{"signature": "0x515e6e9fb9e26b8d2245afe4cc179f9976a4b567cd691d8cba170277858b23da18c0a162adf309b5e930949eba253b7dca68fd4098bd15c8b04208120ab750661b", "application": {"round": "0xc6bc0ed0bf4675cbf14d1140dcef5415d4e6b0ae", "answers": [{"type": "email", "hidden": true, "question": "Email Address", "questionId": 0, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "zgFtmgLRFObFaV546+cZYlrXZpiCIaWc3kDdHG5tkogk/Oe3kTmd2SdmezFYo4XT", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "edb06397e1f3e3175d90be8416a8e40a934400db78816337400588d77127b6df77dbef6be8196d79fe02e48fd1c10c17916b1157de643d49aa9d9ab8a116fadfb0abb3cc510e3b9c364982f9d502367b99f686e1daca96b5872381d6345ee482137212889575c347011ef31d34ca16c7b9b2b41483b9a52cc4f19ae4147a8d7f00000000000000201f1e5d58049045ae252abd024c0424aaf11fa801ed415c5c6f2f237eac3b56987f5263aef8a8989d3c094f041d5064ac"}}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "University funding, philanthropy, prize money", "hidden": false, "question": "Funding Sources", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "number", "answer": "10", "hidden": false, "question": "Team Size", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "https://github.com/Right-to-Breath", "hidden": false, "question": "Github handle (your project GitHub)", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "@CrashingElectron", "hidden": true, "question": "Telegram handle (of zuzalu representative)", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "3 years", "hidden": false, "question": "How old (in Months) is the project?  ", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Check out our profile: \n\nhttps://static1.squarespace.com/static/646b0c314d03fe78f4fa5c54/t/669808622c9de826f8a7444a/1721239651390/LOPH_brief_v3_landscape_compressed.pdf", "hidden": false, "question": "Is there anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other affiliations? Is there anything else you'd like to add that may help determine project eligibility?", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Telegram: @celinmou @z_ayub ", "hidden": false, "question": "What are the names and social links of your team members?", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Two founders - the founder of LoPh as well as the founder of MCS –  attended and contributed to ZuConnect Istanbul. With the founder of MCS winning HackZuzalu in the categories of ZK and DeSci (dTrials) supporting the hardware and software stack of the project. ", "hidden": false, "question": "Was at least one core team member at Zuzalu or ZuConnect for at least two weeks? If so, who and at which ones? ", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "DeRtB incentivizes positive environmental actions and values impact work that fosters breathing, such as growing a garden, enhancing health and air quality, and taking public transportation, that are not recognized or valued by the traditional market. \n\nDeRtB serves as a platform to further experiments and applications in blockchain and environmental regeneration, acting as a living lab to evaluate methods to digitally represent and validate evidence-based real-world interactions, and develop reputational systems that may include decentralized identification.\n\nImportantly, it makes a case for a blockchain-based and community-driven idea of rights, measurable and applicable to whatever value a community desires: A right to water, a right to food, a right to education, etc. It seeks to contribute to Zuzalu’s decentralized governance project.  \n\nWe have been contributing to various Zuzalu gatherings like ZuConnect and Zanzalu. We work at the intersection of environment, AI, blockchain, and governance to further the vision of decentralization and the adoption of blockchain-based technology according to the needs of the Zuzalu community and beyond.", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project create value for the Zuzalu ecosystem? ", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "DeRtB thrives through the collaboration of dozens of researchers, scientists, and academics from various institutions. Other sources of funding, which totals to 97.000 USD , include: Princeton University (30.000 USD),  UKRI,  UK Research & Innovation (45.500 USD), Private Tech-Philanthropists (20.000 USD), Prize Money (27.000 USD)", "hidden": false, "question": "Have you received any other funding for this project? If so, how much and from what sources?", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "No, this is our first Zuzalu Gitcoin round", "hidden": false, "question": "Did you participate in a previous Zuzalu Gitcoin round? If so, how did you use those funds?", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Funding will be used for two major allocations to support the development steps for the 2nd stage of our project.