☎️ Public Goods Working Group – Weekly Meeting: 12pm ET, Tuesdays

🏛️ Public Goods Meetings
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2023 Public Goods WG Weekly Meetings

Details

Time/Day – 12pm ET, every Thursday
Google Meet Link – meet.google.com/iko-moej-rxc

Agenda + Minutes

January 12, 2023 – Agenda & Minutes
January 19, 2023 – Agenda & Minutes
January 26, 2023 – Agenda & Minutes
February 2, 2023 – Agenda & Minutes
February 9, 2023 – Agenda & Minutes
February 16, 2023 – Agenda & Minutes
February 23, 2023 — Agenda & Minutes
March 2, 20223 — Agenda & Minutes
March 9, 2023 — Agenda & Minutes
March 16, 2023 — Agenda & Minutes
March 23, 2023 — Agenda & Minutes
March 30, 2023 — Agenda & Minutes
April 6, 2023 — Agenda & Minutes
April 13, 2023 – Agenda & Minutes

Overview

The Public Goods Working Group holds weekly calls. The calls are open to community members and the general public.

The Public Goods Working Group calls are led by the lead steward of the working group. The lead steward for Q1/Q2 2023 is @coltron.eth.

Details for the call are the same from week to week. If there is a change to a scheduled call, a comment will be posted in this thread to give notice.

If you have items that you would like to add to the weekly agenda please message any of the Public Goods stewards (@coltron.eth, @AvsA or @vegayp) through the messaging feature on this forum.

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Comments on this thread are restrictred to Stewards. If you would like to discuss a Public Goods topic, please create a new post under #public-goods:publicgoods-discussion

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January 26th, 2023

Agenda

A) General DAO News
B) Small Grants Round
C) Project Highlights
D) Open space for additional topics or comments

Minutes

A) General DAO News

B) Small Grants Round

Public Goods Small Grants voting is live until February 1st.

This round, we exlcuded approximately 2/3 of the submissions. A full review of this was posted by @coltron.eth, here.

The PG stewards will workt to clarify the eligibility, and with @gregskril to tweak to front-end to improve the submission experience.

Topics discussed around small grants:

  • Nomination systems as seen in Optimism’s retroactive funding.
  • Implementing an admin panel that can hold applications in a queue before they go public?
  • A feedback system that happens before voting goes live.

C) Project Highlights

Project highlights will begin following the current small grants round.

D) Open space for additional topics or comments

Please message any of the Public Goods working group stewards with feedback about the small grants process. The stewards are: @coltron.eth @AvsA @vegayp .

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Feburary 2nd, 2023

Agenda

A) General DAO News
B) Small Grants Round Results
C) Project Highlights (Revoke.Cash, GasHawk, Pairwise)
D) Open space for additional topics or comments

Please reach out to @Coltron.eth, @AvsA, or @vegayp if you would like to present a topic or be added to the agenda.

Minutes

Minutes by: @daylon.eth

Attendance:
184.eth, 5pence, Accessor, Alex (AvsA), Coltron, Daniel Hannum, Danny Backhouse, Daylon, Eduardo, El Pinguino Frio, Francisco Simon, Greg Skriloff, hellenstans.eth, Le Penguin Stable Unit, Marcus Martinez, Pisco Sour, Rosco Kalis, YungSB

A) General DAO News

There are two proposals up for voting.

B) Small Grants Round Results

Details of the January round can be found, here, and the results are below:

Grant Name # Votes
Revoke.cash 534.5k ENS
GasHawk: Save on TX Fees 420.4k ENS
Pairwise: Tinder UX for web3 community 324.9k ENS
Inverter Network 134.9K ENS
Free DeFi Course 23k ENS
:arrow_right: Link to Results

C) Project Highlights (Revoke.Cash, GasHawk, Pairwise)

Revoke.cash presentedby Rosco - Revoke.cash
Revoke.cash is a website where you can connect your wallet and view your token allowances. Allowances are needed to transact on-chain, but leaving these allowances open can potentially be dangerous if the contract is exploited in the future. Scammers can also use phishing sites to get allowances that shouldn’t be allowed in the first place. The revoke.cash browser extension analyzes the site that sends an allowance request to your wallet and warns you of potentially fraudulent requests.

The website initially created in 2019, was always a basic interface. They recently released an overhauled web page with a better interface and some information about allowances.

It is important with a multi-chain ecosystem that we support as many chains as possible so users can stay safe everywhere.

Q: Is there a revoke-all button?
A: Unfortunately, that is impossible because every revoke must be a single transaction. To encourage people to read what they are signing, we don’t want to offer a solution that requests many repeating pop-ups for each transaction.

