- Link to Snapshot: Snapshot Link
- Preferred Name and/or ENS name: coltron.eth
- Forum username: coltron.eth
- Twitter profile link: https://twitter.com/Coltron_eth
Why do you want to be a Steward of this Working Group?
I am a current Public Goods steward and want to continue my role in this working group and our recent initiative of expanding the funding of public goods throughout the Ethereum ecosystem.
The current term can be seen as step one in the following two-step process:
- Creating the platforms for public goods funding opportunities from ENS
- Building awareness of and involvement in these platforms
Over the past five months, the current stewards and I have significantly improved the availability of public goods funding from the ENS DAO. Two new grant streams – Growth Grants and Large Grants – have been created. These scale on the existing and successful Small Grants platforms, which will fund 30 ETH to over 13 projects this term alone. In April we saw the highest small grant engagement from both working groups, with 49 submissions from our working group. We have also created a Public Goods Grants dashboard as a source of truth for funding and are wrapping up the inaugural Large Grants program that provides a pathway for up to 50k USDC to be requested for the working group. These are humble successes, but it lays a foundation that establishes ENS (and this working group) as an active voice in Public Goods funding.
The next step is the expand our outreach to the broader community. We have seen great engagement from individuals and projects that are already aware of our opportunities. Still, to leverage this working group’s impact, we should look beyond the existing engagement circles.
The more diversity we curate in the projects we can interact with and fund, the more significant the network effect and positive externalities we will create for ENS and the Ethereum ecosystem… As a foundation in the Ethereum ecosystem born out of grants, ENS is well-positioned to give back and foster ideas, projects, and people that improve our community.
tl;dr: I’m excited about the ENS’s Public Goods narrative and would love to continue to serve another term.
Any other information you wish to share with Delegates (e.g. potential conflicts or existing engagements)
I am a current Public Goods steward with DAO involvement since November 2021. I recently took a contractor role with karpatkey that I have ensured is disconnected from the Public Goods working group.