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Using X Spaces to Market Your Grant
Recorded: March 31, 2025 Duration: 1:05:03Space Recording
Short Summary
Gitcoin's grants program has significantly impacted early-stage projects, distributing over $60 million. Innovations like the Allo Protocol and Karma Gap enhance resource allocation and transparency. Strategic partnerships and collaborations are emphasized through AMAs and cross-community initiatives. Trends include targeted marketing in blockchain ecosystems and tech industry consolidations. A new project launch focuses on food security, highlighting the diverse applications of blockchain technology.
Full Transcription
Let's grow, do a chain and grow, we chain ourselves and grow, build the people like
you, plant the trees and grow, do a three and grow, make you aim that long, the side
of the chains don't happen that itself is wrong.
What you know about building and chain, getting users on board in your way, one at the station
and that's how I contain your return at the stations
like that's in the bank
jimmy and the team
so no we can't take a break now
It's our time, we'll go catch you need
We'll do it right now
As opposed to Haiti and the rat talk
Let's collaborate and what we're up now
Cause the future is bright and green
We'll make it more green
So plant more trees in 17 seconds
I grew this, so know what you're excusing
Let's grow, build a chain and grow We can ascent grow this
all right everybody i'm going to explain to you today why get coin that's a really good question
i'm glad you asked it why get coin so let's go to their website here get coin.com and we're going
to look at the about section and we're going to look at gitcoin's story
i really love storytelling it's an amazing thing that we do as human beings so let's look at
gitcoin's mission they envision a world shaped by community-led positive change since 2017 gitcoin
has been building tools that enable communities to build fun and protect what
matters to them cool thing about bitcoin is their modular their permissionless
permissionless protocols also funding technology and tooling and they have ongoing grants program
matter of fact through gitcoin's grants program it was driven over 60 million dollars
to early stage builders champion projects across d5 climate open source and beyond and for this
year specifically they're gonna have three rounds dedicated to open source software builders well
there's another thing you should know about gitcoin they ship they ship products
so grant stacks that's their end-to-end grant solution that enables any community to create
manage and grow a grants program grant stack is we're going to create your builder profile
at builder.gitcoin.co grant stack is also where you're going to apply for year-round on explore.gitcoin.co.
Also, Allo Protocol.
Allo Protocol is an amazing open source resource allocation protocol.
Ideal for communities looking for novel ways to distribute gold funds.
It's another reason why Gitcoin.
That's another reason why Gitcoin.
They've been doing this with Gantz since 2019.
Since 2019.
And as we stated previously, they've distributed over $16 million as of the close of 2024.
And here's their impact.
I know you guys like to key in on data points and numbers and figures.
Over 3700 projects have raised funds using the Bitcoin
mechanized ecosystem and community.
And that's including your community that you've curated as well.
They've done over 5.3 million in that life cycle so thinking about it five years 5.3 million unique donations
that's over a million per year and 68 million has gone towards public goods. We all said.
Our first Bitcoin grant was in April 2023.
We got into the Bitcoin beta round.
Our next was in GG18, which was in August 2023. We got $78 and 8 contributors during G18.
Can you imagine an entire Gitcoin round where the entire Web3 ecosystem is donating to
Gitcoin projects and we only got 8 contributors.
That's because we're terrible at marketing
terrible this video I'm going to show you how to market your projects all year
round and take your project all year round from this which is behind the
spotlight to this in front of everybody's faces now there are five ways
to market your round
or your project during GG23.
Let's go.
Step one, leverage your community.
Leverage your community.
Leverage your community.
Start with who you already know.
Your Discord, your Telegram,
your Twitter followers,
your network are your first best donors or applicants.
Applicants, if you are marketing a round around or donors if you are marketing your projects. We chat with
three educators, content creators, KOLs in your network, ecosystem leaders in your
network and tell them about your round or your project. Don't assume everybody in
your community knows about your project or knows about your around use your email send emails to them have the
community calls talk about your around always and all your project always join
the community calls leverage your community a simple tweet or retweet from
the right person in your community can go a long way in amplifying you around all the projects.
And then on your Twitter, pin your application post so that new people who come to your Twitter
can see that and immediately have the information they need to be able to support you.
Number two, show consistency.
I'm still here, right?
Did I vanish?
If I did this, am I being consistent? I'm still here, right? Did I vanish? No.
If I did this, am I being consistent? No.
If I did this, I am being consistent because I'm staying.
Social consistency. Show up every day.
Now, my recommendation is post at least nine times a day.
Some people would say higher, some would say lesser.
Two memes a day.
Of course, you can't forget GMGM every day.
Two memes a day, two designs a day, and one video a day.
This is optional, of course.
If you can't create videos, it's fine.
If you can't create videos, then at least one video a day.
