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Shill What You're Building: ENS x Octant Round!
Recorded: March 20, 2025 Duration: 1:14:42Space Recording
Short Summary
The Quadratic Finding Round has launched with an 80,000 USDC matching pool, showcasing a collaborative effort between ANS and Octant to support innovative projects in the Web3 space. With over $7 million in funding from Octant and various new initiatives like Kiwi News and Akra, the event highlights a growing trend towards sustainable funding and community engagement in the crypto ecosystem.
Full Transcription
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This is our first sales space for all of the amazing projects that are building in infra, utility and education in Web3.
And yeah, we are here to celebrate this project, hear their stories, what they are building,
why they are here, what impact they are bringing, and rally the support to them and help them
make Quadratic Finding a game changer.
And yeah, before we dive deeper, hit that retweet button to make sure that more people join and hear us out.
And yeah, before we dive into the show space, I just wanted to give some information about the round and it started two days ago and it's live until April 1st.
And yeah, it features a massive 80,000 USDC matching pool and here's huge thanks to Octant and ENS.
And yeah, we have Octant on the stage, Michelle, Wayne, I want to pass Mike over to you and yeah, maybe you
want to share a bit more about Octant, what you guys are building, how does it work, why
it matters and why you're here.
Yeah, of course.
Hi everyone.
I'm Michelle and I head marketing at Octant. And a little
bit about us if you're not familiar. So we use staking rewards to fund public goods.
We fund it, I'd say over $7 million in funding over the last year and a half just through
staking rewards. And what we're building through our protocol launch is really allowing other ecosystems to benefit from capital accumulation and allocation strategies.
And so really just leveling up instead of being limited
to GLM tokens and Ether rewards,
really just broadening that up.
So yeah, that's a little bit about us.
And we're quite experimental
and we have a few different formats for funding.
We have a regular epochs, but we also do funding rounds and this is one of the best examples
where we funded this round together with our friends at ENS through Giveth and we've actually
had Giveth be an epoch grantee in the past too and an epoch is just our term for a funding
round that's in a 90 day period.
So if you're interested, please go and follow our Twitter. We host a lot of events, we're constantly doing a bunch of things, and if you ever want to learn
more about public goods, about I'd say like just sustainability and just builder stuff,
go follow the account because we're so active on it and are constantly sharing opportunities
and everything else that we are participating or organizing
or in some shape or form are a part of.
Thank you, Michelle.
That's amazing and I super love that
we have been friends with Octant for so long.
And yeah, huge thanks for supporting this round
and for helping projects
thrive and get some funding that is so important.
And yeah, I will go over to showing projects just in a bit.
Just wanted to iterate a couple of things for everyone about this round.
And yeah, please remember that you can donate on any giver supported network.
We also have been recently supporting Stellar and Solana apart from all the EVMs.
And yeah, another super important thing is that you can get rewarded by donating to projects that are givebacks eligible projects. So if you donate more than $5
to any giveback eligible projects, you will be entered into a givebacks raffle and yeah,
you can win some give there. And also another thing that you should remember if you are holding any given, you are staking it.
You can boost visibility for projects using gift power.
And yeah, basically more boosts, more eyes the projects have on their projects.
And yeah, I'm ready to start the show space.
And I want to remind all of the projects that please
pin a tweet about your project so people can easily find you and yeah drop some links in the
comments and the most important, retweet the space so more people can join. Cool, so let's dive in
here what you guys are building and the first speaker that we have up on the stage
is Mac from Kiwi News.
Over to you.
Oh wait, I think he needs to ask again to speak.
Okay.
I just-
Sorry. Okay, cool.
So while we're waiting for...
Okay, he's connecting. OK, cool. So while we're waiting for, OK, he's connecting.
Hey, Mark.
Jim.
Yeah.
Yeah, it works perfectly.
Yeah, hello, hello.
So yeah, how much time do we have?
Because I don't want to speak too much.
Yeah, let's say two, three minutes.
Okay.
Okay. Sure. So yeah, like, QB, it's like a space for people who
care about Ethereum beyond the price and trading. It's
primarily for people who either are very interested in Ethereum
or work in Ethereum. So it's a place where we have, you know,
about like over a hundred Ethereum power users every month
who go through hundreds of tweaks, blog posts,
dashboards, newsletters, products, and so on
to find the ones that stand out and might be interesting
to people who are into Ethereum.
So everyone can join and start sharing links
to all these cool things built on Ethereum.
Everyone can upvote things so they can go further up,
kind of like on Reddit, or discuss them with our community.
So it's kind of like, you could think of it
like a decentralized online magazine about Ethereum,
but we don't have like original content.
You don't post like on Twitter, you don't post tweets,
you just find external links
because we believe that internet is about links.
And in the last few years,
because of social media that has been limiting
the links reach on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram,
the internet became more closed
and we just want to build an alternative.
And on top of that, we also do writing contests
about important Ethereum subjects.
We did one about L2s where we got
submissions from Marek, who's a co-founder of Celo, Simon de la Rouviere, who was co-inventor
of ERC20 from Jason Traskin from EF, and we even got a prompt from Vitalik for that contest. So,
we felt like that was really something that catched an important subject.
And also like QE, like we are very decentralized,
decentralization focused.
So all our data, so all links, all upvotes, all comments,
everything is stored on a peer-to-peer network.
So if you are familiar with Farcaster,
it's a similar design, though much simpler because we
store less things. And that means if you don't like our app, you can start your own app. You can
vibe code with, you know, Replic or Courser or like whatever you want. And we already have some apps.