Q: Multi-chain is great, but I have to select each individually. It would be great if a button could scan all chains.
A: That would be great, but unfortunately is not possible.

Q: Are there any limitations to which transactions the browser extension picks up?
A: It picks up allowance requests from the wallet extension.

Q: Do you have a Spanish-speaking team?
A: One of the big things I noticed at Devcon in Bogota is a big community that doesn’t speak English. It is a good idea to translate the site into different languages. I have asked a few people to help with translations - currently, Spanish and Chinese.

GasHawk presented by Daniel - Gashawk.io
A product built by Corpus - a web3 venture studio, also building dm3 and token.it

A service that allows users to save gas on transactions.

A unique feature within GasHawk is that you are connecting your wallet to our RPC. The FAQ on the site walks you through the process. Unfortunately, we don’t have a one-click add to the network because we use the same chain ID as Ethereum.

We will soon have a feature on the site where you can enter an ENS domain or address, and we will show you how much gas you’ve spent over a period and how much you could have saved by using GasHawk.

We are using the full 1 ETH grant to reimburse users of GasHawk, within limits. We are excited to be able to give back to the community.

We have a simulated transaction feature through Tenderly.

Anyone that uses Ethereum can benefit from it, and saving money is a no-brainer.

Pairwise
Will present next week.

D) Open space for additional topics or comments

Safetransfer.cash presented by Le Penguin - Safetransfer.cash

This project is under development but allows users to avoid sending tokens to the wrong address.

A blog post and demo can be found, here.

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February 9th, 2023

Agenda

A) General DAO News
B) Intros (@consigli3re.eth)
C) Project Highlights from Small Grants (Pairwise, DoDAO, Inverter Network)
D) ETH Denver / Schelling Point announcements.
E) Open space for additional topics or comments

Note: The call times are increase to a 45min time slot to allow for presentations.

Please reach out to @Coltron.eth, @AvsA, or @vegayp if you would like to present a topic or be added to the agenda.

Minutes

Attendance:
184.eth, 5pence, accessor, Alex Van de Sande (AvsA), consigli3re (Gavin), Coltron, Daylon, Eduardo, Dora Celebi, GaryPalmerJr.eth, Greg Skriloff, Griff Green, Makoto Inoue, Marcus Martinez, Mert Ozdal, Robin Nagpal, Tamara Helenius, Vincent

Notes by @daylon.eth

A) General DAO News

  • EP3.3 (ETH to USDC swap) has been executed, and our working groups have been funded.
  • Luc is doing something at ETH Denver [I missed what exactly this was] [link]
  • An ENS Office Hours Twitter Space was held today, to discuss "Charity, ENS widgets, and Seaport.

B) Intros

Welcome, Gavin from Singapore. He is happy to be here and be part of the community, and is looking to help however possible.

C) Project Highlights from Small Grants

Pairwise - Griff

  • Pairwise lets you set up a space with a pairwise comparison for voting. (A vs B presentation)
  • No on-chain transactions required, similar to Snapshot.
  • Currently in beta, and development is paused, pending additional funding.
  • The long term goal of Pairwise is to make voting “disappear,” and make it become a seamless way to signal preference.

DoDAO - Robin

  • Education platform that divides content into guides, with reinforced learning and questionaires.

Inverter Network - Mert

  • Goal is to interconnect the novel technologies of web3 to the grounded funding infrastructures of traditional organizations.
  • Improve access to funding and inspire distributed ownership for builders and funders.
  • Allows many organizations to collaborate on one common proposal.
  • Trying to make the coordination between creators and funders easier.

D) ETH Denver / Schelling Point announcements

The Public Goods working group will be sponsoring Schelling Point during ETH Denver on March 2nd. Schelling Point is a whole day dedicated towards public goods talks.

There will also be a small ENS side event in Denver. Stay tuned to the ENS twitter for more information.

E) Open space for additional topics or comments

None.

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February 16th, 2023

Agenda

A) General DAO News
B) Looking at Retroactive Public Goods Funding model with w/Jonas.
C) February Small Grants Update
E) Open space for additional topics or comments

Please reach out to @Coltron.eth, @AvsA, or @vegayp if you would like to present a topic or be added to the agenda.

Minutes

Transcribed by @estmcmxci and edited by @coltron.eth

Attendees: hellenstans.eth, vegayp.eth, Jonas Seiferth, avsa.eth, accessor.eth, gregskril.eth, coltron.eth, estmcmxci.eth, 5pence.eth

A) General DAO News

  • The ENS Public Goods working group will be co-sponsoring Schelling Point, an event focusing on Public Goods talks, at ETHDenver.
  • There will be two ENS meet-up events hosted on March 2nd.
  • ENS Ecosystem Small Grants submissions close tomorrow.
  • No active proposals.

