Boop, boop, boop, everybody.
That is the best jam of GG19, I got to say.
I will never get tired of bopping to the poop or whatever that is.
How are you doing today, Matilda?
It is a very serious event that we have today.
Wherever you are in the world.
Yeah, it's a good day today.
We're almost halfway through GG19.
It's going by so fast as usual.
I cannot believe it, actually.
Yeah, I guess tomorrow is the halfway mark.
Who are all of you anyway?
That actually is a good question, though.
Do you feel like doing the honors today, Matilda, and tell people about the GG goodness?
Yeah, I can give us a quick TLDR.
So if you are not familiar with what Gitcoin Grants is, this is a β we're in the middle of it right now.
It's a quadratic funding round that we have every quarter, and this is our 19th round we have right now.
It is live for two weeks every around three months.
We are actually the largest quadratic funding event in Web3, which is really exciting.
And, yeah, we've, like, gone through a few iterations.
I'm not going to get too much into the weeds because, I mean, we could talk about it for about an hour.
But, basically, we have a bunch of different rounds.
We've got our program rounds, and then now we have a bunch of community rounds as well.
And we're actually going to speak about one of them today, which I'm really excited about.
So how Gitcoin has evolved over time.
We used to run, you know, all our own rounds, and now we are through GrantStack.
Now any community can come run their round on our platform, which is really exciting.
And our community rounds during GG19 are part of the Gitcoin Grants madness and fun.
So, yeah, did I miss anything?
But, yeah, there's a lot to it, but it is always a super exciting time, and this is our last round of 2023 as well.
There's only one thing I think that you forgot, Matilda, which is who the heck are you anyway?
My name is Matilda, and I work in the marketing department at Gitcoin.
I basically am a coordinator, so I coordinate campaigns and projects and all the marketing goodness across a few different products, mainly GrantStack and, of course, Gitcoin Grants, and then the rest of the Gitcoin goodies.
So that's basically what I do.
And I would have to say coordinator is a dramatic understatement.
We would all be lost in the wilderness without Matilda.
We would be wandering through the woods, you know, just looking for fresh water to drink.
You know, I don't know, fill in the metaphor, but we are so happy that you are holding it down behind the Mama Gitcoin account day after day after day and doing so many other things that nobody will even ever know about that just made this all possible.
By the way, who the heck am I? My name is Ben. I am the grants program lead at Gitcoin.
I will be the weird guy making weird comments throughout this entire space, just trying to keep it fun and fabulous for all the friends that are frolicking in the forest along with us.
I don't know, alliteration for today.
All right. So clearly we are halfway through this round because I am starting to lose my marbles already.
My dogs are rolling their eyes at me, wondering what the hell is wrong with me.
We have some cool people on stage with us right now.
Why don't we stop my blathering and introduce the cool folks from Metapool and take it from there.
How is it going, Metapool account? How are you?
Who is behind the Metapool, if you don't mind me doxing you live and on stage here?
I'm not sure if Francisco is able to speak, but in fact, I can't take that question.
It is Francisco. Francisco is leading our social media campaign.
And so he's always here to support, based on Ecuador and in the Metapool team since a long time ago.
So he is the one behind the Metapool account.
And just for anybody who isn't familiar with Metapool and what you're doing in the Gitcoin grants,
quadratic lands world that we're in together, would you mind just sharing a little bit about what is Metapool
and what you all are up to?
So the short history is we do liquid staking for Ethereum, NIF and Aurora and going for more chains in the coming months.
So we provide a solution for unlocking the lock tokens on staking and help to secure networks across multiple chains.
Well, right now, our part of our mission is to redistribute all the value that we are generating.
That means all the fees of the commission that we generate on Metapool.
We are putting all these commissions back to the community.
And that's why we are partnering with Gitcoin to support all the communities that are right now building on the Web3 ecosystem.
Love it. Thank you so much, Alan.
And I just have to say, I am always so stoked when, like, staking protocols of different kinds, you know, give back to public goods.
I think it is just such like the quintessential Web3 public goods funding way to go when, like, funds are being derived in, you know, ways that only exist in Web3.
And then those funds are being shared with those trying to build other amazing things.
So, I think it is really important.
Hazel, I believe you are here from GCC of the Commons, the greater Chinese community.
So great to have you with us.
I'm the co-contributor of GCC.
So, as Ben put it, it's a shop for the global Chinese community for Universal Digital Commons.
So, we define ourselves as a community fund.
And our main goal is actually, like, quite aligned with what Gitcoin wants to do, is to focus on supporting the digital public's projects in the blockchain area.
Especially, we're focused on the global Chinese-speaking community.
And actually, we are all friends of Gitcoin.
We already supported, like, GG15, 16, 18.
And remember, there's a beta round.
So, this is the fifth time we have this community round, which used to be called feature round, like, on Gitcoin.
And this time, we're lucky to have not just GCC ourselves, but also with the help of Matt Poole and Matt Musk, who, in total, we have this $30,000 pool prize for supporting, you know, this digital public's projects.
So, we're happy to join the Gitcoin, and we're, you know, happy to use Gitcoin as a, you know, good playground, good place, fair, to support digital public's Chinese goods.