There's one alternative client built by one of our users. So they have different moderation, different algorithm, different design, because they like it more or and there's also like a search app.
So you can go through over 13,000 Ethereum related links that we stored and over 4,000
comments and find things that you are interested in. Yeah, so basically this is it.
Cool, so you basically can build like far caster frames
from what I understood on Kiwi, right?
And make your own instance.
Well, far caster frame you can actually build.
Yeah, we have not, well, we built some frames
but not for KiE in particular.
But yeah, I think you could build a frame
to interact with QE.
You can also build your own app.
So our app is on queues.xyz,
but if you go to queues.lol,
then there's like another app to use QE.
But you log in with the same wallet
and you have the same content there.
And yeah, maybe you can share just a bit
for the last 30 seconds.
What are some of the common features
or things that you guys are looking to build
and how the community can help you during this round
and why they should support you?
So there are two things.
One, we want to improve comments.
So they are closer to like telegram experience.
So they're like super fast to write and very nice to do.
Because the more comments we have,
the more conversation we have.
And that provides contests to link.
So if you share a link to EIP and you
can read the conversation, it's easier to understand it.
And the other thing, we want to improve our iOS app
because we want to reach consumers who right now,
if they land on crypto Twitter,
and the first thing they see
when they want to follow Ethereum,
it's like not the best place to start, I would say,
because there's a lot of noise and a lot of KOLs filling different
stuff and we just want to reach these people who are just interested about Ethereum so
they can open App Store and just get our app and get access to high quality content.
Great.
Cool.
Thanks, Mark.
Please don't forget to pin the tweet and also share some links in the comments.
I'm not sure if you did, but the pin tweet I cannot see.
So yeah, please make sure you do so more projects can see what you're building.
And thanks so much for coming up on the stage. Joining us now is Dan from GasHawk. It's super great to have you here.
Can you please tell us what GasHawk is doing and what is the problem that you are addressing in
the Web3 ecosystem? Absolutely. Thanks for having me up here and thanks for supporting GasHawk.
Yeah, I'll give a kind of a general brief overview of where we started, where we are, and where we're going.
I'm obviously happy to answer any questions.
We started Gaslok about a year and a half ago with the thesis that by introducing latency,
we could intelligently time transaction posting and submission in a much more efficient way.
We really wanted to do this by creating an RPC
that allowed individual users, dApps, wallets,
chains, and enterprise clients in order to intelligently
submit their transactions in a much more efficient manner.
And what I mean by that is a user can simply set a time deadline with us,
could be seconds, minutes, hours, days,
doesn't matter to us what you're doing on chain,
could be minting, swapping, trading, posting to a day later, et cetera.
And we'll assure that that hits the chain
in the most optimal timeframe that you select.
To date, we serve about roughly around 10,000 individual retail customers
via one click add to wallet,
and then enterprise clients for our SDK and API.
We're currently wallet agnostic.
You can add us to whatever wallet that you prefer,
whether it's Metamask, Rabby, Rainbow, Phantom, Backpack, etc.
DAP agnostic, just simply adjust your deadline
depending on what DAP you're interacting with.
And then soon to be additional chain agnostic
where we're live on mainnet, op mainnet, base and Sepulia.
So we initially wanted to provide a suite of services
that sat between users and devs and their desired DAP or chain.
And I'm now added on additional services to our transaction saving services,
such as MEV protection, transaction management services, cash back rewards
and rebates, preventing failed and stuck transactions, scan for out that
protection, et cetera.
We provide multiple private mempool options for our individuals to use,
as well as our enterprise clients, such as Flashbots, MEV Blocker, Merkle, etc. Additionally, we can also capture the MEV
for our users and provide additional rebates for rewards on top of our other benefits.
We recently raised a $1.6 million dollar pre-seed round in September, backed by a bunch of amazing
angels and public goods providers. And the future vision for Gaslok is essentially somewhat as
follows. We believe that the atomic unit in crypto is a transaction, meaning you can't do
anything without doing a transaction, whether that's a buy, a sell, a swap, a mint, a deploy,
a bridge, sponsoring transactions, etc. Essentially what we build is proprietary algorithms that allow
us to interact on chain cheaper than anyone else for roughly about 99% of use cases. And we're now
expanding into additional services utilizing our core IP underneath the hood
for things such as block space derivatives, solvers, paymasters, bundlers, and relayers.
Cool, great. That's amazing stuff that your guys are building and congrats on the round that you raised. And I hope that also this quadratic funding round
brings a lot of support to you and what you guys are building.
And yeah, thanks again.
And we have next up on the stage is the team from Common Ground.
Could you please intro yourself and explain to us how
Common Ground is contributing to Web3?
Sure. Hi, here's Florian from Common Ground.
Super excited that we've, you know, that we're eligible for this round, that we can
participate. It's our first time and we've been actually building a public
goods-oriented communications platform for communities and the ecosystems It's our first time. We've been actually building a public goods oriented
communications platform for
communities and the ecosystems that they are a part of.
For three years, it's a pretty mature app actually at this point.
You can start using it today.
It's app.cg.
Cg stands for common ground, so it's a very short URL, app.cg.
And you can just create a community with one click. The app looks kind of like Discord,
but the big difference is that it has Web3 native identity, Web3 native token gating,
and a lot of the things that you can partially only retrofit
in Discord with bots.
They are available out of the box.
You don't need to be technical to make it work.
It's really easy.
