☎️ Public Goods Working Group – Weekly Meeting: 1pm ET, Thursday

2023 Public Goods WG Weekly Meetings

Details

Time/Day – 1pm ET, every Thursday
Google Meet Linkmeet.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

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.


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.

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)

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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