Crypto Advocacy Panel
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🗓️ 2 December 2021
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
This is the Crypto Advocacy & Education Summit, which we're hosting to go along with the Ethereum Foundation's $500,000 donation to the Gitcoin Round 12 matching round for the ‘Crypto Advocacy’ track.
Gitcoin does these ‘quadratic matching’ rounds 4 times a year, where many entities donate large sums of funds, and the community rallies and donates to many causes and projects across the crypto space. The ‘matching rounds’ are exponentially matched towards the grants that received the most numbers of individual humans who donated to them.
The EF has specifically allocated 500k to go towards effects that advocate for crypto in our government offices.
Bankless and Gitcoin are hosting a 2-panel ’summit’ livestream in order to drum up excitement and donations for the various organizations that help advocate for crypto!
✨ GITCOIN GRANTS ✨
https://gitcoin.co/grants/explorer/
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Panel #1: Why does crypto advocacy and education matter?
Kristin Smith | Blockchain Association
https://twitter.com/KMSmithDC?s=20
Brian Quintenz | Former CFTC Chair
https://twitter.com/BrianQuintenz?s=20
Tomicah Tillemann | a16z
https://twitter.com/TomicahTD?s=20
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Panel #2: How do crypto stakeholders support crypto advocacy + education?
Sarah Roth-Gaudette | Fight for the Future
https://twitter.com/gaudette75?s=20
Jerry Brito | Coin Center
https://twitter.com/jerrybrito?s=20
Jake Chervinsky | Blockchain Association
https://twitter.com/jchervinsky?s=20
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| 0:00.0 | All right, welcome everyone to the Crypto Advocacy Dual Panel. |
| 0:11.6 | We are super excited to launch off this Gitcoin Round 12 with a brand new Round for Crypto |
| 0:18.1 | Advocacy. |
| 0:19.1 | And I'm joined here by Scott Moore from Gitcoin and Conor Spellicy from the Dow Research |
| 0:24.2 | Collective. |
| 0:25.2 | We are talking all about Advocacy for Crypto with our regulatory bodies, our lobbyists, |
| 0:31.7 | our governmental agencies, and also, like I said, kicking off this brand new Round for |
| 0:37.2 | Gitcoin grants. |
| 0:38.2 | I believe everyone knows about Gitcoin grants, but for those that don't, I'll throw it over |
| 0:42.7 | to Scott to talk about what Gitcoin is, why we're doing this, and what is new in Gitcoin |
| 0:47.5 | Round 12. |
| 0:48.5 | Thank you so much, David. |
| 0:50.5 | So Gitcoin grants is one of many experiments that Gitcoin is running around digital public |
| 0:54.7 | goods. |
| 0:55.7 | The goal of Gitcoin grants in particular is to leverage this tool called quadratic funding |
| 0:59.7 | to find ways to basically get the community to signal preferences for various types of |
| 1:04.4 | public goods within one three. |
| 1:06.4 | So the idea is essentially that you have a pool of matching funds, in this case, donated |
| 1:10.5 | generously by the A3 Foundation others, and you have a series of individual donations |
| 1:15.4 | during the round, which happens for two weeks starting today. |
| 1:18.8 | And that round will basically, your donations will be deciding where that matching pool |
| 1:22.7 | goes. |
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