#  @TheDevanshMehta Devansh Mehta Devansh Mehta posts on X about gitcoin, ethereum, money, arbitrum the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::2570428314/interactions)  ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::2570428314/posts_active)  ### Followers: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::2570428314/followers)  ### CreatorRank: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::2570428314/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) [finance](/list/finance) [stocks](/list/stocks) [events](/list/events) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [countries](/list/countries) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [exchanges](/list/exchanges) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) **Social topic influence** [gitcoin](/topic/gitcoin) #44, [ethereum](/topic/ethereum) #1810, [money](/topic/money), [arbitrum](/topic/arbitrum), [web3](/topic/web3) #2498, [devcon](/topic/devcon), [solana](/topic/solana), [token](/topic/token), [onchain](/topic/onchain), [arb](/topic/arb) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@gitcoin](/creator/undefined) [@arbitrum](/creator/undefined) [@octantapp](/creator/undefined) [@owocki](/creator/undefined) [@disruptionjoe](/creator/undefined) [@vitalikbuterin](/creator/undefined) [@hypercerts](/creator/undefined) [@lefterisjp](/creator/undefined) [@efdevcon](/creator/undefined) [@optimism](/creator/undefined) [@postpolar](/creator/undefined) [@zer8future](/creator/undefined) [@solarpunkmaxi](/creator/undefined) [@ensdomains](/creator/undefined) [@fundingcommons](/creator/undefined) [@wasabinetwork](/creator/undefined) [@carlcervone](/creator/undefined) [@protocolguild](/creator/undefined) [@voicedeckdao](/creator/undefined) [@deepfunding](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Ethereum (ETH)](/topic/ethereum) [Arbitrum (ARB)](/topic/arbitrum) [Solana (SOL)](/topic/solana) [Celo (CELO)](/topic/celo) [Optimism (OP)](/topic/optimism) [Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/bitcoin) [zkSync (ZK)](/topic/zksync) [StarkNet (STRK)](/topic/starknet) [Nouns (nouns)](/topic/nounsdao) [Balancer (BAL)](/topic/balancer) [Gooner Language Model (GLM)](/topic/$glm) [Coinbase Global Inc. (COIN)](/topic/coinbase) [Uber Technologies, Inc. (UBER)](/topic/$uber) [USDC (USDC)](/topic/usdc) [Celestia (TIA)](/topic/celestia) [BlackRock Inc (BLK)](/topic/blackrock) [Aave (AAVE)](/topic/aave) [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Poster presentations at conferences are a good way to build in public & validate your startup idea. We put up our product design for funding journalists based on outcomes of their stories and got some real insights. Grateful to for this opportunity 🙏 http://namastehci.in http://namastehci.in" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1601606354879524864) 2022-12-10T15:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Was great meeting @owocki at the plurality conference. Insightful talk on history of @gitcoin - $73 million in funding over [--] rounds over [--] years. Learnt that outcome verification of gitcoin projects done by community that stops voting for a project due to nonperformance" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1614052899545571328) 2023-01-14T00:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Had a great conversation with @williamhwgeorge who works with @Kleros_io in arbitratring web3 disputes they have mediated [----] disputes with their jurors who r paid $5-$500. The highest value ones are insurance contracts while proof of humanity disputed are the most frequent" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1614322492612706309) 2023-01-14T18:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "If everyone were to order an uber through a smart contract ( like @Drife_official ) gas fees will be more than the ride. @GGrivol is an NYU student optimizing costs in smart contract interactions TY to @CryptoMondaysNY for their weekly events bringing together the web3 community" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1617675819484327937) 2023-01-24T00:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Phenomenal meeting with @PareenL & @BuidlersTribe team with @bradvani & @hodler_fo_lyf Their mission is to pathfind the metrics to evaluate web3 startups as traditional VC firms are unsure of valuation & assessment of blockchain companies participating in the token economy" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1642829255544565760) 2023-04-03T09:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Lovely meeting @W3Hidayath & @athulnambiar22 at the buidlers circle meet in bangalore hosted by @BuidlersTribe A weekly meetup for founders to share what they are going through & how to support each other. We promised to help each other in the upcoming @gitcoin beta round" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1647210032436772864) 2023-04-15T12:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "I just donated to the Web3 Open Source Software Round on @gitcoin I can personally vouch for @DeCartography & @W3Hidayath who have solid teams working on real problems I've also been impressed with @Giveth & @commonsstack & all they have given to the ecosystem over years" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1651158665087295489) 2023-04-26T09:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@gzhcoin @gitcoin When voting in the web3 community round do consider adding my project VoiceDeck to your cart We're using the outcome funding instrument @hypercerts to pay investigative journalists when their story creates some real world impact Deets 👇 https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/1/0xaa40e2e5c8df03d792a52b5458959c320f86ca18/0xaa40e2e5c8df03d792a52b5458959c320f86ca18-240 https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/1/0xaa40e2e5c8df03d792a52b5458959c320f86ca18/0xaa40e2e5c8df03d792a52b5458959c320f86ca18-240" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1652952792250863616) 2023-05-01T08:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@sinkala_arthur @gitcoin If you're voting in the web3 community & edu round do vote for my project VoiceDeck We're onboarding investigative reporters and donors to web3 by creating a market for outcomes of journalism stories thru the hypercerts token standard Deets 👇 https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/1/0xaa40e2e5c8df03d792a52b5458959c320f86ca18/0xaa40e2e5c8df03d792a52b5458959c320f86ca18-240 https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/1/0xaa40e2e5c8df03d792a52b5458959c320f86ca18/0xaa40e2e5c8df03d792a52b5458959c320f86ca18-240" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1652953431135637506) 2023-05-01T08:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@guiribabrb @banklessDAO @creatorcabins Did you manage to check out @gitcoin and study their vulnerability" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1657869190248935425) 2023-05-14T22:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@blanktablets @gitcoin Projects should reward donors not gitcoin or the matching pool sponsors Projects can gift hypercerts to their donors and also airdrop rewards to cert holders we should use these tools innovatively. Instead most projects in the alpha round didn't even mint their cert 🤦" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1658530523822821376) 2023-05-16T17:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@0xsachi @melmelmelting .@gitcoin is the leader in this along with all the projects registered on their platform" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1659503232346120192) 2023-05-19T10:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@gospelofchange Yeah the sustainable way to do it would be cost price + X% Each person can define X according to their values and what the market accepts . Supernormal profits are more likely than not to cause reputational loss" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1660306308246171649) 2023-05-21T15:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@truenorth_proj @gospelofchange Profit is the intersection b/w commission charged above cost price and what the market accepts To give back you can reduce commission as much as possible (if it's a price sensitive market) or create aqueducts to channel surplus to gitcoin matching pools or other public goods" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1660308874065506305) 2023-05-21T15:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@AtlantisDAO1 @gitcoin Thank you for hosting me it was great meeting the folks behind the GreenPill India festival which united the refi india community Will be sure to follow your zero waste pilot at gokarna & water sensing one at Chikmagalur. Can't wait for your citizen app rollout" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1661253715767234561) 2023-05-24T06:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@TheMetaCatalyst @natesuits @sirsuhayb @DominicMadori I don't feel the need to apologise for believing that judges in ANY gitcoin sponsored round should have less power than they did in DEI Thank you for taking the time to let me know what has upset you genuinely appreciate it" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1661461929829998592) 2023-05-24T19:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@TheMetaCatalyst @natesuits @sirsuhayb @DominicMadori Are there such things in the world as unbiased judges The whole point of @gitcoin is letting the wisdom of the crowd decide how to allocate funding to projects If you were privy to the discussion what was the reason that DEI didn't have any voting like the other rounds" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1661465342747762689) 2023-05-24T20:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@TheMetaCatalyst @natesuits @sirsuhayb @DominicMadori @gitcoin Except DEI every round even the featured ones had a voting system DEI was the only one to allocate gitcoin money through [--] judges holding power over which projects receive bonus cash Escaping centralized power like that is why I'm in web3 in the 1st place" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1661476269891158016) 2023-05-24T20:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@TheMetaCatalyst @natesuits @sirsuhayb @DominicMadori @gitcoin Ah I see was the money from the same matching pool sponsors as the other core rounds Or was it held independently like the TEC MetaCrisis or DeSci rounds Would appreciate a URL source if there is one" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1661488340447776769) 2023-05-24T21:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@moodlezoup Ah got it @gitcoin uses snapshot for offline voting to save gas fees & then tally as a procedural on-chain vote. If the tally vote is different from snapshot every steward uses their power to vote acc to snapshot results Cicadas is on-chain & avoids this workaround 👍" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1661790955211755520) 2023-05-25T17:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@HaileyLennonBTC It has worried me that this bear hasn't yet seen the death of any big chain. Polkadot cardano solana etc still going strong(ish) Makes me feel that more painful days are ahead before we see the light" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1662350892920877057) 2023-05-27T06:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@prnth_ Yup the advice from @gitcoin staff to focus on the $1 donations wasn't optimal. in simple QF [--] people giving a $ each = [--] person giving $100 so aiming for $20-$100 donors is best for max matching funds. Weighted quadratic voting is needed for the $1 donations to mean more" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1662787908036878336) 2023-05-28T11:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@ericzhang90 Ha are you trying to throw shade at solana which doesn't believe in the need for L2s" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1662867614241275904) 2023-05-28T17:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@epowell101 @gitcoin @OpenDataforWeb3 Hi Evan I'm also voting against approval & for more discussion primarily to address the role big money had compared to smaller $1 voters It creates incentives for wash trading channeling other project money thru gitcoin to increase matching funds" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1662919725591199746) 2023-05-28T20:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@OpenDataforWeb3 @epowell101 @gitcoin That's definitely useful in catching wallets using swapping services like changenow However as a best practice our team creates a separate wallet for every grant received We could easily have cycled each of the grants we've got thru gitcoin and come out with a profit" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1662953540346863616) 2023-05-28T22:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@solarpunkmaxi @prnth_ @gitcoin I read that gitcoin devs decided not to show matching during donations as the end result turned out to be different from projections The math seemed off this round with too much power given to high value donations" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1663132185409515520) 2023-05-29T10:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@natvancleve @gitcoin @OpenDataforWeb3 I haven't done this myself @carl_cervone is going to give it a shot before the vote comes up so he would know better Acc. to a response @epowell101 got on gitcoins forum timestamp and passport checks are derived from on-chain data that's replicable" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1663231113685536768) 2023-05-29T17:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@nikete @owocki @clrfund @gitcoin @PomeloGrants It happens on a 'don't expect it but be grateful for it' basis" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1663659706924298240) 2023-05-30T21:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The @gitcoin governance forum is the right place for beta round projects to constructively raise concerns @connoroday0 says lower participation resulted in money playing an outsized role relative to number of contributors. We need weighted QF in low participation rounds" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1664217755892191232) 2023-06-01T10:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@not_qz @gitcoin @connoroday0 in no order; [--]. How to give better visibility to sponsors of matching funds [--]. Evaluation procedures on for projects that have raised significant money [--]. Catching wash trading/devising new QF formulas to reduce the role of money power" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1664253360923631618) 2023-06-01T12:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@CS_Synthesist @DisruptionJoe @gitcoin @connoroday0 Definitely would love to chat sometime Your DMs aren't open so you should either followback or change the privacy settings so anyone can message you 🙂" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1664579546673455104) 2023-06-02T10:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@mrjasonchoi Web3 let's you get paid by an algorithm instead of a human being which is so empowering Look @gitcoin for eg. They raise funds for a cause and those are distributed based on no. of votes each project gets . I can insult gitcoin all i want & still get funded by them" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1664914870846799872) 2023-06-03T08:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@DisruptionJoe @danny_cryptofay @shawnlgrubb @feemschats @_Daniel_Ospina @KylerW56 @lalalavendr To be fair most of the 100k+ GTC token holders do vote more than 75% of the time. I also like how the data is available for me to see before i delegate to someone so i would naturally choose a delegate who votes all things being equal" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1665020488047816706) 2023-06-03T15:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@DisruptionJoe @danny_cryptofay @shawnlgrubb @feemschats @_Daniel_Ospina @KylerW56 @lalalavendr It could result in pork barrel politics i'll vote for your proposal in which you need to abstain & you do the same for mine. I was quite concerned with how quorum requirements on gitcoin are in name only as 3-4 of the top stewards fulfil the [---] million GTC mark" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1665022570368827392) 2023-06-03T15:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@KylerW56 @_Daniel_Ospina @DisruptionJoe @danny_cryptofay @shawnlgrubb @feemschats @lalalavendr Not just an abstracted version but also a democratic one. If my steward or chairperson makes an unpopular decision i withdraw support and delegate my GTC to someone else. Can't think of any corporate structure thats even a quarter as democratic 😂" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1665035767616356353) 2023-06-03T16:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "When I first met @owocki in Jan @PluralityInst I found his answer lacking on how @gitcoin evaluates grantee performance Which is why I'm excited by their integration with Decentralized Review System (Deresy) & pilot eval of [--] climate projects in GR14" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1665694482157666304) 2023-06-05T12:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Deresy is a credibly neutral platform enabling Sponsors to pay Reviewers for assessment of a Target. It's initial use is accountability & followup of projects receiving grant funds Deresy is censorship resistant with payment logic via @arbitrum & data storage on @IPFS" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1665695612707426304) 2023-06-05T12:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Eventually each project on @gitcoin will receive a score on their use of funds as a signal to donors during grant rounds Open Qs - who funds evaluation - selecting evaluators & preventing collusion -developing a standard scoring metric Like/RT/Comment" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1665698108683227136) 2023-06-05T12:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Amazing alpha from @DisruptionJoe on stages of a DAO after their treasury is decentralized Excited spending spree -- requests for accountability -- centralization by stewards -- voter apathy What are some alternative pathways @gitcoin seems to have done a decent job" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1666010580837355521) 2023-06-06T09:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "I show them ongoing proposals on @gitcoin or @arbitrum governance forums They relate this to their work life where similar discussions take place behind closed doors Finally i show them votes on these proposal on @SnapshotLabs or @tallyxyz & their greenpilled at this point" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1666760536149860359) 2023-06-08T10:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@owocki @gitcoin My biggest question here would be the admin cost eaten up at each stage After all nowadays big donors benchmark impact created against just directly giving local communities the money without overhead https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1625899071260229632t=we3CqOZsdWuvzPNv55l48A&s=19 The leading question in philanthropy today is do we donate to a nonprofit helping people or use @GiveDirectly to let people help themselves Most nonprofits can't justify their ROI compared to just transferring money to the people they serve" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1666785896065294341) 2023-06-08T12:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I'm seeing an interesting argument that DAO governance tokens arent a security as there's no profit motive only voting for the collective 🤔 This puts tokens from @gitcoin @arbitrum @optimismFND in a different bucket from @0xPolygonLabs where $MATIC is also used as gas" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1669391519659458560) 2023-06-15T17:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@sinomont @gitcoin @arbitrum @optimismFND @0xPolygonLabs @EuCInitiative Thanks for the shoutout gave them a follow I haven't got any lawyers opinion on this argument so would be great to hear one actually" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1669401315439706113) 2023-06-15T17:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@solarpunkmaxi @gitcoin @arbitrum @optimismFND @0xPolygonLabs Is there a source for polygon shifting to eth for gas Wonder how that would affect price Arbitrum isconsidering the reverse case letting $ARB be used as gas so there is some utility to the token Imo the biggest utility is control over sequencer revenue and how it's spent" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1669410813625655296) 2023-06-15T18:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@deeparocks @gitcoin @arbitrum @optimismFND @0xPolygonLabs Yup i have picked up some $ARB & $GTC on mainnet via uniswap thru my metamask" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1669440946868744192) 2023-06-15T20:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "I just donated to the Gitcoin Citizens Round #1: Retroactive funding on @gitcoin. Join me in making a difference by donating today I bridged from @arbitrum to @optimismFND using @Orbiter_Finance . Smooth cheap and pain free Who I voted for 🥁👇🏾" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1670907881581838339) 2023-06-19T21:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements ".@jhruth for evaluating impact of Gitcoin grantees @carl_cervone for @hypercerts integration with @gitcoin @JimiCohen for Gitcoin Radio @karmahq_ for integrating snapshot voting data with gitcoins governance forum @carlosjmelgar & @zer8_future for their long association" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1670908057335873540) 2023-06-19T21:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@zer8_future @jhruth @carl_cervone @hypercerts @gitcoin @JimiCohen @karmahq_ @carlosjmelgar Thank you for your service Donating on Optimism was an amazing experience almost zero gas fees. The only thing i missed from the beta round was the carts i had to add and donate to each one individually" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1670915254690230272) 2023-06-19T22:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@karmahq_ @jhruth @carl_cervone @hypercerts @gitcoin @JimiCohen @carlosjmelgar @zer8_future Wen you cmg to @arbitrum Ive gotten used to hovering above a profile on governance forums and seeing their vote participation" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1670981785788858368) 2023-06-20T02:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@jhruth @carl_cervone @hypercerts @gitcoin @JimiCohen @karmahq_ @carlosjmelgar @zer8_future Anytime I'm really excited to see how deresy pans out wishing you all the support you need to make it successful" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1670982911477022720) 2023-06-20T04:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@JimiCohen @jhruth @carl_cervone @hypercerts @gitcoin @karmahq_ @carlosjmelgar @zer8_future Always my friend really love your energy and passion" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1671018150559727616) 2023-06-20T04:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Super meeting @paulbrigner at the pretty good policy (PGP) for crypto breakfast a monthly panel he hosts with @BlockchainAssn & @ElectricCoinCo Paul works with @zcash as he believes the state is on a path of surveillance & fiat can never provide the privacy we need" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1671656746866327552) 2023-06-21T23:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@deeparocks @gitcoin @bjuglas Orbiter is a good bridge" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1671930959783161856) 2023-06-22T17:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@pbrody @gitcoin Wow that's an amazing response 👏 i can't wait to read it I'll do a review of it in a twitter thread once I've worked my way through it" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1672064646843609088) 2023-06-23T02:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "I got to meet @carl_cervone in the flesh Scarcity is not enough to give @hypercerts value so he's focusing on impact evaluations at scale. A culture change needs to happen in DAO grantmaking whereby 2-10% is mandatorily kept aside for external audit & documentation Web3 was a" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1674252061704359938) 2023-06-29T03:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "interesting suggestion on @gitcoin governance forum - obtain ad revenue by selling real estate on the donation page Does anyone know how web3 founders market new products The quarterly grants round mobilizes the crypto community & can help founders reach their target market" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1674651646020952066) 2023-06-30T05:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@endaomentdotorg @carl_cervone @zer8_future @gitcoin @alloprotocol i wouldn't emphasize this too much as endaoment will receive the social capital & marketing benefits of distributing $60k to projects on their platform At some level i'm grappling with the question of whether allo would have been used by endaoment if not for the 🥕" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1675269163651334144) 2023-07-01T22:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@carl_cervone @zer8_future @gitcoin @endaomentdotorg @alloprotocol Those are [--] great metrics to evaluate any future request for funding by endaoment👍 [--]. Additional fund infusion into the matching pool beyond the $60k gitcoin has given [--]. Sybil defense & wash trading prevention measures in allocating funds from their impact pool 🙂" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1675278418303389697) 2023-07-01T23:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@kbw @carlosjmelgar @zer8_future @gitcoin @endaomentdotorg @alloprotocol After a long discussion with Carl we boiled it down to having the following [--] metrics in the proposal: [--]. amount of co-funding in their impact pool beyond the $60k from gitcoin [--]. R&D into new techniques for catching cheating projects/Sybil defense" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1675286132245032962) 2023-07-01T23:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Great to finally meet @web3_ayush from @BuidlersTribe after all the calls we've been on together 🤙 Ayush thinks the next crypto bull wave will come from bridging real world assets to public blockchains. Invoice financing real estate & social impact are some examples we spoke about 📈 Interestingly all [--] cases require evaluators for invoice authenticity property ownership or outcome verification 👨🚀 Ayush is generally bearish about investing in dapps & bullish on web3 infrastructure 🔭 Dapps have limited upside with a smaller TAM whereas infra has no limit to its pump ⛽" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1676309645156298752) 2023-07-04T19:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@solarpunkmaxi @violetidentity @gitcoin @BenWest @connoroday0 @DisruptionJoe @umarkhaneth @zer8_future @jhruth @ColeenChase @RohitMalekar @owocki @checkfit @SolarpunkGuild @refidaoist @carl_cervone Sounds interesting you should post this as a proposal on gitcoin's governance forum. I'd also like details on the projects its been used with in the past & how those went. Prima facie EAS services like this one or @Kiltprotocol in polka do a good job of verifying uniqueness" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1677247639870656512) 2023-07-07T09:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@solarpunkmaxi @violetidentity @gitcoin @BenWest @connoroday0 @DisruptionJoe @umarkhaneth @zer8_future @jhruth @ColeenChase @RohitMalekar @owocki @checkfit @SolarpunkGuild @refidaoist @carl_cervone @Kiltprotocol The ideas and open discussion subforum on gitcoin is the right place to get feedback from the community leading to a proposal if you go down that route" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1677248085083451393) 2023-07-07T09:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@solarpunkmaxi I haven't come across those but I've heard @aavegotchi has gone thru the entire lifecycle of starting their curve & then dissolving it after reaching critical mass @sora_xor is also doing some kick-ass work on bonding curves including sharing their mathematical formulas" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1677947826284933126) 2023-07-09T07:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@divine_economy Revolutionary stuff [--] Qs ; [--]. How do you prevent Sybil attacks where people create bots fulfilling parameters like twitter follower & swinging the vote [--]. In token voting holders want the DAO to succeed so price go up curious to see how incentive alignment plays out here" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1678866852481744896) 2023-07-11T20:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "When a government has strong social welfare programs it attracts human talent who help domestic companies make profit (& pay taxes) web3 grants are similar : it attracts builders who increase transactions grants in traditional philanthropy are more altruistic by comparison" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1678950750330966016) 2023-07-12T02:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@emiyazono @david1casey @anamarie_com @guil_is @optimismFND What a great meeting with @WGogloza @golemproject did an ico in [----] before it was called ico to create a supercomputer. They raised [------] ETH They created @OctantApp which stakes 100k eth from reserves. [---] eth every [--] days is distributed to public goods funding 😲" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1680159803249684480) 2023-07-15T10:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@emiyazono @david1casey @anamarie_com @guil_is @optimismFND @WGogloza @golemproject @OctantApp This is @thetimearcher from @OpenCivics which connects experimental communities We chatted about townships like Auroville (India) Eden (phoenix) & Acrosanti (Arizona) [--] person groups are good for finishing a defined task while [--] people achieve strategic objectives" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1680177844649963523) 2023-07-15T11:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@emiyazono @david1casey @anamarie_com @guil_is @optimismFND @WGogloza @golemproject @OctantApp @thetimearcher @OpenCivics . @HadarRot is designing the bonding curve for @gooddollarorg a web3 version of @GiveDirectly with mkt cap of $1 mn Bonding curves are seen as capital inefficient due to high collateral. Initially it is 100% to eliminate volatility but over time they reduced it to 57%" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1680194241312555008) 2023-07-15T12:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Incredible talk by @vincentweisser at ethcc. There's an ongoing boom in DeSci projects too many to keep up with. Reminds me of @StrainPirate remark on scientists being the next adopters of crypto after artists came onboard with NFTs permanent storage for scientific reports &" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1681443603837509632) 2023-07-26T17:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Loving the session @schellingpoint_ hosted by @leen_schelfhoutn some ideas we discussed for helping @regensunite onboard the next billion regens -bridges b/w lang communitied -amplification on twitter for regen posters - votes on gitcoin for projects in regen network -" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1681621655095762944) 2023-07-21T04:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@arbitrum @hkalodner @OffchainLabs @Polkadot @solana Thoroughly enjoyed @A_Leutenegger talk on learnings from aragon dao Their [----] ico raised 275k eth. Theit founders actually quit in 2020-21 but the community rebooted it. Their early experiment ANDAO was a mess with a [--] page legal charter & contributors cashing out or taking" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1682017828092760064) 2023-07-20T13:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@AragonProject @arbitrum @hkalodner @OffchainLabs @Polkadot @solana @A_Leutenegger Anytime I loved the talk & curious to dig deeper into Aragon 🌝" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1682028693378732033) 2023-07-20T14:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Heard something fascinating @modular_summit in paris yeaterday @Bancor developed the 1st version of @Uniswap but they used their own token during trades Ethereum & @VitalikButerin wanted to increase the utility of eth & so they funded uniswap to take over bancors market share" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1682667275940245504) 2023-07-22T08:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "WAGMI aside competition in crypto happens at the token level Your ultimate obligation is to token holders & you have to attract attn & dd to raise its price Eg the @golemproject founders have gone their own ways but are united by doing good for $GLM" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1682670969649782784) 2023-07-22T08:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Interesting analysis by @VitalikButerin in @modular_summit conference Privacy preserving txns like SNARKs cost $19 more than regular ones in the current system SNARKs have high fixed cost but low marginal costs so aggregating txns w/o centralisation/censorship is the soln" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1682752470521356288) 2023-07-22T14:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I loved @aeyakovenko end game vision of @solana . Building a blockchain network as fast or faster than Bloomberg terminal enabling a provably fair system for high frequency traders It's currently [---] milliseconds & their working to reduce to [---] 🤯 V diff from goals of eth" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1682795263285424128) 2023-07-22T17:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@nickwh8te @aeyakovenko I also loved @VitalikButerin & @musalbas appreciation of solana not fragmenting their user base into L2s" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1682855234102591488) 2023-07-22T22:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@solarpunkmaxi Yup Cosmos is the extreme of bridge abstraction as each dapp is its own blockchain. If seamless bridging doesn't happen solana will benefit The plural landscape is hard for dapps to navigate. optimism - creators arbitrum - commercial apps & polygon - institutions is my read" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1684520265768660994) 2023-07-27T11:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@PabloPeniche We should remember this is karma playing out over centuries The US ( & Europe) looted Africa & enslaved it's population So now when these immigrants come to their countries it's the chicken coming home to roost" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1687775344504561665) 2023-08-05T10:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@NathanpmYoung Not entirely true Israel or Germany have proportional voting which has tended to mean more coalition governments which has influenced stability & decisiveness of moving on issues you mentioned above" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1688152847828107264) 2023-08-06T11:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@pfedprog @gitcoin You too my friend see you soon" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1689265197394046977) 2023-08-09T13:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@CaolnBreathnac1 Yeah I loved the panelists answers to my Q on whether they continue using gitcoin even after their project takes off @austingriffith & @HominLuo use it to donate rather than receive while @futurealisha has it as a testbed for newew unproven ideas @gitcoin is a sticky product" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1689321185560199168) 2023-08-09T17:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@TheRealStone @gitcoin Thanks Anna good luck to you in the upcoming @buidlbox hackathon. I hope the @gooddollarorg protocol gets a ton of integrations supporting UBI with public goods funding" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1689391808797933572) 2023-08-09T21:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Gitcoin is soo lucky to have @CaolnBreathnac1 He's a breath of fresh air v amiable & grounded . Gitcoins gonna make its presence known across ecosystems & the web2 world with him at the helm" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1689628233581641728) 2023-08-10T13:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Ahead of GG18 i analyzed @gitcoinpassport scores ENS holders that voted in the past active developers users of alt social media (lens/snapshot) & $GTC stakers will clear the high bar After they were sybil botted in the beta round @gitcoin is playing it safe & consolidating" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1691103733214838784) 2023-08-14T15:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Thankful to @clinamenic for voting for my project VoiceDeck in the web3 community round 🙏🏾 @gitcoin grant rounds are the OG it lets you support your friends & the folks who show up everyday Each vote brings a multiple of 3-8x so the support matters" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1691476824667443200) 2023-08-15T15:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I just donated to #GG18 on @gitcoin @JournoDao @greenpillnet with @sejal_rekhan my project VoiceDeck @hrm_o25 @OpenDataforWeb3 with @epowell101 & @zachxbt got my votes in the web3 community round Passport requirements are high so if you clear the bar be sure to vote" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1691508543978196993) 2023-08-15T17:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@hrm_o25 @gitcoin @JournoDao @greenpillnet @sejal_rekhan @OpenDataforWeb3 @epowell101 @zachxbt Anytime good luck with the round First time can be brutal it takes a few rounds for your project to really pick up momentum. Don't get disheartened 🤗" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1691515020952367104) 2023-08-15T18:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@LefterisJP @owocki It's not an either or i usually post in gitcoin forum and summarise it on Twitter with screenshots of the post" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1691519650373464069) 2023-08-15T18:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@zachxbt @0xngmi @0xCygaar People getting their funds back who want to support you should donate to your project in the gitcoin round" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1691522629856030721) 2023-08-15T18:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@0xZfx @gitcoin Do consider voting for my project VoiceDeck in the web3 community round We're creating a pathway to onboard journalists to web3 by having them mint any impact from their work as hypercerts Link for details:" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1691533821357981696) 2023-08-15T19:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@techtech0 @gitcoin Do check out my project VoiceDeck we're working with media outlets to port their [--] year database of impact to Optimism using hypercerts Why keep your impact data private instead of uploading it on a public blockchain" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1691534198845370369) 2023-08-15T19:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@0x6a6Eth @gitcoin Hey thanks for being a good member of the ecosystem and supporting public goods Do check out my project VoiceDeck before you next vote. We're working with the hypercerts standard to create a system where changemakers can bring impact data onchain" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1691535194401243136) 2023-08-15T19:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@xdamman @leen_schelfhout @gitcoin @all4climatedao Yup it'll discourage donors like you from supporting any project in the climate round as you don't know which ones are getting money from shell because of your vote @gitcoin