And just don't post the pictures and go post the pictures and talk about
the story behind them let people connect with you and that is being consistent stay consistent
number three create simple and engaging content now if you could do short videos do short videos
you don't even need to show up in the videos do carousel posts people need to see your
project all your round multiple times before they take action keep your posts clean bold and easy
to understand number four leverage the let's grow life twitter space and live stream nala
the space and live stream nala every gig coin grant season let's grow down always has a 24 7
live streaming space for everything that has to do with get coin grants so as a project you can
come on stage talk about your project as a round operator you can come on stage talk about your round amplify your round so
people could get to donate to your project that's essentially what the let's go live um to the space
is for during the gig coin grant round so make sure you leverage you take advantage of it tell
your communities to show up join the live sessions and talk about your project. You need to do this consistently.
Remember, number two.
Number five, direct outreach and...
They're not cold.
Nothing is cold during Sheet 23.
Everybody's chilling.
Everybody is talking about their project.
They're around.
It is a license to chill.
In fact, I told you guys about the 24 7 live theater stream
that we have in number four all through it's it's a chilling but loser galore there are no cold dms
during gig coin seasons everything is hot everybody is trying to sell everyone's chilling dm everyone
tell them about your round tell them about your round, tell them about your project. Find out what
chain is that round running on. If a round is running on Arbitrum chain, then you want to reach
out to KOLs in the Arbitrum community. Because when rounds are running different chains, it is an
opportunity for that chain to reach out to get more people into their ecosystem. If your round is running on Celo, check out the influencers or the KOLs
who are in the Celo ecosystem
and talk to them about supporting your round.
So these are the five ways you can market your round
or your project during GG23.
I am Carla God.
Make sure you follow
re gm re gm how we doing jimmy tgm a grow morning good sir uh we're doing well we're doing well
good did you find did you find those tips helpful in marketing your grants?
That was super helpful. I wasn't thinking about KOLs in the context of grants at all.
You know, it's not bad. And like when you DM a lot of people and they say, hey, yeah, I just donated, you know, maybe asking them, hey, would you be comfortable posting about why you donated?
Like, that's a great maybe next step. And I think nine times out of 10, they you be comfortable posting about why you donated? Like, that's a
great, maybe next step. And I think nine times out of 10, they'll be down to do that. And then
you'll reach their followers. And that's like a great, almost testimonial as well. And I think
that's a really good strategy that I wasn't really thinking about. So great to get that info.
I think one other thing for those who are maybe tuning into the recording or listening now that could be an impactful strategy.
And I think this is underlooked.
I see everyone who does the strategy.
It's maybe like one or two people out of the whole Gitcoin grant rounds.
And that is commenting on everyone's posts that say they just donated. So this is one
of the beautiful parts of the Gitcoin platform. It prompts you to tweet about the fact that you
just donated. And you can just jump in there and you could, I think it's good to encourage them,
congratulate them, thank them for supporting public goods,
and then give a quick pitch of why your thing is great and drop your link.
But if you're going to do that, don't make the mistake of literally copy pasta the exact same message over and over again,
because X does not like copy pasta.
That is seen as spam and you'll be in the show more spam or whatever section.
So you got to change up the messages,
whether if you're doing that manually
or there's another X tool called Degen Reply,
which automatically will switch up parts of the message for you.
That's some alpha right there.
If you use that Chrome extension and type in Jimmy Cohen in
the .eth section, you're supposed to have an NFT, but if you just use my Jimmy Cohen .eth,
it will actually work for you. So some alpha on alpha there. I think that's another good strat.
And yeah, back to you, Wilti. Yeah, I want to highlight all the available opportunities to use this platform, this social audio component of X that we affectionately refer to as X spaces.
I mean, not only do you have Gitcoin themselves hosting spaces, right?
Like Carla alluded to in her video, which is posted in a thread of videos created as a result of the gg23 rfp onboarding
and education program but um yeah it's a shill fest right so even gitcoin encourages showing
and sharing and and highlighting and emphasizing what your project is all about during the round
there's community uh or round operators right so community spaces hosted by the round operators
i've been i've been seeing a few pop up already uh from d side gitcoin so d side gitcoin i want
to shout you out for doing some advanced work with your community and your round that you guys
are going to be having running in gg23 because a lot of it, right, Jimmy, you would agree, is about planning ahead
of what's going to happen before we actually get there. And then you have other community-led
rounds or led spaces driving the conversation and bringing emphasis and highlight to founders and project owners
and everything in between.
So it's just really a beautiful time.
And Jimmy, I know you're a veteran.
You're no stranger to Gitcoin Rounds, and you've been doing it a long time.
Matter of fact, you're the one who got me to kind of get involved
of get involved with the community and see what was available and see what was out there.
with the community and see what was available and see what was out there.
So anything outside of the five top tricks and tips that Carla God mentioned in her video
there, anything else you'd like to add to that list?
Yeah, I think cross-pollination, engaging with a variety of communities, you know, like, there's, there's a, there's a bunch of
different broadcasts that are happening, a bunch of different Twitter groups, sorry, Telegram groups,
I mean, Twitter technically sometimes has group chats, but I think Telegram is a lot more impactful
there. But yeah, like reaching out to people in a direct way, you know, not just
having, I mean, I'm definitely guilty of making this mistake, like a long copy pasta message
is typically tuned out by people. So actually spending the time to send maybe fewer messages,
but do mention something maybe specific to that person. It'll feel a lot more
authentic and come across better. One thing that I've seen people do is actually just send
super short messages. There's a few people who've been into Gitcoin grants for a while now,
and they already know the deal. They kind of know what you're building. They know about Gitcoin and they know that
you don't have to explain everything to everyone, right? And that's where customization is kind of
important. Like literally just a super short message, you know, hey, would you mind chucking
a couple bucks into this Gitcoin grant? Boom. Like, to the OGs, right? Don't give
them the full length thing explaining what
Gitcoin is and how matching is and da-da-da. Like, they know, right?
