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Timestamps -  00:00 Introduction to Allo Capital 02:25 The Allominati Meeting Overview 04:48 Capital Allocation Mechanisms 08:08 Data Updates and Key Performance Indicators 10:54 Coherence and Community Building 12:21 Spotlighting Gitcoin and Future Opportunities 14:40 ProtoDAO Coordination Experiments

Ryan Berckmans is an Ethereum community member and ETH investor.In this episode, we unpack the disconnect between Ethereum's surging fundamentals and its lagging market price, exploring what's driving real adoption, why ETH demand hasn't followed through (yet), and what could finally flip the narrative.------

This episode was recorded live at Schelling Point during Eth Denver 2025. In our fourth Rehash Hot Ones show, competitors Kevin Owocki, Disruption Joe, Sophia Dew, and Rena O'Brien battle it out for who has the spiciest takes on DAO governance, web3 funding, and the potential for AI to address challenges in crypto. Along the way, they brave increasingly spicy hot sauces, and audience members participate with their own hot takes as well while also engaging in the interactive spice challenge on stage. Finally, votes are tallied live on JokeRace and a winner is crowned. ⏳ TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Intro 01:57 Panelist introductions 03:10 Rules and voting 04:28 Round 1: Does DAO Governance Work? 18:13 Round 2: Best Way to Fund Web3 Projects 27:43 Round 3: Can AI Fix Crypto? 37:35 Winner announced 

In this episode, Droste hosts a discussion with Trewkat (Miss Katrina) and Adam Miller (The Thriller) about Black Flag DAO's new membership structure and legal entity formation. The conversation, originally recorded as a Twitter Space on February 18th, covers the transition from BanklessDAO, new membership tiers, staking requirements, and upcoming events. Key topics include the special membership opportunity for former BanklessDAO members (ending March 2nd, 2025), the formation of a Marshall Islands DAO LLC, and an upcoming social gathering with Chippi fam at EthDenver!Important Dates- Deadline for Discounted Staking: March 2nd, 2025- ChippiCon and BlackFlag Social at EthDenver: February 26th, 2025Timestamps[00:00] Show Introduction and Time-Sensitive Updates- March 2, 2025 discounted staking deadline for existing Level 1 BanklessDAO members[02:00] X Space intro banter and historical context with TheThriller (Adam Miller)[06:15] Background on Transition from BanklessDAO with Trewkat (Miss Katrina)[08:30] Staking Discount, Deadline and Rationale for returning members vs new members[11:00] New Member Criteria and Structure Details announced in January- Flag Curious: Entry Level Access (free)- Flag Raiser: 500 USDC Stake + Social Consensus- Flag Bearer: Advanced Membership Requirements + Voting Rights[16:30] Transition mechanism through March 2 for existing L1 members[20:00] Staking Mechanism and Pool Details[22:30] Historical Context and Governance[24:00] Related Community Projects and Updates[27:00] BCard x ChippiCon[28:30] Black Flag Initiative[30:00] Chippi children's book on Amazon, more Chippi talk[34:00] Legal Entity Formation with MiDAO[39:00] Community Impact and Evolution[41:00] Closing chatter[42:00] Note on How to DAO book by Kevin Owocki & Puncar[43:00] Wrap upLinks and Resourceshttps://x.com/BlackFlagDAOhttps://warpcast.com/~/channel/blackflaghttps://blackflagdao.notion.site/https://www.chippicon.com/#https://linktr.ee/chippinfthttps://getbcard.iohttps://app.banklessacademy.com/newsletterhttps://warpcast.com/banklessacademyPresentationhttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-2Dio4GaPW2vF8FNBFHXrS0cdOtmGk0Fy2fbu3GvKO4/edit?usp=sharingAnnouncementshttps://banklessdao.substack.com/p/bfd-bulletin-1https://paragraph.xyz/@bfbulletin/black-flag-bulletin-2Making Bank is produced independently on behalf of BlackFlag DAO

Kevin Owocki is the founder of Gitcoin and author of Onchain Capital Allocation. https://allobook.gitcoin.co/

In the Sunday Book Review, Tom Fox considers books that interest the compliance professional, the business executive, or anyone curious. It could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or anything else that might interest Tom. This month of January, we will review the top books on some key areas of interest for compliance professionals. This week, four upcoming books in 2025 for business leaders. How to Dao by Kevin Owocki and Puncar The Power of Purpose, 4th edition by Richard Leider and David Shapiro The Resilient Leader by Brian Molitor House of Huawei by Eva Dou For more information on the Ethico Toolkit  For more information on the Ethico Toolkit for Middle Managers, available at no charge, click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you think you've got what it takes to become a founder in crypto? On the show today we've got 8 of crypto's most famous and successful builders in crypto, each with about 15 minutes in time, giving you the wisdom they gained founding their own companies. We're joined by Jesse Pollack from Base, Jeremy Allaire from Circle, Anatoly from Solana, Stani from Aave, Kain from Synthetix, Mike & Jason from Blockworks, Kevin Owocki from Gitcoin and Lucas from Jito. Each one with their own perspectives, their own scars and hopefully by listening to this episode, you, the listener, can learn from their experiences to gain the confidence you need to venture into this world. ------

What if your $1 donation could result in a $100 contribution to a cause you believe in? That's the promise of quadratic funding: a new kind of crowdfunding model that uses math to distribute funds based on the number of contributors, rather than the amount given. Gitcoin founder Kevin Owocki dives into the principles and pitfalls of this approach to philanthropy, where “many small donors are more powerful than one large donor.” After the talk, Sherrell reflects on how digital tools are transforming the way communities get their needs met. 

