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Open Conversations: Building the Digital Backbone for Earth's Future (Alan Ransil)

Funding the CommonsThu, Oct 9, 2025, 12:00 AM

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A conversation with Alan Ransil, co-founder of Devonian, known for its product Cherty. Alan explores how Web3 data management tools are transforming scientific research, making it easier to reproduce results, ensure data integrity, and connect research to real-world impact. He discusses the challenges of the scientific process—how data is collected, analyzed, and validated—and how decentralized science (DeSci) is addressing these issues. Alan also reflects on the evolution of Earth Commons within Funding the Commons and the growing momentum behind preserving both ecological and digital commons for future generations. Produced by Funding the Commons in Bangkok, November 2024. Mentioned Projects: Devonian: https://devonian.xyz Funding the Commons: https://www.fundingthecommons.io Thank You to Our Sponsors: Octant: https://octant.app Protocol Labs: https://protocol.ai Filecoin Foundation: https://fil.org Stellar: https://stellar.org NEAR: https://near.org Holonym: https://holonym.io Drips: https://drips.network Gitcoin: https://gitcoin.co Breadchain: https://breadchain.xyz LAYER: https://layer.xyz KXVC: https://www.kxvc.tech Blockchain for Good Alliance: https://www.blockchainforgood.xyz

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in web 3 because we can't address everything we are looking for the digital fingerprint of that resource if you use a Content address to go and try to retrieve some data you can not only retrieve it no matter where it is in the world because you're looking for a resource with this digital fingerprint but you can also make sure that that data wasn't corrupted or tampered with so by taking these web 3 data management tools and applying them to science we're going to make it easier to reproduce and understand scientific results and also easier for those results to ultimately have impact in the real world my name is Alan ransell I'm a co-founder of devonian we build a product called chy that's a global operating system for science we're taking a lot of the tools that we've developed in web 3 and applying them to help people understand problems associated with carbon problems associated with biodiversity and really address those problems in ways where the data is interconnected from scientific research all the way to the impact that these organizations are having the scientific process is messy people gather data by physically writing it out in a lab notebook they gather data on computers in their lab they take visual data from things like microscopes or electron microscopes and data from spectrometers all these different places and the process of going from that raw data to a final scientific result is often kind of messy the result of that is if you take a scientific paper and you're trying to reproduce those results if you're really trying to understand what is the basis for this finding it's often very difficult to reconstruct that entire analysis in decentralized science or dii part of what we're trying to do is use weed 3 data management tools to fix that problem the energy Earth comons and funding the commons has really been electric we really hoped that when we brought the sustain the blockchain summit which became Earth Commons into funding the commons that it would grow to become something greater than the sum of its parts and we're really seeing that in Bangkok that people are bringing their experiences their projects their interests and we're able to get this the sort of broader lens on the notion of a Commons it feels like we're really building this consensus around the value of different types of Commons that people manage both ecological and ecological and building the momentum behind a movement that can preserve these comments for future Generations if you have a project that touches on nature Tech or carbon we'd love to talk to you about how we could work together

Automatic transcript — names and jargon may be misspelled.