\n\n- Building the chatbot interface, LLM, and API\n- Developing the dynamic NFTs (dNFTs)\n", "hidden": false, "question": "What is your project budget? And if your project is accepted, how will you use the funds from this round? ", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "DeRtB infrastructure including the interface, LLM integration, API, and NFT-related smart contracts are Ethereum-compatible. Existing Right to Breathe NFTs are already on Ethereum. ", "hidden": false, "question": "Is your blockchain-facing tech maximally compatible with Ethereum and common Ethereum ecosystem standards(https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/standards/)? If so, how? ", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "DeRtB infrastructure including the interface, LLM integration, API, and NFT-related smart contracts are planned to be open-source.  Input projects that feed evidence into the system (e.g. the plants or mobility use cases) might not be open source as they will be created and managed by third parties.", "hidden": false, "question": "Is your project open source? If any code is a closed source, why? ", "questionId": 14}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Yes, I agree.", "hidden": false, "question": "Do you agree by January 1st, 2025 to declare how the funds were used via Zuzagora or its successor? ", "questionId": 15}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "For deRtB specifically, we collaborate with:  MCS Data Labs (dtrials)** is an award-winning specialist in advanced, AI-enabled wearable health technology; **Learn to Grow** is the first AI-managed generative farm and outdoor educational center on the island of Bahrain; Caliberco is a leading consultancy in blockchain technology, web3 solutions, token economics, and decentralized governance, focusing on sustainable development and community well-being; BioBus is a nonprofit organization that provides citizen-science based, hands-on learning to underserved communities.", "hidden": false, "question": "How could your project interoperate with other Zuzalu projects? ", "questionId": 16}, {"type": "link", "answer": "http://lo-ph.agency/dertb_video", "hidden": false, "question": "If your project is a working product, share a link to a demo video ", "questionId": 17}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "# II. Our Goals \n\nOur vision is to build a breath ecology by incentivizing real-world activities that improve breathability, such as enhancing biodiversity, improving air quality, and reducing CO2 emissions. Currently, traditional markets and price mechanisms fail to value such crucial impact work. To change this, we need a new social and tech architecture that creates environmental and economic value for all stakeholders through collective care work.\nIn the first stage of our project, we used art to introduce blockchain-based tools and raise awareness about the precarious nature of our breaths and the individual agency each person holds in creating a healthier atmosphere. Building on this foundation, the second \n stage, for which we seek support and funding, aims to create the architecture to measure and protect a community-driven right to breathe, empowering individuals and communities to take meaningful real-world action.\n \n# III. Existing Software/Hardware Foundations (Stage 1)\n\nWith deRtB, we launched “A Thousand Breaths” (ATB), an NFT collection developed by a diverse team of web3 developers, legal experts, computer scientists, social justice advocates, and digital artists. ATB offered a decentralized breathing rights experience, inviting people to embody the experience and share it with the world. Check out our codebase.\n\nEach minted artwork is produced directly by the user’s breath, as captured by a custom-designed and fabricated breathing device, and which is then processed and digitally rendered in the collection. These artworks are used to raise awareness of differences in breathing conditions from place to place (and person to person), collect actionable data for local communities, and expand its online community of users who can further share and advocate for breathing rights.