And also connect, you know, the Chinese new developers, builders with the international community.
And could you tell us a little bit about the round that you run, and who's involved in it, and sort of what your goals are?
We'd love to hear more about that.
So, maybe I, first, I'll give more intro about GCC itself.
So, like, GCC, as I said before, is a community found.
So, we define ourselves not, you know, like a venture found.
So, we're, most likely, we're like a charity found, like an NGO found that we would try to, you know, donate to the projects, to the public goods projects we believe in.
And to the projects that, which, you know, which is benefited for the global Chinese community society, and which is also benefit for the development of the blockchain network.
And this time, this round, we focus on a few areas.
The first is the cryptographic tech.
The second is staking, like, SD5-related tech, which is, you know, because we cooperate with Metapool.
And they will like to see more projects, you know, coming from this area.
And the third part is the web-free social, which is, like, our, another partner.
Unfortunately, they cannot get on stage this time.
But they're interested in the web-free social part.
And the fourth is the dev tools and dev communities and security, policy advocacy, and research and tooling of decentralized governance.
And as you can see from the page, from the donation page, we now shortlist 22 projects on the Gitcoin round.
And I believe we have, like, the, from all kinds of the fields, like the, like the cryptographic dark, we have some ZK, you know, ZK projects.
And also we have, like, some, like, dev community, like AppChain, and some, like, tools developed by these dev communities, like Desert PointMe, which is trying a platform for recording and, you know, a platform for giving the credibility to the programmers.
And also we have, like, design projects, like Design Asia, and we have some hackathon, like, winners, like, MetaMail from the East-Age Beijing.
And also, like, RealPrice, which is a hackathon platform, you know, for supporting the hackathons.
So we have all kinds of these projects.
And we'd like to see more because, actually, the application period hasn't finished yet.
So the application will finish tomorrow.
So there's one day left for people, you know, to submit their projects and try to get foundings for their dreams, for their ideas.
So this is what we are, you know, approaching now.
And we're delighted to see.
So, so far, we have, why we focus on the Chinese-speaking community.
First, because of our background.
The second thing is we truly feel that there isn't enough founding in Chinese.
I think China has a lot of, you know, good developers, good builders.
But there is a lack of, you know, culture sometimes, you know, for, for building the public goods, for, for contributing to something, to something that may be not that for profit.
So that's what GCC want to do is to encourage, although we're not that strong enough, we don't have that much money, but we try to encourage people, you know, to invest in this area, to donate to, to, to, to, to the public goods area.
And maybe in the future, like more and more funds will come into this area and we will see more, like, you know, good public goods to projects in the, in the community.
And also, and then finally, they will contribute to the, you know, the whole ecosystem.
So not just the Chinese ecosystem.
That was such a great overview, Hazel.
Thank you so much for sharing.
So, you know, what does, what does success look like to you for your round?
Like, you know, when you look back on this round, you know, in a, in about a month or six weeks, you know, what, what are you hoping to see at the end of the round?
So in the end of the round, I, I hope, still hope to see more, you know, better projects.
I mean, I mean, for now we have some already exciting projects, but I still feel that in, at the current stage, many, many Chinese public goods projects are focused on media, education, community, which is very important.
But I'm looking forward to see that more, maybe hardcore, you know, projects can appear, especially in the first, you know, like cryptographic tech, actually not just projects.
I'm looking forward to see some research.
So not just a Haggason project or some small project.
You can, like, you can do research on the decentralized governance or the crypto tech, which you can also apply for this project.
And the second part, I think what I will look forward to see is something related to security, which I didn't see much in last round, especially and also in this round.
So I know there's many like security firms in this area, but I like to see some more decentralized security in the public initiatives because there are a lot of scams in this area.
And I'm trying to, I want to see some like public projects that people can, you know, do it open sourcely, that people can share this information and help improve the security of the industry.
And the third part I look forward to see, which I think is kind of like a thing is a policy advocacy.
So we all know that policy and the criminal policy is a serious, kind of a serious problem in China and in the Asia area.
And I hope the industry, you know, Chinese people, you know, can unite together, you know, to do something more in this area rather than just, you know, you know, just suffer from sometimes not that reasonable or policy things.
So that's something I look forward to see, but which I think maybe not in this round, but in the next round, in the following round that people can like think about more about in this area.
So not just just doing some education things.
And the fact is that what I look forward to seeing this round is like still I want to see more people contribute.
Although actually I think we had a very good result last time in the GG18, GCC's round has already had like 554 donors and contributed a $6,860 contribution,
which is I think is very good result in the community round, but things people think that now we're kind of going to the bull market, right?
So, so I'm looking forward to see like more donations, like that can be like both in quantities and sizes.
So it can be more like, like support.
So if, if, if, if we are in a kind of bull run and people like have more money, so not just like investing in the market,
you can also like invest some shares of their, their, their, their, their portfolio monies into the public goods area.
So that's what I'm looking forward to.
So glad I asked that question and great responses.
I just want to say there are actually a whole bunch of security projects that are in the Web3 community round now.
Just in terms of eligibility, you know,
should we be nudging those folks and encouraging them to apply to your round as well?
