{"signature": "0x342b5b74d04b57848d5b44003b160e7c94804b0a996b8cfc67b36757646bb6464b0eb3f650939b7b7bd2773890682d75b41574d76b03ded033944f6b20dca8151b", "application": {"round": "0x3E93205B786796Cf7Ea70404E89c7dda3b84D07a", "answers": [{"type": "email", "answer": "team@gainforest.net", "hidden": true, "question": "Email Address", "questionId": 0}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "@ninagirll", "hidden": true, "question": "Telegram Handle We Can Use To Contact You", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "https://github.com/GainForest", "hidden": false, "question": "Project GitHub Repo", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "link", "answer": "https://t.me/+g9KzmLsZh882YWE1", "hidden": false, "question": "Link to your Public Group Chat", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Yes, we’ve participated in the following Gitcoin rounds:\n- GG18 Climate Coordination Network\n- GG19  Climate Coordination Network\n- GG20 Climate Coordination Network \n- GG20 Hypercerts Ecosystem \n- GG20 Celo Public Goods Climate Bonus Round\n- GG20 Celo Climate \n- GG20 Elephant Room Retroactive Funding \n- GG21 DeSci \n- GG21 Climate Coordination Network \n- GG21 Celo Real World Builders\n- GG22 Ma Earth", "hidden": false, "question": "Have you participated in a previous Gitcoin Grants Round? If so, please name the rounds or link the builder profile associated with previous rounds.", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Our work has created significant ripple effects throughout the open-source ecosystem, particularly at the intersection of Web3 and environmental sustainability:\n\n![alt text](https://gainforest.notion.site/image/attachment%3A5736d1c3-15a1-4807-bfe0-5181ae73b003%3AScreenshot_2025-03-28_at_1.37.49_PM.png?table=block&id=1c494a2f-76b3-8033-8563-f1f03c657cf7&spaceId=592f10fa-b2fe-4de7-84d7-d47ef5244493&width=2000&userId=&cache=v2)\n\n**Ecosystem Growth Through Ecocerts**\n\nIn partnership with Hypercerts Foundation, we built and maintain [EcoCertain](https://www.ecocertain.xyz/), the premier Web3 environmental hypercerts platform. This has successfully onboarded dozens of conservation projects from remote global communities into the Web3 space. Our platform has directly enabled multiple partner communities to secure funding through [Gitcoin](https://gainforest.notion.site/Gitcoin-Grants-d0e1286feae448fb91f01f2f7c965bc7), Ma Earth, and Octant grant programs.\n\n**Standards Adoption & Protocol Expansion**\n\nThe Ecocerts framework we developed has achieved widespread adoption across the regenerative finance sector, becoming integrated into key organizations including:\n- ReFi DAO\n- Kolektivo\n- Ma Earth\n- Celo's Ultragreen Money Initiative\n\n![alt text](https://gainforest.notion.site/image/attachment%3A2891df10-9aa2-49da-99a3-ecf3ddda5ce6%3AScreenshot_2025-03-28_at_1.38.02_PM.png?table=block&id=1c494a2f-76b3-8016-81bc-dc8f1b9aebfe&spaceId=592f10fa-b2fe-4de7-84d7-d47ef5244493&width=1420&userId=&cache=v2)\n\n**Pioneering On-Chain Impact Verification**\n\nGainForest stands as one of the first projects to implement on-chain impact evaluation, creating a model that:\n- Leverages decentralized storage infrastructure on Filecoin\n- Demonstrates transparent donation tracking on Celo\n- Has directly influenced the deployment of key protocols (EAS, Splits, and Hypercerts) on the Celo network\n\n**Innovation in Funding Mechanisms**\n\nUsing our impact data, we've pioneered [ImpactQF](https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/citizen-grants-gcp-impact-passports-and-impact-quadratic-funding-impactqf/19712/5), a novel funding distribution mechanism that has been adopted across multiple Gitcoin rounds, including the Hypercerts Round and Regen Coordination events.\n\nThis work collectively expands the OSS ecosystem by creating reusable frameworks, demonstrating real-world applications of Web3 technologies for environmental impact, and developing new coordination tools that benefit the broader open-source community. All of this led us to win Web3’s first [XPRIZE](https://app.hypercerts.org/hypercerts/42220-0x16bA53B74c234C870c61EFC04cD418B8f2865959-31305977756726338638630463883722675453952).", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project contribute to the growth of the OSS ecosystem? Please provide specific examples of how your application enhances or expands the current ecosystem.", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "### 📍 [EcoCertain](https://ecocertain.xyz)\n![alt text](https://gainforest.notion.site/image/attachment%3A03cf7413-d71e-4876-aba5-06ec2f06983c%3AScreenshot_2025-03-28_at_1.38.17_PM.png?table=block&id=1c494a2f-76b3-8020-932e-ccb128a72e60&spaceId=592f10fa-b2fe-4de7-84d7-d47ef5244493&width=1420&userId=&cache=v2)\n\nCore Features:\n\n- **Environmental Hypercerts Issuance:** Enables conservation projects to tokenize their environmental impact as verifiable hypercerts on the blockchain.