And so it's like, sometimes less is more, is another
thing I'll say. Yeah, go ahead, Jerry. Grow ahead, shall I say.
Oh, yeah. We gotta get on the grocabulary baby we can't forget about the grocabulary the police gonna get us they're gonna grow off on us oh my goodness
um yeah there is another little tip that i've thought about and that is utilizing the wonderful aspect of creating a collection.
So if you have a grant, go in there and create a collection and post not just your grant on your
Twitter, but a collection of maybe not everybody in around, not everything, but look around,
find some projects that you really like, that you really believe in, and you think it would be awesome if other people supported. And of course, your projects included
in that, but put those projects out there for other people to, you know, learn about and support.
That is a beautiful signal to other people. And it has a twofold benefit guys, because I don't know
if you watch the COCM video that was put on during the
onboarding and education round it is in the video thread right here on twitter explaining the way the
cluster oriented matching works and what it's looking for to make sure that not just your passport score is okay,
but that you're not a bot in a different way as well.
And that is by seeing that you are acting like a normal human, doing normal human stuff.
And that includes not just people coming in.
A bot is going to come in and just spam and donate $1 to the one project and bounce. If you're donating to a few other grants, $3, $5, $10, whatever you've got, have at it, go to town.
Leveraging people to come in and donate to more than just your project is going to help your matching because it's going to help the algorithm and the cluster matching understand that that wasn't a bot that voted for you.
So if you're leveraging your community, there is a point in talking to them about that a little bit.
And there is a point for you to then promote other people's projects.
I mean, they're gitcoin projects they're
public good projects they're open source software they're all the things that we love anyway
get out there and do that like utilize that little feature make it easy for people to find it
and do it you know like i think that that's a great thing to to utilize as well i'll be quiet
now decide get decide git coin who's behind the
account today yeah let's grow let's grow is that manual
is ship evil behind behind the oh hey what's up SWIFT people yeah yeah yeah hello hello yeah yeah yeah uh GM GM and
good afternoon great evening and Ron so um I got some uh tips which would like to just
my two cents for to contribute um uh in GDTN3 we tried to uh make at least one AMA with our sponsor.
So we got four sponsor right there,
four to five.
So we got the GrowDollar AMA collaboration,
and we got another AMA collaborate with Sci-Hub Minkong.
And we also collaborate with Grim Trio.
So we have another joint AMA with Grim Trio over there.
And of course, knowing that Arcelo is quite busy right now
at this moment for L2,
so we will try to find a way to join,
for example, host another AMA collaborate
with Arcelo in some
times maybe. And of course, it's great to do the collaboration AMA with not only within
your ecosystem. For example, you will reach out to somebody else, which you never meet before,
because the visitor, the follower for that platform,
for that ecosystem, you will have some magic.
You will have some discussion
because you meet all your friends within your ecosystem.
But once you're doing a collaboration AMA
with somebody else, then you will meet new friends
and they would love to hear what you already talked about 1000 times because for them,
it's very new information right there.
So vice versa.
So you learn something that they already told 1000 times.
But we meet new friends, we learn new things from this collaborative AMA
with the sponsor.
And more than that, in previous GG21 round,
we tried to do a course round AMA, which
means that we tried to approach another community round.
And then say, hey, what's up, though?
So can we have a cross round ama so we can
we can call out all our projects on the stage and share to each other because we are we are
two news to know each other so we learn different projects we learn different round and we know every
new thinking from other round right there so So if any other round, community round,
will have the interest to make a cross community round AMA, so if you do reach out, so we try to
look for another time slot and then we host another very, very friendly, so cross community round AMA together in the coming donation period of time.
So we can put all our projects on the stage
and they will have the time to show to someone
they don't know, to show to someone
which is out of your ecosystem.
So this is my two cents for this AMA.
So I really appreciate about this topic.
So when I saw this topic,
I jumped into this
scripted AMA immediately.
Yes, thank you.
Yeah, no doubt.
And I see we've got Lumina Vision on stage.
She's a veteran Gitcoiner
and I want to hear from her opinion.
So re-GM, re-GM, Lumina.
GM, GM.
Yeah, like you said, I'm a veteran.
But I remember I found out about Gitcoin grants when it was before the GGA team
because I was already participating.
I came to the space of Earth-based Seoul.
I heard Lumko talking, and i was just chilling they're listening they even thought i must come and because they brought me to the stage and i
didn't say a word i was like very shy i didn't know what the space was about and then i was happy to participate in the GGA team already with Refi Pangan.
It was good times.
Yeah, nowadays we have so many rounds and it's hard to even keep track where to donate,
gro-nate.