B) Retroactive Public Goods Funding Model

Jonas Seiferth @ Optimism spoke on retroactive funding models. He gave a retrospective on their last funding round:

Retro PGF2 Summary:

They intended to prop up infra in Optimism and the greater Ethereum ecosystem to create a Public Goods marketplace. The goal is to develop the property of having incentives and a good funding structure to build public goods. As a DAO, Optimism observes what impact has already been generated… not evaluating what projects will make an impact in the future.

The first part is to offer a scope of public goods funding. Here, they essentially build social consensus on what should be funded in the future; for this round, they want to fund public goods built around the Optimism stack. For future rounds, they can create categories like infra, tooling, utilities, education, and more.

This first step is essential before the payout of the round, it sets the expectation for people who want to contribute and for rewards in the future. Afterward, community nominations set the stage for funding. People can nominate projects on the forum for retro public goods funding. They require projects to opt-in to the program, verify identity, get wallet 0x, and share more about the project’s story and the impact it’s generated.

Badge holders selected by Optimism community members are tasked with voting for the funding round. Each badge holder then shares how they should distribute the funds in each round.

Optimism have a two-house gov system; token-house (roles: grants, protocol parameters) , and citizens-house (represent users of optimism protocol, pgf, dao gov representation). The Citizen house will vote on adding new citizens to its membership; tjey will have joint responsibility of two houses.

hellenstans.eth: how we badge holders selected?

Prior participants were selected; people were elected to be badge holders; badge holders can nominate badge holders. For future rounds: pre-announce the scope. It will give them enough time to build specifically for the public goods round to help create an expectation of retroactive awards. Simplifying the sign-up process is important.

If you’re a badge holder, your role is to evaluate how much impact the nominated projects have had in the ecosystem.

Future rounds: projects will sign-up directly if they fall into the scope.

Insights: public nominations encourage community signal; what we found however, we received project spamming, people creating new accounts and nominating their projects… the community signal became meaningless. we want to do project sign-up and we want to do attestations as a solution.

Resources:

C) February Small Grants Update

  • Public Goods Small Grants will go live tomorrow at 9am ET.
  • Submissions will be accepted until 02/24.
  • Voting will be active until 02/28.

Attendees discussed how to improve ensgrants.xyz application process. Key takeways:

  • Reduce friction for continual submissions.
  • Focus on one continuous round where grants stay active for a period of time.
  • Solidify cadence to set expections.

A telegram for technical implementations was created.

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February 23rd, 2023

Agenda

A) General DAO News (ETHDenver, Schelling Point, IRL Events)
B) Small Grants Voting and Submissions
C) Open space for additional topics or comments

Please reach out to @Coltron.eth, @AvsA, or @vegayp if you would like to present a topic or be added to the agenda.

Minutes

Attendance:
184.eth, Arial Mohan, Coltron, Eduardo, Greg, Griff Green, hellenstans, Makoto, Marcus Martinez, Robin Nagpal, Terin Guerra, Tyler P, Vincent, YungSB

Notes by @daylon.eth

A) General DAO News (ETHDenver, Schelling Point, IRL Events)

  • ETH Denver starts on March 2nd, many ENS and DAO people will be there.
  • Two side events during ETH Denver
  • Public Goods working group is a sponsor of Schelling Point event on March 2nd

B) Small Grants Voting and Submissions

Public Goods Small Grants will go live very soon. Use your ENS tokens to support public goods!

C) Open space for additional topics or comments

Can you define what makes a public good in this context?
We are looking for projects/builders that improve upon the Ethereum ecosystem, make it easier to use and “more prolific.” Things that, if they went away, would leave a significant need left unfilled in Web3.

Can one person submit multiple proposals in the same small grants round?
Yes, as long as the proposal is for a different project.

Any thoughts of implementing quadratic voting?
We would need to be discussed in more detail. As long as it has a snapshot voting strategy is could be used.

