{"signature": "0xcca61bddfd36dc77d9978a98961af9bdcb26dbb521459b961c2d59b6e4be02c1371b4ce283f9b77fdddfd2b65e48463ab7349843643ab9979f35275e7ea7934d1b", "application": {"round": "0xc6bc0ed0bf4675cbf14d1140dcef5415d4e6b0ae", "answers": [{"type": "email", "hidden": true, "question": "Email Address", "questionId": 0, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "Mscs9NLghWKmur/U+h7EdTu7mNh8q0PPff5xFKg5tQ4+kKHgOE/6QUDJI5JRuX/7", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "8bb508157433b30523e7fcf1277da5f2cf96aecbaa0b753fc7c7730646cbe37396a1e3a860efc8306f65c10126a9920ff7c107250f64f5d013d0a73daef2ad4c54f67ed8a84e0e24865113655d82caca8e09708b774336011e2dc16c42e63ab14efcd4c358178c12a23543b47ce2642c71f255d7eaf66bb112beac5bf780e24100000000000000207108a33688acd42819729f338a91d9746193909f02d08fcca43727ceb2df3981d8848fa57e3c9f9187444ddf791178b2"}}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Zuzalu QF + Gitcoin Grants (Climate Round)", "hidden": false, "question": "Funding Sources", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "number", "answer": "4", "hidden": false, "question": "Team Size", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "https://github.com/symp0iesis/Sacred-River-AIvatar/tree/main", "hidden": false, "question": "Github handle (your project GitHub)", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "dnllvrvz", "hidden": true, "question": "Telegram handle (of zuzalu representative)", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "12", "hidden": false, "question": "How old (in Months) is the project?  ", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The SymbioTotem is a synthesis of many ongoing initiatives of Sympoiesis - currently manifested as a \"force field attracting like-hearted souls around interspecies synesthesia\". Its deepest root, in plant and animal remote sensing work, is represented by the long-term personal inquiries of Danilo Olivaz and Akash Kulgod, who have first met in person at Zuzalu Montenegro (2023). In that same experience, a new creative frontier opened up via their participation in the Zuzalu's \"Nature Hackathon\": the use of LLMs to serve as a voice for nonhuman entities, like rivers and other ecosystems.", "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": "Danilo Olivaz (https://x.com/emergir_co), Mayowa Osibodu (https://x.com/mayowa_osibodu), Ingvild Syntropia (https://x.com/iSyntropia), Vinícius Braz (https://x.com/VRSS)", "hidden": false, "question": "What are the names and social links of your team members?", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Yes, Danilo was at Zuzalu for two weeks", "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": "As emerging network states and pop-up cities like Zuzalu explore the integration of technology, governance, and sustainable living, the SymbioTotem offers a tangible interface between newcomers and local environments/cultures. \n\nThe installations have the potential to become a centerpiece for community gathering and interaction. More pragmatically speaking, the future vision is that one SymbioTotem can be assembled at each Zuzalu instance, building up from the principles and guidelines that are currently being developed and that will compose a Open Source Toolkit. This way, it can serve as a living symbol of the symbiotic relationship between technology, community, and nature, embodying Zuzalu’s core mission of fostering innovation at the intersection of open technology, science, health, and social innovation. Therefore, it can hopefully:\n\n- Foster environmental stewardship and empathy within the Zuzalu community and the larger web3 ecosystem, catalyzing and leveraging meaningful use of blockchain tech towards conservation and regeneration.\n\n- Educate attendees on local biodiversity and culture through an immersive, interactive platform.\n\n- Encourage the integration of environmental considerations in future Zuzalu events and the broader community, perhaps via the recognition of citizenship to nonhuman entities.", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project create value for the Zuzalu ecosystem? ", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Yes, we have received funding from GG20 (Climate Round), with a total of $225. We also received funding from the Zuzalu QF 1, receiving a total of 1.9 ETH. And we also participated in the \"Zuzalu Continous Innovation\" round, receiving a total of $1819.", "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": "We participated in the \"Zuzalu Continous Innovation\" round ($1819), as well as the \"Zuzalu QF1\" (1.9ETH). Both have been instrumental to everythin we have done so far. With procedings from the \"Continuous Innovation\" round we managed to kick start the Rio Sagrado AI-avatar as the first SymbioTotem, buying initial equipment (first sensors, data hosting services, etc), as well as paying for team members' time and effort put into the development of the project's Phase 1, consisting mainly of a web interface (http://sympoiesis.xyz/rio-sagrado/) and a lot of community engagement to create a cultural niche for the avatar.\n\nProceeding from ZuQF1 have partially gone through the development of the Rio Sagrado AIvatar Phase 2, including payment to the local artist who crafted the avatar's physical sculpture; the acquising of a Raspberry Pi 5 to serve as main brain for the avatar; acquisition of new water and biodiversity sensors; and compensation to team members for time put into the project towards development and outreach. The almost fully delivered outputs of Phase 2 are: a whatsapp interface for interaction with the avatar; a raspberry Pi voice-based experience for interaction; sensor data integration to the avatar conversation experience; continuous community engagement around the cultural and legal recognition of the River as an entity of right.