The world needs the creation of new incentives that can redesign the coordination of actions that our species have been driving since industrial revolution.

Endangered Tokens DAO is a ReFi NFT community looking to revalue biodiversity and incentivize regeneration by tokenizing endangered trees with web3 preserve&earn incentives and digital value added with content, technology and real world impact.

TLDR: What's new since the Last round? -Virtual Reality Endangered Arboretum Experience first POC ready. -First approach and feedbacks of the VR experience within 2 different crypto events. -Decentralized ecosystemic services of trees verification app: ENTS DAPP V1.0 Ready on Figma and already in development. -OGT credits Class first feedbacks by scientific proffesional -Participation on EBC Blockchain Convention -Tokenomics rethinking -Applying to government grants

Why support us?

Problem to Solve

Endangered trees are responsible for maintaining the health of most of the world's endangered forest ecosystems, but rarely produce relevant revenue for landowners (without being damaged) and even become financial liabilities, thus encouraging their ilegal felling.

Endangered Tokens’ Solution

Leverage web3 and digital art to incentivize the protection of these scarce beings by changing their status from merely the cost of maintaining a tree to a revenue producing Bio-Asset.

Mission

To foster the protection of endangered trees by bestowing them with tangible value in society.

Vision

To create a world where endangered and long lived trees are not only preserved but also revered for their intrinsic value, fostering a harmonious coexistence between nature and society.

How will we accomplish this?

Endangered Tokens is a ReFi & DeSci NFT community looking to revalue biodiversity by tokenizing georeferenced endangered trees. We are building a real life impact coordination game in which users can receive rewards for verifying georreferenced trees with their phones. Each specimen is characterized and video recorded alongside a small verse description, and when owning one, you become the godfather of a scarce endangered tree! With the funds raised we will help landowners finance the protection of endangered Forest with reforestation, verification of carbon credits from the forests and the creation of quality digital content & data to add value to the tokens, content like:

• Inmersive UX for ReFi Assets, to engage with web3 enthusiasts and show the value of each token as seen in real life.
• 3D tourism experience of the protected forests thus reducing the footprint of real life tourism while also generating a continuous flow of revenue to keep supporting the protection of the forests.
• Using the 3D replicas of each tree as a virtual asset for video games and/or augmented reality experiences
• Recording data from the forest for research and enhanced digital experiences like music from the frequencies of the trees, bioacoustics, video recording of the ecosystems, climate data, water flow, among other relevant information.

NFT holders will receive a portion of the revenue that will come from the NFT Sales, tourism experiences, data management and carbon credits, thus converting endangered trees from liabilities to biodiversity assets for the future.

We are also developing a new type of Credit Class for Old Grown Trees (OGT credit Class) so any type of big tree can become a way of proving your positive impact in the world and a way of financing its protection, instead of cutting them down for wood. Details in projects below.

Which kind of trees are we talking about?

We are currently working in Chile in South america, with the rare species Gomortega Keule, or locally known as Queule. This magnificent beings are the last one of the Gomortegacae Family, dating its evolution to Pangea times. It is estimated that there are no more than 4000 specimens alive in the world! (Scarcer than Bitcoin!)

With the help of past Gitcoin Grants we are also making contacts and reviewing possible projects with the Brazilian Tree "Pau Brasil" or Paubrasilia echinata an endangered Species of tree from which the country got it's name! The heavily abused lumbering by portuguese conquerors depleted their population and nowadays is a rare and unique living being.

We are developing a roadmap of species to keep onboarding, like Alerce, Pitao, Araucaria, Baobab, Sequoia, and others.

How will grant funding has been/will be spent?

As of the date of this 19th round of Gitcoin Grants (#GG19 lets go!) we have raised around 30000 DAI through Gitcoin that we have spent cautiously and also have some saved for our roadmap goals. Without Gitcoin this project would not be able to keep moving forward as we have. We thank every supporter and every sponsor of the Climate Rounds.

Things we have invested until now and will continue to invest:

1. Project development (Priority)

Develop the products, contracts and DAPPs necessary to ensure mission fulfilment, growth and engagement. See ongoing projects for further detail.

2. Vital activities core team funding

• [x] General administration
• [x] Coding and development
• [x] Marketing and community growth
• [x] NGO's and landowners coordination
• [x] Content creation and production

3. Endangered Tokens Conservation program

• Tokenization, extensive cadastre & landowner agreements
• in-situ conservation actions to reduce threats.
• Ex-situ conservation actions and landscape restoration actions
• Sustainable local development & community engagement
• Research on species and their habitats
• Carbon Bonds verification, trading and retirement

4. Marketing and community building

We have realized that a crypto community needs to be active, engaged and in constant growth in order to stay healthy. This is an important pillar of investment on top of a marketing lead within the team. Among other things, we have attended several Crypto Conferences creating network and alliances with important crypto and ReFi Actors.

5. Decentralization

One of the challenges faced has been to improve decentralization within the projects. Part of the funds will go to improve decentralization each round.

6. Equipment

In order to experiment, record, experience and iterate on our products we have invested in technology like the Plantsplay device, HD Camera, Meta Oculus Quest 2 and looking to purchase a 360° action cam for content creation within the forest.

State of the art & ongoing projects

We have done so far 3 official expeditions to "El Hual-Hual" forest in which we are working on.

