Love is better than hate, truth is better than ignorance, and decentralization will set us free.
Watch
@yanivgraph
unveil how Geo Genesis is starting a movement to solve the world’s biggest challenges using
@graphprotocol
.
Today we’re excited to launch an early version of Geo Genesis! The next step toward creating a global knowledge graph on
@graphprotocol
.
We’re launching with 2 initial spaces: Health & San Francisco.
We're excited to launch our new home page 🔮✨
See what Geo is all about! Now with easier to understand explanations showcasing the amazing work being done by the community, using
@graphprotocol
.
Web3 is arriving, fast.
Today we’re excited to expand access to Geo Genesis! We’ve been working closely with Future Thinkers Collective, We 💜 SF, and Graph Advocates to organize data about Crypto, Philosophy, Health & SF.
Geo Genesis is now ready for Editors!
We've been relatively silent about the work we're doing. That changes next Tuesday!
Join us for a special evening at
@thehouseofweb3
in SF as we explore the decentralized world we're building on
@graphprotocol
with
@geobrowser
.
Synchronizing every individual's hopes and dreams into a shared reality. Block by block. Tick to tock. Interleaved. A genesis timeline is weaving the fabric of a new civilization with a beating heart.
Today marks the beginning of a new journey for Geo! We're building a web3 browser and knowledge graph app on top of
@graphprotocol
as a standalone entity.
@Blockworks_
covers the news.
By building knowledge graphs directly on web3 with
@graphprotocol
, we can separate data from the user interface. This gives people the power to build custom user interfaces for any need on top of open semantic data.
We hosted 70+ nonprofits and city leaders at the Computer History Museum to coordinate Ending homelessness in the Bay Area.
We can use blockchains to bring transparency + accountability to public spending toward shared goals.
Learn more & get involved!
Join us next Wednesday at House of Web3 for a conversation on homelessness in SF.
@Twolfrecovery
and Del Seymore were formerly homeless, now serving as activists.
We’ll discuss the causes of homelessness and what we can do to improve the situation in SF.
If you believe that knowledge should be curated and organized in a decentralized way, that no one should have a monopoly on truth, and that only open public infrastructure can set us free, then GRT is your currency.
At ETHCC? 🇫🇷
Join
@yanivgraph
tomorrow at 3:20pm to learn how to use web3 to solve the world’s biggest challenges.
The tools are ready. Let’s make it count and start the global transformation 🌍
Knowledge graphs are the most flexible way of representing information. Each community should have their own space where they can organize their very own knowledge graph using a custom governance system 💡
Did you catch the news about Geo? Our first public release is going to be Geo Genesis, a simplified knowledge graph app for web.
Read more in the intro blog post.
There are 4 initial spaces on Geo Genesis: Philosophy, Crypto, Health, and San Francisco.
A small group of editors are playing around and getting the product ready for wider use. Invites for the next group of editors will go out next month.
What data do you want to see on Geo?
Triple stores are the main technology behind knowledge graphs. Triples consist of an Entity, Attribute & Value.
-An entity is a thing that can be referenced by a globally unique ID
⁃An attribute is a property of that thing
⁃The value is what you want to say about that thing
Innovate brought together 70+ nonprofits at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley.
Watch
@yanivgraph
show step by step how we can use web3 to help end homelessness in the Bay Area.
New space, what up? Geo is now organizing information related to housing in San Francisco.
Join us tonight at House of Web3 to learn how to get more housing built!
Last week we celebrated the grand opening of House of Web3 in San Francisco 🌉
Watch
@yanivgraph
's opening remarks where he shared an intention for the space and how we can use crypto protocols for impact with a focus on local community engagement.
Spreadsheets are incredibly useful. There are even collaborative versions like Google Sheets. But what would happen if you made a Google Sheet editable by 1,000 people? 1,000,000 people?
How do you make a shared state database that can be used by entire populations?
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If we can agree on the facts, everything else becomes easier. Geo's fact database allows communities to get consensus on a set of facts, modeled as triples. Available for your community soon.
Crypto and blockchains are powerful tools that could allow us to solve the world’s biggest challenges. Let’s see what’s possible when we work toward tackling big issues that impact people in the real world.