And overall, you can say that we've put a lot of work into the ease of use aspect of
the app because we understand that the translation from these deep technical concepts into the mainstream
consumer market has been neglected over the last 10 years.
We put a lot of work in that.
So who's our target user?
It's really anyone who's building a project, who's building a community, who's building
a DAO, who's building really anything on the internet.
And obviously, our initial target group are people who are immediately affiliated with
Web3 technology. But we've built it with this idea in mind that anyone should be able to use it,
even if you've never heard of crypto. You don't need to use any of the token features we've
integrated. You can use it as a Web2 community or ecosystem too.
So it's really multifaceted and it's such a good opportunity that we are allowed to be in this route now
because we've done something I think pretty big just now,
which is after three years of building around these paradigms I just described,
we've now introduced plugins. And plugins is absolutely mind blowing to me. You can basically
execute any web 3 app or non web 3 app inside the context of your community now, meaning that
Common Ground really becomes like a social chrome to your actual product.
And that can be anything.
It can be a governance tool.
It can be a game that, you know, mint an NFT every time you kill a zombie.
And then the role, the token that you own is tied to a role in the community.
So the moment you level up, new chats unlock in the sidebar while you play the game. It's an insane experience that is possible since yesterday
when we shipped this.
But it really builds on three years of insane work,
like really deep browser work.
We ship everything in the browser,
but we have a mobile app.
It uses PWA technology.
It has native push notifications.
It is a full first-class mobile app experience,
but entirely outside of the confines of Apple and Google.
And as I mentioned in the beginning, we're user-owned.
That's actually true in our case.
We are organized as a not-for-profit association at the moment.
And our goal is to add a cooperative to the mix down the road
that is just going a cooperative to the mix
down the road that is just going to have all the users who
want to be invested in this platform
from a governance perspective, co-initiative perspective,
can be in there.
And then from there, we want to build true user-owned digital
infrastructure and sort of blend on-chain stuff
with innovative legal structures in order
to have a really resilient platform that can
onboard Web2 and Web3 alike.
So that's us and we'd love any support in this round.
We are entirely financed through the goodwill of people.
We've raised a total of about a million and a half over the last three years from angels.
So people who have built Ethereum itself in 2014 and
became quite wealthy from that or people who've had amazing successes over the last 10 years
and they were kind enough to support us. So that's us and happy to answer any questions
here or on common ground. You can find us there. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Fabian. And yeah, please don't forget to pin the tweets here in the space so more people can find information about you and go over and support the amazing stuff that you guys are building. And yeah, before we go over to the next project, we actually have up on the stage,
So from ENS DAO. Hey man, welcome to the space and that's super, super awesome to have you guys
support this round together with Octant. And yeah, wanted to ask you to share a bit more about ENS DAO. For sure, lots of people know you guys, but still, it would be great to hear.
Yeah, absolutely. No, I'm glad to be here and glad to be representing
and appreciate the partnership between Octant and Giveth with ENS DAO to put this on.
So, you know, at a high level, I think everyone's very familiar with ENS.
You know, I'm probably biased in this opinion, but I think we're fairly foundational infrastructure
to the Ethereum stack.
ENS has been around for some time.
We've been in established DAO for some time.
And as we look at growing our presence not only in the Ethereum mainnet ecosystem, we're
seeing some horizontal expansion that way as you look at, you know, base names and kind of these other names that, you know, ENS is the technology that ultimately underlies
that.
ENS DAO has different working groups.
So I'm a part of the public goods stewards working group, which is very aligned with
kind of like the values of giveth and octant.
I also am head of grants over at Gitcoin.
So when it comes to being kind of like a public goods
or good proponent, I think I fit the criteria that way.
I was elected as one of the public goods delegates
just this year.
And I serve with Simona and Coltrane
who have both been public goods delegates for some time.
So yeah, excited to be here,
very familiar with quadratic funding
and how that mechanism works.
And we saw a ton of interest in the round in terms of applications that came in.
We worked to take a look at all those applications and kind of score them in the way that
Giveth does with these rounds that you run at scale. And super excited to see all the
people up here on stage and talking about their projects. Great, thank you. And yeah, that's amazing stuff,
how you guys are involved into public good space.
So I wanted to ask you if you could solve one big problem
in the public good space, what would it be?
Yeah, I think that the biggest challenge
that I see out there is the fact that
I'm a big proponent of open source software. When you look at human progress over the last few decades, so much of it has been driven
by the growth of open source software and the connectivity that the internet brings us.
For me, I personally believe that crypto and everything that crypto represents on
the original ethos of
crypto is really a continuation of kind of the open source software movement, right? But in that,
there are challenges in creating sustainability around that, right? Because if things are open
source, you can easily fork them and, you know, build on top of them. But it can be hard to create
kind of like sustainable strategies around how you fund those
types of things, right? So I think that in many ways what we're doing here today is a big, you know,
a way that I think we're working to kind of solve for some of the challenges around public goods.
It's like public goods are good, but if you look in, you know, the real world, right, you're seeing
that many of our public goods and infrastructure
and things in some countries are underfunded and they're crumbling.
And I worry that the same can happen in the digital realm.
And if you look at the history of the internet, much of the internet is built on these open
source protocols, but many of them are still underfunded and under incentivized for the
work that they provide.
So that's a big reason that I got into the work that I do today with Gitcoin and just
kind of around public goods is I think that there's so much potential in being able to
use crypto and different types of funding mechanisms and approaches and really expand the design space around that to create better sustainability around public goods.
