For episode 174, we have a special episode in store. On September 25th, Tereza and Drew from Crypto Altruism co-hosted a Twitter Space where they dove into the key themes from their three-part article series, Exploring the Octant Ecosystem, and had the opportunity to chat with Mashal and Wayne from Octant about some of the exciting things they have in the works. We also announced the winners of our Public Greats GLM giveaway, and heard the incredible stories of 4 Web3 public goods builders from Treegens, KFMEDIA℠, Earth Coin, and ReFi Tulum.

As this was a live, unedited Twitter Space, the audio quality isn’t quite up to our usual standard since most of the speakers were using their phones. But the conversation was packed with insights, and we had a great time engaging with the community and exploring what makes Octant so impactful in the world of public goods funding.

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In episode 173, we’re excited to welcome Batsirai Muguti & Wayne Anthony Daniels of Pipe gDAO, a decentralized community leveraging blockchain to build a University Real World Asset IP Launchpad to help bring groundbreaking ideas from lab to market. We explore what the heck the European Paradox is, how they are addressing it by creating a decentralized ecosystem that tokenizes intellectual property and empowers innovators, and why Web3 primitives are essential in bringing their vision to life.

--Three Key Takeaways--

• Projects that have already gone through the rigor of the university pipeline are much more likely to succeed in the long-term. However, there is often a lot of friction when transferring tech from academia to industry, especially in Europe. The European Paradox refers to the lack of successful companies that have emerged from European University IP when compared to North America and other markets.
• Their decentralized launchpad helps disintermediate early-stage projects from Venture Capitalists by ensuring investment decisions are driven by the community and not the biases of VCs. Through their Question, Evaluate, and Disclose (QED) approach to evaluate technology readiness, it helps derisk the investment for DAO members by putting each idea through a rigorous evaluation process. 
• Web3 can help lower the barrier to entry for investors in early-stage companies. In many jurisdictions, you must be an accredited investor, with access to a large amount of capital to invest in early-stage companies. Blockchain makes it possible to tokenize investment opportunities that were previously only available to high net worth individuals, and open them up to retail investors.

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In episode 172, which is the second part in our two-part series, we welcome back Njeri Muhia and Abeera Akhtar from Mercy Corps Ventures, Greg Schneider and Marie-Odile Zanders from Empowa, and Irthu Suresh from Atlantis. We continue exploring their pilot projects that leverage Web3 technology to build climate resilience, diving deeper into the role of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, how to effectively measure impact, the next steps for scaling their Web3 projects, and much more.

--Key Takeaways--

• The core aspects that make blockchain unique like immutability, transparency, and the ability to reach consensus quickly, are gamechangers in international development efforts. They can increase efficiency by cutting out intermediaries, while making it much easier to monitor and verify the impact of projects.
• Many developing economies leapfrogged traditional technology like LAN lines and Ethernet, going straight to mobile and wireless technologies. This has resulted in a high level of penetration of wireless tech, which has helped fuel the growth of Web3 in these areas, leading to many exciting innovations.
• It’s important to remember that blockchain is a backend solution when introducing innovations to communities. It is far more important for beneficiaries to be aware of the benefits and values of the project, and how it will improve their lives, rather than the intricacies of the technology behind the innovations. You can slowly educate the community on blockchain and crypto as you go, but it doesn’t need to be a part of the initial sales pitch.

--Full shownotes with links available at--
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TLDR - Exploring conflict and trust in DAOs and decentralized communities


For episode 4 of the Impact on Optimism miniseries, we’re excited to welcome Juan Carlos Bell, Project Lead at Gravity DAO, a conflict management DAO that offers alternative dispute resolution and community building services for web3 projects. We’ll explore the origins of Gravity DAO, dive into the unique challenges DAOs face when it comes to conflict resolution, and learn more about the services they offer to help Web3 projects foster trust and resolve disputes. Juan will also share insights into their experience receiving funding through Optimism’s RetroPGF and how Web3 can help advance conflict management as a public good.

