# Progress #### 15 Jun 2022 * Finalized Spatial Data Registry Data Structure (Kolektivo) * MongoDB v6 evaluation of timeseries, indexing, and analytics (MRV Collective) #### 8 Jun 2022 * Mocked up GeoNFT and Spatial Data Registry Contracts with hardhat testing (Kolektivo) * [https://github.com/ openmrv-server](https://github.com/MRV-Studio/openmrv-server) Currently building out provider/role/user security infrastructure (MRV Collective) #### 1 Jun 2022 * Ingestion layer first look (MRV Collective) * Added backend service for circuit and contract generation (zkMaps) #### 23 May 2022 * Began development of MVP for decentralized MRV registry (MRV Collective) #### 20 May 2022 * Completed Astral [Geospatial Data Registry PoC](https://astral-protocol.gitbook.io/astral/spatial-data-registry/cosmwasm-anchored-spatial-data-registry) (dClimate) #### 18 May 2022 * Met about use cases for GeoNFT minting, approval, metadata, and ecological data (Kolektivo) * Met about ArcGIS and weather station data (Kolektivo) #### 27 Apr 2022 * Supported the Oika project at the Planet Positive NFT Hackathon * Met with Regen Network on Data Module v4 * Met with dMeter #### 20 Apr 2022 * Presented Astral GeoNFT specs (Kolektivo) #### 13 Apr 2022 * Completed data registry requirements document (Kolektivo) #### 6 Apr 2022 * Reviewed ArcGIS food forest survey app (Kolektivo) * Completed Ocean Protocol v4 test dataset and paper (Kolektivo) * Completed lo-fi map of Curacao and food forests (Kolektivo) #### 23 Mar 2022 * First meeting of the "Survelliance Squad" now known as "dMeter" * 3rd and final meeting of KERNEL Regen Guild, discussed locus of control #### 16 Mar 2022 * Reviewed use cases related to badges, weather stations, and monetization with Ocean Protocol (Kolektivo) * Second KERNEL Regen Guild meeting, discussed Donella Meadows leverage points and ran an ecosystem mapping exercise with Ale Borda #### 9 Feb 2022 * Hardhat/React dApp for GeoNFT (Kolektivo) #### 2 Feb 2022 * Draft GeoNFT Contract (Kolektivo) #### 12 Jan 2022 * PoC decentralized data storage using Ceramic on Alfajores (Kolektivo) #### 5 Jan 2022 * Defined initial bounds for computation and tree data storage limits (Kolektivo) #### 27 April 2021 * Call with Ryan John King, CEO of FOAM space, a pioneer in the geospatial decentralized web. FOAM recently launched their [FOAM Lite Ethereum transaction relay device](https://twitter.com/foamspace/status/1336424195501285379?s=20), and is working on trustless "[presence claims](https://foam.space/location)". * Reviewed the draft whitepaper for the Kolektivo Framework, a crypto-institutional framework that seeks to promote socio-ecological sustainability through cryptoeconomic mechanisms. Watch this space ... * Exploring ways to keep pushing forward with the Web3-native geospatial vision, which we first explored with a Filecoin development grant. More soon ... #### 13 April 2021 * Met with jabyl from [Distributed Town](https://distributed.town), where they're building a DAO for DAOs and a universal "skills wallet" enabling you to port your reputation with you in the mutual credit network . * Spencer and the [Commit Pool](https://commitpool.com) team joined the Astral Discord - really exciting work designing an app to help people hold themselves accountable. Set goals and stake money - by exercising claim your crypto back. * On Discord we're discussing verifiable impact claims - a common problem that many teams are solving. One take: Impact NFTs. #### 6 April 2021 * Submitted the GeoDID Explorer client application to Filecoin, completing our Development Grant. You can explore the Astral Studio - live on Ropsten - [here](https://studio.astral.global). Working on docs. * Lots of community building this week: * Max from Earthify is building a data DAO that is crowdsourcing, standardizing, and publishing public / government records, with a focus on real estate data. We are advising Max and got to listen in to his design sprint with @RaidGuild. * Connected with David from KERNEL0x, started a conversation about privacy and data markets. * Another check-in with Grant and Pylyp from Copernic Space, building a Web3 marketplace for space assets including satellite imagery. * One-to-one with community member @BlairVee talking through verifiable impact claims and community inclusion