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March 2nd, 2023

Agenda

(No call this week)

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March 9th, 2023

Agenda

A) General DAO News (ETHDenver Recap)
B) Small Grants Winners Presentations (Bishara.eth, Issac
from TEC)
C) Open space for additional topics or comments

Minutes

Attendees:
184, 5pence, Accessor, Avsa, Bishara, Coltron, Daylon, Eduardo, Greg, Hellenstans, Isaac, Makoto, YungSB

Notes by @daylon.eth

A) General DAO News

B) Small Grants Winners Presentations

Bishara w/ Arabic Web3 Education

  • Bishara has over 12 hours of Web3 and Ethereum-related educational videos on youtube, specificaly featuring content in Arabic.
  • He is motivated by speaking the language and wanting to share the knowledge with the community.
  • Topics include Web3 and blockchain basics, wallets, Metamask and information on NFT marketplaces.
  • Running a Telegram channel with over 1300 subscribers, fully in Arabic

Isaac w/ Launching a Token Engineering Grants Program

  • Token Engineering Commons studies and designs cryptoeconomic systems.
  • They are launching a grants program in late March to support new initiatives in the token engineering ecosystem.

C) Open space for additional topics or comments

ENSIP14: The Flock Watcher presented by @AvsA

  • This ENSIP measures how much other apps contribute to the ecosystem by tracking registration events.
  • This was initially discussed last year by @slobo.eth. It reserves a portion of the secret commit hash as an identifier to track where names are registered from
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March 16th, 2023

Agenda

A) General DAO News
B) Spotlights
C) Small Grants Discussion (Cadence & Voter Fatigue check)
D) Open space for additional topics

Minutes

Attendance: 184.eth, 5pence, accessor.eth, avsa.eth, coltron.eth, daylon.eth, vegayp.eth, EsteChejo Art, hellenstans, limes.eth, maintainer, Schuyler Van Sickle, Slobo, Vincent, YungSB,

Notes by @daylon.eth

Notes

A) General DAO News

B) Spotlights

ETH Guatemala | Presented by Francis, EsteChejo, and Marcus

  • Top-voted PG Small Grant during the February round
  • Managed and organized an event in less than two months
  • The 1E grant went a very long way and was impactful in educating the Guatemalan community about the benefits of Ethereum and blockchain tech.
    • Six Developer-focused workshops
    • Ten Talks
    • Over 100 attendees
  • See the full recap here

Scaffold-Eth | Carlos

C) Small Grants Discussion (Cadence & Voter Fatigue check)

  • Medium and Large grant information is coming soon. The stewards expect to announce more details during the upcoming Q1 Town Hall, with the grants process going live in mid-April.
  • Discussed addressing voter fatigue in the small grants rounds which currently happen on a monthly cadence.
  • Ideas discussed:
    • Less frequent rounds with more payouts
    • Having a fourth round comprised of most voted projects
    • Changing voting strategy to remove the weight of larger token-holders

D) Open space for additional topics

@accessor.eth introduced a concept that would integrate the use of ENS with AWS Blockchain Managed Ethereum Node API is seeking individuals who have experience with both ENS and AWS.

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March 23th, 2023

Agenda

A) General DAO News
B) Gitcoin
C) Project Spotlights (PG Projects/Scholarship Recipients)
D) Medium and Large Grants Process Ideas
E) Open space for additional topics

Minutes

Attendance:
184, 5pence, Accessor, Alisha, Anurag, Azeem, Coltron, Daylon, Eduardo, Greg, Lalit, Maintainer, Makoto, Megan, Nikhil, Ricmoo

Notes by @daylon.eth

A) General DAO News

B) Gitcoin

  • Gitcoin is sunsetting the centralized platform and will now use a decentralized protocol.
  • An Open Sourced Software and Infrastructure round will run from April 25 - May 9.
    • The PG Steward will decide on OSS/Infra rounds funding.

C) Project Spotlights (PG Projects/Scholarship Recipients)

None. Scholarship presentations will resume next week.

D) Medium and Large Grants Process Ideas

  • Expanded details on Medium and Large Grant streams will be announced during the upcoming Town Hall, with a target launch in mid-April.
    • Medium Grants will host a round of five $10k grants to Public Goods Projects.
    • Large Grants will host a rolling grants platform that makes up to 50k available for well-established PG projects
    • Both of these will implement retroactive funding models.

E) Open space for additional topics

None.

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Agenda

(No call this week)

Presentation/news will be delivered at Q1 Town Hall in lieu of scheduled call.
Details here: ENS Town Hall — Q1 2023 · Zoom · Luma

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April 6th, 2023

Agenda

A) General DAO News
B) Public Goods Scholarship Spotlights (Alberto Cevallos, Hellen Stans)
C) Medium and Large Grants Updates
D) Open space for additional topics

Minutes

A) General DAO News

B) Public Goods Scholarship Spotlights (Alberto Cevallos, Hellen Stans)

The Public Goods Scholarship is a Public Goods grant that streams 1k USDC a month to five recipients for a year.

Recipients of this award, and Alberto Cevallos, presented their most recent projects.

