Hi,

This is my first time posting but delighted to share that we recently released Littercoin.

Littercoin is rewarded for uploading data about litter observations, storytelling, and impact quantification to openlittermap.com

OpenLitterMap is open source:
github.com/openlittermap

Read more here:
https://opengeospatialdata.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186...

The openlittermap research started in 2008, in the pre-iphone era. After being introduced to GIS, I was interested in trying combine gaming with GIS, when I discovered the global extent of the plastic problem and how an emerging global abundance of technology could help.

After traveling, scuba diving, and then self-financing 2 masters in GIS and Geography to get the skills and context, I completed the OpenLitterMap research in 2015 and was introduced to the concept of tokenisation shortly later.

This is when the idea for Littercoin started, as I thought it would be funny to apply a cryptocurrency to the act of collecting and helping process the litter data.

After teaching myself how to code, openlittermap.com launched in 2017, which has been followed by mobile apps, an automated twitter bot, a growing active global community, now Littercoin, and more!

The way Littercoin works is that you earn one by getting 100 images past our verification system.

A smart contract accumulates ada, giving every Littercoin value. Anyone can add crypto to increase the value of littercoin.

However, to get the ada out, one needs to obtain a special Merchant Token, a new concept that we are introducing.

Merchant Tokens expire after 12 months, but anyone holding a valid merchant token can accept Littercoin from the community, and send the Littercoin to the Smart Contract to get the crypto out.

In it's 2-day history, the dollar value of Littercoin has moved from $2 to $6.

Our plan is that only climate approved zero-waste/zero-plastic carbon negative merchants will be approved, who we want to celebrate, and connect with our motivated and passionate community who are interested in doing the right thing for society.

When a merchant holding a valid token sends Littercoin to the smart contract, there is a 4.20% fee that is paid to us to finance the continued development of the platform.

After 15 years research, I got my first significant funding from Project Catalyst on Cardano. Over 285M tokens representing ~0.5b tokens voted for my proposal Littercoin: Mass Adoption to achieve $50,0000 worth of ada.
https://projectcatalyst.io/funds/4/f4-dapps-and-integrations...

I know this work is not perfect, and welcome your support to better achieve our goals.

Keep the global map open to see live updates:
openlittermap.com/global

Follow our weekly updates:
https://medium.com/@weeklyolm

If you would like to get involved and help shape the future direction of our work, we host weekly public community zoom calls: openlittermap.com/community we are also active on slack: https://join.slack.com/t/openlittermap/shared_invite/zt-fdct...

At the moment, we need help from an AI developer to work with our ~350,000+ images to develop the OpenLitterAI which will automate detection and help with the current manual verification process.

Any angels or good souls out there? I have been pushing the startup boat mostly by myself for a while and could really use some help.

Cheers,

Seán