Welcome to Layers0. Layers0 is a podcast of unscripted conversations with the people that

make up the Ethereum community. Ethereum is built by code, but it's composed by people,

and each individual member of the Ethereum community has their own story to tell.

CypherPunks knew that the code they write impacts the people that use it, and Layers0 focuses

on the people behind the code, because Ethereum is people all the way down, and it always

has been.

Today, I'm talking with Kevin O'Walky, the leading mind behind the whole Gitcoin project,

and one of the biggest, most vibrant proponents of public goods that I know of.

And I obviously have a ton of respect for Kevin O'Walky as one of the guys that has

really helped me formulate my mental models and ideas about what this whole crypto thing

is, and why it's meaningful for just the, and why it allows you to be bullish on humanity.

Bankless listeners will remember Kevin from our sling, Molok episode, which is referenced

in the show a few times, and if you like the conversation that I'm having here with

Kevin, that is definitely a fantastic follow-up episode to you to listen to, to get more

of the same type of conversations. Kevin is a guy who wears many, many hats. He is a software

developer, he is an entrepreneur, he's a business leader, and then he also reminds me

during the show that he's also a community manager, in addition to a father and a husband,

and a bike rider, and a color radian.

But I focus on the first four that I listed in, because Kevin has built so much in this

space, not only with what he's been building at Bitcoin, but just being a general contributor,

both to the discourse and conversation around Ethereum, as well as contributor of actual

software that we use in the open source world.

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