Thank you so and yeah, thanks for this answer.
I mean, open source is totally one of the main things driving technology these days
and always been.
And yeah, thanks again to you and to Iainz Dahl
for supporting this round.
And yeah, this is basically something
that helps open source projects thrive
and we are now contributing directly to it.
And super appreciating that.
And yeah, gonna go back to the Shilling space
and yeah, we have the next project up on the stage and it's
nation black flag and we have Rene please come up on the stage and tell us a bit more about what
you guys are doing. GM, GM everyone can you listen to me great? Yeah. Thank you for sharing. Thank you
for doing this space for us it's very very important in the Latin America community and all the public goods community because it's the space to more people try to know more about our projects and what is the project we are building. The first is Nasion Block Flag, as you said, but I'm involved with MidWit.
It's the, MidWit is the best, I think it's the best.
I don't know, it's only my bias,
but it's the best tooling for scheduling the WebTree.
We are trying to resolve a different ways
because for now a lot of people in WebTree space
still use currently.
It's not a bad tooling,
but it's not a tool with this focus of WebTree
and the WebTree necessities.
For us, it's very important to resolve this thing.
We are building as two years ago, I think,
or three, I don't remember well.
And Dan is in the space, maybe he can tell more about this.
But the idea to solve this thing is to try to build the best tool
from the WebTree users.
We try to resolve different things to...
You can easily schedule with your partners
because today we have different tools.
We have led us to try to connect
or to try to schedule one hour
between different people in Meet With.
We will resolve this with the groups of meetings for all the
people who try to schedule these things. We will build in the next month, this is an alpha 2,
we'll try to resolve the paid meetings.
We will do this and please, if you support our project,
we can build these things and we can keep this
as a pool good, right?
Because the idea is to, at the first of all,
we have a free member version
and you can use it without pay it.
And this is the big idea of MiWit.
I hope you understand what is the old idea I tried to share,
but if you have a few questions,
I posted the proposal in the chat
and let me pin in the space.
Let me talk about very shortly with the NaciΓ³n Black Flag.
NaciΓ³n Black Flag, it's a proto...
Sorry, sorry.
No, no, no.
Please go, please go.
NaciΓ³n Black Flag, it's a proto-dial of Black Flag Dial.
It's the new naming of the bankless Dow.
The idea with the NaciΓ³n Black Flag is to try to involve more people in the web-trade space.
For now, we have in the past month, the last collaboration with the NaciΓ³n,
I'm sorry, with the Nouns Dow Amigos amigos, it's a prototype of NounsDao,
because we are building the best space
to learn about the WebTree.
We have the idea to, as a public good,
we have the idea to share all the knowledge
and all the correct path and try to build without
with a different alliance in the different Latin American communities to make the best
path to build because we see in Latin America a lot of potential.
We know a lot of many great builders,
and the idea is to build the space to the newbies
become in this space and try to connect to the idea,
to the hacker, to a builder,
to be a builder on something like this.
And this is the big idea to share on Black Flag.
And please, I will share you the proposal in the comments
to you can read more about this.
Amazing, thank you, Rene.
And a lot of the impact that you guys
are bringing to the space.
And thanks so much for doing so many initiatives
and for pushing Web3 in Latam.
That is definitely something super important
and appreciate you lots.
And we have up on the stage, Maxi from Banda Web3.
Pleasure to have you here. Please intro Bandawave3. Don't forget to pin the tweet and add one into the comments. And yeah, please share about why this
round is important for you. Hi, thank you very much. I hope you can hear me. Thanks for organizing
this space. I'm representing Ethereum Mexico. Bandawave3 is my personal product, but it's not in this round.
I am part of the team that's running the community of one of the Ethereum communities in Mexico.
We're called Ethereum Mexico and we are a public good that organizes IRL events.
We've been doing IRL events for more than two years now.
We do events, we do workshops in person, virtual.
We just ran a Viving Code with Procter,
which is another really cool community here in Mexico.
Education, we do collaborations with other organizations.
We help them organize events here in Mexico.
We also try to bring
opportunities and scholarships to enthusiasts that are trying to learn about technology.
We do school partnerships. We go and talk in universities. One of our biggest projects that
we have is the annual event that we run. We've done two now.
We ran an event which was called Dream Mexico in 2023 in Mexico City.
In 2024, we did an event in Merida, Yucatan,
the south of Mexico, which was really,
really cool and one of the best convention centers I've been at.
This year, we're running our third edition of Dream Mexico 2025 2025 and it's gonna be in Monterrey, Mexico, the northeast part of
Mexico. We're really close to Texas. We're running a hackathon with the
universities, with local companies, with a lot of big, big, big sponsors that we've
worked with throughout the years. We love to do these events and this year is gonna be
a huge, huge hackathon that Monterrey for sure needs.
And I love that it's been running Monterrey
because that's the city you live in.
We're surrounded by mountains and I love it.
Thank you for the opportunity to talk.
Oh, sorry for breaking up.
Wanted to ask how many people you are thinking
to have in the hackathon?
Excellent question. We want to run a
conference day and then two days of hackathon. We're expecting at least 1,000 participants in this conference and in the hackathon.
Wow. Last year we had almost 600 and no, almost 700 people and the year before I think a little bit more.
Mexico City is a much
bigger city. Monterrey we're expecting at least 1 000 people. Amazing, amazing. That's super great
stuff and yeah I super love that you guys are doing so much for the builders in the space and that you're expanding the Web3 education in Latam.