Hellen presented ENS Redirect that allows setting up ENS domain redirects and talked about recent Ethereum Meet-ups in Kenya featuring Vitalik.

Alberto talked about his previous project, Eth-Utils, a data converting tool for devs, and his upcoming project ETHCommons.

C) Medium and Large Grants Updates

The Public Goods working group is launching two new grant streams, our Growth Grants and Large Grants.

Growth Grants

A retroactive grant that awards 10k to five projects that are Ethereum or Web3 Public Goods.

  • Submissions open April 14th.
  • A notion with submission details will be released on the April 14th Public Goods call.

Large Grants

A retroactive grant pool that awards up to 50k on a rolling basis to foundational Ethereum or Web3 Public Goods projects.

  • Submissions open May 1st.

D) Open space for additional topics

  • None
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April 13th, 2023

Agenda

A) General DAO News
B) Growth Grants Intro and Q/A
C) Open space for additional topics

Minutes

Attendees: coltron.eth, avsa.eth, alisha.eth, zadok7.eth, 184.eth, youngSB, marcus.lens

A) General DAO News

  • The end of April is a big month for grants from ENS.
    • The Small Grants rounds for both working groups are currently active (voting starts Monday)
    • The Gitcoin Beta round is currently accepting submissions for the ENS Ecosystem featured round. The Ethereum Infrastructure, sponsored by the PG working group is also open.
    • Growth Grants is now live for submissions until May 4th. See this post for more details.

B) Growth Grants Intro and Q/A

  • Participants had an open discourse with feedback about the Growth Grants design and Notion. This was the bulk of the call.

C) Open space for additional topics

  • None
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April 20th, 2023

Details

Time/Day – 1pm ET, every Thursday
Google Meet Link – meet.google.com/iko-moej-rxc

If you have items that you would like to add to the weekly agenda please message any of the Public Goods stewards (@coltron.eth, @AvsA or @vegayp) through the messaging feature on this forum.

Agenda

A) General DAO News
B) Small Grants (Increasing April Payout)
C) Growth Grants (Updates/Q&A)
D) Open space for additional topics

Minutes

A) General DAO News

Important dates:

  • May 4: DAO Birthday
  • May 22: Delegation Week

Many ongoing grant and bounty opportunities available.

Name Normalization is in the final stretch.

  • Raffy is drafting pull request
  • Will go to social vote in the next 3-4 weeks

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B) Small Grants

  • Award top 10 projects w/ 1 ETH each? (increase from top 5)
  • Possible modifications for future rounds
    • Separate rounds for single builders and team builders?
    • Graduate recurring recipients to larger grant?

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C) Growth Grants

  • Public Goods Growth Grants are live - see the forum post.
  • Submissions are open until May 4th.
  • The next Grantee Workshop is May 24th at noon ET.

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D) Open space for additional topics

  • How can we better recognize individual builders in the space?

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Attendance

184, 5pence, Alisha, Coltron, Daylon, Eduardo, hellenstans, Megan, Vincent, YungSB

Notes by @daylon.eth

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April 27th, 2023

Details

Time/Day – 1pm ET, every Thursday
Google Meet Link – meet.google.com/iko-moej-rxc

If you have items that you would like to add to the weekly agenda please message any of the Public Goods stewards (@coltron.eth, @AvsA or @vegayp) through the messaging feature on this forum.

Agenda

A) General DAO News (Gitcoin Beta Rounds, ENS Birthday)
B) Small Grants Winners Presentations (EVMCrispr)
C) Growth Grants (Q/A)
D) Open space for additional topics

PG Call April 27

Minutes

Attendees: Coltron.eth, vegayp.eth, avsa.eth, alisha.eth, 184.eth, Sem Bee, 5pence.eth, Mitch O, Almond Hdz, maintainer.eth, yungSB, MarcusAM, accessor, gregskril.eth, zadok7.eth

A) General DAO News (Gitcoin Beta Rounds, ENS Birthday)

  • Gitcoin Beta round is open until May 9. All the rounds can be seen at grants.gitcoin.co.
  • Nominations for ENS Foundation Director are open until 9am UTC on April 30. Election commences at 9am UTC May 1. More info here.
  • ENS’s Birthday is May 4th. A unique POAP drop and a Twitter space is tentatively planned. The Alpha for the POAP drop is to have your Primary Name and Avatar Set.

B) Small Grants Winners Presentations

Public Goods Small Grants Round 8 wrapped up last week. The winners were

  1. Dappnode
  2. Gashawk
  3. EVMCrispr
  4. Giveth
  5. Guatemalan Bootcamp and Hackathon

EVMCrispr Presented by Sem Bee

EVMcrispr is a tool that combines a domain-specific language with a Javascript library to interact with Aragon DAOs and smart contracts through a recognizable command-line interface.

