so yeah I will be presenting the social
and economic fabric of decentralized
space development so a little bit about
me I he said I co-founded space
cooperative so you might be like what's
the space cooperative what's space T
central space cooperative is the initial
worker owned cooperative that we formed
in 2016 and that led eventually towards
space T central this futurist Giulio
Chris co-wrote an article and medium
called a decentralized autonomous space
agency so that was about you know five
five months after we formed so we
decided to we just met on the internet
and started collaborating and we decided
to converge converge visions essentially
and we didn't even meet in person until
about like one month ago so whenever he
came to California to you know visit his
daughter but basically whenever we
formed the company the the vision was
creating a space mission collaboration
platform so he can crowdsource and
crowdfund space missions and whenever
Giulio laid out you know the concept of
a space now in this article it made so
much sense because you know it's like
you can utilize the the transparent
nature and the coordination mechanisms
that you know smart contracts provide to
allow that you know connection to happen
and to to allow it to be so we're not
you know the the only organization in
control of how this space agency is
going to operate so a lot of people you
know might say well you know why focus
on space when there are so many problems
on earth and what I often say is you
know there are there are a lot of
reasons why space actually benefits
earth first
you know if we're exploring the universe
where we're learning things about you
know Humanity that we don't know before
whether like you know life exists
outside of Earth it's like there are so
many you know galaxies out there and it
would be amazing to actually explore
them the second thing as far as like you
know knowledge and understanding goes is
you know space is such a heart harsh
environment that it's also an another
way to actually advance knowledge and
technology to be able to live in these
harsh environments and through these I'm
governments you actually earned through
developing these technologies you
actually they're like spin-off
technologies that are applicable to
earth-2 like for example insulation
that's used in a lot of housing you know
that was initially for space because of
the you know extreme temperatures and
other thing as far as like you know
climate change we wouldn't know about
climate change or how the temperature of
the earth has been changing if it wasn't
for satellite technology and then like
GPS constellation it's like we still use
that every day I know there's foam you
know is attempting to replace it in ways
but I think it'll probably be a long
time until that actually be homes fully
mainstream and then lastly asteroid
mining probably heard the news yesterday
that consensus just acquired an asteroid
mining firm which is very interesting
we'll talk more about that later
but there are a lot of benefits as far
as like asteroid mining goes because
it's like we live in Earth and it's
always like you know it's this mindset
of scarcity
so with asteroid mining can you know
move towards more post scarcity as far
as like oh my god there are so many
resources outside earth and the same
mentality goes as far as like colonizing
or settling on other planets okay so
that's like a little bit of background
for you know why space is important
besides like the fantasy and a lore of
truly becoming a spacefaring
civilization so what is space T Central
it's a decentralized autonomous agency
when we're aiming to essentially
reinvigorate the push for sorry for
Space Exploration with global citizens
and control so it's decentralized
because no single corporation or nation
will be responsible for its management
its autonomous because member control
over how members will control over how
work is directed how decisions are made
and which projects to fund and it's a
Space Agency because it's gonna be very
strategic you know it's like the network
will decide you know which which
programs to fund which projects to
develop so it's like if you combine
these these three you got like you know
you can we can tap into the curiosity
that's you know in our human
it's in our evolution to explore we can
like finally if you have like the drive
and the motivation to actually want to
work on space it's like you can
participate in it it's like it's like
how do we make it so anyone can like
work on space it's such like a
fascinating thing I hope I can do it for
the rest of my life like how can we
enable anyone to participate that's what
we want to do and essentially it's like
you know citizen-led through that and
through this combination it's about
expansion expansion you know to
throughout the universe expansion of our
knowledge like expansion of like
humanity in general so end this talk I'm
gonna talk a little bit about aerospace
crowd history as far as like
crowdfunding and crowdsourcing and that
will sort of lead towards a transition
of talking about the XPrize and then
space T Central and then I'm going to
talk about phase one of how space use
decentral is initially working right now
and then the phase two of how it ideally
