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Really pleased we could make
@VoiceDeckDAO
1st minimum lovable prototype in time for the backdrop submission
we're now live on testnet at and gearing up for mainnet launch this summer!
we've created an exciting new way to fund investigative reporters
it’s Build V3 launch day🚀🚀🚀
thousands of builders from all over the world came together over the past 4 weeks to build something new
congrats to everyone who built on
#BackdropBuild
this time around
builders do your thing and add your launches in the comments below 👇
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@NathanpmYoung
Not to be too particular but those examples are all engineering feats more than science
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Here's how Optimism's lack of fraud proofs will cost gitcoin 6-7 figures to shut down the OP stack chain Public Goods Network (PGN)
6 months after announcing winding down of PGN, there's still $1.5 million left . turning it off means burning these assets, which you definitely
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@NathanpmYoung
I can see the case for engineering = applied science, but academically science is theory based while engineering applies those theories IRL
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I wish I had taken screenshots but it all happened way too suddenly
Yesterday we had a forum post & snapshot up on
@arbitrum
to support the
@juiceboxETH
campaign for funding the legal defense of the tornado cash devs
All of a sudden the entire forum thread was deleted along
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I loved
@CamiRusso
from
@DefiantNews
talk
@EthCC
Her advice was to not try outsmarting regulators, by being decentralized before your ready or an anon team.
Ooki DAO members were held liable by SEC & Tornado cash users were prosecuted. So just built honestly & in the open !
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@s8n
Or as one teacher told me when young,
"Light travels faster than sound. So you look bright initially but then you open your mouth"
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I got the chance to chat with
@Polkadot
's founder
@gavofyork
yesterday at protocol berg, on the explosion of layer 2s on ethereum
He raised a hugely disturbing question : while EOA accounts on L2s inherit the security of ethereum, smart contracts & smart accounts don't 😢
In
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Heard something truly horrendous about polygon today
Apparently employees at their support program Polygon Village took a cut from grants they gave projects 😢 founders knew this & would ask staff how much they wanted
Polygons the government like entity of the crypto world
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If we want to onboard impact evaluators, effective altruist donors & changemakers into web3, there is perhaps no better tool than certificates of impact (like carbon credits but for any cause)
CC
@owocki
&
@supermodularxyz
for this beautiful visual explainer on impact certs
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From
@VitalikButerin
at eth prague :
@arbitrum
deserves a round of applause for being far ahead of other EVMs & reaching stage 1 decentralization 👏
In software last 20% of a project takes 80% of time , so projects often endul up taking much more time anticipated
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Late last week, my 1st proposal ever was uploaded on snapshot 🤯
STEP is a framework for
@arbitrum
to diversify 35 million ARB or 1% of its treasury (~$60 million ) into yield bearing, stable and liquid RWAs
for more, tune in to our space at 330 pm utc tomorrow or read 👇🏾
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Just met
@DrNickA
at London, he's an OG who worked in cryptography and decentralized organizations before Bitcoin & DAOs 😲
one of the real ones in the space, here's 10 great tidbits from our 2 hour chat
1/ Most effective spend for treasuries is bootstrapping network effects.
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Highlight of blocksplit today was the
@audreyt
talk. I loved how interactive the session was & how she was able to get to the root of questions even if they werent fully fleshed out
Audrey has a literal hole in her heart , so anytime she gets too angry or excited she collapses &
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I feel quite depressed when I'm at the eth denver events dominated by VCs, there's this toxic combination of insecurity and greed in the air
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Wife
@NidhiHarihar
& I on the way to Berlin ! Pro-tip: wear crypto swag at airports so you are identifiable to others of our creed
Anyone know the must attend events during Berlin blockchain week ? Metamask builder night, celo day, desci , safecon , eth berlin on my list
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So i finally looked into the
@synthetix_io
LTIPP grant rejection & there are definite red flags in process 😢
- Council voted 3/5 against their grant
-
@coinflipcanada
is one of the members voting against but he should have abstained as he runs a competitor
- Council is hung
RIP, I guess
@arbitrum
community doesn’t want
@synthetix_io
to deploy there. Kind of funny to watch
@GMX_IO
throttle competition on the network.
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Insane conflict of interest,
@0xPolygonLabs
CEO uses his APE tokens to vote that the community build on Polygon 🤯
Popcorn time 🍿
I'm confused.
