ALGAE RHYTHM to save the biospheres

[GENERAL] Summarize your solution to the problem.

An OpenSource searchengine kickstarting a circular economy. Outputs (food, biomass and heat) generated by a closed loop microorganism production system. Usage incentivised with gamified IMPACT dapp.

[GENERAL] Summarize your relevant experience.

Ugo 20+ years Seaweeds research; Aramen brand (microorganisms food); Algae:Rhythm founder [LinkedIn]

Dan 1+Y Catalyst XP, funded proposer, business analyst, official ScrumMaster [LinkedIn]

Science Team (see below)

Algae Production Team (Spireat & Algaria; see below)

LINKTREE

[GENERAL] Requested funds in USD.

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

#TL;DR

So much energy is used in tech research, so we should use the circular economy system as an "energetic" model to create organic tech that outputs biomass and energy for us to survive on planet Earth in a sustainable fashion.

We will add Idea- and Impacfest videos and more material to our LinkTree after proposal finalisation.

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#lets go deeper

Modelling after the microorganisms that will help us, a decentralised and opensource search engine protocol will, much like the sun, send rays of funds (generated by search activity), to upgrade, build and power microorganism production facilities.

The facilities produce biomass, super foods and minor amounts of energy. Any surplus or profits from sales of microorganism products will go directly back into the purpose of the Association, that is to: Re establish natural levels of CO2 absorption and 02 production, in a sustainable way.

The current facility has been running for some months now but is missing the data gathering tools and critical size to be self sustainable. The attachments contain the cost calculation for extending the facility (currently a module 1 facility), respectively the costs for setting up new ones.

Here are shots from the operation in Italy:

Pools setup

Tool shed next to the pools

Ugo and an Algaria employee

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#buidling an impact experience

Once the search engine gained traction , we'll introduce a personalised impact experience dapp that offers:

Calculate individual footprint saved based on search engine usage*;

• share footprint;
• footprint reduction contest;
• content selection of impact activities or events*¹ that were sponsored by A:R [where funds went (in your local area)];
• a dapp shop (to buy microorganism products from source) with ADA as primary currency*²

Once the model is tested, profitable and sustainable, a primary focus will be the adaptation to other micro organisms and geopolitical regions.

Demand for ADA and on-boarding of active members of the Cardano network would increase proportionally with the growth of the model

*will be estimated at first, but once measurement tools for data acquisition are setup, the data will become more accurate over time, the goal is to be able to instantly calculate the impact done by a person in their account up to the minute

*¹ A:R will funnel profits into socio-ecological non profits that align with the purpose, many of which are doing events - upcoming Impact Events in the prosumer's vicinity would pop up

*² starting with a native asset for abstraction

Flow and Milestones

High Level Abstraction

Phase I - Milestone 1-2

Phase II - Milestone 3-4

Final Phase - Milestone 5-?

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#gamifying and ideating

Ideas:

• have tournaments for high impact scores and top spots get chance to receive ADA (requires donations or staking or pool rewards!)
• exchange ADA for x amount of C02 saved/O2 produced (requires treasury!); others can create programmable validators (smart contracts) faucet, send ADA to the faucet, when ppl saved x amount of CO2 and created x amount of O2 they can access the faucet; thus incentivise people to use the engine and fuel the Circular Microorganism Economy.

Eco conscious companies could create their own validator sets or have internal high impact score tournaments

How it is envisioned (dapp flow):

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#the legal setup

A:R as free non profit association will take charge in establishing a network of purpose companies and cooperatives with the aim of reestablishing balance to the biospheres; Communia network will be a primer for the community supporting the overall A:R network.

Communia (with 120 members) will use the search engine on their devices and provide a kickstart.

The goal is to have a Distributed Purpose Driven Cooperative, an amalgamation of the DisCo and Purpose Company concepts. However this is not within the scope of this proposal or year.

##how to balance biospheres?

Next to creating sustainable O2 productions A:R will also use culture and arts to communicate the "help message" for Earth's biospheres; giving the planet a voice.

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#even deeper

Once the closed loop model of digital service provider and production facility is validated it can be adapted to include other microorganism facilities in many different regions. Let's think not only Spiurilna, but Wakame, Fucus, all sorts of fungi and mushroom. Imagine facilities in rural areas of Africa, Australia and Asia producing food and sustaining themselves. Facilities that are easy to build and lighter, temporary, versions could also be used as Triage (in catastrophe areas).

[IMPACT] Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.

