We launched a pyramid to the moon in January 2025 with Meme World Order, LifeShip, and MoonDAO - a physical artifact containing a private key that maps to crypto wallets from multiple communities. Now we're building the digital infrastructure to keep that mission alive and bring new people into space culture. This proposal funds a Base mini-app that tracks the lunar pyramid's wallet balance in real-time, shows its location on the moon, and lets people submit digital art and messages to add to the bounty. The goal is simple: make space interesting again for retail crypto users and grow the lunar bounty into something impossible to ignore.

Lunar Pyramid MiniApp

According to the [MoonDAO roadmap](https://docs.moondao.com/About/Roadmap) the organization should start designing Lunar Settlement this year. Rovers are major elements of it.

No unified standards for lunar rovers exist. By supporting this initiative, MoonDAO fulfills its mission and establishes itself as a leader in lunar exploration.

The standard should cover all the aspects of rover design, from the physical interface to the software stack.

Rover projects can realize immediate benefits by adopting specific components of the standard, such as command protocols, even without full implementation.

To succeed we need to form a global collaboration and adopt the standard. To secure the necessary resources, we plan to leverage the MoonDAO launchpad.

Phase Two focuses on preparing for a launch via the MoonDAO launchpad, formalizing community development processes, and establishing the initial draft of the standard.

Lunar Open-source Rover Standard (LORS) - Phase Two

ETHDC brings together hundreds of crypto enthusiasts, including those involved in creating blockchain policy on Capital Hill. By sponsoring this event, MoonDAO will gain exposure to a new community of Web3 participants.

Sponsor ETHDC Conference 2026

Space is a new frontier in biology for two reasons: firstly we can use the lack of gravity for experiments that outperform terrestrial settings, and secondly because we need a whole set of new technology and know-how to tackle the space environment for human life. This project will produce a shared, peer‑reviewed technical baseline for MoonDAO’s future biological mission design and funding. The paper will collect and organize research, examples, and companies into a reliable review paper to help guide the whole sector. This helps MoonDAO and others understand the landscape of space bio, helps direct research, funding, and policy. The work will be coordinated by Expanse Bio, a new hub accelerating space biotech. The team of scientists leading this project have multiple experiences publishing high impact studies.

Space Biotech Peer-reviewed Review Publication

This proposal introduces an official **MoonDAO-branded Wave card design**, along with a **short explainer video** and a **dedicated export page**, that citizens can use with the Wave Connect platform.

Citizens will be able to visit a MoonDAO page, export their personalized card design, and upload it to their Wave card. When tapped or scanned, the card instantly shares their MoonDAO profile and relevant links.

The goal is to make MoonDAO citizenship **easy to represent, easy to share, and easy to understand** at real-world events, missions, meetups, and conferences.

🌊 MoonDAO x Wave

Pulse v0 is a compact, smart wearable that can deliver medicine automatically and safely. In extreme or confined environments like spacecraft, analog habitats, or remote Earth locations giving yourself a shot is difficult. Gravity doesn’t help, spaces are tight, and even small mistakes like needle jams, backflow, or sensor errors can be dangerous. Medicines such as anti-nausea drugs, painkillers, antibiotics, allergy treatments, or even cancer therapies need precise delivery to keep people safe. Pulse v0 is a bench-top prototype, built to test whether a wearable can reliably and safely deliver medication without putting anyone at risk. It allows us to study fluid dynamics, dosing accuracy, and sensor reliability under controlled lab conditions. The design is human-centered, focusing on safety, usability, and reliability. Testing this prototype now generates critical data to guide future iterations, including wearables for space, remote missions, or emergency use. Beyond space, Pulse v0

PULSE v0 (TRL 2): Bench-Top Testing of Safe, Automated Medicine Delivery

This proposal outlines a strategic initiative for MoonDAO to establish a temporary physical presence in Florianópolis, Brazil, during April 2026, leveraging two major ecosystem events: **Discover Floripa** and **Ipê Village**. The goals are to strengthen MoonDAO’s visibility, partnerships, and community growth in Latin America through Florianópolis as a leading regional hub for startups, digital nomads, and crypto innovation, making it an ideal entry point for MoonDAO’s long‑term expansion in the region and ecosystem.