@0xMarcB
I thought you guys were only going to vote the $APE you acquired if someone else who you consider to be conflicted voted. It looks like you immediately voted them?
At what point does this morph from trying to level a playing field to a straight up
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I just went through the top
@Optimism
RetroPGF projects
It feels like the charge of the light brigade
"Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred."
A 🧵 calling out 10 top recipients, 5 of which help everyone including OPs competitors and 5 of which help OP specifically
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I finally got the chance to dig deep into the crypto philanthropy platform
@endaomentdotorg
. My mind is honestly blown 🤯
I was expecting some long sign up form for nonprofits to receive funds on their platform
But they don't need to take any action whatsoever 😲
As a donor,
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i just finished my allocations for
@OctantApp
epoch 2! I supported;
-
@OSObserver
-
@l2beat
-
@gitcoin
-
@clrfund
-
@hypercerts
-
@FundingCommons
-
@DAOhaus
Octant is fast becoming the place where all the best web3 projects get their funding from
It's similar to
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Emmanuel is right, we need to stop with the self-deprecation around the usefulness of blockchains.
so lets do a short history lesson on 15 product market fit(s) with crypto
1. US government prevents Wikileaks from accepting visa and mastercard donations, they only survived
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@ComradeDoyIe
@AJA_Cortes
When people come from countries that are peace and quiet and arrive in a 24/7 open air market street festival, they do not think ahhh finally community. They are instead tormented by the presence of others and must barricade themselves to reduce this new anxiety
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Super thrilled to be selected for the 2023 Ethereum Foundation fellowship 😲
Gonna be a wild ride with my fellows
@BrianLimiardi
,
@vlr_alt
,
@Mulengakapwepwe
& Masa
I like how the
@EFNextBillion
team said we shouldn't think they are helping us but that we are helping them 🥅
At long last, we are proud to announce the third cohort of the Next Billion Fellowship! 🎉 Keep an eye out for their stories, and connect with the Fellows and Team Next Billion in Istanbul at
@EFDevconnect
🙌🇹🇷
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In September,
@DisruptionJoe
approached me with an irresistible offer : to diversify
@arbitrum
's treasury, nearly 3.5 billion ARB
With the launch of our framework to select tokenized RWA's offering the risk free rate of return, we have taken the 1st step towards this goal. A 🧵
New proposal by
@arbitrum
Treasury and Sustainability Working group - STEP (Stable Treasury Endowment Program) led by
@TheDevanshMehta
focused on a framework for RWAs 👀
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i just donated to 7 projects in the metacrisis round on
@gitcoin
!
Gratitude is shown to increase happiness, I love how the beta round is allowing us to show appreciation for the folks we admire
1.
@IrthuSuresh
& the
@AtlantisDAO1
team who consistently show up
2.
@deeparocks
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The highlight of my day at EthIndia was meeting
@momack28
from
@protocollabs
&
@Filecoin
She gave a presentation on public good funding structures in web3, many of which I had never heard of
Like
@sourcecred
, a tool for communities to measure and value reward. They quantify
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Our Arbitrum treasury WG
@arbtreasury
just came out with a new proposal!
It's an exciting one, for us to elect 5 dealmakers who can negotiate token swaps with major apps in our ecosystem
Honestly, token swaps are better than grants in most cases
A 🧵with deets
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Rare is the person whose 1st job was in crypto, most of us worked in another industry before making the jump
On average, i've found finance is the most common background of folks now working in crypto
which other industries are a good pipeline for converting to our creed?
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I just finished my allocations in epoch one of
@OctantApp
! Passed on my staking rewards to
@hypercerts
,
@rotkiapp
&
@gitcoin
Octant is the most exciting new project in the public goods space. They've staked 100k eth and anyone locking GLM tokens gets to either claim a portion
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@ylecun
Man with all these paywalls mainstream media is basically unreadable and soon to be irrelevant 🤷
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I'm through with reviewing about 15 Devcon speaker applications so far. you can submit until the weekend, so get to work!
Here are some common pitfalls im observing that lead to a reject
1. The application is too theoretical without grounding in a case study or some unique
Applications now open for submitting talks at devcon !