This episode was recorded live in Detroit on Saturday, September 28, 2024 during the Rehash podcast event at MCON III. In this episode, Kevin Owocki from Gitcoin joined us to talk about democratic allocation of capital onchain.Kevin is the co-founder of Gitcoin, host of the Green Pill Podcast, and author of the Onchain Capital Allocation Handbook. This episode is sponsored by Last. Last is a new EVM chain that generates revenue from cashflow throughout the network and returns all profits to the community via sustainable and lasting incentives. Build to Last at https://last.net. COLLECT THIS EPISODE FOLLOW REHASH:TwitterFarcasterTikTokInstagramNewsletterRehash Podcast Club (RPC) IMPORTANT LINKS:Kevin Owocki (Twitter)GitcoinOnchain Capital Allocation HandbookGreen Pill Podcast TIMESTAMPS0:00 Intro1:58 How do we allocate capital fairly?17:55 Is retrofunding a good funding mechanism? DISCLAIMER: The information in this video is the opinion of the speaker(s) only and is for informational purposes only. You should not construe it as investment advice, tax advice, or legal advice, and it does not represent any entity's opinion but those of the speaker(s). For investment or legal advice, please seek a duly licensed professional.

What if your $1 donation could result in a $100 contribution to a cause you believe in? That's the promise of quadratic funding: a new kind of crowdfunding model that uses math to distribute funds based on the number of contributors, rather than the amount given. Gitcoin founder Kevin Owocki dives into the principles and pitfalls of this approach to philanthropy, where "many small donors are more powerful than one large donor."

What if your $1 donation could result in a $100 contribution to a cause you believe in? That's the promise of quadratic funding: a new kind of crowdfunding model that uses math to distribute funds based on the number of contributors, rather than the amount given. Gitcoin founder Kevin Owocki dives into the principles and pitfalls of this approach to philanthropy, where "many small donors are more powerful than one large donor."

What if your $1 donation could result in a $100 contribution to a cause you believe in? That's the promise of quadratic funding: a new kind of crowdfunding model that uses math to distribute funds based on the number of contributors, rather than the amount given. Gitcoin founder Kevin Owocki dives into the principles and pitfalls of this approach to philanthropy, where "many small donors are more powerful than one large donor."

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On our penultimate episode of the season, we're speaking with Irina Marinescu, co-founder and CEO of buidlbox, a global hub for builders to learn, earn, and connect in web3.Irina is also a mentor at Tachyon and a founder of Women in Crypto, and she previously worked as General Counsel at Gitcoin throughout its disaffiliation process to decentralize Gitcoin Holdings (which later became Supermodular) from GitcoinDAO back in Spring 2022.It was during this transition period that Gitcoin's bounties and hackathons product, which was originally launched in 2017 by Kevin Owocki, began morphing into what is now buidlbox, and in February 2023 at ETH Denver, buidlbox officially launched. Around that time, Supermodular (previously Gitcoin Holdings) decided to shift its entire focus to supporting the thriving buidlbox platform.In this episode, Irina shares updates on where buidlbox stands today and how it is shaping the future of learning and work, what she learned from the Gitcoin disaffiliation process, both from a legal and an organizational perspective, and how non-technical people can get involved in hackathons and building in the space.We then get into the recent SAB 121 bill that President Biden recently vetoed, why Irina believes the SEC hasn't exactly been aligned with the crypto ecosystem, and the one thing we need to do more of to help regulators change their minds about crypto. 

5 years, 20 Grants, 3715 projects crowd-funded and over $60M raised towards public goods funding, from 4.2M unique donations. Gitcoin's headline numbers are indicative of the massive success their quadratic funding (QF) and public goods funding models (PGF) have seen over the years. With Gitcoin 2.0, crowd-funding is further decentralised, Allo Protocol being open-source and permissionless: any ecosystem treasury can create their own Gitcoin Grants program to help their community fund what matters to them.Topics covered in this episode:Kevin's background and Gitcoin's journey so farThe utility of Gitcoin PassportGitcoin Grants sybil protection dilemmaPublic goods & capital allocationQuadratic funding (QF) & retroactive public goods funding (RPGF)New allocation models introduced by Gitcoin 2.0$GTC token utility & decentralising Allo ProtocolThe current landscape of DAOsEpisode links:Kevin Owocki on TwitterGitcoin on TwitterGitcoin Governance ForumsSponsors:Gnosis: Gnosis builds decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem, since 2015. This year marks the launch of Gnosis Pay— the world's first Decentralized Payment Network. Get started today at - gnosis.ioChorus1: Chorus1 is one of the largest node operators worldwide, supporting more than 100,000 delegators, across 45 networks. The recently launched OPUS allows staking up to 8,000 ETH in a single transaction. Enjoy the highest yields and institutional grade security at - chorus.oneThis episode is hosted by Friederike Ernst.