\n\nWe’ve since developed and deployed two prototypes (see detailed descriptions below) in various spaces, including SXSW, art festivals, and Zanzalu. \n\n**The NFT collection** is minted on the Ethereum mainnet, with all income reinvested into advancing the project's goals.\n\n**BreathTaking Device v1 (LoPh, Austria)** was custom built and 3D printed by a team of electrical engineers and hardware designers, Infineon-trained, in Carinthia (Austria). The device sensors measure live breathing and atmospheric data (CO2, O2, ethanol, temperature, humidity, time, location) through an in-built raspberry pi 3+ interface activated by a user’s RFID card, and transmitted wirelessly for image processing and on-chain deployment.\n\n**BreathTaking Device v2 (MCS Data Labs, Germany)** features an array of 14 gas sensors embedded in a versatile, modular design for future enhancements. It includes high-efficiency, low-noise PWM fans by Noctua for optimal airflow and chamber cleansing, MQ-X series and MICS gas sensors, and Bosch BME688 sensor arrays. The device measures volatile organic compounds (VOCs), CO2, eCO2, and indoor air quality (IAQ). The AI-powered digital nose functionality enhances detection of specific odors and conditions, including smoking, dry mouth, and elevated acetone levels. Seamless connectivity for mobile devices and blockchain integration is achieved with bluetooth low-energy and WiFi capabilities. Sensor fusion and intelligent algorithms are employed to estimate the relevant gasses.\n\n![systems diagram 2](https://drive.google.com/file/d/109J142Mrh2rz4yOuqvStpCAyW9xFw7PG/view)\n\nPlease learn more about our stack in our DeRtB Github.\n\n# IV. Under Development (Stage 2)\n\nThe Decentralized Right to Breath started with a BreathTaking device to measure the attributes of people’s breaths. The second phase of the project offers a methodology to understand, measure, and protect the right to breathe, while empowering individuals and communities to take meaningful real-world action. \n\nThe functional objectives include:\n\n**Digital representation of the physical world of breath:**\n\n- A physical BreathTaking device, which captures the data of people’s breaths and combines it with 3rd party data like localized air quality\n- A chat interface and API allows different projects and people to send “evidence” of real-world action that “saves” breaths.\n- An AI entity embodies the concept of “breath”, passing judgment on the evidence to estimate the number of breaths saved.\n- Dynamic NFTs (dNFTs) are minted to represent these saved breaths, capturing quantitative and qualitative attributes of the real-world interaction, e.g. CO2 captured, biomass created, O2 generated, and breaths saved. The NFTs evolve as new relevant “evidence” enters the system.\n\n**Measurement of environmental impact**\n\n1.) Different types of action have different environmental impacts. The library of dynamic NFTs minted can be analyzed to represent environmental impact measured in e.g. CO2 captured, O2 generated, breaths saved, or even kg of resources up-cycled.\n\n2.) The AI entity that represents breath captures personal stories and nuances related to air quality and breathing rights, making our measurement of environmental impact more than 1s and 0s.\n\n**Community engagement and education**\n\n1.) Create a platform that celebrates, empowers, and incentivizes people who can provide evidence of real-world action to increase the availability of breath by gamifying and measuring environmental impact in the proxy metric of breath.\n\n2.)Every interaction with the system adds to the library of knowledge and methodologies, acting as educational resources and tools to help users understand the actions they can take to improve air quality, their health, and the state of the environment.\n\n3.) Breaths saved / dNFTs could be redeemed for real-world experiences / value, for example, half-price tram tickets.\n\n**Adaptability and governance**\n\nThe Breath AI Entity will be governed by a charter which defines the rules and methodologies to estimate breaths and validate evidence. The charter will be initiated by the project team and, over time, be governed and adapted by the community.