Thirsty Thirsty DAO Pre Launch Grant Proposal

TT DAO Community

Thirsty Thirsty is the hub for exciting and regenerative food, wine, and land experiences in web3. We are here to regenerate Mother Earth and celebrate Indigenous wisdom, using food and wine to story tell. Our members get treated like friends & family at top restaurants and wineries across the globe that source or farm regeneratively. Members luxuriate in the most delicious products and simultaneously support small-scale agriculture and the Indigenous communities that carry profound knowledge. Empowering Indigenous communities and recentering ancestral agriculture is our strongest tool to restabilize our planet. Food, wine, and travel are joy. Ancestral stories are the medicine.

Call to Adventure

Thirsty Thirsty DAO members will enjoy unique dining experiences featuring the best restaurants that are committed to sourcing the best products. The best products are grown by small-scale growers and winemakers who work organically or biodynamically, to strengthen their land’s biodiversity. Members transform into VIPs at collaborating restaurants and wineries, giving them access to a myriad of bespoke offerings. TT Community will also receive exclusive access to special events (like harvest celebrations, industry-only salons, allocated seasonal releases, etc…) and Fine Wine NFTs that come with a real wine bottle of collector, regeneratively farmed natural wine.

Our NFT ecosystem offers seasonal two-tier releases. Tier one valued at $1034.30, provides membership and access to our restaurant partners and a unique bottle of wine exclusive to Thirsty Thirsty. Tier two valued at $275.81 provides all the value of tier one without the wine. Although the wine utility of our NFT’s are single use, the actual NFT represents lasting membership in Thirsty Thirsty. However each NFT drop is an opportunity for our wine collectors to build their collection of both wines and unique NFTs. In addition to our tiered NFT membership, Thirsty Thirsty DAO offers “experiences”. Each experience, individually priced and associated with its own NFT drop.

We choose vibrant, impactful, heart-opening dining memories that root us back to nature even in the busiest cities in the world. Experiences of pleasure can also protect experiences of the earth through a circular economy of shared values. As we take from the land, we must give back to it and those that work to protect it.

We see a link between how our food and wine choices impact soil health and carbon sequestration. We also believe the future of our planet depends on centering and celebrating with the Indigenous communities that protect 80% of the earth’s biodiversity. We deeply value reciprocity. Thirsty Thirsty nourishes a community of food and beverages lovers that in turn see the value in supporting Indigenous and Black communities that stand at the frontlines of climate crises. Harmony’s commitment to energy efficiency and environmentally friendly practices as a blockchain reinforce this value. One of many reasons we would like to be a part of the harmony ecosystem.

Success for Thirsty Thirsty is layered and dynamic.

First and foremost, we are passionate about creating new revenue streams and access for farmers, winemakers, and Indigenous communities using blockchain technology. We seek to bring them into the Thirsty Thirsty ecosystem to expand our network, activation capabilities, and impact. We are motivated to act as a bridge between the natural world and web3 by bringing in often overlooked but incredibly valuable communities that are more skeptical about entering this new digital space on their own.

Success means that TTDAO has direct partnerships with the best restaurants in the world, including those on top dining lists (Michelin, Zagat, San Pelligrino) and top natural wineries to create a global network of “slow-food” destinations that all accept/participate with crypto tools.

Success means that our vibrant DAO community members are inspired to infuse the values of Thirsty Thirsty in their backyard communities. Many local producers making high-quality food and beverages worldwide are likely also to be Indigenous. We love the idea that reciprocity can be intentionally stimulated in smaller economies across the globe. Ancestral foodways and the restaurants that support them can be uplifted, preserved, and resourced through connection to web3.

Success means that TTDAO has direct partnerships with select Black & Indigenous-led environmental organizations to support their work and collaborate on events, dining experiences, and education.

Going big, success means that Thirsty Thirsty DAO works to repurchase stolen land for First Nation/Indigenous communities. We can collectively support the development of ceremonial spaces where holistic retreats and events can be activated. The land can yield food and profit for the community and function as a safe ceremonial space for the Indigenous communities.