--Key Takeaways--

• One of the foundations of Web3 is this idea of trustlessness. However, behind every DAO is people, and the community needs to trust in the reputation of DAO members, especially those in leadership positions. As such, it’s important to focus on activities to intentionally foster trust within your decentralized community.
• When compared to traditional organizations, DAOs have added layers of complexity that come with tokens, online communications, and collaboration digitally across borders. With this added complexity comes unique conflict management challenges. DAOs are still very new, so we are still figuring out and experimenting with conflict management, and it’s important for DAO leaders to take regular temp checks in their communities.
• Many Web3 projects rely solely on grants in the early days, but grants can be very time consuming and unreliable. Optimism’s RetroPGF, on the other hand, gives projects an opportunity to focus on building, rather than seeking out funding. This was essential in helping Gravity DAO grow and succeed.
• If you are in a Web3 community experiencing conflict, reach out to Juan and the Gravity DAO team for support!

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In episode 171, which is part 1 of a 2-part series, we’re excited to welcome five amazing guests: Njeri Muhia and Abeera Akhtar from Mercy Corps Ventures, Greg Schneider and Marie-Odile Zanders from Empowa, and Irthu Suresh from Atlantis. We explore the pilot projects that Empowa and Atlantis recently completed with the help of Mercy Corps Ventures which leverage Web3 to scale climate-resilient housing in Mozambique and improve clean water access in India. We discuss the key findings, challenges, and impacts of these projects.

--Key Takeaways--

• In Mozambique, it is very difficult for the average individual to purchase a home. This is especially true as many individuals in Africa have informal or inconsistent incomes, making it difficult to get a mortgage. Empowa addresses this through their unique on-chain Rent-to-own project where individuals contribute capital over time to the principle as they pay their rent.
• When it comes to climate resilience, access to clean water is essential. Currently, access to energy and water is highly centralized in India. However, these centralized networks can be susceptible to climate shocks. To address this, Atlantis explored how decentralized networks can help communities coordinate around clean water access and build greater resiliency to climate shocks.
• When designing Web3 interventions, especially in traditionally underserved and excluded communities, it is important to focus on building solutions that are easy to use and don’t require the user to have knowledge of Web3. Blockchain is simply the plumbing behind the initiative.

--Full shownotes with links available at--
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In episode 170, we’re excited to welcome Agustin Liserra, CEO and Co-Founder of Num Finance, an organization on a mission to democratize investing with tokenized Real World Assets. We dive into what exactly a tokenized RWA is, how they can democratize investment opportunities, the role of RWAs in climate finance and the Regenerative Finance movement, how blockchain can bring greater transparency and trust to investing, and much more. 

--Three Key Takeaways--

• Due to the challenges in Argentina related to inflation and financial inclusion, crypto has played an important role in the lives of Argentinians. This has helped create a flourishing environment for builders focused on DeFi and FinTech.
• Tokenized Real World Assets can help democratize investing by making investment opportunities accessible to investors without traditional jurisdictional complexities, while also enabling the fractionalization of shares to lower the price of entry.
• Tokenized RWAs can help bring more liquidity and transparency to climate asset markets, while driving greater efficiency by cutting out intermediaries. 

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For episode 3 of the Impact on Optimism miniseries, we’re excited to welcome Will T, Founder of KFMEDIA℠, a Web3 educational platform on a mission to “inspire, excite, educate, & motivate people to support the regeneration of knowledge.” We explore how Web3 can improve traditional education systems, their innovative Learn for Impact program that rewards students for their achievements, insights on the growing Optimism ecosystem, and much more.