I, I, I know you don't have to be in, you know,
mainland China to be able to consider yourself a member of the community.
How, how would you look at that if, you know, some open source security projects wanted to apply to your round?
Like, I'm just wondering if some of these open source security projects had an interest in being part of your round,
if that's something that, that y'all would be open to.
Yeah, I think we'll also, of course, we'll be open to it.
But what I see from the current market is that like, there are many security firms.
I mean, they're not public projects.
I mean, they can, they can provide services, but they're not that public.
They're more like private companies who can, you need to buy their services.
And it's only like, what I'm, what I'm looking forward to seeing more is like some, as you said,
like open source projects that people contribute together, share the information and to make everyone safer in this area.
I didn't see them in these two rounds.
So maybe there are some in the industry, but I will encourage them to apply for it.
There definitely are some.
And that's a great call out.
I'll, I'll try to nudge some of those folks to make them aware of the deadline that you've got.
And, and I, it's a really good point that you make definitely there's a big difference between private companies doing the work versus open source protocols that people can use.
So, so thank you for raising that.
Matilda, I, I, we are co-hosting today, so I am going to talk less.
How are you feeling today?
Is there anything that you want to bring to the beginning part of this conversation before we start bringing people up?
I think maybe just a couple of reminders would be good.
If anyone needs resources, like if you're a grantee and you're needing resources on, I don't know, anything from like tips on how to promote your project during GG19 as well.
There's like how, we have a grant portal, basically.
It includes a donor portal and a grantee portal.
So if you're a grantee, you can go have a look at the grantee portal, but you can also share a link to the donor portal to your donors, which makes it easy for them finding resources on how to set up a passport, how to bridge funds, and all those fun things you've got to do to prepare for donating.
We also have a how to donate, so keep an eye out on how to donate, so keep an eye out on that.
That's going to be a walkthrough on how to donate.
I'm going to link the portal up in the Jumbotron, but it's basically grants-portal.gitcoin.co.
Other than that, no, I think we're ready to bring grantees up as well.
And then, yeah, Alan and Hazel, if you see any grantees in the audience, and if you are a grantee in the audience and you are part of the global Chinese community round, just make sure you request to speak.
We would love to hear from you.
Sure, sure, but I feel it's maybe a bit difficult because it's too late in China now, you know, it's like kind of like two o'clock in the morning, so maybe they're already asleep or something.
That's a really good point.
That's a really good point.
Sometimes I'm very good at time zone Tetris, but sometimes I also forget because I am on the complete west coast of the world, so I wake up lost.
I think a large group of people are flying from Istanbul now, so maybe they're on a plane because the DevConnect just finished.
But, yeah, I think just feel free, Alan and Hazel, to hop in wherever you want as well.
If there's anything else you'd like to chat about around, yeah, this is going to be an open space.
And, yeah, that's pretty much all from me.
Let's get some people up on stage.
Yeah, I think this is going to be a really good one today.
I got a good feeling about it.
Everybody's coming back from being overseas to, you know, get right into the mix of this Gitcoin grants round.
So, let's pick up some steam.
Let's get this party started.
We got Daniel up on stage.
How are you doing, Daniel?
We'd love to hear more about R&DAO.
Thank you very much for having me.
So, R&DAO stands for Research and Development DAO.
We are a swarm-like ecosystem that is trying to facilitate that we create a lot more real use cases for web-free tech, especially related to the area of human collaboration.
So, what we've been seeing over the years is that there is a lot of fantastic developers in this space that join a hackathon and go like, oh, what can we build?
And, unfortunately, because there hasn't been enough user research, enough understanding of the problem, etc., most of those projects are abandoned.
Like, in average, we have 75% of hackathon winners that abandon their projects.
And we have about 9 out of 10 accelerated startups that also end up failing in very good part because of lack of product market fit because, essentially, it was a product that no one wanted.
So, we're trying to change that by bringing together a lot of different expertise, both across Web2, academia, etc., a lot of learnings about how we can build better organizations, and then starting to create fellowships so we can bring the builders and help them have the space, the mentorship, and everything they need to really, really deeply understand the problem, really understand what users want, and be able to build a lot more impactful technology.
Of course, this also helps us to build better governance and coordination mechanisms.
So, that's the core of what we're doing.
It then aggregates to a modular and composable product ecosystem thanks to the incentive designs we're doing, and any funding that is given to us, Drea, who is also part of the team, and, well, I also see Rosso and Corey who are helping us who are in the chat, but Drea will share the link in the chat.
And any donations that you can support us with, go directly to support more research and more collaboration in the Web3 space.
And can you tell us a little bit about what round you're in and how people can find you and just how the Gitcoin grants program is treating you in general?
So, we are in the Web3 education grant because we have a continuous program.
We're organizing almost every week a talk with different experts in collaboration.
So, to share that knowledge, and as I was saying, Bridget was Web2 and Web3.
So, you can find us in that round.
Maybe, Drea, if you can request to speak, because I believe we also have another round that we're participating in with a project that's called Harmonica, that is combining AI and blockchain technology, et cetera, to facilitate better sense-making and discussion, as a lot of the issues that we have in DAOs, et cetera, relate because of conflict, because people don't understand each other.
