I'll see you in the next video.
Gm. Gm everybody. Welcome to our Asia Pacific time zone. Give us Twitter space.
How's everyone doing today? Hey, hey, hey. Hello Lauren. Everything's going fine. I think this is a
second opportunity to share with the Asia Pacific community. What are we doing for building the web
tree on this region? How Metapoli is supporting these communities and how Giveit is making this
possible. So it's exciting to see what it takes, what questions came from this Twitter space and
seeing also the members of the region that will join these spaces. Yeah, perfect. Thanks Alan.
It's great to have you here. We also got Claudia up on stage and we've got Ahmed hosting as behind
the giveth icon. I see some more people are still just slowly trickling in. So yeah, I guess to get
started. I'll just introduce myself and giveth and then we can kind of pass the mic around to speakers
to introduce themselves and in Metapool as well. So yeah, my name is Lauren Luce. I work with
giveth. I'm a product manager and I'm running QF routes like this one. And just yeah, super
excited about this upcoming round here. Giveth is a 24 7 365 donation platform where we're really
focused on trying to bring real world nonprofits into the crypto space, especially public goods
projects and give them the opportunity to take advantage of some of the tools we're building for
web3 fundraising. Yeah, so yeah, that's me and giveth and I'll pass the mic around to our speakers
here. We got Alan from Metapool and Claudio. So I'll start with you Alan, if you could just
introduce yourself and maybe tell us a little bit about Metapool and yeah, you can also pass
it to Claudio. I'm not sure who's the best person to explain this, but first Alan.
Okay, that's totally fine. Hey, GM everybody. I'm Alan. I'm part of the Metapool score team.
Metapool is a liquid seeking solution for Neve, Ethereum, Aurora, and lastly we launched also
in Q-Network. So I'm right now running as leader of the Impasoto program. I'm also running as
advocate for the governance of the MP DAO. The Metapool DAO is making possible to redistribute the
value among the communities across the board and well, I also do a couple of other tasks inside
of Metapool, but I think by the moment that's the most important. So I think that you go next,
Claudio. Can you hear us Claudio? Are you mute? Yes, hello everybody. How are you doing?
GM, good night. Good morning. Good day. Thank you very much for the space here.
Lawrence, nice to be seeing you here as well. So my name is Claudio, one of the co-founders of
Metapool. We're doing, like Alan said, we're the first liquid seeking solution on Neve and Aurora.
And just recently we've fully decentralized the protocol over at NEAR. And so we're allocating
all stake and rewards and protocol fees directly to governance holders and participants of the DAO.
So really excited to be here and discuss the future of funding and crowdfunding and
quadratic funding in regards to projects from the Asia-Pacific region. So thank you very much for
the space. Awesome. Thank you both so much for being here. Yeah, maybe to start us off,
do you guys mind explaining to the audience a little bit more about liquid staking and
about where the funds for this quadratic funding round originated from?
Yeah, I think I can take this one basically. Liquid staking is a way in which you can
help secure the network through the proof staking protocols that exist in web3. But with the
advantage of not having your tokens lock, so basically what Metapool gives to you is a liquid
staking token that allows you to freely trade the value that is stored in the proof staking
protocols. So Metapool produces or cover fees for the rewards produced during the time that these
tokens are staked. But since it's not mentioned with the vision of decentralized the protocol,
we are taking all these fees and distributing these fees through the community. So basically
we launched the liquid staking solution on Ethereum the past year. So right now we should
have approximately five months that we started on Ethereum. And we are taking all these fees that
we are producing. I think we could build this inside of quadratic funding rounds for the
community. Right now we are here with Givet creating this quadratic funding round
for making people to know and take advantage about how liquid staking can fund public goods
for the community. We also have had experience on taking the fees from need to distribute
through the MPO grants program. So we already funded some of the grants of the MPO grants program
to the Asia region, but never in a targeted campaign for the APAC ratio. So it's exciting to
see now the contribution we have many ambassadors that are from this region you can see here
in the audience. We have Pisces, we have match one that they have organized events in this region.
So as we see the success of them organizing events of Metapool, we now decided to create
this quadratic funding round specifically for this region. So I think this is a good
opportunity for anyone that is building, that is creating communities, that is making
education to participate and to take advantage of all the values being generated in Metapool
to support their communities.