Gitcoin 2.0 will transform Gitcoin into a decentralized protocol that makes it easy for communities to allocate capital.Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Fountain, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform.In this episode, Laura interviews Meg Lister, GM of Grants Labs at Gitcoin, and Kevin Owocki, co-founder of Gitcoin. They discuss the evolution of Gitcoin from a centralized platform to a decentralized suite of protocols, Gitcoin 2.0, which allows any Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) based ecosystem to fund its public goods. They also talk about the various funding mechanisms available, including quadratic funding, retroactive public goods funding, and conviction voting. Learn more: What Is Retroactive Public Goods Funding?The team is also exploring more futuristic concepts such as private voting systems, angel investing 2.0, and impact attestations. The ultimate goal for Gitcoin is to create a capital allocation infrastructure that funds what matters to communities, whether they are towns, states, countries, or online interest groups.Show highlights:Kevin's background and how he came to found Gitcoin and why Meg joined the companyThe differences between Gitcoin 1.0 and 2.0What quadratic funding is and why it is important in the blockchain ecosystemThe problem of sybil attacks and how Gitcoin Passport aims to solve itWhy Gitcoin has changed its approach to put more focus on scaling Ethereum rather than other types of grantsHow Gitcoin is trying to solve capital allocation efficiency with Allo (Capital Allocation) ProtocolWhat streaming quadratic funding is and how it differs from traditional quadratic fundingHow retroactive public goods funding (RPGF) worksWhat conviction voting is and how it addresses some of the current problems in DAOsWhich projects are using Gitcoin Passport and what forWhy Gitcoin is so focused on the Ethereum ecosystem and whether they will launch in other chainsWhat the purposes of the GTC token are and how it could become a flywheel for GitcoinHow Gitcoin can become sustainable long-term, since it's free to use at the momentThe features that are coming down the line for Gitcoin, including privacy and onchain "angel investing" What the future could look like if Gitcoin succeeds in its mission, according to KevinThank you to our sponsors! PolkadotGuests | Kevin Owocki, Co-founder of GitcoinMeg Lister, GM of Grants Labs at GitcoinLinks | GitcoinGitcoin 2.0 Whitepaper, co-authored by Kevin Owocki and Meg ListerPublic Goods Funding: The New Meta | Kevin Owocki - Gitcoin, presentation at ETH Denver 2024Gitcoin Entering the End Game Gitcoin's Citizen Grants programImpact reportCoinDesk: Why Crypto's Most Altruistic Project Is Going (Kinda) CorporateBlockworks: Gitcoin is restructuring to focus on grants for the Ethereum ecosystem Allo ProtocolAnnouncement threadWeb3 Ecosystem FundingState of Web3 Grants ReportWeb3 Innovations in Public Goods FundingHow To Fund Innovation: A Guide to Web3 Grants, Meg Lister for BeIn CryptoQuadratic fundingORIGINAL WHITE PAPER, co-authored by Vitalik Buterin Retro PGFUnchained: What Is Retroactive Public Goods Funding?PassportIntroducing Passport - Digital Identity as a Public Good -Unchained Podcast is Produced by Laura Shin Media, LLC. Distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Michele Musso and Executive Producer is Jared Schwartz. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Fountain, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Pandora, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform. In this episode, Laura interviews Meg Lister, GM of Grants Labs at Gitcoin, and Kevin Owocki, co-founder of Gitcoin.  They discuss the evolution of Gitcoin from a centralized platform to a decentralized suite of protocols, Gitcoin 2.0, which allows any Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) based ecosystem to fund its public goods. They also talk about the various funding mechanisms available, including quadratic funding, retroactive public goods funding, and conviction voting.  Learn more: What Is Retroactive Public Goods Funding? The team is also exploring more futuristic concepts such as private voting systems, angel investing 2.0, and impact attestations. The ultimate goal for Gitcoin is to create a capital allocation infrastructure that funds what matters to communities, whether they are towns, states, countries, or online interest groups. Show highlights: Kevin's background and how he came to found Gitcoin and why Meg joined the company The differences between Gitcoin 1.0 and 2.0 What quadratic funding is and why it is important in the blockchain ecosystem The problem of sybil attacks and how Gitcoin Passport aims to solve it Why Gitcoin has changed its approach to put more focus on scaling Ethereum rather than other types of grants How Gitcoin is trying to solve capital allocation efficiency with Allo (Capital Allocation) Protocol What streaming quadratic funding is and how it differs from traditional quadratic funding How retroactive public goods funding (RPGF) works What conviction voting is and how it addresses some of the current problems in DAOs Which projects are using Gitcoin Passport and what for Why Gitcoin is so focused on the Ethereum ecosystem and whether they will launch in other chains What the purposes of the GTC token are and how it could become a flywheel for Gitcoin How Gitcoin can become sustainable long-term, since it's free to use at the moment The features that are coming down the line for Gitcoin, including privacy and onchain "angel investing"  What the future could look like if Gitcoin succeeds in its mission, according to Kevin Thank you to our sponsors! Polkadot Guests: Kevin Owocki, Co-founder of Gitcoin Meg Lister, GM of Grants Labs at Gitcoin Links Gitcoin Gitcoin 2.0 Whitepaper, co-authored by Kevin Owocki and Meg Lister Public Goods Funding: The New Meta | Kevin Owocki - Gitcoin, presentation at ETH Denver 2024 Gitcoin Entering the End Game  Gitcoin's Citizen Grants program Impact report CoinDesk: Why Crypto's Most Altruistic Project Is Going (Kinda) Corporate Blockworks: Gitcoin is restructuring to focus on grants for the Ethereum ecosystem  Allo Protocol Announcement thread Web3 Ecosystem Funding State of Web3 Grants Report Web3 Innovations in Public Goods Funding How To Fund Innovation: A Guide to Web3 Grants, Meg Lister for BeIn Crypto Quadratic funding ORIGINAL WHITE PAPER, co-authored by Vitalik Buterin  Retro PGF Unchained: What Is Retroactive Public Goods Funding? Passport Introducing Passport - Digital Identity as a Public Good  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast we host two guests: Kevin Owocki, co-founder of Gitcoin, and Meg Lister, GM at Gitcoin Grants Labs. Gitcoin is a platform that connects developers with open-source projects for funding, collaboration, and building digital public goods through various forms of contribution like coding, design, and more. In our conversation we learn about the origin story of Gitcoin and breakdown the main funding mechanisms, such as quadratic funding and retroactive funding, benefits of onchain capital allocation over traditional funding mechanisms, and we delve into Allo Protocol, an open-source protocol that enables groups to efficiently and transparently allocate pooled capital. 0:00 Intro 1:37 Kevin Owocki and Meg Lister 4:12 The Story of Gitcoin 12:39 Quadratic and Retroactive Funding 18:21 Main Usecases 24:35 Grants Programs in the Bull 28:44 Onchain Capital Allocation 33:53 Allo Protocol 37:33 Gitcoin Token 38:17 Revenue 41:01 Ultimate Vision 49:05 Fiat Onramps Our sponsor Synfutures: https://oyster.synfutures.com/ ✨ Check out our new website ✨ https://thedefiant.io/

