GMGM, just getting everyone on the stage and we'll get started shortly.
Okay, so we're getting folks up on the stage. If people want to share this out, that would be amazing. I'm going to share it right now myself.
Let's see if there's any more house.
And if you want to come up, please request. We might hit the stage limits. We're not to rotate folks out too.
Okay, so Juniper is not feeling well today, so I will be hosting this space Excited for this as you know we at Wonder are huge trans get coin lover And there's so many amazing people in this room right now that I'm excited to
to hear from, get updates from, and hopefully y'all on the stage can connect with each other too. So, let's get started. So the first bit is we're going to, and if you want to come up and say, "Please request," I can't tell everybody who wants to speak free-jeword.
Yes, we are going to start with introductions. I'll introduce myself first. My name is Anne, my pronouns are they them. And I'm head of community over at Wonder. And excited to be here. So let's go on to BluDow first. If you guys want to introduce yourself, your org, and how you were involved.
with the GR15 and in Web3 generally. Hi everyone, I'm Daphne from BlueDow. We are an organization focused on uplifting and empowering women to launch projects in Web3 and we've been doing that for the last year with our BlueHacks program where we sponsor builders
to IDA and strategize and build something cool. And yeah, Giro 15 was great. We had the opportunity to hop on a bunch of Twitter spaces in the DI realm and the Impact Realm with the quadratic friends and
No, it was a great experience and I'm really glad that a lot of projects like ours and other people on the stage could fund their initiatives for the next year Amazing, thank you, Daphne. Let's go over to our 40 acres. Yo, good afternoon everybody. This is Catalyst
from 40 acres down. I'm super excited to be in this space with a whole bunch of quadratic friends and the best task management doubtful in the platform there is. What we do have 40 acres is we take blockchain technology and
We build our community of culture around it. We do that through curating NFTs, leveraging D5 for impact, and creating a site space for all of the diverse builders in Web 3 to not feel cast aside, overlooked, or excluded.
Thank you for being here. Over to Deepa. Hi, I'm from Impact Media and we fundraised during GR 15. That was a second fundraising round and very grateful for one of us to be the quadratic funding
We highly benefited from the funds that we raised. It powered our DAO. So as a decentralized media org, a season one was committed towards researching 12 mature impact hours, including Bitcoin, and to write a book on impact
for the new entrance for people who are just coming into this space and don't know what impact are and impact are just to make it clear for everyone. It's social impact organizations that are Internet native, they're using Web3 tools to do good in the world.
So we wrote a book as a doubt, we first got rid of it and research conducted intensive research of impact house in the space that had been around for at least five months or more as of June 1st and get coin funds enabled us to be able to conduct that research
ride the book. So very grateful for your donation. Amazing. Thank you for coming. So we're going to move over to Shannie from Crosshouse. Hey everyone, happy to be here. I'm Shannie. I'm with Crosshouse Dow. I'm one of the stewards there.
And yeah, this was a really amazing opportunity for a crosshouse to test an experiment that we had been playing with. We had a lot of very organic relationships happen. Naturally, just with people being drawn to the Dow and wanting to activate on
some real grassroots community led sports initiatives. So testing this idea, getting a lot of support from the GIT Queen community has really started now to kickstart this new experiment that we're working on called All-in-For-Sports. So it's really excited to dive a little bit more deeply into that today.
I'm amazing. Over to Web Through Women in Science. So, one, this is Ramona J. Hems. I'm standing in for ARIELA. We were part of the GR15 grant Web Through Women of Science. We focus on the intersection of science and
and Web 3. Some of the initiatives at Web 3, those science include really just facilitating better collaboration. We have some research projects that we're working on. We have quite a few talented scientists in our group. We also have Bounty where we support different projects of science and as well as promote
existing, I would see Web 3 organizations that are doing some really innovative work in the space. So I'm definitely here to speak to, you know, what we do and of course Ariel is not here, but I think I can at least address them with that. Amazing. And, um, Randy, do you want to speak as well?
Sure, why not? My name is Randi. I'm here for representing our blue latem vertical and super excited to be here. Thank you so much for the invitation and yes, we absolutely love a wonder verse. So can't wait to share a little bit more about our experience at GR 15 and the impact that it had.
on the left hand side for Blue Dow. Thank you. Amazing. Yeah, I am so excited to have all of you together. Thank you for accepting invitation. This is also being recorded so all of your orgs can share it out to the recording when we're finished to your communities so they can, you know,
find other really amazing organizations as well as here a little bit about where you guys are. So we're hoping this is going to be a little retrospective. And also some AlphaI1 to drop right now is that we're going to be helping get coin with the retrospective grants on wonder we have a grant feature that we launched pretty recently.
