{"signature": "0xb04f57724709828be5be649a120008a69269fcaa83932b5e489bd1a54bb4e30a4cecc0d169e47d43e77dd419522c7dd3f8289a01496caa405045102d2afa45251b", "application": {"round": "0x3E93205B786796Cf7Ea70404E89c7dda3b84D07a", "answers": [{"type": "email", "answer": "sev@sunflowereco.tech", "hidden": true, "question": "Email Address", "questionId": 0}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "sevnightingale", "hidden": true, "question": "Telegram Handle We Can Use To Contact You", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "https://github.com/Eco-Labs/RegenPath/tree/main", "hidden": false, "question": "Project GitHub Repo", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "link", "hidden": false, "question": "Link to your Public Group Chat", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "paragraph", "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": "RegenPath contributes to the growth of the OSS ecosystem by open-sourcing core components that enable regenerative finance infrastructure and by building transparent, replicable systems that others can extend and build upon.\n\nSpecific Contributions:\nOpen Database of Regenerative Pathways: We’re creating a publicly accessible, crowdsourced database of projects that compensate people for ecological action. This data can be used by researchers, builders, and ecosystem partners to power new tools, analytics, and applications.\n\nVector-Based Matchmaking Framework: We’re open-sourcing the embedding and vector search pipeline used to match users with regenerative income opportunities. This framework can be repurposed for other use cases where contextual matchmaking is needed.\n\nPrompt Engineering & Completion Workflows: Our OpenAI completion call structure and prompts — used to refine user inputs before embedding — are fully documented and available for remixing or reuse by others building human-centered AI systems.\n\nDecentralized Identity + VC Framework (In Progress): As we expand into DIDs and Bioregional Passports, we’ll open-source credential schemas and DID integration patterns for recognizing regenerative contributions across ecosystems.\n\nEducation & Accessibility: Through documentation, examples, and a transparent GitHub presence, we aim to make these systems accessible not just to developers, but to project stewards and community organizers new to open source.\n\nRegenPath enhances the OSS ecosystem by creating reusable, mission-aligned infrastructure for regenerative coordination — and by lowering the barrier for others to contribute to, fork, or build on this emerging stack.", "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": "RegenPath helps individuals earn a regenerative income by matching them with projects that pay for ecological and social impact. Our core feature is an AI-powered matchmaking engine that connects users (“Regenerators”) with verified pathways based on their skills, geography, resources, and goals.\n\nKey Features:\nContext-Aware Matchmaking: We use OpenAI embeddings and Pinecone to match users with regenerative opportunities that fit their unique context — not just keyword search or filters.\n\nCrowdsourced Pathway Database: Project stewards can submit pathways to a growing, open-access database of compensation opportunities for positive impact.\n\nOnboarding Questionnaire: A lightweight, guided form collects context from users, lowering the barrier to entry for ReFi and regenerative action.\n\nPlanned Web3 Integrations: Future features include multi-chain wallet support and Bioregional Passports — verifiable credentials that track skills, contributions, and reputation across ecosystems.\n\nWhat Makes RegenPath Different:\nWe’re building the “Onboarding Layer” for ReFi — a gateway that connects people not just to a project, but to a livelihood.\n\nWe focus on accessibility — no crypto knowledge required, mobile-friendly, and human-first.\n\nWe’re interoperable — our open data model and credentialing roadmap are designed to integrate with the broader ReFi stack and public goods ecosystem.", "hidden": false, "question": "What features or use cases does your dApp/App present? How is it differentiated?", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Our next phase focuses on integrating Web3 primitives to deepen the value and interoperability of the RegenPath ecosystem. Gitcoin grant funds will directly support this development.\n\nKey Development Goals:\nBioregional Passports: Implement verifiable credentials (VCs) that track a Regenerator’s contributions, skills, and reputation across ecosystems. This includes integrating decentralized identifiers (DIDs) and creating open credential schemas.\n\nMulti-Chain Wallet Integration: Enable Regenerators to create or connect a wallet seamlessly, abstracting away complexity and preparing the platform for receiving and issuing on-chain incentives.\n\nExpanded Pathway Onboarding Tools: Build improved tooling and flows for organizations to add new regenerative income pathways to the database, including forms, validation, and contributor reputation.\n\nMobile Optimization: Improve the mobile experience to increase accessibility in regions where regenerative work is being done but desktop access is limited.\n\nUse of Funds:\nEngineering: Integrate wallet abstraction, DID issuance, and credential verification using open-source libraries.\n\nDesign: Create intuitive UX for onboarding, wallet connection, and viewing passport credentials.\n\nCommunity & Coordination: Fund contributor work to curate and verify new pathways, test credential issuance, and refine taxonomy.", "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": "No smart contracts deployed yet. RegenPath is currently in development and preparing for Web3 integration. Future deployments will include verifiable credential contracts and multi-chain wallet support, which will be publicly documented and open-sourced.", "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). 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To turn this vision into reality, our mission is to transform regeneration into an occupation. Our immediate goal is to streamline the onboarding process into Regenerative Finance (ReFi) and make the verification of small-scale impact both feasible and cost-effective.