Welcome to the Astral. We're part of an open-source R&D lab building towards a decentralized geospatial web.
Our mission is to explore where Web3 design principles can improve the functionality and fairness of the geospatial web. We apply our work by building tools, infrastructure and standards needed to create location-based decentralized applications and geospatial data systems that are verifiable, user-controlled, and resilient.
At Astral, we focus on three core pillars:
- Decentralized Location Proofs: Enabling trustable, verifiable claims of presence.
- Verifiable Geocomputation: Implementing geospatial algorithms in verifiable computational systems like smart contracts and cryptographic protocols.
- Decentralized Spatial Data Storage: Facilitating the storage and querying of geospatial data on decentralized platforms such as IPFS and Ethereum.
For an in-depth understanding of our vision and the theoretical foundations of our work, please refer to our Vision Paper.
We have recently migrated our codebases to the DecentralizedGeo Github organization, where we are collaborating with the EASIER Data Initiative at the University of Maryland and the Open Geospatial Consortium to build open-source tooling across the decentralized geospatial tech stack.
A flexible framework for creating and verifying location proofs, supporting various strategies to attest to one's presence in a specific location.
- Repository: DecentralizedGeo/location-proofs
- Docs: Location Proof Protocol documentation
A decentralized application that allows users to record geotagged log entries, store them on-chain, and explore an interactive map of entries worldwide.
- Application: logbook.astral.global
- Repository: DecentralizedGeo/astral-logbook
Comprehensive documentation for our protocols and tools is available at docs.astral.global.
We invite developers, researchers, and enthusiasts to join us in building the decentralized geospatial web. Contributions are welcome, and we encourage you to explore our repositories, provide feedback, and collaborate on new ideas.
- GitHub Organization: DecentralizedGeo
- Twitter: @AstralProtocol
- Telegram: Astral Community
