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March 20, 2025, 7:05pm
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Time/Day: 5PM UTC (12PM ET)(6PM CET) every Thursdayhttps://meet.google.com/fyt-qcrb-tth
Welcome ALL
Miscellaneous ENS updates of general interest
ENS x Octant PG Round Reminder
PG Allocation Strategies Discussion
Open floor for all questions, proposals and other presentations etc.
The ENS Octant PG round closes April 2nd (possibly April 1st in the US).
A notion page provides a guide for applicants.
Giveth hosted a Twitter space about the round.
The Public Goods Working Group has been giving out grants through the builder grants program.
Possibility of growing the amount of funding given out through the public goods WG.
Interesting opportunities around funding mechanisms and how to allocate funding and measure impact.
Experimenting with different funding mechanisms and exploring ways to contribute larger amounts of funding to tools and infrastructure foundational to the Ethereum ecosystem.
A document has been created and shared for feedback, with the goal of presenting it as an RFC in the forum to discuss possibilities.
The Public Goods Working Group’s current builder grants are seen as providing smaller funding amounts, and there’s a need to rethink the size and distribution of funding to be more progressive.
There is a need to explore larger fundings, and partnerships, and leverage bigger funding opportunities.
Discussions often revolve around choosing between quadratic funding, direct grants, or retrofunding.
Different mechanisms have different strengths.
If scaling up the amount of funding, be intentional about the desired outcomes and how to scale in a way that allows for measurement before overcommitting.
Concerns exist about the public goods working group’s overhead costs.
The goal is to build alliances with other cornerstone players in the Ethereum ecosystem for a bottom-up approach.
Funding allocation decisions range from centralized grant managers to community-based approaches.
The 2024 expense report .
Upcoming Twitter Spaces
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Sov
March 20, 2025, 7:25pm
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Thanks for the recap and for everyone that joined the call. I really enjoyed the discussion and look forward to helping progress the follow ups mentioned!
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Time/Day : 5PM UTC (12PM ET)(6PM CET) every ThursdayMeet Link : https://meet.google.com/fyt-qcrb-tth
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Welcome ALL
Miscellaneous ENS updates of general interest
The ENS Octant PG round closes April 2nd
This notion page provides a guide for all applicants
Giveth & Octant have been hosting a series of Twitter spaces all week about the round
Borderless Africa update on final large grant update
Continuing the conversation on ENS Public Goods: Rethinking Our Funding Impact
Open floor for all questions, proposals and other presentations etc.
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March 27, 2025, 5:48pm
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Time/Day: 5PM UTC (12PM ET)(6PM CET) every Thursdayhttps://meet.google.com/fyt-qcrb-tth
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Welcome ALL
Miscellaneous ENS updates of general interest
The ENS Octant PG round closes April 2nd
This notion page provides a guide for all applicants
Giveth & Octant have been hosting a series of Twitter spaces all week about the round
Borderless Africa update on final large grant update
Continuing the conversation on ENS Public Goods: Rethinking Our Funding Impact
Open floor for all questions, proposals and other presentations etc.
Welcome to the weekly dose of public good goodness
ENS labs team members will be at ETH Taipei
Service Provider Program applications are coming to a close
31st March is the last day
The best place to learn about the Service Provider Program is the Ecosystem or the MetaGov group
April 2nd round closes
Just completed the final Twitter space with projects showcasing their work and getting support
This notion page provides a guide for all applicants
Giveth & Octant have been hosting a series of Twitter spaces all week about the round
Magma program founder
Public Goods initiative to find developers and startup founders from Africa
Two-week in-person program.
Founders get advice and mentorship, find partnerships, collaborators, learn, etc.
Received a large grant from ENS DAO
Stats:
There are 76 founders and builders,
70% are startups and 30% are individual builders
40 of total 76 are startups
Those 40 startups account for 4% of all stablecoin transaction volume in all of Africa!
The next (3rd) cohort starts next week
A lot of collaboration between projects
Info:
A lot of untapped opportunity for ENS
Rethinking Funding Impact
A previous discussion on this led to integrating good takeaways into a document.
The goal is to explore ways to fund more projects and explore different funding mechanisms.
The intent is to increase the volume of grants and avoid outsourcing responsibilities as stewards.
This shared document has comment access for feedback.
The next step is to post it on the forum for broader input and to gauge interest.
Ecosystem Alliances
There is potential to create alliances within the Ethereum ecosystem to fund public goods in a less siloed manner.
The EF is reducing its role as the sole grant giver in the ecosystem.
Others will pick up the responsibility to continue funding.
The DRC is getting matching funding from the EF.
There is a need for a more coordinated effort to increase support for projects.
Next Steps
Go through all of the comments and see if major updates have been made to the doc , then aim to post it and get broader feedback.
Proposal idea: Funding public goods and pushing initiatives collaboratively between ENS DAO and Nouns DAO
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Miscellaneous ENS updates of general interest
DevTools Guild presentation
Wellbeing Protocol (Mark)
Continuing the conversation on ENS Public Goods: Rethinking Our Funding Impact
Open floor for all questions, proposals and other presentations etc.