The initiative includes renting an apartment for one month to function as a MoonDAO base, hosting community events and workshops, and organizing a focused hackathon. The hackathon will explore a novel crypto‑native model that combines elements of stock markets and startup incubators to connect investors with space‑focused startups developing solutions for Earth‑based challenges. The project aims to generate tangible prototypes, onboard new contributors, and position Moon

MoonDAO Florianópolis 2026 - April Edition (Ipê Village + Discover Floripa)

The Earth-Space Conservation and Demonstration Center (ESCDC), is a 338 acre space education and research analog site in Washington, New Hampshire. Founder David Cheuvront, was the visionary study team member and co-author of NASA’s “ The Evolvable Lunar Architecture” document and a NASA ISS and Safety & Compliance focused Systems Engineer.  MoonDAO’s 2030 target of a minimum viable, self-sustaining lunar settlement by around 2030, culminating in a celebratory gathering is quickly approaching. During this past 4Q2025 Autumn, ESCDC’s 3 crew members rapidly stood up our first ESCDC operations for a successful World Biggest Analog (WBA) pilot; we're seeking to continue building the vision of our Founder David Cheuvront.  The site needs basic 'life support' base systems— power, water, communications and environmental control, so we can further develop and host space: education, research and analog events (The 2030 celebration) that feels like it's happening on the Moon. Supporting at least

Building Toward MoonDAO  Lunar Celebration at ESCDC

Type 2 Labs is building a lunar rover that Youtubers, streamers, and Chat (stream viewers) can control.
The Mission: Chat, We are Going to the Moon.
We are in the process of prototyping the rover, finding mission sponsors, planning live rover pits at conferences, and planning analogue streaming missions.  Our marketing strategy: If it doesn't make people laugh or inspire them, we don't do it. Audiences are tired of polished corporate messaging — they want something that feels human and self-aware. Everything we do has a hint of irony, and that's by design. Serious Engineering. Unserious Marketing.  Our sponsorship model: We're building a roster of category-exclusive sponsors where each company owns their category as the 'Official [Category] of Chat, We are Going to the Moon.' The semi-ironic 'Official' title is audience-tested and memorable — viewers find it entertaining, which means more engagement for sponsors. MoonDAO's role: MoonDAO would become the Official DAO of Chat, We are Goi

Chat We Are Going to the Moon: Part 1 - Sponsorships

This project is a monthly, in person speaker series held on the full moon, focused on how humans think about, govern, and build for the Moon. It is a direct continuation of the Moon Dialogs series founded by Jessy Kate, founder of the Open Lunar Foundation, which demonstrated sustained community interest in accessible, interdisciplinary conversations about lunar development and stewardship.
Hosted at The Fold in San Francisco, the series carries forward the Moon Dialogs ethos while introducing a more structured arc, clearer objectives, and tighter integration with active lunar infrastructure projects. Each event brings together experts and practitioners alongside a broader community to hear short talks, share food and drinks, and engage in discussion across lunar policy, development, geology, philosophy, and systems infrastructure.
The series also serves as a public facing platform to introduce and discuss the forthcoming Lunar Timekeeping whitepaper and to invite new contributors into

Full Moon Speaker Series

0g-SPOT is an audio and visual podcast that explores human intimacy, relationships, and philosophical questions related to spaceflight. While most public conversations about space focus on technology and engineering, 0g-SPOT centers on the human experience - using thoughtful, tongue-in-cheek dialogue to make space more relatable and engaging to a general adult audience. Season 1 is already well underway: eight episodes have been recorded, with the first episode currently in professional post-production. Current episode guests include medical leaders in space, Star Trek royalty, sex experts, design experts, and health and wellness leaders in space. This proposal supports the completion, polishing, and distribution of the first eight episodes, enabling timely delivery of a high-quality media project that contributes to MoonDAO’s mission to shape a more human future in space. The first season is anticipated to consist of approximately 12–16 episodes. The first eight episodes have already 

0g-SPOT — Season 1

We are creating a space-ready oral care system called AstrOnyx and testing it in analog astronaut missions while sharing it with the world.

ASTRONYX + MoonDao + Artemis Galactic Mission 1.0

Moonshot Celebration is a simple idea: people write one short wish and send it to the Moon. Anyone can participate for free, and if they want a keepsake they can choose an optional digital or printed certificate. This project is a three-month MoonDAO pilot that tests whether "Send Your Wish to the Moon" can (1) bring new people into MoonDAO's orbit, (2) create measurable engagement and community growth, and (3) generate sustainable revenue through a transparent revenue-share model. Lunar delivery integration is executed in collaboration with LifeShip (lifeship.com).

Moonshot Celebration x Moondao

AORA, the Astronaut Operational Readiness Academy, is an open aerospace e-learning platform created by AEAML, the Astronaut Training Agency of Mexico and Latin America. The idea is simple: space education should be accessible to anyone with curiosity, discipline, and the dream of building the future.