\n\nProceedings from GG20 are directed as seed funds to the Rio Sagrado AI Avatar's Fund Basket (to be use towards compensation for bounties in Phase 3)", "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": "Our current project budget (remaining from ZuQF1) is 1.4476 ETH, which has been strictly managed to guarantee the Rio Sagrado AI-avatar continuity, especially in terms of codebase development (which forms the base for any other SymbioTotem installation) and public outreach.\n\nIf accepted into ZuQF2, proceedings will be used towards continuation of codebase development, especially towards R&D for the initial development of the SymbioToken, as outlined in the project's description. In this sense, a good portion of funds will be directed towards coding workforce. Management efforts are also expected to be better compensated. And new equipments are sure to be allocated towards acquision of better water and biodiversity sensors (especially acoustics), as well as the design of an interactive webpage to tell the avatar's story.", "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": "Yes. We are definitely alligned with current standards and will actively seek to follow them in our first integrations with the Ethereum ecossytems. For example, ERC standards are specially relevant to our use case. More specifically yet, ERC-777 and ERC-20 are the blueprints for the creation of the SymbioToken as outlined in the project's description", "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": "Full open source", "hidden": false, "question": "Is your project open source? If any code is a closed source, why? ", "questionId": 14}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Yes", "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": "One of our main goals is to have a SymbioTotem deployed at a Zuzalu related event, so we're already in conversations with organizers from specific events to try to make that happen. Also, there's a potential chance for the SymbioTotem to be a platform to emit Zuzalu citizenship to non-human beings, which could be explored via ZuPass. But this is only at ideation right now.", "hidden": false, "question": "How could your project interoperate with other Zuzalu projects? ", "questionId": 16}, {"type": "link", "answer": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcM0LKK8BUk&list=PLzO-TRQCGUUg0cWP9uQyv0_tD7z0tQxro", "hidden": false, "question": "If your project is a working product, share a link to a demo video ", "questionId": 17}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Q2 2024 - Finalize and launch Phase 2, with full codebase and documentation available on Github. Continue research and implementation design for Phase 3\n\nQ3 2024 - Begin development towards Phase 3, starting with local LLM integrations and smart contract designs for the SymbioToken. Find developer for blockchain development.\n\n", "hidden": false, "question": "Write out your roadmap if not already included in your project description", "questionId": 18}], "project": {"id": "0xa417f9f560f0ffe269bc92c0f98bd5464120f47b26eb00727ef93a271f7c5e11", "title": "SymbioToken - Towards Symbiocracy", "logoImg": "bafkreiaicn4culsfp6ghcufsisw7sewopmfgrlnfcagwenmfuvea6res6m", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreif73ju4md4f72uufvjuit6jclaey5frwvlchd5j5jsgxuqvksjbdy", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://kumu.io/emergir/sympoiesis#website/avatar-rio-sagrado", "bannerImg": "bafkreigczqv7gps47xz5fbvw7l2grii5jykzngdknmu6hadgxdjqrlqepy", "createdAt": 1721159255839, "userGithub": "dnllvrvz", "credentials": {}, "description": "## TL;DR\n\nSymbiocracy aims to integrate non-human voices into governance, leveraging AI and blockchain. The \"Rio Sagrado (Sacred River) AI-Avatar\", a SymbioTotem multimedia installation, represents this vision by interacting with its environment and the community. Moving into Phase 3, the project will shift from commercial LLM APIs to local LLMs and enable these systems to enter into smart contracts, rewarding sustainable actions with SymbioTokens. This initiative promotes the Rights of Nature and aims for autonomous eco-representatives.\n\n## Introduction\n\nWe at [Sympoiesis](http://sympoiesis.xyz/) understand that the more-than-human complexes that make up life on Earth have valuable contributions to governance related dynamics, even more so in the context of the ongoing climate crisis. That is, other living beings have much to say about the choices we collectively make - especially those that affect multiple lifeforms sharing the same space, even if temporarily. And they do so not just as simple cold data providers but as sentient and conscious members of their communities. The big challenge is that, with modernity, we have lost the habit of naturally perceiving, interacting with, and internalizing their voices.\n\nIn this sense, Symbiocracy represents a deep inquiry towards ways of engaging with the more-than-human pluriverse, in order to propose interfaces that enable sensory-intuitive interactions and interspecific deliberative processes. An inquiry that is ever more practically relevant in light of advances in the Rights of Nature movement, substantiated by attribution of legal personhood and rights to non-human beings in many different countries. Whanganui River and Urewera Forest in Aotearoa New Zealand, and Komi-Memen River in Brazil to name a few.