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
- Name Wrapper update! See: [Draft][Executable] Activate new .eth controller and new Reverse Registrar
- The March ENS Small Grants are live and accepting registrations for one more day.
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
- Carlos is an ENS Public Goods Scholarship Recipient who has worked on ABI Ninja and is involved as a builder with BuidlGuidl
- Brief intro to Scaffold ETH v2, an Ethereum development tool to quickly deploy Solidity smart contracts and launch dApps was given on the call.
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.