Yeah, amazing. Oh, sorry, go ahead, Claudia. Yeah, I think this is something that
one of the reasons we built on top of launching technology, right, is just enable the accrual value
to go directly to those participating in the protocol for us as liquid staking.
But we believe that we are building the initial infrastructure for any protocol to do
as Metapool is doing, right? And this is the great thing about building open source software.
You can go look at the code, look at what we're doing. Right now, mostly all of the code we
build is on Mir in regards to our governance and protocol fees distribution.
But I think it's just an initial step, right? How do we want to move forward?
And more importantly, how do we see value creation being more evenly distributed in
emerging markets? And so just trying to support builders as well and help them in this process
for them to build solutions for their regions as well. And so really excited about
Asia Pacific region. And more importantly, that now that that con is going to be
further down the road. But yes, yeah, it's just a short time frame in crypto, right? In a few
months, we will be in Thailand. And so just excited to meet builders at such an early
point in time and start building those bridges and relationships to build for 35 projects that
allow regenerative finance to be a big opportunity for everyone to participate
with blockchain technology as well. So exciting times ahead, for sure.
Yeah, perfect. Yeah, I was you're just touching on the next question I was going to ask. So
just for for everybody's awareness, this round is focusing on Asia Pacific region public goods
projects. So it's mainly projects who are who are in Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore,
Thailand, South Korea, China, projects from these regions are eligible to apply. And yeah,
and I wanted to just hear hear from you guys, if you had I mean, you already mentioned, because
dev con is in is going to be in Thailand and also because you're focused on emerging
markets, but is there any other specific reasons reasons that you guys chose to sponsor
this QF round for projects in those particular areas?
So for us, Vietnam has always been a good community, Korea as well, right? And we have
we've understood from the early point, or early growth that we have, those markets we're going
to have we're going to we're of significant, significant importance for us. And so we want to
be very proactive in engaging with them. And for anyone, anyone from these communities and regions
to see medical as a partner and a source of funding as well, right and building this
symbiotic relationship between people that delegate their eat to stake and on the projects that are
benefiting from this delegation, because the protocol fees are going are going towards
funding their projects. And so we want to really understand how do we build this
virtuous cycle, right of people delegating, then the protocol fees being distributed to the
community, and how we build a narrative around that. So, so that's where we are right now,
in this early stage of engaging the Asia Pacific region, because we've all here,
we have previous experience with Vietnam and with Korea.
Awesome. Yeah, I mean, I'm really happy to be seeing this round,
cropping up and supporting projects in that area, because I know we've got a lot of contributors
even at giveth and that are from like the Philippines who are working in those areas.
So it's really awesome to see, like more funding being driven to those to those regions.
Do you guys want to talk a little bit also about the eligibility criteria for projects,
like what kinds of projects are you looking to see? Are you specifically wanting to see
join the round? I know we've got some of it written already in our notion. So we've got some
things in there about organizing workshops or educational initiatives. But yeah, I just
want to know if you want to speak to that a little bit and give a little bit more context.
Yeah, sure. I think that the main idea is to support communities that are creating value
in the region. And by creating value, we consider that the value comes from the educational task,
or the people that are building things. Even building communities is considered like a good
opportunity to start building things. So yeah, in the notion you find like three, well,
these are four basic criteria. The first one is to be in one of the eligible countries that we have.
Why just these conferences is like one question that was already done in one IMA is because
the budget is even, we can consider it still low. So right now we prefer to have like a selected
group of countries that can take advantage of this quadratic funding. And if we see
there is success and we have the possibility to support more countries, we will take that
on a later stage. But right now we have a limited budget. It is $10,000 that are distributed.
I mean, it's not, it also is not small. I think based on the spin that we have had
distributing grants, it is a good opportunity to fund many projects, workshops, educational
content, meetups, and other activities that can help communities to grow.
I think it is like a good balance between the budget and the amount of projects that we can
receive for zero. The other three criteria include that you can take one of these. It can be
organizing workshops or educational activities. So you can think in creating content that can
help people to get about Web3 and liquid staking on the regions. They can make workshops. They
maybe create content like videos, like blog posts, articles that can help people on the
regions to understand more about how liquid staking is funding communities and public goods.