\n\n### **But why ❔**\n\n🚨 The planet's ecosystems are under threat, with degradation outpacing regeneration. Small-scale regenerators hold the key to reversing this trend, but face barriers like the high costs of originating environmental assets and complex, fragmented onboarding processes in the ReFi space. We're bridging the gap, enabling regenerators to earn a living through tangible impact.\n\n[![Screenshot-2023-11-07-23-55-51.png](https://i.postimg.cc/q7M8F1Tq/Screenshot-2023-11-07-23-55-51.png)](https://postimg.cc/w1Zyyc3Y)\n\n[![Screenshot-2023-11-07-23-55-56.png](https://i.postimg.cc/ryt57dv1/Screenshot-2023-11-07-23-55-56.png)](https://postimg.cc/YjM4WS20)\n\n### **So, what are we actually building ❔**\n\n1️⃣ **RegenPath:** A dApp designed to simplify and enhance the onboarding process for regenerators looking to make an income while making an impact. It will help non-tech savvy obtain a non-custodial multi-chain wallet, match-make them with opportunities for regenerative income, and provide peer-to-peer credentials & attestations.\n\n2️⃣ **Adaptive Agroforestry & Smallholder Stewardship:** A pioneering methodology that facilitates the issuance of eco credits on Regen Network, enabling small-scale regenerators to originate practice-based, environmental stewardship credits from verified regenerative practices like Syntropic Agroforestry in diverse bioregions across the globe.\n\n[![Screenshot-2023-11-07-23-58-01.png](https://i.postimg.cc/6pBR7MTc/Screenshot-2023-11-07-23-58-01.png)](https://postimg.cc/3dbWVCX0)\n\n## **GG22 Update & Next Steps**\n\n### 📗 **RegenPath: Empowering Regenerative Land Stewards**\n\n[RegenPath](https://regenpath.sunflowereco.tech/) is a digital platform designed to onboard millions of environmental stewards, or \"Regenerators,\" into the world of Regenerative Finance and web3. By leveraging a vector-based matchmaking engine, multi-chain wallet, digital identifiers (DIDs), and issuing Bioregional Passports (a form of verifiable credentials or VCs), RegenPath aims to help anyone find their pathway to earning a regenerative income.\n\nThanks to previous funding rounds, we are ready to launch the first core function of RegenPath, pathfinding.\n\nThe MVP will serve as a matchmaking tool to guide Regenerators on available options for getting paid to make a positive impact. We have built a database of projects that include existing systems for paying people for positive action. After answering an onboarding questionnaire, Regens will be matched with a pathway based on their unique context, like skills, geography, and access to resources that make an individual well-suited for a specific pathway. \n\nWith the matchmaking engine & database complete, the next step will be to add multi-chain wallet creation & abstraction, & explore how the Bioregional Passport feature will serve as a recognized and verifiable system to acknowledge the skills, reputation, and contributions of Regenerators across various bioregions. \n\nUse cases for Bioregional Passports include:\n\n**Reputation Sensing:** Revealing disconnects from the community.\n\n**Onboarding and Tracking Eco Assets:** Facilitating the process of integrating ecological assets.\n\n**Empowering Volunteers and Traveling Regenerators:** Facilitating a peer-to-peer system to issue badges that recognize skills and experiences.\n\n**Tracking Regen Experts and Consultants:** Monitoring their impact on projects over time.\n\n**Engaging Patrons and Contributors:** Facilitating eco-tourism and tracking contributions to regenerative projects, rewarding funding milestones with unique opportunities.\n\nFunds from GG22 will be focused primarily on building out these web3 related features of RegenPath.\n\n### 🌳 **Adaptive Agroforestry & Smallholder Stewardship (AASS) Methodology**\n\nWe're developing and implementing the [Adaptive Agroforestry & Smallholder Stewardship](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N6XKjg-XM1vyqvySKWsgP6l2zkF0NH9PwQr6WJhP0Hs/edit?usp=sharing) (AASS) methodology to assist smallholder farmers in adopting agroforestry practices. The methodology is adaptive and flexible, allowing for customization based on varying agro-ecological contexts. It focuses on practice-based eco-credits, with the potential for future outcomes-based credit issuance as carbon and biodiversity modeling can be performed on the collected data over time.\n\nOur monitoring approach will use a combination of decentralized, digital Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) solutions, applying the concept of Data Fidelity. This means eco-credits may be issued with varying levels of certainty, from low-fidelity (one form of sensing technique) to high-fidelity (all sensing techniques present and cross-referenced).\n\nOver the next year, we plan to develop and implement this methodology, which is based on observations from on-the-ground agroforestry projects around the world, including locations in Barichara Colombia, Ndula Zambia, and Lima Duarte Brasil.\n\n## **In conclusion**\n\nAt Sunflower EcoTech, our principles of regeneration, collaboration, diversity, and transparency guide us. We prioritize the needs of regenerators, those on the frontlines of ecological restoration, and strive to create tools and methodologies that support and validate their invaluable work.\n\nWe embrace collaboration, value radical truth and transparency, and prioritize action. We're not just building products; we're fostering a community that seeks to understand and address the complexities of our world.\n\nAs we look to the future, we're excited about our projects' potential to accelerate humanity's capacity to regenerate ecosystems faster than we degrade them. But we can't do it alone. We need your support.\n\nBy donating to this grant, you're investing in a regenerative future. You're joining a community of regenerators, innovators, and dreamers who believe in the power of collective action to heal our planet.\n\n**Join us on this journey. Donate to this grant today. Together, we can sow the seeds for a regenerative future. Let's regenerate ourselves and the world, one step at a time. Donate Now.**\n\n🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻\n", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "Eco-Labs", "projectTwitter": "SunflowerEcoTec"}, "recipient": "0x59490C362C54C1b60158F19CE499C82aa3669820"}}