Transcript of the GEO presentation by Arturas Vileita, The Graph’s Community Talk #31

So, a few things to mention here. Number one, during the break just at the end of the year, we launched a new website which we believe is the best of what we tried to do with the website, which is to convey the message and the vision of what Geo is. Here we go, we can take a quick look at how this looks and what information we can trust. Excuse me, I think someone has their mic unmuted by accident. So, what information can we trust? Can we trust the process, governments, big tech, universities? Everyone has an opinion, and no one knows how to trust or who to trust. And so, there must be a way to organize information in a decentralized way where experts have more power but everyone has a voice. We're introducing Geo Genesis, the first step towards building a Global decentralized Knowledge Graph organized by independent communities called spaces, and here we can see there is a bunch of different spaces from philosophy to artificial intelligence, to history, to crypto, to politics and health, and many different things. Each of these communities is a community of people that do two things: first, they agree on what is true. So, basically, each community member can add data that they believe is true, they can add claims or certain arguments, they can add lists of things of types, anything that's useful to the community to progress and to understand what's true and to call to action. After that, once we go through that process, then it's about ranking. So basically, each community, some of the features that I'm explaining here, some of them we already have, others are coming soon. In general, the launch, we still don't have a hard date; however, we already informed on Twitter that the launch is coming soon, so keep an eye out for that. The launch is going to happen as soon as we have the features ready and polished because we want to make it right once we go public and permissionless. So the data is interconnected and verifiable, that's the part of the semantic part. Even in the 2022 Community talk, I gave a short intro then of the semantic data which means that everything on the internet is interconnected as opposed to just being static or just being engaging as a web 2. So, that's another approach to the understanding of what the internet is and the ranking system. That's where communities can rank what they think are the most pressing problems, what they think is the most valuable information, what they think is the most important next action to take. That's the website; here you can sign up if you still haven't to get updates on once the launch is coming. So for now, the best that we, once the launch is there, we will be happy to invite the graph Advocates to join in, participate, create spaces, and there's a lot of things that we can do on Geo that already is happening on the graph Advocates, and so Geo will be simply able to sort of aid the community by providing this thing essentially it's like very easy to set up any DAO and organize it semantically and in a decentralized way. A few examples of what we have here, so for example, on Geo, we are holding for quite a while, we're currently on pause with this, philosophy meetups where we are having a conversation exactly how the web 3 should function, what are the expectations from society about the web 3. And so, we're taking this with high responsibility, right so the thing is that web 3 is coming, we had a few bear markets but it seems that the next one is the big one where the world is going to really understand what the web 3 is and it's no longer going to be just products within the ecosystem of crypto, it's going to be products that are needed for everyone. Right now, we can browse Geo technically without, as a, besides the fact that you just have to have the wallet, besides that, you don't even have to know that everything is on blockchain, this is just a high-quality way to organize data. Some examples, so in defense space, so for example, we're curating information about global conflicts, and this is a really easy way to get informed about what's going on. So for example, right now, Israel and Hamas war is really a hot topic, everyone's trying to understand what's going on. Here's an example, Israel's outcomes in the 2023 Israel-Hamas War, we can see to understand the outcomes we need to understand the objectives, here are the objectives that Israel has stated, how do we know that that's true because we have supporting quotes from specific articles that actually show that that's the case, so we have a quote that says that this is indeed a true statement and we can see always the first source and we can go and see, you know, after knowing the objectives we can see how well they met them, assessments of strategic gains, assessments of

losses, everything is a claim which means that each claim can be looked at individually, we can add supporting arguments, quotes that support it from articles, we can have opposing arguments, we can have a debate about a specific issue as opposed to just writing in the comment section that I disagree, that's a big difference between web 2 and web 3 which is the detail that we're able to participate in conversations with. So this is how it looks, another example is politics, that's another example, so Joe Biden, we can, so Joe Biden as a politician, and for example, have his voting positions and we see his voting positions on defense and National Security, his voting positions about interventions and conflicts, about the economy, inflation, education, climate change, and all of these different things, this right now doesn't exist anywhere in web 2, this already exists in web 3 and the power of this is that the community can take any specific claim spec about any random voting position that maybe someone is passionate about, click on that entity and start engaging in that entity specifically, do we really know that he has this position, what are the best counterarguments and supporting arguments to have that position, to which categories does that position is involved. So, this is the future, this is how it looks for now, what we can, so as soon as we launch, we will be happy to invite the graph Advocates to join in, until that time, we just invite just to look at the website, engage in social media, you know, any support there is appreciated, and I'll be dropping a link in our Community talk here to the conversation on the Forum about the vision of curating and the way that curating works, maybe it's going to be useful for some, for some of you to understand it's very like being an editor on Geo is very similar as being a curator on Everest, some of you will understand what this is, so this is the closest to that, it's just the Next Level and next stage that we take from that point. Yeah, that's the update from my end, thank you so much for that explanation, and I would also once again, I already said in the chat but I see a bunch of the Geo explorers from the graph Advocates here so I would like to also give a shout out to them for helping out with this, cool, amazing, thank you so much, Arturas.