Yeah, like you said here, many, many great tips.
And I agree with the tip of Jerry.
Of course, I also use this feature.
Plus, I'm also donating to others.
And of course, I'm writing about it.
So they know.
And they can repost it.
And they can share with their community.
Yeah.
And the main thing is to make your post about your grants as much repostable as possible.
Maybe include the memes, include some jokes, whatever.
The more people repost it, the more exposure you get.
Yeah, what else I can tell you?
I would say also, there's a saying in the marketing world, Ranger, I mean, you've probably heard this before.
I'm sure most people have.
When you have other people talking about what you're doing,
then you know you've done a good job in marketing.
And so activating an army,
whether it's your community
or other community members at large.
Right. And we do have this public service, I think, in this ecosystem that is really cool.
That was set up by civil. Right. Where he is curating all these different events, whether they're virtual or in person events that are going on.
And so to be able to have access to those types of resources,
I think is really cool. What do you think, Jimmy?
Jimmy, are you still there?
Oh no. Oh no. Can you hear me from this account?
Wasn't letting me unmute.
I think I have way too many things open on this computer right now.
Tisai from Tregen. Now, yes, I concur. Word of mouth is the most powerful form of marketing.
Not only do people like to hear from friends more, but it's a lot more. Oh, snap. Sorry. Now you're hearing double. Just a sec.
Okay. Fixed it. Okay. So what's that big pride? Was he hot, Mike? Oh, now we got two things.
We got two things open. Sorry. Okay. Okay. We fixed it. We fixed it. My bad. Okay. So, um, right. Uh, yeah. So, so getting people to speak about what you're doing,
um, it, I think that comes down to doing things that are remarkable, right? That if you break
down that word, something is remarkable, right? People are going to want to remark about it, right? They want
to speak about it. And so, you know, do epic shit. But no, also, that could be some really cool
video that you made, or you tell a really, you know, a story that's really from the heart,
right? Like, these are things that people might want to speak about, right?
And have that naturally spread.
So, yeah, I think there are some hands raised.
But yeah, go back to you, Wilty.
But Lumina, did you have anything else you wanted to add?
I was just trying to fill the time there.
Well, I'm in the middle here
with the kids show.
I will add something when I can.
Okay, yeah, no worries. We'll come back
to, we'll be here for another 32
minutes at least. So,
Desai, Ghana, what's growing
on? Good morning.
Yeah, good morning.
Actually, in Ghana, it's evening so uh morning by the way well then good evening
okay sure so it's good okay okay okay so i just found myself here design ghana we are actually
we are actually aiming to bridge this side to the Ghanaian ecosystem because we see that
most of the Ghanaian ecosystem are geared towards web3 but when it comes to healthcare there's a
new branch which is to we have taken it upon ourselves to actually start that and talking about uh i see grants here and there
and so on so i want to know more that's why and then i also wanted to speak so that it doesn't
seems like it's a bot account here and there so that takes off that thinking yeah So that's what I have. And then I'm hoping to connect with more people
for collaborations.
Yeah, no problem.
I think I know what memes for trees
is going to say, or did he change his account?
Oh, yeah, it's not memes for trees.
He's probably going to say create memes,
but let's see what he really has to say.
Oh, I was just honestly here to tell you guys, I
love you. Keep up the good work.
Memes for trees, nerds. It sounds
like you could actually spend some time helping some people
so I won't eat up too much time.
Let's focus on actually
getting the love shared out
there. Thanks for being here, guys.
But let me ask
you this real quick, if I may.
How powerful is the meme culture around get coin grant season and from your perspective have you seen that do some good work in marketing
i mean i think that if you can get something to catch on it's always helpful i know that getting
people to just like you said like jimmy, do remarkable stuff. You know, go do epic
shit. You heard it here first, guys.
And not only do we believe that you
can do it, we will try to help
you do it.
I think that's what we're here for.
Thank you, brother. Hey,
memes
are incredibly powerful.
It's literally one of the most market moving things in crypto, right? Obviously there's all the meme coins, but even beyond that,
there's the meme culture, right? Like even technically, some people even call Bitcoin a
meme coin because it was memed into existence, right? It's what
spreads like rapid fire. And, you know, if you're not going to create your own original meme, that
doesn't mean you can't make memes, obviously, right? You can go to IMG Flip, and you can make
memes about your grants. Try to be funny with memes. Like, your best. A lot of people are literally just trying to
promote and just be salesy with a meme. And it's like, it'll still maybe get some engagement, but
it's nowhere near as good as if you actually try to be funny with it. So do your best to try to
be funny if you can. Memes can be used in many different contexts, but yeah, try best for
that and try to tap into trends. Right now, Ghibli is still kind of a thing. So get premium chat GPT
and start messing around with Ghibli. You could even take a regular meme and just Ghibli-fy it.
You could even take a regular meme and just giblify it.
So memes plus gibli for the win.
Okay.
Does someone else have their hand up?
Because I feel like sometimes it's just...
Yeah, Swift Devo did.
And then I did see Regen Avocado joined us on stage.
So I want to hear from him as well.