And, let's face it, forums are a terrible way to communicate.
So, we're trying to find better mechanisms that can still allow large crowds to come together and find agreement and find consensus.
So, I think that one is in the...
Anyhow, Drea, you'll have to confirm which round that is because I forgot that one.
And so far, we have been really enjoying the thing, really appreciate all the work that you guys have done at Gitcoin to improve.
I think it was two rounds ago that I tried to participate, or it was just the pilot.
And, you know, it was early stages, but there was a lot of issues that we faced to participate, and there has been a lot of improvements in the UX on making this more accessible.
So, thanks a lot, guys, for the work you're putting on that.
And I just have to say, that fact that you shared was totally fascinating.
I'm curious to hear more about, you know, the number of projects that are abandoned after, you know, participating in a hackathon and sort of how you pull that data together.
But we don't have to go deep into that right this second.
But maybe, you know, if you wouldn't mind just sharing one more thing about it, just because I'm super curious to learn a little bit more about where folks can learn more about that.
So, this was not a Web3-specific piece of research.
This was a third-party piece of research.
I don't have the link with me, but if anyone is interested, you can DM me, and I'll try to find it.
I have it somewhere in my notes in our database of research.
It would be fantastic to actually study a little bit more of this in more detail in Web3.
What we have that is very Web3-specific data on hackathon projects is just anecdotal from multiple ecosystem leads who have been complaining about the lack of results of hackathons despite there being a grants pipeline.
So, I don't want to put out names because this was told in trust, but at least three different ecosystems mentioned this to us as a pain point that they were suffering from.
They were like, I don't understand.
There is all this money available.
Why are people not taking it?
Why are the projects not going anywhere after the hack event?
And as you were saying, we kind of started to dive a little bit more into this problem, and what we see is, well, teams that have been really required to address a real need that users have, and hopefully not only within the Web3 bubble, but also the bigger world so we can grow this industry and so on, is something that the traditional hackathon format doesn't really take into account.
So, we've been working with different experts in innovation management and our whole community trying to reinvent these, and that's where we come with this new concept that actually we just took a partnership with Arbitrum to start funding some of these initial fellowships, and then we're hoping through the Gitcoin grant to raise some additional funding and hopefully increase the number of fellows that we can put through the program.
Thank you for sharing that.
And, you know, I think there's a lot to talk about there in terms of the work that we do with our partners at Biddlebox, the platform that's used for hosting a lot of hackathons.
You know, not everybody knows this, but Gitcoin, before it did these quarterly grant program rounds, actually, you know, in one iteration was largely a hackathon platform.
And for quite a while, the grants program would follow a hackathon.
So, you know, there would be a hackathon, and then there'd be an opportunity for folks who had a project to try to, you know, get funding for it from the community and kind of kick the tires in public.
So, long story short, I think what you're doing is super interesting.
I wish you all the best of luck in the round.
We just brought up Drea, who I believe is your compatriot in this work.
And I noticed you asked them to add some more information, so I thought I'd just give you an opportunity to follow on quick in hot pursuit there, Drea.
I want to talk about a smaller grant that, well, a more focused proposal that we have up in the MediGov round.
One of our ventures is, well, one of our spaces is really focusing on group decision-making, like Daniel talked about, and an AI-driven tool that we are developing lets you use different prompts and approaches to facilitate communication with larger groups of people.
And there's a lot of facilitation techniques out there in the real world that are done in small groups by hand, and we want to test those against each other.
You know, if we use this technique with this AI-supported tool for a broader, larger audience, how does it work?
If we use a different technique, how does it work?
So, that's the project that we have out there.
We're super interested to see if there's other folks who are curious about this space as well.
And it would help us sort of really both develop and exercise and learn about some new technology in this decision-making space.
I was wondering if it was the MediGov round that you're referring to.
All kinds of cool stuff going on in that round, for sure.
Please do go check it out if folks haven't seen it already.
And overall, how do you feel like the round's treating you?
Are you having a good time in GG19?
I love seeing the energy.
I think that we saw more sort of discipline and clarity in the applications and what people were asking us to talk about.
And it gave me a chance to be able to describe sort of what the outcome we envision and what our goals are.
That's super helpful feedback.
I'm glad I asked the question.
You know, the better the questions are, the better the proposals are.
Thank you for coming up and sharing about your project.
I wish you both the best of luck in both the rounds you're in.
We have Carla God up here.
Sorry if my voice sounds a little bit husky.
I just got through some sort of conditions.
You sound kind of badass as far as I'm concerned.
So, yeah, first, thanks to all the amazing projects.
I think this is one week since we started the GG19.
And I've been seeing a lot of amazing projects.
Usually, what I like to do is I like to do all the grants, all of my donations at once.
So, I usually wait until, like, maybe three days to the end.
And that's also because I don't want to miss out on certain projects.
So, I've been seeing a lot of people on project tweets.
What I do is I sort of, like, copy the link to their projects and just keep it somewhere.
And then when I'm ready, I go through all those links, add them to cart, and just, you know, do all the donations at once.
And it's been so amazing.
Borderless got into three grant rounds this time.
We got into the three community and education rounds on GG19.
