Progress
Weekly updates from the Astral team
- Finalized Spatial Data Registry Data Structure (Kolektivo)
- MongoDB v6 evaluation of timeseries, indexing, and analytics (MRV Collective)
- Mocked up GeoNFT and Spatial Data Registry Contracts with hardhat testing (Kolektivo)
- https://github.com/ openmrv-server Currently building out provider/role/user security infrastructure (MRV Collective)
- Ingestion layer first look (MRV Collective)
- Added backend service for circuit and contract generation (zkMaps)
- Began development of MVP for decentralized MRV registry (MRV Collective)
- Met about use cases for GeoNFT minting, approval, metadata, and ecological data (Kolektivo)
- Met about ArcGIS and weather station data (Kolektivo)
- Supported the Oika project at the Planet Positive NFT Hackathon
- Met with Regen Network on Data Module v4
- Met with dMeter
- Presented Astral GeoNFT specs (Kolektivo)
- Completed data registry requirements document (Kolektivo)
- Reviewed ArcGIS food forest survey app (Kolektivo)
- Completed Ocean Protocol v4 test dataset and paper (Kolektivo)
- Completed lo-fi map of Curacao and food forests (Kolektivo)
- First meeting of the "Survelliance Squad" now known as "dMeter"
- 3rd and final meeting of KERNEL Regen Guild, discussed locus of control
- Reviewed use cases related to badges, weather stations, and monetization with Ocean Protocol (Kolektivo)
- Second KERNEL Regen Guild meeting, discussed Donella Meadows leverage points and ran an ecosystem mapping exercise with Ale Borda
- Hardhat/React dApp for GeoNFT (Kolektivo)
- Draft GeoNFT Contract (Kolektivo)
- PoC decentralized data storage using Ceramic on Alfajores (Kolektivo)
- Defined initial bounds for computation and tree data storage limits (Kolektivo)
- Call with Ryan John King, CEO of FOAM space, a pioneer in the geospatial decentralized web. FOAM recently launched their FOAM Lite Ethereum transaction relay device, and is working on trustless "presence claims".
- Reviewed the draft whitepaper for the Kolektivo Framework, a crypto-institutional framework that seeks to promote socio-ecological sustainability through cryptoeconomic mechanisms. Watch this space ...
- Exploring ways to keep pushing forward with the Web3-native geospatial vision, which we first explored with a Filecoin development grant. More soon ...
- Met with jabyl from Distributed Town, where they're building a DAO for DAOs and a universal "skills wallet" enabling you to port your reputation with you in the mutual credit network .
- Spencer and the Commit Pool team joined the Astral Discord - really exciting work designing an app to help people hold themselves accountable. Set goals and stake money - by exercising claim your crypto back.
- On Discord we're discussing verifiable impact claims - a common problem that many teams are solving. One take: Impact NFTs.
- Submitted the GeoDID Explorer client application to Filecoin, completing our Development Grant. You can explore the Astral Studio - live on Ropsten - here. Working on docs.
- Lots of community building this week:
- Max from Earthify is building a data DAO that is crowdsourcing, standardizing, and publishing public / government records, with a focus on real estate data. We are advising Max and got to listen in to his design sprint with @RaidGuild.
- Connected with David from KERNEL0x, started a conversation about privacy and data markets.
- Another check-in with Grant and Pylyp from Copernic Space, building a Web3 marketplace for space assets including satellite imagery.
- One-to-one with community member @BlairVee talking through verifiable impact claims and community inclusion currencies.
- Drafted a concept note: Impact NFTs, which represent impact claims made by people doing some environmental or social project. Reviewers would analyze evidence referenced by the NFT - threshold approvals could trigger bounty transfers to Impact NFT minters. https://hackmd.io/@astral/B1Cl4YUBd
- Community
- 207 followers on Twitter
- 58 Discord members
- Completed initial implementation of IPLD-encoded GeoTIFFs in Typescript for our Filecoin Development Grant - docs here.
- Finishing the GeoDID Explorer client interface.
- Spoke on Web3 Spatial at the Open Geospatial Consortium Blockchain Domain Working Group - recording forthcoming.
- Met with the innovation team at a national land registry to talk about their research and development efforts to digitize the real estate conveyancing process.
- Community:
- 205 followers on Twitter
- 24 new Gitcoin grant supports
- 50 Discord members
- Work week.
- Coming into the final weeks of our Filecoin development grant - developing IPLD-encoded GeoTIFFs, which will complement the GeoDID spec we designed. The idea is to use DIDs to create permanent, resolvable identities for satellite images. More soon.
- We want to build DIDs that support spatial querying and raster clipping, so a DID can represent a subset of a larger spatial dataset.
