- 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. Without further ado, let’s dive in!
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Key actions for this week as we approach GR13, starting on March 9th:
- If you’re a builder: sign up for the hackathon
- If you’re a grantee; don’t forget to update your grant and consider applying for the ecosystem rounds
- If you’re looking to contribute to your favorite projects in the space; level up your trust bonus and increase your impact by up to 150%
Meta-Governance
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The Gitcoin Foundation - A proposal to represent the Gitcoin DAO IRL by a Cayman Islands Foundation by Kyle outlines a proposal to create the Gitcoin Foundation and calls for the community to “execute a transfer of ownership of various Gitcoin Holdings assets to the Gitcoin Foundation.”
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Gitcoin Grants 2.0 by Kevin and Lindsey presents Grants 2.0 as “the accumulation of all that we’ve learned since launching Gitcoin Grants in January 2019 + evolving it for the last 3 years.” “Grants 2.0 will be forkable, modular, and decentralized.”
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Thin workstreams lead to better outcomes by Kyle is a discussion around the hypothesis that “Multi-sub-workstream structure is actually bad for governance, outcomes and accountability across the DAO as a whole.”
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Securing a GTC Token Reactor by Willy introduces the concept of Tokemak’s token reactors and discusses the “merit of campaigning for a GTC Reactor in the next election.”
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Dan provided an update on the Treasury Diversification Working Group. 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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Owocki gave an update in the thread on ImpactDAO Cartographers Wanted - the plan is to publish the “ImpactDAO” Map v0.1.0 book for Devconnect in Amsterdam 4/22 to sell alongside the Greenpill book.
GitcoinDAO Governance Overview
Workstream Discussion
Public Goods Funding
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As we approach GR13, we’re implementing quadratic funding to ensure that funds are matched to real contributors. Find out how you can increase your trust bonus and make a bigger impact with your funds.
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Tracking for Grants and Bounties have been set up to identify overlap between the two products.
Moonshot Collective
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Green Pill Podcast Episode 2 with special guest Karl Floersch is live on Spotify, Apple, and wherever you like to listen to podcasts.
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Want to reward event or meeting participants all at once with tokens? Send them a tip at tip.party. Tip Party debuted at ETH Denver, and is now live for anyone to use. Reach out to Moonshot Collective devs on Telegram if you’d like to bring Tip Party to your workstream or DAO.
Fraud Detection & Defense (FDD)
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This week began a series of workshops to teach 3 DAO contributors to run the Anti-Sybil Operational Process so the DAO can take over work previously done by Blockscience.
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An app was built for human evaluations of Sybil accounts allowing us to better protect the process from vulnerabilities and allow us to improve on inter-reviewer reliability.
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The Grant Review Team is going to the backup plan of scaling grants reviews as the Gitcoin Holdings team needs more time to assess legal implications of integrating data to our GIA software built for this purpose.
Merch, Memes & Marketing
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Memepalooza 6 is happening this Friday. For the first time, we will be partnering with another DAO to host the event, this time welcoming our friends at DeveloperDAO to meme about all things web3 and public goods. We are also continuing our artist spotlight series, featuring MMM Contributor Nanopunk’s artwork and giving away some NFTs during the event.
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Check out our blog post on the collaboration with Tally, utilizing Gitcoin Aqueduct to automate the funding of public goods and the building of Tally’s community-owned ecosystem.
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Gitcoin GR13 is just around the corner, a new Grants Verification Score has been implemented to help eliminate bad actors and ensure that funding is more proportionately matched to trusted contributors. Learn more in our blog post.
Upcoming community events
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Drop in on our weekly DAO Vibes & Office Hours w. Kevin Owocki on Wednesdays at 12PM ET on Discord! We have been seeing great attendance and engagement and we would love for you to join us. Afterwards there is the Gitcoin Contributors Happy-Hour starting at 13.30PM ET.
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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, March 14, 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!