Astral
Developing open-source Web3 tools and standards addressing geospatial data challenges for decentralized applications, with a focus on sustainability and regenerative projects.User Review
AI Review
A1
Reviewed on 14 Feb 2024 01:30 PM
Projects must be at least 3 months old. We use Twitter, web domain registration date, and other public info to determine this. Newer projects should establish themselves and submit to the next round.
Astral's web presence, including their Twitter account and the project documentation indicated on GitHub, suggests that the project has been active for over three months.
The Grant must be **primarily focused on climate solutions** (the group may do other work but the grant proposal should be directly related to climate solutions). The proposal should explicitly outline how this project will help reduce GHGs or is an important core infrastructure for web3 climate solutions.
Astral's proposal indicates the project is building tools to support geospatial data mapping and analysis, an important component of many climate solution initiatives, including renewable project development and dMRV.
Grantees who received funding in a previous round(s) **must provide a new update on their progress and impact.** You can also include the challenges you've faced. This will ensure accountability to supporters and also help encourage contributors by showing what you’ve been accomplishing.
The project description includes recent accomplishments and challenges, indicating transparent update on progress and accountability.
All returning grantees are expected to update their proposal, in addition to project updates the proposal should include lessons learned from previous work and how they will use the additional funding from the upcoming round. The updated proposal should indicate how additional funding will help the project meet its goals, and include a rough timeline for the project overall.
The proposal includes a section on accomplishments so far, a list of challenges faced, and a detailed roadmap that indicates how additional funding will be utilized.
There is a general expectation that projects are within the **“realm of viability”**. Even if a project is very early, it must still seem credible to the average person with an understanding of web3 technology and climate solutions. Including information about the team's expertise, qualifications and skills will help us review your grant.
Astral has provided a list of their accomplishments, team member's names with linked social profiles, indicating credibility and viability along with expertise in their domain.
Grantees can be eliminated from consideration in the round if they are found to be encouraging or enabling Sybil attacks or other forms of malicious manipulation of the grants platform or the Gitcoin community.
There is no explicit information provided regarding any malicious activities or Sybil attacks associated with Astral, and without further evidence, we cannot definitively score this criterion.