1st Expedition: GPS geolocation and audiovisual material for tokenization of 25 Adult Queules. Here a seedling Queule picture from that date

2nd Expedition: Visit the forest with ReFi friend from Koywe

3rd Expedition: Gather more audiovisual material for detail needs in the 3D modelling of the forest

The Tokents: Digital assets with ReFi purpose (NOT INTENDED AS ADVERTISING ONLY AS SHOWING AS A MILESTONE)

• Elder ENTS NFT: Georreferenced tokenized Specimens of Endangered Trees.

  • 1st Collection Gomortega Keule - Elder ENT Queule# : Founders Collection

  • Premium Asset of the community

  • Georreferenced tokenized Specimens of real life Critically Endangered Trees.

  • Digital property percentage of the 3D assets built around each tree.

  • Eligible for airdrops and voting power (TBD)

  • Contract verified on the polygon mainnet

  • 25 Queule trees have been tokenized, only 12 Elder Ents Gomortega Keule have been minted.

  Opensea Site

• Production and development of the first WEB3 virtual reality touristic Endangered Forest experience.

We have been developing this project for almost a year, but got delayed in the middle for lack of funds and other inconvenients. We expect to have the first MVP by september available to be experienced in Meta Oculus Quest 2 or similar.

First mock-up video of one of the 3d model replicas of the tokenized trees. {%youtube A2Je4vC5g50 %}

Youtube video link

Advanced 3D model in Unreal Engine 5 of 10 of the 25 tokenized trees.

(Check it Here as a 3D model) (Check Here the rest of the models made)

• ENTS DAPP: Decentralized Proof-of-Tree registering & incentives DAPP & Public Registry Map for Endangered Trees and ecosistemic services

One of the challenges we've faced on our journey is to keep updated on-chain data to verify an Endangered tree is actually alive. With decentralization, smartphones and a well designed DAPP we can connect incentives with tasks on the field to discover, register, content capture, tokenize and give living proof-of-tree for valuable specimen, keeping token holders updated on their collected ENTS aswell as landwoners incetivized to preserve them.

(First Mock-up)

(Actual Figma for the V1.0 app in development)

• Entrees NFT: (NOT INTENDED AS ADVERTISING ONLY AS SHOWING AS A MILESTONE)

(Mock-up Only)

• 1st Collection CryptoKeules - Entrees CK# : Artist Diegong - TBM 9990+10(1/1)s

1st Minting December 2022 2nd Mint TBA This Pixel Art token will grant you access (hence it is and Entry) to the Alpha Release of the Ecosystem UX in development. The purpose of this be able to grow the community further than only the available tokenized Endangered trees (That are really scarce to produce many!)

• Old Grown trees Credit Class Development (OGT Credits)

In order to fully convert our protected trees to biodiversity Assets we thought a way to represent them as credits. The OGT Credits system allows landowners to register their Old Grown Trees through the ENTS DAPP, a user-friendly application. Once registered, these trees transform into 'credits' based on their age and conservation status. Landowners can then monetize these credits, creating a compelling economic reason to preserve these trees.

OGT Credit class document draft - Comments accepted

• Ecosystem UX development

For two years we have been thinking the best way to make interact the Endangered Tokens User with their Endangered trees Collectibles. We believe the User Experience can make a difference in the value of a token. Combining previous developments we are on the road to creating a unique experience.

As a player of Ecosystem UX, you can collect and plant rare and georeferenced tokenized trees as NFTs, earn rewards, and interact with other players from around the world. These trees are not just any trees; they are rare and endangered species that need our help to survive. By collecting these trees, players contribute to the conservation of these species, learn about their unique characteristics, and help preserve the biodiversity of our planet.

(Mock-up Only)

Fungible Tokens TBD

• $ENTS DAO Governance Token - Fungible ERC20 to vote in DAO discussions and other ReFi/DeFi applications- TBA

• $ROOTS utility Token - Fungible ERC20 to use within dapp functions and utilities. This Token will be the rewards & payment token within the ENTS DAPP.

Projects in development

Ecosystem treasures: HD Forest native species content (TBA)

Other type of collectible to learn about local ecosystems and can be used to enhance your experience within our upcoming game.

☸️🌳🌳🌳The Queule 3D virtual Experience🌳🌳🌳

Using Unreal Engine 5 we have modeled so far 10 of the 25 tokenized Queules. The first product that is ready-to-launch from this is the Queule 3D showroom to explore the modeled trees as a virtual experience.

We are developing a Virtual Reality Experience of the Endangered Queule Forest as a product to offer to our holders and also to Scale our ReFi Model.

(Click Here the see the rest of the models made)

☸️🎵🎶🎵Music of the ENTS🎵🎶🎵

Alongside the virtual experience we are recording the frequencies of the endangered trees through a PlantsPlay device (www.plantsplay.com) as the first approach. Our vision is to be able to stream the music of the endangered trees live, so they can produce their own content to help them stay alive.

DeSci projects to be developed

Bio-Acoustic MRV

In order to understand the forest better, we need to learn how its sounds speaks regarding the health of the forest.This way we will be able to use a cheap and effective MRV for our forests and contribute to the ReFi community with more tools and infrastructure for better MRVs Landmarks: We have already conversation with a PhD Student of bio-acoustic and we are collaborating with :link:Dmeter DMRV to develop this MRV alternative.

Dendrochronology of longlivedtrees to understand climate change.

With the proper tools and scientific proffesionals measuring the age of longlived trees and its roots can help us understand more about their endangered situation.

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