If you care about this show as a public good, consider signing up on Substack or Patreon today for bonus episodes, live calls, and more — or at least mash “subscribe” on Spotify or Apple Podcasts and leave a five-star review.  The unborn future archaeologists who find these episodes inscribed in DNA will thank you!Today I welcome you to join me for a long-awaited trialogue with two of the most thoughtful people I know: Gregory Landua, co-founder of Regen Network (and CEO of Regen Network Dev PBC), a project to bend finance and computing back into service of regenerative land stewardship, and Speaker John Ash, a machine learning engineer and artist/musician who walked away from his fintech job in 2017 in protest of the profit motive to build a democratic language model named Iris based on Cognicism, a new framework for collaboration rooted in shared wisdom. Gregory and John are two of the most prominent and articulate advocates in my network for a third way beyond starry-eyed technoutopianism and desperate doomer thinking. Neither of them pull any punches when it comes to their cutting critiques of extractive capitalism and its capture of both sustainability discourse and potentially emancipatory new information technologies. But both recognize, as I do, that with a deeper and more fundamental understanding of the nature of trust, money, technology, and value that humankind is fully capable of a socioeconomic transformation that could empower us to make every transaction serve our collective well-being.It took me a while to come around to believing in the notion that AI and Web3 could actually heal the damage we're doing to the biosphere, and even now I acknowledge that tools, like people, tend toward the production of harmful externalities when embedded in structurally unjust systems. But as I discussed with evolutionary biologist Manfred Laubichler and physicist Geoffrey West back in episode 212, not all innovation is created equal — and we may be on the cusp of a psychological and cultural reformation that opens up new paths to sanity and right relations. And it's well past time for us to move beyond a “nature good, tech bad” or “tech good, nature bad” duality — both sides come from the same flaw in comprehension that allows us to believe we can escape our natural limits, or that self-destruction will allow us to escape our duties as the steward-servants of our living world.Enjoy this soulful and provocative discussion!✨ Mentioned & Related Links:The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber & David WengrowUSGS on climate change and monsoons in the US SWEarlier recording of Gregory Landua & Speaker John Ash in dialogueGregory Landua on Kevin Owocki's Green Pill PodcastMG on “value creation” as the export of externalitiesSpeaker John Ash on CognicismSpeaker John Ash on Cognition & ConflictSpeaker John Ash on SpotifyAn Oral History of The End of “Reality” by MGAccelerando by Charles StrossGlasshouse by Charles StrossRapture of the Nerds by Charles Stross & Cory Doctorow✨ Support The Show:• Subscribe on Substack or Patreon for COPIOUS extras, including private Discord server channels and MANY secret episodes• Make one-off donations at @futurefossils on Venmo, $manfredmacx on CashApp, or @michaelgarfield on PayPal• Buy the music (intro/outro: “Olympus Mons” & “Sonnet A”; episode codas “Transparent” & “Signal”) on Bandcamp• Buy the books we discuss at the Future Fossils Bookshop.org page and I get a small cut from your support of indie booksellers• Browse and buy original paintings and prints or email me to commission new work✨ Related FF Episodes:213 - Amber Case & Michael Zargham on Entangled Technologies & Design As Governance206 - Scout Rainer Wiley on AI vs. BS Jobs, The Return of Culture, and Eldritch Wonders in The Bright Apocalypse193 - Kimberly Dill on Environmental Philosophy: In Defense of Wildness & Night181 - Jim Rutt on The Pre- and Post-History of GameB178 - Chris Ryan on Exhuming The Human from Our Eldritch Institutions176 - Exploring Ecodelia with Richard Doyle, Sophie Strand, and Sam Gandy at the Psilocybin Summit163 - Bitcoin & Fungal Economies with Toby Kiers & Brandon Quittem146 - Raising Earth Consciousness with Ralph Metzner, Dennis McKenna, Gay Dillingham, Valerie Plame Wilson, Allan Badiner, and Michael Garfield at Synergia Ranch, April 2016141 - Nora Bateson on Warm Data vs. The Cold Equations133 - Brian Swimme on Telling A New Story of Our Universe122 - Magenta Ceiba on Regenerative Everything94 - Mark Nelson on Ecotechnics & Biosphere 2 (Part 1)61 - Jamaica Stevens (On Crisis, Rebirth, Transformation)60 - Sean Esbjörn-Hargens Goes Meta on Everything: Integral Ecology & Impact56 - Sophia Rokhlin (Anarchy, Ecology, Economy, and Shamanism)51 - Daniel Schmachtenberger (Designing A Win-Win World for Everyone) This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michaelgarfield.substack.com/subscribe

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The Daily Gwei Refuel gives you a recap every week day on everything that happened in the Ethereum and crypto ecosystems over the previous 24 hours - hosted by Anthony Sassano. Timestamps and links to topics discussed: https://daily-gwei-links.vercel.app/recent 00:00 Introductory song 00:09 Anthony phishing attack victim https://optimistic.etherscan.io/tx/0xe6e8c3b904a221a0e8a44ed3b08f74fe873b4085d395792753e6c35631ad4b3d 13:15 Ethereum Futures ETF applications accelerated https://twitter.com/EricBalchunas/status/1707203091785732272 15:04 Gensler grilled in from of house committee https://twitter.com/sassal0x/status/1707039123134087270 15:48 Kevin Owocki at Stand With Crypto day in DC  https://twitter.com/owocki/status/1707217559932543085 17:06 Gensler can't say if Pokemon Cards are securities https://twitter.com/RepRitchie/status/1707117291349885103 20:21 Holesky testnet releasing today https://twitter.com/go_ethereum/status/1707295657558454395 21:03 Dencun upgrade website https://twitter.com/ethStaker/status/1707131801011970058 23:07 Censorship resistance on the Ethereum network  https://twitter.com/mikeneuder/status/1707042087416279160 26:02 Rated network raise $12.98M https://twitter.com/TheBlock__/status/1707018529755595116 27:57 Enzyme launch using vampire attack on Diva https://twitter.com/micho/status/1706723349580349657 31:00 Nintendo emulator being w/ NoirLang from Aztec https://twitter.com/aztecnetwork/status/1706654966520447474 This episode is also available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/j5jQtjgHTTU Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thedailygwei.substack.com/ Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvCp6vKY5jDr87htKH6hgDA/ Follow Anthony on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sassal0x Follow The Daily Gwei on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedailygwei Join the Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/4pfUJsENcg DISCLAIMER: All information presented across all of The Daily Gwei's communication channels is strictly for educational purposes and should not be taken as investment advice.

