1. Welcome ALL [image]
- Welcome to the weekly dose of public goods goodness.
2. Miscellaneous ENS updates of general interest
- New page added to the ENS domains website.
- Referral program is live now - check out the leaderboard.
3. Phantom Zone presents milestone updates
- Website: https://phantom.zone/
- Phantom Zone is a research organization funded by grants
- They work on cryptographic primitives that directly impact and strengthen the blockchain ecosystem.
- The grant within Phantom Zone was geared towards polyomorphic encryption and in particular their library Pulpy.
- The grant was mostly to add a particular module to Pulpy, and that module is Arithmetic circuits.
- The milestone is completed, and a demo was done to showcase it.
- phantom (riscv FHE vm): https://github.com/phantomzone-org/phantom
- poulpy (FHE library): https://github.com/phantomzone-org/poulpy
4. ETHMexico 2025 report
- Report from ETHMexico.
- The local state and city government lent a museum for the event.
- The event was held in a nice, old, well-maintained museum
- Big university integration; protocols, exchanges, L1s, and L2s want to be in the university, and universities want this content
- Event Structure:
- VIP dinner was held.
- 2-day conferences were held, but next time, one day only.
- 36-hour continuous hackathon.
- Side events
- Event numbers:
- More than 1,000 people in each event.
- Some events had 600 people.
- Conferences had 150 hackers.
- More than 50 speakers, 19 talks.
- Will post the report in the forum and is open to questions/concerns.
- State government working with Ethereum and Sovra (from Argentina, doing decentralized identity).
- Decentralized identity is now a requirement for processes like changing a driver’s license.
- Full presentation.
5. Urbe present Impact Report for the Web3xGood Conference
- IRL event in Rome during Urbe village, a two-week pop-up city
- The event had slightly more than 60 participants
- Low budget - around 2 ETH
- NounsDAO was a major supporter
- Full recordings on YouTube and a photo gallery are available.
- Bridging Italian and international NGOs in Web3
- Engagement and participation from universities
- A researcher from Cambridge presented findings on crypto philanthropy
- Suggestion to explore domains and subdomains, especially with Blockchain association and Veracura partnerships
- Plan to do a specific event next year to onboard people for digital identity
- Impact report: Impact Report - Google Slides
6. Open floor for all questions, proposals and other presentations etc.
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