It’s been a wild 2 weeks in the regenerative space. The public goods space keeps getting more gooder. More funding, more ecosystems, more learning, and more media. Plus, Potlock got a fresh look is getting faster (devs are doing something) while the Builder quadratic funding round is in full affect. 

🔔 Potlock Updates:

• Quadratic Matching rounds are live for retroactive builders. A look at all projects in retroactive builders round. Matching ends April 7th. 

• Direct donations support fungible token support adding in alpha. Meme coins for good soon. 

• Creatives Public Goods Round Retrospective Report published

• Development of Alem Framework to optimize BOS development + latency

• Payouts for Creatives Round - https://twitter.com/potlock_/status/1769138929167446131

• Auction for NDC Baddies Rap Done; projects who have received funding (from Rhyme Taylor account) resulting in over $2,000 in direct donations 

• Africa Public Goods Round is currently in challenge period around $331 through 61 donors was raised from a $5.6k matching pot 

• Lordking launched Potlock Data and detailed round analysis and our data team launches NadaBot data 

• Nada.bot near social check bot attempts resulted in lower scores. No bots made human status. 100+ verified humans were affected. Recommended to add farcaster or 5 contracts account for non-kyc solutions. 

• App Updates: new profile + pots layouts, fixing social features, leaderboard for pots

• Code Review: Making Potlock on #BOS Faster: Building SDK, App Router with Elliot from Everything.dev

• Public Goods Podcast New Episodes, Pizza as a Public Good , Bringing Web3 to US Government, Funding Investigative Journalism & Coordinating Billions in A Treasury 

•  Near Foundation Allocates $100k (now$~200k) to Pilot Quadratic Funding on Near

• New Feature: See Project’s Past Funding Outside the Platform 

• NEARIAN round did not get past need support, being pushed again through HOM, talk to your local NDC congressman 

• Intear Telegram Bot for Potlock Notifications

• Public goods registry.potlock.near is now a list on the newly deployed lists contracts that support multiple lists under lists.potlock.near. This will allow support for lists outside of public goods. Quadratic funding factory contracts have been updated to support lists as registration requirements. Front end to be developed. Docs here

• Follow Potlock on Drakula (shorts on Farcaster)

Public Goods Ecosystem News

Motion from the Solana, Optimism, Nouns, Gitcoin ecosytem.  

• Discussion around narrowing scope of RetroPGF manifest itself in new Retro Funding Clarity Announcement by Optimism 

• Cubik Gives $50K Quadratic Funding to Builders  in the Solana ecosystem

• Nouns Prop 513 approved $950,000 nounish art park in Austin 

• Plurality Book First Draft Out   (join the discord) 

• $300K for Nouns farcaster clients, submissions and voting are over

• Endaoment WTFisDaf resource on donor advised funds 

• Radicle 1.0 launches enabling patches and issues in their decentralized git protocol and Nader makes a tutorial on How to Replace Github w/ Radicle in < 10 minutes

• Public nouns supports quadratic streaming 

• Octant Epoch 3: 13 Projects Selected for Allocation

• ZK GRANTS by Ethereum Foundation

• Training Courses for EasyRetroPGF published on Gitcoin Youtube

• Regens Learning 3/14 Meeting & Call Notes

• Gitcoin and Octant round live and completed. Results here 

• Gitcoin Citizen Retros Resource

• AI Copilot Proposal for Optimism RetroPGF 

• Streaming Quadratic Funding by GEOWeb powered by Superfluid and Allostack extra resources ( looking for more people to contribute to data visualizations) 

• Prop516: Nouns DAO proposal by ATX for Dynamically NounsGarthimc Auction (DNA needs your support) (update: did not pass)

• https://hyperminter.xyz/  supports minting your GG19 hypercerts.

• Gitcoin Grants 20 announced April 23 - May 7, 2024

• Endaoment Launches upgrade to onchain donor-advised funds (DAFs), bringing traditional portfolio options alongside digital assets. 

• Tea.xyz causing influx of GitHub scammers to merge malicious PRs to claim rewards  

• Holonym (identity provider)  reaches 100k on chain zk-ps on optimism 

• ETH Evacuations, a project spearheaded by the former Head of Product at Zora to fund evacuations from Gaza

• DeSci Proposal for Public Nouns (passed now) also DeSci rounds live on Gitcoin

• Open Source Observer: Request for Impact Metrics 

• RetroPGF announces its spinning from more than just Optimism Ecosystem 

• Power Law Distribution of Quadratic Funding  (40 percentile of grantees claimed 80% of matching pools) 

• $20k match fund for Creators sponsored Console on Artizen

• Vitalik drops a new blog mentioning memes coins as charity coins 

• Funding the Commons Announcing Speakers for Upcoming Earth Commons x FTC SF

• Zuzalu celebrate its 1 year anniversary 

• Edge Esmeralda, a new popup city in Northern California in June by Edge City + founders of Zuzalu applications are open

• State of ReFI Report by ReFiDAO published

• Blockscience Stellar Governance Module Library Training 

Public Goods in Media

Shoutout to everyone making content about public goods. More public goods learnings = more public goods earnings 

• Gitcoin just dropped the videos to the Ecosystem Growth Summit and a GG20 Twitter Space

• RetroPGF at EthDenver (Talk) 

• Defiant and Unchained Podcast with Meg and Owoki from Gitcoin 

• Metagov Starting A Public Goods Funding Twitter Space Series  

• Web3ForGood: (Every Friday) Newsletter (March 15th, March 22nd, March29th)

• New GreenPill Episodes: Season 4 on Allocation

• New Impact Makers Podcast: Ep 1 w/ James from Octant hosted by Jon Ruth

• CryptoSapians Podcast on Edge City

• DeSci Podcast by Molecule: Seemay Chou on Arcadia's Revolutionary Approach to Science and Entrepreneurship

• ReFi Podcast: Regenerative Leadership

• CryptoAltruism New Episodes: Episode 146 - $Earth - Redesigning money to power the Solarpunk revolution, Episode 147 - Dimitra - Empowering smallholder farmers with AI & blockchain-based AgTech solutions

• Public Nouns Introduces Public Goods Saturday, a new twitter space series

• Let’s Grow DAO Max Impact Twitter Spaces EVERY DAY.  

So much PG Alpha, we are working on a a curation system to automate public goods news as this is becoming too much (contact plug in the community chat if interested in helping). 

❤️ Made with Love,

Potlock Team, curated by PlugRel