Kevin Owocki is a founder of Gitcoin and Green Pill. In conversation with Matthew Monahan. Watch this episode on video: https://youtu.be/li52pnvmohE Watch a preview: https://youtu.be/F_wfNOjtnEY Green Pill: https://greenpill.network/ Gitcoin: https://gitcoin.co/ Supermodular: https://supermodular.xyz/ Kevin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/owocki THE REGENERATION WILL BE FUNDED Ma Earth Website: https://maearth.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@maearthmedia Community Discord: https://maearth.com/community Podcast Feed: https://feed.podbean.com/theregeneration/feed.xml EPISODE RESOURCES Kevin's keynote at ReFi Summit: https://owocki.com/refi-summit-2023-keynote/ Allo Protocol: https://allo.gitcoin.co/ Quadratic Funding: https://www.wtfisqf.com/ Radical Xchange: https://www.radicalxchange.org/ Hypercerts: https://hypercerts.org/ RELATED INTERVIEWS Griff Green (Giveth): https://youtu.be/1OqwwGxDBKw Deepa Chaudhary (Impact DAO Media): https://youtu.be/t542Ypq7i_4 Holke Brammer (Hypercerts): https://youtu.be/q3osrfEW4WQ This interview took place during ReFi Summit 2023: https://refisummit.org SOCIAL Farcaster: https://warpcast.com/maearth X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/maearthmedia Lenstube: https://lenstube.xyz/channel/maearth.lens Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maearthmedia/ Mirror: https://mirror.xyz/maearth.eth LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/maearth/ Lenster: https://lenster.xyz/u/maearth Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maearthcommunity TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@maearthmedia

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Kevin is a co-founder of Gitcoin. We talk about his book Stuff Crypto OGs Know, how to think about values trade-offs, whether crypto will ever move beyond financial use cases, accepting the reality of credibly neutral protocols, and Kevin's take on the controversy behind Gitcoin's latest funding round. -- This episode is sponsored by Forefront. Check out forefront.market/subscribe - - Follow Kevin: https://twitter.com/owocki Follow Chase: https://twitter.com/chaserchapman Follow On the Other Side: https://twitter.com/ontheOSpod Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3pJInKm Subscribe on Apple: https://apple.co/3M7wHbP Subscribe on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3pMRbiM - -  Disclaimer: Nothing said on On The Other Side is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Chase and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed. 

In this episode, Kevin Owocki, Founder of Web3 crowdfunding platform Gitcoin (and now supermodular) joins us to discuss regenerative finance and regenerative funding. Kevin explains what regenerative finance is, why being a degen isn't all that, and why he believes the future of crypto and Web3 lies in "regen" projects (things where resource capacity goes up over time). We also discuss quadratic funding and why it matters, the idea of retroactive public goods funding, and other potentially exciting novel funding mechanisms. 

Move over, DeFi—ReFi is coming? Gitcoin founder Kevin Owocki has stepped away from DeFi grant-giving machine Gitcoin as it fully decentralizes and is now focused on regenerative finance (huh?) and ReFi incubator Supermodular. He aims to "regenerate the regenerators." He explains it all to Dan Roberts and Liam Kelly, and also talks DAO structure, crypto factions, NFT use cases, his book "Greenpilled," and much more.For more from Decrypt, visit decrypt.co and follow @gmdecrypt on Twitter.Be sure to join the gm Telegram room for direct access to our hosts and guests.Hosts and guests:Dan RobertsTwitter: @readDanwriteLiam KellyTwitter: @liam_gallasKevin OwockiTwitter: @owockiPodcast thumbnail art by Grant Kempster Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this podcast episode, the hosts discussed the recent crisis involving Silicon Valley Bank (SBV), which is responsible for funding over 40% of tech startups and invested in mortgage-backed securities. As a result, the macro economy is in shambles, and crypto has been crushed, with BTC and ETH down 10% and alts down around 20%. The hosts discussed the crisis and the potential implications for the banking sector and crypto.The hosts also discussed recent data points and predictions of volatility and shifts in the market, as well as the strength of crypto in this situation. They highlighted the appeal of crypto as an option for investors who are considering pulling their money out of SBV and other banks.Kevin Owocki discussed his work as founder of Gitcoin, which aims to fund public goods and support developers in creating software. He highlighted the importance of credible neutrality in fair funding and described the mechanisms for democratically funding public goods, including quadratic funding. He also discussed his new project, Supermodular xyz, which aims to cultivate a more regenerative digital frontier and make positive contributions to the world.We ended on a positive note despite the grim climate, with a call to action to work together to create long-term positive outcomes and build a better world.Kevin Owocki on @ 38:30GM Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kevin Owocki is the founder of Gitcoin. Earlier this year, Gitcoin transitioned from the original company structure to a DAO, and Kevin exited from his leadership role to cede full governance over to the token holders. In this episode, Kevin and Jess talk through the road that led him there and the many challenges and opportunities of decentralization that he — and Gitcoin — learned along the way, and how blockchain uniquely enables the transition from centralized company to fully decentralized organization.

