Community Pool Grant Ideas

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To avoid confusion, Will already started a thread here about the community pool, but it seems to be going in the direction of a more general discussion about what the pool should fund i.e. which criteria that should guide the selection of projects. This thread is for specific ideas/projects of what the pool might fund. I have just started out with a couple of Community Pool Proposals (CPPs?) below that are quite specific. Still rough concepts, but hope it can foster some ideation and further develop a good format for proposals.

CPP #1 - Songbird biodiversity ecocredit
Description: Detection of bird species based on audio and minting of biodiversity ecocredits.
Expected outcome: Possibility to mint ecocredits in projects where songbird biodiversity increase is valued. Could be shade grown coffee. I know there are specific bird-friendly coffee certifications.
Implementation type: Created by Allowlist Credit Designer

CPP #2 - Automated Staking Reward Redirection
Description: Inspired by this tweet, this idea revolved around automatically redirection staking rewards to a specific wallet. Think of it as a patreon subscription where you pick a wallet of someone you want to support and send staking rewards from staked assets from one or several specific validators (Should be possible before they are claimed, yes?).
Expected outcome: Easy to setup recurring donations to specific creator wallets.
Implementation type: Chain upgrade

CPP #3 - Community outreach and onboarding in DAO
Description: Based on critical biodiversity hotspots around the world (several datasets already exist on this), reach out to local communities in

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CPP #3
I have a location and snowball of an idea for one of these in Steamboat Colorado that should include the indigenous UTE in NFT real estate transactions. Development is ruining wildlife corridors and REGEN Grant could secure a neat venue for community outreach and a large swath of grasslands for credit creation. Approxiamtely 180 acres placed in conservation easements and entrusted to displaced disadvantaged peoples.

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320 acres
$7.5 million
Utes back to Elk Mountain
Lodge for timeshare ownership

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/43593-County-Road-46-Steamboat-Springs-CO-80487/2069115619_zpid/

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Indeed looks like a really great case to validate functionality for indigenous peoples land tenure and build on existing grassland credit creation.

Do you know if it’s part of the Colorado River Upper Basin? Looks like it’s really close to the source, but can’t see if its part of a different watershed. Anyway, I think water credit class might also be interesting to explore here in some capacity. I am not aware of the current progress on this, maybe just as a co-benefit.