{"signature": "0x7a07d84c83aab10a811d06793d8ce6332fb9ee12f4752c2e6659b1824d06fcdc77d6d1d134fd5acd054d175cf8d174ff90beca80458f3496f76227dfd829e4571c", "application": {"round": "0xb0ab31e907d5efe0dae69f29a22b5609fc2989e1", "answers": [{"type": "email", "answer": "zuvillage@proton.me", "hidden": true, "question": "Email Address", "questionId": 0}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Q1", "hidden": false, "question": "Funding Sources", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "ZuVillage Georgia", "hidden": false, "question": "Name of your event?", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Bit.ly/zugeorgia\nhttps://warpcast.com/zuvillage\nhttps://t.me/+i8RiAv0R6ARjMjg0\nhttp://x.com/zuvillage\nzuvillage@proton.me\n", "hidden": false, "question": "Share the public communication channels for your event (website, social media, messenger groups, email)", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Veronica Schrenk\n\nZuzalu - full-time resident, all 8 weeks\nZuConnect - full-time resident, all 2 weeks\n", "hidden": false, "question": "Name of the person responsible for the event and the duration of their Zuzalu/ZuConnect attendance", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "43 days, July 20 - August 31", "hidden": false, "question": "Duration of the event, in consecutive days", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "100", "hidden": false, "question": "Numbers of long-term attendees the event is reasonably expecting to host", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "a: Ethereum, ZK\nb: Rationality\nc: Public Goods, Decentralized Governance\nd: Crypto Cities (ie: Network Nations, Digital Nations, Network States)\ne: Longevity, DeSci & BioTech", "hidden": false, "question": "Groups of Zuzalu thought-schools the event is substantially dedicated to", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Rationality-adjacent pre-orientation virtual sessions before event starts, on Rationality and Meta-rationality, Cognitive Sovereignty and Sense-Making.\n\nWeek 1 dedicated to core themes of rationality, that will translate into practical application in the following weeks by online and offline community discourse and usage of shared concepts during discussions.\n\nWeek 2 dedicated to the broader cross-section of AI-alignment, X-risks and d/acc Techno-Optimism.\n\nWeek 3 dedicated to decentralized governance and legal engineering, which also translates into making crypto-cities possible in reality by designing plans and building tools for decentralized governance.\n\nWeek 4 dedicated to Network States, with tangible discussions with Georgian policy makers to discuss partnerships such as a joint research project, university, and special economic zone. The former weeks will have workshops to prepare for these tangible discussions to take place – instead of a publicity event.\n\nWeek 5 dedicated to Longevity, Biotech, Desci, SynBio and Space Technology. We also have a team of DeSci people that plan to run trials throughout all 6 weeks.\n\nWeek 6 contains a Hackathon & Pitch competition, where the community presents what they have been building over the course of the event. Our weekly hack days will lead up to this final hackathon, and we will also discuss Zuzalu software governance with Zuzalu.city and partner projects to coordinate future collaboration in a structured way.\n\nOverall, our project is dedicated to integrating our themes through both the experiment design and the bottom-up dynamics of the community, in order to develop a long-term game plan for a decentralized transnational techno-optimist cypherpunk network.\n", "hidden": false, "question": "Elements that dedicate the event substantially to these thought-schools", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Have to fill out a long application form that asks for reasons for joining and for critical thought to key themes. (Effort gets evaluated, rather than specific answers)\n\nJoining our gated community platform via NFT necessary to get info about exact location.\n(Effort and alignment evaluated before private information about event. Meant to attract individuals serious about the experiment, rather than individuals coming for the impressive venue – so we keep the exact place location non-public)\n\nSigning policies necessary.\nLiability: Each individual is personally liable for their actions during the event.\nPrivacy: Information about our exact location and attendees is not to be shared publicly until the event is over, and only then with consent from all involved individuals.\n(We want to prevent a culture of selfie-taking with high-profile individuals)\n", "hidden": false, "question": "In what ways are attendees obligated to comply with non-optional aspects of the event design? Is there any action or prerequisite necessary to join? Is there anything on the event, that is not optional for the attendee to opt-in to?", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Permissionless session booking and tech control via Zuzalu.city.