currencies. * Drafted a concept note: [Impact NFTs](https://hackmd.io/@astral/B1Cl4YUBd), which represent impact claims made by people doing some environmental or social project. Reviewers would analyze evidence referenced by the NFT - threshold approvals could trigger bounty transfers to Impact NFT minters. * Community * 207 followers on Twitter * 58 Discord members #### 31 March 2021 * Completed initial implementation of IPLD-encoded GeoTIFFs in Typescript for our Filecoin Development Grant - [docs here](https://astral-protocol.gitbook.io/astral/archive/astral/ipld-and-geotiffs). * Finishing the GeoDID Explorer client interface. * Spoke on Web3 Spatial at the Open Geospatial Consortium Blockchain Domain Working Group - recording forthcoming. * Met with the innovation team at a national land registry to talk about their research and development efforts to digitize the real estate conveyancing process. * [@BlairVee](https://twitter.com/BlairVee) gave a talk with Grassroots Economics at the MetaFEST - find it [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPcBrxWzNwU). * Community: * 205 followers on Twitter * 24 new Gitcoin grant supports * 50 Discord members #### 23 March 2021 * Work week. #### 16 March 2021 * Coming into the final weeks of our Filecoin development grant - developing IPLD-encoded GeoTIFFs, which will complement the GeoDID spec we designed. The idea is to use DIDs to create permanent, resolvable identities for satellite images. More soon. * We started outlining [v0.2 of the GeoDID spec](https://astral-protocol.gitbook.io/astral/archive/geodids/geodids-v0.2) - a brief summary below. We want to build DIDs that support spatial querying and raster clipping, so a DID can represent a subset of a larger spatial dataset. * We met with[@KERNEL0x](https://twitter.com/KERNEL0x) 2 Fellow [@hollygrimm](https://twitter.com/hollygrimm), who is building [@0xDynamiculture](https://twitter.com/0xDynamiculture) - a DAO for Indigenous tribes to track their environmental projects using satellite imagery and sensor inputs We'll be looking at using GeoDIDs in their technical architecture![Satellite](https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f6f0.svg) * Advisory calls with[@MaxGlass](https://twitter.com/MaxGlass) - we'll be helping him design a spatial data crowdsourcing protocol with[@RaidGuild](https://twitter.com/RaidGuild) * The community put together a response to a [post on ethresear.ch](https://ethresear.ch/t/how-to-implement-digital-community-currencies-with-ethereum/8801/8) on local + community tokens. Astral member [@BlairVee](https://twitter.com/BlairVee) is working with[@grassEcon](https://twitter.com/grassEcon) on this, and[@johnx25bd](https://twitter.com/johnx25bd) prototyped a location-aware smart contract wallet at ETHParis 2019. * Community: * 200 followers on Twitter * 7 new Gitcoin grant supporters * 31 Discord members #### 11 March 2021 * Still building for our Filecoin Development Grant - working on IPLD-encoded GeoTIFFs and a front end GeoDID browser for Web3-native satellite imagery ... * Working with a new community member building to collect land parcel data - watch this space * Initial security reviews of Spatial.sol - much more to come. * Architecting verifiable spatial data registries built on GeoDIDs and IPFS. Who do we know who would find a smart contract registry of geographic zones useful? Congestion zones - insurance protocols - local currencies - voting - what else?? #### 4 March 2021 * Initial tests for Spatial.sol. Point in Polygon is \*mostly\* working. * Submitted initial implementation of the @astralprotocol Typescript modules for the Filecoin Development Grant. GeoDID client libraries and solidity contracts are functional. * Release of the vision and roadmap for community review. * Community * 176 Twitter followers * 5 new Gitcoin grant supporters * 23 Discord members #### 23 February 2021 * Our Discord is gathering steam. We've seen new members this week from startup projects, the GIS world, economics graduate schools and more. Join if you want to learn more: * Discord member Econometrie raised some great points about how systems built on Astral could solve an interesting problem: how do we know where we can park rental e-bikes and e-scooters? We are working out how to adapt Hyperaware to