 Hi, so yeah, I'm Yalda. I studied mechanical engineering whenever I was in college about 10 years ago and I Ended up working in product management for 10 years after that and I decided to change my path to get into the space sector So took some night classes for astronautical engineering. I thought it wasn't a lead towards You know applying for a master's program, but it led and said towards creating a Company first called space cooperative and our mission was to create a Social collaboration platform so people can crowdsource and crowdfund space missions and five months after we you know Incorporate our business there was an article written by a futurist Julia Prisco and he proposed a decentralized autonomous space agency Which was very similar to what we wanted to do, but it talked about how you can you know create this Ecosystem by creating a decentralized autonomous organization So we reached out to him. He was calling it space decentralized We decided to you know merge our visions and and then that's how we started to lead lead towards this more you know utilizing blockchain to execute on our vision A lot of times when I talk to people about You know what we're working on they always say well Why why focus on space when there are so many problems we need to solve on earth first and You know these are some of the reasons that I talk about sometimes It's like okay. Well, we wouldn't know about you know climate change if it wasn't for space technology We wouldn't have you know like some some of these like in insulating technologies that we use on buildings all over All over earth if it wasn't for you know trying to develop these space missions and you know have that protection from this harsh space environment or you know Also like space is such an inspirational thing that it is something that can bring Humanity together to focus on something you know as a unified species So there's also that and then just like the drive to to understand the universe more to explore like that Curiosity that's just in our human nature. So it's like we can't just shut that off from us So that's why I'm focusing on space and also the movie 2001 a space Odyssey also really inspired me So yeah, what is space decentralized? You know we we aim to reinvigorate the push for space exploration with global citizens in control Essentially, we want to create an international space agency So it will be decentralized because no single corporation or nation will be responsible for its management It's autonomous because like the members that are part of the network They will control, you know how work is directed how decisions are made and also which projects to fund and then it's a space Agency because the goal is to really come up with a strategic space plan a space program Not not just to always select random ideas, but to actually build a roadmap that accelerates our timeline into becoming a space-bearing civilization With the ultimate goal, it's like, you know, it's about expansion expansion of knowledge expansion of humanity throughout the cosmos and you know expansion of Just being a collective as a as a human species So in this talk, I'm gonna talk a little bit about Aerospace crowd history just kind of like the history of crowdfunding and crowdsourcing in aerospace One example will be X-Prize and then I'll talk about kind of the the trajectory towards X-Prize type model into the space Decentral model And then I'm gonna talk about phase one of how space Decentral currently works right now And then phase two of how it will ideally work So aerospace crowd history so you can probably Say the starting point of crowdsourcing in aerospace might have been the Deutsche Prize and the 1900s and that was for you know, the challenge was to To you know, build an airship that goes from this airfield in France to the Eiffel Tower and back So it was about 11 kilometers round trip And yeah, that was awarded to a Brazilian And he won a hundred thousand dollars for that and then there are a few other prizes, you know from the 1900s until the 1990s like the Ortiz prize But some of the ones that you probably have heard about recently are the X-Prize and the first X-Prize was also Space-related and that was a ten million dollars for the first non-governmental Organization to launch a reusable manned spacecraft and and yeah, that was awarded in 2004 and then the recent one that we've all probably heard about is the lunar X-Prize and Teams have been working on that for about 11 years and they recently just canceled it this year since no one was able to Launch their landers in time But what did happen as far as those X-Prize teams go is even though the prize was 30 million dollars Over 300 million dollars of funding went towards these different groups that were developing these, you know lunar lander technologies or Rovers or what have you? so some of like the top examples are Space IL and they were the Israeli group a nonprofit even though they were a nonprofit They were still able to get you know 95 million dollars worth of Contributions some from the founders of the team philanthropists a little bit from the Israeli space agency I space their Japanese company They actually just recently got 90 million or so this year or like the large amount of it was this year And then moon express and yeah, they have they've had about 65 million They think they just recently closed a pretty large round So so I guess like if you think about the incentive structure here Space IL is an interesting example because they were a nonprofit There were only 30 Paid members working on the team, but 200 volunteers essentially working for 10 years without any pay at all So a lot of the drive for that was to just like work on something challenging It's inspire people and I think that's kind of What is great about space is it brings people together to? Accomplish the impossible and it's not always about the financial reward But the financial reward, you know can still be a nice motivating factor, but it's not an ultimate requirement And then as far as like crowdfunding goes in space from like the the micro citizen level some of the projects you probably heard about are Arcade and that was planetary resources crowdfunding project And that was like your prize would be you'd get a selfie of yourself in the backdrop of space but