Go ahead, G-side Gitcoin.
Yeah, just a few sharing that this round,
we look for different sponsors.
So this is our first time to sit for, we go through a long discussion about that.
And finally we sit for a sponsor from Minkon, from Decentral Science Ecosystem,
which is called Science the Minkon ecosystem and then back to support our design ecosystem in the QF run right there. long discussion within our working group. And also we have the full discussion with the token,
on the other hand, to talk about what we need
to be aware about that one.
And because everyone should need to do your own research
about that, even though you saw that they are doing
the sponsors to us, our round right there.
So just a few sharing here.
Awesome.
Regen Avocado, G-A-G-A-D-U.
I know it's afternoon in your neck of the woods.
We are, yes, it is Buona Sera a tutti. It is, uh, my, my pronouns
are avocado and oil. I've been, okay, we'll start with the fun fact, uh, with avocado trees,
because you cannot just plant one avocado tree. You have to at least plant two and they have to be a different type, a different cultivar because type A,
avocado tree flowers in the morning,
and then type B, avocado tree flowers in the afternoon.
And so that's how they cross pollinate.
So fun fact of the day,
you need at least two avocado trees to tango.
There's a lot going on, a lot growing on. Are we still, are the police,
are the police active already? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're still talking about
onboarding, education, GG23, preparation. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My avocado was purely out of
enthusiasm. I'm not, I'm not enforcing that grocab.
Yo, that should be an official grocabulary word, though.
Like week two, week two, we might have enforced it.
But by the way, my mother has a massive bag of avocado pips.
It's gigantic.
And like every time we have an avocado, we keep it.
She's like, yeah, keep it.
We're going to plant it someday.
But it's like too cold in the part of Australia where I'm at.
So she can't plant it.
But I know another guy who's Tree Gin, D-J-I-N-N, who lives in Queensland.
And he actually designed her NFTs.
And my plan is to get the giant bag of avocado pips from her
and then go all the way to Northern Australia
where it is much better climate for avocados
so that we can get the planted.
This is my mission.
Well, one thing that you can do to store the pits
is to keep them in the freezer.
And then, I mean, is it freezing where you're at does it is there a frost
it's not not right now but uh but it can it can be so okay long term yeah so we're thinking like
doing it inside but it's it's like you need like a big it's a big tree right you can't just put
that in a pot forever it's not going to get to full growth yeah i think you can so there's a variety called uh fuerte and it's uh spanish for strong and they
were growing this in california and there was a big freeze i don't know like the 1920s or however
long ago and it was able to survive the frost freeze so you could push the limit. I mean, that's climate is changing. So that's actually
what's happening here in Sicily is the Mediterranean is becoming more tropical in terms of warmer
weather, but it's also desertifying as well. So we're facing a lot of climate change issues and desertification. And so a lot of these, just to segue into, you know, upcoming
GG23 is a lot of the climate change is driving our on the ground community organizing efforts.
And so I think that's a big trend. And a lot of communities are experiencing this,
if it's climate change, or if it's socioeconomic crises, all of these crises are providing opportunities
for us to change our organizing pattern. And so it's great to have these grant rounds as an
opportunity to start to experiment and to prove these new organizing models because you can't
just go to a bank and say, hey, I want to disrupt the system. They're not going to give you money.
And it's also difficult to do other crowdfunding models,
because so much of this work is dependent on on-chain mechanisms
and Web3, ReFi, DeSci tools.
And so it's really cool to be experimenting in the space.
I've been having fun as we're talking about the onboarding for this grant and all the amazing work that the Let's Grow DAO team has been putting into the education and awareness.
And I am a member of the Karma team.
And so I'm helping with education and troubleshooting and just basically helping the community on board
into Karma Gap which is the grantee accountability protocol so that when you
do get grant funding or any type of money from could be a DAO or could be
from Gitcoin you can be posting updates on chain And so you basically have a LinkedIn resume on chain
that you can use to prove your work.
And that helps to get more funding in the future
if it's from Gitcoin or from any other rounds.
I see hands.
Uh-oh, we got some.
Well, we'll go to DeSagana first,
but I want to tell you a little story here
about how I've been using Karma recently.
But go ahead dsaigana
dsaigana
yeah yeah i'm here i'm here okay so i just have little questions to ask
few questions first of all uh can d DSI Ghana take part in the grant?
And then secondly, how can we take part in the grant? Because we want to be a hub where we nurse
all the DSI projects coming to Ghana, where we go to universities, speak to students about most of the DSI projects and how they can benefit from it.
So that's all I have to say.
Yeah, I think there's a couple opportunities.
I would see what DSI opportunities are available in the community rounds for sure.
And then because you're in Africa and you're working with students,
there may be an opportunity for you in the Web3 universities round, which is being hosted by Borderless Dev. So those would be my two
recommendations. So yeah, if you need help, Jimmy, have you posted the link yet? No? In the comments
for the onboarding education program so that Desai Ghana can get some last
minute support if they need it?
I have not posted said
link in the comments.
I think we should plant it in the garden
as well.
Regen Avocado. Say again?
Hold on one second. We have
DesaiGitcoin right here, right?