3 Mandates

1.Celebrate - Delight and Archive Ancestral Agriculture

2.Educate - Hospitality, Farmers, Winemakers, Land Protectors, Food & Wine Lovers

3.Wealth - Create Financial Sovereignty

TT Membership

Thirsty Thirsty members have access to exclusive Fine Wine NFTs and a vetted network of in-real-life farms, restaurants, and wineries dedicated to Ancestral Ag. When TT Members arrive at a participating location, they transform into Frens & Fam and enjoy a myriad of bespoke offerings. TT Community will also receive exclusive access to special events (like harvest celebrations, industry-only salons, allocated seasonal releases, etc…) and unique products via redeemable NFTs.

We see a link between how our food and wine choices impact soil health and carbon sequestration. We also believe the future of our planet depends on centering and celebrating with the Indigenous communities that protect 80% of the earth’s biodiversity. Thirsty Thirsty nourishes a community of food and beverages lovers that in turn see the value in supporting Indigenous and Black communities that stand at the frontlines of climate crises. To build our network organically with Cohorts. TT offers bespoke web3 education workshops to restaurateurs, farmers, winemakers, and land protectors. Each cohort educates our communities about web3 to unlock new doors for their visions and the TT ecosystem. It is also a moment where those protecting the earth can build relationships with one another and knowledge share. We prioritize our BIPOC2+ comrades when selecting our Cohort partners. Through our partnerships, events, bi weekly open calls on discord. We aim to be a web3 and financial resource for our community long term. Building and growing together.

Experiences of pleasure can also protect experiences of the earth through a circular economy of shared values. As we take from the land, we must give back to it and those that work to protect it.

The path of Thirsty Thirsty is delicious and generative…

  1. April 2022 - Cohort 1 begins
    Each TTCohort is composed of restaurateurs, chefs, winemakers, and land protectors to be onboarded into web3. These are communities previously excluded from traditional finance that are integral to celebrating our connection to Earth. Each Cohort partner will offer something back to our community - access to their IRL location, unique workshops, or event experiences. Examples include harvest opportunities, tasting an off menu dish, or a digital naturally leavened pizza making class. Each cohort partner will become a part of the Thirsty Thirsty ecosystem and eventually hold $THIRSTYTHIRSTY tokens that can unlock governance opportunities and generate new revenue streams.
  2. May 2022 - Special travel NFT release + Hello World
    Will will drop 15 special high end NFTs as pass to an unforgettable California Harvest Retreat. We will drop this with our Hello World on Mirror.
  3. June 2022 - Release of 888 crowdfunding Membership Wine NFTs. Each drop will feature a collector level, redeemable wine from the best natural wine producers in the world. This is an opportunity for folks to join our community, and build a digital and IRL cellar that celebrates top winemakers dedicated to Earth. All physical bottles will feature a bespoke wine label by inspiring femmes & BIPOC2+ artists. Each drop also grants Membership access to VIP experiences at partner restaurant and winery locations that source or farm organic, at minimum.
  4. Fall 2022 - Our membership network begins
    We will create a circular economy of Earth love and deliciousness. Every restaurant, winery, and farm in our network is dedicated to Ancestral farming that ensures Earth’s longevity. Each node can become community hubs for learning and dining experiences for our Members. TT Members will become Frens & Fam at locations from top restaurants in New York City and trusted friends to Indigenous elders in the Colombian Amazonas. We will also feature digital workshops for more inclusive and accessible programming with our cohort partners.

Team

TT is led by Femmes & BIPOC2+ storytellers, artists, eternal students, and parents dedicated to the longevity of Mother Earth and people living in reciprocity.

Bruxa Founder and Partnerships. She is a child of Brazilian Indigenous, Portuguese and adopted Jewish ancestors. She founded Thirsty Thirsty in 2014, offering a natural wine focused wine club, events, and consulting. She has worked in the global food and wine industry since 2009, focusing on natural wine generative farming in thirteen countries. She holds a WSET Level 3 accreditation with Distinction.
Twitter: @0xbruxa

Cryptowitch Education and Operations. Cryptowitch is a crypto educator and founder of 0xx, focused on educating women and underserved communities about web3. She worked in wine importing, retail, and service way back in New York City. She holds a masters from New York University in Food Studies, focusing on Food & Conflict.