they actually Ended up giving back people's money for that because they that they didn't even though the the crowdfunding campaign was successful They still didn't have as much external funding to fully execute on it And then there was the light sale by planetary resources I believe that they try they launched that first mission, but it didn't end up working out well But they're planning a light sale to right now And then a recent one was a just for like a telescope So yeah, now I want to talk more about you know how we go from the XPRIZE to something like Space Decentral so right now in Space Decentral we actually We actually announced an open-source lunar program in July and since then You know people have been working on the space mission in a very open manner. We have weekly meetings on Mondays people Yeah, we have weekly meetings on Mondays everything's like in an open, you know, Google Drive and GitHub, you know Everything's like transparently organized. It's not really on the blockchain yet But I'm gonna talk more about phase two and how it will progress to that But essentially the objective is to demonstrate in situ resource utilization technology or ISRU To 3D print on the moon's on the moon surface using lunar regolith or like, you know The moon moon dust as feedstock so you wouldn't like send anything else to print But you'd you know mine the local resources to eventually, you know start off with printing a brick And then after like subsequent missions You can eventually print a habitat and that can ultimately reduce the cost of space travel if you can Do ISRU on the moon? so yeah, this is our flagship mission and Whenever we asked some of the people that are part of the the team now like what motivated you to join like some answers were make friends with like-minded people or just like space or You know a chance to participate in something new or to be an asset to society and then a few other answers where you know more space specific like a potential for advancing interesting lunar projects or interested in space resource utilization so it's like a broad Area of interest as far as why people are participating in this project and Yeah, right now like I said we we launched we announced this mission in July And there's about like 20 people that are actively contributing to the project, you know a lot from America, Canada India Australia Sweden the UK Brazil as far as like people's heritage goes and We want to you know keep keep growing the network and It's actually like we haven't really focused that much on the publicity and growing more team members for this because the problem is if you Want to like grow it from like 20 to 100 like the skill you need You need like project managers any people that are gonna like gonna be very diligent about like the task management like leading groups So that's just kind of like what we're trying to hash out throughout this process If you really want to scale you need you know You need to be better at task management You need to be better at project management and you need people on the team that want to do those skills because a lot of people actually interested in more Individual contributor level like doing the actual like okay like research or design because It's like kind of a side project and like doing project management on the side isn't always that fascinating for people So how does it initially work? So right now we have a Space Decentral Network Space Decentral.net for collaboration. It's a centralized social network isn't it's not on the blockchain yet Eventually it will be a decentralized application, but for now it's more of a forum To you know track the different projects and it has like an integration with Google Drive And then like I said before we're using GitHub for project management so yeah, we're kind of laying down the different tasks and We're also going through a process of kind of starting to estimate like the relative value of one task to another as far as like How long it will take to complete it because that is what will ultimately go into The phase two which is properly attributing, you know work where it was done but this is like like some of the recent work of the network is you know doing a trade study to to Decide the manufacturing method like whether it's going to be microwave-sintering solar-sintering They're you know different additive manufacturing methods and the group is going through trade studies to determine the best one And then also, you know, there's there's room for people that aren't Scientists or engineers to like we had a task on Git It was it was just like design a logo and then these are some of the designs we got I We're leaning towards something that looks like the last one right now. So we're just kind of iterating on that So how does it ideally work? So how this is how a space agency works as far as NASA goes You have pre-phase a concept studies And then there are all these like design reviews and you know concept, you know phase a technology development phase B All the way up to phase F when you're closing out the mission. So there are all of these Milestones in between and there are a lot of review processes as well So if we want to create this decentralized network You need to design the system that it can at least support maybe a slightly leaner version of this But you know, you would have different experts that would be matched to the different review cycles You would have different conditions that need to occur before you know funding is opened up or before a concept is selected But that's just kind of like a high-level overview. But yeah, so it's like how how are we going to do this? You know, we're gonna have the Ethereum blockchain at the lower level as far as Tracking the value of the money that will be flowing through the ecosystem or the contributions of each person We're gonna be using Aragon For governance and it's also a decentralized application framework because if you're a decentralized autonomous Organization that means governance and decision-making is the core of what you're doing So Aragon will support, you know, the voting on which projects to fund or even Voting on if you want to create a technical counsel Electing that technical counsel deciding when you might want to dissolve that technical counsel So just because you're a