Title: CleanApp Devcon/nect
Authors: Boris Mamlyuk (@CleanApp), Anuj Das Gupta (@anujdasgupta)
Resources Required: Comms, Visibility
What do you suggest?
Simple and short
100% open source, CleanApp is the quintessential Ethereum hybrid app. Players take photos of anything they subjectively want ‘cleaned up’ – both in physical & digital Ethereal realms (example: a tripping hazard at the entrance of the Devconnect venue and/or a UX bug in the contract verification script on Etherscan). Our AI analyzes & batches these reports & sends to relevant responsible/interested parties for repair. Players get tokens for their insights & feedback.
Motivation & Rationale
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How does this improve the attendee experience? Robust Ethereum-powered feedback loops that give actionable insights regarding waste/hazards at the conference venue & various Ethereum domains. Shows-not-tells the Ethereum experience. Experienced and novice players can quickly grok the core Etherean mantra of “do work to support the protocol, and the protocol rewards you for your efforts.”
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What Ethereum use case does it showcase? Tokenization-as-incentivization, d/acc, community currencies, censorship-resistance (CleanApp is anon-by-default & strong privacy preserving), dCloud (reports are periodically batch-archived), deSci, dPin, DAOs.
Implementation
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Have you done this before at another event? Indirectly, informally, yes, including at EthDenver (2025), Devcon SEA (2024), EthZurich, and other meetups.
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How will you make it happen? In its current LIVE embodiment, CleanApp needs no tweaks or upgrades to accommodate a large event like Devconnect. Any user can submit emails of parties who are interested in receiving reports. Once reports come in, they’re AI-analyzed & sent to the interested parties. Think: tripping hazards, cigarette butts at the entrance, fire hazards, digital calendar displaying wrong info, anything a user subjectively identifies as a problem. As more reports come in from other users, the urgency/relevance of the clustered reports grows. No email? No problem. We’re implementing a global addressing scheme that assigns an Ethereum address to every property globally (think GoogleMaps Plus Codes, Ethereum-style). That way, we can send notices directly to property owners, bypassing spam filters.
For Devconnect Buenos Aires, we’re also prepared to pilot ROBOT RESPONDERS (called Trashformers) who will go to user-specified locations & validate whether the offending object/condition is still there. If small enough to be fixed by the robot, the Trashformer will actually take care of the issue (eg, cigarette butts, small litter). This is a direct response to Tomasz Stanczak & Vitalik Buterin’s sorta-RFP at the public fireside chat in Zuitzerland where Tomasz shared his dream of projects showing the intersection of Ethereum x AI x robotics from the main stage at Devconnect. CleanApp is ready, willing, and able to show that intersection in a most delightful & empowering way.
Operational Requirements & Ownership
- What’s needed to make this work at Devcon/nect? Without Trashformers, what is needed are comms supports & visibility so that attendees & local communities learn about this application & are encouraged to use it. Special POAPs for geocached jackpots will also be sweet. With Trashformers, we would need a small operational budget to offset the cost of the Unitree Go1 dogs or equivalent hardware, as well as travel support for the robot operator.
- Who will be responsible for running it on site? CleanApp & Smart Transactions team.
- What other projects could this integrate with? POAP, ZuPass, any NFT project that wants to contribute its NFTs into the randomized geocached jackpot pool (like PoolTogether, for NFTs).
Links & Additional Information
(any other useful info)
www.cleanapp.io