View the EVMCrispr Small Grants proposal, here.

Giveth presented by Mitch and Almond

Giveth is a fundraising platform that not only allows supporting Public Goods projects, but Giveth rewards donors directly through the GIVbacks program with GIV. Giveth is a part of the SDG Impact Fund and a non-profit 501c3 in the United States.

View the Giveth Small Grants proposal here.

C) Growth Grants (Q/A)

  • Submissions are open until May 4. :rotating_light:
  • We are reaching out to small grants winners, runner-ups, and Gitcoin Beta Round submissions. If you know anyone who should submit to our growth grants, please direct them to Growth Grants :potted_plant: Information.

D) Open space for additional topics

None

Links

Gitcoin Grants - https://grants.gitcoin.co
ENS Director Post - Call for Nominees — ENS Foundation director
Growth Grants Info - Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
EVMCrispr Proposal - ENS Small Grants
Giveth Proposal - ENS Small Grants

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May 5th, 2023

Agenda

A) General DAO News
B) Growth Grants & Large Grants (Next steps!)
C) Open space for additional topics

Minutes

Attendees: vegayp.eth, coltron.eth, Gabriel Novak, Gideon Roesnblatt, gregskril.eth, Marcus AM, Marcus MArtinez, Robin Nagpoal, zadok7.eth, YungSB, 184.eth, avsa.eth, alisha.eth, Daniel Hannum, daylon.eth, alisha.eth.

A) General DAO News

  • The election for The foundation direction is still open.
  • A POAP to mark the 6th anniversary of the ENS launch is claimable for the next month.
  • Contributions to the ENS Featured round in the Gitcoin Beta Round are open until May 9th.

B) Growth Grants & Large Grants (Next steps!)

  • Growth Grant :potted_plant: applications closed last night.

    • Next steps will be for the stewards to review the 35 submissions.
    • On the May 18th working group call, winners will be announced.
    • You can leave feedback on the process so far on this form.
    • We are looking into KYC for these and the large grant distributions, more details on that will be announced as they arise.

  • Large Grants :deciduous_tree: applications process is opening today!

    • Applications wil be open from May 5th – 25th.
    • Link to Notion is available here

C) Open space for additional topics

None.

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May 11th, 2023

Agenda

A) General DAO News
B) Grants News
C) BanklessDAO Presentation (@jengajojo)
D) Open space for additional topics

Minutes

Attendance

accessor, coltron, gregskril, jenga jojo, maintainer, 184, marcus, martinez, megan fabry, yungsb, avsa, daniel hannum, justin chung, 5pence, alisha, sean murray,

Minutes by @184.eth

A) General DAO News

  • Congratulations to Avsa.eth on his election as Foundation Director - Forum Link
  • Name normalisation is still to be finalised
  • Nick gave update about gasles DNSSEC audit in Ecosystem WG - Forum Thread
  • Electons for next term are June 10-15
  • Avsa highlighted referral systems as important tool to capture data and be able to give back to community - Forum Thread

B) Grants News

  • Growth Grants
    • More Information
    • Applications are under review. Winners will be announced next thursday (18th May).
  • Small Grants
    • Proposed to wait for announcement of winners of growth grants before initiating small grants
    • Tentative date of 22nd May to announce small grants
    • Proposed to combine May & June grants to offer 1ETH to ten projects (instead of five projects)
  • Large Grants
    • More Information
    • Campaign for Large grants will begin soon
    • Submissions due 25th May

It was noted small grants rounds have been going on for ~eight months.

  • Next month will focus on a retrospective of the these grants
  • Schedule for 2nd week of June to look at what worked, what didn’t work, what is effective, etc
  • Findings will be shared in the WG meeting and the Q2 Town hall (29th June)

C) BanklessDAO Presentation (@jengajojo)

  • BanklessDAO has previously submitted in small grants & growth grants.
  • Today they came to share about themselves and answer any questions. This included discussion about three distinct areas:
  • You can find out more about BanklessDAO at

D) Open space for additional topics

Topics included:

  • There are a number of SAFE goverance tokens for Public Goods. Discussion included how they might be suited for sub committee delegation, individual delegation, etc.
  • Open question - has anyone seen a discourse plugin for translation?

Links

Election of new ENS Foundation director
Update on gasless DNSSEC implementation
Proposal to replace ENS14
Growth Grants Info
Large Grants Info

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May 18th, 2023

Agenda

A) General DAO News
B) Growth Grants (Winners announcement!)