\nDecentralized track organization, time and space dedicated for for new sessions to emerge throughout event by permissionless session booking.\nNo forced attendance to events, multiple rooms available for simultaneous sessions. We further encourage bottom-up discussions in our communication platform, and villagers to self-organize around new ideas that arise.\n", "hidden": false, "question": "What are the aspects of the event effectively allowing for bottom-up dynamics to arise", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Shared living space, proximity of accommodation with each other, with communal spaces, and with leisure activities.\nOnce a week, we have a community kitchen for the villagers.\nThe hackathon will further incentivize the collaboration between attendees.\nWe abstain from pre-designed \"community building\", and let the community build itself.\n", "hidden": false, "question": "What are the aspects of the event advocating for relationships and communities to organically form", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Full access to facilities bookable via Zuzalu-city, which uses a permissionless schedule. Multiple facilities are bookable, and will be available. Trackleads will reserve the needed spots for the main program, on equal basis like everyone can use the scedule. We also have fully dedicated open days without any pre-planned program.\n", "hidden": false, "question": "What are the aspects that allow attendees the permissionless co-organisation of the event (accessibility of schedule programming, availability of venue space and dedicated time)", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Cypherpunk\nD/acc\nSpace Technology\nSynthetic Biology\nGeorgian Local Partnerships and Culture\nHackathon\n", "hidden": false, "question": "Which other themes or thought-schools will be present in your event?", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Over the gated communication platform, by providing feedback channels.\nOver the available venue and permissionless schedule, by offering time and space.\nOver the Hackathon and Pitch competition.\nOver an open discussion culture.\n", "hidden": false, "question": "How do you expect to foster community contributions and bottom-up development of programming? ", "questionId": 14}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Yes, we are working with Scroll team to issue a ZK-NFT as the ZuVillage Georgia Passport.\nInteroperable with ZuPass technology, also working with ZuPass team to issue legacy ZuPasses.\nBoth integrating with Zuzalu.city spaces.\n", "hidden": false, "question": "Does your project plan to give out zupass-compatible membership passes to your attendees?", "questionId": 15}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We received $13,659.90 in Q1.\nNo other external funding received yet.", "hidden": false, "question": "Have you received any other funding for this project? If so, how much and from what sources? (See Rule 5)", "questionId": 16}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We received $13,659.90 in Q1.\n1 eth was used to reimburse a venue scout trip in April, establishing local partnerships and visiting and negotiating with potential venues.\nSmaller eth-amounts were used to pay for ENS, establishing multi-sigs, ENS, and other transaction fees like for bridging.\n$10,000 was provided to venue as down payment to secure our reservation.", "hidden": false, "question": "Did either you, or the project, or its predecessor participate in the Zuzalu-Gitcoin Q1 Events Round? If that is the case, please share how much funding you receive and detail how these funds were used? Was your project involved in (non-monetary) kickbacks that were given out in exchange for contributions in?", "questionId": 17}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "No involvement and no funds received that we are aware of.\n\nFor our volunteer contributions for ZuConnect, we were reimbursed for our accommodation costs, but our understanding is this came directly from the ZuConnect budget and has no connection to the Retro PGF funds.\n", "hidden": true, "question": "Did any of the organizing members involved in this event (or its predecessor) receive or hold funds awarded to the Zuzalu project as part of Optimism’s Retro PGF round 3? If so, please share in detail how much, when, and on what basis of justification were these funds received by you?", "questionId": 18}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "No", "hidden": true, "question": "Did you, or any organizing members involved in this event involved in your project or its successor or predecessor, hold Optimism Retro PGF funds in the Name of Zuzalu? Please make sure that the funds have been sent to vitalik.eth before applying in order for your project to be eligible.", "questionId": 19}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The funds received will first be used for outstanding event expenses, to reimburse operational costs, and to reimburse early contributor accommodation costs including track leads and software teams.