should rollover she'll funds to next round if they can't list projects acceptance of shell funds" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1691750445377835366) 2023-08-16T09:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@JimiCohen @gitcoin Hey Jimi do vote for my project VoiceDeck Once journalists come onboard web3 we'll see a lot of other groups follow suit. VoiceDeck is creating APIs for newsrooms to record the impact of stories on Optimism as hypercerts" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1692194818896924830) 2023-08-17T15:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@JimiCohen @VitalikButerin @ethereum The journalist in me wants to know if the rumours of vitalik supporting uniswap over bancor is true Apparently they favoured uniswap as it created utility for eth while bancor used their own token so ethereum folks tilted the scales against them" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1692598944856170727) 2023-08-18T18:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@IrthuSuresh @Shell @JimiCohen @thetreegens Indeed the question is really on what the right terms are when receiving blood money and managing the optics of it To change social conventions we should collaborate with not just our allies but also our (current) foes" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1695048775948210551) 2023-08-25T12:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "some peeps are having a hard time getting their @gitcoinpassport so @hodler_fo_lyf & i created a guide to help you obtain one tl;dr: only developers ENS holders & existing @gitcoin donors can easily get a passport Pity that devs are the only non-web3 users you can onboard" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1695747705056928154) 2023-08-27T10:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@izziaraffaele @gitcoinpassport @hodler_fo_lyf @gitcoin Thanks Raffaele vitalik told gitcoin way back that they provide more value to projects if they hold rounds at a regular cadence rather than one grand show So think of passport verification as letting you give continuous streams of funding every quarter to your fav projects" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1695809512098373741) 2023-08-27T14:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@izziaraffaele @gitcoinpassport @hodler_fo_lyf @gitcoin That's a great analysis thanks for the markings on our note One important clarification is that if you get full GitHub scores it compensates for not having an ENS/web3 reputation Full socials + GitHub + civic captcha pass on a L2 like arbitrum gets you over [--] in a dollar" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1695864111853453683) 2023-08-27T18:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@izziaraffaele @gitcoinpassport @hodler_fo_lyf @gitcoin Yup my feeling is the @gitcoinpassport team chose to play it safe after the beta round was Sybil attacked & restricted themselves this round to onramping web2 devs to web3 among new crypto users Lets see what they cook up for next round" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1695878318455980508) 2023-08-27T19:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@IrthuSuresh Short term games with short term people = mutually beneficial association ❓ Long term games with short term people = unhappiness 😢 Long term games with long term people ✅" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1696078334353199340) 2023-08-28T08:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@izziaraffaele @jkd_eth @gitcoinpassport @hodler_fo_lyf @gitcoin with credit card payments you lose the option of being anonymous to your government so it should be optional & only count for a few points if you verify/pay with it. We should also design the passport assuming there's an army of Bangladeshi workers hired to vote for projects" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1696804608084254832) 2023-08-30T08:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Now that @gitcoin madness has passed you should reach out & thank your voters The way I did it was [--]. Enter your projects wallet payout address in OP Mainnet explorer [--]. click on 'parent txn hash' for every vote you have received [--]. Copy the public key listed in the 'from'" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1697208309517033948) 2023-08-31T11:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@WowPriyank @gitcoin I hadn't heard of Phantombuster seems useful to message voters after you've connected their wallet address to their twitter account The painful part is linking their vote for you on optimism with their ENS on ethereum & then finding the Twitter linked to that ENS" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1697236969498251437) 2023-08-31T13:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@IGLIVISION @ensdomains @hypercerts @dm3protocol Nice i see that dm protocol is gonna be at dappcon in berlin will try meeting them there" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1698003287138832786) 2023-09-02T16:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@flow_science @ensdomains @hypercerts @keypomxyz @sharddog That's cool gonna have to see how keypom does NFT drops without needing a wallet 🤔" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1698023108115038376) 2023-09-02T17:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@namestonehq @ensdomains @hypercerts Oh that's great I didn't see the option of bringing onchain sub-ens domains created through namestone is that something you provide in your APIs" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1698023421211541864) 2023-09-02T17:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Super chill vibes here @FundingCommons . It's held in a factory /co-working space so buidler feels all around The 1st panel i attended spoke about onchain reputation & it's applications. We touched on gitcoin passport & how it doesn't cater to OGs who split txns across multiple wallets / identities" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1700128905783312390) 2023-09-08T12:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@EspressoSys @MSilb7 Definitely need more interoperability among OP mainnet and OP stack chains absurd that @pgn_eth requires bridging from ethereum even though its an OP stack chain :/ Once arbitrum stylus (rust programs in evm) is up & running we could have interoperability with alt-L1s too" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1700142830058905604) 2023-09-08T13:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@LefterisJP @DCbuild3r I think it's also a political move ahead of elections next year the opposition united under the name I.N.D.I.A Renaming to Bharat makes the opposition feel anglicised & out of touch" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1700428882522910850) 2023-09-09T08:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements ".@david1casey brought onstage participants in the month long berlin residency program working across [--] areas They shared that having a space where you come up with an idea & immediately have a group to see whether it's actually solving anything is super valuable" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1700782651198579188) 2023-09-10T08:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@david1casey I heard from @JonasSFT how he contacts coders of open source repos he uses asking them to claim their magic internet money Almost no one responds to him @lftherios is solving this with @dripsnetwork programmatically giving revenue to coders when revenue comes in" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1700783880792371631) 2023-09-10T08:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@david1casey @JonasSFT @lftherios @dripsnetwork .@heynate_g spoke on @alloprotocol V2 which goes in for audit on Monday He expects it to be rolled out by October . Reputation scoring is going to be a big focus of @gitcoin after allo V2 It can be used for grants bounties hackathons & even venture investments" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1700784559053295874) 2023-09-10T08:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@david1casey @JonasSFT @lftherios @dripsnetwork @heynate_g @alloprotocol @gitcoin Some ICO dragons have preserved their ETH from 2016-17. @julianzawist is pathfinding ways to deploy this corpus to benefit early supporters @OctantApp staked 100k eth raised [--] years ago. Anyone staking $GLM gets to share these rewards or pass it onwards to public good projects" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1700787191692042666) 2023-09-10T08:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@DisruptionJoe @FundingCommons @buidlbox Yes if following conditions are met; [--]. challenges are well scoped out [--]. pool of designers developers & product managers to group into teams [--]. mentors to ensure solutions are on track & relevant As gitcoin/QF brings teams together buidlbox/hackathons get people together" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1700871620418556349) 2023-09-10T13:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@miroyato @Esk3nder .@cassidydaly sees collateralisation of real world assets to get loans to users as the big opp of AA as it creates privacy onchain & let's you whitelist accounts @gislik is seeing execs from paypal & other fintechs use AA as it allows for user custody letting them focus on UX" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1700889905201635816) 2023-09-10T15:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "A repeated theme @dappcon_berlin is DAOs diversifying their treasury to real world assets like stocks or treasury bonds Both @cassidydaly from @centrifuge prime & @Mona_El_Isa from @avantgardefi building solutions for DAOs to diversify their corpus into traditional finance" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1701216326566437366) 2023-09-11T12:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@TheRealStone @TravCrypto1 Thanks for bringing to my attn Anna 😊 I can show this to many citizen journo news outlet & also combine it with the hypercerts based model im working on to fund such reporters when their stories create impact" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1701342600588931344) 2023-09-11T21:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "I just used @jokerace_xyz to submit feedback for improving @gitcoin grant rounds & give ideas on what to next build on @pgn_eth I love the core idea : crowdsource suggestions from your community based on prompts then get them to vote on the best ideas The winner gets prizes 🏆 recognition 👨🏾🔧 & influence over DAO priorities 🏗 It's a neat way of harnessing collective intelligence through contests Last [--] hours to get your word in for improving gitcoin grant rounds" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1701886868902617455) 2023-09-13T09:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@jhruth @snack_man A travel agency to attend crypto meetups & conferences around the world would be nice Almost every city I've gone to has some local chapters & pop up groups that meet regularly" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1701916665523347893) 2023-09-13T11:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@travalacom @jhruth @snack_man And fools seldom differ 🤡 Crypto tourism is nice a spreadsheet of all crypto meetup groups around the world would be v valuable" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1702256013288559052) 2023-09-14T09:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@snack_man @travalacom @jhruth The sheets more about crypto conferences happening around the world on specific dates When traveling with family on holiday I like to attend recurring meetups in the city I'm in like @greenpillnet Crypto Monday @pgpforcrypto etc" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1702309620029464678) 2023-09-14T13:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@ErikVoorhees @Permissionless What a mind-blowing talk 🤯 Did you write a script & practice write or just deliver this off the cuff" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1702458789843071237) 2023-09-14T23:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@post_polar_ @ErikVoorhees @Permissionless Yeah true the pauses do seem choreographed Definitely the most convincing speech on what the end game of crypto/web3 should be" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1702755752396370208) 2023-09-15T18:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@MSilb7 It has also surprised me that the op stack chain @pgn_eth consistently has gas fees of 30-50 cents compared to lower amounts on OP mainnet Since OP gets 20% of txn fees from OP stack chains this might weirdly increase your revenue despite taking away action from OP mainnet" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1703103434633752826) 2023-09-16T17:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@marsXRobertson @Polkadot @gavofyork Yes @SoosMate was discussing a similar approach where you first create the contract on the L1 & then bridge it to L2 The problem with the create approach is that I could create your L2 contract on the L1 with the public address so you also need to prove ownership is same" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1703156440410497451) 2023-09-16T21:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@dumbnamenumbers @WasabiNetwork @Polkadot @gavofyork What you're describing sounds more like a MEV problem once txns get through on the L2 my assets are as secure as if they were on the L1 (if it's an EOA account)" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1703157181476917690) 2023-09-16T21:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@mybellalogica @MSilb7 @pgn_eth @kbw @owocki Thanks I've added it to the @jokerace_xyz challenge for pgn so do vote for it @MSilb7 while submitting my jokerace entry i did as you suggested (changing priority fee) & it worked At least the higher fees i paid earlier will come back to me as @gitcoin matching funds 😂" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1703160253120929885) 2023-09-16T21:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@marsXRobertson @Polkadot @gavofyork @SoosMate Every problem does indeed have a solution the trick is to the find the one with the path of least resistance" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1703167394309427478) 2023-09-16T22:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@0xz80 @BFreshHB I'm also hopeful arbitrum stylus lets us overcome the fragmentation in crypto by enabling interoperability with dapps on alt L1s like polkadot or solana Combined with OPs superchain creating seamlessness b/w EVM chains we could dig out of the hole we're in" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1703188236858720694) 2023-09-16T23:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@Mastrangeloric A person who worked on polygon village in 2021-22" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1703466887206559782) 2023-09-17T17:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@SebMontgomery I'm meeting the source again today (who worked at polygon village) let me see if I can dig up anything" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1703467034468581757) 2023-09-17T17:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@NanakNihal @Polkadot @gavofyork EOAs have the same public key on both ethereum & L2s so it's easier to withdraw money from the L1 if the L2 is compromised but the state is retained Whereas smart accounts have different public keys & even if it's the same you have to somehow prove you're the owner of both" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1703471518867456318) 2023-09-17T18:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@Mastrangeloric @Polkadot @gavofyork Yeah i haven't gone too deep into how polkadot parachains overcome this same issue 🤔" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1703471832538534188) 2023-09-17T18:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@WarangShankar That's true rotating elected grant committees like optimism & arbitrum is better than fixed staff I would push back on fully onchain governance multisigs with security council is a better approach to protect against raiders taking flash loans of governance tokens" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1703516053203009857) 2023-09-17T21:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@NanakNihal @Polkadot @gavofyork Yeah some of the folks at ethereum foundation said best practice is creating the SCW on the L1 & then bridging it to the L2 But as you observed most skip that step & directly create the gnosis safe on the L2" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1703517282419261775) 2023-09-17T21:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "UPDATE: I spoke at length to the source & direct kickbacks only took place in 1-2 cases he knew. It was NOT the norm/culture of polygon village grants program as i misrepresented in my earlier tweet. I apologize for my earlier generalization based on a throwaway comment he made The culture of quid pro quo in the polygon village grants program arose from their lack of procedure more taking the form of trading favours than direct bribes. Based on my conversation these are the changes that should be implemented before polygon village [---] relaunches; [--]. Publishing names of projects receiving" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1703549414340428140) 2023-09-17T23:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@bloodpactxprs @richardkingxyz You can view hearsay as first information reports worthy of further investigation ultimately to publish an expose you need documents" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1703774219832557695) 2023-09-18T14:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@sid_polygon Indeed a better SOP would have been running the tweet by the source prior to publishing" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1703775508184338816) 2023-09-18T14:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@MorriganXBT I did verify the source worked at polygon village I didn't send the tweet to him before putting it out so he reached out giving the more accurate update For social media tips from former employees are fair game to post (as long as source of info is clearly mentioned)" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1703788265591951755) 2023-09-18T15:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@SCBuergel @Polkadot @gavofyork The issue arises when you create the smart account/contract on the L2 without creating it at all on the L1 (like gnosis safe let's you do for eg) In that case you have to depend on the L1 recreating the state of the L2 before it was compromised to secure your funds" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1703789020663214117) 2023-09-18T15:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Polygons event at berlin blockchain week was a stunner. Great food talks a TT table & also an opportunity for dapps to showcase their products 👍 I got the chance to chat with @jbaylina architect of polygons zkEVM & a powerhouse of wisdom for all things zero knowledge proof He said zk rollups become really cost efficient at scale & even then some txns like captcha codes are more expensive on zk than ethereum 😵 If I had to predict optimistic rollups will continue ruling the roost until organic demand for blockspace increases. Right now the whole industry is racing to sell blockspace even" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1703793607168151808) 2023-09-18T15:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Over the next [--] days I'm at the @gijn conference to convince investigative reporters to record outcomes from their stories as @hypercerts on @optimismFND Grateful to @EFNextBillion & @gitcoin GG [--] for supporting my travel here What crypto related Qs should I ask them" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1704405030424445433) 2023-09-20T08:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@ViktorBunin Have you seen the newest optimism airdrop #3 That explicitly rewards folks