So we're excited that we're continuing to foster a deeper partnership with Gitcoin as we're very aligned organizations. And that will be really amazing for all of the orgs here and other orgs who are not here who participate in the GR15DI round to potentially apply to that and get some
attractive funding for the amazing work they've done over the past few months. So the first question I want to throw and I like to just do rip hand raising so if someone wants to answer the question raise your hand and I'll give you a little call and then we can just do it that way so it's a bit more orderly. So our first question and again these questions were made by Hermes
who is in partnerships. So what has your experience, the G15 been? Especially I'm really curious if you had never participated in anything crypto related, if getcoin was your first experience, like what was what was that like for each of you as leaders and for your organizations?
I can jump in and speak to that really quickly. So for us, we kind of learned with carstances that we, you know, as a community, we're really good at building, but the promoting side of it was, you know, was a little on the low side. And so,
Now that we're you know learn we've learned that we've learned that kind of promotion Importance and we're really you know working with our team to to share and learn and grow from those experiences and hopefully do better as we lead forward Amazing our 40 let's go over to you
You know, I like to think that or describe our get coin experience is really like Momentus right in the GR 15 round alone The the type of community that we were able to to foster and develop work with
It was like I'd say Web 3 at its finest because we were all coming from these disparate groups and had this aligned interest through the technology and we were able to you know get the quadratic friends we were able to from 40
Acre specifically, I believe quadruple, our contributor account. And that was made possible by really leaning into community and helping us empower our mission and skill our impact. So that was our experience.
So I'm Web Through Women. Thank you. In my day job, I am an assistant professor and so I'm used to writing grants. I just really felt that this process was democratizing how we go about grant writing and it gave us an opportunity to really see where people felt the impact should be
held. So I felt that was an interesting process. But I'd also say that at least for us, we're able to cross promote other organizations that are in the web space, their women led, and able to sort of consolidate, you know, to show where we are having impact as a whole and not just ourselves. So I thought it
It only enhanced our sense of community with other organizations as well. Amazing, pretty deep. Yeah, I feel like it's a combination of things. One is obviously how effectively you can communicate your grant, like what you're seeking funds for. I think that is super, super important because
people don't have time to read Lendee proposal. So if you can make an elevator pitch and then go to explain what you're going to be doing, I think so effectiveness is very important how you communicate that.
And also when you check out the profile of the listings of the grants, there are only three or four lines that get highlighted and a lot of people are then drawn into reading more based on how you communicate to elevator pitch. So I think that's super important. And we experienced that in GR14 because that was the first time that we fundraised.
And we had no idea how to go about it. I didn't even know that there are strutterspaces that take place. So we just basically put out a proposal and 140 people came and donated money to us. And I was like, wow, they really did their homework. Like they studied a proposal. And I think what really drew them into learning more about it.
us was how effectively we communicated what we intend to do. So that's one and obviously being on Twitter spaces and creating more of NS is the second most important thing. So I think these two things are very critical. Amazing. Thank you. And we'll go ahead with Randy and then if anybody else
follow up questions, I'll open it, we can just like have a little bit more chat and then I'll move on to the next question. Thank you. Yeah, I mean we had an incredible experience. I think we ended up kind of breaking some major barriers, glass ceilings if you would say with the GR 15
around one of the things that was super powerful and I know 40 alluded to it was that we came together in true Web 3 fashion and we coordinated amongst different communities to support each other and to share resources which was really important because
Like others mentioned, a lot of people don't even understand the basis of contributing to the project, how to navigate the site. So coordination was very important, utilizing tools to spread out different incentives and initiatives.
Quadratic friends was a project that came out of GR15, which is simply that, you know, putting together a group of people with a line mission and vision and coordinating efforts to make sure that we're all uplifting each other and our projects and our community. So in one word,
it was epic period. Wow, wow, wow, wow. It sounds like GF15, the DI round was super helpful for all of the orgs here and that's, I don't know, I have a background in DEI and one of my main goals in Web 3 is to
you know, foster diversity equity inclusion, foster diverse perspectives. So it's really rewarding that the company I work for participated and you know, our tooling can be of assistance to all these orgs as well. I think one thing that strikes me that I wanted to highlight and then you know, we can move on to the next question.