will work so the history of
crowdsourcing in aerospace it can kind
of it starts in ninth in the 1900s with
the Deutsch prize and that was a hundred
thousand dollar French franc prize for
the first airship to fly from the Parc
st. cloud to the Eiffel Tower and back
in under 30 minutes so it was about 11
kilometers total and the winner of that
was Alberto santos-dumont and he was a
Brazilian and then there might have been
like a lot of other prizes in between
them but some of the most significant
recent ones were the Ansari XPrize and
that was the first XPrize in 1996 and
that was a 10 million dollar prize for
the first non-governmental organization
to launch a reasonable man spacecraft
into space you know twice within two
weeks and that prize was actually
awarded that took about eight years and
then the most recent one that I'm sure a
lot of you have heard about was the
Google Lunar XPrize and that lasted from
2007 to twenty eighteen and it was a 30
million dollar prize and that was for
you know landing a robot on the surface
of the Moon and traveling 500 meters
over the surface and sending the images
and data back to earth and what happened
was nobody actually won that prize but
all of these companies were formed
through that process that have received
way more funding than the prize even was
and there are a few examples that I
think are significant
I had a typo on the first one but that
should be space IL and that was the
Israeli group and there were a
non-profit but they were able to
actually receive ninety five million
dollars of funding from various sources
such as philanthropists like Sheldon out
Sheldon Adelson who donated 16.4 million
and also some of the leaders of the
group that you know had wealth I space
was a Japanese organization and they
actually just recently secured ninety
two million dollars in funding and Moon
Express is also like a for-profit based
business and they've received a total of
65 million dollars worth of funding so
even though none of these organizations
actually won the prize it's like there
was you know a lot of advancement and
technology that will enable other people
to use these Landers that a lot of them
have built to actually get to the moon
you know faster and more efficiently and
then as far as like the history of
crowdfunding and aerospace goes and one
of the first successful examples was
Planetary Resources
arkad spacecraft and the reward that
they were giving on Kickstarter was you
can take your self-portrait while this
spacecraft is traveling through space
and that campaign happened in 2013 but
actually in 2016 they decided to cancel
it and give everyone their money back
because there wasn't really enough
support to fully go through with that
mission and then the other example was a
planetary societies light sale and that
was like a solar sailing type spacecraft
and it's a it's to use a solar sail as a
propulsion mechanism and that first
mission there was also some failure
associated with it and then another more
recent one has to do with a telescope
and that was in 2017
it's like more of a personal telescope
and that was a 2.2 million dollar
campaign so these are like quite small
as far as like citizen crowdfunding goes
but you can also think of the XPrize as
a crowdfunding mechanism since for
example the Google Lunar XPrize that was
sponsored by Google so it's like larger
organizations can actually collectively
potentially sponsor larger prizes and
this is where we can start to talk about
space to central and what we're up to so
right now we have a lunar program called
coral and it's a open source lunar space
program and the objective is to
essentially demonstrate in situ resource
utilization technology or is ru it's a
3d print on the lunar on the lunar
surface using essentially moon dust or
regolith as the feedstock of what goes
into the 3d printer and then so this is
our flagship mission it was selected by
the founders of the of space II central
or Space cooperative but I'll talk more
in the future about how we'll select the
next missions so whenever we asked a lot
of the community about why they join
this mission you know what what
motivated you to join these were the
different responses that we got you know
some some were just want to make friends
with like-minded people they're just as
simple as like space a chance to
participate in something new to be an
asset to society and then there were
other responses that were more related
towards you know the the mission at hand
which was interest in interest in space
resource utilization or potential for
advancing interesting lunar projects so
we launched this around July and like I
said this is our first mission and our
first mission is actually not just the
founders of the company but it is the
global community so there are people
participating right now from India from
Australia from Sweden as far as like
their nationalities go from the UK
Canada a lot from the US and also Puerto
Rico and Brazil so
so the people you see in this photo
these are like some of the people that
were fart up part of space cooperative
but but then also the people that are
part of space cooperative and space T
central as a community as well so how
does it initially work we don't operate
on the ethereum blockchain today but