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In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with a familiar name to all of us in the industry. Kevin Owocki, the founder of Gitcoin a community of builders, creators, and protocols at the center of open web ecosystems. Gitcoin has facilitated $72.3 Million of funding to open source projects, has 312 thousand monthly active developers, and 3 & half thousand projects that have been created. Kevin is working on his new project called Supermodular, which we will cover.We briefly review the recent collapse of FTX and the effect on our industry. Then we dive into a discussion around EVM compatibility, L2s and their alt chain counterparts.We discuss the prospects for a brighter future, leveraging Web3, DAOs and focusing on regenerative projects.Testing testing Web2..3.Contact Info:Host: Igor YuzoSpeaker(s): Kevin Owocki

Even before the pandemic, social scientists knew that the infinite social-media scroll and offline social isolation left humans more depressed. At the same time, faith in traditional party politics continues to wane.Kevin Owocki, founder of Gitcoin; Nathan Schneider, an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, Ellie Rennie, a professor, and researcher at RMIT University in Australia; and Tanisi Pooran, a partner at The Ready join David Morris, CoinDesk's chief insights columnist, to discuss how DAOs can help address both challenges by offering a new model for tighter-knit digital communities and better incentive models for public goods.-The panel discussion took place on June 10, the second day of CoinDesk's Consensus 2022 festival in Austin, Texas. The executive producer for CoinDesk Reports is Jared Schwartz. Nia Freeman edited this episode.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Kevin Owocki has moved on from Gitcoin and recently founded Supermodular, the venture studio built on top of Gitcoin to help promote digital public goods in the crypto ecosystem. ------

Kevin Owocki describes himself as an internet citizen, DAO cartographer, EVM whisperer & chaos magician. But what is truly behind these identities? We met at Mainnet in New York and talked about the future of AI, security issues of proof of stake, Kevin's background, why and how he built Gitcoin, and why he decided to turn the project into a DAO. https://twitter.com/owocki https://gitcoin.co/ Gitcoin is a platform where you get paid to work on open-source software in Python, Rust, Ruby, JavaScript, Solidity, HTML, CSS, Design, and more. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:40 Who is Kevin Owocki 2:08 Gitcoin DAO 3:14 How to organize the chaos 5:55 How Kevin started Gitcoin 7:45 Why Kevin chooses Ethereum 8:52 Ethereum Merge 10:30 The future of Ethereum 12:53 Bridges  14:06 Kevin's background 14:36 The future of AI 17:10 Interoperability & decentralized social media 19:20 Innovation in Colorado 21:08 Is Proof-Of-Stake secure? 23:10 Environment & crypto 26:14 The game of coins 27:15 Future of Gitcoin DAO ►► Get 20% off on your ticket to W3BX. Use my code: WOLF20. Register here: http://web3expo.live/  ►► JOIN THE FREE WOLF DEN NEWSLETTER https://www.getrevue.co/profile/TheWolfDen  GET UP TO A $8,000 BONUS IN USDT AND TRADE ALL SPOT PAIRS ON BITGET FOR ZERO FEES! ►► https://thewolfofallstreets.info/bitget   TRADE ON THE WORLD'S BEST DEX, BULLISH: ►► https://thewolfofallstreets.info/bullish/youtube  Follow Scott Melker: Twitter: https://twitter.com/scottmelker  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wolfofallstreets   Web: https://www.thewolfofallstreets.io  Spotify: https://spoti.fi/30N5FDe  Apple podcast: https://apple.co/3FASB2c  #Bitcoin #Crypto #Trading The views and opinions expressed here are solely my own and should in no way be interpreted as financial advice. This video was created for entertainment. Every investment and trading move involves risk. You should conduct your own research when making a decision. I am not a financial advisor. Nothing contained in this video constitutes or shall be construed as an offering of financial instruments or as investment advice or recommendations of an investment strategy or whether or not to "Buy," "Sell," or "Hold" an investment.

Welcome to Chain Reaction, where we unpack and explain the latest in crypto news, drama and trends, breaking things down block by block for the crypto curious.For our Tuesday episode this week, where we interview an expert in the crypto space, we chatted with Kevin Owocki. He is the founder of Gitcoin and an outspoken proponent of both open source software and decentralized governance. We spoke with Owocki about whether the crypto community is living up to its lofty ideals and what comes next for Ethereum after The Merge. We also discussed:How venture capitalists should be incentivizing the creation of more publicly beneficial blockchain infrastructure, and what still needs to be built.Whether technology is enough to solve some of the societal problems blockchain developers and advocates are frequently passionate about.ICYMI, you can use the promo code REACT for 15% off tickets to TechCrunch Disrupt this October (excluding online and expo) where we'll be chatting with industry experts such as a16z's Chris Dixon and Solana Labs' Anatoly Yakovenko.We'll also be hosting our first dedicated crypto event in Miami for just one day on November 17th — you can use the same promo code, REACT, for 15% off a General Admission ticket.And even if you can't join us in person, you can use the promo code REACT to get 25% off an annual subscription to TechCrunch+.Chain Reaction comes out every Tuesday and Thursday at 12:00 p.m. PT, so be sure to subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favorite pod platform to keep up with the action.

In this episode of the Ownership Economy, Jahed and Martin connect with Golda Velez, the Co-founder of WhatsCookin, an activity planning startup working to strengthen communities, create opportunities and democratize corporations. Golda comes from a background working as a senior software engineer in some of the largest web2 digital platforms. She worked on data at Uber, risk at Postmates, and held a variety of other roles leading teams in building complex, scalable platforms. She is now taking that experience and applying it to building a stakeholder owned and governed platform for community engagement. We dig into the business model, how she started, tools she's using for ownership and governance, and other aspects of team building in this early stage venture. For engineers interested in transitioning from web2 to web3, we also recommend episode 5 with Kevin Owocki from Gitcoin and Episode 8 with James Young from Abridged. We hope you enjoy the episode. Show Notes: Mike Moyer – Slicing Pie – Equity Splits for Startups What's Cookin' does equity their way | by Fairmint A Minimal Approach to Linked Trust With Uncertainty Cooperation Episode 027 - Empowering Local Providers with Efficient Development Finance Facilitated through Web3 with Dr. Melyn McKay by The Ownership Economy Bloomberg Beta Episode 005 - Building and Funding the Digital Commons Together with Kevin Owocki of Gitcoin by The Ownership Economy Episode 008 - The Future of Work, DAOs, and Verifiable Credentials with James Young of Abridged by The Ownership Economy