Other tracks that people can also propose for this is hosting hackathons or events to
prototype innovative ideas that are related to liquid staking. And this way people can start
interacting with the metabolic liquid staking to make it possible to develop their own projects.
And the last one is we also opened this for projects that are currently building things.
I think that is also an important part of the community that we need to support.
Maybe you can call it hackers, wielders, or however you call it is the people that are creating
all the applications that we are using day by day. So we are also supporting these wielders
with the only criteria that they should be integrating Metapool on their projects.
So I think in general it's not like hard to apply. There are many ideas that can come from this kind
of tracks that we have. So if anyone has any questions related to how if the project is good
enough to participate, ratios, the most probable thing is that it is interesting for us that you
start participating with this, but still you can ratios, you can ask us, and we can give feedback
to you about how this proposal looks like for us. With that, I think that many communities will
be able to participate. And well, also it's like the opportunity for making a relationship between
Metapool and the communities to start building things on the radio.
Amazing. Yeah, perfect. Yeah, if you guys are listening and you have a project and you're
wondering how to find these details and how to find the process for applying for the round,
we did create a notion guide from the give-aside. I think Amun can link it up top, on top of the
space, but it basically is a step-by-step guide. To join the round, if you're like,
yeah, that sounds like my project. That eligibility criteria applies to me. You can just create your
project on Giveth, apply for verification, and then there's a type form that you fill out that
where you add a little bit more information, and that's it. That's how you basically submit
your project to be part of the round, and we're going to be reviewing applications in mid-February
and letting everybody know via email which projects are in the round at the end of February.
So yeah, please, please, please apply to join the round if it sounds like this is your project.
But yeah, so kind of just moving on to a little bit more of the round details and maybe just a
little bit more of what quadratic funding is. I'd love to just give a little bit of context
there, and then we can start to open the mic up for some questions and invite other people up
to ask questions from anybody here. Quadratic funding is a super cool mechanism for funding
projects where there's a matching pool and then there's also donations coming from individual
donors. But what's really cool is that matching, the matching funds aren't distributed kind of
like a one-to-one. It's not like one dollar for one dollar donation, but actually the matching
funds are distributed according to, it favors more the number of people who contribute to a
project rather than the amount that they donate. So if your project has a really big community
and gets a lot of individual donors, even donating just small amounts, that can really help to direct
this matching fund. So as Alan mentioned, there's a matching pool of about ten thousand dollars
of MPE. It's going to be distributed on optimism to the projects in the round, but you'll be
able to donate to projects in the round on any of the chains supported by Giveth, including
Mainnet, Gnosis Chain, Polygon, Optimism, and Celo. So we'll be watching all the donations across
those chains and then at the end of the round basically distributing this matching fund. But
what's really cool is like there's I mean ten thousand dollars is already significant for a
matching pool, but what we've seen in previous rounds is that it creates this whole community
effort where people are really really rallying around donating to projects and then so you end
up seeing a lot more funds even being donating and sometimes even individual donors donate as much
as the matching pool. So we've seen QF rounds with matching pools of ten thousand dollars where
individuals donate something like eleven thousand dollars in the round. So I'm really really
hoping that we see some similar results in in this round to really support the projects
in the Asia Pacific region. Yeah, is there anything else that you guys want to share
about quadratic funding or like the reason that you decided to use this mechanism for
distributing funds? Yes, so we got we got exposed to quadratic funding through some of the
first initiatives that we explore with Gitcoin and we felt that it was a really a very interesting
way to get projects up and running. I know that Gitcoin has had some previous successes
with one engine and some other projects being launched and so definitely for us is a mechanism
to support a region and we understand that there's a diversity in every community
and we believe that Gitcoin has a very vibrant community and very much focused on
builders as well right through the Gitcoin house over in Barcelona and the different
initiatives during September as well last year and so for us is also trying to get our feet wet
into understanding the different communities different projects from all over the world
and so this diversity creates it's a win-win for everybody right for platforms such as medical
to get more folks to know us and for also us exposed to more other builders
from other next of the woods as well and just getting exposure to
new builders right and that's where good ideas come into play and start to get that initial
traction because we've been in those shoes before right building something from scratch
trying to get some funding initial traction as well so we believe that's something we can bring
