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(VC, grants by foundation, token sales, etc)", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "number", "answer": "9", "hidden": false, "question": "Total team size", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "number", "answer": "7", "hidden": false, "question": "How old (in Months) is the project?", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here:", "questionId": 7, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "61wxLD9Lmee91pmqe/ZI02KrE1vmMQ5LxjXT5XqxNAU=", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "d647ae7145052540154f2cf18c4c26bd74dc63478de1b75226ea6fe40dab8d49439cfc3772b893719eb24d07efac9404f584bef8d430bd995bf287b89b6088d50936a180ab47d04ece01429250e6a3d5121f9adfc0b7d77b822a9154415a99842d45f3ce9bb41934a8fc99cb93dedf465f61b84345763be2a833ca6b97c0f0a9000000000000002049d55d7d32144e2794272244431415cbaa906188bd2eb433fbb5fe50469961a09ca24dee55ff5d694a20d3a73d663198"}}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvio-pupo-casco-%E6%9C%8B%E5%8F%8B-993a1123/, https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-lopez-4a46221b5, https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcfractal/, @DjimoSerodio, https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-bronstein-589132a8/", "hidden": true, "question": "Profiles or socials of other main team members publicly associated with the project: ", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "checkbox", "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": "Of course! Almost everything we do qualifies us for eligibility to this round. We have been around for seven months, have a proven track record in web3 through our members, partners and the tools we are building, have been accepted into the Miami Mayos Office Venture Miami teams \"Built in Miami\" startup program. We support new community members familiar and unfamiliar with web3, and take the time to explain what we are doing. We write literature, make videos, blogposts, tweets, podcasts, video reels, hold monthly events, and even reach out to our local community in other languages like spanish and creole to be inclusive of frontline communities. We onboard the web3 and non web3 communities onto the notion of ReFi and our projects, whether online or at one of our in-person events; we support anyone locally aligned with our mission to #SaveMiami through regeneration of natural capital and our ecosystems. We are advocating so much that we may need to become registered as lobbyists soon! All in the name of having fun while preserving, protecting and enhancing our environment with all relevant stakeholders in public, private, non-profit and academic sectors.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please explain how your project meets the round-specific eligibility criteria. ", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We've been accepted into City of Miami Mayors program with Venture Miami and Shrimp Society for \"Zero to one\", \"Builders Summer\" and as of today, an accelerator program. We have interviewed dozens of resilience offices, sustainability officers, professors, politicians, scientists and fellow residents around our goals, the issues they'd like to see resolved and see a clear opportunity for what we want to do in leveraging emerging tech to create profitable regenerative pathways. We've grown our team and released our first product, the Climate Genie on product hunt and as a bot on Telegram. ", "hidden": false, "question": "If you've participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months. ", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "By the number of smiles we create in the fun we have! We count the trees planted, corals, mangroves; we count our meetings and user interviews, we count our hours contributed and users impacted in their every day lives. We count visitors, registrations, event attandees, donations, questions and inspirational stories that get created into reels that tell our story to the world of how change is made.", "hidden": true, "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": true, "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": 13}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": true, "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": 14}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["yes"], "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to future messages from Gitcoin for updates, information, and/or interviews? ", "questionId": 15}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["yes"], "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to us sharing your information with select third-parties for potential opportunities for them to invest in your project? ", "questionId": 16}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "North America", "hidden": false, "question": "Location/Region where the project is based ", "questionId": 