- Weekly highlights and hot topics from the GitcoinDAO community
Welcome to the GitcoinDAO Digest, a community-led publication with TLDR-summaries of the most important discussions and proposals in the GitcoinDAO, along with relevant links for further reading. There’s been quite a few updates during Schelling point and ETHDenver so without further ado - let’s dive in!
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Key actions for this week:
- Ratify the FDD Season 13 Budget Request
- Ratifythe Moonshot Collective Season 13 Budget Request
- Ratify the MMM Season 13 Budget Request
- Check out The Schelling Point Playlist with talks from our event in Denver!
Meta-Governance
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KERNEL Evolves: A New Leaf For Gitcoin DAO by Vivek describes how “KERNEL is on the path to spinning out from Gitcoin, paving the path for it to create its own space within GitcoinDAO & beyond.”
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Gitcoin GR13 Matching Pool Allocations by Annika looks to “discuss and finalize how funding allocations for the Gitcoin Grants Round 13 Matching Pool are distributed.”
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How to Pitch Your Project on Gitcoin Grants by Leon is a great guide on how to optimize your Gitcoin Grant description.
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Summary S13 Budget Proposal Recap Kris’s Voter Guide by Kris aggregates his thoughts on the S13 Workstream budget requests. Make sure to also take a look at Kyle’s voter guide and join the conversation.
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Treasury Diversification Working Group Update by Dan provides the latest and greatest from the working group working on GitcoinDAO Treasury diversification. If you’d like to recommend a strategic partner, please leave a comment on the second forum post or contact a member of the working group.
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The Steward Council - Formation & Mandate has been updated after feedback by the community, the initiative will go live shortly with a dozen of Gitcoin Stewards.
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Leon proposed to experiment with Partial common ownership constructs to fund public goods in Gitcoin, Web 3, and beyond.
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Jon from Shapeshift joined the discussion in the A Dao Has No CEO-thread with his perspective of “decentralizing ShapeShift and going through some very similar questions and situations as I think you are dealing with in Gitcoin”.
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The Blue Ocean by Owocki explores the Blue Ocean of Internet of jobs (IoJ). The post starts a conversation around how Gitcoin products already deployed to the VLue Ocean and what blue ocean opportunities the DAO is interested in pursuing
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ImpactDAO Cartographers Wanted by Owocki describes ImpactDAO as an up & coming money lego. If you are interested in helping catalog the ImpactDAOs ecosystem & articulating their impact to the world, join the Telegram chat!
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Disruption Joe won 2nd place in the Metapod pitch competition during EthDenver by showcasing the need for a Sybil Detection DAO. This service DAO would be incubated in FDD and GitcoinDAO would participate in the founding council and earn governance via investment and incubation funding.
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Retreat 2022 Impressions by Owocki is an invitation for anyone who attended the Gitcoin retreat in Boulder Colorado to share their impressions or learnings from the event.
GitcoinDAO Governance Overview
Workstream Discussion
Public Goods Funding
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Ecosystem + cause rounds were announced during Schelling Point and ETHDenver, alongside the first Gitcoin Aqueduct partner!
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The workstream is pushing hard this week to hit >$1m in funds raised for the main pool in GR13 alone.
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Forward planning for the library and public goods weekly continues to improve, with guests from across the ecosystem planned for the rest of Q1.
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Several micro-grantees have started to showcase their work. Verses put their latest drop forward last Wednesday, and Crypto Culture and Society has formally launched Semester II.
Moonshot Collective
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Kevin’s talk “Take The Green Pill” in ETHDenver covers our new GreenPill.Party initiative. Are you ready to take the pledge, Anon?
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Austin Griffith talk “From Scaffold-ETH to BuidlGuidl to Moonshot & Beyond: A Magical Bufficorn Journey” presents Scaffold-ETH and other exciting DAO tech we’ve been working on.
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Emu gave an update on how Moonshot Collective is using its own tools to Tip and Pay our devs. In January 100% of compensation was paid through the tools created within the workstream.
Fraud Detection & Defense (FDD)
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Stay updated on our progress in our FDD Weekly Update every Monday at 11am EST in Discord, or review the slides.
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Data analysis shows that XGboost ML algorithms perform significantly better than the current random forest model implementation. This discovery is a direct result of the community model squads work.
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Grant reviews are currently happening within 4 days and will be less than 48 hours during the last week before and the first week during GR13. GIA deployment for all reviews is blocked by legal concerns of Gitcoin Holdings.
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Multisig changes are happening as the multisig keyholders which act as oversight of the workstream lean into their role and are actively making adjustments based on the workstream expectations. Our recent additions are going through a nomination and voting process which is being refined.
Merch, Memes & Marketing
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The Gitcoin Primer is live with a 5-10 minute walk-through on the vision and mission of the Gitcoin ecosystem and how to get involved. Check out the TLDR - What is Gitcoin?- thread as well for further context.
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The second Can Devs Do Something?!-meetup took place during ETHDenver. Over 40 people joined us as we vibed, ate donuts and discussed everything from Hackathons to memes.
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We received a ton of great submissions on our 4 bounties posted to the Schelling Point Hackathon. The winners have been contacted and bounties paid out. Check out the How to bridge to L2’s blog post to read the winning submission for the blog post bounty!
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We’ve set up custom m-m-m.eth subdomains for our contributors in order to easier integrate and use the coordination tools in the MC party-suite.
Upcoming community events
- Community Onboarding Call! New to Gitcoin? Every other Monday we’ll tell you all about how we’re organized and how you can become an active contributor. The next one is Monday, February 28, 1:00pm - 2:00pm ET. (If you haven’t applied, do this first!)
New to GitcoinDAO?
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Apply to become a member of GitcoinDAO by filling out the application form. To learn more about what the DAO onboarding experience entails, please visit our Notion page.
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Have you already applied but have yet to join a Gitcoin Workstream? Start here to learn more about where you might fit in.
Thanks for reading!