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April 3, 2025, 6:32pm
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Time/Day: 5PM UTC (12PM ET)(6PM CET) every Thursdayhttps://meet.google.com/fyt-qcrb-tth
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…to your weekly dose of public goods goodness
Taking the moment to enjoy this jam session and celebrate future rock stars. @Sov
Amendment proposals to the SPP program
ENS Labs is at ETH Taipei
The next event is ethCC .
The ENS manager app added Sepolia for easier testing for developers without having to switch chains.
The multi-delegate contract is out.
@conor is the founder of Web3Labs, a blockchain infrastructure company.The focus is on open-source funding, especially for key developer libraries and tooling.
Ethereum is the leading platform for decentralized applications.
A strong developer ecosystem is critical for creating apps.
There is a challenge in funding developer tooling.
The DevTools Guild is similar to the Protocol Guild but for dev tooling.
They support projects from different categories: Development frameworks, libraries, smart contract languages, and public goods.
Many projects are already integrated with ENS.
Projects have significant track records.
Aims to ensure high-quality tooling for Ethereum, maintaining its lead in dev frameworks and libraries.
Transparency is important for projects.
Biannual reports from projects will be publicly available, detailing achievements, announcements, and future roadmaps.
Looking for launch partners to create a good impact and awareness.
Aiming to raise $5 million, seeking individual funders willing to contribute $250k to $500k.
Presentation video presentation App demo presentation
Started as a research project funded by the New Zealand government.
Mission: create new economic systems that allow hyper-local communities to flourish.
Network of micro DAOs.
Created a mechanism that allowed this group to democratically decide how money is spent.
Used Web3-inspired patterns: Quadratic voting, conviction voting, fund streaming, dynamic threshold delegated voting…
Stage two: put the money movement bit.
Create the whole funding flow, which includes normal funders and normal partners.
Stage three: wrap it up in a bonding curve and actually go full end-to-end crypto with ENS wallets.
Stage four: scale it.
Create a marketplace.
Millions of hyper-local communities.
Anybody with money who wants to support localism.
A final version of the document will give more details on what the budget looks like going forward.
The budget is posted on the forum, and then it will move to a vote.
Kenya
@clowes.eth went to Kenya after being invited by Joseph from Borderless Africa after a working group call.Borderless has huge potential!
A lot of talent and passion for ENS in Kenya, making it low-hanging fruit for future public goods funding.
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Welcome ALL
Miscellaneous ENS updates of general interest
Remix presentation
Kenya update with @clowes.eth in the field
Open floor for all questions, proposals and other presentations etc.
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Hey, Deca here from Urbe, happy to tell folks about
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Sov
April 10, 2025, 5:11pm
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I think it would be great to have you join an upcoming call. Tagging @simona_pop here to help coordinate!
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Time: Thursdays at 12pm ET (5pm UTC)meet.google.com/iko-moej-rxc
Stewards: @coltron.eth (ENS | X ) @simona_pop (ENS | X ), @sov (ENS | X )
Welcome
Miscellaneous ENS updates of general interest
Remix Presentation
Kenya update with @clowes.eth in the field
Open floor for all questions, proposals and other presentations etc.
19 Participants in meeting
Andrew Vermouth and Rob Stupay presenting https://remix-project.org/
Premier onboarding tool for Web2 to Web3 developers
Lots of updates over past few years
Public good based out of Ethereum Foundation, spinning out as independent within next few months
Appealing to ecosystem for support for what has become critical public good for the ecosystem, EF will give matching grant
Work with a lot of OpenZeppelin templates, 88% of templates opened in Remix
Impact By the numbers
700K Monthly Active Users
33K Contract Deployments per Day
5,600 Onchain Network Deployments per Day
2,000+ Deployed Contract Interactions per Day
Average Session Duration: 15 minutes
18K+ Community Across all Channels
Socials:
@simona_pop : Will continue conversations, thanks for all the work
@clowes.eth in the field
Working with Magma
Magma is creating the coordination point of the most consequential founders & builders driving Africa’s financial and trust infrastructures onchain.
Some magma highlights
74 founders & builders serving all major African markets
39 startups in payments, stablecoins, infrastructure, credit, savings, staking, security, + more
Processing > 4% of all stablecoin transactions in Africa
350k+ B2B and B2C customers
Giving talks on using ENS and blown away by the results
Impressed with the passionate and super talented developer community
Also have been going out into community to do service work such as building houses
@simona_pop : Make sure to show https://builder.ensgrants.xyz/ for the talented developers building
Broad discussion on ways to improve realtions with African builders and the African tech ecosystem
Subscribe to ens dao newsletter to stay up to date on all working group + labs updates: https://paragraph.xyz/@ensdao
Notes by @don.nie
https://x.com/CherryBuilders/status/1907069947852845439
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Hey @deca12x - please join the call on Thursday and I will add you to the agenda for you to present
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Sounds good thanks, see you there
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Welcome ALL
Miscellaneous ENS updates of general interest
PG Budget vote is live DRC update on Market Structure Alignment
CherryBuilders presentation
Weekly Kenya update with @clowes.eth in the field
Open floor for all questions, proposals and other presentations etc.
cherry.builders if there’s time
If you would like to add anything, just post as a reply on the forum. If you want to present or raise a topic for discussion ask live during the call.