Happy Belated April Fools, 

If you are wondering what we did for our April Fools joke, we didn’t need to do anything, except deliver this a little too late, But if you are a self identified degenerate, you are pranking yourself on a daily basis. Be on the other side of the joke, starting with this regenerative update.

🔔 Potlock Updates:

• Retroactive Builders Period ended, currently off-chain challenges moving to on-chain with better UI to support

• NEAR Open Source Round and AI Round Pushed Back 1 week https://x.com/potlock_/status/1781296680450867392 

• Announcing Updates to NEAR Open Source Round ($30,000)

• Starting AI Round (Applications are Open) $75,000 (plus announcement article)

• New Rounds Cooking Up for Proposals, Marketing DAO, NDC Infra, College Summer Funding (announcements soon) 

• Potlock @ Funding the Commons 

• Features: Added Funding Matching Pool as DAO 

• White Paper soon. End game soon. 

• Security Insights Series: Exploring Potlock's NEAR Rust Smart Contract Assessment

Public Goods Ecosystem

So much has happened in the past two weeks, the more and more we get deeper into the bull, the more ecosystems are putting towards funding (not we are 10 days late in news). Check out Public Goods Friday ep. 2 by OG Russ covering this past two weeks' major highlights. https://twitter.com/RussLive215/status/1779151484728328322 

Bad News

• Uniswap Labs receives Wells Notice from SEC

Funding

• Cubik solana Ecosystem ends first grant rounds receives of 100K in donations from 50K matching pool  

• Global pizza party by Pizza DAO Proposal was approved by NounsDAO 

• Octant Epoch 3 Voting Window opens up 

• Sei Partners with Gitcoin to announce a $10 million Creator Fund https://blog.sei.io/creator-fund/ 

• Noggles coin (a nounish currency) is crowdfunding for initial liquidity

• Gitcoin Citizens Retroactive Round took place https://x.com/gitcoin/status/1732121988263707060 

• Climate Round on Celo via Gitcion https://twitter.com/CeloPublicGoods/status/1774819065334251623 

• Citizens  Retro https://twitter.com/GitcoinCitizens/status/1774950409938817244 

• GG20 (Gitcoin Grants Round 20) Applications Are Open https://x.com/gitcoin/status/1775157935322345506 

• Mercy Corps Applications Closed https://twitter.com/MCSocialVenture/status/1773023036712554724 

• New Token Engineering Commons Quadratic Funding Round https://twitter.com/TrustedSeed/status/1775498929272189057 

• Artizen Fund 4 deadlines on May 24th https://x.com/artizenfund/status/1779327657383166452?s=46 

• Lib p2p announces is RetroPGF round https://x.com/libp2p/status/1777418697516404914?s=46 

• Open Civics Quadratic Funding Round https://open.substack.com/pub/opencivics/p/grant-applications-are-open?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web 

Development Updates

• Gitcoin Citizens 3 Round Dashboard Improved  App: https://gitcoin-cr3.streamlit.app/ Code: https://github.com/rohitmalekar/Citizens-Round-3

• EAS Releases its Ecosystem page https://twitter.com/eas_eth/status/1777429673456345204 

• Gitcoin announces a new Sybil resistance strategy for GG20, which combines COCM (Connection-Oriented Cluster Match) and Passport's new Model-Based Detection system. https://twitter.com/umarkhaneth/status/1775841457288446185?s=46 

• Blunt DAO launching unlimited sesh fund on 4/20 https://blunts.wtf 

• Testnet MACI-RPGF round (on OP Sepolia) deployed: https://twitter.com/zkMACI/status/1775245089675383103 

• verification interface and zk-circuits for RetroPGF 3: https://x.com/Optimism/status/1775172967284236619?s=2 

• Open Source Observor Builds Ethereum Flow of Funding App https://twitter.com/carl_cervone/status/1778569668124704814 

Events

• LabWeek by Protocol Labs in SF starting with Funding the Commons and Earth Commons Series https://www.labweek.io/24-pg 

• Build Network States Event in Austin during consensus announced https://x.com/buildcities/status/1780268406140178775 

• Silly Hacks Sponsored by NounsDAO

• Next RegensLearnings Call is on Thursday May 2nd

Coordinations

• New Greenpill Chapter Onboardings, join the discord 

• PGN coming back? Max Impact space, Luciano spills some alpha 

Opportunities

• Muse Matrix announces DeSci Fellowships 

• $10K Fellowship Prize for Token Engineering Researchers 

• Protocol Labs Dev Guild Applications Open Up

Media

• Max Impact and Public Nouns Saturday 

• New Greenpill Episodes: Season 4 Episode 8 and 9

• Web3forGood April 5 and April 12th

• Crypto Altruism Episodes

• ReFi Podcast: Neoslife with Vincent Daranyi

• DeSci Labs: The nodes-lib library for programmatic publishing Nodes Library Demo with Edvard Hubinette

• Desci Podcast By Molecules: How ResearchHub Makes Open Science Rewarding by Reinventing Academic Incentives