I just wanted to highlight, I don't love the word entrepreneurial, I have my feelings about it for brevity, I'll just use it. One thing that struck me was the entrepreneurial spirit of get coin and of all of you and of the space in general, we're really doing something powerful and it just
so incredible to see us all just like say raise your hand we want to do this thing and just put that out there into the universe and you know see that be rewarded in Web 3. I don't know I never pinned that in my brain but listening to you guys just really highlighted that for me so yeah just great job.
So if we have no other thoughts, Matt question, I'll move on to the next one. So the next question is can you tell the audience about your triumphs in any roadbonds? I think it's really important to highlight both just so people can learn, you know, if they want to do
if they're going to get coin alpha round or in get coin rounds moving forward, what can they expect post getting the grant, getting the crypto and then actually doing something with it?
Yeah, deeper ahead. Yeah, so as I said, we were completely funded by the get coin fundraiser that we did. So the first thing we did as as a thou is that once we received those funds, we needed to decide how to allocate these funds to carry out our activities. So we did budget allocation.
Basically, with all the contributors that were active at that point of time, since you understand and thou contributors keep moving in and out. So all the ones that were pretty active, we basically just took about a month's time to decide how to allocate these funds. And there were questions like, oh, should we have one?
rate across alt tasks or different rates or what about if somebody's from Mexico should we have a different rate for them than somebody from the US. So we we dealt with all those kind of questions and we basically came up with one rate across everything at least for the first season, you know, like whether you're from, you know, it doesn't matter where
you come from, it doesn't matter what task you're doing, the fact that you all all came together for this project when we had no funds, we need to recognize that and we need to award that spirit of coming together when there was no money. So let's just have one fixed rate for everything. So that was something we did for season one after we did our fundraise.
Amazing. Were there any, I'm curious, but were there any road maps? Oh, yeah, road bumps on the way. Road bumps in terms of the project execution. Yeah, I'm just curious if you guys ran into any snacks. I think that's really valuable. Oh, yeah, for instance,
I would say that Impact Down Media is one of the most high performing Dow because we did a complexion lot in six months period. We started in June with the first GR 14 and then we did GR 15 and as a Dow we've researched, did an intensive conversation based research with 12 Impact Downs, 30 Impact
Builders, we launched a podcast with 22 episodes which are basically really great authentic conversations with Builders in terms of you know what goes on when you have to scale a thou or how do you see the thou you know those kind of real conversations that only the founders and the contributors can share so those conversations we
We recorded as part of our research and now out is a podcast. We launched a podcast called All About Impact House and we wrote a book which is Impact House, the definitive guide to Impact House. I think we are one of the high performing dows and one of the things that I've learned because I've been a full time contributor and
the Dow mostly has been, you know, we had turned into contributors from all around the world, but they were part-time task-based contributors. So one of the roadblocks was the coordination nightmare that I had to go through because of being the only person with, you know, like the complete history of the
project, you know, because when you come as join, you need to onboard them, you need to get them up to speed with what's happened and sometimes I felt my days were just going coordinating, then doing the actual work, but then that's the part of being in a dialogue. Right now everything is experimental and you learn from your mistakes and you improvise.
In season two, we have a better plan. We're going to be using Wanderworths to decentralize at the pod level. So very, very excited about it. I'm actually started to translate on my task in Wanderworths. So I just want to make it more efficient moving forward.
everything automated as much as possible. Well, you know, we love to hear people using Monday. So we're so appreciative that you're trying out the platform and that you're exploring and, you know, being part of this community with us to build better coordination, better user flow because I
totally understand and feel like how it can be hard when you scale especially on a dow that you need to scale in a very specific way that a lot of you know historic tools don't really vibe with so I'm excited that you're gonna be checking out wonder let's go over to 40 acres and if anyone needs me to rephrase the question please let me know
Yeah, because I'm going because I want to really highlight everybody. We all can get like a spotlight. But yeah, the question basically, I don't just say it simply, can you tell the audience about any triumphs and any road bumps you've had?
Oh, most definitely. So, you know, immediately following our our get coin raise. We pretty much activated our our wonderverse, which means that, you know, our our bounty program went from I believe like four to 12 you kind
trying to get this trend of like just how exponential of an impact this get going round was for our community and I'd say probably the biggest triumph that we got that that we're really proud of is we we over double our contributor account.