And thanks again, Maxi.
And yeah, we have-
Thank you for having me.
We have next the borderless dev top.
Please share with us what you guys are doing,
pin the tweets.
Maybe you can tell us what kind of impact would 1,000 USDC donations make for your project.
Thank you so much. I just want to be sure if you can hear me sometimes my ex acts up. Can anybody hear me? Oh great, thank you,
thank you, thank you so much. So first a really big thank you to Givet for the opportunity,
a really big thank you to ENS and a very big thank you to Octant. Octant has been supporting us
since last year and it's been a really beautiful journey.
So before I go on to talk about what $1,000 could do for us,
I wanna give a brief into our journey
from last year into this year.
Bolo said in 2022, and we said,
because we wanted to solve the problem
of developing the earth in
Africa and Nigerians and
building projects here back then in 2021 was really difficult because you couldn't find the
Really competent developers to build it and so in 2022 I said, oh, let's let's that reason there's
In 2022, I said, oh, let's start using Devs.
A lot of people just knew about crypto
and the airdrop part of it and the trading part.
But not a lot of people knew how to really build.
And so we started and we said we were
going to focus in the university ecosystems
because they had a lot of the young people.
And essentially, we started, but less with just a laptop
and a domain name.
We didn't have a hub.
We didn't have lots of team members working with us.
And we got our first grant from a blockchain,
which was our grand blockchain.
And from there, we were able to get a hub.
And the following year, 2023, we started
something called Tech Clubs.
We started creating communities of our three tech clubs
in different universities in Nigeria.
And the goal of that was so that we
could begin establishing physical hubs
in those universities.
And the program ran for a year, and it was so effective
that when we got funds from Octant last year in one of
that epoch, we were able to build a hub in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
It was three hubs and that's the first physical web hub that has been built in that school
and that's the oldest school in Nigeria.
The oldest in Nigeria didn't really, a tech hub or so.
So, wireless is the first one there.
And from there, developers are working, joining hackathons,
joining Cypher sessions, creating products,
launching products, collaborating, building in Web3,
you know, and a lot of synergy is going on at the,
you know, the whole physical space
So one of the some of the things that we do is
we provide
Trainings education trainings educational trainings for developers help work to developers transition to the tree and
Apart from those trainings. We also begin to help build as build in the ecosystem. So
we also begin to help builders build in the ecosystem.
So we go from raising developers to also raising builders
and teaching them how to launch their own project.
And one of our greatest milestone
is being able to run a round during the coming GD23.
And most of the builders we've been raising
are now understanding how to sort of like apply
to raise funds for their projects
and also learn about public goods.
So it's been a really great journey of growth for us.
And I think what $1,000 would do for us would be to solve a problem of tracking
our on-chain results. So we built a tool called ByteOnchain and what ByteOnchain does is
onboard users.
So it's sort of like a verifiable way to onboard somebody
who didn't know how to use a wallet, anything at all,
who didn't know how to pay a transaction.
From that stage to being able to sign an attestation
on chain and have a proof of being onboarded.
That's one thing Byte on Chain is used for.
The other thing it's also
useful is education. So you have courses, we have courses, we have three courses on BITE on Chain
and after a user takes those courses, they answer some quiz questions and then they're able to sign
the attestation of those quiz on chain. So it works two ways, an onboarding tool
and also a web3 education tool.
So the $1,000 would help us launch our product.
We've tested it, we have over 180 users right now,
constantly getting onboarded.
Events, various events in web3 space use the tool.
So once we have $1,000, we'll use it to work on our UI,
work on our marketing, and then also have more onboarding
events for newbies to get into the podless ecosystem,
the public-use ecosystem, and Web3 at large.
And the really good thing that that would do for us is help us have a very viable on-chain
metric. So if we want to say, oh, this year we brought in 2,000 people, we can just send a link
and you can see the 2,000 people that got onboarded, two of three,
through Byte On-Chain.
So that's one of the greatest things that it does for us.
So yeah, that's about it for the list.
Thank you so much.
Thank you as well so much.
And yeah, a lot of the work that you are doing and thanks for this.
And actually we have the next project up on the stage that is also doing lots of impact in Africa.
And yeah, I want to pull up next is Akra.
GM, GM everyone. Can you hear me?
Yep. Amazing. Amazing. Thank you so much for this opportunity to talk about a little bit about what we are doing here in Ghana. So yes, a little bit
about our story. In 2023, we started a mission to empower young onions with
plug-in technology.
Realized that a lot of them, they really know a lot about their
career paths, what's to choose.
Uh, most developers were going, you know, a straight, they like to
use, do things that give them, you know, quick money and all that.
But we decided that, no, let's create a hub
where people can actually learn about Web3,
about blockchain technology, about Ethereum the right way.
So we started our journey to E2E3.
We had the first hackathon.
It was a very successful hackathon.
We got a number of generous donors to support the hackathon. We got a number of generous donors to support the hackathon. We had over 100
people in the first hackathon. And that impact or the impacts from that first hackathon spread
us to do more. So in 2024, which is last year, we had another hackathon. The most important thing about what the work that we do is not just about the hackathon.
The hackathon is like the ultimate or the climax of all the events or all the initiatives we've
been doing. We started an initiative called Solidity. Initially it was called Solidity
Fridays, but now it's called Solidity Mondays, where we teach
young Web2 developers how to create their first DAP for free. It's totally free.