who have delegated $OP for voting" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1704432669734379676) 2023-09-20T09:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "It's getting a little absurd that i have to explain what ethereum is by referring to bitcoin but c'est la vie 😒" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1704489175024611483) 2023-09-20T13:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@hasufl Price impact of distributions in governance tokens dao treasury diversification sequencer revenue allocation & how to convert grants to investments" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1704514363065876584) 2023-09-20T15:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@D0tSama I haven't fully understood how parachains are different from L2s" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1704571839517786239) 2023-09-20T19:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@KundanVeena @gijn @hypercerts @optimismFND @EFNextBillion @gitcoin @thamir_kashyap Yes I saw him at a South Asia networking event need to connect with him though" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1704822532568711240) 2023-09-21T11:39Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@retropgf @OctantApp @gitcoin Many interesting conversations on what form onchain media will end up taking Online media now has well defined attributes (no length limit multimedia instant audience engagement) what's the equivalent for onchain media Permissionless rewarding value creation what else" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1704824407816884559) 2023-09-21T11:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@retropgf @OctantApp @gitcoin Really cool that a session on exiled media outlets talked about cryptocurrency payments to their reporters still living in authoritarian countires 😁" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1704828659318616440) 2023-09-21T12:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@thetreegens @JimiCohen @gitcoin @solarpunkdao @AtlantisDAO1 @kokodaoxyz @SolarpunkNomads @WasabiNetwork @0xUrbanika @jerri_nft @KMLLCW3 @MLBinWA @shambanetwork @aquapurgeweb3 @JamesEGC @_Difint_ @regen_earthsoul @Earthbasedsoul @luminaenvision @ents_foundation @sandramp @Solar_FND @Cosmos4Humanity @ReFiGlobal @greenpillnet @HighlyArtistic @IGLIVISION @KokonutNetwork @civilmonkey @nft_ish @Kawagumba @jhruth Ack gonna be at the @gijn conference onboarding journalists to web3 at that time Good luck gonna miss all of you 😢" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1704849236372955227) 2023-09-21T13:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@JimiCohen @thetreegens @gitcoin @solarpunkdao @AtlantisDAO1 @kokodaoxyz @SolarpunkNomads @WasabiNetwork @0xUrbanika @jerri_nft @KMLLCW3 @MLBinWA @shambanetwork @aquapurgeweb3 @JamesEGC @_Difint_ @regen_earthsoul @Earthbasedsoul @luminaenvision @ents_foundation @sandramp @Solar_FND @Cosmos4Humanity @ReFiGlobal @greenpillnet @HighlyArtistic @IGLIVISION @KokonutNetwork @civilmonkey @nft_ish @Kawagumba @jhruth @gijn Love it See you guys next week 👋" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1704852234276933867) 2023-09-21T13:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@kieranoday @BanklessHQ @gitcoin Thanks Kieran i really appreciate all the work you do for gitcoin and all of us" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1704969686381961422) 2023-09-21T21:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@owocki Cluster QF does seem to have had the unintended effect of muting all of us @SolarpunkGuild gitcoin radio members voting for each other" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1705327316354679132) 2023-09-22T21:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@natvancleve @owocki @SolarpunkGuild We actually felt the opposite that votes from long time project owners on gitcoin should have stronger weight (almost like badgeholders from optimism)" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1705475134901903675) 2023-09-23T06:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@natvancleve @owocki @SolarpunkGuild Yes and by the same logic us project grantees involved with gitcoin radio shouldn't have reduced votes either" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1705479741438828768) 2023-09-23T07:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@Shilika_jain Culture fit right now it's optimism for creators polygon for institutions celo for environment arbitrum for defi gaming & other commercial cases" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1705603899640471902) 2023-09-23T15:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@R89Capital I think the biggest difference is that traditional institutions are iffy about entering someone elses chain but more comfortable with having their own which tools like OP stack let you do (like a16z launching their own OP stack)" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1705681159714136328) 2023-09-23T20:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "I'm seeing a lot of ebullience from solana maxis on my TL & some defensiveness from ethereans Fundamentally they are [--] different bets on how mainstream adoption will happen - all our onchain activity will take place on one monolithic entity with 'superior' tech - each organization/consortium will run their own ledger as they wont like depending on any entity to store/process their business related data We're already seeing some evidence of the 2nd approach working with both @a16zcrypto & @coinbase launching their own chains with OP stack @optimismFND I too think from a compliance & approvals" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1705686098351890908) 2023-09-23T20:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "This is an insane chart showing @gitcoin matching funds in open source round. same story in other rounds Winners take all while losers fight for scraps 🌭🐕🦺 We need ways to flatten out this curve its looking worse than even real world inequality" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1706709861764120685) 2023-09-26T16:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@IrthuSuresh @gitcoin fund utilization belongs to reputation management systems which can be eventually used to give direct grants Here we require modifications to the QF algorithm to create a more fair progressive tax system like the one @DoraHacks implements" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1706714937949929886) 2023-09-26T16:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Here are some highlights from the recently released state of web3 grants report containing [--] case studies of the grant programs at top L1s and dapps A must read for anyone venturing into the world of web3 grantmaking - @solana is the only convertible grants program where a" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1708128354023719328) 2023-09-30T14:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@0xMert_ All liquidity is on evm so all eyes are on how solana virtual machine svm's perform as L2s" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1708938425292955820) 2023-10-02T20:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@OrnellaWeb3 @EFDevconnect @ETHIstanbul @fa3io_eth @She__Fi I've also booked my tickets for istanbul let's try meeting there do register for the next billion world cafe where I'll be presenting it's gonna be a cool event from EFs team next billion Any other events you have your eye on at DevConnect" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1709158615427555649) 2023-10-03T10:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "OP stack chains finally get fault proofs they are using fault proof virtual machines (fpvm) where you can swap in zk attestations or any other fault proof mechanism you want Let's see if this moves the needle on the L2 wars" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1709312826911887388) 2023-10-03T21:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@DisruptionJoe @kbw @LefterisJP So true the passport requirements were particularly onerous last time around I really feel we should have an option for a user to verify their identity/score high points by making a $1 txn with their credit card Hurts to say but Blbanks have solved sybil in online payments" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1709914755736174634) 2023-10-05T12:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@jokerace_xyz @divine_economy @samanthajmarin @AragonProject The Achilles heel of jokerace is getting enough voter participation for the contest In both the pgn & gitcoin round there was really low turnout which meant a committed but small lobby could ensure their side wins the contest" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1710011998581481947) 2023-10-05T19:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@divine_economy @jokerace_xyz @samanthajmarin @AragonProject Yup they both did have tons of entries but relatively few voters actually casting their vote to choose between submissions It is legitimately difficult to get passive voters to go through all entries and vote for their favorite ones there'll have to be some experimentation 🧪" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1710038182161764587) 2023-10-05T21:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Wow gitcoins multisig just mistransferred nearly $600k to an invalid contract address 🫨 Luckily it was in GTC & not stables Curious to know if anyone agrees with @umarkhaneth that its not a loss of $ by the DAO but simply a reduction in GTC supply 🤔" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1710219828295086583) 2023-10-06T09:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@simplykashif The only nuance to this is if you live in a developing country crypto paus global rate so even part time work is enough for you to be in web3 fulltime" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1710233250478932305) 2023-10-06T09:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@DisruptionJoe @gitcoin @sovereignsignal keeping donor tips optional while charging the matching pool is greater stability & maximizes revenue (B2B vs B2C) I agree with your point on us becoming competition except i think it's a premature concern until there are actual service providers We lead the charge until then" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1711053682425651299) 2023-10-08T16:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@owocki @DisruptionJoe @gitcoin @sovereignsignal Really nice comprehensive answer appreciate it Also important to reiterate that the fees are optional for services rendered" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1711334800773251502) 2023-10-09T10:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I just voted in the gitcoin citizens round I supported [--] of [--] projects competing 😍 voted for a mix of my homies on gitcoin radio the governance forum feedback givers & core contributors i'm taking part too do vote for me if i've helped you navigate gitcoin Full list 👇🏾" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1711629869652808150) 2023-10-10T06:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Also @krrisis & @GitcoinCitizens there's a bug on the personalized donation page displaying MATIC instead of eth 🥴" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1711630723097211122) 2023-10-10T06:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@post_polar_ You should check out @OctantApp they have a really cool defi model where they stake 100k eth raised from golems ico days giving [---] eth /mo Ppl locking glm tokens are entitled to get a share of these staking rewards which they can pass on to public good projects" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1711712867161161849) 2023-10-10T11:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@post_polar_ @OctantApp @FundingCommons Yeah they have an interesting culture their discord/socials is just getting started (awkard phase of community formation/finding your voice) their epoch one for distributing staking rewards is concluding in [--] weeks so that'll be the 1st major pilot (epoch zero was with poaps)" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1711718169759645703) 2023-10-10T12:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@maah_uni_ @GitcoinCitizens @gitcoin Already voted for you Mathilde" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1711732314466873542) 2023-10-10T13:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@guil_is @GitcoinCitizens @gitcoin good luck guil have already voted for you" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1711735013996384405) 2023-10-10T13:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@carlosjmelgar @gitcoin @NacionBankless @JimiCohen All inspired by you Carlos you did a great move in GG18 to allocate a % of quadratic funding received to GTC purchase" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1711795646917972412) 2023-10-10T17:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@harry_forj @sandeepnailwal @0xPolygonLabs @apecoin The real discussion should be about 1st determining whether apecoin needs its own L2 (vote 1) & then figuring out which one (polygon op stack arbitrum orbit etc) Going with polygon just because they posted 1st in the forum without comparing alternatives is short sighted" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1712067563189162116) 2023-10-11T11:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@bestape @GitcoinCitizens @pgn_eth @gitcoin Already voted for you Good luck with the round" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1712111760940089690) 2023-10-11T14:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@VaschettoSofia @OnChainMonkey @huuep @amandaterry @Goodthings @grahambo36 @heavysided @MissKeenEye @ocmdao @drochaJ23 @mitchjackson Kids did you get the most important part of this story Store your wealth on a hardware wallet That got saved when all else fell" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1712112410029707675) 2023-10-11T14:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@retropgf @banklessDAO I've actually heard some concern that bankless has become too powerful in the space that what they say about an issue is what's accepted by the crypto masses Similar to lido in one way criticized for being too successful" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1712142091902672917) 2023-10-11T16:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@JimiCohen @GitcoinCitizens @gitcoinpassport @pgn_eth Thanks jimi love it when we gitcoin radio folks support each other It was also cool that with the collusion resistant QF formula developed by @CS_Synthesist our votes for each other counted more 💯" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1712494596285247584) 2023-10-12T15:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@ManuelOlariu Thanks Manuel i appreciate your vote and the shoutout too Gitcoin citizens round is a good way of showing gratitude to the people in the space" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1712874590995992978) 2023-10-13T16:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@cryptovcdylan GM looks like a fun time in Barcelona" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1713218692681752611) 2023-10-14T15:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "the EVM public goods funding pipeline - Start with @gitcoin to build brand gain followers & raise friends & family round w QF multiple - Move to hackathons @buidlbox or @ETHGlobal to recruit staff build product & win prizes - Get direct grants from chains based on work done" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1713596497458298916) 2023-10-15T16:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@ReFiMedellin @gitcoin @buidlbox @ETHGlobal It is indeed quite hard but at least there is a path Unlike traditional philanthropy where you only have all or nothing grants That gets you caught in the cycle where it's hard to get grants unless you have a brand and hard to build a brand unless you have grants" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1713814677585891835) 2023-10-16T07:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@kokodaoxyz @gitcoin @GitcoinCitizens @HumbertoBesso @JimiCohen @KaicAnna @MontyMerlin @PaulBurg_ @kirannambiar8 Thank you for the vote fren" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1715031884252713153) 2023-10-19T15:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@ReFiMedellin @gitcoin @MontyMerlin @KaicAnna @HumbertoBesso @JimiCohen @_Difint_ @jerri_nft @lucianodeangeIo @muguika Thanks for the support The citizen round is a success because of your participation 🥹" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1715032970996875724) 2023-10-19T15:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@JuanJGiraldoC @gitcoin @MontyMerlin @KaicAnna @HumbertoBesso @JimiCohen @_Difint_ @jerri_nft @lucianodeangeIo @maah_uni_ @IGLIVISION @muguika Thank you juan really appreciate the vote of confidence 💪" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1715033148374098032) 2023-10-19T15:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@thedatadood Here is my project in the gitcoin citizen round i add value by tweeting news about gitcoin reviewing proposals on the governance forum & onboarding new projects & donors during the grant rounds" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1715449471340089480) 2023-10-20T19:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "I just finished my allocations in epoch one of @OctantApp Passed on my staking rewards to @hypercerts @rotkiapp & @gitcoin Octant is the most exciting new project in the public goods space. They've staked 100k eth and anyone locking GLM tokens gets to either claim a portion of staking rewards for themselves or pass it on to public good projects I loved the clean UI & overall experience of [--] step checkout; [--]. I ♥ projects [--]. I play with a slider to choose how much of the staking rewards i keep for myself versus passing on to my ♥ projects [--]. i sign a transaction confirming my choice (no gas" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1715664731930071294) 2023-10-21T09:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@not_qz @OctantApp @hypercerts @rotkiapp @gitcoin @clrfund I'm primarily supporting dapps I've personally used & interacted with in this epoch 🙏 I've been meaning to try clrfundatbe after that" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1715712886293799341) 2023-10-21T12:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@rotkiapp @OctantApp @hypercerts @gitcoin Yes you guys are killing it in this epoch already near the top 📊" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1715713003797250156) 2023-10-21T12:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@itsyazdani @OctantApp @hypercerts @rotkiapp @gitcoin @Unitap_app I'm only voting for dapps I've personally used or interacted with I'll be sure to check out unitap ahead of the next epoch" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1715713146814714221) 2023-10-21T12:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@LefterisJP @OctantApp @hypercerts @rotkiapp @gitcoin Anytime glad you managed to participate in the round & doing quite well too" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1715713235834610036) 2023-10-21T12:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@itsyazdani @OctantApp @hypercerts @rotkiapp @gitcoin @Unitap_app Sounds good I've dm'ed you" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1715729364695007429) 2023-10-21T13:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@W3Hidayath @OctantApp @dao_drops @gitcoin @rotkiapp @clrfund @Giveth @BanklessHQ @LefterisJP Good one hidayath didn't know you had locked glm into octant 👍" [X Link](https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1715747665504534800) 2023-10-21T15:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements Limited data mode. 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@TheDevanshMehta Devansh Mehta
Devansh Mehta posts on X about gitcoin, ethereum, money, arbitrum the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.