I'm a reviewer , so if you plan on submitting i can help you through the process , just DM
No better way to spread the ideas you've been working on 💡
Open until the end of the month
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Just voted in the 2024 Indian elections 🗳️
Wen DAO governance IRL ?
liquid voting & direct democracy should be implemented asap, feels anachronistic to only vote once in 5 years
In DAO voting i can change my delegate anytime (liquid) & I get to vote directly on proposals
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This is why
@thegrifft
is one of the bravest delegates at arbitrum - he's willing to speak his mind, ruffle feathers & not engage in quid pro quo with big delegates
Some context -
@Blockworks_
,
@gauntlet_xyz
&
@trailofbits
created a proposal to form the "Arbitrum coalition" ,
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Amazing panel on impact measurement with
@bbeats1
,
@0xyNaMu
&
@feemschats
Some key points i remember off the top of my head
- ideally we shouldn't have evaluation as the mechanism is self regulating
An example is
@ProtocolGuild
which adds ethereum core devs to their list
@bbeats1
Amazing discussion on the ins and outs of impact measurement. Where things stand in the web3 space right now as well, where we hope to get to one day as well as the tools to use 🤝
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Applications now open for submitting talks at devcon !
I'm a reviewer , so if you plan on submitting i can help you through the process , just DM
No better way to spread the ideas you've been working on 💡
Open until the end of the month
Devcon is the Schelling point for the Ethereum community to meet fellow builders, researchers, and community organizers.
🪷Tickets are live!
🪷Speaker applications are open!
Join Devcon as an attendee or get involved. Check out the blog with all news:
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there's tons of respect for celo among core EF people : they did their own L1 as ETH was proof of work (bad for the environment) & fees were too high for lower income populations
once both these factors changed, celo is now coming back. Their due on Eth by end of year!
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I had earlier asked about giving web2 users wallets or onchain sub-ENS names, without us knowing their seed phrase
The Twitter hive mind delivered 😲
@privy_io
uses shamir secret sharing to create embedded wallets for your users 🫡
@namestonehq
can then take the public key
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I just donated to Web3 Community and Education on
@gitcoin
!
A shameless plug for my project VoiceDeck, & also to support Greenpill &
@TrustedSeed
's great work
VoiceDeck gets investigative journalists paid when their story creates impact
Vote here:
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I had a chat with
@klausbrave
, whose hosting the
@arbitrum
workshop
@EthereumDenver
I loved his 3 part solution for better hackathons
- well defined challenges
- diverse skill sets in participants
- co-design with users
Do attend if you're gonna be marching to denver !
Hey teams! 👋
There's a 3 day
@arbitrum
DAO governance hackathon happening from Feb 26th to 28th! 📆
If you're gonna be in Denver, would love for you guys to register and participate in this GovHack event!
Details below! 👇
🧵 1/4
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just reviewing some grant applications for
@thriveprotocol
, here's 5 tips for grantees;
1. let your love for the product shine through, which happens with interesting stories such as how users did something you didn't anticipate
2. give clear reasons for ecosystem alignment
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I just donated to the Web3 Open Source Software Round on
@gitcoin
!
I can personally vouch for
@DeCartography
&
@W3Hidayath
, who have solid teams working on real problems
I've also been impressed with
@Giveth
&
@commonsstack
, & all they have given to the ecosystem over years
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this was a really great event with
@DisruptionJoe
, here's a recap for those who couldn't make it
- decentralization in a grants program requires that there be different power centers rather than a single council or person with decision making power
he gave the example of a
Catch
@DisruptionJoe
share his experience & expertise at Grants101!
📅 28 Apr, 6 PM IST
📍 BLRxZo
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my feeling from DAOs with a wide base of users is they don't want to fund business opportunities, even when its in their self-interest to do so
They would much rather fund experiments
This has a couple of implications for service providers looking to make DAO proposals
1. Map
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Here's a tweet thread on insights from
@FundingCommons
conference
This is an output from funding received via
@gitcoin
community & education round , helping those who can't attend in person get the highlights
Long thread filled with posts over the next 2 days 🧵
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I just finished reading
@gitcoin
's new whitepaper, written by
@owocki
&
@MegLister
i was struck by their redefinition of the mission as "defining and evolving the new era of capital allocation", esp since the messaging i hear is gitcoin = grants = growth
🧵on key takeaways
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After meeting
@rsousamarques
&
@Coltron_eth
at dappcon, I wanted
@karpatkey
to work on
@arbitrum
's treasury
We gave them a 10k ARB grant & I'm amazed at their execution
If you can't join our space , here's a 🧵 with key highlights from their report
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@Landohx
Okay really masculine way of proving your work is more important than hers. Shame on you and your arrogance.