17}], "project": {"id": "1:0x03506eD3f57892C85DB20C36846e9c808aFe9ef4:848", "title": "ReFiMiami", "logoImg": "bafkreiftzmtbh6jgv3w7sjpgbd33og2y6gyjzrgdvgphn5dftx4kkznfmq", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreifu7z4fwtlnty7kkz74ydzebegd5isyq7jvkid5bhqn6z6o57o5sy", "protocol": "1"}, "website": "https://www.ReFiMiami.org", "bannerImg": "bafkreih5f56wenoysqzh547qkxla6ccqdnimfy6gfowi5azwmukewdpfza", "createdAt": 1682117110678, "credentials": {"twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..gyFM8mVWLR7f-hsNDJzcdnnQyfDHtN_C2_yYxggLU1LRWELbZqCRRmtEAkVfvROGCvoEm7JGfLQU2bI9Rm1SCg", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-04-21T22:44:46.119Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-04-21T22:44:46.118Z", "expirationDate": "2023-07-20T22:44:46.118Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x9142f0F75F124dE2e11D669A7Ba9ad5Ec87E1490", "hash": "v0.0.0:debz60nWJH3HhLgjS2fup8MJzp73tfmvL14T8vgasP0=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#ReFiMiami"}}}, "description": "ReFi Miami is building a public, private and third-sector coalition to realize the vision of a Regenerative Miami by 2050.\n\nSparked by the community behind SustainaCities and Silvi, Logos Capital and the Miami Government Blockchain Association, the #SaveMiami campaign believes that regenerative finance (\u201cReFi\u201d) can help #SaveMiami. ReFi Miami is a convergence of thought leaders across technology, science, finance, government, wellness, art, music and education. Our vision is to bring together the right people, tools and capital to help Miami overcome the myriad of challenges facing our wonderful city: climate change, social injustice, biodiversity collapse, AI-risk and more\u2026\n\nWe are pioneering the global regenerative movement in Miami as a model for coastal cities around the world. Many years of preparation has been getting us ready for this moment.\nThe moment is now!\n\n\n**Earth Day Kickoff**\n\nWe kicked off ReFi Miami at Earth Day Climate Collabothon this past April 22 via #SaveMiami organized by Logos Blue Foundation, Sustainacities and partners to start gathering community and bringing awareness to the Global Stocktake and the obstacles and opportunities that exist to regenerate our natural capital assets.\n\nWe continued hard at work hacking solutions through the week culminating out best ideas and celebrating with your first ceremonial tree planting party!\n\n\n![(https://hackmd.io/_uploads/ByR-2FVnh.jpg)\n![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/Sy84hKVh3.jpg)\n\n![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/BkxO2tVn3.jpg)\n\n\n\n\n![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/r1gCrK42h.jpg)\n![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/HkHRStNh2.jpg)\n\n\n\n![Uploading file..._znwy68xf4]()\n\n\n\n\n\n**The Challenges**\n\n\nAs recently as last week flooding in Miami Dade County has brought to all of our attention: Climate and environmental change and its complex web of crisis is real. It is not a distant future. It is facing us now and especially palpable in Miami\n\n* Miami's watershed is being destroyed \ud83d\udca7\n* Biscayne Bay is dying \u274c\n* High temperatures are going up at an alarming rate \ud83e\udd75\n* Farming is destroying land & polluting waters \u2620\ufe0f\n* Septic tanks and leaking water lines are polluting our waters\n* Real estate developers are encroaching on urban development boundaries \n\nWe are now forced to monitor water, air quality & heat data in order to make sense of the rising toxicity and its impact on our environment and our residents. \ud83e\udd22\n\n**Our time is running out** \u231b\ufe0f\nWith one of the highest property prices in the United States (and in the world), we have a significant cost to inaction, and inadequate action for the climate crisis that is at han\n\n**Major Opportunities**\n\n\nThe time is ripe for a regenerative village at the heart of the city of Miami. We are gathering the brightest minds and the most value-aligned capital into the work of regeneration.\nBelow is just a list of the amazing initiatives between public, private and third-sector institutions emerging in Miami.\n* Miami has adopted a 1 million tree commitment\n* Miami-Dade County adopted the Climate Change Action Plan (reduce emissions by 80% by 2050).\n* Miami-Dade County founded a Resilience Office to focus on climate change adaptation and disaster preparedness.\n* Miami has become a hub for web3, with several major companies setting up shop in the area along with the world\u2019s largest Bitcoin conference\n* Miami-based Knight Foundation has committed $10 million to climate solutions in the region.\n* Harvard Business School Professors created a case study on Miami as an ideal hub for climate solutions that could be exported to the rest of the world.\n* Florida International University (FIU) has a Sea Level Solutions Center that focuses on sea-level rise and resiliency.\n* FIU has launched an Environmental Finance & Risk Management Program.\n* University of Miami (UM)\u2019s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science research climate change and oceanography.