1. Welcome ALL 
- Weekly dose of public goods goodness.
2. Jam corner with the PG band aka @Sov
- Steve Ray Vaughn - Pride and Joy
- (because Ethereum is our Pride and Joy
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- (because Ethereum is our Pride and Joy
3. Miscellaneous ENS updates of general interest
- Secured a place in Buenos Aires for Devconnect - November 19, 6-9 pm.
- ETHAccra hackathon at the beginning of September
4. The EF SFC team joins us to intro & chat about our collaboration
- Talking more about EF + ENS collab.
- Strategic grants have been funding projects with matching funding from EF
- Excitement expressed about the collab and evolution from working in silos.
- The collaboration is the outcome of two months of work
- Vinay Vasanji leads the Strategic Funding Coordination team.
- Aim is to increase the flow of information and funds from funders to projects
- The team also aims to help projects surface that they’re in search of funding and getting credibility from EF to help additional funders get on board.
- Building dashboards to surface projects to public goods funders and exploring mechanisms for sustainable funding.
Changes to EF grant process
- The grant process at EF is shifting
- Previously, grants were given through an open grant round and ad hoc grants surfaced by EF teams.
- The process is pausing and will become more RFP-driven.
- Teams will surface areas of priority, and a structured process will be in place for project applications and selection.
- This will create a pipeline of high-priority domain areas
- The process will be more structured, regular, and interactive
Collaboration and Benefits for builders
- Projects approaching ENS for funding can be referred to the Strategic Funding Coordination team to identify alignment with upcoming RFPs.
- This saves time for projects by helping them navigate the funding landscape
- Shortening the time between inquiry and review can accelerate co-funding
- Sharing project proposals among teams can provide builders with 2 grant reviews in one shot.
- Previous EF grantees may graduate to a broader ecosystem of funders, with the team providing coordination and non-financial resources.
- The collaboration allows for magnified impact and mutual support
Analysis
- The EF is trying to determine which projects are essential to the broader ecosystem
- Essential does not only mean technical infrastructure
- Social infrastructure can also be essential too.
- Examples of social infrastructure projects funded include Cyberpunk Congress, Magma (Africa Focused Developer Residency), and Shenzhen Researcher House.
- Other areas include community initiatives, education (e.g., Web3 Bridge, Rare Skills), and research.
- There is a public feed of announced grantees on the ESP Twitter handle
- On average, there have been about 600 grantees per year
- Budget ranges are based on need and scope
Ethereum Stories
- Epoch 9 starts the 2nd week of October.
- Applications are open until the end of the month.
- It’s a collaboration between the EF team and the Octane team.
5. Open floor for all questions, proposals and other presentations etc.
Bybit Hack and Security Tool
- David, with a security background, has been exploring options related to security incidents since the Bybit hack.
- He is developing an AI-powered tool to identify addresses and determine user intent based on onchain data.
- The tool uses decoded call data as input and can be modeled into a MetaMask snap.
- Snaps offer additional capabilities to MetaMask that are not native.
ETHAccra update
- The ETHAccra hackathon is two weeks away.
- A webinar was hosted to onboard everyone to ENS.
- The Hackathon requirements were given out.
- Magma is also preparing for an event.
- The magma event is on September 1st - 3rd;
- The hackathon is on September 4th.
- There will be a Builders day before the hackathon with overlap between the two events.
- It might be interesting to get Joseph to speak at ETH Accra about public goods