This covers public goods news from April 16 - May 17. We know we are late, but you can never be too late for the public goods party.

Potlock News

• Payouts for Retroactive Builders Are Done ($50,000+)

• Open Source Round is also live with 3 days left ($43,000+) in the pot and $2,300 raised form donors

• Marketing DAO Round Announcement. Tweet. Article. And Twitter spaces

• Marketing DAO Round is Live ($30,000) in matching pool with 30+ projects - 3 weeks to donate

• Alem.dev refactor done, moving old BOS workspace build to old.potlock.org and old.potlock.near 

• Applications are open to Marketing and Pot round,

• The AI Round has been pushed back a month to sync up with the AI Cohort by EdgeAGI

•  MarketingDAOers has received funding from Near Dc for May!

In progress

• Collecting Requirements for DAO Tooling (contact plugrel for more insights)

• Nada.bot v2 development

• Potlock Indexer catching up with old information; will approve latency but accurate funding raised information

• In design; Streaming + Vesting, GrantPicks (Pairwise)

• Rebuilding the whole app via nextJS. We will also add Campaigns and the ability to create lists

• Followers Fund started a FarHacks build being finished up (quadratically fund your social graph)

• Finalizing Campaigns contracts 

• Finalizing H2 roadmap. Contact plugrel if you want to see a mechanism to life

Need Help

• Need Ethereum developers who are looking to build mechanisms and tie into Chain Abstraction

Ecosystem News

• GG20 Wrapped is round up. Some overviews from Owocki https://twitter.com/owocki/status/1788608812431069664 

• Gitcoin Introduces Collections to show off your cart as part of GG20 

• https://x.com/rohitmalekar/status/1783012590895214954?s=46 

• Permissionless AI for the purpose of unfettered civilizational advancement:  http://Venice.ai https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1788955538933575932 

• Greenpil Podcasts are decentralizing ​​https://twitter.com/owocki/status/1788612947490562411 

• https://twitter.com/ThankArbitrum/status/1781309105069855232

•  Ted to experiment with quadratic funding? https://x.com/pluralityinst/status/1781044690025902237?s=46 

• Private Cross-chain Quadratic Funding w/ customizable QF curves (hacked by a team at EthDam)

• https://taikai.network/cryptocanal/hackathons/ethdam2024/projects/cluxtb3ci00qaz301yt806bvw/idea 

• A look at use cases for programmable on-chain permissions with Hats Protocol https://twitter.com/hatsprotocol/status/1788222468764930452 

• Splits v2 is live https://twitter.com/0xSplits/status/1787903971702841424 

• Agora (OG DAO tooling) raises $5 million https://twitter.com/AgoraGovernance/status/1785701357368037816 

• The sixth wave of base builder grants  https://x.com/base/status/1781063148793160030?s=46 

• Open Source Observer Releases report of Octant’s Epoch 3 https://twitter.com/OSObserver/status/1784555411666001937 

• IDRiss introduces Twitter widget for cross-chain gitcoin donations https://x.com/idriss_xyz/status/1782779173196701708?s=46 

• Funding the Commons Tokyo

• Regens Learning May 2024 Call  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoALFsYyrBg&list=PLvTrX8LNPbPlaAaefsyGqbGOaM9O0fT9x 

• The Green Pill Writers Guild is writing a 2024 edition of the 2022 ImpactDAO book (taxonomy of ImpactDAOs in practice). Looking for insights, perspectives, and research data https://twitter.com/owocki/status/1782802528725254631 

• Gitcoin’s Allo Protocol v2 launches on the following EVMs; Lukso, ZKSync, Filecoin, and SEI https://twitter.com/owocki/status/1782415561038671960 

• Coordinape launches GIVE through Farcaster Frames https://twitter.com/defiginger/status/1781169754616799274 

• Arbitrum Grant Program Phase Three https://twitter.com/arbitrum/status/1780650675245879512 

• Jimmy from Let’s Grow DAO Breaks World Record for Most Trees Planted

• OP Retro Funding Round 4 for Retro Builders https://x.com/Optimism/status/1780986610823413909 

• Blunts.wtf launches

• Commons Stacks comes out of silicene, quadratic funding for Augmented Bonding Curves https://x.com/commonsstack/status/1783191836259147959 

• Ford Foundation has announced a 2024 Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund.  This grant will fund practitioners exploring the creation & deployment of open digital infrastructures. https://x.com/PluralityInst/status/1782862006720008515 

• Nouns Ecosystem: Prop House is sunsetting https://prop.house  and doubling down on http://rounds.wtf.

• Charmverse launches Grants Tracker Portal for Grant Opportunities https://app.charmverse.io/grants-tracker/web3-grants-hq-5501690381350384 

• Optimism Launches Backstop Grants w/ Agora & Open Source Observer as Recipients https://gov.optimism.io/t/introducing-backstop-grants/8031 

• POKT Network doing RetroPGF with EasyRetroPGF https://twitter.com/poktnetwork/status/1783482565074264532 

• Open Source Observor Launches on chain impact metrics for OP Retro Funding 4 https://docs.opensource.observer/blog/impact-metrics-rf4 

• $REGEN on OP is the regenerative meme-coin https://www.regen.tips/ 

• Proposal for Decentralized Governance Structure: Intro of Sushi Councils [RFC]

• Giveth Galactic Giving Round with $50,000 worth of $USDGLO on Arbitrum (just wrapped up) https://x.com/Giveth/status/1786184111054279062 

• Giveth is hiring a community specialist https://x.com/Giveth/status/1791091739731591679 

• Giveth integrates Superfluid for Streamed / Recurring Donations https://x.com/Giveth/status/1790532621870514474 

• Review of ENS DAO PG QF Round on Giveth (Optimism) https://x.com/ENS_DAO/status/1790411778423480666 

• Applications are open for Giveth June Giv-earth QF Round ($25k on CELO) https://x.com/Giveth/status/1790366977799663630 

Media

• New Greenpill Episodes - Season 4 Ep 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15

• New Crypto Altruism Episodes - 

• Web3 Climate Solutions,

• Glo Dollar - Unlocking billions in public goods funding with stablecoins,

• GG20 Grantees

• Let’s GROW Live Special - Gitcoin Citizens,

• Leveling the economic playing field with Web3, ft. Prof Tonya Evans

• Coral Tribe & ReFi Hub - Powering Climate Finance with Real World Assets and Web3

• MaEarth episodes from Funding the Commons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhVXFXTlSZY 

• Documentary https://x.com/thegrifft/status/1780762875738595422 

Special thanks to Crypto Grant Wire, Twitter, Web3ForGood, and all the Telegram Group Chats for Consistent News.

With ❤️ ,

The Potlock Kitchen