Gitcoin username: @jengajojo
ETH Address: jengajojo.eth
Statement of Intention / My Values & Reason for Joining:
Ever since I have discovered crypto, I have been fascinated by the ability of a capture resistant parallel system being able to perform the actions of many inefficient institutions of the current age. In the era of exponential growth, the ability of legacy systems to serve the needs of humanity is diminishing at the same time new structures are emerging which are slowly starting to take over. Our main bottleneck as a global community is adoption
There are exactly 0 examples in history of people in power willingly giving it up, especially when we investigate paradigm shifts such as those from the roman empire to the church, or the church to the nation-state. We are at yet another paradigm change, and adoption won’t come easy!
When I investigate the reasons of why ‘innovators’ of the past paradigm shifts were able to gain adoption over the incumbents, I see a repeated pattern → Public Goods Only when the innovator was able to efficiently fund and build public goods (better than the incumbent) was the innovator adopted by society at large.
The true unlock for global crypto adoption is Public Goods Funding and the nexus of PGF is Gitcoin
What Web3 Qualifications / Skills I have:
- Governance Department Coordinator at BanklessDAO
- Cobuilding a metagovernance group focused on positive sum actions, quality participation, decentralization and sovereignty (DAOStewards)
- Recognized Delegate at 1inch DAO, where I recently helped donate $100K to earthquake relief victims in Turkey
- Project coordinator for International Media Nodes, creating free crypto education in 15+ languages since 2021
- Shilling gitcoin in BanklessDAO 1, 2, 3
- Active governance participant at Gitcoin