Public Goods Meeting, April 25, 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: DAppNode - Lanski and Marc
- Update on Small Grants
- Open floor
19 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
- Discussions around making ENSIP process more open
- Discussions around ENS resolving across L2s
- uni.eth subnames reached 500k registrations
- Running Gitcoin round matching 100k USDC for projects growing, enhancing, or supporting the decentralized identity system around ENS
- Dashboard for stats here: Gitcoin | Explorer
3. Large grants Grantee presentation: DAppNode - Lanski and Marc
- Free open-source software to run blockchain software without having technical knowledge
- Point and Click UI to decide which nodes want to install (Bitcoin, Zcash, etc.)
- Adamant on defending decentralization, want people to run own nodes
- Many problems with MEV including power law distribution in that some blocks have huge MEV rewards and some have very little, means that big pools with lots of validators can get a very big block, incentivizes big pools over solo stakers (not good for decentralization)
- DAppNode built Smooth to share MEV across solo stakers. Also built Smooth statistics page, demonstrates higher returns for solo stakers who join Smooth: Smooth | Dappnode's MEV Smoothing Pool | Maximize your eth staking rewards | Smooth | Dappnode's MEV Smoothing Pool | Maximize your eth staking rewards
- How to install on own machine: Installation Overview | Dappnode
- Ideally would get large validators like Lido to join Smooth and share rewards
- Working on tech v2: compatibility with restaking protocols, multi-unsubscribe, and improvements on smart contract and oracle level
- Recently added Optimism nodes, close to adding zkEVM, want to add more L2s
- @coltron.eth: Closes out commitment to large grants, thanks for good work
- Socials: https://x.com/dappnode
4. Update on Small Grants
- Issues on voting front-end almost resolved
- @coltron.eth: Waiting on pull request to come through
5. Open floor
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Lauren Luz: Finished data analysis for QF round on Giveth. Link here: ENS Builders QF Round (March 25-April 8, 2024) Results --- ENS PG WG <> Giveth
- Includes link to distribution spreadsheet
- Eduardo: Would be great to invite top projects to this call to present
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Link To Perpetual Grants Bounty application: Perpetual PG Bounty
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David Truong building https://x23.ai
- Newsfeed of aggregated data
- Example for ENS pulling info from multiple sources (Github, Forum, etc.)
- Get people spun up on latest news quickly
- Socials: https://twitter.com/daveytea
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Notes by @don.nie