And that's all happened organically by us first, you know, with the Twitter spaces, then with the medium articles, then with the strategic partnerships that snazzy, getcoin, grants around 15 sticker you get out on a wonderverse task and people were really
driven by the initiatives that we focus on as an impact out. So that was our biggest triumph, you know, recognizing that we're not on an island and we're not alone when it comes to doing the work. But some of our biggest
Yeah, we're going to call them robots. It's just the learning curve that's kind of, we're just going to have to attribute that to the web 3 space for as long as it's going to be looked at as a new thing, right? So getting people onboarded,
with their Web 3 wallets coming from traditional backgrounds or even non-technical ones for them to even be able to claim their bounties. It took some hammering out of processes and procedures that the doubt is not instilled as iterating one.
But, you know, we said we don't take ill, we turn them into learning experience and lessons. So that's really how we've been treating that. Yeah, and I really want to highlight some of the things you said because I think that what you're doing is so critical for the next year, especially in Web 3, we really have to figure out
How and we're thinking about this all the time at Wonder but like how do we make this experience user-friendly right how do you make Web 3 feel like a place you can call home rather than this like clunky experience where you're trying to make it work and it's scary and it's intimidating so you know
know, we are wondering, always thinking about that on our product meetings, just on like, you know, what we communicate to the public. So it's great to hear that and keep doing that because it's important work going over to Randi. Amazing. I love it. I love to hear everybody's success with the project for Blue
We had so many. We're really excited about all of the friends that we made along the way in collaborating with other organizations and learning about the impact that they're making. I think one of the most powerful things, of course, was the fact that the funding allowed us to power
Q4, Q1 of programming, which is really impactful for us. We're gearing up to celebrate our one year anniversary during ETH Denver. And so it's this round really allowed us to continue with our programming and support
and onboarding additional folks onto the space. So we're going to be over there with a nice group of 20 plus hackers. And we're excited about that. In terms of hiccups, it was definitely the reality of understanding the barriers to entry. You know, we have a very global
community and so supporting someone with making a donation, let's say in an area like Let's Him, you know, to donate $1 could cost $10, right? Because of the cost of gas fees, transactions based on where they're trading, et cetera, et cetera. And so, you know, realizing that there's
these real barriers that prevent communities from supporting the communities that they love and that they nor make an impact. So that was, you know, challenges that we had to overcome and luckily with the different communities that we collaborate
with, we were able to schedule programming around Zoom calls to onboard folks to support them with making their donations, Twitter spaces, so all that programming came as a result of the collaboration. So the hiccups turned to opportunities and the Trumps definitely
when beyond just the funding but more of the relationships that we build and the projects that we learned about and that our community learned about and also supported. One thing that's been very prominent in my mind recently is how important relationships are in community building it.
to anything, but especially in Web 3. And I think that's why for Wonder it was so important for us to be multi-chain or chain-agnostic because one thing I saw very early in my Web 3 journey was that most people can't afford $10 in gas, right? That's just not so much.
something feasible for a lot of people globally and even in the US where I'm located. So for me it's really important that we start to talk about Polygon and Optimism and Arbitron and we're seeing on the Wonder Platform a lot of adoption in those chains which is really exciting.
also seen a lot of adoption just on the on and off ramps to allow people to you know if they need to cash out to whatever local currency. They're able to do that without having to force port over to a serium L1. So just really exciting stuff and it's only still the beginning of really
the development of the L2 ecosystem and compatibility. So I'm excited that I'm wonder communities can, you know, do gases like we just want to make kudos which is gasless minting of a task. So it's really incredible. Over to Web 3 women. Thank you.
I believe I was in some meetings and I believe that there was a somewhat of an issue as it related to the transfer of the funds and that sort of triggered us to really think about how the organization should be structured whether it should be a limited liability corporation or whether it should be a nonprofit the timeline that it would take in order to get that set up so that we could receive the funds.
So perhaps that process could have been a little bit easier, but it did essentially allow us to really think about, okay, now we have the funds behind this initiative or this mandate that we had. How can we formalize what we've created? And so we sort of ended up working backwards. When you have the money, then you have to formalize.
And so that was a learning curve and a hiccup, but certainly something that I think we will overcome and we're excited for the future in our current state. Yeah, and I'm curious what are some of the successes that you guys have had over at or the Triumph, Triumphs you've had over at Web 3 Women?
Sure, so I mentioned our bounty program and with this bounty program, we're able to essentially put out projects that we need completed. So we have projects that require really advanced skills, skills with data visualization or research skills or even content marketing.