They're running a round.
Did you want to shine some light on your round? Swift eGrow?
Oh, yeah. Thank you. Can you hear me?
okay can you hear me i'm clear right uh yes in this runs uh we host this is our fifth round to uh
Loud and clear.
to the design ecosystem right there so uh this time we got a 5k uh matching pool on several chains
legibles for example you got a free milestone on the Karma Gap platform.
And also we saw there will be a six month to one year contribution or achievement in
the design ecosystem.
So it's eligible to participate to submit your application.
The application deadline will be 31 of March midnight of GMT so it means that there
will be a few hours before the application is closed so as our
application is not doing rolling so very much to submit your apply on time
because after that the application window will be closed yes that is uh of course a few
fees will jump into our telegram group and and all message me if you uh face any difficulties
for applying this uh gg23 design company to run right there thank you uh these are gonna
there you grow there you grow live support on x spaces another amazing way that you can use this
as a tool not just for marketing but to get help too awesome uh so yeah regen avocado my anecdote
is that now when people want to learn about our programs and what we're doing, I find I'm pointing them to karma as our source of truth
more so than what we have listed on our website. Right. So, yeah, I feel karma is very powerful.
Like you said, you can update your roadmap, objectives, activities that you're doing
inside your community that are making an impact. I know the impact section is changing soon,
that are making an impact. I know the impact section is changing soon, but yeah, you can
record your impact. It also automatically aggregates all the grant rounds that you
participated in and brings that data on platform onto the protocol. So yeah, I really love Karma.
Big fan of it. I think a lot of us here are. And yeah, so I just want to share that with you.
a lot of us here are and uh yeah so i just want to share that with you thank you and i just want
to point out um especially for example dsai um gitcoin karma is great for individual products
and it's also great for round operators and communities because dsai gitcoin is now they
have their own qf round they've got all of their projects indexed and so what's going to happen
is that once this round is live you'll be able to go to karma you'll be able to select um the
the round get dc get coin and then you'll be able to see all the projects participating in that
round and then you'll get a kind of an overview of of the performance and then we have this new feature karma ai where you can basically query um using the the language interface like you
know what what what projects has the most updates or you know if i have a hundred dollars who should
i donate to so we've got a really cool interface that's live you can check it out and yeah just
it's cool to have this on-chain like public blockchain superpower
where we're getting both the individual and the collective uh uh insights and i think that's kind
of the big uh the big upgrade is this is a collective effort and so i that's all i have
to say about uh karma right now um there's a lot of other fun stuff happening on the refi side so we've got
refi Mediterranean is running its first QF round and so we've got about 10
projects throughout the Mediterranean bioregion who are participating and this
is kind of in participation with region coordination it's just more of a
localized effort and yeah we're just experimenting with more of a localized effort. And yeah, we're just experimenting with more of a landscape scale
governance and resource allocation and coordination. And so that'll be live for this GG23.
And also Reefa Sicilia is participating and we'll be doing a lot. We've, we're kind of in the spring like planting season.
So there's a lot of activity happening on the ground and yeah,
just excited to share that all with you in the upcoming days as we're kind of
showing more of what's happening and yeah,
just kind of like getting into the meme, meme space.
Speaking of AI,
I want to throw this popcorn question
out here to everybody who's on stage
who wants to weigh in on the subject.
How can you use AI to market
as a marketing tool?
And then also,
I don't know if you guys saw the news or not,
but Elon's AI company
bought Elon's social media company.
How do we feel about that?
Start with you, Jimmy TGN or Tree Gens.
You're not audible on my end.
Book air. Oh, there we go. Okay, you can hear me now. there we go okay there we go now there we go sorry i have a bajillion tabs happening
okay um i think great thing i am ho that grok is going to be integrated into uh the platform i
guess even more and ultimately a maximally truth-seeking AI
is maybe going to win.
I mean, I don't know.
I don't know, man.
That's a whole other topic.
How can we use AI to market?
To market.
So I'm a big fan of animations.
And you can do a lot with some tools. Sometimes for free, you can get these free credits and get going on different platforms. There's a lot of them. And probably Grok is the best person to ask, like, what are the latest AI tools? Because honestly, this changes like every week.
this changes like every week. But I think it's like Hedra, H-E-D-R-A is a very good one.
I've been messing around with Hedra for a bit. There's another one, starts with a K.
The name is escaping me though. Clink-clunk, something like that. Just ask if you wanna make animations,
just ask Grok to do a deep search and just say,
hey, what are the best AI animation tools?
So that's a good one.
Yeah, what else?
I mean, oof.
Like, yeah, Hedra is the best one if you want to, like, have characters,
like, saying things and actually, like, for the mouth movements and things like that. But
Vidnoz, V-I-D-N-O-Z, is one that actually works with almost every character. Sometimes your
character won't be recognizable and able to be picked up.
But what you probably wanna do is use a couple tools
in conjunction with one another.
Like right now, ChatGPT's picture image generator
is the best on the market, pretty much.
