1. Welcome ALL
- Welcome to the weekly dose of public goods goodness
2. Jam corner with the PG band aka @Sov
- Keeping up with Metallica streak
3. ETHSafari presentation
- ETH Safari is an annual event that has evolved into a genuine community
- Attendees were given NFC wristbands linked to unique ENS wallets
- Using the new wallet address was required to pay for goods and services
- There were 1154 unique transactions in 2.5 days, and 600+ wristbands
- 331 active wristbands → people used safari tokens at least once.
- People were encouraged to update their profile and change ENS name.
- ETH Safari included talks, sessions, and panels.
- Next year will be the 5th anniversary of ETH Safari.
- They are looking for funding and support to make planning sustainable
- Resource link ETHSafar roots.
4. Dev Guild Green Pill Network presentation:
Squad Staking lets people collectively stake 32 ETH to run an Ethereum validator. By pooling resources, it lowers solo operator costs and risk. Obol (DVT), Dappnode, and Lido provide the software, hardware, and economic rails that make this model viable. Validator rewards can become a steady source of public goods funding, aligning individual incentives with collective benefit.
- Staking as a primitive for growing public goods.
- Full Presentation
- Impact Stake has been building staking infrastructure for easy donation, allowing people to donate, stake, and have yield go to public goods.
- Plans: Next two workshops: onboarding with Dappnode (UI for staking) and deploying a squad to testnet or mainnet.
- The ask: Cover the cost of 2 workshops, creating content, etc.
- Example application: supporting microgrids in Nigeria by covering utility costs with node yield.
- Partnering with Solar Village and Greenfield Nigeria.
- Aiming to onboard 3-5 more squads in the next few months.
5. Zawadi Protocol presentation: Plug‑and‑play protocol for hackathon bounty payouts
Zawadi is a decentralized protocol for managing hackathon prize escrows. It enables organizers to create hackathons, whitelist sponsors, set up prize challenges, accept funding in ERC20 or native ETH, define winners and allocations, require dual approvals from organizer and sponsor, and allow self-service winner payouts
- Specs for the protocol can be found on the GitHub link here.
- Demo is inside the repo too.
- There’s a specification on how anyone integrating it should structure their data before sending to IPFS so anyone can read it.
- Sponsors and organizers must approve disbursement even after funding a challenge.
- The winner can then click “claim funds” to receive tokens in their wallet.
6. Open floor for all questions, proposals and other presentations etc.
- Mexi wants to include an ENS track in the hackathon.
- They inquired about physical cards that ENS has used for activations.
- Physical cards are not an option due to logistical complexities.
- A company used to handle the card operation, but they not anymore.
- Need to put the proposal in so that the team can look at it and logistically see how it all maps out.