Howdy Chefs! As we continue to innovate and expand our community, Potlock is thrilled to announce our past updates. From the new funding round (Create /Dev), the first funding round outside of quadratic funding (mpDAO), a growing AI-PGF ecosystem, and almost $1 million in prizes for Redacted, this past few months, we have seen more and more innovations.

Potlock Updates 🔔

• Potlock sponsors [REDACTED] Virtual Hackathon with a $5K bounty for creating AI-powered funding agents to automate grant workflows and stack rewards with other sponsors. Full details

• We’ve partnered with ViaPrize to co-sponsor an AI-PGF RFP to build this on top of the world's only crowdfunded prize protocol. For more details click here | Tweet

• Through the mpDAO Grants Program, Potlock received an allocation of $15,000 for a Retroactive Round in the Meta Pool ecosystem. We're seeking community feedback on voting mechanisms to improve alignment & governance. 🔄 Read more here. Check out the upcoming twitter space

• Explore AI-PGF Agents, See what the AI-PGF ecosystem is building (new Grantees, Dead Project Sniper, Budgetoor, Time Estimate Agent) - https://www.aipgf.com/explore

• New Vite Starter template for deploying a social app with Tips powered by Potlock https://github.com/NEARBuilders/decentralized-social

• Plug on Devhub Live Explaining AI-PGF https://x.com/neardevhub/status/1831413104548130927?s=46

• Plug presents AI PGF NEAR Africa Redacted City Node Node - https://x.com/nearafrica_/status/1848719639494131769

• alpha.potlock.org is now live, featuring an open-source Next.js repository for our quadratic funding app

• The start of Potlock templates and open source repo allowing anyone to easily build on the open funding stack templates.potlock.org | Tweet

• Plug will officially in Redacted to speak on AI-PGF - https://x.com/potlock_/status/1849679366252265757

• The Create./Dev Movement: QF Round Applications is Live, Read more! | Tweet | Blog

Soon TBA

• Launch of ActivitiyDAOs in Chiang Mai Archipelagos with POTLOCK house

• AIPGF playground coming soon

• Docs on v2 customization

• Launch of GrantPicks

NEAR Highlights

• Grayscale Research Insights: Crypto Sectors in Q4 2024 - Read more here

• Funding the Commons Online Hackathon kicks off on October 7th - November 7th) 🤑 $86K in Prizes & $17.5K in NEAR Prizes 🔗 https://dorahacks.io/hackathon/ftc-2024/tracks

• NEAR Mega Issue ⋈ Coverage on Network Update, Consumer, DeFi, Stablecoins & Governance - Read more here

• NEAR Foundation and Delphi Labs Partner to Launch New AI Accelerator - Read more here

Public Goods News

• Funding the Commons upcoming Conference in Bangkok - Register here | Tweet

• GG22 Gitcoin Quadratic Funding rounds have started now with minting donation with EAS. Donate here

• Optimism Grants - Apply here | Tweet

• Retro Funding 5 results released from Optimism

• Arbitrum R&D Collective V2 Proposal Gains Strong Community Support for $1.73M Funding - More details

• Crypto Gets a Lift from Fed Rate Cuts - Read more here

• Flows.wtf releases governance on splits for streaming distributions as an mvp for nouns holders

• Epoch 5 for Octant allocation window is Live now

• Worldcoin App nows supports donations through Endaoment

• Q/Acc announces first Cohort for Quadratic Accelerator

• First Ever Network School by Balaji post Token 2049

• A movement of popup cities between Token2049 and Devcon is under the way. Learn more here

• Glo Dollar turne $1million swap from Mento Labs that will generate $40k per year revenue to fund Celo Public Goods.