AORA is a EdTech digital academy for the space industry. It is designed for learners across the Americas and the rest of the world. Students enter as cadets and can take courses, follow learning paths, use AI tutors, track progress, earn certificates, collect mission patches, improve their AOR Readiness Score, and prepare for more advanced aerospace experiences.

The platform is designed to combine the best characteristics of modern EdTech, artificial intelligence, VR/AR direction, 3D simulation, gamification, data-driven learning, adaptive education, and world-class psychopedagogical methodologies. The goal is not only to put courses online. The goal is to create one of the most inspirin

Ed-Tech AI powered Aerospace E-Learning Platform for the Americas and the World - AORA — Astronaut Operational Readiness Academy - AEAML — Astronaut Training Agency of Mexico and Latin America

Africa United Space is a project that aims to build the foundation for affordable African space technology. This proposal focuses on creating a professional feasibility study and preliminary rocket subsystem design rather than building a launch vehicle immediately. Think of it like drawing the blueprint before building a house. The project will provide research, technical documentation, and a roadmap that can help future aerospace development in Africa and benefit the MoonDAO community.

Africa United space 

Investigates the potentional of magnet spring of my invention to elevate scalar and minimal impellers to the air like levitating magnets with an simple actuator. On board machinery to going to the moon .  Realize in small words Sattelites for maintenance and carry water and others materials food for people at large scale . Construct this to small size to scale forces to high potential .

magneto - spring levitating and flying machinery. Sketch and actuator.docx

The MoonDAO Open Space Academy is an open-source web app built to make space engineering and lunar settlement design easy for everyone. Instead of reading through dense technical PDFs and complex manuals, members can use simple interactive tools right in their browser. Anyone can quickly test and simulate crew living spaces, life support needs, and DeSci funding models. While immediately supporting MoonDAO's Settlement Design phase, this platform provides long-term simulation infrastructure for future mission testing, crew selection, and base operations, serving as a free public good for ongoing community onboarding and hands‑on learning.

MoonDAO Project Proposal Template - RODRIGO (ROD COSMOS)

In a sealed off-world base, human survival depends directly on automated life-support systems and artificial intelligence. This project takes space philosopher Frank White's concept of Contelligence (the integration of consciousness and intelligence across biological and synthetic systems) and turns it into a clear, usable set of operational guidelines for human–AI teamwork. Rather than treating advanced AI and habitat robots merely as expendable tools, this research establishes practical ground rules for shared decision-making, mutual care, and crisis triage. Using qualitative analysis and interactive scenario testing in Claude AI, the project delivers a straightforward Contelligence Guidelines Handbook and an open-access report for MoonDAO.

Research Proposal: Operationalizing Contelligence for Off-World Habitats (With Senate Feedback)

Space radiation from solar storms is like a dangerous "invisible storm" that can hurt astronauts on the Moon and compromise entire space missions. I want to provide guidelines on how to design a simple, safe "storm shelter" built into a lunar surface habitat, where astronauts can quickly go inside during a solar storm to stay protected. This project will use NASA's radiation simulation tools and my extensive expertise from years of research funded by NASA and show MoonDAO how space radiation protection research is performed to clear common misunderstandings that are hurting space technology design, and open way that benefits everyone exploring the Moon.

MoonDao-Guidelines for the design of a lunar storm shelter

Space analog simulations are essential for understanding and preparing for conditions, restrictions and requirements that we need to consider for living and working on the Moon or on Mars. They let us test technology and procedures for future space missions, explore difficulties and new ideas. Analog space suits help investigate materials, components as well as structural and operational architecture that makes a suit function in the space environment and replicate the technological and physical demands for moving and working on lunar or planetary surfaces.

The OeWF (Austrian Space Forum) has been developing space suits to simulate extravehicular activity (EVA) suits for analog Mars and Lunar missions since 2008. While high-fidelity AOUDA suits are the flagship of our analog research, they are very expensive and require specialized training and certification for use. Our medium-fidelity Delta suits, based on the open-source BORP suit model by Paul Bakken, are used for training interna

MoonDAO Proposal - Analog Space Suit Upgrade

The Lunar Ledger is a neutral, shared record of lunar missions, run by the Open Lunar Foundation, a nonprofit. The ledger currently has 6 signatories including major aeronautical corporations operating in cis‑lunar space including Firefly and iSpace and Astrolab. The ledger is currently in beta but is actively being used by several of the major lunar operators to share information via invited accounts. Open Lunar's vision is to make the Ledger more accessible to all operators and to allow access to non‑proprietary information to the broad public.