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Only in Auroville - a cafe making space for the tree that was there before it 🎋
Auroville is a self governed community in India & ideal location for web3 public goods funding. In 50+ years, they've planted 2 million trees & converted a brown wasteland to a regenerating forest🤯
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I got to meet
@carl_cervone
in the flesh!
Scarcity is not enough to give
@hypercerts
value, so he's focusing on impact evaluations at scale. A culture change needs to happen in DAO grantmaking whereby 2-10% is mandatorily kept aside for external audit & documentation
Web3 was a
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The role of DAO contributors is getting experts together
The role of experts is depoliticization
The role of delegates is oversight
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After all the heavy Ethereum FUD, a great restatement by Vitalik on what's special about our ecosystem - we are simply furthest along in creating a cypherpunk future
Kudos to
@post_polar_
on helping him with such an important piece about our core values & what we stand for. 🧵
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Finally had a chance to learn about cabin dao from
@JonathanHillis
&
@lauren_a_hillis
, I'm super impressed with how it's evolved over the years
Starting out in 2019, they first got people out to a remote location for a few months. Once they had kids they pivoted to creating
#2
Network City: imagine a city with neighbourhoods strewn across all continents connected via the internet.
@cabindotcity
is bringing to life this decentralised network city, one neighborhood at a time with a simple yet urgent philosophy: change begins at home, in our backyard.
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I started with gitcoin almost a year ago, as a grantee in their beta round
its come full circle now, with me helping them decide the community rounds in GG20 that receive extra matching funds
@mathildawrites
did a great job in providing our council 3 voting parameters assess
🎉We are excited to announce the 5
#GG20
Community Rounds that have been selected and are receiving extra matching from Gitcoin 🎉
✨
@OpenCivics
✨
@climate_program
✨
@tecmns
✨
@hypercerts
✨
@ensdomains
Each round will receive an additional $25k match from Gitcoin 🌞
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Wow my work on retroactive funding of investigative journalism just got featured on astral codex ten, the most influential blog of the EA movement 🤯
A recap of how this happened;
- 7 months ago, i took part in an impact market on manifund ( the team behind
@ManifoldMarkets
)
For 7 years, I've made a living through grants. It feels like begging for breadcrumbs.
This is why I'm excited about
@ManifoldMarkets
. You can buy impact shares in my project and make a healthy return!
Feels good to make investors money & do good!
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The 78k grant i got from
@pluralitylab
for looking into
@arbitrum
DAOs treasury may have delivered a positive RoI today, but it was an incredibly risky and contrarian bet
Who else do you know would have given such a posting to a journalist with zero finance background 🤣
Why would you give a grant to someone who isn’t a fund manager to drive the effort to discover how to manage a treasury the size of Arbitrum DAO?
- unbiased approach
- communication skills
- journalism investigation xp
- proven disagreeable but open temperament
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Really excited to be at eth india, come find me at the filecoin & ipfs booth if you're here
I finally understood what the fable of the dragon tyrant is 🔥🐲
there's beautiful story wall art when you arrive to inspire hackers as they start their sprint❣️ 🧵 over next 2 days
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Woot woot my application for
@gitcoin
grant round 18 is under review! Only one week to go before the magic begins 🪄✨🧙🏾
The hard deadline is 17th August, but i'd advise applying by 11th so you're ready to roll when the round kicks off on 15th
DM/reply for help in applying
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1/10 Book Review
"GreenPilled: How Crypto Can Regenerate the World" with
@owocki
on the mike & Octavian Todirut on design
Strap your seatbelt tight folks , its to the moon 🚀
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Enjoyed talking about what ethereum means to me & the group it's brought together at yesterday's next billion world cafe
Ethereum is unique among other blockchains for its focus on public goods funding
@TheDevanshMehta
about
@Ethereum
and onboarding next billion people
@EFNextBillion
#DevConnect
,
#DevConnectIST
,
#PublicGoods
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@X_golden_memes
@MarioNawfal
They were right about Russia's impending invasion of Ukraine, they do have some reliability
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Suffering from a scratchy throat, racking coughs and mild fever, that's how good eth denver was this year ❤️
Still processing everything but here's a download
1. Little birdies have told me that both
@ensdomains
&
@OndoFinance
are looking for a L2 stack to build on
Which makes
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Super chill vibes here
@FundingCommons
. It's held in a factory /co-working space so buidler feels all around
The 1st panel i attended spoke about onchain reputation & it's applications. We touched on gitcoin passport & how it doesn't cater to OGs who split txns across multiple
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This was indeed a phenomenal event, made better by
@VitalikButerin
dropping in . The intimate atmosphere was conducive to deep discussions
Here's my notes from the event;
1.