In this week's episode of DAO or Never, we interview Kevin Owocki, founder of web3events.co and Gitcoin.Kevin has a BS in Computer Science, 15 years of engineering leadership experience in open source software and web startups, and is a community organizer in the Boulder, Colorado tech scene. We discuss regenerative society, the Green Pill, Gitcoin and more.Ready? Let's dive in!Key Takeaways:The origins of the green pill (00:57)Positive sum games (04:13)Owocki at work (06:03)Quadratic funding explained (08:14)The Merge and proof of stake (12:27)Gitcoin rounds and project categories (13:33)Gitcoin passport and digital identity (19:09)Solar Punk vs Lunarpunk philosophy (30:49)The Green Pill Book (35:38)Additional Resources:Follow GitcoinExplore Gitcoin GrantsConnect with OwockiTake the Green PillListen to the Greenpill.party PodcastQuadratic Payments: A Primer by Vitalik ButerinLearn more about Logos DAOConnect with Logos DAO on LinkedIn and TwitterGet all the news from DAO or NeverIf you enjoyed this episode, please follow, rate, and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform!

On episode 4 of ReFi Podcast Season Two, John chats with Kevin Owocki, founder of Gitcoin and thought leader working to incentivize public goods. We explore Kevin's story, dive into what it means to take the “Green Pill”, and learn all about Kevin's vision for how web3 can solve some of the most pressing challenges of our time. Recorded live at SBS in Paris.. 00:00 Intro 01:56 Quadratic Funding History 04:30 Why we launched GTC 08:10 Gitcoin Passports 10:47 The idea of ‘Lunar Punk' 13:28 Green Pill 16:33 What kind of world are our kids going to grow up in? 18:22 Galaxy brain ideas into memes. 22:00 Local people are best to solve problems 23:55 Quadratic funding in Colorado during pandemic 25:28 Why blockchain is well positioned to solve global communication failure 29:00 Spinning the flywheel of sybil resistance 30:00 Web3 has to provide mainstream utility 34:04 ‘Carbon credits' for poverty reduction, biodiversity restoration 36:44 Solar punk & web3 ready to bear fruit 39:20 Why Kevin stood down from leadership at Gitcoin 44:00 What can we do to help? 47:14 Advice for a young entrepreneur? 50:38 Ideas are fun but stressful 52:38 How do you manage a business of this size? 54:30 Hyperstructures Follow Kevin and check out Gitcoin: Website: https://gitcoin.co/ Gitcoin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gitcoin Kevin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/owocki -------------------------------------------- Join the conversation on Twitter, follow: https://twitter.com/ReFiDAOist https://twitter.com/climateXcrypto https://twitter.com/simarsmangat Thanks to our friends at Feed Ignite for the podcast and micro-content production: https://feedignite.com 

Gitcoin founder Kevin Owocki joins Natasha and Deana to talk about what public goods are, and why they matter. They talked about how Boys Club is creating anti-fragility in crypto, and took a hit from Kevin's web3 optimism pipe. Next, Deana and Natasha talked about web3 media models, and closed out the episode discussing Natasha's gambling strategy.

Celebrating the release of his first book "Greenpilled: How Crypto Can Regenerate The World" we welcome Kevin Owocki to discuss regenerative crypto-economics, doomer optimism,  impact DAO's, public goods and crypto's relationship to the state .  Buy Greenpilled and take the pledge: https://greenpill.party/#bookSub to The Green Pill Podcast: https://availableon.com/greenpillFollow Kevin: https://twitter.com/owockiGitcoin: https://gitcoin.co/

Phoebe Tickell is a biologist and systems thinker developing methodologies and approaches  suited for a better world. She is an innovator with a background in the biological sciences, technology, social entrepreneurship and systems design. She left the scientific academy with the knowledge that an understanding of complex systems could be applied to real world pressing issues and that bridges were needed to stretch from theory to practice.  She works across multiple societal contexts applying a complexity and systems thinking lens and has worked in organisational design, advised government, the education sector and the food and farming sector. She is a co-founder of the DGov Foundation – a community of distributed governance practitioners – and Member of Enspiral, a community that innovates in decentralising power and developing decentralised tools and technologies to do so. She also created Moral Imaginations in 2020 to push the frontier of research and implementation of research-backed collective imagination exercises and training to inspire change and find new solutions in an era of unprecedented disruption and potential for transformation. It's clear that society needs direction when it comes to change, and in today's episode we explore how imagination gives us the ability to think beyond traditional frames. Join us as we delve into training a new breed of activists, mapping unintended consequences, how to coordinate at a massive scale – and accounting for future generations with the choices that we make.     A full transcript of the episode can be found on our website: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/phoebe-tickell/   Key highlights we discussed: > Why imagination has become central to building the future > The moral elements of new ways of organising > How diverse teams or communities can work from shared principles > Why we need to stay connected to our local communities > Why coordination is not ‘everything' for DAOs    To find out more about Phoebe's work: > LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phoebetickell/  > Twitter: https://twitter.com/solarpunk_girl  > Website: http://www.phoebetickell.com/  > Moral Imaginations: https://www.moralimaginations.com/  > Moral Imaginations Twitter: https://twitter.com/moral_imagining  > Moral Imaginations Substack: https://moralimaginations.substack.com/    Other references and mentions:   > Indy Johar, A Development Future: https://medium.com/hub-engine/a-developmental-future-21bf6412625e   > The Manifesto for Moral Imagination: https://medium.com/moral-imaginations/a-manifesto-for-moral-imagination-dbf62f0cb7aa  > Trans-contextual Organizing: Shifting Perceptions — with Nora Bateson: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/nora-bateson/  > Daniel Schmachtenberger: https://civilizationemerging.com/about/  > Kevin Owocki, The Green Pill, with Phoebe Tickell: https://greenpill.substack.com/p/12-solarpunk-girl-phoebe-tickell?s=r  > L. M. Sacasas – Building a convivial society: autonomy, tools, scale and capabilities: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/l-m-sacasas/ > MetaGov: https://metagov.org/ > Colony: distributed organizations that actually work – with Aron Fischer and Jack du Rose: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/colony/ > Samantha Slay, Going Horizontal: https://goinghorizontal.co/  > New Citizenship Project: https://www.newcitizenship.org.uk/   Find out more about the show and the research at Boundaryless at https://boundaryless.io/resources/podcast/   Thanks for the ad-hoc music to Liosound / Walter Mobilio. Find his portfolio here: https://boundaryless.io/podcast-music   Recorded on 19 April 2022.