We’re excited to announce Phase 2 of the Geo Explorers program! Be one of the first Editors to add content to Geo and compete for prizes!
The top 5 Editors will earn 10k GRT and the next 5 will get 1k GRT.
Apply now and help build the next web! 🔮
We can use web3 to help solve the world’s biggest challenges.
For example, Editors are organizing knowledge in the Sustainability space on Geo to track goals, ideas, and progress for healing our planet.
Follow along!
At the House of Web3 grand opening,
@yanivgraph
shared an intention for the space. We're getting started and are hosting our first event on ending homelessness in San Francisco next Wednesday!
Reputation may be the killer app of web3. Giving people power proportional to the value of their contributions.
Communities will have to decide how rep is allocated. Subgraphs can be used to calculate reputation since they allow you to run computations over onchain events.
When we launched Geo Genesis we had a Triples Table, which is flexible but not super easy to use. Starting today you can browse using Entity Tables!
Check out quotes linked with claims from our recent event on ending homelessness in SF.
Join us tonight at
@Thehouseofweb3
for a talk on structuring ontological systems by Jamie Joyce of
@SocietyLibrary
.
How can we structure knowledge, arguments, and debates into a knowledge graph? Come find out!
Pluralism is the recognition and acceptance of diverse beliefs, values, and perspectives within a society.
The graph of knowledge needs to take pluralism into account, but there are pros and cons.
Read philosophical claims about Pluralism on Geo Genesis.
Join us tomorrow for our next online Future Thinkers Collective on Pluralism in web3.
How do we allow for diverging points of view to coexist in a unified system? How do design choices here affect the fabric of society? Come chime in ⚖️
Do you care about Climate Change and Sustainability? Editors are organizing knowledge on Geo to help drive toward a sustainable future.
The first step is organizing goals, objectives, solutions, and existing projects in the space.
By organizing public goals, problems, solutions, claims & questions into a knowledge graph, we can map out complex areas of collective action and start making change.
Knowledge graphs that accumulate idiosyncratically and topographically are getting serious attention by all insightful founders and thoughtful investors. How to capture these knowledge graphs via one simple action point could possibly become one of the next gen opportunities.
Getting to consensus is the process of getting to agreement on things. In an increasingly polarized world, we need consensus technologies now more than ever.
Future Thinkers Collective had a meeting discussing intellectual property in web3.
What are the legitimate goals of IP protection? Where do the current laws hurt businesses and consumers? How can we implement IP protection in a web3 native way?
With Geo, communities will be able to vote on arbitrary information in a knowledge graph including values, principles, and policies.
All of this secured by cryptography on the blockchain and The Graph.
Geo will bring forward governance to align our AI future.
one thing coming up in the debate about the pause letter i really agree with:
openai should make a great alignment dataset and alignment evals and release those!
bonus points if we can find a prototype democratic process for 'what we align to'.
Watch the recording from last week's event on Ending homelessness in SF at House of Web3!
Del and Tom shared their experience with what's causing the homelessness crisis and what we can do to help.
The web3 community is getting involved. Join us!
Part of decentralization is a push toward local solutions. We’re building global tools for interoperability, but empowering local communities to make their own decisions.
Next Wednesday, SF Supervisor Joel Engardio is giving a
@WeAreTogetherSF
talk at
@thehouseofweb3
about SF politics. Learn how local laws get made and how you can help drive change through the system.
Drinks at 5:30. Bring your friends and make it a party!
Tomorrow at
@thehouseofweb3
in SF, we're discussing abundant housing and how to balance the goals of different stakeholder groups.
What should our shared goals be related to housing units and real estate prices in the Bay Area? Let's map it out!
will be happening in public with upcoming features including:
1. Permissionless space creation
2. Reputation weighted voting
3. Tables with ranking
4. Custom pages
This is a stripped down version of the Geo vision. The full browser will be released at a later date.
Want to learn how to get housing built in SF so we can make housing affordable? Join us 2/22 in conversation with Corey Smith of Housing Action Coalition and Jane Natoli of YIMBY as we dive into streamlining the permit process.
Citizens can make a change!
Anyone can browse and selected users can write. The data is basic to start and we’re excited to invite more people to contribute to the dataset. We’ll be giving more users write access over the coming weeks.
