Permet
{"type": "project", "title": "Permet", "logoImg": "bafkreigpmoq6z3epb4x6qnbm3zj5awonirekvjfzjkoxpvez3cbxrgqrji", "website": "https://permet.co", "bannerImg": "bafybeidp4w3mkaije2c4lpdl6evqow4dw5ivomwsx2452nbezzas6zmsju", "createdAt": 1673193838381, "userGithub": "techspecc", "credentials": {"twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..bv6lTH77RNfGdMg59OViqcdnMrOmYdk8Cc9hgRtLjM2mgrBpfj0y17vgRtpsXATJXBKpwEoN7AqQdZFb9it3Ag", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-07-03T03:03:10.054Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-07-03T03:03:10.054Z", "expirationDate": "2023-10-01T03:03:10.054Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x1a6EF6CC28cF60aa0504CfB21CdffA48Cfe3A8FB", "hash": "v0.0.0:XdCuGFwZw7wvTOUaPg26Ubjoj18C68DP6X470kHqZFs=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#permetsystems"}}}, "description": "# What is Permet?\n\nPermet is building the first transparent, open-source, community-owned toolkit for the fashion creator economy.\n\nWe want to return power + ownership to creators and producers - and eliminate negative human rights and environmental externalities from the fashion supply chain.\n\n# What progress has been made since alpha round? \n\n- Open-sourced smart contract distributing funds on chain between project collaborators — making fashion industry supply chain more transparent (and making fashion history)\n\n- Launched Visual Maintenance System e-zine advocating for sustainable fashion — has been adopted by prominent artists like figure31, shl0ms, and terra0\n\n- Operationalizing production system and supply chain for on-chain experiments with physical garment creation\n\n- Exploring future collaboration drops to operationalize more experimental garment creation open-source software\n\n- Researched what current implementations exist for putting textiles on chain\n\n\n# WHY?\n\n## Current Landscape of Apparel = Exploitation\n\nThe apparel and luxury market is growing exponentially: reaching $1.9 trillion globally in 2019 - and expected to surpass $3 trillion in the next decade.\n\nBut the industry's success is rooted in exploitation. Its business model is based around maximizing profit - by minimizing value returned to stakeholders.\n\n### Traditional Fashion = Humanitarian Exploitation\n\nSlave, child, and sweatshop labor are all common in the supply chain of traditional brands.\n\nThese human rights violations are well-documented but suppressed via marketing and PR. \n\n### Traditional Fashion = Creative Exploitation\n\nTalented young designers generate massive value for brands - often with little to no compensation.\n\nA successful, popular design will earn a brand millions, yet the designer behind it will see none of these earnings. Instead, their designs become the IP of the brand.\n\n### Traditional Fashion = Environmental Exploitation\n\nFashion brands intentionally leverage planned obsolescence and instill an increasingly consumerist mindset based on overconsumption to feed their continued need for profit. \n\nWhen overconsumption is encouraged, true sustainability is impossible to achieve.\n\n\n# We’re a **black-led** team and here’s what we’re working on:\n\n\n## Enabling Profit Redistribution + Transparent Supply Chain + Community Ownership = Human Rights Impact\n\nPermet recently created the first ever on-chain profit redistribution contract for garment production - redistributing profits from FWB merch sales to supply chain participants.\n\nPermet is looking to build on this by onboarding sewers, pattern makers, printers & other workers from the garment industry who are \"stuck\" working for a factory with no access to profit redistribution - giving them ownership over the value they create.\n\nBuilding cryptographic profit sharing into our tooling enables the creator economy for apparel production by retaining and redistributing the value created in making and wearing apparel. \n\nCrypto technologies help share ownership with stakeholders:\n\n- Community owned ateliers vs. factories and manufacturers.\n- Fork-able concepts and tools can be validated and iterated on by community creators.\n- Designs registered as on-chain vectors - enabling proper credit and compensation.\n- Future royalties of products can be distributed back to creators and the community.\n- Locally accessible physical design and fashion resources.\n\n## Building a Transparent Supply Chain\n\nCreating open source, end-to-end apparel production supply chain + tech infrastructure that allows creators to easily create new garments on existing bases - via on chain portfolios that can forked, remixed, and recombined.\n\n## Creating “Proof of Ethical Production” + Oracles\n\nEventually, we want to create a system of producing clothes that uses consensus-driven blockchain technology to verify products are being made ethically.