It's done on a bi-weekly basis. We teach them from scratch, introduction to blockchain technology,
the evolution of the internet from Web1 to Web three, all the way to them creating their first smart contracts
and actually having dapps that they can ship, right?
We've done this since 2023,
and it has been really successful.
We've seen a lot of young Ghanaian developers
creating their own projects.
There are a couple that have gone on to raise
funding by themselves. So we are seeing the impact of the initiatives that we are running.
We had a couple of our community members from Itagra go to Defqon in Thailand, we had a couple of them go to Ethiopia and all of them, when they
go out there, they're able to compete, they're able to win something.
And that's the most important thing for us.
We know that we are building something that is great.
We are empowering people.
We are giving people new career paths.
We are helping them to discover themselves, right?
Even though our name is called Itacra, so for those who don't know, Acra is the capital city
of Ghana and even though it's called Itacra, we are not limited to just Acra, we are all over the
country. We've commenced our campus tours also totally free. We don't take any money whatsoever.
We'll be having our first session of the Zero to Dab. That's the name of the workshop. It's a two
day workshop. We'll be having it on Friday and Saturday. So this Friday, Saturday will be at one
of the biggest universities in Ghana. We'll be having a two-day workshop over there.
After that, we'll be having comments,
a series of university tours across Ghana.
And we're really excited to do it.
We've gotten so much feedback from the participants
that they wish that we'll be coming there more often.
So we are also balancing it with the virtual sessions as well.
So we're able to have a balance for those who may not be able to come in person.
We're able to have the virtual session for them as well.
So it's been amazing.
It's been amazing so far.
We've gotten support from Liz,
from ESP,
from so many other sponsors in the past.
We are looking forward to making this year's hackathon,
the ETHQRA hackathon 2025, the biggest ever.
We are expecting over thousands of applications this year.
So yeah, we are really, we're pretty pumped up for that.
We are working as I said with the campus stores
just to get the word out there in anticipation
for September 10th to 6th,
10th September to 6th September, I beg your pardon.
That's when the hackathon will be happening.
We encourage all those on the space,
come to Africa, come to Ghana, come to Accra, come and experience the culture, come and experience the young talent over here.
And yes, we also ask for the support, not just in terms of the funding, but also in helping to spread the word, if you're an expert,
you wanna come speak at the hackathon.
We have a two-day conference before the hackathon.
So you're also invited to do that as well.
Our website is being updated currently,
but it will be live very, very soon.
Hopefully within the next week.
So you'll be able to contribute in that sense as well.
I'm really excited for Africa.
Africa has been dubbed an emerging market,
emerging hub for blockchain technology.
So we're excited about the work that we're doing,
even though we may not see a whole lot of news or,
you know, a whole lot of news about it now you'll be definitely
seeing it in the next few years and that's that's one thing that keeps us
passionate and happy to do the work that we do thank you so much.
Thank you I love what what you guys are doing and really appreciate that we have so many projects
that are spreading the Web3 education in emerging countries.
And yeah, it's always been something that's connecting me to all of these projects
that are trying to spread the Web3 world and onboard more people and make the space
more diverse. Thank you so much. Please make sure to pin the tweets so more people can learn about
the hackathon that you are doing in Ghana and all the workshops that you guys are hosting.
and all the workshops that you guys are hosting.
And we have next project up on the stage and it's Atlantis.
Please, you have a mic for a couple of minutes, share what you guys are building.
Don't forget to pin the tweet.
Over to you, Atlantis.
Not sure if you un-muted or you have some issues.
We'll try to get back to you after and we're going to move forward then and pass the mic to CryptoKonexion and we have Monika.
Jam jam. I'm so inspired listening. Can you hear me?
Yeah, jam jam.
Jam jam. So inspired to hearing some great projects we know very well that we worked with and just the impact across, as you said, right, the global impact. So, excited to be here. And like you said,
I'm with Crypto Conexion. We started the project October 31st, 2021, and have been working to
create quality content in Spanish. Since then, we have more than 100 tutorials. We also do a lot
of partnerships and collaborations. A lot of our partners are here, Nacion Black Flag.
We do a lot with Meteor in Mexico
and many other projects in the region.
So excited to see that they're also part of the round.
And we continue to be focused on supporting people
wherever they are in their journey.
Currently, we are doing two programs.
Next week, we're doing a program
to help more Spanish language developers. Sorry if you dog is crying, there's somebody at the door.
More Web3 developers have a presence online and then after that we're doing our second
cohort of Agent Camp with a community that I think Ithera Mexico mentioned called Frutero
Club, it's a community of more than 200 developers in the region.
And we are doing our second cohort of agent camp
and the first one we had around 100 people.
But one of the most beautiful parts of that initiative
was that we had more than 18 communities
supporting the effort.
And we're also focused on gender equity.
We do a lot of programs with women and we'll continue to do that.
We did our first hackathon last year with Arbitrum where we had women from Africa and
from Latin America participate for a month long initiative.
So excited to be here.
Want to continue to do more and contribute to support developers and builders in the region
and then onboard more people to Web3. And Lady is also trying to talk here.
Thank you, Monika. Please don't forget to pin the tweets and add some links to the comments.
And wow, so excited about all of the education-related projects that we have in this round.
And yeah, this is super amazing.
I'm gonna pass it over to OrbitDB if we have you guys up on the stage.
I think they're having trouble of joining. Maybe we can contact Atlantis and then see if they can go back.
Yeah. Let's see if Atlantis can share what you guys are doing.
Hey guys, can you hear me?
Yeah, Jim.
Hey everyone, I'm Ritu from Atlantis.
