EARTHFUND PLATFORM UPDATE | SEPTEMBER 2023
Gearing up to launch EarthFund 2.0, the AI-powered launchpad for changing the world
Take a look at the platform in action, find out when we’re launching, and read more about the path to complete decentralization.
👋 We’re EarthFund, the decentralized platform using blockchain, AI, and crypto to revolutionize the giving economy and give you more of a voice in the shape of tomorrow.
This is our September 2023 update on the progress we’re making towards launching the platform this month. 💪
Happy September, Earthlings 🌍
We have exciting news! 🔥
EarthFund 2.0 will go live the week of 9/18.
Getting the platform ready
We’re all hard at work behind the scenes making sure the new platform works perfectly, updating the website to coincide with the launch, and getting ready to start shouting about (what we believe to be) the first decentralized community launchpad with fully integrated AI.
In the last month, we’ve been tweaking the UX, training the AI, improving usability, adding social media functionality and doing everything we can to make this platform everything we always wanted it to be.
(For more on why we’re bullish, check out last month’s post 👀)
Instead of explaining everything we’ve done in a lengthy Medium post, we thought we’d put together a quick video showing you EarthFund 2.0 in action.
(Like we say in the video, we’ve still got 2 weeks of fixing and QA-ing so there are still a few things we need to tweak, but we’re hyped.)
The journey here and the path to decentralization
In our initial roadmap, we said we’d use the 1Earth development tokens to fund the building and promotion of EarthFund 1.0.
That’s exactly what we did. We used the tokens to build a ton of new technology that automated the creation of DAOs and decentralized communities.
By that point, we’d used most of our allotted tokens to build 1.0 but we knew there was still work to be done to turn EarthFund into the home of decentralized giving.
So, we decided to seek outside investment and turn EarthFund into what we all knew it could be.
Then the bear market hit and investors weren’t so hot on crypto projects. (Thanks a lot, SBF.)
However, we didn’t want to give up. So our team donated both time and money — through volunteering and covering running costs — to get EarthFund 2.0 designed, built and ready to launch.
🤝 We just want to take a moment to shout out everyone on Team EarthFund. Without your tireless commitment, hard work and determination, we wouldn’t have gotten here!
But now we’re nearing the finish line, it’s time to start handing over the keys to the kingdom.
As soon as the platform launches, we’ll start work on a full roadmap to complete decentralization.
This will start with pushing back the team token vesting schedule by at least three months into 2024 so we don’t impact any bounce the launch has on 1Earth.
After that, we’re going to speak to the investors and team to hold a vote on donating a significant portion of their tokens to the EarthFund DAO to set it up with a treasury that it can use to really make a difference.
(Why? Because a rising tide lifts all boats. We’ll all be better off if EarthFund is a roaring success. We’ve already spoken to several investors about this and they’re on board.)
Once this decentralization happens, the DAO will have complete control over everything → finances, software, development, business relationships, marketing, etc…
On top of that, we’ll start trying to recruit team members for the EarthFund DAO and start the handover process so you’re all set up for success.
Want to be part of the team? Let us know 👇
In short, post-launch we will:
⏳ Propose a vote on delaying the team and investor vesting schedule to 2024
🤝 Propose a vote on the team and investors donating a significant portion of their 1Earth to the EarthFund DAO to set it up for success
🔎 Start recruiting team members to run the EarthFund platform completely autonomously
And, of course, we’ll be working on marketing EarthFund every way we can to raise as much awareness as possible.
(More on that in the last update. But if you remember the 1.0 launch, you’ll know we don’t struggle to make a splash…)
In the meantime, you can still have a say on the platform…
As soon as the platform launches, you’ll be able to use your 1Earth to vote and control the Community of the Week 👇
Every week, you’ll be able to use your 1Earth to vote on which communities get promoted to the top of the homepage, promoted on social media and get boosted visibility.
This should result in more awareness, more donations, more members and — most importantly — more funding for world-changing projects.
(And if you’re a member of that community, you’ll get your rewards too.)
As this feature becomes integral to the platform, we envision that causes will promote 1Earth as the voting token as part of this gamified strategy to boost their community to the top spot. As they do this, they’ll raise awareness not just of the platform but of the token too.
You’ll also be able to suggest and vote on things like:
- How to use pro-rata distributions from the profits of EarthFund DAO LLC if the profits are distributed rather than reinvested.
- Creating EarthFund DAO-backed grants for causes to change the world
- How we promote EarthFund and 1Earth
- Suggest new features for the platform
Help us spread the word
- Make some noise about our AI update on social media! 🔥
- Leave a positive comment on KuCoin’s new comment functionality
- Follow us on X and give our posts a like/retweet → this would be huge for us. Our X profile is key to spreading the word beyond crypto and into the kind of spaces where future community members (and maybe even founders) hang out.
- Join our Telegram community (if you’re not a member already)
- Talk about EarthFund in EarthFund-adjacent spaces (maybe mental health communities or carbon/climate change communities on Twitter)
- Post about EarthFund on X or interact with us on social media (got to feed those social media algorithms!)
- Ask us questions — we’re always available to answer questions in Telegram. (And if our community team doesn’t have the answers, we’ll get them for you.)
- Leave a positive comment and bullish rating on CoinMarketCap
- Like 1Earth on CoinGecko
Until next week, a massive thanks for being part of this journey with us!
Let’s build a better tomorrow, together.
New to EarthFund? Here’s everything you need to know 👇
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All from one place.
EarthFund takes the power of centralized organizations like governments and global charities and gives it to communities dedicated to causes.
It allows everyday people like you to affect change. And using crypto and the blockchain, it lets you have a voice in decisions and fund the causes you believe in.
Powering it all is the 1Earth token, an ERC-20 token that can be staked in exchange for governance tokens that give you a voice on the platform.
By buying the token and joining the EarthFund DAO, anybody in the world will have a vote on how the EarthFund treasury is used to fund planet-saving projects around the world.
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