help solve this. * A new member - Kiran - joined and shared a draft post he's writing about applying principles of token engineering to manage road network usage. * We have written a master document with overviews of the different tools and protocols we are building. This is open - feedback very welcome: * Community * 160 Twitter followers * 18 Discord members * 5 new Gitcoin grant supporters - plus a 246.98 DAI CLR match #### 16 February 2021 * Commits on modules for working with GeoDIDs, plus a check-in call with @filecoin on development grant progress. * Call with @blairvee and Jonny, talking about GIS, Grassroots Economics and truly local currencies. * Core community call. We talked through the road up to this point, and where it should lead. * We created a Discord! If you are doing \*anything\* at the intersection of spatial / location data and Web3, join and say hi. * Community: * 146 Twitter followers * 6 new Gitcoin grant supporters #### 9 February 2021 * Broke ground on a research report on the intersection of spatial data and Web3. * Progress on the GeoDID Browser interface development and Astral modules for working with GeoDIDs - part of our work on a Filecoin Development Grant. * Spoke with an American entrepreneur working to onboard land parcel data onto Ethereum. * Fairlaunch session in[@KERNEL0x](https://twitter.com/KERNEL0x) with[@0xMaki](https://twitter.com/0xMaki) - hard-earned words of wisdom on early community growth. * Advisor calls. * Community: * 132 Twitter followers * 5 new Gitcoin grant supporters #### 2 February 2021 * Submitted the [GeoDID Method Specification](https://docs.astral.global/geodids/geodid-core-specification) for feedback - if you're interested, read it here, and give feedback by creating an issue on the [Github repo](https://github.com/AstralProtocol/astral-docs). * Fixed a bug in our prototype implementation of the Hyperaware Protocol - a spatial governance protocol for connected devices. * KERNEL Fairlaunch seminar with Brian Flynn from Rabbit Hole - got us thinking about the value of community. * Community * 113 Twitter followers * 13 new Gitcoin grant contributors #### 26 January 2021 * Completed the draft GeoDID Method Specification - now we're architecting software modules for working with GeoDIDs * Spoke with @KERNEL0x Fellow @mattgcondon - the grandfather of NFTs - about trusted location proofs and using location in smart contracts. * Kicking ideas around with @naz about NFT markets and the NFT community. * First talk from @fairlaunch Capital in KERNEL Block 2 - learning about newfound paths to independent sustainability. * Early tests on [Spatial.sol](https://github.com/AstralProtocol/spatial-sol), a Solidity library of geometric and topological functions - watch this space ... * Community * 89 Twitter followers * #### **19 January 2021** * Refinements of the draft GeoDID Method Specification. * Chat with a VC about the past, present and future of the spatial Web3. * Chatting about trusted location proofs with a security-minded developer in KERNEL. * Community * 80 Twitter followers * 2 new Gitcoin grant contributors #### 12 January 2021 * Joined KERNEL 2 - Fairlaunch track! * Published our [Gitbook](https://docs.astral.global) with Astral documentation. * Drafting GeoDID Method Specification, working on scaling problems with IPLD-encoded GeoTIFFs for the Filecoin Development Grant. * Advisory call with Andrew Hill, CEO at [Textile](https://textile.io) - great advice on how to approach to building Web3-native geospatial technologies. * Community * 61 Twitter followers * 29 Gitcoin grant contributors #### 5 January 2021 * Astral received a [Filecoin Development Grant](https://filecoin.io/blog/filecoin-dev-grants-wave-4-5-gitcoin/) to develop a few key pieces of the Astral Protocol: a GeoDID Method Specification (more soon!) and IPLD-encoded GeoTIFFs, for Web3-native geospatial imagery. [Our grant details](https://github.com/filecoin-project/devgrants/blob/efaac115b71df7b373354c72600aa9818fc6710a/open-grant-proposals/open-proposal-astral-protocol.md). * The Astral team won the Ceramic Bounty for the SkyDB hackathon for building a version of Geolocker, a verifiable spatial data registry. * Launched our new website, . (Thanks for the awesome template, [@marrrguerite](https://twitter.com/marrrguerite)!)