And then we got into the PGN Africa, Public Goods Africa round.
And then we got into the Abitrum DAO round.
And that was because we had raised somebody who, you know, became an Abitrum developer and who also right now is an ambassador to Abitrum for his university, University of Fort Harcourt.
And it's just been amazing seeing everybody's projects and also seeing the donations on my project also.
I'm really grateful for that.
I'm grateful for the support in the ecosystem.
And today, I got really good news.
A TV station sent me a message on LinkedIn to be on set to talk about what we're doing in Borderless.
And they usually ask questions like, oh, so how do you fund that?
And I want to tell them, Gitcoin, I'm going to say, I'm going to talk about Gitcoin a little bit there.
And I think when I do, I'll send the footage out, tweet about it and post it.
I feel like more people need to understand how Web3 supports Public Goods.
And it's really amazing because I look in some other ecosystems, you know, in the tech space and all.
And what Gitcoin does is just so beautiful.
Being able to stay through the years, you know, from when Ethereum started that period.
I mean, when you go through the different history, you see projects like Uniswap, you know, that started as, you know, receiving grants.
And now today, they're like a unicorn in the Web3 space.
And it just goes to show the kind of impacts that Gitcoin has in the Web3 ecosystem all around.
And I'm really grateful that Borderless is one of such products of the Gitcoin run.
So, I'm sharing my link to, I did a post about my impact report.
So, I'm just going to share it on the space.
So, you guys could go through it and then support in whatever capacity that you can.
Like we say, Vonate, $1 could go a long way in pushing a project forward because of the quadratic funding.
So, I'll just stop here and let all the projects speak.
Thank you so much for having me.
Thanks for being part of the community and being part of the round.
Loved all the, you know, the kind words that you shared about the importance of, you know, the quarterly grants program.
I could not agree more that it, you know, has a big and important impact on the community in all kinds of different ways.
And I wish you the best of luck in this round.
So cool to hear about the progress that you're making.
And we'll definitely keep watching your project and your work with a lot of interest.
Thanks again for coming and hanging out, Carla.
And I hope whatever's going on with your throat goes away and you feel better.
Although I have to say, you sound like a late night radio host or something.
I think it's pretty cool.
We got Desai Asia up on stage.
So great to have you with us.
I would love to hear more about what you are doing in the Desai world.
Please come off mute and tell us about how things are looking for you right now.
And then they were rubbed.
Anybody else seeing the connecting with a couple of dots?
Maybe we got to move on to Ecosynthesis X before we get Desai Asia up.
You've been waiting patiently up on stage.
If you want to come off mute and tell us a little bit about your project, that would be great.
And then we'll go back to Desai Asia as soon as we can.
It is my honor to be here and introduce Desai Asia here.
And first of all, I'd like to thank the support from our global Chinese community because we
And then at that time, we participated in the GICON 18 GCC round.
And this is the first funding we got from the QF.
And then we have the funding and we host the offline Chiang Mai design meeting to introduce
the decentralized space by Rob Manning and also introduce the future of research by Chris
And it's great to have the attendance of over 30 people and 30 people together.
And as we all saw that Desai Landscape report analyzed about the GICON beta run because
we saw there will be over 18 different projects about Desai in beta run.
And after analysis about the Desai Landscape report, it talks about less than 10% of resources,
whatever the manpower or whatever the exposure or the funding, which is focusing in Asia.
So less than 10% in Asia.
So when I joined into Desai, because I'm from Hong Kong, when I joined into Desai, I tried
to look for any information, any social or networking in Asia, near them zero.
So that's why when we set up Desai Asia, connect with friends from India, from Japan, we set
up this community together.
And right now there are over 100 people from different, over 10 cities or area in Asia.
We connect together, we help to promote Desai education in Asia by translating different
kinds of articles and hope to support the local development of Desai community in Asia.
And that's why we hope to raise the fund and hope to see a better future in Desai at Asia.
Thank you so much for coming on stage.
Thank you so much for coming on stage and telling us about your project.
I'm wondering if you can maybe tell us a little bit more about Desai and why it is so important.
For example, when we are doing the clinical paper publishing, most of the time there will be a peer review.
And of course, like the peer review takes a long time and maybe there is no bounty or it's free work for the research.
And this is not a good thing.
And the second part is that Asian PAC, they face different kinds of cultures and diversity and different, a lot of language, which is not in England, not in English.
So that's why it's hard to find the information or get an update from each other.
So that's why it's important to do the decentralized science, which unlocks the information and unlocks the research center or even the published, the centralized published platform to do a more open and transparent education in scientific, in Asian PAC.
Thank you so much for sharing that.
And yeah, let's go to EcoSynthesis.
We do have a hard stop on the hour today.
So let's see how many projects we can get through still.
So EcoSynthesis, tell us about your project, what round you're in.
It's Paul behind EcoSynthesis.
And shout out to Swift Evo.
I think he's behind Desai Asia from Chiang Mai because we are also based in Pangan, Thailand.
So yeah, that's good to have you here.
So let me show our project.
We're in a climate solution round.
And I call you to 1-8 for our projects and support our development of products.
And I will show them and also pin to Jumbotron with some mock-ups on our products.