- We met with@KERNEL0x 2 Fellow @hollygrimm, who is building @0xDynamiculture - a DAO for Indigenous tribes to track their environmental projects using satellite imagery and sensor inputs We'll be looking at using GeoDIDs in their technical architecture
- Advisory calls with@MaxGlass - we'll be helping him design a spatial data crowdsourcing protocol with@RaidGuild
- The community put together a response to a post on ethresear.ch on local + community tokens. Astral member @BlairVee is working with@grassEcon on this, and@johnx25bd prototyped a location-aware smart contract wallet at ETHParis 2019.
- Community:
- 200 followers on Twitter
- 7 new Gitcoin grant supporters
- 31 Discord members
- Still building for our Filecoin Development Grant - working on IPLD-encoded GeoTIFFs and a front end GeoDID browser for Web3-native satellite imagery ...
- Working with a new community member building to collect land parcel data - watch this space
- Initial security reviews of Spatial.sol - much more to come.
- Architecting verifiable spatial data registries built on GeoDIDs and IPFS. Who do we know who would find a smart contract registry of geographic zones useful? Congestion zones - insurance protocols - local currencies - voting - what else??
- Initial tests for Spatial.sol. Point in Polygon is *mostly* working.
- Submitted initial implementation of the @astralprotocol Typescript modules for the Filecoin Development Grant. GeoDID client libraries and solidity contracts are functional.
- Release of the vision and roadmap for community review.
- Community
- 176 Twitter followers
- 5 new Gitcoin grant supporters
- 23 Discord members
- Our Discord is gathering steam. We've seen new members this week from startup projects, the GIS world, economics graduate schools and more. Join if you want to learn more: https://discord.gg/9Kv8tRvWVG
- Discord member Econometrie raised some great points about how systems built on Astral could solve an interesting problem: how do we know where we can park rental e-bikes and e-scooters? We are working out how to adapt Hyperaware to help solve this.
- A new member - Kiran - joined and shared a draft post he's writing about applying principles of token engineering to manage road network usage.
- We have written a master document with overviews of the different tools and protocols we are building. This is open - feedback very welcome: https://hackmd.io/0p7uwOijSMuFXcNE_anDWA
- Community
- 160 Twitter followers
- 18 Discord members
- 5 new Gitcoin grant supporters - plus a 246.98 DAI CLR match
- Commits on modules for working with GeoDIDs, plus a check-in call with @filecoin on development grant progress.
- Call with @blairvee and Jonny, talking about GIS, Grassroots Economics and truly local currencies.
- Core community call. We talked through the road up to this point, and where it should lead.
- We created a Discord! If you are doing *anything* at the intersection of spatial / location data and Web3, join and say hi. https://discord.gg/W2nFZF75
- Community:
- 146 Twitter followers
- 6 new Gitcoin grant supporters
- Broke ground on a research report on the intersection of spatial data and Web3.
- Progress on the GeoDID Browser interface development and Astral modules for working with GeoDIDs - part of our work on a Filecoin Development Grant.
- Spoke with an American entrepreneur working to onboard land parcel data onto Ethereum.
- Advisor calls.
- Community:
- 132 Twitter followers
- 5 new Gitcoin grant supporters
- Submitted the GeoDID Method Specification for feedback - if you're interested, read it here, and give feedback by creating an issue on the Github repo.
- Fixed a bug in our prototype implementation of the Hyperaware Protocol - a spatial governance protocol for connected devices.
- KERNEL Fairlaunch seminar with Brian Flynn from Rabbit Hole - got us thinking about the value of community.
- Community
- 113 Twitter followers
- 13 new Gitcoin grant contributors
- Completed the draft GeoDID Method Specification - now we're architecting software modules for working with GeoDIDs
- Spoke with @KERNEL0x Fellow @mattgcondon - the grandfather of NFTs - about trusted location proofs and using location in smart contracts.
- Kicking ideas around with @naz about NFT markets and the NFT community.
- First talk from @fairlaunch Capital in KERNEL Block 2 - learning about newfound paths to independent sustainability.
- Early tests on Spatial.sol, a Solidity library of geometric and topological functions - watch this space ...
- Community
- 89 Twitter followers
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- Refinements of the draft GeoDID Method Specification.
- Chat with a VC about the past, present and future of the spatial Web3.
- Chatting about trusted location proofs with a security-minded developer in KERNEL.
- Community
- 80 Twitter followers
- 2 new Gitcoin grant contributors
- Joined KERNEL 2 - Fairlaunch track!
- Drafting GeoDID Method Specification, working on scaling problems with IPLD-encoded GeoTIFFs for the Filecoin Development Grant.
- Advisory call with Andrew Hill, CEO at Textile - great advice on how to approach to building Web3-native geospatial technologies.
- Community
- 61 Twitter followers
- 29 Gitcoin grant contributors
- Astral received a Filecoin Development Grant to develop a few key pieces of the Astral Protocol: a GeoDID Method Specification (more soon!) and IPLD-encoded GeoTIFFs, for Web3-native geospatial imagery. Our grant details.
- The Astral team won the Ceramic Bounty for the SkyDB hackathon for building a version of Geolocker, a verifiable spatial data registry.
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