to the table and just help the community grow all around so that's that's our most
uh most important factor of this right just helping new builders grow their projects
and hopefully support the medical now eventually right so it goes two ways but it's paying it
forward at the end of the day yeah i think quadratic funding rounds are a really amazing
space to like really kickstrap start projects and kind of get them bootstrap them with some
funding and we can see amazing things come out of it um yeah and it actually reminded me of
something that's really interesting about this round or something that i think is really cool
that you guys are implementing and you can read more about this in our notion doc too
that um that basically the projects that are joining the round uh then you guys can speak
more to this but medical wants to kind of bring them into the community and have them to be
providing updates on how they're using the funds and eventually try and explain the progress until
they're able to to complete the project um do you guys want to explain a little bit more
about those post round reporting things that you're hoping that projects can participate in
yeah i think i can take this one um well the web3 funding process has been evolving
during the last months probably years a couple of years during this time and is that um well
there has been like many episodes of different things like some some projects funded that
went free that have like very good results and also that didn't have like the good result that
it was expected but at the end of the day if you are taking money from the community
that is in the case like with us with Metapool that we are putting the money from the DAO
inside of this quadratic funding grounds there is a responsibility for the one that is receiving
the money to show what they are doing with the the money that they are receiving at the end
this is a value that is that was provided by the community for the people to have
the option to support the ecosystem so uh we we have this experience from the
from the MKorgans program and also another quadratic funding grounds that we have been participating
on asking the teams that get funded for updates in this case of GIBED will be a bi-weekly
update of how are you how are they evolving we share the advance that they have and implementing
the project that they are proposing and also we asked for a final report of what they did
during all this period so they can give like the evidence that they executed the the projects or
idea that they have when receiving the funds that they also can show how the the funds were
used and in this way they also can have like this reputation for their own projects of what they did
and what they do well in this process i think that that is something that will be above during the
coming months that implies that people that received funding from web3 should show what they
with this they will have like a good reputation or a good history of executing projects of
taking care of the funds that they perceive of having all the things in time when they are
saying that they will do and this will also give a trust to the community that these communities
and projects are good to to be funded again so for example in Metapool inside of the NPDL funds program
we have a basic rule that is that every people of or any people of community that receive funds
from the NPDL funds should feel complete the previous project that they from where they
received funds before participating again in any in any round of the NPDL funds so we have the cases
where people have participated twice they receive money from the NPDL grants they execute the project
they present their reports and with that they are they have the opportunity to participate again
so we expect that this also can be a mechanism that can in which we can start working together
we give we give it to know which which are the actors that are making good things for the
community and keep looking at them for a possible future of quadratic funding that can come from Metapool
yeah awesome i mean i think this is so great because it's really nice to see like when when
funding is distributed projects it's really nice to get that follow up not just like from the medical
side is providing the matching pool but even to your donors i know that like as a donor on giveth
when i see a project that i've donated to is is posting regular updates and talking about the
work that they're doing it always also inspires me to donate even more so i think um this
initiative is is a really great way of trying to get projects more integrated in the community
and then just like keep their audience posted and then is even an opportunity for projects to
then get later funding um yeah so we talked a lot about the about the round about the eligibility
for projects but we didn't really get too much into the details of the dates so you guys are probably
wondering when things are happening um so i'll just kind of like uh tell you guys uh the dates
for this round basically right now we've got this open call for projects it's until february 12th
your project is eligible to apply but if you're listening right now and you have a project that's
eligible please apply soon because the sooner you submit your application the sooner we can review
it and and then you know the sooner we can get you in the round um but the actual donation period will
be happening from february 19th until 29 on on giveth um and that's when people will be actually
donating to the projects and uh and projects will be raising funds during that period i see
maxo and you got your hand up do you have a question about that yes thank you laura i have
a question about getting the qualification of the proposal uh in in olesia we will have uh