\n\n**Technical Approach**\n\n1. Building the chatbot interface, LLM, and API\n\n- Configuring instructions, resources, and tools for the DeRtB LLM\n- Writing the initial charter and designing the governance of the charter\n- Integrating the interface(s) for the chatbot (GPT, Telegram, webapp, and/or app)\n- Developing the API for communication between modules and submission of “evidence”\n\n2. Developing the dynamic NFTs (dNFTs)\n\n- Select NFT parameters including dynamic attributes\n- Design artistic representation of dNFT data\n- Write smart contract for dynamic NFTs, extending the existing Right to Breathe NFT smart contracts\n\n3. System testing and deployment\n\n- Provide examples for estimated breaths in different scenarios of evidence\n- Create and execute unit tests on testnet for each module and the system as a whole\n- Deploy on mainnet\n\n ![solutions diagram 2](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1006PTGz3zmQpuSCP67XhTUe0DL3fZALS/view)\n", "hidden": false, "question": "Write out your roadmap if not already included in your project description", "questionId": 18}], "project": {"id": "0x4c95c34ff437097483548be30532abed016adeb792ca4efee68fe6dd3bf677a8", "title": "deRtB", "logoImg": "bafkreiht74ipbe4l45p2skkcosojw6iller4xaopyttzu4ty2stvcdloje", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreiflgf7njwaamblayhcinwjieqsrduhu6g5ywc3q6glygshhmubfjm", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://www.lo-ph.agency/dertb", "bannerImg": "bafkreiegt7i7kmfyscygor3pfp3udzyzwyvr5w2cfstf6tr7lmlfydst74", "createdAt": 1721250300520, "userGithub": "A THOUSAND BREATHS", "credentials": {}, "description": "**TL;DR:**\n\nDeRtB (Decentralized Right to Breathe) by LoPh+ uses blockchain technology to create a bottom-up right to breathe, promoting environmental actions and community-driven governance, while seeking funding to advance its innovative breath measurement and incentivization platform.\n\n # I. deRtB, a New Era for Rights in the Blockchain Age\n\nWelcome to deRtB (Decentralized Right to Breathe), a groundbreaking initiative by LoPh+ poised to revolutionize how we understand and protect our fundamental rights. LoPh+ is a Vienna-based non-profit specializing in decentralized justice and community-based governance, and launched deRtB in the belief that breathing is a fundamental, universal experience involving not just humans, but plants, animals, and the entire atmosphere. Indeed, we all share an atmosphere, making the right to breathe a fundamental concern where everyone, including nature, is a stakeholder. \n\nOur aim is to create a decentralized framework that captures the shared stakes of breath, using innovative technologies for measuring, raising awareness, and incentivizing collective action. We believe our project embodies both the fundamental values of Ethereum, including openness, decentralization, censorship resistance, auditability, and cooperation, and the collaborative, interconnectedness, and grass-root spirit of the Zuzalu community.\n\nImagine a world where rights are not dictated by governments or powerful entities but are truly decentralized, community-driven, and adaptable to the needs of every individual as well as nature. That's the world DeRtB aims to create.\n\n**Core Principles & Why deRtB Matters**\n\nEmpowerment. DeRtB shifts protection of rights from the state to individuals, ensuring privacy, bodies, and the planet are safeguarded. \n\nInclusivity. It envisions an inclusive future free from constraints like race and gender, where everyone and nature thrive. \n\nAdaptability. Using a blockchain-based approach, DeRtB adapts rights to changing times and community needs. \n\nIncentivization. By promoting innovation through incentives and shared values, it moves away from traditional punishment and force. DeRtB is a grassroots experiment for a decentralized, democratized future for rights.\n\n\n# II. Our Goals\nOur vision is to build a breath ecology by incentivizing real-world activities that improve breathability, such as enhancing biodiversity, improving air quality, and reducing CO2 emissions. Currently, traditional markets and price mechanisms fail to value such crucial impact work. To change this, we need a new social and tech architecture that creates environmental and economic value for all stakeholders through collective care work.\n\nIn the first stage of our project, we used art to introduce blockchain-based tools and raise awareness about the precarious nature of our breaths and the individual agency each person holds in creating a healthier atmosphere. \n\nBuilding on this foundation, the second stage, for which we seek support and funding, aims to create the architecture to measure and protect a community-driven right to breathe, empowering individuals and communities to take meaningful real-world action.\n", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": ""}, "recipient": "0x894B2ccB3b95f78CE4a5B55ec5bB8813DaAc2f0a"}}