--Three Key Takeaways--

• Web3 can help regenerate education by developing innovative incentive mechanisms for learners and educators, onchain credential tools, and by making education more accessible and transparent.
• Learn2Earn is a new movement within Web3 that creates tools to reward learners for educational achievements, often with crypto tokens. KFMEDIA’s℠ Learn for Impact program rewards users with impact tokens to recognize their educational achievements while issuing onchain certifications.
• KFMEDIA℠ and Let’s GROW DAO decided to build on Optimism due to the vision of the Superchain. This includes interoperability amongst L2s, ease of use of the OP Stack, and a strong community of builders

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In episode 169, we’re excited to welcome Jose Santiago Gomez Piedrahita, CEO of Alternun, a ReFi project that’s revolutionizing the gold industry through “Digital Gold Mining”. We dive into the challenges of traditional gold mining, explore how Alternun is leveraging blockchain to decentralize and democratize investment opportunities in gold, and discuss how they’re using liquidity pools and tokenization to fund local environmental initiatives.

--Three Key Takeaways--

• Gold mining has significant environmental impacts, including the destruction of habitats and the release of significant carbon emissions, yet 93% of extracted gold is stored in vaults rather than utilized. This raises the question: why continue mining this precious resource and destroying environments only to sequester it away? This is the problem underlying Alternun’s Digital Mining approach.
• Blockchain is essential in building a Digital Mining platform because it brings greater transparency, ensuring there is no double counting of tokens, while also democratizing access to gold investment opportunities through tokenization.
• Alternun decided to build on the Stellar Blockchain due to the low costs, fast transaction times, on-ramps and off-ramps, and the ability to charge small fees on transactions as a revenue generation tool. They also have a good grants program which has been helpful to Alternun’s startup.

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For today’s episode we’re excited to return to the Impact on Optimism Series for the second episode! In this series, we highlight gamechanging public goods projects in the Optimism Ecosystem, and today, we have a super interesting conversation in store centered around the Ethereum Layer 2 ecosystem.

For episode 2 of the Impact on Optimism miniseries, we’re excited to welcome Tobias Schreier, Co-Founder of growthepie, a Layer 2 fundamentals and blockspace analytics platform on a mission to help scale Ethereum!  We dive into the complex Ethereum L2 ecosystem,  the exciting momentum around the Superchain, the Web3 public goods funding ecosystem, Optimism’s RetroPGF program, and much more.

--Three Key Takeaways--

• The L2 ecosystem is rapidly evolving, with new L2s launching on a regular basis. Given the complexity of the L2 ecosystem, and the various use cases of L2s, it can be difficult to stay up to date and understand the L2 ecosystem, especially for those that are new to Web3. As such, it’s important to have open, accessible, and transparent metrics and analytics to help navigate this complex landscape.
• There are several metrics that can be helpful in evaluating the sustainability of L2s and which one to build or transact on. These include the cost per transaction, the stablecoin market cap on the L2, chain profitability, and the types of activity (i.e. DeFi, NFT sales) that are most prominent on the chain.
• The Superchain is a network of layer 2 blockchains that are built on the open source OP stack. This allows builders to launch their own chain, giving them the freedom to optimize for their use case while still keeping consistency and connection between the different chains. Participants in the superchain get the benefits of the OP stack as it pertains to security, bridging, and updates from the OP Collective.

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In episode 168, we’re excited to welcome Mark Pascall, Co-Founder of The Wellbeing Protocol, an organization on a mission to build a world where local communities are empowered to support their own wellbeing. We discuss how their participatory grantmaking tool is giving communities the power to allocate capital, the role of quadratic and conviction voting mechanisms, the future of hyper local DAOs, why Web3 is a powerful tool to scale localism, and much more!

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--Three Key Takeaways--

• One of the best ways to reallocate power from large corporations and institutions to local communities is by bringing communities onchain as local DAOs. This gives communities a mechanism to allocate capital, make decisions, and coordinate to limit the power of large institutions.
• Conviction Voting is a coordination tool that allows communities to collectively govern shared resources. In this system, individuals can vote over a period of time, and are able to change their vote at anytime. However, as long as an individual doesn’t change their vote after it has been casted, it is a signal that you have strong conviction, and the power of your vote grows.
• In addition to the value of putting local community organizations onchain, one of the other benefits of web3 is all the open-source experimentation happening in the space. Since web3 is so new, it gives communities an opportunity to experiment at the ground level with new mechanisms for coordination and governance.

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