Kevin Owocki is the founder of Gitcoin, which helps coordinate crowdfunding for projects and software developments on the Ethereum blockchain. With 300,000 builders and over 25,000 funders, Gitcoin has become a key pillar of the Ethereum nation, making sure public goods can thrive. We talk about how Gitcoin was born as a reaction to the ICO era, after Kevin realized many of the business models and funding mechanisms on Ethereum were broken. Open-source software is carrying a huge weight, while its builders are not being properly compensated or incentivized, and Gitcoin wants to change that. Thanking our podcast sponsors: Zerion is Mission Control for Web3: an intuitive DeFi portfolio manager, multichain tracking & trading and the best place to show off your NFT collection Unstoppable Domains is The #1 provider of NFT domains. Get YourName dot crypto, dot x, dot nft or a range of other endings for as low as $5 Nexo: Invest in crypto, earn interest of up to 20%, paid out daily, and use crypto as collateral to receive a credit line at premium rates. Step Finance's portfolio management dashboard enables Solana users to visualize, analyze, execute and aggregate transactions across all Solana contracts at the click of a button.

What is most important in crypto? What wins out in the end? Today, we find out if user experience is more important than decentralization. As we progress through crypto's cambrian explosion, we often observe the tradeoff between immediate product viability and a 'no cutting corners' approach. Taking the side of UX & a product-first mentality is Cooper Turley, a champion of the creator economy. Kevin Owocki—himself a schelling point for public goods—is defending decentralization and the merits of a values-first approach. While exploring the roots of this tradeoff, we'll learn more about where we are as an ecosystem and where we are inevitably heading. ------

What is Gitcoin? Gitcoin is a company that builds the Web3 space. Vitalik Buterin called Gitcoin a key pillar of Ethereum. But what will the future look like? And how will Gitcoin interact with Cosmos in the future? This is what Juri Maibaum discusses with Gitcoin founder Kevin Owocki in today's episode!  CHECK OUT GITCOIN

In this episode, Martin & Jahed sit down with Kevin Owocki, co-founder and CEO of Gitcoin, a community developing digital public goods that has put $52 million in the open source ecosystem's hands since its founding. In the conversation, Kevin covers how Gitcoin's mission came to be, why its important to fund public goods, and the bleeding edge of democratic governance innovations Gitcoin is spurring on with quadratic funding and quadratic voting with Gitcoin Grants. This episode provides a unique view behind the scenes of a thriving, well-funded community experimenting with new democratic methods that politicians, technologists, and founders seeking to expand the agency of their community can borrow from. Here are the show notes: Elastic and AWS open source battle The crusade against Open Source abuse Grounding decentralised technologies in cooperative principles: What can “Decentralised Autonomous Organisations” (DAOs) and platform cooperatives learn from each other? A comparative analysis of the platforms for decentralized autonomous organizations in the Ethereum blockchain Gitcoin Grants Case Study

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Mint Season 4 episode 17 welcomes Kevin Owocki, a technology entrepreneur based in Boulder, Colorado, and the Founder of Gitcoin.In this episode, we discuss: 00:31 -  intro05:19 - Gitcoin14:00 - What's the Incentive to Build for Open Source?17:09 - What's Your Plan to Capture More Market Value?21:24 - Intersection Between Creators and Gitcoin24:45 - Synergies Between Journalists and Software Developers32:20 - Outro…and so much more. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Kevin Owocki - https://twitter.com/owockiLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Gitcoin is a crowdfunding platform for open-source public goods governed by the people who use it. Hear Kevin Owocki describe how they combined the innovative methods of quadratic funding and strong sybil resistance to create a new system for rewarding the best projects. --- Crypto Sapiens is produced in partnership with Bankless DAO.  https://bankless.community   --- Crypto Sapiens hosts lively discussions with innovative Web3 builders to help everyone learn about decentralized money systems including Ethereum, Bitcoin and DeFi. https://twitter.com/CryptoSapiens_    https://www.facebook.com/CryptoSapiens-Podcast-107678875061018  https://www.instagram.com/cryptosapiensofficial/  --- Resource links: Gitcoin is a platform where you can build and fund the open web together. https://gitcoin.co/  https://twitter.com/gitcoin  Connect with Kevin Owocki https://twitter.com/owocki  --- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. 

In this episode Lex interviews Kevin Owocki, founder of Gitcoin, one of the driving forces of Ethereum. Kevin describes his learning experience as CTO for Techstars startups led him to create the most popular open-source platform for Ethereum developers. Kevin's analysis of open source software outlines the unprecedented value of the Open Internet. He walks us through his journey building Gitcoin and the opportunity he had to create an incentivization mechanism with the help of Vitalik Buterin to create an environment where the market can express their preferences more fairly. Kevin also highlights the transformational potential of DeFi, and the power of memes.