\n* NOAA has a presence with the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory located on Virginia Key.\n* Florida Climate Institute has released \u201cLaying the Groundwork for \u2018Getting to Neutral\u2019 in the State of Florida.\n* Miami-Dade has the worlds firsts ever Chief Heat Officer\n* Miami-Dade County has the first Chief Bay Officer\n* Overall, there is a strong interest and growing momentum in the Miami area towards regenerative practices, sustainable and regenerative finance, and the development of web3 ecosystem.\n\n**ReFiMiami founding members:**\n\n**SustainaCities**\nSustainacities is powering the transition towards the. Netzero economy with its Net ZeroToolkit (\u201cNZ0\u201d).\nThe NZ0 guides cities, enterprises and residents on a profitable path towards NetZero, including smart cities techn with an environmental focused including Blue and Green economy pillars to help Miami achieve its targets, understand its role in the global value chain and model sustainability for other cities around the world.\nTo guide the multiple stakeholders on their journey, we created Mia, the Climate Genie, our Chief Climate Officer.\n![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/BJ9b4Y4n3.jpg)\n\n\nMIA guides users through \u201cClimaGo\u201d \u2014 our \u201cPok\u00e9mon Go for Climate\u201d game that immerses users in the MiamiVerse.\nSave Miami ARTREES ZOOM - Powered by Silvi and AR Miami\nMiamiVerse\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSC5LWpPIT4\nMiami-Verse Project NoahFull complete\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf3CLN1-Jgg\n\n\n\n**Logos Blue Economy Foundation**\nLogos Blue Economy Foundation has organized an OpenCLimate Collabothon innaugurated during 2023 Earth Day, to build local understanding and capacity around Natural Capital Accounting, Nature Based Solutions and economics of Ecosystem Services in an effort to pilot one of the first subnational Blue Bonds in Miami-Dade, complete with Marine Ecosystem Credits like the innovative blue carbon, plastics, eutrophication and biodiversity credits.\n\nYou can learn more about these smart blue bonds at www.bluebonds.org\n\n![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/rk8tNYNhh.jpg)\n![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/S18FNtEn3.jpg)\n![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/rkPYNYEnh.jpg)\n![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/Bydt4K433.jpg)\n![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/Sy_F4K43h.jpg)\n![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/S1DtVF423.jpg)\n![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/B1OYEt4hn.jpg)\nsource: Marine Ecosystem Credits, Open Earth Foundation\n\n**Silvi Protocol**\nwww.twitter.com/silviprotocol\nSilvi is a reforestation protocol headquartered in Miami. Backed by Celo, Climate Collective, Gitcoin community and Filecoin, Silvi is building financial and coordination tools to help a billion people steward a trillion trees. It has pilots aorund the world including rural Kenya and is now looking to build upon the million tree challenge in Miami via gamified urban forestry experiences in order to grow Miami's tree canopy and tree-dependent lifesupport systems.\n![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/HkV1vFVn3.jpg)\n![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/S1BkwtEn3.jpg)\n![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/SkSJwtN2h.jpg)\n\n\n\n**ReFiMiami founders:**\n\n![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/rko7UYVh3.png)\n\n**Silvio Pupo** has worked on more than $1B worth of deals, received financing letters from multilaterals for over $400M, and raised more than $10M for fintech startups. Silvio has over 35 portfolio companies as an angel investor, and invested as a limited partner into venture funds. Silvio was a partner for the Americas and LatAm for the first Global Online Security Token Roadshop (\u201cGOIR\u201d) received over has we scaled venture debt after a contract to rollout rewards services for Banks on the VISA Network in Latin America and the Caribbean. Silvio is the founder of impact investment firm www.logoscapital.io, bluebonds.org, Government Blockchain Association of Florida and Sustainable Smart Cities, sustainacities.com\n\n\n![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/HkQHUtE33.png)\n\n**Djimo Serodio** has a background in regenerative agriculture, environmental science and citizen science frameworks. He is the founder of:\nSilvi.Earth - A reforestation protocol and core founding member of ReFiMiami looking to bring citizen-led urban forestry to Miami.