First, I would like to thank you all for hosting this space.
Basically, Atlantis is a peer-to-peer impact network
that builds coordination tech,
coordination tech that accelerates climate action and social impact.
We've built a bunch of tools to make this large-scale coordination happen.
It includes tools to monitor,
verify, and tokenize impact assets and claims.
We started this project in 23 and we have so far
developed four different applications.
The first being Impact Miner.
It's a mobile native app where
users earn from completing climate bounties.
It's available both on iOS and Android.
We have more than 4,500 users today
who are earning from the app.
The second app that we built is, we launched it recently.
It's called Foundry.
It's a web app for impact projects to manage their grants
that they win and generate impact reports leveraging EAS.
So a bunch of attestation schemas are there that makes it super interesting.
And a third product that we have been developing is called Alfred. It's an open source AI agent who
helps all these region projects generate gamified climate bounties, helping them put different tasks for
their local communities to come together
and tackle the local climate challenges.
Lastly, in April, we'll be launching
something called as Landscapes.
It's a platform where region projects can raise
funding for their projects through
a very gamified interface.
A lot of these apps that we have developed,
we have a backend infrastructure now,
which we are also leveraging out to other region projects.
For example, we are helping this project called
Urbanica developer region marketplace,
and they're leveraging the identity and incentive layer
that we have built at Atlantis. So yeah, these are some of incentive layer that we have built at Atlantis.
So yeah, these are some of the apps that we have built.
And in the real world,
a lot of this is getting battle tested today.
We have helped villages in India tackle water crisis
using this tech.
We have our tech being used in Brazil, in Turkey, in Africa.
So it's been an interesting journey for the last two years
and we have built all of this
with the support of the TM community.
And yeah, rounds like this and give it an opt-in
is a lifeline for our project.
So we hope to see many of you support us in this journey.
Yeah, thank you.
Thank you so much.
Please make sure you pin the tweet and share one in the comments.
Yeah, retweet also some of the things, also this Twitter space
to make sure more people can hear and see what is happening here.
I want to pass it over to Kotabe.
And yeah, please show us Pear Rice and Unicorn
and what is being built there.
Yeah, amazing. Do you hear me?
Yeah, Jim.
Okay, wonderful. Jim, Jim, guys, how are you doing?
So I'll try to be brief.
I know we have a little time,
and I don't know if there's someone after me.
So for those that don't know about Pairwise,
Pairwise is a tool that was created in General Magic,
and it's basically Tinder for grants.
The aim is to try to make capital allocation very easy in a Tinder-like form
and help ecosystems that want to allocate funding based on community signaling very, very easy.
From these two projects, which one do you prefer?
The right.
And from these two projects, which one do you prefer?
The one on the right? And from these two projects, which one do you prefer? The one in the left. So very easy. It's easier to know which projects you prefer from two than from 100.
And then there is a ranking mechanism that makes the allocation of capital on the background based
on your input. And if you collect the input of many people in the community, then we have a very,
very strong community signal.
And it's very flexible because you can give different voting power to different people.
So we've been working with Optimism in the last four rounds, making this tooling, bootstrapping it from our own funding and capacity in General Magic. But now we are also trying to
bring these to different ecosystems. So yeah, I mean, the ask is if you can give us like a dollar
or whatever for keeping this work, that will be amazing. But it will be even more amazing if you
know any ecosystem that wants to start using pairwise, feel free to DM me.
My DMs are open.
So that's pairwise.
And I also apply for unicorn.e, which is a really cool project.
It's also trying to make the UX of onboarding to Web3
very easy and very customizable.
It's a no-code platform for...
If you have questions, please let me know.
But it's a no-code platform to onboard your community into Web3.
If anyone went to Edinburgh, you already tried this. Basically, when you were going to Ithamber,
you just kind of like created a login from your Google account.
But that, on the background, made you a wallet.
And you got like a stake spork because Ithamber is a DAO that
is like a community managed event held by DAO and they even share
the profits with the DAO. And you became part of the DAO by just subscribing to the event
and you got like stakes pork, but you didn't have to do anything of that because IfDember
makes sure of like, okay, you get this DAO and you had like your smart, you had like smart contract wallet,
but you didn't even know about it. You're just logging with your web to Gmail sign in
and you were all ready and all set. So the idea is to make this available for any kind of community
and the administrator of the community can customize the onboarding in a very easy way
and give people Web3 wallets that are safer and simpler to use.
That's our whole value proposition.
Make onboarding to Web3 safe and simple and give community leaders a tool to do that for their own community.
And the community leader is the one that sees a little bit more of complexity,
but it's relatively super easy to set it up because it's a no-code tool.
And then the community for them is like a brace, it's like any web to app.
So that's kind of like the quick pitch.
Let me know if you have questions.
I don't want to take more time.
I know that we're already...
Thank you, Kotabek.
By the end.
You're welcome.
Yeah, we are a bit short on time, but we still have a couple of projects lined up on the stage.
Next, I would love to pass it over to Elizabeth from Education DAO.
And yeah, I really, again, like want to say that it's so great to see so many
projects that are building in education.
So yeah, maybe you can also share with us, how would this QF round help you reach
more people and what are the first things that
you will do with the funds and how they can support education now?
Hey Elizabeth, can you hear us?
Okay, yeah I hope you can be the next and that you can fix.
And Orbitda, OrbitDB, are you there and are you ready to show OrbitDB now?
Absolutely, can you all hear me?
Yeah.
Great.