\n\n## Fighting Fast Fashion = Environmental Impact\n\nAs a part of our stack - we are working on the first solution for holding fast-fashion polluters accountable.\n\nNow we want to enable supply chain provenance and environmental transparency in the garment production process: create and test the first functional model for an open-source apparel supply chain to show how the garments were produced and the corresponding environmental impacts. \n\n## Supply Chain Accountability\n\nWhat does this look like in practice? \n\nNow that we’ve experimented with profit redistribution - we want to run experiments to figure out how to capture garment production metadata on chain.\n\nAnd after that - putting these new data capture + manufacturing processes into practice by experimenting with a garment collection that incorporates provenance and accountability around environmental impacts of the collection.\n\nWe hope that our efforts will set precedent and can serve as a model for future apparel projects. The current landscape of crypto fashion is “merch” that encourages wasteful consumption, enablement of existing exploitative power structures, and no regard for the environmental impacts.\n\nPermet seeks to change that by providing an alternative approach that enables sustainability which already reduces waste or gives accountability around environmental impacts of garment production.\n\n## Open-Sourcing a Model for Ethical Clothing Production\n\nThis experiment will inform the development of environmental oracles that will allow any apparel project to open-source their environmental impact and adopt new environmental standards - all done via leveraging supply chain metadata arising through the garment production process. \n\nThis supply chain experiment will be done with local supply chain participants in Toronto, Canada - with the hope of subsequently expanding out into other countries. \n\nPermet is creating and open sourcing the first model for a decentralized, transparent supply chain in fashion. \n\n## How = Utilizing L2s for Real-World Crypto Use Cases\n\nBlockchain technology is often criticized by naysayers as not having real-world uses. \n\nPermet’s goal of creating an open-source, community-owned supply chain is one of the strongest examples of an IRL use case for crypto. \n\nIn order to create a truly sustainable, community-owned supply chain for clothing, Permet needs to focus heavily on grassroots community work - onboarding sewers, pattern makers, textile producers, and other supply chain participants.\n\nIn many cases - these supply chain participants are members of underrepresented groups: people of color without much exposure to technology - who would be vulnerable to exploitation by traditional fashion industry structures and institutions.\n\nThese participants in the garment supply chain have never heard of blockchain before.  \n\nOnboarding them onto Ethereum mainnet -  and having them pay anywhere from a few dollars  to a few hundred dollars in gas fees - is simply not feasible for this demographic.\n\nInstead we will work directly with these local supply chain participants to onboard them into crypto via L2s - which can provide an accessible, feasible entry point to these new ecosystem participants. \n\nWe hope to use L2 infrastructure as foundational substrates to build real world utility and onboard new non-crypto native users.\n\nWe will open-source this process to create onboarding resources and serve as a model to other projects who are building real world use cases on L2s - to help accelerate driving real-world adoption.\n\n## What’s next on the roadmap?\n\nWe’ve hit our short term goal to use liquid 0xSplits to experiment with redistribution contracts for primary sales for garment workers since the last Gitcoin grants round.\n\nWe seek to build on this success by creating garments made using a transparent supply chain by open sourcing garment production metadata - proving out our model for supply chain accountability.\n\nThrough this process - we will onboard underrepresented communities onto Ethereum L2.\n\nAs mentioned above - we’re working towards a system of producing clothes that uses consensus-driven blockchain technology to verify products are being made ethically, without negative human rights and environmental externalities. \n\nWith an improved model we can build better to do more, produce less, and return value to creators and users.\n\nFor a deeper dive into our ecosystem, we invite you to read the first edition of our whitepaper linked on our website: permet.co \n\n", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}, "projectGithub": "permetsystems", "projectTwitter": "permetsystems"}