\nJustLearn.io - An Environmental Science EdTech startup serving science to 40k students\nwww.twitter.com/djimoserodio\n\n![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/rJ0I8YNhn.png)\n\n**Katrina Morris** has been developing online and helping small to mid-size businesses with their e-commerce sites since 1995. She has recently begun expanding her knowledge base in web3, with an emphasis on ReFi, and completed her first hackathon at ETHDenver, at which her team won a $5000 bounty from DFinity. She has also recently completed a certification course in Sustainable Tourism Destination Management through eCornell. She believes in the potential of web3 for social and ecological good and is onboard to help build healthier ecosystems, for communities and for the environment.\n\n**Founding contributors**\n\n![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/ryy4wFN2h.png)\n**Paul \u201cPaulsky\u201d Bronstein, Founder, XR Labs**\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-bronstein-589132a8/\nStoryteller/Futurist/Activist who aims to utilize XR and Emergent Technology too build up a personal and unique technical skillset and access to a network of individuals that emphasize the use of Technology and Art to build up creative XR marketing campaigns and immersive storytelling to enhance products and services.\n\n\n![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/S12q8KV22.png)\n\n**Lloyd Emelle** https://www.linkedin.com/in/gurulloyd\n\nTexan tech genius, transplanted to South Florida. Passionate about life, and transforming communities through government focused technologies for Municipalities. Founded Code for Philly. Lloyd named our Miami Climate Genie, Mia.\n\n\n![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/SJTv8FV2n.png)\n\n**Greg Taffet** (COO Logos Blue) is currently a mentor and adviser to startup and growth companies. He works with the executive team to provide strategic direction on scalability, digital transformation, technology, and security. He also works with key emerging technologies such as blockchain, and deep learning. He is also actively involved in Coral reef restoration. Greg has produced the CIO track at ITPalooza for 8 years. It is the largest CIO-level invite-only event in South Florida\n\n\n\n\n\n![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/rk-XwKNh3.jpg)\n**Priscilla D'Brito**, Artist\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/priscila-d-brito-43706a84\nArtists and Founder of Sea Sirens Designs Eco-Design artificial reefs that fosters marine life and coral reproduction through underwater sculptures. We produce high volume artificial reef custom design sculptures for resorts, private islands, commercial and educational projects. We are involved with STEAM education and partners with local marine conservations as well as Universities in South Florida.\n\n![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/SJMVDtEn3.jpg)\n\n**Maria Jose Lopez**, Admin, Arts, Culture & Movement\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-lopez-4a46221b5\nColombiana en Miami, she makes our Magic City move and shake. Web3 recruiter and early organizer of the #SaveMiami efforts, Maria supports at large with administrative, arts and culture.\n\n\n![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/Byov9KE2h.jpg)\n\n**Eugene Montoya** https://www.linkedin.com/in/ekmontoya\n\nEugene Montoya joined Wells Fargo\u2019s Sustainability Group in January of 2020 as the company\u2019s first dedicated climate change strategist at a senior enterprise officer level. Since joining, he\u2019s worked steadfastly on the integration of climate-related risk and climate-related opportunity data into various use cases including TCFD reporting, net-zero sectoral target setting and measurement for financial portfolios and creating the company\u2019s first enterprise-scale technology solution for financed emissions. The coupling of net-zero and resilience resonates with his personal mission of climate finance mobilization aimed at meeting various investment objectives for public and private stakeholders. Such objectives include capital preservation, future cost savings, sustained insurability, revenue stabilization and diversification, and triple bottom-line outcomes that stem from climate resilient investing. \n\n\n\n**Juan Carlos Gallo, AR Miami** https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcfractal\n\nJuan Carlos \u201cJCFractal\u201d Gallo, is the founder of ARMiami, and a founding member of XR Miami, a community of developers and creators from South florida. I\u2019m also the Lead AR designer for Before Its Too Late, a nonprofit climate action prototyping lab founded out of MIT to leverage arts & technology to awaken and unite people to take action to solve the climate crisis. Our AR murals and experiences, raising awareness for Climate Change, have been featured in the Miami Herald, PBS News-hour, The New Yorker Magazine, NBC6, DecoDrive, NBC10. \n\n\nAlfonso Guerra, \nDouglas Hardin, Eat Up Inc.\nPatrick Devany (FIU Student Blockchain Club) Full Stack Developer and Web3 technologist bridging industry initiatives and university talent to catalyze regenerative finance and technology.\nMatt Cyrankiewicz\nMatt is a serial entreprener having Founded projects like Future Horizons, Future Quest, and Hoo Koo E Koo and currently wokring on Future Work. 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