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Social Influence
Social category influence cryptocurrencies finance stocks events technology brands countries social networks travel destinations exchanges celebrities
Social topic influence gitcoin #44, ethereum #1810, money, arbitrum, web3 #2498, devcon, solana, token, onchain, arb
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @gitcoin @arbitrum @octantapp @owocki @disruptionjoe @vitalikbuterin @hypercerts @lefterisjp @efdevcon @optimism @postpolar @zer8future @solarpunkmaxi @ensdomains @fundingcommons @wasabinetwork @carlcervone @protocolguild @voicedeckdao @deepfunding
Top assets mentioned Ethereum (ETH) Arbitrum (ARB) Solana (SOL) Celo (CELO) Optimism (OP) Bitcoin (BTC) zkSync (ZK) StarkNet (STRK) Nouns (nouns) Balancer (BAL) Gooner Language Model (GLM) Coinbase Global Inc. (COIN) Uber Technologies, Inc. (UBER) USDC (USDC) Celestia (TIA) BlackRock Inc (BLK) Aave (AAVE) Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"Poster presentations at conferences are a good way to build in public & validate your startup idea. We put up our product design for funding journalists based on outcomes of their stories and got some real insights. Grateful to for this opportunity 🙏 http://namastehci.in http://namastehci.in"
X Link 2022-12-10T15:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Was great meeting @owocki at the plurality conference. Insightful talk on history of @gitcoin - $73 million in funding over [--] rounds over [--] years. Learnt that outcome verification of gitcoin projects done by community that stops voting for a project due to nonperformance"
X Link 2023-01-14T00:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Had a great conversation with @williamhwgeorge who works with @Kleros_io in arbitratring web3 disputes they have mediated [----] disputes with their jurors who r paid $5-$500. The highest value ones are insurance contracts while proof of humanity disputed are the most frequent"
X Link 2023-01-14T18:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"If everyone were to order an uber through a smart contract ( like @Drife_official ) gas fees will be more than the ride. @GGrivol is an NYU student optimizing costs in smart contract interactions TY to @CryptoMondaysNY for their weekly events bringing together the web3 community"
X Link 2023-01-24T00:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Phenomenal meeting with @PareenL & @BuidlersTribe team with @bradvani & @hodler_fo_lyf Their mission is to pathfind the metrics to evaluate web3 startups as traditional VC firms are unsure of valuation & assessment of blockchain companies participating in the token economy"
X Link 2023-04-03T09:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Lovely meeting @W3Hidayath & @athulnambiar22 at the buidlers circle meet in bangalore hosted by @BuidlersTribe A weekly meetup for founders to share what they are going through & how to support each other. We promised to help each other in the upcoming @gitcoin beta round"
X Link 2023-04-15T12:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I just donated to the Web3 Open Source Software Round on @gitcoin I can personally vouch for @DeCartography & @W3Hidayath who have solid teams working on real problems I've also been impressed with @Giveth & @commonsstack & all they have given to the ecosystem over years"
X Link 2023-04-26T09:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@gzhcoin @gitcoin When voting in the web3 community round do consider adding my project VoiceDeck to your cart We're using the outcome funding instrument @hypercerts to pay investigative journalists when their story creates some real world impact Deets 👇 https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/1/0xaa40e2e5c8df03d792a52b5458959c320f86ca18/0xaa40e2e5c8df03d792a52b5458959c320f86ca18-240 https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/1/0xaa40e2e5c8df03d792a52b5458959c320f86ca18/0xaa40e2e5c8df03d792a52b5458959c320f86ca18-240"
X Link 2023-05-01T08:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@sinkala_arthur @gitcoin If you're voting in the web3 community & edu round do vote for my project VoiceDeck We're onboarding investigative reporters and donors to web3 by creating a market for outcomes of journalism stories thru the hypercerts token standard Deets 👇 https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/1/0xaa40e2e5c8df03d792a52b5458959c320f86ca18/0xaa40e2e5c8df03d792a52b5458959c320f86ca18-240 https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/1/0xaa40e2e5c8df03d792a52b5458959c320f86ca18/0xaa40e2e5c8df03d792a52b5458959c320f86ca18-240"
X Link 2023-05-01T08:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@guiribabrb @banklessDAO @creatorcabins Did you manage to check out @gitcoin and study their vulnerability"
X Link 2023-05-14T22:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@blanktablets @gitcoin Projects should reward donors not gitcoin or the matching pool sponsors Projects can gift hypercerts to their donors and also airdrop rewards to cert holders we should use these tools innovatively. Instead most projects in the alpha round didn't even mint their cert 🤦"
X Link 2023-05-16T17:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@0xsachi @melmelmelting .@gitcoin is the leader in this along with all the projects registered on their platform"
X Link 2023-05-19T10:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@gospelofchange Yeah the sustainable way to do it would be cost price + X% Each person can define X according to their values and what the market accepts . Supernormal profits are more likely than not to cause reputational loss"
X Link 2023-05-21T15:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@truenorth_proj @gospelofchange Profit is the intersection b/w commission charged above cost price and what the market accepts To give back you can reduce commission as much as possible (if it's a price sensitive market) or create aqueducts to channel surplus to gitcoin matching pools or other public goods"
X Link 2023-05-21T15:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@AtlantisDAO1 @gitcoin Thank you for hosting me it was great meeting the folks behind the GreenPill India festival which united the refi india community Will be sure to follow your zero waste pilot at gokarna & water sensing one at Chikmagalur. Can't wait for your citizen app rollout"
X Link 2023-05-24T06:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@TheMetaCatalyst @natesuits @sirsuhayb @DominicMadori I don't feel the need to apologise for believing that judges in ANY gitcoin sponsored round should have less power than they did in DEI Thank you for taking the time to let me know what has upset you genuinely appreciate it"
X Link 2023-05-24T19:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@TheMetaCatalyst @natesuits @sirsuhayb @DominicMadori Are there such things in the world as unbiased judges The whole point of @gitcoin is letting the wisdom of the crowd decide how to allocate funding to projects If you were privy to the discussion what was the reason that DEI didn't have any voting like the other rounds"
X Link 2023-05-24T20:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@TheMetaCatalyst @natesuits @sirsuhayb @DominicMadori @gitcoin Except DEI every round even the featured ones had a voting system DEI was the only one to allocate gitcoin money through [--] judges holding power over which projects receive bonus cash Escaping centralized power like that is why I'm in web3 in the 1st place"
X Link 2023-05-24T20:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@TheMetaCatalyst @natesuits @sirsuhayb @DominicMadori @gitcoin Ah I see was the money from the same matching pool sponsors as the other core rounds Or was it held independently like the TEC MetaCrisis or DeSci rounds Would appreciate a URL source if there is one"
X Link 2023-05-24T21:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@moodlezoup Ah got it @gitcoin uses snapshot for offline voting to save gas fees & then tally as a procedural on-chain vote. If the tally vote is different from snapshot every steward uses their power to vote acc to snapshot results Cicadas is on-chain & avoids this workaround 👍"
X Link 2023-05-25T17:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@HaileyLennonBTC It has worried me that this bear hasn't yet seen the death of any big chain. Polkadot cardano solana etc still going strong(ish) Makes me feel that more painful days are ahead before we see the light"
X Link 2023-05-27T06:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@prnth_ Yup the advice from @gitcoin staff to focus on the $1 donations wasn't optimal. in simple QF [--] people giving a $ each = [--] person giving $100 so aiming for $20-$100 donors is best for max matching funds. Weighted quadratic voting is needed for the $1 donations to mean more"
X Link 2023-05-28T11:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@ericzhang90 Ha are you trying to throw shade at solana which doesn't believe in the need for L2s"
X Link 2023-05-28T17:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@epowell101 @gitcoin @OpenDataforWeb3 Hi Evan I'm also voting against approval & for more discussion primarily to address the role big money had compared to smaller $1 voters It creates incentives for wash trading channeling other project money thru gitcoin to increase matching funds"
X Link 2023-05-28T20:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@OpenDataforWeb3 @epowell101 @gitcoin That's definitely useful in catching wallets using swapping services like changenow However as a best practice our team creates a separate wallet for every grant received We could easily have cycled each of the grants we've got thru gitcoin and come out with a profit"
X Link 2023-05-28T22:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@solarpunkmaxi @prnth_ @gitcoin I read that gitcoin devs decided not to show matching during donations as the end result turned out to be different from projections The math seemed off this round with too much power given to high value donations"
X Link 2023-05-29T10:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@natvancleve @gitcoin @OpenDataforWeb3 I haven't done this myself @carl_cervone is going to give it a shot before the vote comes up so he would know better Acc. to a response @epowell101 got on gitcoins forum timestamp and passport checks are derived from on-chain data that's replicable"
X Link 2023-05-29T17:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@nikete @owocki @clrfund @gitcoin @PomeloGrants It happens on a 'don't expect it but be grateful for it' basis"
X Link 2023-05-30T21:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The @gitcoin governance forum is the right place for beta round projects to constructively raise concerns @connoroday0 says lower participation resulted in money playing an outsized role relative to number of contributors. We need weighted QF in low participation rounds"
X Link 2023-06-01T10:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@not_qz @gitcoin @connoroday0 in no order; [--]. How to give better visibility to sponsors of matching funds [--]. Evaluation procedures on for projects that have raised significant money [--]. Catching wash trading/devising new QF formulas to reduce the role of money power"
X Link 2023-06-01T12:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@CS_Synthesist @DisruptionJoe @gitcoin @connoroday0 Definitely would love to chat sometime Your DMs aren't open so you should either followback or change the privacy settings so anyone can message you 🙂"
X Link 2023-06-02T10:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@mrjasonchoi Web3 let's you get paid by an algorithm instead of a human being which is so empowering Look @gitcoin for eg. They raise funds for a cause and those are distributed based on no. of votes each project gets . I can insult gitcoin all i want & still get funded by them"
X Link 2023-06-03T08:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@DisruptionJoe @danny_cryptofay @shawnlgrubb @feemschats @_Daniel_Ospina @KylerW56 @lalalavendr To be fair most of the 100k+ GTC token holders do vote more than 75% of the time. I also like how the data is available for me to see before i delegate to someone so i would naturally choose a delegate who votes all things being equal"
X Link 2023-06-03T15:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@DisruptionJoe @danny_cryptofay @shawnlgrubb @feemschats @_Daniel_Ospina @KylerW56 @lalalavendr It could result in pork barrel politics i'll vote for your proposal in which you need to abstain & you do the same for mine. I was quite concerned with how quorum requirements on gitcoin are in name only as 3-4 of the top stewards fulfil the [---] million GTC mark"
X Link 2023-06-03T15:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@KylerW56 @_Daniel_Ospina @DisruptionJoe @danny_cryptofay @shawnlgrubb @feemschats @lalalavendr Not just an abstracted version but also a democratic one. If my steward or chairperson makes an unpopular decision i withdraw support and delegate my GTC to someone else. Can't think of any corporate structure thats even a quarter as democratic 😂"
X Link 2023-06-03T16:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"When I first met @owocki in Jan @PluralityInst I found his answer lacking on how @gitcoin evaluates grantee performance Which is why I'm excited by their integration with Decentralized Review System (Deresy) & pilot eval of [--] climate projects in GR14"
X Link 2023-06-05T12:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Deresy is a credibly neutral platform enabling Sponsors to pay Reviewers for assessment of a Target. It's initial use is accountability & followup of projects receiving grant funds Deresy is censorship resistant with payment logic via @arbitrum & data storage on @IPFS"
X Link 2023-06-05T12:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Eventually each project on @gitcoin will receive a score on their use of funds as a signal to donors during grant rounds Open Qs - who funds evaluation - selecting evaluators & preventing collusion -developing a standard scoring metric Like/RT/Comment"
X Link 2023-06-05T12:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Amazing alpha from @DisruptionJoe on stages of a DAO after their treasury is decentralized Excited spending spree -- requests for accountability -- centralization by stewards -- voter apathy What are some alternative pathways @gitcoin seems to have done a decent job"
X Link 2023-06-06T09:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I show them ongoing proposals on @gitcoin or @arbitrum governance forums They relate this to their work life where similar discussions take place behind closed doors Finally i show them votes on these proposal on @SnapshotLabs or @tallyxyz & their greenpilled at this point"
X Link 2023-06-08T10:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@owocki @gitcoin My biggest question here would be the admin cost eaten up at each stage After all nowadays big donors benchmark impact created against just directly giving local communities the money without overhead https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1625899071260229632t=we3CqOZsdWuvzPNv55l48A&s=19 The leading question in philanthropy today is do we donate to a nonprofit helping people or use @GiveDirectly to let people help themselves Most nonprofits can't justify their ROI compared to just transferring money to the people they serve"
X Link 2023-06-08T12:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I'm seeing an interesting argument that DAO governance tokens arent a security as there's no profit motive only voting for the collective 🤔 This puts tokens from @gitcoin @arbitrum @optimismFND in a different bucket from @0xPolygonLabs where $MATIC is also used as gas"
X Link 2023-06-15T17:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@sinomont @gitcoin @arbitrum @optimismFND @0xPolygonLabs @EuCInitiative Thanks for the shoutout gave them a follow I haven't got any lawyers opinion on this argument so would be great to hear one actually"
X Link 2023-06-15T17:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@solarpunkmaxi @gitcoin @arbitrum @optimismFND @0xPolygonLabs Is there a source for polygon shifting to eth for gas Wonder how that would affect price Arbitrum isconsidering the reverse case letting $ARB be used as gas so there is some utility to the token Imo the biggest utility is control over sequencer revenue and how it's spent"
