Brace yourselves, Potlock’s first quadratic funding round goes live with $10,000+ from the Creatives DAO!. Africa Public Goods Round starts, and NEAR Foundation puts over $100,000 in matching pools for QF that have significantly grown since then. Wholesome activities at EthDenver. We’ve been shipping updates at Potlock and Nada.bot, and the rest of  public goods ecosystem has been shipping even faster! Q2 is looking bullish for the regens. 

🔔 Updates:

1. Creative Public Goods Round $10,000 (which grew to over $16,000 due to price of NEAR)  matching round has closed with 25 projects,  over $3,000 in donations, 145 donors, and 338 donations,

2. NEAR Foundation Announces Support for Potlock with $100,000 in the matching pools for Africa, Retroactive Builders, Open Source, and AI verticals

3. 1 week on-chain cooldown/challenge period is live for people to challenge results. Check out how to challenge. Additionally,a  survey went out to participants which will be aggregated into insights included in a retrospective report published after payouts.

4. Announcing Retroactive Builders Round ($40,000 matching pool)  by Build DAO, applications are open with 10+ projects, close in 8 days

5. Applications closed Africa Public Goods and matched donations started this Monday March 4th for 2 weeks. 14 projects.

6. Co-Founder  @NEARProtocol, Illia tops Donor leaderboard by Donating $1,000 to a Project on registry, later being surpassed by NEAR Big Brain when he donated $4,000 with of NEAR across projects like  shardDog,  shardDog, NEAR Intern, Boneyard Gaming, Proof of Vibes,  and year of chef

   1. YEAR OF CHEF redistributes 10N to 10 Projects

7. Potlock Launches a New Facebook page 

8. Potlock feature in the  99th newsletter + 100th edition of Web3ForGood

9. Introduction of Random Donations Feature + Blog

10. @0xmarkeljan built Potlock bot (A bot for PotLock that posts about donations or registrations, tagging linked Twitter handles.)

11. PotLock celebrates 130+ projects on boarded including profiles for OG projects on NEAR like Keypom, Multicall, Learn NEAR Watch Bot, NEARChan, Fast NEAR.

12. Nada.bot live in production with social check out. More checks roll out for Users to verify humanness.bo

    1. Lens Profile verification

    2. Twitter Verification

    3. Connected to 5 Contracts

    4. Farcaster Profile verification

    5. Complete NEAR Social Profile

    6. Holonym ZK ID (Unique Government ID)

    7. Holonym ZK ID (Unique Phone)

    8. I-AM-Human 

    9. Six month Near account Check

13. YEAR Of Chef Launches Royalty Payouts Dashboard for Public Goods as part of BOS App

14. YEAR of Chef adds quadratic funding support to free Mint

15. EthDenver Potlock Potluck powered by Proof of Vibes at Build DAO HQ is a smash

16. Ottersec Audits are released 

17. New Public Goods Podcast with Nanhak from Holoynm, video and new shorts (new content to come)

18. Nada bot introduces first ZK proofs with Holonym government ID integration

19. Hyperboard inspired dynamic sponsorship board for quadratic funding rounds is live (article soon)

20. Donor profiles launched. Example

21. Internal Updates: Revisions being made to nada bot to add custom rules, google auth + telegram auth nadabot stamp support, Starting to build indexer being worked on, and fungible token support on front end. Potlock SDK and refactor for compatibility on BOS from Elliot from build DAO. Potlock Campaigns Currently in Design process and whole app redesign , Start of new Alem framework to speed up Potlock on BOS

22. Bidding on the masters for the (un)official NEAR soundtrack to EthereumDenver. 100% goes to public goods on NEAR via Potlock

23. Potlock on Founder Friday by Near Horizon, Wax Near space, MAX Impact episode 429, Guest Cameo Alpha Drop at NEAR at Night EthDenver Recap Twitter Space

24. Chef’s Corner Twitter Space: Meet The Creative Public Goods Founders & QF - 

25. Chef Corner for Africa Public Goods

26. Potlock Tutorial Videos Playlist with updated documentation

1. Donate directly to a project #Potlock

2. Create referral link to your favorite public goods on Potlock

3. Create a project on Potlock

4. Deploy a Pot (Quadratic Funding Round) on #Near

5. How to apply to a Pot (Get added to Potlock registry)

6. Sponsor a Quadratic Funding on #Near #Potlock

7. Approving/Rejecting Quadratic Funding (Pot) Applications as A Chef/Owner or Admin on #Potlock #Near

8. Verifying a check on #NadaBot Complete Near Social Profile

9. Create + Edit Profile + Apply to Pot as a DAO

10. Introducing Random donations on Potlock

11. Potlock: Initiating Payouts As Chef / Start Cooldown Period

12. Track Wallet + Contracts on #NEAR via Telegram

13. Sync Twitter with Web3 Social

Stats Updates

• Nadabot: 599 Checks Completed and 204 Humans Verified

• YEAR of CHEF: 462 Holders, 1.92 holders

• 142 Approved Public Goods on Potlock

• Potlock: Direct Donations Only: 1816 Total Donations,$23,458, 778 Unique Donors

Working on indexer to get better amounts based on price at donation and also quadratic funding amounts

Public Goods Ecosystem Update

• American crowdfunding platform, GoFundMe has stopped a fundraising campaign that was started to raise legal defense funds for Roman Storm and Alexey Pertsev. 

• Tornado Cash Developers Legal Defense Fund by Justice DAO on Juicebox.money & Arbitrum DAO removes proposal to support JuiceBox Campaign 

• Optimism Airdrops $40M To Artists and Creators.

• HyperDeSci - Quadratic Funding For All DeSci Projects

• First #AEZ Quadratic Funding round by Dora Hacks went LIVE

• Glo Dollar QF round on Arbitrum using Gitcoin’s protocol went LIVE

• Meta_Pool’s Asia Pacific QF Round went LIVE on Giveth! 

• Gitcoin Whitepaper Launches

• Pairdrops by DAO Drops launched introducing new funding mechanism to reduce cognitive overload

• Fund Public Goods AI launches, AI project search indexing Gitcoin projects and provides AI generated impact score 

• Eth Denver Events: Schelling Point at Denver, Electric Capital x Gitcoin Ecosystem Growth Summit, DeSci Hacker House, SciOS Denver + more 

• Octant Epoch 3 Applications are Open

• Preview for GoFundOp, funding retropgf proactively

• RetroPGF 3: Learnings & Reflections by Optimism Collective

• Celo Launches Public Goods Fund for H1. Forum Post using EasyRetroPGF and Quadratic Funding. 

• Network Society Forum Launches and integrate Holonym for ZK ID

• Gitcion Zuzalu Round Payouts, start of Edge City, Achipalago comes soon

• Nouns x Farcaster $150,000 fund to build Nouns centric Farcaster clients

• Geo Web integrates Superfluid and Allostack to debut Streamed Quadratic Funding 

• Carl from open source observer on Impact of funding OSS through gitcoin

• Mycofi Book Out 

• Tweet with GItcoin Updates

• EasyRetroPGF Cohort 1 is Starting

• Funding the Commons and Earth Commons  in Berkley Announced (April 13-14th, 2024)

• New Crypto Altruism Episodes. EthDenver Interviews, Atlantis DAO, Cardano Foundation, Pawthereum,  

• New Greenpill Episodes. Exploring MyCofi, OpenSource Observor

• Giveth Integrates Solana for Direct Donations as its first Non EVM supported chain

What a time to be a regen ❤️ by Potlock Family