Public Goods Meeting, April 18, 2024
Details
Time: Thursdays at 1pm ET (6pm UTC)
Google Meet link: meet.google.com/iko-moej-rxc
Stewards: @vegayp (ENS | X), @coltron.eth (ENS | X), @simona_pop (ENS | X)
The agenda will be on a Public Document, you can request access to it or post in discuss if you want to present or raise a topic for discussion during the call.
Agenda
- Welcome
- Core ENS updates and announcements
- Large grants Grantee presentation: MetaGov - Eugene + Alex
- Astral.Global Presentation
- Open floor
17 Participants in meeting
1. Welcoming
- Any questions/concerns reach out to the stewards
- The agenda will be on a Public Document, you can request access to it or post in Discuss if you want to present or raise a topic for discussion during the call
2. Core ENS updates and announcements
Sponsoring opening night event at FarCon: https://farcon.xyz/
- May 2-5 in Venice Beach, California
ENS has blog on Front-end updates
Gitcoin Grants Round
- Round closed, applications being reviewed
- Matching Round starting next week
3. Large grants Grantee presentation: MetaGov - Eugene + Alex
- Received MetaGov and DAOStar Grant for $40k
- Supporting research to advance coordination of grants
- ENS Grant allowed start on V2
- Interviewed ENS Public Goods and Stacks (L2 Bitcoin)
- Pivoted research to which tooling providers are innovating on public goods funding
- Hosted a Web3 Grants summit in Denver
- Working on grant metadata standard and adoption with Gitcoin crew
- Exploring a roadmap in place for a shared database, fractured into a few areas
- Collaborating with Ethereum Foundation, Stellar, and others
- Working on EIP to create common standard for DAOs, working with DAOStar, will be published in forum soon
- More info here: [Draft] [Executable] Extend ENS DAO to EIP 4824
- Foundings from work to share:
- Grant programs quick to ship without identifying success
- Now more talk of impact measurement
- Groups getting more thoughtful on capturing metrics from grant recipients
- Creating systems of support for groups of grantees
- Want to create a public goods funding fellowship
- Info on grants funding standard: daostar/DAOIPs/daoip-5.md at main · metagov/daostar · GitHub
- Gitcoin’s comments: Adopt DAOIP-5 Grants Management · Issue #444 · allo-protocol/allo-v2 · GitHub
- Metagov slack: Slack
- Eugene’s twitter: https://twitter.com/bbeats1 (best place to follow for the twitter space series if you want to catch the convo’s with hypercerts, hats, etc.)
- metagov acct: https://twitter.com/metagov_project
- daostar acct: https://twitter.com/DAOstar_One
- @eleventh19 on tg if anyone has specific follow ups for Eugene
4. Astral.Global Presentation
John Hoopes presenting https://astral.global
- Building location-based dapps is important and hard to do
- Creating open-source tools and infrastructure to help people build location-based dapps
- Spatial Registries: Register geographic assets: points, lines + polygons
- On-chain geospatial database
- Open access
- Privacy-preserving (soon)
- Location Attestations: Verifiable attestations to the location of a person, device, or event
- On and offchain location claims
- Built on EAS
- Compatible with Astral’s spatial registries
- Public Goods and Grant funded only, no VCs, EVM aligned
- From Eduardo: Recommend checking out and applying for Small and Large grants funding
- From @coltron.eth: Privacy important (choose to disclose), definitely take that into consideration when applying
- Telegram: Telegram: Join Group Chat
5. Open floor
Update from Lauren Luz on Giveth Grant:
- 412 donations, 32 Eligible Projects, 20k Matching Pool, 217 Unique Donors, $7503 donated
- Donations happened on many different chains
- Lots of verified projects, not a lot of sketchiness
- Analysis forthcoming, will be posted on Giveth website
Small Grants
- Small Grants voting period delayed due to technical issues, no effect on current submissions
- Hoping to restart voting round with previously submitted submissions soon
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Notes by @don.nie