So basically, we focus on air quality and awareness around this.
And we pilot our projects here locally on Kopangan for improvement awareness around air quality.
So basically, our AI systems provide reports and useful recommendations on a comfortable way for users and also provides ability to chat and talk with AI on environmental topic to get together local specific information about environmental state, about environmental events, local and other things.
So it's basically still in development.
And we plan to bring the better for public test soon.
I cannot provide details right now.
But that's the first that we focus.
I think that's important not only here.
We plan to extend it then to Bali and then globally.
Thank you, global community for support on that.
I think we can do this to test.
The second is Impact NFT collection that we prepare with Refai Pangan here on Pangan with three non-profits.
There's basically two traditional NGOs, Ecotalent Foundation and Kopangan Animal Clinics for Strays.
And the third one is community.
They do cleanups every week and we focus to empower them.
The Klimpangan, they're already three years working here to clean up beaches.
And so we want to give them this tool to onboard to Web3, to use blockchain technology and NFT particularly for their impact, to gather more funds, to start to talk with the crypto community, to acknowledge their impact that they produced already for the three years.
And also to use these mechanics to maybe financing their next events, environmental events.
So that's pilots, all pilots.
This first impact collection we also plan to deliver soon.
There's already some month in development.
And yeah, I'm excited about that.
So basically that's all I want to say right now.
Please one aid and support other good projects that we will find on Climate Solution Round.
Glad that we have this opportunity.
That's the first round for us at Cassinity 6 and excited to be here.
Ready to clarify any details or ask, reply any questions.
So great to have you as part of the round.
Welcome to your first round.
I hope it's treating you well.
I'm curious how things are going for you.
But maybe actually we should move to Refi Fangen, because you mentioned them.
And as Matilda mentioned, we got a hard stop at the end of the hour.
So we're going to try to get through everybody.
But I will definitely circle back to learn more about your project.
Thank you for being here.
Refi Fangen, great to have you with us.
Would you mind sharing a little bit about your project and telling us what's up with you and GG19?
Hi, hi, hello, good morning community.
And hello, the listeners and speakers.
I'm Anastasia and I'm co-founder of Refi Fangen.
And we are a local chapter of Refi DAO, which advocates for a regenerative future.
So basically we're implementing this in Co-Fangen in Thailand.
And our mission is to foster a community and environment where sustainability is not just a goal, but a way of life.
And especially in the Web3, where we're trying to provide the impact.
So at the core of our project are three directions.
Firstly, we want to show the regenerative economic approach, prioritizing sustainability and renewal.
And secondly, we organize educational and onboarding events to enlighten people about our mission.
And lastly, we want to be a community hub that fosters collaboration and support.
So at the moment, our activities, as Paul mentioned already, is preparing the Impact NFT collection
that aims to pack and sell the impact of our partners, Climp and Gun organization.
This is an organization of volunteers, as Paul said.
And we want to onboard other NGOs as well, after we successfully released the first collection.
Another activity is that we're hosting and boarding events.
And they're a crucial part in bringing new members in our fold,
educating them about Web3 and blockchain and how these technologies can help our mission.
So our first event happened on 28th of September.
And from then, we are doing this every month.
Pretty excited to see it happening again in the end of November as well.
And it's called Region Full Moon.
The first morning branch, where we speak about the projects and our guests and presentations.
And we're doing onboarding to Gitcoin Passport and Gitcoin in general and quadratic funding tools.
And the second part, we have beautiful dancing parts and DJs.
Yeah, currently, Kopangang team and region, Kopangang community is also in the team of core organizers
for a gennaissance festival that's going to happen in one year.
It's the festival of, like, we're going to show the world how to do the eco-sustainable festival as well.
I'm sorry, my kids are waking up.
Maybe Paul can help me as he's my second co-founder.
We're pretty short on time anyway, so probably just need to jump to the next speaker.
I'm looking at the 12 minutes that we have left and the 12 people who've requested to put their hands up
and several more on stage at the moment.
But super great to hear about your project.
I always love these little slices of life when, you know, somebody's kids get up right in the middle of a call.
So, yeah, thank you for being with us.
Wish you the best of luck in the round.
We'll definitely go and take a closer look at your project again.
Corey, in Istanbul, are you still there right now?
I don't know what's going on with you, Corey.
Great to have you up on stage with us.
We haven't talked since last round, I think, maybe even.
Just wanted to make sure.
Yeah, no, I haven't updated that.
I just got in late last night, so a little jet lags, but I'm alive.
Istanbul is a beautiful place.
It was also a great opportunity for us at Regens Unite to connect with a new local community.
So, yeah, that was pretty amazing.
I don't want to take too much time up here since I know there's other people waiting,
but I just wanted to join to mention that Regens Unite is participating in this Gitcoin round.
We are a community building initiative that's building community through intentional in real life events.
And also, yeah, we provide, we're also a programming partner and we produce educational content.
And so that's why we were just in Istanbul producing an event together with local organizers from Istanbul who wanted to create, yeah, an event alongside DevConnect that's focused on impact and bringing in the Turkish community to learn about all kinds of great initiatives in the Web3 space.