So we're able to create essentially ads for those who might be interested in participating and to distribute those funds in that way in a very equitable way. I know initially we had a discussion about should we, how far should we look back in terms of the contribution
of our community. Now that we have the funds and it's not just self-funded, should we be essentially rewarding those who have been putting in a lot of effort in the past and finding a way to quantify those efforts or should we just from date from this point forward distribute the
funds to those who essentially apply to our bounty programs. And we decided that the best thing, the most equitable thing, would be for us to continue with our bounty program so that everybody, not just the founders or those who have been here for a long time, have an opportunity to take advantage of those funds and to contribute to the community.
Oh wow, that's really interesting. I feel like there's a lot of contention about what equity looks like in terms of those type of decisions. So I really congratulate you for thinking deeply about that. Let's go over to Shanny.
So speaking kind of to the triumphs, I think what came out of this is that we realized that there is a lot of support for what it was that we're building with all in for sport. And it started us on this path of kicking off, starting up this
idea around this experiment that we wanted to do to see if we could create some type of perpetual funding mechanism for these sports projects. And so what we've done is actually reached out and partnered with GetCoin to build on their platform and are doing our own grants round starting in March
And so we have three community-based projects already that are on board. We've built this around the idea of court refurbishments because that's our wheelhouse is basketball. It's a very grassy overlap for us and a place where we feel comfortable. So we have three projects, one from the Philippines.
already committed and we have two that are going to be happening in the US committed. So that's kind of the big news that we have to share is that we will be launching these grounds rounds in January and or sorry March beginning of March on the new get coin protocol.
Wow amazing stuff. Yeah, I think it's so I just really want to like commend everyone for you know looking at the the road bumps and really turn those into opportunities. I am very much that kind of finds it as well where you know it's important to recognize the roadblocks but then think well what's the greatest solution to
to making this an opportunity. So just love that you guys have that mentality. It's super zero powerful mentality and it's going to lead to your success. Thank you so much. And I have to say I want to shout out, I know they may not be comfortable speaking, but I do have core members of our team on the call
People that have been very crucial in developing our governance, crucial in developing kind of how we plan this out, our strategy, and so I just wanted to open this space that if they wanted to speak. If you're part of one of the words that is speaking today, you can replace
now bring you up. I don't know what the limit for speakers. I don't think we're going to hit it yet. So, yes, please feel free to request, come up and speak your mind. We love more voices. So, yeah, I'm curious like, you know, what are all of your
next kind of like, what's the next six months look like for organizations? Are you personally in Web 3? Especially now that we're really in the low interest cycle. I'm just really curious where people's heads are at and what they're looking for to over the next three to six months.
Shanny go ahead. That's a great question and except that we've been talking about obviously a lot within our group, our goals, our audacious but we feel like really realistic so we're doing about three rounds probably through with our first
data rounds will and they'll be the court refurbishments and allow us to test and iterate and reiterate our model and then from there we'll be able to reach out and have projects submitted from more diverse communities and more globally to support things that are
happening at a community level. We're really passionate about finding ways to support those groups that know best what's in their community and then allowing them to find ways to activate it so that we can kind of do this conduit to funding that helps to make these projects happen. So that's kind of our next
six month road map. And that's just one piece of the perpetual funding mechanism that we're hoping to build out for all in for sport and the second portion that will be in development as well kind of behind the scenes is the design of a now in style NFT project as well.
We know we love an NFT project. I want to highlight something because I think I'm really bullish on impact as this year or another way of saying it's just Web 3 has a tool not the point. I think historically people got really
into these experiments, which is so valid, right? Experiments are exciting. I'm a scientist. I love to I love a good experiment, but I'm really excited to see all of the works here really working on like, okay, how do we actualize and you know make meaningful this technology that's so powerful?
for local communities, for national communities, for continental communities, and for global communities. What does that look like? And I think all of you are deeply addressing that. So I couldn't be more excited to know you guys as well as have you potentially in the wonderverse, but we're going to go over to 40.
Yeah, 40 acres, but sorry. I'm not I don't remember I would name when they said I sort of wrote it down
Now you're good, you're good. So yeah, a few things that we have on our plate for the next six months. Leave officially kicked off in our second.
I don't know, I think we think we got a rug.