Well hi everyone, I'm Anne Theresa. I'm a community manager for
OrbitDB. So first I just want to thank Giveth, ENS and Octant for hosting this
event and for this opportunity. Just a quick little bit about OrbitDB. So
we're a peer-to-peer database. So it's actually serverless and distributed. We use IPFS as its data storage
and libp2p PubSub as you know to automatically sync databases with peers. It's a consistent
database that uses CRDTs for conflict-free database mergers.
We've been, what else can I say?
We've been going since sort of 2015,
so it's quite a well-established project,
but we did lose a bit of momentum,
but it's come back better than ever
in the last sort of few years.
So we foresee OrbitDB as the sort of only choice for
decentralized apps, you know blockchain applications and offline first web
applications. So basically anything that needs storage of data should be using
OrbitDB. So this is our first time on Giveth. So we're looking for funding,
we're sort of currently working on encryption and we have quite a detailed
roadmap for 2025 and beyond. So we just hope to get our name out there a bit more and
some funding in. And if there's any questions or anything else I can let you help you with or let
you know, let me know. Yeah, maybe you can share of like what are some of the applications or protocols that are already using OrbitDB.
Also, don't forget to pin the tweet so more people can check out.
Sure, sure.
So anything sort of social media apps, we have a few people, we have a project for Rift CC that sort of has lenses and is using it, you know, for sort of even sharing movies,
peer-to-peer. So there's a few things going on. I'm not overly technical, so I'd have to get one of the core developers to speak about that. But just anything that's peer-to-peer,
I think the problem that we have at the moment is the mindset. We need to make it easier for users
because the mindset, there's just no third party. So to sort of get people on and make it easier
is sort of one of our things at the moment to do.
But yeah, that's sort of where we're at.
Thank you so much, Erin.
Welcome to this round.
I hope that it can bring lots of support to you.
Absolutely, thank you very much.
And yeah, please don't forget to pin the tweet
up in the space.
I'll do that now.
Thank you. Thank you. And yeah, please don't forget to pin the tweet up in the space. I'll do that now. Thank you.
Cool. Let's see if we have Elizabeth.
Oh, yeah. I see you unmuted.
Yep. I'm here.
Can you hear me now?
Yes, we can.
Awesome. Buenos dias a todos.
My name is Elizabeth and I'm here with Salvation,
who is one of our DAO members on the call also. And we are stoked to be in this QF
round for our Words of Web 3 glossary, which is a multilingual user submitted and curated glossary
for decentralized technology language. So we've partnered and continue to partner and hope to partner in the future with many projects
in this round. And so if you love words and you love language and you love education and you want
people to be able to understand what we're talking about in more native and localized ways, you're
welcome to join us. We have a contributor flow that I can post, and you can add translations, you can add
terms, you can add definitions.
If you have a glossary that you want to be folded into the Words of Web 3 glossary, we
β you know, our goal is to be very open and transparent about where all of this is
coming from so that we can track
how language develops over time in this space.
So the goal is to build out an attestation mechanism so that people can actually be hopefully
one day remunerated or at least recognized for their contributions.
And then the next step is to build an API
so that you can fold in the terms or definitions
into your own projects docs.
So the idea is that you can embed the glossary
into documentation about your projects
or into other educational resources that you work with.
So we're a small group.
We were very, very lucky to get funded
by Public Nouns earlier this year
for the work we've been doing over the last 18 months.
And yeah, I will make sure to pin this tweet.
And if, like I said, if any of you are interested in this project,
feel free to reach out to us.
And then, of course, if you want to donate, we'd love that too.
We've never been in a QF round before,
so we're going to see how it goes.
Thank you, Elizabeth.
And thanks all for joining this space.
This was really amazing, and I'm super pumped
to have so many cool projects that have joined us.
And for everyone that is building
to make this space better and more diverse
and so on board more people.
And yeah, we're gonna have the next Buildspace next week at the same time. And yeah, for
the meantime, I want to encourage all of the projects to check the round guides that we
have shared with you all and it's live on Ocean and there we have like a couple of tips to promote your project and there are some
easy to use Canva templates that you can drag and drop your logos and make some avatar overlays and
help yourself promote your project better and easier. So yeah, really encouraging everyone to go and check it. And yeah, everyone else, thanks for joining.
Huge thanks to Octant.
Oh, and I see Wayne who raised the hand.
Please feel free to take over the mic.
Yeah, JΓ©go, thanks a lot, man.
I'm sorry, I just want to quickly jump in here for the last minute.
It's really great to hear all the projects.
I love hearing about them because quite honestly, there's
so many.
Even I don't know all the projects, right?
So it's really good to hear from everybody.
Thank you for hosting this show space.
For those of you out there who still want to show your space,
we will also host more spaces because we found in the past
that being on a space and being able to show your space, we will also host more spaces because we found in the past that being on a space and being able to present
your project and talk about your project,
we find that it gives the people
a little bit more confidence in who you are,
where you're coming from, and so we
host these spaces to help projects also.
Up until next week, I think there's that available for you guys.
So I just want to, we've sent out an email.
So if you want to join those spaces, please feel free to do that.
Okay.
So that's all I wanted to say.
And thanks for hosting Diego.
Amanda, appreciate it a lot.
Okay.
Thank you, Wayne.
And thanks to Octant and ENS for being here and supporting all of the projects.
And yeah, thank you all, Samantha, for co-hosting it.
And thanks everyone and see you in the next one.
All right. Cheers, everyone. Bye.
