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In 2011, catalan artist Maxime Berthou “performed” a successful cloud bursting gesture by launching 15 kilograms of silver iodine in the skies.

The project was called “Paparuda”, the name of a Eastern European pagan rain ritual. The consequences of this type of geo-engineering art project have rippled through time and brought us to an epoch where the rise of crypto “primitives” (coins, NFTs, DAOs) and their integration into more and more aspects of our lives have led us to understand as a parallel economy with real world consequences.

What if this parallel economy could be leveraged to push the development of large scale art projects, fund grants and interventions for those under hydric stress, and fuel a community that can act towards these goals whilst simultaneously finding economic benefits? This is the question that the new iteration of Paparuda answers, by creating a project that lives somewhere between art, finance, philanthropy, impact funding, sustainability action and the power of human coordination.

In practice, Paparuda focuses on clouds as the stateless citizens of our skies and yet both critical parts of our water management needs and geo-political actors of increasing importance.

Cloud NFTs that will finance the operations of a DAO that provides grands to a variety of projects in between art and sustainability, and by backing both the DAO and the NFTs with a token poetically pegged to the amount of drinkable water in our skies, we are putting forth a circular “arteconomy”.