\n- **Remote Community Onboarding:** Specialized workflow for bringing conservation efforts from remote global communities into Web3, with minimal technical barriers.\n- **Impact Verification Framework:** Transparent system for validating and quantifying environmental outcomes. We leverage EAS attestations to connect the ecocert with real-world data such as geospatial polygons.\n- **Funding Access Integration:** Direct pathways for verified projects to access grant opportunities through Celo Ultragreen Money.\n\n### 📍 [Green Globe](https://www.gainforest.app)\n![alt text](https://gainforest.notion.site/image/attachment%3Abbf8badd-3569-41be-afc2-90f8c7dc89f9%3AScreenshot_2025-03-28_at_1.38.28_PM.png?table=block&id=1c494a2f-76b3-80ee-a093-fb6868f86cd5&spaceId=592f10fa-b2fe-4de7-84d7-d47ef5244493&width=1420&userId=&cache=v2)\n\nCore Features:\n- **Geospatial Impact Visualization:** Interactive map-based interface showing conservation activities and their verified outcomes\n- **Carbon and Biodiversity Metrics:** Quantification and visualization of multiple environmental impact categories including carbon sequestration and biodiversity preservation.\n- **Donation Transparency:** On-chain tracking of funds from donation through to verified impact, providing complete transparency for donors.\n- **Community Engagement Tools:** Features that allow supporters to directly interact with and follow specific conservation projects.\n- **Impact Documentation System:** Infrastructure for field teams to easily document and verify conservation activities using mobile-friendly interfaces.\n\n### Key Differentiators\n1. **Bridge Between Traditional Conservation and Web3:** Unlike most crypto projects, we've created practical onramps for established conservation organizations with minimal crypto experience. See: [Info Hub for GainForest Community Partners](https://gainforest.notion.site/Info-Hub-for-GainForest-Community-Partners-cbfbb5c733834571ad358db0860c8382)\n2. **Bottom-up Approach:** While most environmental platforms focus on large institutional projects, we specialize in empowering grassroots initiatives led by indigenous and local communities.\n3. **Field-tested Implementation:** Our platforms are built based on direct experience working with conservation projects in challenging environments, ensuring practical usability rather than theoretical applications.\n4. **Interoperability Focus:** Designed from the ground up to work within the broader regen Web3 ecosystem, creating compatibility with emerging standards rather than siloed solutions (e.g., [Formalizing Impact Claims for Ecocerts Interoperability](https://github.com/hypercerts-org/ecocerts/issues/3)).", "hidden": false, "question": "What features or use cases does your dApp/App present? How is it differentiated?", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "![alt text](https://gainforest.notion.site/image/attachment%3Ac181d140-b416-4eb1-85fc-65f3741db623%3Aecocerteco.png?table=block&id=1c494a2f-76b3-80b0-b424-c57cf782964a&spaceId=592f10fa-b2fe-4de7-84d7-d47ef5244493&width=1420&userId=&cache=v2)\n\nOur primary focus is to expand the Ecocerts standard by building a comprehensive impact measurement and multi-layered attestation system as illustrated in the diagram. Specifically, we plan to:\n\n1. **Develop a Robust Attestation Layer**\n- Create infrastructure for multiple verification sources to provide attestations on a single impact claim\n- Implement conflict resolution protocols when attestations differ (as shown in the Species Richness conflict in the diagram)\n- Build verification hierarchies with trusted attestors who can validate impact claims\n\n2. **Expand Data Integration Capabilities**\n- Connect bioacoustic monitoring systems for biodiversity verification\n- Integrate drone imagery analysis for tree planting verification\n- Develop APIs for satellite data integration to monitor land restoration\n\n3. **Enhance the Verification Dashboard**\n- Create visual interfaces showing verification status across all claims\n- Implement a transparent scoring system for confidence levels in each attestation\n- Build tools for comparing self-reported