Davy Head Developer and Tech Strategy. Davy Braun is an independent consultant working as a strategist, sometimes UX designer, oftentimes developer and tech lead for the web — and as of late, web3. An academically-trained designer turned technologist, he has worked extensively in the past 12 years for the luxury industry, art market, and institutions such as the OECD. He currently advises on web3 small digital fashion DAOs and designers, large luxury groups and “Maisons”, and co-organized the first successful auction-house led NFT art sale in France, where he is based.
Twitter: @davypeterbraun

Kim Community Ops lead and Marketing. Kim has a background in marketing and project management. In the past, she has specialized in building partnerships and creating marketing campaigns for various direct-to-consumer brands like Grove Collaborative, Quip and Verb Energy. She’s bullish on the possibilities that Web3 can offer, especially in terms of bringing financial freedom to traditionally underrepresented groups. In 2021, she completed SheFi’s 10-week crypto course which helped shape her understanding of how Web3 technology and tools can help elevate various industries. At Thirsty Thirsty, she leads our marketing and community operations efforts. She’s eager and excited about Thirsty Thirsty’s mission to recenter Ancestral wisdom through joyful wine and food experiences powered by the blockchain.
Twitter: @chimmyken

Trian Artist Relations, Financials, Special Projects. Trian began in web3 as an NFT collector and curator and quickly decided to develop a career in web3. Focussed on woman lead projects. She joined the Thirsty Thirsty team after securing a scholarship to Eth Denver through Blue DAO. In addition to working with Thirsty Thirsty, she is a NFT art and music curator. While developing her own community driven project.
Twitter: @trian.eth

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So proud to get our proposal up ! Recentering Ancestral Wisdom not only offers us true holistic nourishment but is how we can bring our planet back into balance.

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It’s been amazing following you guys for some time. I’m inspired by your guys’s beautiful mission, vision & values – valuing reciprocity, creating new revenue streams & access for farmers, winemakers & indigenous communities. Ancestral foodways and the restaurants that support them can be uplifted, preserved, and resourced through connection to web3.

Super excited for upcoming NFT launch! Members luxuriate in the most delicious products while support small-scale agriculture and the Indigenous communities that carry profound knowledge. :pray::heart:

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Congrats! Proposal looks great.

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Thank u for taking the time to comment. So grateful for your support and for seeing the vision!

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ahh congrats!! so cool to see all of this come together after having several conversations with you about various pieces of this

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yes yes and yes. Breaking bread and sharing drink has been a part of connecting to each other, the land, and our ancestors since those same ancestors found language.

Super excited for this project and i know its the start of a much bigger movement

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big fan of thirsty thirsty and big fan of [responsible, thoughtful and respectful] IRL expressions of web3 tech. congrats on this proposal! can’t wait to see it come to life.

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Yes! This connects so many important dots for our food system irl and on web3. Having watched TT grow into a wine club whereUX has been great, I find it particularly heartening to see this amazing project grow and leverage mutually beneficial opportunities btwn care of the land, ancestral knowledge, and healthy food economies—made transparent by a direct-to-consumer experience that goes beyond nation state borders.

Excited for this NFT drop :grapes::heart:

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Thank you for submitting a proposal to Harmony’s $300M Ecosystem Fund. We are in the process of reviewing your proposal and will assign a representative on behalf of the Grants Ops team.

We would also love :blue_heart: to have the Harmony community participate to ask questions and provide feedbacks.

If you have more details to add, please do so by replying to this thread.

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yes to indulgent experiences that give back to the planet and people :sparkling_heart: it’s about time to see this come to life! :seedling:

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We would love to hear from the Harmony community, and happy to answer any questions. Thank you!

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do yall have proof for your claims? Can you provide a list of partner restaurants and wineries?

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Excited for this TT proposal - I’ve learned so much in the short time I’ve been involved and hoping to continue learning as TT sets deep roots in the online world. our future has to be informed by our past and our past is much deeper than we think.

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As a SeedClub Alumni, I had the pleasure of working with the Thirsty Thirsty team in the past cohort. By far one of my favorite projects from SC04!

Food + Drink is an essential part of coming together as a community. The team is super talented and fueled behind an incredible mission. Can’t wait to wine and dine with this group of awesome builders :white_heart:

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I’m interested to see how this will function. Super excited to hear about what the future holds for TT DAO! Perhaps we could see some examples of what sorts of ingredients and wines you are offering. Love what I see so far! :blue_heart:

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Thirsty thirsty has the vision, community, and connections to get real world solutions for underserved communities and land protectors to lift up in solidarity and retool themselves to facilitate big changes in a very broken system.

