1. Welcome ALL [image]
- Welcome to the weekly dose of public goods goodness!
2. Jam corner with the PG band aka @Sov
- Pearl Jam jamming session
3. Miscellaneous ENS updates of general interest
- Next week is ETHAccra
- ENS is a gold sponsor
- L2 primary names are supported in VIEM and WAGMI
- Builders are invited to test it
4. EF SFC x ENS Dao announcement
- Collaboration with EF was announced last week.
- A joint effort between ENS and EF to support builders.
5. Argot presentation
- New non-profit independent R&D group
- Mission: building the critical infrastructure for Ethereum applications
- Gave an overview of the key projects under Argo (Solidity, Fee, and others).
- The Solidity team is developing a newer, leaner language.
- Overall goals: stabilizing the front-end language and fixing backend issues.
- Priorities shifted towards correctness and security.
- Core Solidity: A new iteration of the language
- It will make Solidity faster, easier to add features, and more maintainable
- The language standard library will introduce an EIP community process for community input.
- Fixing the backend problem is another goal.
- The spin-outs from the EF have been finalized.
- Swiss nonprofit incorporated.
- A funding agreement with the EF secures 3 years of financing.
- They are seeking an additional two to three years of funding and have been in talks with stakeholders in the public goods funding ecosystem.
- Solidity secures around $270 billion USD in TVL, highlighting the importance of independence and neutrality.
- ARGO aims to secure around $10 million in the next year.
- They are exploring funding from L1 applications, Ethereum treasury companies, and L2s, drawing inspiration from Lido’s impact staking.
- Donations to the ARGO could potentially be framed as tax write-offs.
- Supporting public goods could be presented as a risk mitigation strategy for Ethereum treasury companies, which have to file reports to the SEC
6. Musicaw3 - LATAM artist community presentation
- Sol is a musician and songwriter who met and collaborated with Marcus
- Sol’s project, musica w3, is a public good and community of independent musicians and artists working at the intersection of music, web3, and blockchain technology.
- Their goal is to provide musicians with tools and education to understand the possibilities of this ecosystem
- Musica w3 collaborated with ENS Namespace, allowing community members to claim ENS names with the musica w3 name.
- Built a Farcaster mini app: Shine
- Next week will present a song.
- Sol is organizing a large side event for DevConnect in Argentina, expecting over 3,000 people.
7. Open floor for all questions, proposals and other presentations etc.
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