X Link 2023-06-15T18:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@deeparocks @gitcoin @arbitrum @optimismFND @0xPolygonLabs Yup i have picked up some $ARB & $GTC on mainnet via uniswap thru my metamask"
X Link 2023-06-15T20:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I just donated to the Gitcoin Citizens Round #1: Retroactive funding on @gitcoin. Join me in making a difference by donating today I bridged from @arbitrum to @optimismFND using @Orbiter_Finance . Smooth cheap and pain free Who I voted for 🥁👇🏾"
X Link 2023-06-19T21:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
".@jhruth for evaluating impact of Gitcoin grantees @carl_cervone for @hypercerts integration with @gitcoin @JimiCohen for Gitcoin Radio @karmahq_ for integrating snapshot voting data with gitcoins governance forum @carlosjmelgar & @zer8_future for their long association"
X Link 2023-06-19T21:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@zer8_future @jhruth @carl_cervone @hypercerts @gitcoin @JimiCohen @karmahq_ @carlosjmelgar Thank you for your service Donating on Optimism was an amazing experience almost zero gas fees. The only thing i missed from the beta round was the carts i had to add and donate to each one individually"
X Link 2023-06-19T22:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@karmahq_ @jhruth @carl_cervone @hypercerts @gitcoin @JimiCohen @carlosjmelgar @zer8_future Wen you cmg to @arbitrum Ive gotten used to hovering above a profile on governance forums and seeing their vote participation"
X Link 2023-06-20T02:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@jhruth @carl_cervone @hypercerts @gitcoin @JimiCohen @karmahq_ @carlosjmelgar @zer8_future Anytime I'm really excited to see how deresy pans out wishing you all the support you need to make it successful"
X Link 2023-06-20T04:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@JimiCohen @jhruth @carl_cervone @hypercerts @gitcoin @karmahq_ @carlosjmelgar @zer8_future Always my friend really love your energy and passion"
X Link 2023-06-20T04:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Super meeting @paulbrigner at the pretty good policy (PGP) for crypto breakfast a monthly panel he hosts with @BlockchainAssn & @ElectricCoinCo Paul works with @zcash as he believes the state is on a path of surveillance & fiat can never provide the privacy we need"
X Link 2023-06-21T23:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@deeparocks @gitcoin @bjuglas Orbiter is a good bridge"
X Link 2023-06-22T17:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@pbrody @gitcoin Wow that's an amazing response 👏 i can't wait to read it I'll do a review of it in a twitter thread once I've worked my way through it"
X Link 2023-06-23T02:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I got to meet @carl_cervone in the flesh Scarcity is not enough to give @hypercerts value so he's focusing on impact evaluations at scale. A culture change needs to happen in DAO grantmaking whereby 2-10% is mandatorily kept aside for external audit & documentation Web3 was a"
X Link 2023-06-29T03:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"interesting suggestion on @gitcoin governance forum - obtain ad revenue by selling real estate on the donation page Does anyone know how web3 founders market new products The quarterly grants round mobilizes the crypto community & can help founders reach their target market"
X Link 2023-06-30T05:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@endaomentdotorg @carl_cervone @zer8_future @gitcoin @alloprotocol i wouldn't emphasize this too much as endaoment will receive the social capital & marketing benefits of distributing $60k to projects on their platform At some level i'm grappling with the question of whether allo would have been used by endaoment if not for the 🥕"
X Link 2023-07-01T22:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@carl_cervone @zer8_future @gitcoin @endaomentdotorg @alloprotocol Those are [--] great metrics to evaluate any future request for funding by endaoment👍 [--]. Additional fund infusion into the matching pool beyond the $60k gitcoin has given [--]. Sybil defense & wash trading prevention measures in allocating funds from their impact pool 🙂"
X Link 2023-07-01T23:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@kbw @carlosjmelgar @zer8_future @gitcoin @endaomentdotorg @alloprotocol After a long discussion with Carl we boiled it down to having the following [--] metrics in the proposal: [--]. amount of co-funding in their impact pool beyond the $60k from gitcoin [--]. R&D into new techniques for catching cheating projects/Sybil defense"
X Link 2023-07-01T23:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Great to finally meet @web3_ayush from @BuidlersTribe after all the calls we've been on together 🤙 Ayush thinks the next crypto bull wave will come from bridging real world assets to public blockchains. Invoice financing real estate & social impact are some examples we spoke about 📈 Interestingly all [--] cases require evaluators for invoice authenticity property ownership or outcome verification 👨🚀 Ayush is generally bearish about investing in dapps & bullish on web3 infrastructure 🔭 Dapps have limited upside with a smaller TAM whereas infra has no limit to its pump ⛽"
X Link 2023-07-04T19:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@solarpunkmaxi @violetidentity @gitcoin @BenWest @connoroday0 @DisruptionJoe @umarkhaneth @zer8_future @jhruth @ColeenChase @RohitMalekar @owocki @checkfit @SolarpunkGuild @refidaoist @carl_cervone Sounds interesting you should post this as a proposal on gitcoin's governance forum. I'd also like details on the projects its been used with in the past & how those went. Prima facie EAS services like this one or @Kiltprotocol in polka do a good job of verifying uniqueness"
X Link 2023-07-07T09:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@solarpunkmaxi @violetidentity @gitcoin @BenWest @connoroday0 @DisruptionJoe @umarkhaneth @zer8_future @jhruth @ColeenChase @RohitMalekar @owocki @checkfit @SolarpunkGuild @refidaoist @carl_cervone @Kiltprotocol The ideas and open discussion subforum on gitcoin is the right place to get feedback from the community leading to a proposal if you go down that route"
X Link 2023-07-07T09:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@solarpunkmaxi I haven't come across those but I've heard @aavegotchi has gone thru the entire lifecycle of starting their curve & then dissolving it after reaching critical mass @sora_xor is also doing some kick-ass work on bonding curves including sharing their mathematical formulas"
X Link 2023-07-09T07:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@divine_economy Revolutionary stuff [--] Qs ; [--]. How do you prevent Sybil attacks where people create bots fulfilling parameters like twitter follower & swinging the vote [--]. In token voting holders want the DAO to succeed so price go up curious to see how incentive alignment plays out here"
X Link 2023-07-11T20:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"When a government has strong social welfare programs it attracts human talent who help domestic companies make profit (& pay taxes) web3 grants are similar : it attracts builders who increase transactions grants in traditional philanthropy are more altruistic by comparison"
X Link 2023-07-12T02:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@emiyazono @david1casey @anamarie_com @guil_is @optimismFND What a great meeting with @WGogloza @golemproject did an ico in [----] before it was called ico to create a supercomputer. They raised [------] ETH They created @OctantApp which stakes 100k eth from reserves. [---] eth every [--] days is distributed to public goods funding 😲"
X Link 2023-07-15T10:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@emiyazono @david1casey @anamarie_com @guil_is @optimismFND @WGogloza @golemproject @OctantApp This is @thetimearcher from @OpenCivics which connects experimental communities We chatted about townships like Auroville (India) Eden (phoenix) & Acrosanti (Arizona) [--] person groups are good for finishing a defined task while [--] people achieve strategic objectives"
X Link 2023-07-15T11:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@emiyazono @david1casey @anamarie_com @guil_is @optimismFND @WGogloza @golemproject @OctantApp @thetimearcher @OpenCivics . @HadarRot is designing the bonding curve for @gooddollarorg a web3 version of @GiveDirectly with mkt cap of $1 mn Bonding curves are seen as capital inefficient due to high collateral. Initially it is 100% to eliminate volatility but over time they reduced it to 57%"
X Link 2023-07-15T12:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Incredible talk by @vincentweisser at ethcc. There's an ongoing boom in DeSci projects too many to keep up with. Reminds me of @StrainPirate remark on scientists being the next adopters of crypto after artists came onboard with NFTs permanent storage for scientific reports &"
X Link 2023-07-26T17:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Loving the session @schellingpoint_ hosted by @leen_schelfhoutn some ideas we discussed for helping @regensunite onboard the next billion regens -bridges b/w lang communitied -amplification on twitter for regen posters - votes on gitcoin for projects in regen network -"
X Link 2023-07-21T04:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@arbitrum @hkalodner @OffchainLabs @Polkadot @solana Thoroughly enjoyed @A_Leutenegger talk on learnings from aragon dao Their [----] ico raised 275k eth. Theit founders actually quit in 2020-21 but the community rebooted it. Their early experiment ANDAO was a mess with a [--] page legal charter & contributors cashing out or taking"
X Link 2023-07-20T13:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@AragonProject @arbitrum @hkalodner @OffchainLabs @Polkadot @solana @A_Leutenegger Anytime I loved the talk & curious to dig deeper into Aragon 🌝"
X Link 2023-07-20T14:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Heard something fascinating @modular_summit in paris yeaterday @Bancor developed the 1st version of @Uniswap but they used their own token during trades Ethereum & @VitalikButerin wanted to increase the utility of eth & so they funded uniswap to take over bancors market share"
X Link 2023-07-22T08:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"WAGMI aside competition in crypto happens at the token level Your ultimate obligation is to token holders & you have to attract attn & dd to raise its price Eg the @golemproject founders have gone their own ways but are united by doing good for $GLM"
X Link 2023-07-22T08:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Interesting analysis by @VitalikButerin in @modular_summit conference Privacy preserving txns like SNARKs cost $19 more than regular ones in the current system SNARKs have high fixed cost but low marginal costs so aggregating txns w/o centralisation/censorship is the soln"
X Link 2023-07-22T14:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I loved @aeyakovenko end game vision of @solana . Building a blockchain network as fast or faster than Bloomberg terminal enabling a provably fair system for high frequency traders It's currently [---] milliseconds & their working to reduce to [---] 🤯 V diff from goals of eth"
X Link 2023-07-22T17:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@nickwh8te @aeyakovenko I also loved @VitalikButerin & @musalbas appreciation of solana not fragmenting their user base into L2s"
X Link 2023-07-22T22:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@solarpunkmaxi Yup Cosmos is the extreme of bridge abstraction as each dapp is its own blockchain. If seamless bridging doesn't happen solana will benefit The plural landscape is hard for dapps to navigate. optimism - creators arbitrum - commercial apps & polygon - institutions is my read"
X Link 2023-07-27T11:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@PabloPeniche We should remember this is karma playing out over centuries The US ( & Europe) looted Africa & enslaved it's population So now when these immigrants come to their countries it's the chicken coming home to roost"
X Link 2023-08-05T10:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@NathanpmYoung Not entirely true Israel or Germany have proportional voting which has tended to mean more coalition governments which has influenced stability & decisiveness of moving on issues you mentioned above"
X Link 2023-08-06T11:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@pfedprog @gitcoin You too my friend see you soon"
X Link 2023-08-09T13:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@CaolnBreathnac1 Yeah I loved the panelists answers to my Q on whether they continue using gitcoin even after their project takes off @austingriffith & @HominLuo use it to donate rather than receive while @futurealisha has it as a testbed for newew unproven ideas @gitcoin is a sticky product"
X Link 2023-08-09T17:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@TheRealStone @gitcoin Thanks Anna good luck to you in the upcoming @buidlbox hackathon. I hope the @gooddollarorg protocol gets a ton of integrations supporting UBI with public goods funding"
X Link 2023-08-09T21:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Gitcoin is soo lucky to have @CaolnBreathnac1 He's a breath of fresh air v amiable & grounded . Gitcoins gonna make its presence known across ecosystems & the web2 world with him at the helm"
X Link 2023-08-10T13:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Ahead of GG18 i analyzed @gitcoinpassport scores ENS holders that voted in the past active developers users of alt social media (lens/snapshot) & $GTC stakers will clear the high bar After they were sybil botted in the beta round @gitcoin is playing it safe & consolidating"
X Link 2023-08-14T15:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Thankful to @clinamenic for voting for my project VoiceDeck in the web3 community round 🙏🏾 @gitcoin grant rounds are the OG it lets you support your friends & the folks who show up everyday Each vote brings a multiple of 3-8x so the support matters"
X Link 2023-08-15T15:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I just donated to #GG18 on @gitcoin @JournoDao @greenpillnet with @sejal_rekhan my project VoiceDeck @hrm_o25 @OpenDataforWeb3 with @epowell101 & @zachxbt got my votes in the web3 community round Passport requirements are high so if you clear the bar be sure to vote"
X Link 2023-08-15T17:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@hrm_o25 @gitcoin @JournoDao @greenpillnet @sejal_rekhan @OpenDataforWeb3 @epowell101 @zachxbt Anytime good luck with the round First time can be brutal it takes a few rounds for your project to really pick up momentum. Don't get disheartened 🤗"
X Link 2023-08-15T18:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@LefterisJP @owocki It's not an either or i usually post in gitcoin forum and summarise it on Twitter with screenshots of the post"
X Link 2023-08-15T18:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@zachxbt @0xngmi @0xCygaar People getting their funds back who want to support you should donate to your project in the gitcoin round"
X Link 2023-08-15T18:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@0xZfx @gitcoin Do consider voting for my project VoiceDeck in the web3 community round We're creating a pathway to onboard journalists to web3 by having them mint any impact from their work as hypercerts Link for details:"
X Link 2023-08-15T19:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@techtech0 @gitcoin Do check out my project VoiceDeck we're working with media outlets to port their [--] year database of impact to Optimism using hypercerts Why keep your impact data private instead of uploading it on a public blockchain"
X Link 2023-08-15T19:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@0x6a6Eth @gitcoin Hey thanks for being a good member of the ecosystem and supporting public goods Do check out my project VoiceDeck before you next vote. We're working with the hypercerts standard to create a system where changemakers can bring impact data onchain"
X Link 2023-08-15T19:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@xdamman @leen_schelfhout @gitcoin @all4climatedao Yup it'll discourage donors like you from supporting any project in the climate round as you don't know which ones are getting money from shell because of your vote @gitcoin should rollover she'll funds to next round if they can't list projects acceptance of shell funds"