I think I'll stick with what I know. We are laser focused on with our decentralized freedom fund helping to automate and improve the process of identifying who's eligible for bail because often
It's on it. It's in 254 unique counties. Most people might be able to build out of one county, but technically not be able to build out because they have a hold in another county that hasn't been communicated or is even noticed because they're not sharing the same data.
looking to break down those data silos, leverage blockchain technology and really scale, real impact to get more black parents back to their children. That's an issue that we deal with in San Amal and Dallas along. And then we're also looking with our literacy
of initiatives to lean deeper into the black belt region, which is the American Southeast. We've already curated our books list for our free libraries, but now we're looking to connect with mental health services and other non-traditional, you know, web three communities and really
find ways for us to leverage this technology to amplify the work that they do and come together and build more intentional and meaningful partnerships with these historically excluded communities. And then lastly, because this is a very shameless plug, we got some wonderful content coming soon.
our scribe gang publication is back for his second season. So our January newsletter will be dropping at the end of the month. It'll actually be written by a Wonderverse contributor by the name of Quinn. Shout sounds to Quinn. Oh my god, I love Quinn.
You see we got good companies. Just really looking to build on and develop deeper relationships is top of mind, but how we do that varies, guilt by guilt. So yeah. Amazing. So happy to hear that Quinn is linked with you guys and is contributing. Let's go over to Deepa.
Yeah, so as Impact Dawn media, a mission is to elevate the stories of Impact Dawn and in the process figure out the code for the future of organizing, we believe, you know, Impact Dawn is the way to organize for causes, Internet is just a more natural way for people to gather around the
shared purpose and a cause and so as impact on media we exclusively focused on impact house think of us as bankless media but for impact house space and and we're grounded in research so everything that we say is not with up you know being on the sidelines and making observations but also by living the
our lives ourselves as impact on media and also by conducting research intensive conversation based research with Dow founders and contributors because we want to gain understanding from both the contributors and founders that I feel like the contributor economy is going to be so big you know so it's very important to get
perspective in. So we want to be the definitive source of truth on impact, and continue with our research. Right now we put a book out which lists 12 case studies. So it's a dynamic book. It's not a static book. We are very aware that everything that we put out in a month's time, things are going to change because in crypto everything moves very fast.
So we want to continuously update that book and we've designed a special infrastructure for that like a tech and fraud that's on GitHub. We've translated our words into code and so it's a very collaborative approach to updating that impact house book and by the end of 2023 we want to list 30 case studies
like solid case studies of impact, how they operate as a Dow and how they accomplish their mission as a Dow and through that process we want to figure out what's an effective way of organizing on the internet. What's that sweet spot? Because it can be very chaotic. At times and coordination can
be a big nightmare. So what does it take to effectively organize on the internet is something that we are really driven to understand. And deeper follow-up question, could you define impactiles for folks who might not know what that means? Just for folks who want to be the audience, it might be new, I'm still listening in. Yeah, so impactiles are
social impact organizations that exist only on the internet. So think of them as nonprofits or social enterprises, which has both profit and purpose built into their core. The B-Corp is a good example of that. So yeah, as long as the mission is to do greater
good and to improve the lives of people and the planet. You are an impactile and impactile have unique characteristics. They are internet based organizations, they are distributed teams that decentralized decision making. So it's just a new operating framework altogether.
very different from traditional organizations. They don't use emails that often, you know, like the communication flow happens on different platforms, Telegram, Discord. You know, it's a very bounty-based, one of us is an amazing tool for task management
and just automating a lot of those processes. So it's a totally different game. It's a totally different operating framework and I think it's going to become a norm in the future. It's just that we are a subculture right now and we are running a grant experiment. All of us here as a DAO in terms of what that future is going to be.
So we are here to learn and not to judge. We are not here to judge at all with our research. We never judge. We just here to learn and share what we're learning. Amazing. Thank you for that. Those details. I love impact. So yeah, blue dot go ahead.
Yes, hi, hard to follow up on all that those amazing plans you all have coming up But with blue we're really excited in the next few months and the rest of the year to really focus on the E and DEI I think last year we were focused heavily
on diversity and representation with our Blue Hacks program sponsoring women to different Web 3 hackathons and events and just getting them interested in building something and ideating as a team. We are really just focused on getting women in the room, getting them in the places where these big decisions are being
being made and where these jobs are being recruited for and where these investments are being made. So having that actual representation RRL has been really, really important for us. And House had a really positive impact on a lot of the women that we've been able to sponsor.
