordable and implementable in diverse economies. The transferability of the CHARM, Coral Connect, and the software upon which it is built can be implemented in any new location or existing land-based coral nursery. Coral Connect can be used for data aggregation of any land and field-based nursery operations worldwide. \n\nWe believe our efficient, cost-effective solution will become the new gold standard of coral restoration. Our proposal showcases multidisciplinary data aggregation, unique user experiences, and transparency to dynamically change the landscape of coral regeneration and philanthropic engagement.\n\n", "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": "Other", "hidden": false, "question": "Which of these categories best represents your project? Choose from: ", "questionId": 19}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["Oceania "], "hidden": false, "question": "Location/Region where the project is based: Choose from: ", "questionId": 20}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["Oceania "], "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": "1:0x03506eD3f57892C85DB20C36846e9c808aFe9ef4:1240", "title": "Coral Connect", "logoImg": "bafkreic3ckkmlql5eitd7h7iqpcnxg3cvptmsy4jvyas6qsqzuezayn5yi", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreifvlmpkgslny2glbpnwzohyjp3uvnw4x2m3ojipdamqqbl67lq3pa", "protocol": "1"}, "website": "https://notessential.io", "bannerImg": "bafkreibzbve7cg2er72xf55litodmg7q75nyz3sbwaxt5r352urk7q2rfa", "createdAt": 1699862774952, "userGithub": "Coral Connect by NotEssential", "credentials": {}, "description": "Coral Connect is the first \u201cconnect\u201d arm under the NotEssential umbrella. It provides transparent and engaging access to reef restoration by linking dynamic digital assets to the API of the AI Coral Husbandry Automated Raceway Machine (CHARM). Allowing users real time data updates of coral growth, transplant locations and overall individualised coral health. Fostering a unique and direct connection to each and every coral lovingly grown by donors. Each digital asset will allow individual donors the ability to view, feed, and interact with their specific coral while providing real time data including and the amount of carbon sequestered. \n\nCHARM: Developed by the Beyond Coral Foundation, CHARM is a groundbreaking innovation in coral production, which is of vital importance to aquaculture particularly in environments that have suffered coral loss through ecological degradation. It merges machine automation with scientific techniques to cultivate coral at scale. CHARM's features include machine vision learning, robotic end effectors, AI-driven management of coral polyps, and an intuitive user interface. Our goal is to set up multiple locations across the world with Coral Connect and CHARM to create an engaging form of coral regeneration. \n\nThe specific challenge this proposal aims to accomplish, is to create a new gold standard for reef restoration, the process is two-fold:\n\n1. Increase philanthropic engagement by providing transparency, awareness and tailored user experiences of reef restoration efforts.\n\n2. Improve the inefficiencies of current coral reef restoration methods via direct application.", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "NotEssential_io"}, "recipient": "0xFad96031f28BCcE112Fbf71f207a9302d64D937E"}}