I have worked closely with Bruxa and the heart pouring out couldn’t be more pure!

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Hi thanks for popping in. Our vision is to build the restaurant and winery nodes organically, to support quality over quantity, and ideally find partners that want to be with us long term. I am a wine professional of over 12+ years with an extensive international and domestic network of natural winemakers, restaurants, and retailers. We have also been offering events and consulting since 2014, so are pulling all of this into a web3 space to bridge url and irl. I am tapping into this network and beyond to recruit Cohort partners. We deeply believe in reciprocity, and have designed the back end to offer value back to potential partners.

We have created a bespoke web3 workshop series to educate hospitality, farmers, winemakers, and land protectors about web3. Thirsty Thirsty is one of the first food/bev DAOs innovating in the web3 space and we want to see more of our community in. Each TTCohort gets to learn about web3 from our core contributor and web3 educator Cryptowitch, of 0xx.io community. In return, each Cohort partner offers something back to our members. This can be a physical location, event experience, digital workshop, or NFT.

We are thrilled that Cohort 1 is already underway with 6 incredible partners who all celebrate Ancestral Agriculture and small-scale sustainable farming. Each carbon sequesters while growing or serving deliciousness!

Cohort #TT01 began two weeks ago. Over the 5 sessions they will sit for classes, hear from guest speakers, and while refining their Thirsty Thirsty offering. We hope to not only secure them as partners for Thirsty Thirsty long term, but also empower each to implement web3 tooling in their existing businesses.

Take a peak at our incredible cohort members here!

Each is already a leader in the hospitality, wine, or farming space.

  • The top tier of our Launching Membership NFT this June comes with a bottle of collector Pinot Noir by Rajat Parr of Phelan Farm in Central Coast CA. Artist Marleigh Culver created a bespoke wine label that will serve as the digital NFT and the physical wine label art. Raj is one of the most famous and revered wine voices in the world who is now growing grapes regeneratively.

  • Our Indigenous Partner is Yawani, a young Indigenous activist in unceded Colombian Amazonas. He and his community are building a restaurant and community center to host Thirsty Thirsty members and celebrate their culture.

  • Assembly / Comedor as a prominent force in the Austin hospitality scene. Celebrity chef Philip Speer of Comedor has made impact by sourcing from small scale sustainable farmers around Austin. During the pandemic they shifted to direct to consumer produce boxes accompanied by chef cooking videos.

  • Ediciones is a queer food studio based in NYC. Recognized for food sovereignty work in Brooklyn throughout the pandemic but also for throwing incredible food parties.

  • Id Est Hospitality is the restaurant group in Denver and Boulder Colorado. They have four critically acclaimed restaurants and a mill focused on ancestral grains. They are already involved in Blue Carbon sequestration efforts and support a major network of small farmers across Colorado. They are also a zero waste food program and known for fermentation.

  • Two Eighty Project is a winery with extensive sommelier and fine dining backgrounds, who has made a major splash in the wine world as a critical voice for black winemaking in California. They work to create food sovereignty for the hood, and have begun farming scholarship opportunities with other major wineries in Northern California.

Thirsty Thirsty is beyond humbled by this stellar first cohort and by the support of our community not yet in web3. We aim to bring more folks into the space in a safe, nurturing, and organic way.

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Hey hey really appreciate the love. I just posted a bit more about what’s going on behind the scenes above. 1 bottle of collector Pinot Noir by Rajat Parr of Phelan Farm will come with each tier 1 membership purchase. We have one barrel with our name on it which equals 270 bottles. :] We plan to start with 3 NFT drops that are membership + a winemaker. Eventually we want to tokenized and then hope to offer the Wine NFTs on their own. But want to build our community and refine a replicable model. With my extensive wine importing and distribution background I have relationships with producers in 13 countries. Since I"m based in San Francisco, our plan is to start with California winemakers (just for ease of fulfillment). But I"m looking forward to support international producers, too.

Its BIG but that’s what we believe web3 is for :] Let me know any other questions I can answer.

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cool
very much looking forward to

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