  • Winners
    1. DAppNode
    2. Revoke.cash
    3. EVMcrispr
    4. GasHawk
    5. Ethereum Guatemala

C) Open space for additional topics

Minutes

Thanks to @184.eth for the minutes

Attendance

avsa, accessor, alex otterpilot, alexandro netto, coltron, daniel hannun, denizen juan, eduardo, eth daily, limes, maintainer, maintainer greg skriloff, marcus martinez, mcll j, megan pably, robin nagpal, token dao, vincent, yan, yungsb, 184,

A) General DAO News

  • DAO Secretary Update
    • @Coltron.eth has stepped down as Working Group Secretary. Stewards have appointed @Limes as Secretary.
  • Upcoming Events include
    • SpaghettETH, Prague Blockchain Week, Buidl.asia, ETHGlobal Waterloo, ETH Barcelona, ETH CC / ETH Global Paris

B) Grants News

  • Small Grants - ensgrants.xyz

    • ENS Small Grants - Round 9 will open for submissions Monday 22nd

  • Growth Grants - Winners Announcement

  • Large Grants

    • Submission deadline has been extended to June 1st 2023
    • Public Goods WG may award up to 2 Grants, with up to 50k each.
    • Eligability criteria amended from a lifetime funding cap, to timeframe based limit of no more than $500k, within last 9 months

C) Open space for additional topics

  • TKN DAO | ENS Profile | Twitter
    • Token DAO shared about their vision to benefit the entire ecosystem as a Public Good.
  • Public Goods Working Group is considering funding a Web3 Privacy Summit during Prague Blockchain Week.

Links

Secretary Update
Growth Grants Info
Large Grants Info

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May 25h, 2023

Agenda

A) General DAO News (Election Nes)
B) Presentations (Dappnode, (https://twitter.com/AestusRelay))
C) Open space for additional topics (Marcus)

Minutes

Huge thanks the @184.eth for the comprehensive minutes.

Attendance

coltron.eth, avsa.eth, vegayp.eth, alisha.eth, ens punks, hellenstans.eth, light walker, luc.eth, luc van kampen, maintainer.eth, marcus (estmcmxci), marcus am, pol lanski, tamara helenius, tyler caldonia, vincent (zadok7.eth), yungsb, 184.eth,

A) General DAO News (Elections)

@alisha.eth | ENS Profile | Twitter

  • Steward Election Process
    • Steward elections open next Tuesday 30th May on the Forum.
      • Open thread is being published early to provide individuals with ample time to register their names, enhance their visibility, and engage in campaign activities by reaching out to delegates in order to secure the votes they require.
      • To successfully get onto the ballot for a working group steward election, nominees need to receive 10k votes in support of their nomination.
        • Nomination period is between June 6 - 9.
        • Election period is between June 10 -15.
          Note: there are three steward roles in each Working Group (MetaGov, Ecosystem, & Public Goods). Elected stewards will select a lead steward within their respective working group. DAO secretary is an appointed role by stewards.

@marcus ENS Profile | Twitter**

  • @Marcus is considering running for steward
    • Among other projects Marcus, is also a representative from Ethereum Guatemala, and wanted to raise a discourse to better understand conflicts of interest
    • @vegay @avsa, @alisha.eth, @coltron.eth weighed in on the conversation:
      • Overlaps in the ecosystem, relationships and participation can be positive signals to what makes an effective steward.
        Being upfront to disclose any overlaps enables the community to decide. In the past, stewards & deletates have found it appropriate to abstain from selective votes, or exclude themselves from selective tasks (as steward/delegate or as builder) when directly linked.

B) Presentations (Dappnode)

pol lanski | ENS Profile | twitter from Dappnode | ENS Profile | twitter | website

  • Dappnode were 1 of the 5 Growth Grant award Winners announced last week.
  • lanski.eth came in to say thanks, share a bit about what they do, and give a live demo
    • their founders story was shared (covering sovereignty, politics, cencorship, decentralisation, innovation and more) and the inspiration which become the idea of dappnode.
    • Dappnode aids users in running decentralised networks. Providing for those who maybe have the means to stake or host, but not technical knowledge. As well as options & tooling to enable communities with much lower economical thresholds to participate in network.
    • While there is no way to know who is using dappnode, some self report: there are over 4400 validators and ~11k (8% of Gnosiss network) using Dappnode
    • The demo included sharing & navigation of dashboard, the completely decentralised dappstore, examples on running networks, staking UI on ethereum and the click-select & install process.
    • Dappnode has free open source software, and sells the plug and play machine. Every package has its own ENS name.
    • At least five on the call had their own Dappnode