So you probably wanna generate,
like let's say you have a part of an image
that you want to change. You probably want to use ChatGPT for that, take the image, and
then put it in one of these image animation tools off the fact, right? Sometimes they
can already create the image and change them, but you want to use image generation with
that. That said, though, I'm pretty sure within Grok you can now select a very specific area of your image, which
might make editing a little bit more fluid, but for 90% of use cases, you're going to be wanting
to use ChatGPT. But like I said, yeah, this stuff is changing all the time. So just do a deep search
and figure out what the best ones are for your specific use case.
Back to you,
Will Tenacious.
I love the animation part because,
well,
it suggested to me that,
you know,
I should be doing more, more GIFs,
right?
More GIFs.
and I know that AI tooling can kind of help in that area too.
So yeah, for short videos, you have some short form media content.
You can turn it into a GIF and there we grow.
Totes.
So by the way, probably the most successful in terms of growth NFT projects right now,
the Pudgy Penguins.
Well, I don't know.
They're not the number one,
but they're definitely blue chip
and they're doing exceptionally well.
I watched an interview with Luca
and he was the founder
and he was saying like,
he who controls the GIFs controls the memes
and he who controls the memes controls the world.
I think he might've said, I don't know.
GIFs are incredibly underrated.
And so, so what they do is they have a pretty big team, but nowadays with AI, you can do this
pretty easily for whatever like topics are kind of trending, right? So one topic is trending,
something's happening in the world. People are using a certain, so there's like supply and demand of gifts, right?
You go to this Giphy platform, and I think there's another one as well,
social media or something.
You can upload your gifts there so that, you know, in the little gift area,
people can just easily send gifts to each other, right?
And so if it's like a word like love, there's going to be a million gifts,
you know, just tons of them, right?
But if you're creating ones that maybe is
like a term that's more up and coming, right? Wrecked, I don't know, something that isn't like,
it doesn't have a billion options, but you can make a pretty good gift to represent that.
This is more for brand building, I guess, than just Gitcoin grand rounds. But if you can
make good gifts, put them in there, you know, for ones that don't have an abundant supply,
but are being used a lot or would be used a lot, then you're going to have that sent to a lot of
people. And that's ultimately going to build a lot of brand recognition. I mean, they're getting
billions of views with a B on the gifts of PudgyPasin. I think that's a big reason why they're so successful.
So there's that. Another thing I was going to say here, sorry, it's almost four in the morning.
What was I going to say about the AI stuff? Okay. Come back to me on this. Come back to me. Back to you for a second. It's going to it's gonna hit me I swear okay give me a sec give me a sec it's all good it's all good bro
we understand we understand if I can just jump in I feel like there is um kind of well there's
many aspects but especially in the regenerative or eco-conscious space,
you know, the first thing that comes to mind
for a lot of people is the environmental impact.
What's that, Will?
Did he rug Jimmy or is that me?
Am I rugged?
Can you not hear Regen Avocado right now?
Okay.
I'm guessing he can't hear you, Regen okay maybe it's him getting rogued but yeah
you're right the the emissions is very substantial of ai so that should definitely be considered um
well i i think you know the the i think the point that i want to make is that with all these new digital tools, if it's blockchain or AI, IoT, whatever it is, we need to master these tools and use them with intention.
And, you know, for example, blockchain, if 99% of the space is just, you know, garbage scam coins, then, of course, that's 99% energy consumption that we didn't really need in the first place.
And I think AI is a very powerful tool and we need to use it with intention.
So making Ghibli means are fun.
And we see this every week, there's a new trend,
but we really need to use this for coordination you know, coordination problems and resource sharing,
and how do we make better decisions. And so, you know, if Elon Musk is buying and selling his own,
I mean, at this point, it's just so blatant, the manipulation, that you just have to let it,
let it, you know, run its course, and it will implode eventually. But I think we have an opportunity as a community to say, hey, we can use these tools with intention.
And I think it just comes to just showing instead of just telling.
And so we have an opportunity to really show the impact of how we can utilize these tools for, I mean, I don't know if good is
the right word, but at least for improving human, the human experience, let's just put
it that way.
Yeah, use it for good.
Use it for good.
I don't think we can stop AI from evolving, but I think we can hopefully shift it in a positive direction and have positive use cases.
Same goes for blockchain, right?
You can create great positive use cases out of it.
And I hope that it does become more sustainable over time.
I remember Wasabi was saying, like, there are some, you know, like, servers that offset, for example. And if you're going to run an AI or something like that, or set up an agent or something, definitely try to be aware of those more sustainable solutions that
are out there. And yeah, that's a really good point, Regent Avocado. I'm glad that you mentioned
that. Another thing is, oh, replying. You know, I think this is probably the most important thing you can do on the X platform is reply to a lot of posts.
Particularly as you're coming up and trying to get seen more, you're going to get a lot more views in the replies than you are on your own content.
That's just the reality. And also, the more that you engage with people's posts,
the more that they're going to see your posts
and that will ultimately help your posts.
So that's another.
I think the space has kind of evolved
into like marketing in general.
I know it says using X spaces to market your grants,
but yeah, replying is a big thing.
So get out there, type in GG23 and engage with a bunch of peeps.