\n\nThe paths for this new kind of engagement with the more-than-human pluriverse can be approached through various forms. At Sympoiesis we are currently exploring how modern science and technology can be a vehicle for such, and thus a medium for the human reconnection with their own nature.\n\n## SymbioTotem and Rio Sagrado AI-Avatar\n\n![avatar_rio-sagrado_profile](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/Hkv7GHNdA.png)\n(Rio Sagrado AI-vatar physical sculpture meshed with the River's waters)\n\n\n\nIn the official first Zuzalu Quadratic funding round we presented the [SymbioTotem](https://checker.gitcoin.co/public/project/show/symbiototem-by-sympoiesis) concept: \"a multimedia art/science installation designed to engage communities and facilitate interspecies interaction by interpreting and presenting local ecological data in a relatable manner.\" Since then, **the \"[Rio Sagrado AI-Avatar](https://kumu.io/emergir/sympoiesis#website/avatar-rio-sagrado)\" has been the primary proof-of-concept for the SymbioTotem**. Rooted in Zuzalu Montenegro, this political AI-vatar has been the test-ground for the consolidation of the technologies and community practices most appropriate to bootstrap such systems. And thanks to the financial support from the Zuzalu community we have been able to continue developing the project, which is currently on Phase 2 (Beta), featuring:\n\n- Continuous community engagement around the cultural and legal recognition of the River as an entity of right.\n- A LLM model instructed to represent the river informed by 30+ articles on the river watershed and dedicated sensors for live environmental monitoring. Accessed via:\n  - [Webpage interface](http://sympoiesis.xyz/rio-sagrado/)\n  - WhatsApp interface (+554196638496)\n  - Voice based in site interface via a physical sculpture (crafted by a native artist), that highlights the river's biodiversity and hosts the embedded computer system for the AI-vatar.\n\n![AI-vatar Pi copy](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/SkCoSB4dA.png)\n\nWith its modular and open-sourced codebase, the Rio Sagrado AI-vatar's backbone can be easily adapted to other implementations. In fact, conversations have started towards other applications for rivers in Brazil and Aotearoa New Zealand. At the same time, we are especially eager to the moment in which we will be able to deploy such tech at a Zuzalu event, materializing our vision for the SymbioTotems to \"encourage the integration of environmental considerations in future Zuzalu events and the broader community, perhaps via the granting of citizenship status to nonhuman entities.\"\n\n## Towards Symbiocracy\n\nWith the ongoing Phase 2 (Beta) deployment of the Rio Sagrado AI-vatar/SymbioTotem we are drafting next steps for Phase 3, whose intent is twofold:\n- Move away from API-based (especially commercial) LLM services towards local LLM approaches;\n- Enable such systems to enter into contracts with the community (both local and global), in benefit of the source entity(ies) they represent. These contracts would be intermediated through the \"SymbioToken\" - a name agnostic on-chain currency incentivizing ecological preservation and community engagement by rewarding participants for sustainable practices and contributions to environmental projects.\n\nOur infrastructural blueprint for this new phase is the following:\n\n![Avatar Phase 3](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/Bk4EUrNOA.jpg)\n\n\nAt a local (in-machine) level, The Rio Sagrado AI-vatar/SymbioTotem system would:\n- Store data (lists) for: 1) Community crowdsourced bounties in benefit of the River (e.g. cleanups and tree planting), with ideas gathered through the avatar interface itself; 2) Verified web3 wallet addresses of \"River Guardians\" - users who care about the River and have been onboarded into the project; 3) A history with past completed bounties. \n- Maintain a balance/accounting sheet with existing resources in Funds Basket for the Avatar\n- \nAt the Blockchain level, the system would:\n\n- Have a Smart Contract that both issues SymbioTokens (collateralized by Funds Basket) and distributes them to contributors's wallets as triggered by sensor related events. For this, our ongoing research is leading us towards the use of the Celo chain (due to value's alignment around Re-fi principles - and the existing [MiniPay](https://docs.celo.org/developer/build-on-minipay/overview) app infrastructure).\n\n- Have a Dapp interface through which \"River Guardians\" could check their balances, transact tokens to each other, withdraw to fiat, etc. For the development of both the smart contracts and the Dapp itself, we are considering the use of [Moralis](https://moralis.io/build/)' tech stack.\n\nWith all of this setup, we hope to develop a protocol for enabling on chain AI-vatars/SymbioTotems to perform autonomous information request<>action<>assessment event cycles on land, (or “autonomous action-inquiry”) as representations of the ecosystems' through which they are connected to.\n\n## Zuzalu Q2 Funding\n\nAny funding we receive through the Zuzalu Q2 round will be used towards R&D for Phase3, especially what concerns blockchain technologies, like the development of the SymbioToken Smart Contract and associated Dapp.", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "sym-poiesis", "projectTwitter": "SymBioOrg"}, "recipient": "0x435CD42591cC503a909085c3d3d2899d17032F77"}}