And then now we're sort of trying to focus on, okay, you know, well, we put these women in a team, they built something really cool. It's a great idea. Now where comes the equity? Where comes the funding? And actually that's the trickiest part because in terms of getting equitable funding,
funding and investments for women-led teams or women-led organizations, you really have to go back and consider the DEI of that as well because when it comes to funding, the people who are in charge of the funding normally are not reflective of the greater
society and how diverse that is. And so now we're focused on, okay, how can we make investment firms more diverse? How can we infiltrate even further? So we're excited to begin focusing a little bit more on founders and investors
and that whole area and being able to bring the teams that we were formed last year to the next level and get them funding. Wow, yeah, I'm not sure if people saw some of the recent news and stats that came out of the adventure capital with the
lack of diversity in its, you know, recipients. I posted about that on my personal Twitter and also we've been talking about that internally at Wanderer. So it's really important to understand that, you know, things are not equitable, you know, don't get me sorry, an equity, but, you know,
It's going to be interesting to see how Web3 technology can help alleviate that a bit. We're already seeing that with all of these orgs how it can help, but also seeing how Web3 and this technology can create new amazing ideas that we can collectively support.
get on the airwaves for these people who generally don't fund diverse founders. So I'm really hopeful and excited that Web 3 might be a little piece of the solution. I'm going to be excited that Blue Dow is going to be a big part of that solution in your initiative. So yeah, let's go to Web 3 Women.
Thank you. So Web 3 Women in Science is working on a Web 3 Compensation Data Analysis in Partnerships X Collective. And this information is really critical for women in the space to be able to negotiate their salaries. We're really looking at, of course, structural reform. So part of that is being able to be transparent
about how people are being paid and now they're being paid perhaps differently. So the differential pay equity in the space. So that's one project that we're working on. Another project, which is one that I'm particularly leading, is we are looking at decentralized science conferences,
And we're going to be able to set up an in-person conference. And what we're trying to see is the extent to which women are represented and included as speakers. We want to see the types of topics that women are speaking about.
about whom the sponsors are. We want to get a sense of other diversity and equity factors. So essentially looking at whether the traditional patterns that we've seen in science, which would be the underrepresentation of women,
the limited inclusion of women in science, whether that has translated into the, um, into the web three space, our assumption would be that given the philosophy or the principles of web three, you know, the democratization of information, the large inclusion of everyone that it should be different, but it's hard sometimes
sometimes to break those entrenched patterns. So we really want to look at what is happening in terms of conferences. So those are just two things that we're looking at. Lots of other activities, like I said, liaisoning with other organizations that are doing amazing things in this space, making sure those connections are there and really trying to
I think that's a great way to motivate women in the space to ensure that they have equal opportunity just like the men. Yeah, and if I could add one thing on, you know, my history has, I was actually a chemist and I'm black and queer and I'm binary.
This is my personal belief, but I think that technology can be helpful, but ultimately it's a human problem. Right? And ultimately it's about personal and professional kind of existences. So for me, as someone who like built DI
a very conservative construction company. It is my belief that this is hard work, more than this is technological work, and that can be troubling because I can't force them to change their heart. But I'm excited.
that we're all working on it and finding different vantage points and collecting the data because the data is important to see. But I found that, you know, the data is always convincing of people to make effective change. So I'm excited to see what happens and I know I want to do questions about
people want to request, please request. But I'm just in loving this conversation so much and hearing from everybody. So I'm going to keep going. And if we don't get any requests, we'll just end the space with all the people up on stage. And I have one more question I want to ask, but we'll get to Shani. And then I'll go around with one more question.
I just kind of wanted to circle back a bit to what Web 3 women was saying in regards to, you know, the funding of women and women's, women's startups in general. And I think that what we're identifying here as a collective is just what is the future of work and what does that look like.
And you know, a lot of women's startups are typically in this social community, you know, public goods space in a way, which isn't necessarily a 100x company idea, but it doesn't mean that it doesn't have value and it doesn't mean that it doesn't have, it doesn't need to happen.
recognizing that and then building towards that future together is really where the magic begins to happen. And I think that's what we're talking about with all of the first four is what is the opportunity here to have real impact in communities and help build them at a real core foundational place?
and meet people where they are. Oh, amazing. Oh my god. This was such a good conversation. I'm living for all of your answers. So I, you know, in spirit of Dows, I won the last question I want to ask and something that's not my mind a lot. One of the reasons I joined Wonder is
Where can people go to start helping and to start participating in what you're doing because I think all the time back can be the hardest step in Web 3 is like, okay, well, I love what you know, blue tower Web 3 women in science or all of our sport or crowds house or you know 40
acres or impact. I love what they're doing, but how do I start doing and participating in being involved? So I would love to go around and just have you guys plug like where can people tap in? What's the best place for them to start? And how can they start getting involved in your worlds?