So we were together with Funding the Commons and the Token Engineering Academy, producing a full day event there of awesome content.
And we also just recently had Regens Unite Berlin alongside Berlin Blockchain Week in September with 200 attendees.
That was a doozy for two days, but also really rewarding and really amazing to see a lot of newcomers come in to learn about Web3 and to talk about regeneration.
So, and through that, we've been experimenting quite a bit, actually, with onboarding.
We launched the Regen Token during Berlin and actually tested out using Citizen Wallet, giving people access to their first wallet and showing them how to use a community currency on the ground within an event.
That was a very user-friendly entry point to Web3 infrastructure, and we are looking to kind of expand this out more in the future.
So, you know, what we're looking to raise funds for, we're participating in both the Climate Round and the Web3 Education and Community Round because our work is really touching both of those quite a bit.
And we're looking to start doing more onboarding focused, maybe even digital events, so webinars to help make, first off, the events more accessible and also just kind of be able to scale the amount of people that we're reaching.
And we want to try out something new.
So doing that for platforms like Gitcoin, for example, is something we want to start with.
And we, yeah, we're also going to continue building out our community platform.
So we're launching a series of interviews and, yeah, we're looking at building out a community page and really creating the infrastructure to elevate regenerative projects and connect them with one another and also with resources that will help them.
So, yeah, really excited about that.
And lastly, we're building alliances throughout the Regen ecosystem.
So we just closed a bunch of really nice media partnerships with organizations like BanklessDAO and RefiDAO and GreenPill, All4Climate, EthicHub.
And we're just going to keep growing that so that we can all together have a stronger reach.
And, yeah, doing the same thing with our community building initiatives as well.
So, yeah, really excited to participate in these two rounds.
First time we're in two rounds at once.
But that's going to, I think, help us a lot as we keep working on our, yeah, our new and improved value proposition and taking things a step further.
And the round's been treating us great.
I love the new improvements on the platform.
And it's really exciting to see new projects joining, like RNDAO, like some of the others that have been up here.
It's, yeah, I think been quite tricky in the past to get onboarded.
So, yeah, we're hoping to help more projects in the future as well with that.
Steps in the right direction.
Yeah, thanks for being here, Corey.
You are truly an impact juggler with all the various different things that you are doing in multiple rounds.
At some time, we need to jam on, like, local currencies more.
I feel like we could spend a whole hour just talking about that.
But in the interest of time, I am going to pass the mic to our friends at Astral, one of my favorite projects from a few rounds back.
And now coming back, doing some new and interesting things from what I saw in the proposal that we shared.
We'd love to hear what's up with Astral.
So, I see a bunch of friendly faces here.
But for those of you who don't know, my name is John.
I am founder of Astral and architect at Astral.
And I also am a co-founder at a project called Toucan Protocol, which I imagine maybe some of you are familiar with.
At Astral, for the last five years, we've been trying to see how we can fit Web3 technologies together with geospatial data technologies.
There's a whole bunch of really interesting use cases that we can unlock if we build tools for application developers in Web3 to build with spatial and location data.
So, we've gone ahead and described the architecture of what we're trying to build on our grant page.
And we'll be sharing more on Twitter and on GitHub over the next couple of weeks.
But in a nutshell, we did a bunch of prototyping of different location-based applications, things like regenerative finance protocols, transport and logistics systems, local and community currencies, etc., etc., etc.
And we found that all of them shared this common need for a couple of different kind of key pieces of open source architecture.
So, that's what we're building at Astral.
And our goal is to unlock a whole new category of applications in Web3 and open up the design space for a bunch of new use cases that are tied to where you are in the world.
So, yeah, we're in both the climate solutions and open source round on Optimism and on Public Goods Network.
We would love, if you care to, to slide us a die or something like that.
And, yeah, it goes a long way.
We've been purely public goods funded since day one and intend to keep it that way.
So, this really makes a huge difference for us.
So great to have you up with us.
It feels like way too long since we've had a conversation.
We'll definitely need to get it up offline.
That is a really good way to put it.
So, we have five minutes and eight requests.
I am going to try to get you all up here.
My apologies for talking so much.
And while I say that, I am also going to give a shout out to some of my favorite humans.
Xavier, Salty, Robot Fish Girl, Choices, Suzy K, so many freaking amazing community, public goods,
human beings, with us today.
Just wanted to say that while we're bringing up MesoReefDAO.
Hey, MesoReefDAO, how are you doing?
Our apologies for not saving more time for you to do your shill, but glad you're here with us.
Please tell us about MesoReefDAO and how things are going for you and GG19.
Yeah, we're MesoReefDAO and, you know, our initiative stands for MesoReefDAO.
It's focused on conservation and regeneration of coral reefs within the MesoReef barrier.
And our aim is to leverage innovative technological solutions, you know, scientific research and
decentralized governance models to enhance coral reef conservation efforts.
Using DSI and Web3 tools, we seek to scale conservation initiatives, implementing regenerative
practices, addressing challenges posed by climate change and human impact and coral reef
We, some of our key updates are, you know, we're engaging in onboarding scientists and
research centers in Yucatan Peninsula, highlighting experiences with the MPO Mexico and DSI exploration,
And we are, we are now participating in the November's Coral Bleaching Awareness Month alongside
And we have been quite active, you know, applying for poster sessions in academic conferences like
the Mexican Congress, like the Mexican Congress and Pan-American one.
