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- Pots Are Cooking: Mid Feb - March Update
Pots Are Cooking: Mid Feb - March Update
Quadratic funding rounds live on NEAR, and PG Ecosystem keeps on shipping
Pots are cooking
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:
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,
NEAR Foundation Announces Support for Potlock with $100,000 in the matching pools for Africa, Retroactive Builders, Open Source, and AI verticals
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.
Announcing Retroactive Builders Round ($40,000 matching pool) by Build DAO, applications are open with 10+ projects, close in 8 days
Applications closed Africa Public Goods and matched donations started this Monday March 4th for 2 weeks. 14 projects.
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
YEAR OF CHEF redistributes 10N to 10 Projects
Potlock Launches a New Facebook page
Potlock feature in the 99th newsletter + 100th edition of Web3ForGood
Introduction of Random Donations Feature + Blog
@0xmarkeljan built Potlock bot (A bot for PotLock that posts about donations or registrations, tagging linked Twitter handles.)
PotLock celebrates 130+ projects on boarded including profiles for OG projects on NEAR like Keypom, Multicall, Learn NEAR Watch Bot, NEARChan, Fast NEAR.
Nada.bot live in production with social check out. More checks roll out for Users to verify humanness.bo
YEAR Of Chef Launches Royalty Payouts Dashboard for Public Goods as part of BOS App
YEAR of Chef adds quadratic funding support to free Mint
EthDenver Potlock Potluck powered by Proof of Vibes at Build DAO HQ is a smash
New Public Goods Podcast with Nanhak from Holoynm, video and new shorts (new content to come)
Nada bot introduces first ZK proofs with Holonym government ID integration
Hyperboard inspired dynamic sponsorship board for quadratic funding rounds is live (article soon)
Donor profiles launched. Example
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
Bidding on the masters for the (un)official NEAR soundtrack to EthereumDenver. 100% goes to public goods on NEAR via Potlock
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
Chef’s Corner Twitter Space: Meet The Creative Public Goods Founders & QF -
Chef Corner for Africa Public Goods
Potlock Tutorial Videos Playlist with updated documentation
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!
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
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
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