• On Chain Capital Allocation Book now has an explorer edition

• Filecoin RetroPGF Round 2 Applications are open

• Unichain (Uniswaps new OP L2) testnet launches and their Developer Grants Program

• Gitcoin Contemplates Swapping $2.5M USDC for Glo Dollar to Boost Public Goods Funding

• Questbook Arbitrum DDA Program Phase 2 Approved with $4M Budget for Ecosystem Development

• Gitcoin has been selected to build a new grants claiming tool for Optimism

• Binance Airdrops $1,000,000 in BNB tokens for Typhoon Yagi Relief in Vietnam via the Giving Block

• Winklevoss Father Donates $4 million in Bitcoin to Grove City College

• State of Crypto Report 2024: New data on swing states, stablecoins, AI, builder energy - Read more here

• State of Web3 Grants Report

• OpenSea, a16z, and Stand With Crypto Launch Creator Legal Defense Fund with Open Sea pledging $5 million

• Celo Public Goods shares Retro on GG21

• Molecule Launches Pump.science on Solana

Case Studies:

• Gitcoin Checker: A tool to help you evaluate projects for your Gitcoin rounds. - https://checker.gitcoin.co/

• Wtf is Grant Ships - https://x.com/grantships/status/1848797340674757058

• 🆕 Metrics Garden**: Evaluating Non-OSS Projects with Optimism and Community Involvement** https://www.metricsgarden.xyz/

For more public goods and impact news check out Web3 For Good and Crypto Grant Wire

Overview with Tweets 🐦

• The Road to Funding AGI - https://x.com/potlock_/status/1829177106707947996

• The AI-PGF ecosystem is expanding! Explore our new directory of agents, grantees, and case studies here: AI-PGF Update.

• Donation Agent Idea on AI-PGF Ideas - https://x.com/ai_pgf/status/1833468003846910084

• The RFP Agent: an AI-powered tool designed to automate the creation and management of Requests for Proposals based on ecosystem needs and available funding - https://x.com/ai_pgf/status/1830533630118035763

• AI-PGF partnership with ViaPrize - https://x.com/ai_pgf/status/1829870083503763604

• Blueprint for Builders in Web3 - https://x.com/ai_pgf/status/1828689623607890058

• MPDAO - Retroactive Round | Voting Mechanisms Feedback - https://x.com/potlock_/status/1842481739773423649

• Potlock Bounty for the [REDACTED] Virtual Hackathon - https://x.com/potlock_/status/1841404706612248582

• $15,000 has been allocated for a Retroactive Funding Round in the Meta Pool ecosystem- https://x.com/potlock_/status/1839255169701208550

• The following projects are grantees: Dead Project Sniper, Time Estimate, and Budgetoor. You can explore more details at aipgf.com/explore.

• Solving Grant Application Challenges: Streamlined Project Estimation Tool - https://x.com/ai_pgf/status/1838420590018826618

• AI-PGF Ideas - RFP Agent/ Inverted Proposals - https://x.com/ai_pgf/status/1830533630118035763

• Top 10 Projects by TVL on Near Blockchain - https://x.com/CryptoRank_io/status/1846357554667937974

Events 🎫

Public Goods & NEAR Events - Road to Devcon

• Funding the Commons Online Hackathon kicks off on October 7th - November 7th. Get tickets here

• The Near Alpha Show, with Calimero Network & Keypom https://x.com/NEARWEEK/status/1846219844452073521

• BuilderHaus Edition 2 Bangkok🇹🇭: Data Privacy and Use Cases of zkTLS https://x.com/CalimeroNetwork/status/1846509103604220352

• The REDACTED Hackathon AMA ft Aurora https://x.com/NEARProtocol/status/1846497956196684106

• Public Goods Builder Town hall - Register here

• Regen Learnings Quarterly Call 10/22

• Edge Lanna (Oct 10 - Nov 10) Popup City Chiang Mai Thialand https://www.edgecity.live/lanna

• Octant Accelerator Demo Day

Post Devcon

• ZuThailand (Nov 18 - December 18) https://www.zuthailand.com/

• ZuGramma - India - (Jan 5 - Feb 16) zugrama.org

• ZuGarden (Nov 18 - 30) https://www.zu.garden/

Media

• New Greenpill Episodes: Season 5 Episode 1 2 3 4 and Season 6 Episode 1 2 3 4 5 and 6

• Crypto Altruism Episodes

• ReFi Podcast - Ecoweaving with Tony Lai | S4E4: Regeneration Nexus

• DeSci Labs: Why Novelty Scores for science are a game changer

• DeSci Podcast: Knowledge as a Public Good: Joshua Bate on DeSciWorld's Proof of Knowledge Protocol

📞 Keep in Touch

All Links bento.me/potlock

Twitter: @potlock_

Telegram: potlock.org/community

Youtube: https://youtube.com/@potlock

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/potlock/

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App: app.potlock.org

Docs: docs.potlock.io