Yeah, I think Solar Roof is trying to say something.
Go ahead.
Hello.
Hi, Jimmy.
It's been a little while.
Yeah, I just noticed this X session here, this space,
and I thought I'd drop in and see what's cooking.
And as usual, you know, it's always interesting. And thank you. Yeah, I was, you know, responding,
I think, really to Avocado there, to Regina Avocado. Yeah, mean uh i i really do think that um you know this
community can do amazing things um and um but it is largely distracted by stuff that is uh very
um superficial you could say and uh so you know i've i've uh connected and then, you know, I've connected and then, you know, recently I haven't been that very active.
But I did want to say that, you know, we do have plans to move forward with a project, which is, as you know, connected with my project called Pyropod, which is open source technology for food, and food is pretty serious stuff.
And, well, you know, I'm in Canada, and as you know, there is this thing called a trade war that's about to launch,
and it's going to push the cost of food up for everyone, actually.
And I don't know what the global,
I know we've got people from all over the world here
on these kind of spaces here.
But it's probably going to have global impacts as well.
What we're looking to do is equip families for food security.
And so we'll be doing that with a token which is a real
world asset token i'm working with some great people and of course i want to invite more and
more people to hear about it and and help us you know to get this thing launched i i think our plan right now is to launch it on Earth Day coming up. And we're
going to have a demonstration or a pilot project in Windsor, Ontario. So that's right across
the bridge. You know, it's got the Ambassador Bridge is one of the biggest trade links in the world between Detroit and Windsor.
And so it's a location where we're anticipating a lot of distress, you know, distress with,
you know, our food banks are overwhelmed, actually, at this point.
And like happened in COVID, you know, we had a lot of broken
supply chains, right? And a lot of inflation. Yeah. So, you know, we're going to demonstrate how
families can grow food in the backyard for free, right? I mean, there's almost zero cost.
So it's sort of like a solar panel
you know put up a solar panel yeah you got the capital cost that's true but then you get free
electrons right that that you can go off grid and uh with with our uh pyropod you can go uh you you can exit the consumer trap you know consumerism with the uh food that
were offered which is often not really very good for us in fact um and uh so uh that's going to be
our our our initiative and uh uh you know it's it represents investment in families which i
think is an unusual thing you know families usually get loans and get in the debt trap and
so on right and don't have a way out and are just generally exploited what we want to do is look at
direct investment in families that will grow um 30 to 40 000 worth of food
in their backyard with our tech and uh as it goes of course as it's open source we anticipate a lot
of uh you know a lot of um improvements by the by the end users know, the people that join the community of what we call Pyronauts.
Anyway, that's my, don't let me ramble on here, but thank you for the opportunity to
get that out there.
I've been kind of sitting on it for a while now.
Jerry.
That is awesome, Richard.
I love this new thing, and I think you're absolutely right.
Food is a very serious matter, and food independence is a very serious thing.
And climate change is going to cause a lot more of that to be a necessity, a lot more than any—I'm going to air quote this in a space trade war um
i don't know what's coming of that it that feels too surreal to be real it's got to be some sort
of weird joke that we'll all laugh at in a few months hopefully i can't take it seriously i just
can't um i did want to go back to DeSagana
he said that he had some buffering issues
and I don't know if he heard the response
about how to apply
because you came up and you asked how to apply
and since we are still doing
onboarding and education for the next few hours
because
it's how to apply
you're going to have to get on it quick
because this thing is about to go down the applications actually close at midnight today your time so you go how
to get to work sir if we can help you in any way I would love to be able to do so. We have a ton of resources available on our website, which is letsgrow.network.com.
Pretty much everything that you would need, you can find there.
If it's not enough information, you need some specific help, by all means, reach out, go
to the links, get into the telegrams.
You can DM me.
We can start chatting there.
And I'm more than willing to try to help you out and get it in over the line.
Because I know that obviously you seem like a great fit for, you know, Desai Bitcoin right
there next to you up on stage.
But also, since you're going around and doing a lot of education at these universities
for DSI and blockchain technologies, Carla God and Borderless have a wonderful African-based
universities education round also growing on. So that would be another great fit. And you can join
as many community rounds as you qualify
for. I don't know what your platform is, what you're building, if it's a big open source software
platform, if it's a DAP that you're building, or what exactly you're doing to apply for the main
Gitcoin rounds. But if that's the case, you can apply for one of the main rounds and then as many
community rounds as you qualify.
So let's get that grant written, get it posted, get it put up, and get it in before the deadline.
Yeah, I just messaged this icon about my Telegram account as well. free to dm me or we can discuss on how to apply it and
and i would say that don't be anxiety it's just one uh one of the bitcoin round right there so uh as you all know the Gitcoin will run their rounds for every quarter. And
as well as you have a GIFE and also GIFOcten and etc. other platforms are out there. So
as I'm the co-founder of DesignAsia, we also participate different kinds of QF rounds or
funding application right there. So we'll be feel to connect and we have some discussion
about how to group your geographical community in design.
And of course we can maybe connect with,
for example, Design Latem or Design Africa right there
and do a network within the design
and help each other together.
Any last words?