Types of proposals to include (mentioned in Challenge Brief): Environment - Solutions that help to solve environmental issues

• successfully launching and maintaining the project is impacting 5 main SDGs
• sequestering CO2, creating natural O2,
• sustainable food production
• closed loop system between digital service and microorganism production facility

Potential success metrics for proposal types Environment (mentioned in Challenge Brief)

Total number of prosumers (within 6 months after launch): 25k

Total numbers of prosumers (within 12 months after launch): 100k

• Total CO2 sequestered: min. 2 t
• Total natural O2 created: TBD (needs precise calculation and better measuring equipment)
• amount of awareness being produced by events of purpose entities: TBD

Existing products or integrations

• Dandelion (node setup) to handle ledger traffic
• CatID for storing impact credentials
• cooperation with "Cardano4Climate" (Climate Change The Challenge)

Technical requirements: Yes, for the first iterations absolutely!

Ecosystem maturity requirements: Gimbalabs work and support of the PBL and the incoming Vasil hardfork make the ecosystem mature enough for the first iterations.

Native assets have been running successfully for over a year. Coti and ADApay make the realisation of the web shop very achievable.

Roundtable for the multisig treasury and Hazelnetbot for on chain community stewardship are also available to be integrated.

We are also in contact with the Algae Token team.

Once the model is tested, profitable and sustainable, a primary focus will be the adaptation to other micro organisms and geopolitical regions.

Demand for ADA and on-boarding of active members of the Cardano network would increase proportionally with the growth of the model

Here's a visualisation of the impact created by successfully executing this project

[IMPACT] What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?

#risks_challenges

• natural disaster destroying facilities -> mitigation = Insurance! -> yet to be integrated into budget
• Risks: out of budget -> mitigation = Association (A:R) backing
• no traction for search engine -> mitigation = reach out to other digital service providers that align with purpose and could contribute funding (offer CO2 offset) [Thank you Sosha for the feedback leading to this risk mitigation tactic!]

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed plan, including timeline and key milestones for delivering your proposal.

The proposal is setup in a way for A:R to become self sufficient after Milestone 5, which will include the alpha release of the Impact Dashboard ("Dappboard")

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

High level cost calculation

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Details can be found in the two attached PDFs (estimation overview & search engine details)

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide details of the people who will work on the project.

A:R Team

Ugo

s.a.

Dan

s.a.

Algae Production Team

Two Italian companies: Algaria (facility) & Spireat (products)

TBD

full stack dev

TBD

Front end dev

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Science Team & Naples University

MD Giuseppe Mammero

Surgeon – Bologna University

Digestive system surgery specialist- Florence University

Advanced school in ultrasound diagnostics in internal medicine Bologna University Forensic and insurance specialist Ferrara University

Currently he deals with the diseases of the digestive system, in particular, the pathologies of the colon and small intestine, benign neoplasms, malignant neoplasms of the rectum colon and their risks factors, hereditary syndromes that predispose to cancer, the therapeutic and preventive approach of colorectal tumours and of inflammatory bowel diseases, with the aid of Oxygen Ozone therapy, when the indication is required. Bio nutrition has always been his parallel commitment.

Tiziana Ferretti

PH D Hindovedic Psychology – Ayurveda Specialty

From a spiritual path of self-healing, started through Anthroposophical medicine in 1994, immersed in a School of Naturopathy matchless application – Palatini Terme di Salzano – continued in depth

specific of the study of karmic laws with the Ayurvedic psychology, at Yorker University of N.Y., to the total dedication to BLONDING, deepened with the continuous research on ALGAE, marine and otherwise, lasting exactly 20 years, started on the Arann Islands, passing through the experience of natural healing.

“By studying algae I have cured myself, mine loved ones and those who were looking for a natural remedy for their discomfort psycho-physical-spiritual.

And despite the positive results, I kept going incredulous my research, to understand how it was

It is possible to self-heal by following this Street. Until I learned of the existence of a laboratory

of Trieste who carried out a blood test, called SENSITIVE CRYSTALLIZATION, designed by Rudolf Steiner with Dr. Pfeiffer in 1936 and I was inspired to submit IODIUM (at the time called Linealghe Cocktail) to this incredible test.

And I finally found the answers to what I had done: I had done a good and right thing!

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Network Seed: Communia

Interwoven into A:R network is Communia (Italian non profit network for common goods), who will help to kickstart the greater A:R community and be the first prosumers searching with A:R

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Here's the Constitution and a rough translation:

THE POSTER Promoting Committee - Permanent Network for Common Goods, ecological conversion and future generations 1. The Common Goods express functional benefits for the exercise of fundamental rights and duties of solidarity social life, as well as the free development of each person. In a broader sense, common goods concern capital natural (e.g. water, soil and subsoil, air), cultural and landscape heritage, infrastructures fundamental for citizens, human capital and knowledge (information, education, school, family, community), welfare, quality of life in cities, justice and the protection of privacy and digital profiles personal. 2. Alongside the state economy (statism) and that of the free market (liberalism), the network intends to promote a new community economy with widespread control, which is sustainable and generative for the current ones generations, without burdening the quality of life of future generations and ecosystems. Such a shape economic aims to protect common goods from speculative and short-term policies, helping their identification, the enhancement, development and access to all and for all. 3. A new policy on common goods brings together different dimensions of the human being in a balanced way: economic, social, relational, democratic and spiritual, favoring a new responsible relationship with dimension of having and opening up to the protagonism of communities in a new space of relationship "between" and "beyond" public and private. 4. The Italian and largely European value system is traditionally communitarian (e.g. mutuals, mercies, forms of cooperation and popular). We would like to regenerate in its institutional forms and cultural traditions, the community tradition to adapt it to our times and our sensitivities also using technological innovation in a way that is functional to the interest of many and containing the leadership of a few. Such regenerated tradition we would like to develop it by making it a good Italian practice to offer as a model alternative to an international reflection in the economic and social sphere. 5. The economy of common goods while being open to pluralism of forms (public, non-profit, profit responsible) always requires the ability to generate a benefit in the general interest of the people and the future generations, through participation systems that allow transparent social control. 6. We believe that today it is urgent to carry out a profound transformation of national public institutions for avoid pressure on state accounts, on the one hand, and predatory attitudes in the economic sphere, on the other, can irreversibly affect the lives of current and future people. A new policy participatory on common goods will help this transformation towards widespread well-being. 7. Similarly, after the crises of 2008 and 2020, it is also necessary to foster transformation of globalization models with a strongly top-down structure and activate a new participation e leadership of communities and territories (inhabitants, civic subjects, businesses, public administrations local) in economic and social choices. 8. We are convinced that a continuous democratic confrontation and new alliances between different subjects by culture, skills and interests represent a necessary condition for this ecological conversion of the social and economic fabric. 9. The union of the forces and capabilities of private and public organizations that share and promote this new vision becomes fundamental to concretely modify national policies and international, especially those relating to the most important common goods from a patrimonial and economic point of view and social (eg construction of a new European welfare, priority on infrastructure investments). 10. The Rete dei Beni Comuni intends to present itself as a platform (common, in fact) to create one cultural gap and orient the future agenda, disseminate and information on common goods, render effective and transparent participatory processes of direct democracy, use the law strategically e counter-hegemonic, propose a new paradigm in the management of the Common Goods also as a new e innovative public-private collaboration for the revitalization of sectors essential for our peaceful cohesion, enhance and share the best local or sectoral experiences developed by member organizations and finally scaling the approach of individual organizations for the protection of the most relevant common goods at the level national and international that require resources and skills that can only be acquired through collaboration systematics between multiple subjects. We imagine the net as a constituent process of a new sensibility and of new institutions of the "common", which cannot be postponed and decisive for a genuine and effective i

[FEASIBILITY] If you are funded, will you return to Catalyst in a later round for further funding? Please explain why / why not.

With a 5% yes, in case the search engine will need a marketing budget to drive traffic from outside the Catalyst community. But most likely we go with composing a different and existing digital service provider into the construct. So very unlikely we need funds after this.

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or any member of your team working on any other proposals in this Fund9?

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or your team working on any other proposals from previous Funds?

[AUDITABILITY] Please describe what you will measure to track your project's progress, and how will you measure these?

[AUDITABILITY] What does success for this project look like?

[AUDITABILITY] Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.

This is kind of a new proposal, an iteration of a previous not funded Fund8 one titled: "FOSS to save the planet".

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Rating

SDGs:

Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

(Sub)SDGs:

12.5 By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse

12.6 Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle

12.7 Promote public procurement practices that are sustainable, in accordance with national policies and priorities

12.8 By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature

12.a Support developing countries to strengthen their scientific and technological capacity to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production

13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries

13.3 Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning

13.b Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities

15.2 By 2020, promote the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore degraded forests and substantially increase afforestation and reforestation globally

15.3 By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world

15.5 Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt the loss of biodiversity and, by 2020, protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species

15.6 Promote fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and promote appropriate access to such resources, as internationally agreed

15.a Mobilize and significantly increase financial resources from all sources to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity and ecosystems

2.1 By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round

2.2 By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons

2.3 By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment

2.4 By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality

2.a Increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development and plant and livestock gene banks in order to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular least developed countries

9.1 Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, including regional and transborder infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all

9.a Facilitate sustainable and resilient infrastructure development in developing countries through enhanced financial, technological and technical support to African countries, least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States

Key Performance Indicator (KPI):

2.1.1 Prevalence of undernourishment

2.1.2 Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population, based on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES)

2.4.1 Proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable agriculture

12.a.1 Installed renewable energy-generating capacity in developing countries (in watts per capita)

15.a.1 (a) Official development assistance on conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity; and (b) revenue generated and finance mobilized from biodiversity-relevant economic instruments

2.3.2 Average income of small-scale food producers, by sex and indigenous status

2.2.2 Prevalence of malnutrition (weight for height >+2 or <-2 standard deviation from the median of the WHO Child Growth Standards) among children under 5 years of age, by type (wasting and overweight)

13.1.3 Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national disaster risk reduction strategies

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