that's the phase two that I'll talk
about next so right now we have a space
T central dotnet it's a social network
that we host and it's this is just like
the first iteration of it it's very
basic it has a forum you know it's
connected to Google Drive because that's
what a lot of us still use as far as
document collaboration goes and then we
do our task management and github so
this is like some of the tasks for our
choral mission right now you can see
it's like you know writing reports on
the manufacturing methods or the
different trade studies and you know
maintaining the document library here's
an example of a good trade study that
the community is working on right now to
determine the manufacturing method
whether it's like microwave centering
solar sintering so this is just like a
collaboration of all those people that I
showed you before and this is another
like interesting one there was like a
task design a logo and like we got like
first that one and then someone
submitted that one and then this is the
most recent one we got on the right and
there wasn't even any like bounty
associated with this it was just like
hey like someone they still people were
still doing it even though there wasn't
any money associated to it and that's
like the interesting part as far as like
working on space projects go because I
actually wanted to talk more about the
Israeli organization space il like I
said they had a 95 million in funding
and they only had they had 30 paid
members but 200 plus volunteers so so
that's like the interesting like
competition of actually forming it as a
non-profit because you can because there
are people that want to work on space
that don't actually care about getting
paid for it and that's that's exciting
like I mean I've been working on this
for two years and I've like you know
self-funded it off of some like some
ethereal
after I purchased that out for the DAO
hack but so yeah it's like I didn't I
didn't put my money into it because I
thought I wasn't rich I just I was just
like this is I heard the calling and I'm
like this is what I want to work on and
then you start to see other people want
to work on it and it's not because they
think they're gonna get rich so how will
they ideally work so this is how a space
mission works for NASA you see it's it's
highly complex if we build an
International Space Agency it's not like
we have to copy everything that NASA
does you want to innovate make it a
little bit more agile but the reason
that like the the process of developing
a space mission like this has all these
different you know milestones critical
design reviews a lot of different design
reviews as you advance from developing a
concept to actually like doing the
system design to starting to prototype
the hardware I mean that's why NASA
missions they don't fail that much as
far as like all the ones that have gone
to Mars or you know the recent one like
or the moon a lot of other you know
countries have tried to go to Mars but
haven't made it there so so this is just
like an example of okay well how are we
gonna translate all of these processes
like to the blockchain and this is where
you can start to see okay you know smart
contracts might help with like how you
assign peer reviewers or how you really
sponding as you advance the you advance
up the different milestones or maybe how
you find teams to replace an existing
team if they're not able to you know
successfully deliver on like the
prototypes so Spacey central we want to
build a space agency in a box like we
want to have the tool set so we can
create an International citizen-led
Space Agency but at the same time like
we think this tool set can also be used
by nation states that don't have space
agencies yet you know how do we actually
enable more nations to become
spacefaring like the developing nations
because I think that that's really the
way to truly like
the power is like giving as many people
in the world access to technologies like
the freedom to explore the universe and
that's why a lot of our you know
ideologies and missions are also based
on doing as much as we can in an
open-source manner like building a
knowledge base that has you know all of
a lot of the education that you need a
lot of the different tools that you will
need there are actually a lot of
open-source tools out there already but
there's no you know cohesive like
enterprise suite or you know space
enterprise suite that makes it actually
easy to use every tool and for what we
want to build you know aetherium will be
the underlying like you know blockchain
that everything will then layer on top
of and and we've made a decision to
utilize Aragon as far as our you know
dap framework and governance goes
because of a lot of like the shared
ideologies and you know it's like a lot
of people say oh aragon it's really
complex and like I showed you that graph
before we're like that's great that's a
it can it can support a lot of the yeast
cases that we need we need to build a
complex system and maybe to build it you
need a you know robust toolset so so um
now I'll talk a little bit more about
like how the ecosystem works with the
tokens and the this example that I go
through right now it's like like I said
we're gonna be using Aragon and this