traditional for in ramadan months maybe people will be gathering uh
gathering communication hello can you hear me guys sorry yeah yeah yeah okay
sorry i thought i lost my mic okay i continue so i will create a proposal for gathering people in
east star in ramadan and we will talk about the web3 and crypto during the ramadan is it okay
for the proposal if i submitted through the credits thank you
yeah i think that if you can give most uh what the question is is that uh us
math have experience on participating in my work and pada grants uh problem so it's like the
a similar mechanism you go you create your project you send us uh what you will do if we have any
question any doubt or any feedback we can reach you back once that you send all this information
so uh don't be afraid of proposing something that maybe makes not sense at first um i think many
things can uh came like that but as sooner as you can send those an application for this
part of the funding round we also can give to you our point of view our insights on on that
our feedback or how can you improve this uh application that you are sending so for making it
more easy for us to understand what is happening also uh to help you to have impact uh with the
metapool ecosystem um being working on this together at the end of the day all the people
that will receive fun from metapool are not alone we will be there for helping you to make
a possible or your ideas we are really interested in being working with you we have a team that is
like very proactive on building communities and looking how to make marketing or how to
participate and organize workshops so we are here that's that's like i presume take the
reach to us ask to us we are very open to solve any question that you could have and i think this
is not only for matches for anyone that is hitting the call we're we're really open to help trying
to sell trying to help you to solve any question that you can have we have our discord in the
discord you can go ask directly on the general channel if you have like one more specific
question you can open a ticket and in the ticket uh we our team will take care of that
so we can give you the right answer to start participating on this on this ground
okay thank you i think your question around the Ramadan right we understand that that's
cultural right it is very much to your region um we we support uh the community right and sometimes
we need to understand the community gathers around certain specific dates right and the holidays
for example one of the things and and and it's a comparison but it's um kind of how can i say
this is a little bit different for example right now one of our team members Tiago he's uh he's from
brazil and he was stating hey maybe we should do something around catnaval right uh we understand
in brazil right so party and and not too serious right whether of course Ramadan is the other
the other part right a little bit more serious very much focused on cultural aspects on on on
religion right and so we understand that those are initiatives where we want to thread lightly in
the sense that we do not want to offend anyone right it is intended to hope to celebrate and bring
together rather than alienate or segregate and so at the end of the day just put it on the proposal
right that this is going to happen around this times uh this is the festivities that
we will be helping you uh support that that initiative of educating around
launching technology and and as long as we are respectful for everyone's uh opinions i think
it's it's good to go right but shouldn't we shouldn't have any problems around it
so um but anyhow thank you very much for asking that question uh max one i think it's important
to understand that there's cultural differences but at the end of the day uh this is what we're
exploring right how can we get closer to those regions and we understand uh for example when
we went to istanbul right that there was this culturally culturally diverse uh region in istanbul
right you have the the hsi then you have the more european side um and and then make sure
of all cultures there so definitely keen to to really looking forward to to seeing the proposal
and understanding how it makes a sense for folks to to practice uh the religion but also uh bring
folks together to try to understand more uh everything related to blockchain technology
and how value accrual happens digitally now through crypto so thank you very much for the
question max one thank you claudia thank you great yeah so i think this is a great time to start
inviting other people up on the stage we've already got some people up on stage here who haven't
gotten a chance to speak yet so anyway um this is the chance now i think we're going to start
opening the mic for an ama type thing so if you're in the audience you have questions about
this round questions about project eligibility round details or or anything else um please feel
free to request the mic we'll bring you up here on stage um but yeah in the meantime i mean we've
got alvin up here we've got stee up here as well that we haven't heard from um did you guys have
a question or anything that you wanted to say we'll just open the mic to you
hello everyone uh good morning from from the Philippines uh my question is uh really about
technical uh things already with us just uh our project just participated the polygon build uh grant
uh they require for the donors to have like uh gitcoin passport to have like four stamp score
to be able to be counted for the donation i'm asking if the meetup will grant will
implement a requirement like that for the donor also
yeah so this is usually coming from i mean this comes from the give us side
the gitcoin passport uh is basically our first protection against people uh civil attacking or