@ray_svitla
kicked off the event talking about persecution in Belarus. He used veriff for kyc & vocdoni
Great side event at Berlin Blockchain Week. The future is decentralised but not within existing frameworks preserving status quo,urgent experimentation with alternative models is reqd. Blockchain is enabling shift from mere token participation to tokenized, tangible participation
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the ultimate dream of the web3 public goods scene is taking over the market for delivery of social services (over $25 trillion)
the good news ? we've finally replicated web2 financing structures
1. Optimism
@retropgf
= prizes/awards
2.
@OctantApp
= endowments
3.
@Giveth
=
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@NathanpmYoung
More vulnerable to sea level rise, local biodiversity is affected, loss of buffer b/w the sea & mainland causing regular flooding
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This is the issue with using
@jokerace_io
instead of
@SnapshotLabs
to fill open positions in a DAO
No one votes !
For the
@gitcoin
council, of 7149 eligible voters only 9 have cast their vote 🫤
winning is mostly reaching out to your network, not strength of candidacy
@TheDevanshMehta
tweet about voting has more people interacting with it than voters in the contest😂
Click the link
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Finally a proper checkpoint in
@arbitrum
DAOs journey to treasury diversification.
1% of treasury (35 million ARB) going to 6 providers, who will also be launching their RWA products on Arbitrum 🥳
We will be doing office hours tomorrow at 330 pm UTC (link in forum post in
Congrats to the 6 teams who received a recommendation from the
@arbitrum
STEP committee to diversify its treasury into the various RWA product offering 🏦
@Securitize
@superstatefunds
@MountainUSDM
@OpenEden_Labs
@BackedFi
@OndoFinance
As an observer on the sidelines, I’m
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I just finished voting in the
@0xPolygonLabs
infra round on
@gitcoin
! felt good to see that $113 match
Really exciting to see Polygon play around with credibly neutral grant funding infra
Last 2 days to vote in the round, we need to make it a success so other L2s follow suit
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@antoniogm
In hindsight fukuyama was premature to call the end of history as the ideological battle b/a authoritarianism & democracy was still ongoing at the time of his essay and even now
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The plan of action for
@gitcoin
grants round 19 just dropped! Love the clarity of direction from
@sovereignsignal
and the PGF team
- Gitcoin will finally earn revenue by charging 10% of the matching fund pool from featured rounds (renamed as community rounds)
- climate is no
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I just donated to
#GG18
on
@gitcoin
@JournoDao
,
@greenpillnet
with
@sejal_rekhan
, my project VoiceDeck,
@hrm_o25
,
@OpenDataforWeb3
with
@epowell101
&
@zachxbt
got my votes in the web3 community round
Passport requirements are high, so if you clear the bar be sure to vote!
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Call out to all RWA folks with a stable, liquid & yield earning product
Do you want Arbitrum DAO as your customer?
Then apply for a share of the 35 million ARB being diversified
Honestly, is there anything more legit than saying Arbitrum DAO earns money from our product ?
🧵
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I did not fully realize this until the
@metagov_project
x
@gitcoin
event yesterday, but RetroPGF is simply a follow up to airdrops
There's currently much more incentive to contribute to pre airdrop projects
With RetroPGF you can be equally compensated even post airdrop
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I just voted in the
@jokerace_io
for the
@gitcoin
GG20 grants council!
I am standing too so would appreciate support 🙏🏾
Of my 20 votes, I gave 5 to
@crystaldstreet
&
@HangleangS
And 2 each to
@gospelofchange
,
@pfedprog
,
@WasabiNetwork
@zer8_future
&
@MorleySheen
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Over the next 3 days I'm at the
@gijn
conference to convince investigative reporters to record outcomes from their stories as
@hypercerts
on
@optimismFND
Grateful to
@EFNextBillion
&
@gitcoin
GG 18 for supporting my travel here
What crypto related Qs should I ask them ?