decentralized autonomous organization doesn't mean it's always gonna be completely flat But it means that as a collective you can decide when you want hierarchy and when you want to get rid of it as well And that's similar to how worker owned cooperatives work as well and then Space Decentral that will be You know more of a focus on the scientific or distributed engineering tools So for the work that we do on Aragon Those will be more generic applications that any DAO can use But then the Space Decentral ones will be you know how we can further build upon it to support the scientific and engineering community Okay, so I think about six more minutes. I'll try to quickly go through this but But the Space Decentral DAO will be a two token ecosystem So one is FTL or faster than light and that's the transferable token that can be purchased And it can be staked for governance rights and it's also used to prioritize the higher level program So a token-weighted vote on if the network should focus on Mars moon earth So you got a essentially a distribution and that higher level Vote essentially determines how many SDN you mint per program each year So if the if the vote said we should do like 70 percent Mars 20 percent moon 10 percent earth That's kind of like what your supply of SDN will be and you'll do these votes usually like on a yearly basis Or whatever the network thinks makes sense as far as being able to you know make progress on the space program But SDN it's it's minted by the DAO As they see fit and it's awarded to intellectual contributors So essentially SDN like there will be SDN on every task and if you complete a task you collect SDN So you can start to just see who is you know Who are the top contributors in the network and it's you know It's decoupled from the one that can be purchased because that gives the network more flexibility to do interesting things and then Similarly what you can do is since FTL is the one that has value you can decide you know Oh on a cyclical basis, we're gonna like distribute rewards to the contributors So you can think of this as an evolution to the XPRIZE model where instead of you know Thirty million dollars at the end of the year after you do this goal You can you know do things more like maybe on a yearly basis you distribute five million dollars to everyone That's active in the network So that's that's how we think we can evolve this map this model and how you know if if if you Create something like the XPRIZE again instead of you know having like 50 teams compete against each other Maybe there's a way you can do it that encourages collaboration So you could have actually you know sent that lander to the moon because there are so many you know intelligent teams working on it Maybe with this new way where there is you know better contra or better way to track everyone's work You know you can share the prize, but at the end of the day you saw that The the money that was put into those projects far outweighed what the prizes were anyhow So right now we have a space mission activation process where people can come up with different proposals to be Selected for crowdsourcing so so essentially there's a curation process before a project is fully activated on the network So you know you can post an idea start to discuss informed teams draft the proposal Get feedback and review and then then it'll be filtered to make sure that it kind of fits into the model It's open source etc And then in parallel people are developing Space Central like they're working on the coral mission or they're helping with the tools They're collecting these SDN and that gives them a voting share to actually Participate in the process to select one of the proposals so there So these are kind of like the two parallel ways that people can contribute It's like if you have an idea you go through like the first track of proposing missions But if you just want to contribute to some of the active missions already you can contribute to those and then that will give you a stake to vote and Then yeah, so this is essentially the mission activation vote if you had a selected mission you also get SDN for that And then what happens is just because your mission was selected doesn't mean you and your team are gonna be the only ones working on it Like as as part of submitting this proposal to the network. You're submitting it to be an open source project So as a as a collective Dow, you know The there will be like a more of a detailed project plan developed with tasks and then people from the network can start to work on it And then how is FTL awarded essentially it Kind of goes through a process where you have these tasks. They have SDN allocated to them so a contributor can completes the task and then eventually Whenever a reward cycle occurs they get FTL in proportion to how many how much SDN they collected So right now what we're working on is developing a suite of applications for Aragon and we're calling it that planning suite But essentially these are the different tools that the the Dow will be using to allocate funding and make decisions and Any any other organization that wants to also do similar types of crowd sourcing and crowdfunding Can use these apps and you don't has nothing to do with our token You can have your own to token ecosystem to to build your network if you want to employ similar processes So this is what we're kind of giving back to the community and how we think Applications should be developed in general as far as like if you want to develop an application for a Dow You don't have to tie it to your token. You can you know to develop these common tools together So, you know all all organizations that want to operate in a decentralized manner will eventually have this, you know Fully fledged enterprise suite So here's an example of a tokenized task management system I mean, it's much more detail how it works, but you know people can Estimate bounties and then you can get approval from the entire organization to actually fund it and Then this is kind of like the rewards ecosystem where you can create a new ward a new Cycled map which token it's allocated to and you know how much that allocation is Yeah, so it's unknown what the future holds, but it's up to us to shape it. That's Spacey son. Thank you very much. Yeah, thank you very much