creating fraudulent activity around the round basically it's a protection against one person
saying that they're 10 people and then all donating to like one person donating 10 times
to one project um so we are going to use the gitcoin passport um for this round we haven't i haven't
spoken yet to the medical crew here about should we do passport score of four or five in past
giveth rounds we've used five we reduced it a little bit for the polygon round to a score of
four i think both are fine and and basically in order to get a score of four you can kind of
really onboard a new person and and they can get a score of four basically you just need to verify
like twitter and linkedin and and a couple of like social media like web2 social media things and
if you're a unique person it's not super super hard to get a score of four but what this does
is it basically allows us to have a first layer of protection against civil attackers throughout the
round thank you and also i wanted to ask if uh they require like a specific chain like uh
the only uh contribution if it is done through nerd or through optimistic network and other
network is not accepted or any network can donate for this yeah so um what we talked about was having
any network being able to be supported from there i want any network that give us support so that's
mainnet nosis chain polygon optimism cello you can donate on any of those chains and your donation
can count towards matching um the only thing to keep in mind is that if you're a project owner
you will need to have an optimism recipient address in order to get matching funds but
donors are able to use basically any of these chains that they might have funds on and and
be counted in the round um ste i see your hand up there uh would you like to ask a question
yeah um so first of all i just want to say i'm so happy that we have an asia-pacific based
qf round i'm a nomad in asia-pacific region new zealand is my home and right now i'm in
malaysia about to go to thailand tomorrow um and we got some thailand based projects in here like
refi penguin um which maybe i'll let refi penguin mention something that we had a space about
yesterday uh as it involves them which i think is really relevant to anyone interested in devcon
this year but my question is if people donate on certain chains
so far we have as far as i understand nosis ethereum and optimism people can get givebacks
do we have other chains as well or is it just those three for this round uh yeah what's the update there
lauren yeah great question stee so stee is a is a giveth og he knows uh he knows all of our
all of our details here within the give giveth ecosystem um so he mentioned givebacks and if
you don't know givebacks is basically something we have built into giveth which rewards people
who donate to verified projects with gift tokens um so for this round all the projects that are
participating will be verified so by donating to one of those projects you'll be eligible to receive
gift tokens it's kind of like a reward for donating that we offer from the give a side it doesn't
come from the projects it doesn't come out of the matching funds it's just something that we
created at giveth it's the way that we wanted to distribute our token to people who are supporting
projects um so that's the givebacks program um and to answer your question stee um actually if you
donate to verified projects on any of our supported chains they are eligible for givebacks but we only
distribute the give tokens on nosis chain or optimism so basically if you donate it on polygon
you'll get gift tokens on nosis chain um so it's like a little bit like oh where do i go to find
my gift tokens um but give tokens get distributed on nosis chain or optimism if you donate on
optimism you get gift tokens on optimism but if you donate on any of the other chains that give tokens
come on nosis chain and so let's just reiterate this for qf round and give us you get rewards let's go
um i see we've got some new folks up here on stage we've got paul berg i'm super happy to see you in
here um did you do you have a question yeah i see your hand up as well um hello everyone hello
everyone still are in this uh metaphor community i'm excited guys i thank you so much that you put
your attention and energy and focus on asia uh and particularly naman plan gun thailand and south
east asia because we after the last get coin gg 19's uh impact map i realized that a lot of
impact projects in um america's both america's north america central america south america
and a little i mean a couple more in europe but a little bit in asia really a little bit
and we have like strong communities we have this this side community we have different
projects that work in a one-room environmental issues work with code with developing infrastructure
uh yeah so i'm excited thank you so much for that and uh when the process to apply
for micro circuit tweaks we develop in uh products as impacts energy collection air quality ais
systems and mvp microeconomy f that's all pilot uh that's all like on first stages uh but we try
now our best to deliver for this file for coupon gun and then maybe for global community to try as
well with different refine nodes and grid build chapter for example we also will apply from refine
coupon gun as we active on ground and we see our mission as rise awareness and education
on regenerative process on uh in america brick and knowledge that what's going on here on
fun gun and not only on fun gun i want to say in uh talent and uh main issue with places in
southeast asia it's just like pure extractive business approach just to grab money just to build
infrastructure to make money from tourists without technology west without technology
source consumption and all that so uh yeah once again uh excited that method will bring in this