X Link 2023-08-16T09:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@JimiCohen @gitcoin Hey Jimi do vote for my project VoiceDeck Once journalists come onboard web3 we'll see a lot of other groups follow suit. VoiceDeck is creating APIs for newsrooms to record the impact of stories on Optimism as hypercerts"
X Link 2023-08-17T15:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@JimiCohen @VitalikButerin @ethereum The journalist in me wants to know if the rumours of vitalik supporting uniswap over bancor is true Apparently they favoured uniswap as it created utility for eth while bancor used their own token so ethereum folks tilted the scales against them"
X Link 2023-08-18T18:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@IrthuSuresh @Shell @JimiCohen @thetreegens Indeed the question is really on what the right terms are when receiving blood money and managing the optics of it To change social conventions we should collaborate with not just our allies but also our (current) foes"
X Link 2023-08-25T12:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"some peeps are having a hard time getting their @gitcoinpassport so @hodler_fo_lyf & i created a guide to help you obtain one tl;dr: only developers ENS holders & existing @gitcoin donors can easily get a passport Pity that devs are the only non-web3 users you can onboard"
X Link 2023-08-27T10:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@izziaraffaele @gitcoinpassport @hodler_fo_lyf @gitcoin Thanks Raffaele vitalik told gitcoin way back that they provide more value to projects if they hold rounds at a regular cadence rather than one grand show So think of passport verification as letting you give continuous streams of funding every quarter to your fav projects"
X Link 2023-08-27T14:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@izziaraffaele @gitcoinpassport @hodler_fo_lyf @gitcoin That's a great analysis thanks for the markings on our note One important clarification is that if you get full GitHub scores it compensates for not having an ENS/web3 reputation Full socials + GitHub + civic captcha pass on a L2 like arbitrum gets you over [--] in a dollar"
X Link 2023-08-27T18:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@izziaraffaele @gitcoinpassport @hodler_fo_lyf @gitcoin Yup my feeling is the @gitcoinpassport team chose to play it safe after the beta round was Sybil attacked & restricted themselves this round to onramping web2 devs to web3 among new crypto users Lets see what they cook up for next round"
X Link 2023-08-27T19:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@IrthuSuresh Short term games with short term people = mutually beneficial association ❓ Long term games with short term people = unhappiness 😢 Long term games with long term people ✅"
X Link 2023-08-28T08:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@izziaraffaele @jkd_eth @gitcoinpassport @hodler_fo_lyf @gitcoin with credit card payments you lose the option of being anonymous to your government so it should be optional & only count for a few points if you verify/pay with it. We should also design the passport assuming there's an army of Bangladeshi workers hired to vote for projects"
X Link 2023-08-30T08:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Now that @gitcoin madness has passed you should reach out & thank your voters The way I did it was [--]. Enter your projects wallet payout address in OP Mainnet explorer [--]. click on 'parent txn hash' for every vote you have received [--]. Copy the public key listed in the 'from'"
X Link 2023-08-31T11:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@WowPriyank @gitcoin I hadn't heard of Phantombuster seems useful to message voters after you've connected their wallet address to their twitter account The painful part is linking their vote for you on optimism with their ENS on ethereum & then finding the Twitter linked to that ENS"
X Link 2023-08-31T13:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@IGLIVISION @ensdomains @hypercerts @dm3protocol Nice i see that dm protocol is gonna be at dappcon in berlin will try meeting them there"
X Link 2023-09-02T16:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@flow_science @ensdomains @hypercerts @keypomxyz @sharddog That's cool gonna have to see how keypom does NFT drops without needing a wallet 🤔"
X Link 2023-09-02T17:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@namestonehq @ensdomains @hypercerts Oh that's great I didn't see the option of bringing onchain sub-ens domains created through namestone is that something you provide in your APIs"
X Link 2023-09-02T17:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Super chill vibes here @FundingCommons . It's held in a factory /co-working space so buidler feels all around The 1st panel i attended spoke about onchain reputation & it's applications. We touched on gitcoin passport & how it doesn't cater to OGs who split txns across multiple wallets / identities"
X Link 2023-09-08T12:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@EspressoSys @MSilb7 Definitely need more interoperability among OP mainnet and OP stack chains absurd that @pgn_eth requires bridging from ethereum even though its an OP stack chain :/ Once arbitrum stylus (rust programs in evm) is up & running we could have interoperability with alt-L1s too"
X Link 2023-09-08T13:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@LefterisJP @DCbuild3r I think it's also a political move ahead of elections next year the opposition united under the name I.N.D.I.A Renaming to Bharat makes the opposition feel anglicised & out of touch"
X Link 2023-09-09T08:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
".@david1casey brought onstage participants in the month long berlin residency program working across [--] areas They shared that having a space where you come up with an idea & immediately have a group to see whether it's actually solving anything is super valuable"
X Link 2023-09-10T08:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@david1casey I heard from @JonasSFT how he contacts coders of open source repos he uses asking them to claim their magic internet money Almost no one responds to him @lftherios is solving this with @dripsnetwork programmatically giving revenue to coders when revenue comes in"
X Link 2023-09-10T08:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@david1casey @JonasSFT @lftherios @dripsnetwork .@heynate_g spoke on @alloprotocol V2 which goes in for audit on Monday He expects it to be rolled out by October . Reputation scoring is going to be a big focus of @gitcoin after allo V2 It can be used for grants bounties hackathons & even venture investments"
X Link 2023-09-10T08:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@david1casey @JonasSFT @lftherios @dripsnetwork @heynate_g @alloprotocol @gitcoin Some ICO dragons have preserved their ETH from 2016-17. @julianzawist is pathfinding ways to deploy this corpus to benefit early supporters @OctantApp staked 100k eth raised [--] years ago. Anyone staking $GLM gets to share these rewards or pass it onwards to public good projects"
X Link 2023-09-10T08:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@DisruptionJoe @FundingCommons @buidlbox Yes if following conditions are met; [--]. challenges are well scoped out [--]. pool of designers developers & product managers to group into teams [--]. mentors to ensure solutions are on track & relevant As gitcoin/QF brings teams together buidlbox/hackathons get people together"
X Link 2023-09-10T13:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@miroyato @Esk3nder .@cassidydaly sees collateralisation of real world assets to get loans to users as the big opp of AA as it creates privacy onchain & let's you whitelist accounts @gislik is seeing execs from paypal & other fintechs use AA as it allows for user custody letting them focus on UX"
X Link 2023-09-10T15:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A repeated theme @dappcon_berlin is DAOs diversifying their treasury to real world assets like stocks or treasury bonds Both @cassidydaly from @centrifuge prime & @Mona_El_Isa from @avantgardefi building solutions for DAOs to diversify their corpus into traditional finance"
X Link 2023-09-11T12:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@TheRealStone @TravCrypto1 Thanks for bringing to my attn Anna 😊 I can show this to many citizen journo news outlet & also combine it with the hypercerts based model im working on to fund such reporters when their stories create impact"
X Link 2023-09-11T21:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I just used @jokerace_xyz to submit feedback for improving @gitcoin grant rounds & give ideas on what to next build on @pgn_eth I love the core idea : crowdsource suggestions from your community based on prompts then get them to vote on the best ideas The winner gets prizes 🏆 recognition 👨🏾🔧 & influence over DAO priorities 🏗 It's a neat way of harnessing collective intelligence through contests Last [--] hours to get your word in for improving gitcoin grant rounds"
X Link 2023-09-13T09:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@jhruth @snack_man A travel agency to attend crypto meetups & conferences around the world would be nice Almost every city I've gone to has some local chapters & pop up groups that meet regularly"
X Link 2023-09-13T11:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@travalacom @jhruth @snack_man And fools seldom differ 🤡 Crypto tourism is nice a spreadsheet of all crypto meetup groups around the world would be v valuable"
X Link 2023-09-14T09:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@snack_man @travalacom @jhruth The sheets more about crypto conferences happening around the world on specific dates When traveling with family on holiday I like to attend recurring meetups in the city I'm in like @greenpillnet Crypto Monday @pgpforcrypto etc"
X Link 2023-09-14T13:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@ErikVoorhees @Permissionless What a mind-blowing talk 🤯 Did you write a script & practice write or just deliver this off the cuff"
X Link 2023-09-14T23:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@post_polar_ @ErikVoorhees @Permissionless Yeah true the pauses do seem choreographed Definitely the most convincing speech on what the end game of crypto/web3 should be"
X Link 2023-09-15T18:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@MSilb7 It has also surprised me that the op stack chain @pgn_eth consistently has gas fees of 30-50 cents compared to lower amounts on OP mainnet Since OP gets 20% of txn fees from OP stack chains this might weirdly increase your revenue despite taking away action from OP mainnet"
X Link 2023-09-16T17:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@marsXRobertson @Polkadot @gavofyork Yes @SoosMate was discussing a similar approach where you first create the contract on the L1 & then bridge it to L2 The problem with the create approach is that I could create your L2 contract on the L1 with the public address so you also need to prove ownership is same"
X Link 2023-09-16T21:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@dumbnamenumbers @WasabiNetwork @Polkadot @gavofyork What you're describing sounds more like a MEV problem once txns get through on the L2 my assets are as secure as if they were on the L1 (if it's an EOA account)"
X Link 2023-09-16T21:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@mybellalogica @MSilb7 @pgn_eth @kbw @owocki Thanks I've added it to the @jokerace_xyz challenge for pgn so do vote for it @MSilb7 while submitting my jokerace entry i did as you suggested (changing priority fee) & it worked At least the higher fees i paid earlier will come back to me as @gitcoin matching funds 😂"
X Link 2023-09-16T21:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@marsXRobertson @Polkadot @gavofyork @SoosMate Every problem does indeed have a solution the trick is to the find the one with the path of least resistance"
X Link 2023-09-16T22:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@0xz80 @BFreshHB I'm also hopeful arbitrum stylus lets us overcome the fragmentation in crypto by enabling interoperability with dapps on alt L1s like polkadot or solana Combined with OPs superchain creating seamlessness b/w EVM chains we could dig out of the hole we're in"
X Link 2023-09-16T23:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@Mastrangeloric A person who worked on polygon village in 2021-22"
X Link 2023-09-17T17:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@SebMontgomery I'm meeting the source again today (who worked at polygon village) let me see if I can dig up anything"
X Link 2023-09-17T17:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@NanakNihal @Polkadot @gavofyork EOAs have the same public key on both ethereum & L2s so it's easier to withdraw money from the L1 if the L2 is compromised but the state is retained Whereas smart accounts have different public keys & even if it's the same you have to somehow prove you're the owner of both"
X Link 2023-09-17T18:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@Mastrangeloric @Polkadot @gavofyork Yeah i haven't gone too deep into how polkadot parachains overcome this same issue 🤔"
X Link 2023-09-17T18:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@WarangShankar That's true rotating elected grant committees like optimism & arbitrum is better than fixed staff I would push back on fully onchain governance multisigs with security council is a better approach to protect against raiders taking flash loans of governance tokens"
X Link 2023-09-17T21:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@NanakNihal @Polkadot @gavofyork Yeah some of the folks at ethereum foundation said best practice is creating the SCW on the L1 & then bridging it to the L2 But as you observed most skip that step & directly create the gnosis safe on the L2"
X Link 2023-09-17T21:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"UPDATE: I spoke at length to the source & direct kickbacks only took place in 1-2 cases he knew. It was NOT the norm/culture of polygon village grants program as i misrepresented in my earlier tweet. I apologize for my earlier generalization based on a throwaway comment he made The culture of quid pro quo in the polygon village grants program arose from their lack of procedure more taking the form of trading favours than direct bribes. Based on my conversation these are the changes that should be implemented before polygon village [---] relaunches; [--]. Publishing names of projects receiving"
X Link 2023-09-17T23:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@bloodpactxprs @richardkingxyz You can view hearsay as first information reports worthy of further investigation ultimately to publish an expose you need documents"
X Link 2023-09-18T14:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@sid_polygon Indeed a better SOP would have been running the tweet by the source prior to publishing"
X Link 2023-09-18T14:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@MorriganXBT I did verify the source worked at polygon village I didn't send the tweet to him before putting it out so he reached out giving the more accurate update For social media tips from former employees are fair game to post (as long as source of info is clearly mentioned)"
X Link 2023-09-18T15:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@SCBuergel @Polkadot @gavofyork The issue arises when you create the smart account/contract on the L2 without creating it at all on the L1 (like gnosis safe let's you do for eg) In that case you have to depend on the L1 recreating the state of the L2 before it was compromised to secure your funds"
X Link 2023-09-18T15:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Polygons event at berlin blockchain week was a stunner. Great food talks a TT table & also an opportunity for dapps to showcase their products 👍 I got the chance to chat with @jbaylina architect of polygons zkEVM & a powerhouse of wisdom for all things zero knowledge proof He said zk rollups become really cost efficient at scale & even then some txns like captcha codes are more expensive on zk than ethereum 😵 If I had to predict optimistic rollups will continue ruling the roost until organic demand for blockspace increases. Right now the whole industry is racing to sell blockspace even"
X Link 2023-09-18T15:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Over the next [--] days I'm at the @gijn conference to convince investigative reporters to record outcomes from their stories as @hypercerts on @optimismFND Grateful to @EFNextBillion & @gitcoin GG [--] for supporting my travel here What crypto related Qs should I ask them"