The code is open source and development
Substance abuse is a big contributor to SF’s homelessness problem. How are the city’s policies contributing to the problem?
We’re having a discussion at noon tomorrow at
@thehouseofweb3
so web3 builders can understand what’s going on.
Meritocracy is the idea of giving more power to people who have demonstrated ability in a certain area. Meritocracy could help communities make better decisions, but there are risks.
View claims on Democracy vs Meritocracy on Geo Genesis.
@greekyyy
@yanivgraph
We’re sure plenty of great apps will be built on Solana and we’ll want to provide access to those through
@graphprotocol
’s Solana integration.
Join us tonight at 6pm at
@thehouseofweb3
for a philosophy meetup exploring the governance trade offs between democracy and meritocracy.
This is the first in the Future Thinkers Collective series!
for how crypto protocols and blockchain technology can be used to solve the world’s biggest challenges.
We have a beautiful space in House of Web3 in the Presidio where mission aligned teams and individuals can come work and get involved. We’ll be hosting a series of events
You can structure even the most complex topics with knowledge graphs. Using this superpower, communities can explore and work toward consensus on issues that have previously been too contentious to solve.
Our initial goal is to help communities get to consensus on knowledge graphs. Geo Genesis can be used to organize any information, but we’re starting with a focus on helping to solve the biggest challenges facing San Francisco.
This work can serve as a model
Knowledge graphs are the most flexible way of representing information. You can represent any facts about the most complex topics using knowledge graphs.
Join us tomorrow for an online discussion on content moderation in web3.
How do we balance freedom & safety? Can we layer moderation so users have more choice? What are the risks? Come chime in ⚖️
We’re kickstarting phase 2 of the Geo Explorers program. If you want to be an early access Editor you can apply at .
We’re accepting editors for any interest group. Music, Movies, Education, Sports, Farming?
Organize your knowledge on Geo 🔮
Every generation has to decide the legacy they want to leave behind. We’ve inherited a ton of problems, but none of them are unsolvable if we put our minds to it! Laws can be changed, protocols can be created. We can get organized and leave things better than we found it. 👩🚀💜
Together we can change how society is organized, put power into the hands of those who’ve earned it, and distribute resources and opportunity far and wide.
For example “that guy’s name is Devin”. Or “that guy works at Geo”.
Using triples, we can assert facts and describe relationships between anything! The data is unstructured and can include any relevant information or connections.
From there we can add structure to view things
Tomorrow at
@thehouseofweb3
in SF we’re discussing housing solutions and the ethics of displacement.
How do we strategize where subsidized and free housing should be built to balance cost and wellbeing for communities and those in need?
Join us tomorrow for our next online philosophy meetup discussing Identity in web3.
Who should use their real names? When KYC? Right to be forgotten?
We’re organizing the trade offs to aid in policy making. Be part of the discussion!
in more and more useful ways.
Using triple stores, we can create knowledge graphs that represent any information.
Geo’s triple store runs on
@graphprotocol
.
With knowledge graphs on public networks, we have a robust architecture for public software in the internet age.
@MOCK_PUPPET
It doesn’t work. People are on the street because they’re struggling to be fully functional. A home is a bandaid if the person isn’t fully functioning.
We have to help people heal and get back on their feet, so they can live full healthy lives.
@Gramybear
We’re forming a mentorship DAO.
Maybe once that’s up and running you could be a mentor for a veteran who’s working to get back on their feet. A phone call once a week can go a long way 🙂
@Pdwspoon2
Yes, many of the nonprofits today are not spending the money effectively. They may even be incentivized to perpetuate the problem.
We need better policies, and we need transparency so that we can use the existing money more effectively.
@dusterdoug1
This is why we need transparency for how public funds are spent. With better transparency we can have accountability and make sure money is going to organizations that are doing the work and delivering results.
@GaelicReptile
By creating transparency for how money is being spent, giving us better voting tools for arriving at better policies, and providing interoperability between the different service providers who are doing good work.
@carlbtl
Who are those counselors? Where will they be staying while they’re in treatment? Who’s operating those facilities? Do they get health services? Workforce training?
Somehow we need to coordinate all these services that are needed to get people reintegrated into society.