we have ground for south for asia southeast asia particularly and yeah i see it as a part of
uh efforts from asia to from asia community to be um more noticeable and the bigger power on the
public good info creators non-profit scene but Christian particularly thank you everyone for
this such opportunity back to you Lauren thank you so much Paul yeah i'm so glad that you're here
and i'm also so glad that this round is happening honestly it's it's entirely coming over from the
medical side and it was their idea to to feature the round in the asia pacific region and it's
just like so aligned with the work that we're trying to do and give us to onboarding more
projects on a global perspective and so i'm just super excited that this round is happening as
well um and really great to see also some support coming so projects like yours that
have been on giveth for a long time raising funds um yeah so i don't know if there's anybody else
who's up here on stage who has another question or anything else that you guys want to say oh
steeze with the hand up how's it over to you stee um yeah just just echoing and pouring that
yeah definitely so happy to see the space growing it's what we need but um one thing i want to
mention why we got people listening in the space who might not be connected with the groups that
me and paul connects with um there is in kopangan after devcon this year we're hoping to hold a
refi festival um run by let's grow dao i know this is a little shield here but it's related to our
ecosystem so yeah like if anybody is interested in going to devcon in thailand in november
and also wants to be part of a refi festival and help build the community in real life
uh get in contact with me or paul or jimmy cohen or let's grow dao and it would be great
if metapool and giveth could be a part of it i'm just putting that out there right now you know
um because it's by regions for the regions and yeah it should be a great time and i'm really
looking forward to this year i think you know this i put a post i think griff just retweeted it but
uh i put a post about this year is asia web 3 and it's so good to be to be in web 3 and see um asia
getting a focus especially for events and stuff as well because like paul said a lot of it is
very western focused um you know and i guess the the next hurdle along here is language right so
if anybody is in here and you right here everyone here speaks english uh most probably able to
understand what we're saying but if you know people in the age of pacific region who don't
know english please share this information with them please help translate and let's get everybody
who is eligible into this because language is a huge barrier and i know not everyone in this
region speaks english it's compared to say europe or north america where most people do
so that is something that i really want to push is share with your communities in the age pacific
region i try to share with all my groups uh let's get everyone knowing about what's happening
and support them in what they're doing yeah well let me uh thank you so much that you
bring some lies in the region sun fest uh that will be right after the phone in bancock so if
you're in bancock you're for sure like uh more than welcome on pangan but more of that guys uh
everyone here and uh seafood stewer like lauren grieve uh metaphor you're welcome on copangan
we here we have community we have events whenever it's like before in the sun's face like you want
to go tomorrow or like one month in future or like during the summer text us if i pangan
me personally for book let us know that you will come we will support you and in future we also aim
to obtain land to build through the region hub here on pangan with farm so far maybe we will
grow there some experimental on that land that kind of okay here in thailand and then some other
countries as well and we also will have lots of spaces and workshop workshops for kids about
robotics the agriculture ecology blockchain technology you know all that that's important
and i'm personally i'm pretty environmental scientist but the same time i'm blockchain
enthusiast so i see how technology can be organically connected with nature and
uh with humans and humans lifestyle so we kind of want to see maybe i don't know one year maybe
next year maybe two years this kind of place and that will be more available available to
host you and because there will be some guest houses as well so we need to text us and we
will just book it for you and i want to say that for these together money because we need maybe
300 000 bags maybe 500 000 bags yeah the property is super expensive here and lance
super expensive here but we want to do it through air w a real world assets to takenize
this property and to gather money to purchase and build from community through this way
so a lot of show from my side everyone is welcome also metapool give us an entities
welcome to support sponsor region sunspass and uh yeah uh ready to talk on that thank you everyone
and steve thank you that you started to talk on region sunspass and some activity some pangang
and still doing this because uh steve is kind of part of uh uh in pangang community full part
of island that's the guy who's thinking about island uh no he is not here right now but he will
be here and she was here already and yeah respect steve back to lorem steve thank you thanks paul um
yeah i mean yeah i would love to go and visit pangang thank you so much for the invitation and
sharing more with us um i want to focus back onto the qf round and see if there's anybody else in
the audience that maybe has a question wants to jump up here on stage um we still got the guys
from the metapool metapool community up here um so if you've got questions feel free to jump up raise