X Link 2023-09-20T08:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@ViktorBunin Have you seen the newest optimism airdrop #3 That explicitly rewards folks who have delegated $OP for voting"
X Link 2023-09-20T09:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"It's getting a little absurd that i have to explain what ethereum is by referring to bitcoin but c'est la vie 😒"
X Link 2023-09-20T13:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@hasufl Price impact of distributions in governance tokens dao treasury diversification sequencer revenue allocation & how to convert grants to investments"
X Link 2023-09-20T15:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@D0tSama I haven't fully understood how parachains are different from L2s"
X Link 2023-09-20T19:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@KundanVeena @gijn @hypercerts @optimismFND @EFNextBillion @gitcoin @thamir_kashyap Yes I saw him at a South Asia networking event need to connect with him though"
X Link 2023-09-21T11:39Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@retropgf @OctantApp @gitcoin Many interesting conversations on what form onchain media will end up taking Online media now has well defined attributes (no length limit multimedia instant audience engagement) what's the equivalent for onchain media Permissionless rewarding value creation what else"
X Link 2023-09-21T11:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@retropgf @OctantApp @gitcoin Really cool that a session on exiled media outlets talked about cryptocurrency payments to their reporters still living in authoritarian countires 😁"
X Link 2023-09-21T12:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@thetreegens @JimiCohen @gitcoin @solarpunkdao @AtlantisDAO1 @kokodaoxyz @SolarpunkNomads @WasabiNetwork @0xUrbanika @jerri_nft @KMLLCW3 @MLBinWA @shambanetwork @aquapurgeweb3 @JamesEGC @Difint @regen_earthsoul @Earthbasedsoul @luminaenvision @ents_foundation @sandramp @Solar_FND @Cosmos4Humanity @ReFiGlobal @greenpillnet @HighlyArtistic @IGLIVISION @KokonutNetwork @civilmonkey @nft_ish @Kawagumba @jhruth Ack gonna be at the @gijn conference onboarding journalists to web3 at that time Good luck gonna miss all of you 😢"
X Link 2023-09-21T13:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@JimiCohen @thetreegens @gitcoin @solarpunkdao @AtlantisDAO1 @kokodaoxyz @SolarpunkNomads @WasabiNetwork @0xUrbanika @jerri_nft @KMLLCW3 @MLBinWA @shambanetwork @aquapurgeweb3 @JamesEGC @Difint @regen_earthsoul @Earthbasedsoul @luminaenvision @ents_foundation @sandramp @Solar_FND @Cosmos4Humanity @ReFiGlobal @greenpillnet @HighlyArtistic @IGLIVISION @KokonutNetwork @civilmonkey @nft_ish @Kawagumba @jhruth @gijn Love it See you guys next week 👋"
X Link 2023-09-21T13:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@kieranoday @BanklessHQ @gitcoin Thanks Kieran i really appreciate all the work you do for gitcoin and all of us"
X Link 2023-09-21T21:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@owocki Cluster QF does seem to have had the unintended effect of muting all of us @SolarpunkGuild gitcoin radio members voting for each other"
X Link 2023-09-22T21:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@natvancleve @owocki @SolarpunkGuild We actually felt the opposite that votes from long time project owners on gitcoin should have stronger weight (almost like badgeholders from optimism)"
X Link 2023-09-23T06:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@natvancleve @owocki @SolarpunkGuild Yes and by the same logic us project grantees involved with gitcoin radio shouldn't have reduced votes either"
X Link 2023-09-23T07:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Shilika_jain Culture fit right now it's optimism for creators polygon for institutions celo for environment arbitrum for defi gaming & other commercial cases"
X Link 2023-09-23T15:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@R89Capital I think the biggest difference is that traditional institutions are iffy about entering someone elses chain but more comfortable with having their own which tools like OP stack let you do (like a16z launching their own OP stack)"
X Link 2023-09-23T20:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I'm seeing a lot of ebullience from solana maxis on my TL & some defensiveness from ethereans Fundamentally they are [--] different bets on how mainstream adoption will happen - all our onchain activity will take place on one monolithic entity with 'superior' tech - each organization/consortium will run their own ledger as they wont like depending on any entity to store/process their business related data We're already seeing some evidence of the 2nd approach working with both @a16zcrypto & @coinbase launching their own chains with OP stack @optimismFND I too think from a compliance & approvals"
X Link 2023-09-23T20:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This is an insane chart showing @gitcoin matching funds in open source round. same story in other rounds Winners take all while losers fight for scraps 🌭🐕🦺 We need ways to flatten out this curve its looking worse than even real world inequality"
X Link 2023-09-26T16:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@IrthuSuresh @gitcoin fund utilization belongs to reputation management systems which can be eventually used to give direct grants Here we require modifications to the QF algorithm to create a more fair progressive tax system like the one @DoraHacks implements"
X Link 2023-09-26T16:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Here are some highlights from the recently released state of web3 grants report containing [--] case studies of the grant programs at top L1s and dapps A must read for anyone venturing into the world of web3 grantmaking - @solana is the only convertible grants program where a"
X Link 2023-09-30T14:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@0xMert_ All liquidity is on evm so all eyes are on how solana virtual machine svm's perform as L2s"
X Link 2023-10-02T20:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@OrnellaWeb3 @EFDevconnect @ETHIstanbul @fa3io_eth @She__Fi I've also booked my tickets for istanbul let's try meeting there do register for the next billion world cafe where I'll be presenting it's gonna be a cool event from EFs team next billion Any other events you have your eye on at DevConnect"
X Link 2023-10-03T10:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"OP stack chains finally get fault proofs they are using fault proof virtual machines (fpvm) where you can swap in zk attestations or any other fault proof mechanism you want Let's see if this moves the needle on the L2 wars"
X Link 2023-10-03T21:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@DisruptionJoe @kbw @LefterisJP So true the passport requirements were particularly onerous last time around I really feel we should have an option for a user to verify their identity/score high points by making a $1 txn with their credit card Hurts to say but Blbanks have solved sybil in online payments"
X Link 2023-10-05T12:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@jokerace_xyz @divine_economy @samanthajmarin @AragonProject The Achilles heel of jokerace is getting enough voter participation for the contest In both the pgn & gitcoin round there was really low turnout which meant a committed but small lobby could ensure their side wins the contest"
X Link 2023-10-05T19:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@divine_economy @jokerace_xyz @samanthajmarin @AragonProject Yup they both did have tons of entries but relatively few voters actually casting their vote to choose between submissions It is legitimately difficult to get passive voters to go through all entries and vote for their favorite ones there'll have to be some experimentation 🧪"
X Link 2023-10-05T21:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Wow gitcoins multisig just mistransferred nearly $600k to an invalid contract address 🫨 Luckily it was in GTC & not stables Curious to know if anyone agrees with @umarkhaneth that its not a loss of $ by the DAO but simply a reduction in GTC supply 🤔"
X Link 2023-10-06T09:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@simplykashif The only nuance to this is if you live in a developing country crypto paus global rate so even part time work is enough for you to be in web3 fulltime"
X Link 2023-10-06T09:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@DisruptionJoe @gitcoin @sovereignsignal keeping donor tips optional while charging the matching pool is greater stability & maximizes revenue (B2B vs B2C) I agree with your point on us becoming competition except i think it's a premature concern until there are actual service providers We lead the charge until then"
X Link 2023-10-08T16:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@owocki @DisruptionJoe @gitcoin @sovereignsignal Really nice comprehensive answer appreciate it Also important to reiterate that the fees are optional for services rendered"
X Link 2023-10-09T10:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I just voted in the gitcoin citizens round I supported [--] of [--] projects competing 😍 voted for a mix of my homies on gitcoin radio the governance forum feedback givers & core contributors i'm taking part too do vote for me if i've helped you navigate gitcoin Full list 👇🏾"
X Link 2023-10-10T06:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Also @krrisis & @GitcoinCitizens there's a bug on the personalized donation page displaying MATIC instead of eth 🥴"
X Link 2023-10-10T06:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@post_polar_ You should check out @OctantApp they have a really cool defi model where they stake 100k eth raised from golems ico days giving [---] eth /mo Ppl locking glm tokens are entitled to get a share of these staking rewards which they can pass on to public good projects"
X Link 2023-10-10T11:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@post_polar_ @OctantApp @FundingCommons Yeah they have an interesting culture their discord/socials is just getting started (awkard phase of community formation/finding your voice) their epoch one for distributing staking rewards is concluding in [--] weeks so that'll be the 1st major pilot (epoch zero was with poaps)"
X Link 2023-10-10T12:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@maah_uni_ @GitcoinCitizens @gitcoin Already voted for you Mathilde"
X Link 2023-10-10T13:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@guil_is @GitcoinCitizens @gitcoin good luck guil have already voted for you"
X Link 2023-10-10T13:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@carlosjmelgar @gitcoin @NacionBankless @JimiCohen All inspired by you Carlos you did a great move in GG18 to allocate a % of quadratic funding received to GTC purchase"
X Link 2023-10-10T17:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@harry_forj @sandeepnailwal @0xPolygonLabs @apecoin The real discussion should be about 1st determining whether apecoin needs its own L2 (vote 1) & then figuring out which one (polygon op stack arbitrum orbit etc) Going with polygon just because they posted 1st in the forum without comparing alternatives is short sighted"
X Link 2023-10-11T11:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@bestape @GitcoinCitizens @pgn_eth @gitcoin Already voted for you Good luck with the round"
X Link 2023-10-11T14:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@VaschettoSofia @OnChainMonkey @huuep @amandaterry @Goodthings @grahambo36 @heavysided @MissKeenEye @ocmdao @drochaJ23 @mitchjackson Kids did you get the most important part of this story Store your wealth on a hardware wallet That got saved when all else fell"
X Link 2023-10-11T14:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@retropgf @banklessDAO I've actually heard some concern that bankless has become too powerful in the space that what they say about an issue is what's accepted by the crypto masses Similar to lido in one way criticized for being too successful"
X Link 2023-10-11T16:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@JimiCohen @GitcoinCitizens @gitcoinpassport @pgn_eth Thanks jimi love it when we gitcoin radio folks support each other It was also cool that with the collusion resistant QF formula developed by @CS_Synthesist our votes for each other counted more 💯"
X Link 2023-10-12T15:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@ManuelOlariu Thanks Manuel i appreciate your vote and the shoutout too Gitcoin citizens round is a good way of showing gratitude to the people in the space"
X Link 2023-10-13T16:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@cryptovcdylan GM looks like a fun time in Barcelona"
X Link 2023-10-14T15:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"the EVM public goods funding pipeline - Start with @gitcoin to build brand gain followers & raise friends & family round w QF multiple - Move to hackathons @buidlbox or @ETHGlobal to recruit staff build product & win prizes - Get direct grants from chains based on work done"
X Link 2023-10-15T16:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@ReFiMedellin @gitcoin @buidlbox @ETHGlobal It is indeed quite hard but at least there is a path Unlike traditional philanthropy where you only have all or nothing grants That gets you caught in the cycle where it's hard to get grants unless you have a brand and hard to build a brand unless you have grants"
X Link 2023-10-16T07:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@kokodaoxyz @gitcoin @GitcoinCitizens @HumbertoBesso @JimiCohen @KaicAnna @MontyMerlin @PaulBurg_ @kirannambiar8 Thank you for the vote fren"
X Link 2023-10-19T15:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@ReFiMedellin @gitcoin @MontyMerlin @KaicAnna @HumbertoBesso @JimiCohen @Difint @jerri_nft @lucianodeangeIo @muguika Thanks for the support The citizen round is a success because of your participation 🥹"
X Link 2023-10-19T15:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@JuanJGiraldoC @gitcoin @MontyMerlin @KaicAnna @HumbertoBesso @JimiCohen @Difint @jerri_nft @lucianodeangeIo @maah_uni_ @IGLIVISION @muguika Thank you juan really appreciate the vote of confidence 💪"
X Link 2023-10-19T15:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@thedatadood Here is my project in the gitcoin citizen round i add value by tweeting news about gitcoin reviewing proposals on the governance forum & onboarding new projects & donors during the grant rounds"
X Link 2023-10-20T19:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I just finished my allocations in epoch one of @OctantApp Passed on my staking rewards to @hypercerts @rotkiapp & @gitcoin Octant is the most exciting new project in the public goods space. They've staked 100k eth and anyone locking GLM tokens gets to either claim a portion of staking rewards for themselves or pass it on to public good projects I loved the clean UI & overall experience of [--] step checkout; [--]. I ♥ projects [--]. I play with a slider to choose how much of the staking rewards i keep for myself versus passing on to my ♥ projects [--]. i sign a transaction confirming my choice (no gas"
X Link 2023-10-21T09:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@not_qz @OctantApp @hypercerts @rotkiapp @gitcoin @clrfund I'm primarily supporting dapps I've personally used & interacted with in this epoch 🙏 I've been meaning to try clrfundatbe after that"
X Link 2023-10-21T12:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@rotkiapp @OctantApp @hypercerts @gitcoin Yes you guys are killing it in this epoch already near the top 📊"
X Link 2023-10-21T12:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@itsyazdani @OctantApp @hypercerts @rotkiapp @gitcoin @Unitap_app I'm only voting for dapps I've personally used or interacted with I'll be sure to check out unitap ahead of the next epoch"
X Link 2023-10-21T12:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@LefterisJP @OctantApp @hypercerts @rotkiapp @gitcoin Anytime glad you managed to participate in the round & doing quite well too"
X Link 2023-10-21T12:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@itsyazdani @OctantApp @hypercerts @rotkiapp @gitcoin @Unitap_app Sounds good I've dm'ed you"
X Link 2023-10-21T13:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@W3Hidayath @OctantApp @dao_drops @gitcoin @rotkiapp @clrfund @Giveth @BanklessHQ @LefterisJP Good one hidayath didn't know you had locked glm into octant 👍"
X Link 2023-10-21T15:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
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