\nThen, it will be used for operational compensation for 8 months of voluntary work, 4 months part-time and 4 months full time.\nBeyond this, funds will be allocated for:\nTreasury for ZuVillage governance structure for future events and software to power these events.\nA Retroactive funding round for events and activities during ZuVillage Georgia.\n", "hidden": false, "question": "Please describe how you will use the funds received from this round?", "questionId": 20}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Zuzalu.city both follows strict standards and imposes these standards on all integrations of external tools.\nDecentralized data layer via Ceramic.\nScroll-powered smart contracts for sending financial contributions and receiving ZK-NFT passports for digital and physical infrastructure access.\n", "hidden": false, "question": "Is your blockchain-facing tech maximally compatible with Ethereum and common Ethereum ecosystem standards? If so, how?", "questionId": 21}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "By submitting an application, you agree to the following: 1) provide a statement on Zuzagora (or it’s successor) on how the funds received through this round were used one month after the event ends. In case your event has not fully happened within 2024, all unused funds must be returned, used funds must be publicly accounted for. Please confirm you understand this. ", "questionId": 22}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Our goals are to provide better circumstances for intellectual cross-pollination and rational discourse, to decrease the dependency on trust in centralized authorities in our community, and to collaboratively work on tools, concepts and a potential game plan for the future of Zuzalu.\nWe address these goals over three directions.\n\nCultural Direction: \nSolving problems for truth-seeking, individual sense-making and collective intelligence – \n\nHow can we stay open minded while valuing truth?\nHow can a plurality of belief systems coexist unfragmented?\nHow can we make sense for ourselves?\nHow can we improve our quality of judgement?\nHow can we inform ourselves effectively?\nHow can we avoid desinforming others?\nHow can we disagree more productively?\nHow can we build a healthy information ecology?\nHow can we make better sense together?\nHow can we hold each other accountable?\nHow can we utilize technology towards all this?\n\n\nCoordinational Direction: \nSolving problems of trust-dependence and risk assessment – by trust-less systems, trust-minimizing concepts, and reasonable trustworthiness as a basis for trusted agents.\n\nHow can we design environments as trustless as possible?\nHow can we proof our humanity anonymously?\nHow can we make systems more transparent?\nHow can we grant users more privacy?\nHow can we rely on more informed consent?\nHow can we estimate reasonable trust?\nHow can we build healthy trust towards others?\nHow can we use technology to make trust more affordable?\n\nCivilisatory Direction:\nSolving problems in defensive acceleration, by integrating individual cognitive and digital sovereignty into collective autonomy, over differentiated development of democratic decentralized technology.\n\nHow can we promote the broad acceptance of Web3 and ZK?\nHow can we prepare against cyberattacks?\nHow can we help to accelerate key technologies defensively?\nHow can human civilization get more resistant to X-risks?\nHow to mitigate risks if human civilization collapses?\nHow can we utilize AI in a safe way, without losing agency?\nHow can we get less dependent on centralized institutions?\nHow can we promote individual sovereignty by technology?\nHow can we achieve collective autonomy by technology?\n", "hidden": true, "question": "We recommend including in your application, please confirm you have understood this: What problem you’re trying to solve Traction, if any Team Roadmap Budget", "questionId": 23}], "project": {"id": "0x738dab3807e8553171f5a655bcdafb71596e8035d6538a9ca707a06d0945b09c", "title": "ZuVillage Georgia", "logoImg": "bafkreihi7zcgr7rpktsqzhwb5ht3t77nb63ojewkwwpdnw6xwbrcs2zfti", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreihjmvvgxszaky3blv2uhj2uu3uskjdvsvfygybjrcdtfvtvazle6a", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://Bit.ly/zugeorgia", "bannerImg": "bafkreigl6hjodunql6ygjm7dhkxbvfzmnzg7zbt2tes5kmr3jpbm5mhrki", "createdAt": 1720444469649, "credentials": {}, "description": "\n# Transnational Techno-Optimist Cypherpunk Network Initiative\n\nWe are coming together to lay the foundations for a transnational techno-optimist cypherpunk network.