your hand and and almond will get you up here um but yeah in in the meantime i'll just pass the
mic back to you alan uh or claudio if you guys have any last words about the round uh that you
want everybody to know well i i think that one of the most important thing is just
to to mention that we are here to to help and to create community uh that's like the main idea
behind all of this connecting people on different regions with different uh languages with different
visions all over the world is like something that we has been working for the for for during the
development of metapool we have in our uh ambassadors program at least uh four ambassadors
that belongs to the region of asia pacific so we are really excited that now we have the opportunity
to support specifically this region and that we have also the interest of communities to
participate right now so really appreciated all the comments that has been done by
paul still i think are important to to have all of these missions involved when creating this kind
of funding rounds and with that i think that we will be we will be having good results and
good effort from from the projects that we are going to support during during this this
this round um no more than that i think that uh that uh people really start thinking about what
they will be doing we has been talking like many details about what we are looking for
and now they can take and go to write the proposal and start something with their application
for us so i i see you still have the the handle right so yeah i have a question uh for you guys
from metapool so you mentioned about this qf round you want to you know onboard people into
a community as well i'm curious um where like if people want to know more about the community side
of things where can they find it from metapool like where do you guys hang out telegram discord
is there a link somewhere we can use and maybe we can post up this space
yes you can go to our official account that is here in the spaces and there we have it
our links to the telegram and the discord we have specific channels for uh regions that are
being attended according to our ambassadors that are taking action on every of these
regions if you don't find like a language or a region in a specific maybe you can tell us and
we will be looking for onboarding new ambassadors on this region or maybe the one interested in
starting this uh these channels can be the new ambassadors of the metapool team so that's
something that we do very common to start inviting new regions to participate in the
program but yeah that's basically it we have the telegram we have this code if you want to
keep the keep the news about what is happening with metapool we have our
a trigger account where you can see all the details of what we are doing
in fact this give it a grant is something very important and we are doing right now
but there are also other things that are happening at the same time so you can look at our account
and have an idea of what we are developing right now so you have like the set the full set of
channels of where you can receive information thanks allen yeah and i'm not following that
up to if there's anybody else who's listening who's not sure about where to find us at giveth
or if you've got specific questions about the round um i'd also just invite you to join the
giveth discord um you can join it discord.giveth.io um and we've got a support channel in there and
so if people if you if you've got questions about creating your project or getting your
project verified or any parts of the application process on how to get into the round you can
reach out in there as well and someone from giveth will be able to support you as well um yeah and
and i'll pass it over to you i'll pass it over to you claudio if you have any last things that you
want to say any invitations or any any like ctas now that we're we're kind of getting to the
end of our space time here yeah for those of you that are making the trip over to eat denver
please do reach out to us we'd like to talk to your projects and and see uh see and present
ourselves in in real life right i think that's that's super important for us it's the face to
face is always a great opportunity we do not want to wait until q4 next year or this year to
to meet you right if you're going to eat denver or if you're going to go to any of the ethereum
um events that happen in latin america maybe east volcano over in salvador or east latin happening
in Honduras do let us know we'd like to just uh host you at least the dinner lunch or breakfast
uh we have space space in our area and be for sure um but more importantly for us is just building a
community of like-minded individuals that can support each other they can support each other
and more importantly uh start to build what we believe will be tools for the next generation
of entrepreneurs in our regions and builders as well so thank you very much for the space Lawrence
stay um i'll see you in dot com
amazing awesome okay um so yeah i don't know we've got just a couple minutes left i don't know if
there's any last questions we'll see for a hand up going once going twice going through times
okay all right well thank you everybody so much for joining us here today it was really a pleasure to
to host the metapool crew and talk about this really exciting round upcoming please get your
project submissions in by february 12th um and stay tuned for all the announcements on both
that give us twitter and the metapool twitter and we'll be telling you about everything upcoming
featuring projects featuring more projects in our twitter spaces so stay tuned for all of that
and um have a beautiful rest of your day if you're in the asian pacific region or go to bed
if you're in my region because i'm tired thank you everybody thank you bye