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@DerekJGrossman
India is bridge diplomacy, we need to be present with both west & Russia to find the common ground
Signing the communique in its current form would've alienated Russia, not attending wouldn't have given us the insight we need to see what viable path forward there can be
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The second research grant from our Arbitrum Treasury Working Group was given to
@aerafinance
, who had a lazer focus in their report on price impact from grantees liquidating their $ARB
Their analysis produced some startling statistics; strap in for the ride 🧵
This is one of the most based things I’ve read in a while
@gauntlet_xyz
and
@aerafinance
propose the concept of Protocol Owned Execution (POE), where DAOs can max treasury health by owning the diversification process & paying grants primarily in stables
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I just applied with
@VoiceDeckDAO
to the
@gitcoin
GG20 OSS round in the dapps category, along with the
@hypercerts
&
@OpenCivics
community rounds
Last 2 days for applying! Get your applications in pronto, you can't win if you don't try
Here's a review of my experience with
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I just wrapped up my donations to GG18
@gitcoin
!
In the climate round, i voted for
@thetreegens
to support the incomparable
@JimiCohen
@AtlantisDAO1
for the leadership role of
@IrthuSuresh
&
@kirannambiar8
@Solar_FND
backed by energy givers
@ColeenChase
&
@jhruth
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nice
@gitcoin
just opened applications for external advisors to form the GG20 community council !
7 people will be paid ~$1000 each for 10 hours of work b/w March 11-15, to decide how much matching we should give community run rounds in GG20
Applications open until Feb 20th
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@lexfridman
@hubermanlab
It isn't a hit piece friend , it's giving the voiceless women a means to speak truth to power
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The
@gitcoin
governance forum is the right place for beta round projects to constructively raise concerns
@connoroday0
says lower participation resulted in money playing an outsized role relative to number of contributors.
We need weighted QF in low participation rounds
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When I first met
@owocki
in Jan
@PluralityInst
, I
found his answer lacking on how
@gitcoin
evaluates grantee performance
Which is why I'm excited by their integration with Decentralized Review System (Deresy) & pilot eval of 10 climate projects in GR14
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Great to hear
@owocki
speak at hyperlink by
@Consensys
, on the two fold issue of public goods : raising money & fairly distributing it
In web3 we have
@OctantApp
(staking rewards),
@gitcoin
(QF),
@optimismFND
(RetroPGF) which can be taken to governments once proved for eth
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Really super meeting
@web3kasper
during the
@Polkadot
Now India conference.
He works on
@PolimecProtocol
, decentralised fundraising in a legally compliant way.
They are solving the market failure of information asymmetry, to let communities and VCs co-invest in projects
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I just voted in the
@arbitrum
domain round 🗳️
Such a creative use of
@gitcoin
by
@DisruptionJoe
,
@shawnlgrubb
& the plurality labs team 👾
wallets containing $ARB & passing sybil checks vote on the distribution of $100k grant funds across 5 areas : gaming, protocol,
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Retroactive funding of public goods has more of a free rider problem than donations
Why should I pay for work that's already done ? Can't I just give it for the next phase of the same project ?
The real tradeoff for donors is retroactive vs milestone based funding. 🧵 time
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To fund the commons, the church used tithe (10% of earnings) while the state uses taxes
In a web3 world, we have more mechanisms available. Kudos to
@supermodularxyz
for curating all the instruments at our disposal to slay moloch, demon of coordination
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Blockchains if they were in school
Polygon - front bench A graders
Arbitrum - socially awkward stoners
Optimism - cool kids smooth with the opp sex
Base - kids acing tests without studying
Celo - high school activists
Ethereum - nerds
Solana - athletes
Bitcoin - bully
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Ive been thinking recently about credible neutrality as a guiding principle for the future of how we earn money
The 4 rules
@VitalikButerin
laid out in his 2020 piece really helped me connect the pieces
1. Don't write specific people or outcomes into the mechanism
They
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some peeps are having a hard time getting their
@gitcoinpassport
, so
@hodler_fo_lyf
& i created a guide to help you obtain one
tl;dr: only developers, ENS holders & existing
@gitcoin
donors can easily get a passport
Pity that devs are the only non-web3 users you can onboard
having a hard time verifying my gitcoin passports
any other way I can donate?
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