metrics against verified outcomes\n\n### Grant Fund Allocation\n![alt text](https://gainforest.notion.site/image/attachment%3A37269cb6-a1e5-40a3-846f-43a8dbad25b0%3AScreenshot_2025-03-28_at_2.37.28_PM.png?table=block&id=1c494a2f-76b3-801d-a3af-dce8a9df5cf9&spaceId=592f10fa-b2fe-4de7-84d7-d47ef5244493&width=1420&userId=&cache=v2)", "hidden": false, "question": "What are your plans for further development, and how will the grant funds be used to achieve these goals?", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Ecocerts minted on [EcoCertain](https://www.ecocertain.xyz/):\n- 0x16bA53B74c234C870c61EFC04cD418B8f2865959-31305977756726338638630463883722675453952, 42220\n- 0x16bA53B74c234C870c61EFC04cD418B8f2865959-31646260123647277102093838491154443665408, 42220\n- 0x16bA53B74c234C870c61EFC04cD418B8f2865959-31986542490568215565557213098586211876864, 42220\n- 0x16bA53B74c234C870c61EFC04cD418B8f2865959-32326824857489154029020587706017980088320, 42220\n- 0x16bA53B74c234C870c61EFC04cD418B8f2865959-32667107224410092492483962313449748299776, 42220\n- 0x16bA53B74c234C870c61EFC04cD418B8f2865959-33007389591331030955947336920881516511232, 42220\n- 0x16bA53B74c234C870c61EFC04cD418B8f2865959-33347671958251969419410711528313284722688, 42220\n- 0x16bA53B74c234C870c61EFC04cD418B8f2865959-33687954325172907882874086135745052934144, 42220\n- 0x16bA53B74c234C870c61EFC04cD418B8f2865959-35389366159777600200190959172903893991424, 42220", "hidden": false, "question": "For any project deploying smart contracts on blockchain networks, please list all your deployer addresses and their corresponding blockchain networks. Use this format for each entry: [deployer_address], [chain_id]—for example, 0x123abc..., 42161 (This represents a deployer address on the Arbitrum network). Please include a separate line for each unique deployer address and blockchain combination.", "questionId": 8}], "project": {"id": "0x62f25a11c2ae5a2af563cc5b1f772b3aebe1bd4a0a82e41a78e61e1db972ad7e", "title": "GainForest", "logoImg": "bafkreicjyahftywae7lbqnyd4sfgekjk3b3i4nomzy5jaqnaol3k3huamq", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreifczrfklequ2ptzcop5luvzm4qfd4xnx7sl4gc2gtjrbopjerp6um", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://gainforest.earth", "bannerImg": "bafkreicw3zuk56nsfclwxoekzg67rq6uwhf3i3jfz52q4r43ch3whm3htm", "createdAt": 1743241925829, "userGithub": "ninagirll", "credentials": {"github": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"type": "EthereumEip712Signature2021", "created": "2025-03-29T09:50:18.131Z", "@context": "https://w3id.org/security/suites/eip712sig-2021/v1", "proofValue": "0x3af9e69ac44ee3c87ba464ebfbda8f04cc62b66b8ebb7764e103ac5829a919487d82865e8da8906f64635b14266849754932a3a90ce58fdc664fc2506bbb31531b", "eip712Domain": {"types": {"Proof": [{"name": 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decentralized technology and regenerative intelligence to transform how humanity safeguards nature. We bridge cutting-edge AI with Indigenous wisdom, creating a global system where conservation is transparent, equitable, and scalable.\n\n### The Challenge 🚧\nTraditional conservation funding is broken:\n- Trust gaps between donors and communities\n- Slow, costly verification of impact\n- Exclusion of frontline stewards from decision-making\n\n### Our Solution 💡\nGainForest reimagines conservation through three pillars:\n1. **Automated Guardianship** 🛰️\nSatellite imagery, AI, and community-driven data (e.g., drone monitoring, bioacoustics) fuse to verify ecological impact in real time.\n2. **Decentralized Trust**  ⛓️\nFunds flow through blockchain escrow accounts, released automatically when conservation milestones are met. No middlemen. No delays.\n3. **Community Sovereignty** 👥\n- Environmental Hypercerts: Blockchain impact certificates let communities monetize verified stewardship (e.g., mangrove restoration, biodiversity protection).\n- Co-Designed Tools: Indigenous leaders shape our AI systems, ensuring technology respects traditional knowledge.\n\nLearn more about our journey! 📚🌱\n- [GitBook](https://gainforest.gitbook.io/docs)\n- [Governing the Commons in the Intelligent Age](https://www.daviddao.org/posts/regenerative-intelligence/)\n- [Annual Impact Report 23/24](https://www.canva.com/design/DAGNpwdK0jo/QkBOQ1gfl0gy8jDTBAo10g/view?utm_content=DAGNpwdK0jo&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=editor)", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "GainForest", "projectTwitter": "GainForestNow"}, "recipient": "0xD1554f3b43ad8274Ef5A550F17d6579daE16c5B6"}}