Digest #45: Gitcoin 
UNICEF Alpha Round Kicks Off Tomorrow!
Our first Alpha Round, in collaboration with Unicef’s Office of Innovation, is kicking off tomorrow!
There are 10 grantees in the round, working on providing socially-minded solutions in education, healthcare, climate, and financial services. You can read more about each grantee and how you can support their work in this post.
The round runs from December 9th-16th, and will be on ETH mainnet. This round with UNICEF will be the first of five test rounds run on our new grants protocol as part of Gitcoin’s Alpha test season. You can read more about our Alpha test season here.
Also, there is a Twitter Space happening on Tuesday 12/13 at 2pm EST, where we’ll discuss the round and talk about grantee-led projects. Schedule a reminder.
For information on how to donate when the round goes live on Friday, go here.
In This Issue of the Digest
- DAO News
- Content Roundup
- Upcoming Events
- Opportunities for Builders
DAO News
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Vitalik
’s Gitcoin: Vitalik published a post about the things in the Ethereum application ecosystem that he finds exciting–and one of them is Gitcoin. Vitalik praised our DAO model, our Grants Program, and Gitcoin Passport. See the thread.
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New Steward Council Has Been Elected:
Gitcoin is excited to announce our next round of Gitcoin Steward Council members! Our Stewards serve an advisory board for the DAO, and help to steer the DAO in alignment with its stated mission, purpose, and vision.
We welcome @Eugyal @carl_cervone, @DrNickA, @AnnikaSays, @dabit3, @thrift_lindsey, @epowell101, @thegrifft, ebransom, and @Sim_Pop.
Read more about our new Steward Council here.
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Buidl in Public #4 happens tomorrow at 11:30am EST/4:30pm UTC!
For this installment, the early stage web3 project builder is Orrin from QSTN, a blockchain enabled market research portal where users earn digital rewards for completing surveys, questionnaires and short answers. Orrin is looking for help on tokenization: navigating the securities process (1) and whether to license our proprietary method (2). If you have ideas for how Orrin can move forward, or would like to simply listen in on other community members’ ideas, join us for this fourth session of Buidl in Public!
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Gitcoin
Optimism Partnership. The Optimism Foundation’s second retroactive public goods funding round will be one of the test rounds deployed on Gitcoin’s grants protocol. Read our thread about the partnership, or listen to our recent Twitter Space with Optimism. -
We made a Gitcoin Grants Telegram! For up-to-the-minute updates on all things Gitcoin Grants, join into our new Gitcoin Grants Telegram channel!
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Fantom Alpha Round voting starts next Monday, 12/12. Winners will be announced soon after. You can read more about the Fantom Alpha Round here, on the Gitcoin blog.
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Gitcoin
Snapshot Twitter Space Highlights. In case you haven’t heard, Gitcoin is partnering with Snapshot, and Snapshot has added Quadratic Voting as a feature! Read the blog post, or listen to the recording of our recent Twitter Space.
Also, there are five hackathons running on Gitcoin right now! Scroll to the bottom of the Digest to check out our Opportunities for Builders.
This Week’s Content
This week, three new posts on the Gitcoin blog, and three new Green Pill episodes from Owocki!
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Gitcoin Blog: Announcing: The Gitcoin Protocol Alpha Tests
This post explains the “test” alpha rounds with UNICEF, Fantom, Optimism, and Alchemix we’ll be running in the coming months. In January, we will also run our own Gitcoin test round to ensure that we continue to support early-stage builders during the transition. -
Gitcoin Blog: Grantee Showcase: Meet UNICEF’s Alpha Round Grantees
In collaboration with UNICEF’s Office of Innovation, we’re kicking off Alpha Round Season, and today we’re thrilled to introduce you to the ten participating grantees! Learn more about how Gitcoin is testing its grants protocol with key partners like UNICEF. -
Gitcoin Blog: Gitcoin announces the results of the first-ever quadratically elected Steward Council
Gitcoin has elected the next cohort of members to its Gitcoin Stewards Council. The Gitcoin Stewards Council was created in March 2022 as a governance mechanism and has continued to refine the objectives, selection methods, and compensation of selected Gitcoin Steward Council members. The objective of this new council is to be an externally connected strategic body that will help Gitcoin improve market sensing ability and to provide feedback on strategy, proposals, and challenges. -
Quadratic Voting with Tim Daubenschütz | Green Pill #67
Tim Daubenschütz is a pluralistic freelancer and engineer seeking tough challenges. He’s also a blogger about topics like soulbound tokens and Harberger tax. In this episode, we dive into the mechanisms Tim has explored, such as quadratic voting. Tim brings a high level perspective to complex topics in the regenerative world. -
Idena Network with Founder Andrew | Green Pill #68
In today’s episode, we’re joined by Andrew, the anonymous founder of Idena Network. We’re continuing our exploration of decentralized identity through Idena’s approach to sybil resistance, which operates through a Proof-of-Personhood consensus.
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Kolektivo with Luuk Weber | Green Pill #69
The Kolektivo Framework is a collection of institutional technologies that allow local communities to launch, finance, and govern their own regenerative economies.
Kolektivo issues geo-NFTs to enable autonomy in communities to help regenerate their commons. We bring on Luuk Weber, founder of Kolektivo, to discuss collective infrastructure and the future of tech.
Upcoming Community Events
If you have an event you’d like us to include in the Digest, reach out to @alexdw5 on Twitter or Discord.
Friday (12/9):
- 11:30p ET – Buidl in Public #4. Gary chats with Orrin from QSTN, a blockchain enabled market research portal where users earn digital rewards for completing surveys, questionnaires and short answers. Join us for this fourth session of Buidl in Public!
Tuesday (12/13):
- 2p ET – UNICEF Round AMA Twitter Space – Join us in welcoming the 10 grantees in the UNICEF Round into the Gitcoin ecosystem! Our hosts Azeem Khan and Ben West will share more on the participating projects and their intended impact, followed by Q&A. For more info, read our recent blog post about the partnership launch with Unicef. The round launches Friday, 12/9! Schedule a reminder for the Twitter Space here.
Next Wednesday (12/14):
- 12p ET – Gitcoin Community Call. Join us in the #dao-citizens channel for our weekly Gitcoin DAO-wide community call.
For up-to-the-minute updates on Gitcoin events, check out our Events Calendar!
Opportunities for Builders
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The Web3 Social Hackathon starts today, and runs until 12/31. Sponsors include Gitcoin, Ceramic, Unlock, and others. $50k in prizes. Register now.
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The Illuminate/22 Hack by Moonbeam began this week! Runs 11/14 - 12/12. There is $80K in various bounties available. Check the Prize Explorer.
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Reserve Protocol Launch Hackathon–this DeFi hackathon is looking for the most innovated defi project and has $100K Grand Prize bounty. Check out the description to add some helpful inspirations for possible products that you can create using the Reserve Protocol, check them out here.
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UBESWAP DESTINY HACKATHON. Runs 11/14 - 12/12. Sponsors include Celo and Ubeswap. Prize pool of 800,000 UBE(roughly ~$15k at the time of publish date of this newsletter). Check out the bounties here.
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Magic Eden Hackathon – Creator Monetization. Runs from 10/28 - 12/12. Total prize pool of $250k.
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Algorand Greenhouse Hack 3. Starts 12/14. Various bounties available. Take a look at the winning projects from GHH2.
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The 12 Days of HacXmas is happening now and runs until 12/12.
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