GR15 ends tomorrow in less than 24 hours — time to get those last minute donations in!
Also, yesterday was our biggest day yet in terms of donations!
By the numbers, here’s how GR15 has done, to date:
In this issue of the Digest:
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Hot Topics
- Twitter Roundup
- New Posts in the Governance Forum
- This Week’s GreenPill Episodes
- Weekly Gitcoin Blog Roundup
- Twitter Roundup
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New and Active Governance Proposals
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Upcoming Events
And now, on to the Hot Topics🔥 of the week!
Hot Topics
From Twitter
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This week, various Gitcoin teams hosted Twitter Spaces related to GR15, including: a GR15 Grantee “Shill Space”, a GR15 Crypto Advocacy Panel, and a GR15 x Open Gaming Metaverse space, among others. Recordings of the Spaces are still up at the time of this post–listen via the links above.
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We posted this thread on Tornado Cash, and what this recent Office of Foreign Assets Control ruling means for crypto.
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Schelling Point Bogotá is happening on October 10th–less than a month away! The site is now up. Click the link to apply to speak/volunteer/attend.
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We have been running one grants round per quarter for nearly four years! No small feat. Owocki posted this short thread musing on how far we’ve come in the 3.75 years that Gitcoin has been running grants rounds
From the Governance Forum
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“Project Management at GitcoinDAO”–Puncar
Puncar, Tigress, and June co-authored this proposal to standardize project management at Gitcoin. In the proposal, they diagnose current bottlenecks in the DAO’s project management process, and offer recommendations for an improved project and task workflow.
Special focus is given to aligning on naming conventions and “using [the] same statuses when dealing with projects and tasks. This proposal is open for comments and suggestions for the next week. In about two weeks, a final version of the proposal will be presented to CSDO. If the proposal is ratified, this team proposes to spend October working with workstreams to help implement these new standards.Request for Comment: Read the proposal and offer comments + feedback here.
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“The limits of Sybil defense (and how composability might help)”–J. Cook
J. Cook wrote this deep dive about how we might think about the limits of sybil defense. For instance, it’s impossible to design a system to protect against every possible sybil attack – but is that even necessary? He offers thinking in regard to how composability may provide new solutions for sybil defense, and how Grants 2.0 is working to implement them. -
“Gitcoin - State of the DAO - Sep 2022”–kyle
Kyle presents his take on the State of the DAO for those that have a deep interest in Gitcoin or hold large amounts of GTC. You can view the slide deck here, the recorded presentation here, or leave a comment in the forum!
Latest Episodes from GreenPill
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Greenpill #45: Kevin is joined by Jess Sloss, Co-Founder of Seed Club, a collective that helps people create social tokens to run decentralized projects. Kevin and Jess cover topics from Seed Club’s philosophy to how DAOs are changing, to what trends Jess is most excited for and everything in between.
Seed Club is taking new applications for their accelerator starting Monday! You can apply here.
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Greenpill #46: Kevin is joined by Alan Ransil, Filecoin Green Project Lead at Protocol Labs. Filecoin Green is an effort to leverage the power of Web3 to deliver rich environmental accounting systems. Kevin and Alan dive into what decarbonizing the entire economy looks like, what Filecoin Green might look like 10 years from now, how Alan and his team are building towards this future, and more.
From the Gitcoin Blog This Week:
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“From Grantee to Funder: 1inch”, by Scott Milat
In this case study, we look back on how 1inch grew from a humble hackathon project and Gitcoin grantee, to a giant in DeFi that came back to give to Gitcoin! -
“Closing the gender gap in web3”, by MathildaDV
This piece defines the problem of the gender gap in web3 and showcases three women-led web3 projects that create space for diversity to flourish, and are working towards shifting web3 to being a more equitable and inclusive realm for all. -
“The Merge + GR15 Mitigation and Offset Partners: This is Simply the Beginning”, by Team Gitcoin
This post showcases the numerous carbon offset projects we are running with our GR15 Mitigation and Offset Partners. For this initiative, we’ve joined with Toucan, KlimaDAO, Nori, Regen Network, Helios and Zero Labs to offset and mitigate the carbon emissions from the last couple years of Gitcoin’s grants rounds and more than halfway to the total emissions to date.Read the post to learn more, and then join the movement to offset Ethereum’s historical carbon footprint by joining the Merge4Climate Discord and adding your name to the Sign on Statement congratulating the decentralized team of over 100 developers who have contributed to making “the merge” a reality.
Thanks to Ben and Coleen who wrote this post.
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“Gitcoin: the Ecosystem Innovation Flywheel”, by Team Gitcoin
This post explores the composability of web3 ecosystems, Ethereum’s role as a provider of web3 “money legos”, and Gitcoin’s role as an Ecosystem Innovation Flywheel! The post delves into how Quadratic Funding enables developers to build the public goods of tomorrow, and how this enables a “virtuous cycle”, where we are all participating in creating an internet built by all of us, for all of us.Thank you to Faith, Armando, and MathildaDV for co-creating this piece.
Note: In an effort to make the newsletter more readable and engaging, we have decided to nix the Workstream Updates section. If you’d like to leave feedback on this iteration of the Gitcoin Digest, post a reply in the governance forum.
For the latest in Workstream Updates, keep an eye on the Governance Forum here.
Gitcoin Governance Overview
Snapshot polls GTC Holders and Tally performs on-chain actions. Proposals that have on-chain steps, such as budget requests, move on to Tally after being ratified on Snapshot.
Active Proposals:
- None this week
Proposal Discussions:
- None this week
Latest Completed Proposals:
Upcoming Community Events
Events this week:
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Wednesday, September 21st:
- Twitter Space(6-8p ET): Umar is running a “Shill Space” for GR15 Grantees
- Twitter Space(6-8p ET): Umar is running a “Shill Space” for GR15 Grantees
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Thursday, September 22nd (
Final Day of GR15! ):- Twitter Space(2-3p ET): Gitcoin Funder Panel
- Twitter Space(8-9p ET): “Shill till the End” Space with Ben West and Sage!
- Twitter Space(2-3p ET): Gitcoin Funder Panel
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Wednesday, September 28th:
- Discord Voice(12-1p ET): Weekly DAO Vibes Sesh–our weekly Gitcoin office hours, hosted in the Gitcoin Discord server!
For up-to-the-minute updates, check out our Events Calendar!
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