this how this ecosystem works with the
two tokens a lot of different
organizations that want to do crowd sort
like combining crowdsourcing and
crowdfunding and you know like
volunteer-driven projects can also use
the same model so you know you can
rename the tokens I do the same thing if
there's nothing a space specific about
like this initial mechanism but you know
essentially will have a
faster-than-light FTL
that's our transferable token can be
purchased and it'll be staked for
governance rights and it's also used to
prioritize programs so it has like a
unique capability for um you know this
is like one there's like one main token
weighted vote and that's to select the
program so you could think of it as
similar to
you know companies deciding which XPrize
they want to fund you know they're like
well if I'm gonna put 30 million and I
want to choose that it's gonna be like a
lunar prize so it's at the very high
level not not saying that they have the
ability to actually choose the winning
team of that prize but actually to fund
it the higher level like people that are
passionate about initiatives and then
the other token we have is the Spacey
central network token or Sdn and that
will be earned by people that are
actually contributing to the space
projects you know they're there working
on the the projects they're earning
these tokens and and this is important
because like I said there are there
gonna be a lot of volunteer driven
projects and you're not going to have
like all this like FTL to give it to
every project but you want to give every
get give an SDN token at least or sdn
tokens for every task that is completed
and that can later be like an accounting
tool that you use to distribute FTL
whenever or eath or other sources of
funding as it comes in in the future to
the project so as far as our space
mission sorry okay so so like I said we
selected the we selected coral as our
first mission
but right now to select our subsequent
missions we have the space mission
activation process and that's actually
going on right now and and we're gonna
and this is where we're gonna start to
use Eragon to select our next missions
but essentially right now people are
just developing proposals submitting
them and then through the tasks that
people are working on on coral we'll be
awarding sdn tokens and then if you
collect a minimum amount of that you'll
be able to participate in the activation
votes for the next missions on the
network so and then if your idea gets
selected you also get more sdn tokens
and then this is like the the unique
part of it is you know the XPrize it's a
lot of different teams competing but
with this we want to make it like if you
if your so if your mission was selected
as the winning one it's open for the
entire network to still collaborate on
it it's like just because
your team might have had a winning
proposal doesn't mean that it would just
be restricted to your team but at least
there can be like priorities for you
know the proposal team at least being
able to work on the initial task and
then you know this is how it can work as
far as you know there's a project there
are tasks the tasks have different Sdn
people finish the tasks and then they
collect the SDN for it and then later
whenever there's a reward cycle they get
the FTL reward and then so like I said
before we're gonna do this with Eragon
and right now we're developing a
planning suite and the the codename for
it is that planning suite and there are
going to be six different apps or Eragon
OS apps and they'll actually work in
combination with was the other like you
know token manager finance voting apps
the Eragon is already building
themselves and then we want to just like
add an additional tool set for you know
different types you know for range
voting for being able to have like
actually consensus voting whenever
you're actually estimating how much the
tasks are worth you can as a project
team come to consensus on the value of
it it's like that's where you don't need
the entire like Douw to say how much
that task is worth but the people that
are actually just working on it and then
an address book because not everyone's
going to be using ens in the beginning
but you are gonna have like a theorem
addresses that you're regularly sending
funds to so just like an easy way to to
create a mapping between a human
readable name and an address projects
app that will actually initially
integrate with github so you can do like
a bounty system with an Eragon but
eventually we also want to expand that
more decentralized get solution like
there's a tool called panda being built
so that's a eventual migration for that
and and the other rewards app that will
be able to support the mechanisms that I
just described so yeah this is like a
design of the tokenized task management
that's currently under development and
then you know this is the rewards app
and you know these are based on design
patterns that Eragon has already built
but with a little bit change with a few
changes as well so yeah I mean that's
about it the own it's unknown what the
future holds but it's up to us to shape
it if you want to collaborate there are
details there and you can also stay in
touch
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