Crypto Altruism Podcast Starter Pack - Public Goods Funding

Crypto Altruism Podcast Starter Pack - Public Goods Funding - ft. Gitcoin, Tea Protocol, Giveth, Gitcoin Citizens, Artizen Fund, Hypercerts, Endaoment, Glo Dollar, $EARTH, & ReFi Phangan

In this podcast starter pack, we’ve bundled together ten episodes highlighting projects that are leveraging Web3 tools to advance public goods including Gitcoin, Tea Protocol, Giveth, Artizen Fund, and more!


In episode 152, we’re excited to release a special live episode hosted on Let’s GROW Live! For this special episode, we welcome Kris Decoodt, Round Operator of Gitcoin Citizens, a retroactive grant program that rewards those contributing to the growth of the Gitcoin ecosystem. We discuss the evolution of Gitcoin Citizens, the value of retroactive funding, maximizing network effects, and more.


In episode 151, we’re excited to welcome Garm Lucassen, CTO and Co-Founder of Glo Dollar, a stablecoin dedicated to unlocking $7.4B a year in funding for public goods and charity. We discuss how stablecoins can be leveraged to embed philanthropy into everyday transactions, the concept of Auto Public Goods Funding (or AutoPGF), the roadmap ahead for Glo Dollar, and much more.


In episode 138, we’re excited to welcome Paul Burg, a regen legend and Founder of ReFi Phangan, GreenPill Phangan, and EcoSynthesisX, and Founding Steward of PhanganQF and DeSpace QF. We discuss the growing ReFi movement in Phangan, Quadratic Funding as a valuable tool to advance public goods, building partnerships with local NGOs and business, and much more.


In episode 136, we’re excited to welcome Max Howell of Tea Protocol, a decentralized protocol that “enhances the sustainability and integrity of the software supply chain by allowing open-source developers to capture the value they create in a trustless manner.” We discuss some of the challenges faced by open-source builders, the role of blockchain in building a sustainable open-source ecosystem, their novel proof of contribution consensus mechanism, and much more.


In episode 129, we’re excited to welcome Ben West, Grants Program Lead at Gitcoin, an incredible catalyst for public goods that has distributed over $50M through their grants program to early-stage builders championing projects across DeFi, climate, open source, and beyond. We discuss the exciting potential of quadratic funding, why Web3 is a powerful tool for community coordination and advancing public goods, advice for first time Gitcoin grantees, and much more.


In episode 119, we’re excited to welcome Mitch, DAO Steward at Giveth, a community-driven movement to transform the way we fund nonprofits and social causes. We discuss how they are using Web3 tools to reimagine philanthropy and the donor experience, DAOs and Giveth’s “Decentralized Altruistic Community”, optimizing public goods funding with conviction voting and quadratic funding, and much more.


In episode 111, we’re excited to welcome René Pinnell, Co-Founder of Artizen Fund, a movement using Web3 tools to unlock human creativity by reinventing how we fund art, science, technology, and design. We discuss the challenges with getting funding for human creativity and how Web3 can address this, Artizen’s innovative artifact fundraising process, how blockchain can help eliminate bureaucracy and put power in the hands of communities, and much more.


In episode 101, we’re excited to welcome Carl Cevone from hypercerts, a new protocol for funding and rewarding impact. We discuss how they’re using the power of blockchain to help build sustainable models for public goods financing, why blockchain is such a valuable tool for impact monitoring and evaluation, how Web3 will disrupt the impact ecosystem, and much more.


In episode 94, we’re excited to welcome Connor O’Day from Gitcoin, a Decentralized Autonomous Organization that is “empowering communities to fund, build, and protect what matters.” We discuss what the heck Quadratic Funding is at its core, how Web3 can empower communities and revolutionize crowdfunding, the incredible impacts of the Gitcoin grants protocol, and much more.


In episode, 79 we’re excited to welcome back Dae Moyer, Development Lead at Endaoment, the first tax-exempt community foundation providing philanthropic financial services on-chain. Endaoment is one of the leaders in web3 philanthropy and to date, 50M USD in Cryptocurrency has been donated through their platform. In this episode we discuss the importance of on-chain enabled transparency in charitable giving, the role of decentralized governance in philanthropy, and what the future of philanthropy will look like, in the year 2032, and the role that web3 will play in it.


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