This project begins our first step along that track: we will build an open, documented API that lets anyone (a mission control team, a researcher, or a MoonDAO project) pull standardized information about lunar missions from the Ledger, such as where a mission is, what radio frequencies it uses and what state it is in.

Lunar Ledger API for Mission Control

The Sentinel Bio+ project combines efforts from San Jose State University, San Diego State University, and the San Diego Space Institute. The goal is to create a constellation of satellites each equipped with a science payload. For now, the senior project team at San Jose State University is focused on creating a FlatSat, a bench testing configuration, that helps with testing of the design. The team is currently limited to one working FlatSat, which limits the amount of testing they are able to accomplish. With this project proposal the senior students at SJSU are hoping to receive funding that allows for multiple FlatSats to increase the productivity of the project.

MoonDAO-Sentinel Bio+

The Inspired 24 requests financial support from MoonDAO to clear outstanding equipment and educational software liabilities from establishing our human spaceflight preparation courses. We built custom suit operations instruction and sea survival modules to give civilian candidates authentic experience handling pressure suits operations and water egress scenarios. Removing our initial startup debt stabilizes our financial baseline, allowing us to lower tuition rates and offer full scholarships to underrepresented spacefarers. This investment directly builds public training infrastructure, advancing our common effort to expand access to space travel.

Spaceflight Training Scholarships

### A lunar settlement will need rules that hold for years and still adapt, leadership that can shift as situations change, and knowledge that passes cleanly from one generation of settlers to the next. Kathak, one of India's major classical dance forms, has its own answers to each:

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### Rules that hold and adapt: dancers and musicians keep a shared rhythm cycle while improvising within it.

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### Leadership that shifts: in many performances, the lead passes between dancer and drummer in real time.

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### Knowledge that passes on: the form has been handed from teacher to student for centuries.

### This two-day workshop in Chennai invites Kathak dancers to draw out the principles their art form holds and imagine how a new society on the Moon might organize and govern itself around them. It is the third lab in a series that MoonDAO helped launch in Bolivia, and it uses the same framework. Each lab invites people with little access to Moon conversations to bring what their own field or

LunARC proposal to MoonDAO - What can dancers teach a lunar settlement?

eSTEM Morocco is a Moroccan nonprofit advancing STEAM education and digital inclusion for youth aged 8 to 18. From December 11 to 13, 2026, we are hosting the Morocco Social Impact Summit (MSIS) 2026 in Rabat, a first‑of‑its‑kind international summit expecting 3,000+ visitors, 18+ countries, 50+ exhibitors, 15+ speakers and 20+ workshops and conferences around social innovation, inclusion and impact investment. MoonDAO's own Chris Sembroski is a confirmed MSIS 2026 speaker, alongside Yasmine El Baggari, founder of Voyaj and an existing MoonDAO partner. We are asking MoonDAO for a $2,125 grant to help bring MSIS 2026 to life and to give MoonDAO a flagship stage and storytelling presence in front of thousands of changemakers across Morocco, Africa and the MENA region.

MoonDAO Partnership at the Morocco Social Impact Summit (MSIS) 2026

What does it actually mean for a permanent human settlement on the Moon to be sustainable, and how can we tell whether we are achieving it?

MoonDAO is currently designing the systems needed for a permanent lunar settlement. Existing lunar sustainability work provides important principles, technical approaches, governance recommendations, and emerging sustainability metrics, but these still need to be translated into practical criteria that can be assessed and progressively validated as a settlement moves from design to simulation and, eventually, lunar operations.

The Jordan Space Research Initiative, JSRI, proposes to develop the **JSRI x MoonDAO Lunar Sustainability Framework v1**, an open framework connecting sustainable development principles with measurable or observable criteria for long-term lunar settlement.

During this quarter, the project will synthesize relevant international frameworks and state‑of‑the‑art research, define sustainability dimensions and indicators relevan

JSRIxMoonDAO Proposal Oct 2026

Cosmic Sessions is an interdisciplinary artistic project exploring the intersection of music, space, art, and science through a live musical performance accompanied by immersive visuals inspired by scientific concepts and particle data.

The project will produce and publish a live‑performance audiovisual piece featuring original music and visual storytelling that translates scientific ideas and particle data into an artistic experience. MoonDAO will partially sponsor the production, with its logo displayed at the end of one of the published videos of this musical series.

The project will also deliver one educational guide documenting the creative process and three presentations at elementary and high schools, reaching more than 100 students. Through the performance and educational activities, students will discover how music, visual art, scientific concepts, and data can intersect to communicate ideas about the universe and humanity's future in space.

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