And yeah, we're exploring with traditional scientists, how can we achieve our mission, you know.
So, yeah, we actually submitted a concept note for CORDAP, you know, this coral reef accelerator
program, allowing initiative of doing, of doing some life support systems on land-based facilities.
Our initiative is called Region Reef Hub and Toolkit, with multiple collaborations with Way of
Change, with Rhode Island University, with Coral Reef Alliance, Healthy Reefs, Reef Institute in Florida,
the Applied a Million Corals Initiative, the pioneers of this.
And BioCoral Foundation, actually, BioCoral Foundation is working in AI and how can we create
some traceability, monitoring some growth in corals in land-based facilities using AI and, yeah,
So, we have been quite active in many ways, including field trips this month, setting up
some fish tanks, some pilot experiments, you know, thanks for Gitcoin Beta Round Funds and
Yeah, so, actually, we just showcased coral restoration work at SER 2023 in Australia with the help of
the better start wave of change.
And, yeah, we have been quite doing some awareness since, you know, the climate change in coral reefs
You know, we have, our team has been focusing on doing some workshops in the Mesoamerican Reef
with the help of Coral Reef Alliance and how to reach.
And, yeah, to do at least this 2024, we just got selected for Bankless Visa and Conferences.
That's going to be on December 2023.
And, yeah, we're working on highlights of 2023.
Yeah, probably in a few months, we will have our Web2, Web3 interface page to interact and
to onboard some scientific and regenerative communities in the space.
And, yeah, we are, we will explore some tools in decision and making, decision-making and
voting and engaging some, our stakeholders, our traditional stakeholders.
So, thanks for, for, thanks, man, for, for the talk.
And, yeah, I think that we're going to make it in many ways.
Many, many, there are many good projects in this round.
And, yeah, the thing is, how, how can we create synergies to create a more protopian world for
everyone, for all the species that are on the planet?
Well, I think with that, that's probably going to have to be the end, because we are right
at the top of the hour, and there are things going on in the world that are dragging us
away from this Twitter space.
But I think to wrap us up, Matilda was going to give the TLDR on what to expect next, sending
a lot of love out to Kingfisher and Sylvie and Oxygen and Kairos and Modular.
And Guillermo, I will try to answer your question directly on Twitter.
Sorry, we couldn't get you up here.
Thank you for your patience, everybody who waited to try to get up on stage.
We will definitely find other ways to get you up here.
Please do go find Let's Grow Live, though.
You know, there is a live space happening right now.
Lots of other spaces being hosted by lots of other community members.
If you just look for the hashtag GG19, lots of opportunities to go jump in and do your
thing, you know, in various different spaces.
So, yeah, with that, Matilda, what's the good word?
Yeah, so we will have quite a few more spaces this week.
We've got one tomorrow that's going to be another chill and chill welcoming committee
space, which I'm super excited about.
This is for everyone who's a brand new grantee in GG19.
So if you are brand new or if you want to hear about the new projects that are in this
round, make sure to just have a lookout for that promotion that'll be going out in the
And then if you don't, if you want to add, we've actually got a calendar that you can
It is also linked on the grants portal, which is grants-portal.gitcoin.co.
So that way you will never miss one of our spaces.
With that, I might just, yeah, ask Hazel, do you have any last remarks or comments before
we end up the space today?
So I listened to a lot of, you know, amazing projects tonight.
And I just want to remind one thing that although your name is like a Chinese community, at least
as long as you have like a core member who can speak Chinese in your team, you can apply
So we don't require you to be like all Chinese team.
We know it's impossible, right?
So we're international world now.
So like every team can be like from all over the world.
So any of the projects today who are listening to this project, even you're not from China,
you can speak Chinese, but like you have a core team member who speak Chinese, or you
think that your work would benefit Chinese community, you can try to apply for this
round and I'm hoping, you know, to see more diverse, more diverse background, you know,
to join around and to, you know, contribute to the public goods ecosystem.
So our deadline, application deadline is tomorrow.
So you still have one day, you know, to, to, to think about it and apply.
And I also, I encourage people, you know, from all the world can look at the projects
on around and maybe pick up projects that you are interested in and maybe donate to them.
And also, and Metapole is also, you know, not just our round, but the Metapole, like,
maybe, you know, like, contribute to the other round.
So if you're interested, then you can also, like, check for Metapole's other rounds and
maybe you'll find something that you'll be interested in.
Thank you so much for everyone who shared your projects today.
It's just so amazing to hear about all these projects all over the world.
Um, it's really such a treat to be on stage with all of you.
So yeah, with that, I think we will wrap it up for today, but fear not tomorrow is our
halfway mark of GG19 and we've got a ton of things still coming up.
So we'll definitely try and do a more, um, maybe a, um, what is the word I'm looking for?
An extended Twitter space this week sometime again, so that we can get a bunch of projects
up that we weren't able to get up today.
But yeah, thank you, Ben.
Um, and yeah, with that, we can wrap it up.
Have a great day, everyone.