Builder Monastery is a ZuVillage for focused work in frontier tech. *BM Ericeira* focuses on the intersection of crypto, zk, and AI. It will take place in Portugal from Sept 16 until Oct 7th, right before zkSummit! 1/2

Owning your data means you have data “property rights”: 1) others cannot use it without your permission (aka safety), and 2) you can use it when you want without anyone else’s permission (aka liveness). —————— Ideas, software and media can be infinitely copied yet we have IP

We’re presenting the report in multiple spaces over the coming weeks! You can expect to hear about it in: - MCON - Funding The Commons Residency - Devconnect ARG And more ✨ If you’re hosting an event and our research is useful, reach out!

We read through the 180 pages of the State of Web3 Grants Report 2024 so you don’t have to 👀 Co-funded by our friends at Octant.eth and produced by the Grant Innovation Lab at Metagov, it covers trends, mechanisms, and challenges in web3 grants. TLDR from us👇

It all started with an idea to improve Retro, and bloomed during the Ethereum Attestation Service Launchpad, and now here we are! Excited to tackle one of the most pressing problems in impact evaluation: the lack of standardized data! Join us!👇

Today we had our first run down IRL! Join us next week to learn how much MORE we've accomplished with Metrics Garden Labs !

I've noticed that many marketing teams in web3 have content calendars but don't have a buyers journey mapped out. What is a buyer's journey? A buyer journey is a visual guide that maps your customer’s experience with your product. This unlocks key insights for founding teams:

“The way we have set this up is that the participants are being rewarded for activity that helps grow the utility of the network”. The incentives reward the participating companies (not individuals). Will be interesting to watch this develop.

When I saw the last book on the list, I start to think this list has some credibility.

Come to my talk at Devcon today, 17.30 on the coordination stage. I'll be talking about: 1. Why retro funding is important 2. Mythbusting 3. What's been the impact of retro funding 4. What's next A few previews below:

In 2024, Retro Funding experimented with metrics-based voting and expert-driven decision making. Moving forward we hope to combine the best parts of what humans and data are good at, capturing both qualitative and quantitative aspects of impact. We call this: ✨Metrics-driven,

Pleasure to be part of the contribution using web-of-trust reputation tech by OpenRank . Super bullish on Optimism ! Optimism Governance is the true differentiator and innovator that carries the hope and spirit of web3.

Being in a perpetual state of mutual obligation to one another is what keeps people in community. As a tool for settling obligations, money (tokens) is sort of anti-community — very useful, but it doesn’t do what you think it does.

*self-serve mutualism* Systems of mutualistic infrastructure that can be self-deployed, self-governed, and distribute a local maxima of autonomy to all agents within a network. A substrate of co-determinism that leverages the full cloud of networked intelligence

*product network fit* When products create significant network value that goes unmeasured by its financial systems. Often essential infra that struggles to stay resourced. What's lacking is our imagination in designing economic models compatible with their mode of production.

2025 is a liminal time liminal = In between, after the last cycle and before the macro trends coming next now is the time to revisit priors, confront your sunk costs, make hard decisions, rest, reboot… & make some risk adjusted bets. time to position for future, not the past.

“America is a country of immigrants” This statement showed up a few times in my timeline today. I assumed it to be directionally correct. If you asked me to estimate what % of the US population is 3rd+ generation (native-born with both parents native-born), I would have

For example, when choosing which movie to watch or what book to read, are you drawn to proven classics or the newest big thing? In my opinion, it is smarter to choose the great over the new. #principleoftheday

NEW POD - Jonas 🔴✨ vpabundance.eth 🐉 Carl Cervone ☕️ join me to talk about the TECTONIC SHIFTS happening in ETHEREUM PUBLIC GOODS FUNDING in 2025 the next cycle will not be like the last! dig in 🪏⛰️ 0:00 Introduction to Allo Capital pod 1:40 Guest Introductions and Episode Focus on