What is Permet?
Permet is building the first transparent, open-source, community-owned toolkit for the fashion creator economy.
We want to return power + ownership to creators and producers - and eliminate negative human rights and environmental externalities from the fashion supply chain.
How does Permet fit Gitcoin Grants criteria?
- Permet is building a regenerative garment production system that breaks the "create to sell" garment production cycle - which currently drives the garment industry and creates massive waste in the process.
- We are developing models for traceable garment production — which make metadata on the resources and labor behind garment collections accessible and transparent.
- We are also creating new incentive models and technological rails that allow for the creation of value outside of the actual physical production of clothes (and the resulting waste that comes from that process.
- Currently working on an OSS regenerative merch production tool that leverages trustless, onchain data + smart contracts — an environment and ethical-labor friendly alternative to current destructive merch production systems.
- Soft-launched a research publication open-sourcing the process behind building Permet’s OSS tooling + physical supply chain — focused on educating young creatives on the use cases of blockchain technology. Can be viewed at permet.co/research.
- Launched Visual Maintenance System e-zine advocating for...