C) Grants Updates

  • Small Grants
    • Small grants are still open for submissions (1 day left)
    • Currently there are 24 proposals submitted
    • This month we will be distributing 1ETH to 10 different projects.
    • Apply for Public Goods - Round 9
  • Large Grants
    • Submission deadline is June 1st 2023
    • Public Goods WG may award up to 2 grants, with up to 50k each.
    • There are around 20 applications so far, with more expected to roll in over the weekend
    • Read about Large Grants info

D) Open space for additional topics

Links

Growth Grant Award
Public Goods - Round 9
Large Grants Info
Delegation Week - Check on your ENS delegation
Delegation Week™️ DAO Spotlight featuring ENS DAO

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June 1st, 2023

Agenda

A) General DAO News (Election Process, Large Grants)
B) PG Project Presentations (MetricsDAO , AestusRelay)
C) Public Goods Steward Nominee Presentations
D) Open space for additional topics

Minutes

Attendance

coltron.eth, vegayp.eth, 5pence.eth, accessor, alisha.eth, alexandro netto, christian n, daniel hannum, hellensstans, limes.eth, maintainer, marcus (estmcmxci.eth), marcus AM, marina, max birge, megan fabry, tamara helenius, yungsb, 184.eth

A) General DAO News

@alisha.eth | ENS Profile | Twitter

Public Goods nominees should reach out to coltron.eth if they wish to share themselves on next weeks call: Use this opportunity for visability, introductions, etc

@coltron.eth | ENS Profile | Twitter

  • ENS Small Grants are still open for voting - 1 day left
  • Large Grants submissions have ended - midnight June 1st 2023 (PST)
    • Public Goods WG may award up to 2 grants, with up to 50k each.
    • There are ~35 applications

B) Presentations (MetricsDAO, AestusRelay)

Marina | twitter & Alex Bell | twitter | telegram from MetricsDAO | website | twitter

  • MetricsDAO
    • MetricsDAO, an applicant in the Large Grants Round, presented and demonstrated their platform.
    • MetricsDAO focuses on web3 data insights, connecting projects and users with top analysts in Web3 for their data needs. They aim to be the central hub for open blockchain data and provide free and open courses to help users find the tools they need. The community has over 5k participants, with over 1k active members earning a living from it. Inclusivity is a core value.
    • Marina is core team, community, and analyst relations, and Alex is core team, leads marketing, and dao leadership
    • Discover more by reaching out and at the links below:
    • @Tamarandom asked about MetricDAO’s reputation
      • It included having a non-monetary, non-transferable token, slashing conditions, as well as exploring badge networks for more qualitative approaches. Team members had also built a tool ‘badger’ allowing for minting of badges which may form part of reputation systems

Max Birge from AestusRelay | twitter | website

  • AestusRelay
    • An applicant in the Large Grants Round, AestusRelay shared a presentation.
    • Aestus MEV-Boost Relay is a neutral, non-censoring block relay for Ethereum proof-of-stake validators and block builders.
      • MEV (Miner Extractable Value) extracts money from the blockchain by organizing transactions and is considered a tax on ordinary users.
      • AestusRelay’s MEV-Boost aims to mitigate the negative aspects of MEV and democratize it.
      • MEVBoost is seen as a necessary evil but also a public good. The ETH Foundation is actively working on solving the future of MEV.
      • AestusRelay has been self-funded and is exploring additional funding options.
    • @limes, @5pence, and @estmcmxci inquired about various topics, including benefits, attack vectors, issues, integrations, and features.

C) Public Goods Steward Nominee Presentations

@estmcmxci ENS Profile | twitter

  • Marcus has nominated for Steward of Public Goods WG

@Tamarandom | twitter

  • Tamara helenius is considering nominating for Steward of Public Goods WG and shared a bit about herself
    • Came into crypto for philisaphy; where the concept of disintermediation struck like lighting
    • Working with commonstack (incl augmented bonding curve, cultural frameworks) for 2.5years. Also launching scrum methodology and more
    • In crypto since 2016 (formerly at google, sony music, and others), the building journey began in 2020 with a dedication into publics goods
    • Why choosing to run? ENS is a crucial public good. And one piece of many other pieces we need to support to build this disintermediated future.

D) Open space for additional topics

@vegayp | ENS Profile | Twitter

  • The Public Goods working group is sponsoring Web3Privacy during ETHPrague’s blockchain week.
    • @vegayp has tickets - please reach out if you would like to attend

Links

Call for Nominations for the Term 2 Steward Elections (Q3/Q4, 2023)
Small Grants
Large Grants Info

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