I can come next. I would say my DMs are open and send me a DM. We also have a discord that's where we collaborate but I don't want to share my discord link to open it. It's my only way of doing token gating. That's my token gating strategy. But coming to people
And they show up in a discord. We have about 150 people and they found us somehow and they're there in a discord. We also do call for contributors. So we're just kicking our season two, which we've been inviting next mature impact, to basically research and study.
We did a call for contributors and we got an amazing team of new contributors from all over the world from Czech Republic to Italy to London, who is part of our new season too. But there are more contributors.
And we're going to be using one of us extensively. We've had, as I said, coordination nightmarish thing last season, but we don't want to fall into that trap again. And so we are very committed to use one of us and list every single task up there.
So all the tasks will be visible and anybody who wants to come and help out is just feel free to just grab that task and just do it. So if you're interested in helping out with impact on media, just feel free to DM me. Amazing. How can folks who can just surround our prime four acres?
So, if you guys want to tap in with us, please visit our link in our bio. We have released the shackles from the gate, keep it, and we've opened our discord backup.
not sure how long that's going to last, so I just highly encourage people that want to connect with us to take advantage of that. So that's one way we do have our member slash contributor application and our link tree as well.
So if you want to sure fire response that's the route to go because we are heavy in our recruiting bag But we're also heavy in our partnerships back - so Yeah, we go we go form crazy a little bit guys because we have to
But yeah, all of that information is in our link tree and we're, you know, excited to build with folks that are aligned with the mission of making the blockchain more equitable for all. Amazing. Over to Randy.
Hey there, I'm so sorry I was expecting my blue towel, but it's too well to answer the question. So how to connect with us, yes we have our telegram that is super active. We do have a discord however our community is very active on telegram. If you're in the time we also
have a space for the town folks and we just launched Blue Africa. So we're excited about that and welcome anyone who's in that region to connect with us as well. We do have an IRL event in New York City on Monday the 30th. So if you are around town come check us out. We're partnering up with Tech
stars and following through with what our Blue Dow account, Daphne, mentioned with really providing the resources for our female founders, female plus, to get it to see that table. We're creating our own table. Damn it.
Yeah, definitely feel free to add anything else. Yeah, just to add you guys can go to blue dowd.com. Blue with the three always gotta say that. Blue with the three dowd.com and then we have our like contributors form as well. So if you want to get involved with our team, would love anyone
good marketing marketing and branding help guys. Okay. Thank you. Oh my gosh. I just love the bluedows taking over the world. We have you know blue the time. We have blue Africa like when blue Asia or a pack. Let's go. I'm super excited. Let's go to Web 3 Women and we'll end with Shanny.
So if you can go to womenandscience.xyz that's our website. You can also go to our Twitter at web through women and science. You can just click on the link here too as well. You'll find
our link tree, we have a discord, we have a telegram group, we have just about every means that you can communicate. So the website is a great place to start.
Last but not least. Yeah, oh, thanks. We we absolutely have our Twitter handle. Obviously all in for sport. You can do anyone can DM me personally and we can hook you in. We have a telegram in these early days of just everyone that's involved in in the building of what we're doing and
Absolutely invite anyone who has interest in this kind of sparks a place in your heart and you have somewhere that you'd like to contribute. We would welcome that. This was such an incredible space. I encourage everybody to share it out after we end it. You share it with your community is boost the signal of all these amazing organizations.
And I want to end that, like I said in the beginning, get coin we're going to be doing some retroactive grants for Jero 15 generally, but specifically for DEI. So I'm sure that when that launches, a lot of these amazing orgs will be applying in our new grant feature and hopefully getting some retroactive grants.
to continue building the world they want to see. So I just want to thank everybody for spending an hour with me for, you know, of course, Shilling Wonder when you can, but just checking out Wonder and helping us build the best product, the most valuable product for Web through communities, for Web through organizations, for DAOs, for digital communities, for
whatever we're doing. I'm always feeling blessed to be in the space with all of you. So I think that's it. I think that we're good and this was GER15DI retrospective and retroactive grants. Thanks everyone for coming.
Y'all have a great day. Thank you so much.