\n\n## Potential Future Direction of Zuzalu\n\n\"What is the future direction of Zuzalu?\" was the central question at Zuzalu 2023. Later that year, as Zuzalu was called a \"new culture,\" we began to consider a more specific, yet still open question: \"What would be the most magnificent use case for a new culture, originating out of Zuzalu?\"\n\nFor six weeks, we are running a techno-societal experiment inspired by Zuzalu, with ambitions to – this event concept itself is our attempt to answer both of these questions. Our goals are to:\n- Provide better circumstances for intellectual cross-pollination and rational discourse.\n- Decrease the dependency on trust in centralized authorities in our community.\n- Collaboratively work on tools, concepts, and a potential game plan for the future of Zuzalu.\n\n## Neutral Stance and Guiding Principles\n\nAs experiment initiators, we take a neutral stance wherever possible and intentionally avoid any terminology of \"core organizer\" to prevent arbitrary hierarchy from clouding the experiment. However, we are not neutral on a handful of key aspects: \n- Cypherpunk and defensive acceleration as philosophical guiding principles.\n- The importance of protecting and enhancing individual cognitive sovereignty as a prerequisite for all else on a community level.\n\nThese principles inform the technology we are using and building to operate our ZuVillage and the unconference design of the programming itself.\n\n## Mitigating Group Pitfalls\n\nWe contend that group pitfalls are inevitable in a project like this, yet can be mitigated through:\n- Careful filtering of applicants.\n- Individual education on cognitive biases and methods of rationality for all attendees.\n- A culture of critique for all presentations and discussions.\n\nThe ZuVillager application asks potential participants to think critically about the core topics of our experiment: individual sovereignty, defensive acceleration of technology, and cypherpunk philosophy, along with an example of a belief that has been updated within the last 1-2 years. We do not search for specific answers to any of our questions, but rather that an applicant puts in an effort to think and express their thoughts – a reflection of how they are likely to engage as a ZuVillager. Despite feedback that some applicants may not go through the effort to fill out a long application, we consider effort a key filtering mechanism and would rather optimize for quality than quantity.\n\n## Shared Intellectual Foundation\n\nTo equip ZuVillagers with a shared intellectual foundation, our pre-programming for the weeks leading up to the start of the experiment and our entire first week are focused on:\n- Rationality.\n- Metarationality.\n- Cognitive sovereignty.\n- Collective sense making.\n\nWe will also incorporate gears-level discussions into all subsequent programming and seek to establish truth seeking as a prerequisite expectation for scientific and technological discussions. We will encourage long-form written discussion on our ZK-gated discussion forum before, during, and after our experiment.\n\n## Embracing Early Technologies\n\nA community that values privacy, decentralization, and open source software is willing to overcome the friction of using early technologies that align with our values. A long-term crypto city experiment enables a unique critical mass of willing and technically-adept users to prove functional possibilities of emerging technologies, and our experiment is designed for this purpose. We are working closely with the Zuzalu.city software infrastructure project to provide use cases and accelerate development through hackathons and building together during our ZuVillage.\n\n## Providing Infrastructure\n\nOur focus is on providing the physical and digital infrastructure necessary for the experiment to flourish, and our experimental goal is for data to be gained for the community, for projects, and for individuals that can be carried on for future iterations.\n\n## Central Questions\n\nCentral questions to collectively elaborate answers to about ZuVillage Georgia may be:\n\n- \"How can we build a digital infrastructure to integrate the cognitive and digital sovereignty of individuals, with collective intentions towards autonomy?\"\n- \"How can we scale into a decentralized network of seamlessly interoperable communities?\"\n- \"Which maps and tools are available or buildable for that, and what are their implications on different use-cases?\"\n\nThis is the direction we aim to let the experiment unfold.", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "zuvillage"}, "recipient": "0x027D2C8cc315F49918f7d9c34d1e2a8cCe3bCa3e"}}