Voting for Optimism’s fourth round of Retroactive Public Goods Funding (“Retro Funding”) just started. You can check it out here. Last round, voters w...

This post is inspired by the work and thought leadership of organizations explicitly mentioned (Gitcoin, Optimism, Drips, Superfluid, Hypercerts, etc...

I wasn’t planning to do any more writing about Optimism’s RetroPGF3. It’s been two months since the round ended, and I’ve already done a bunch of writ...

RetroPGF generated a considerable amount of noise, both during and after the main event. Now that the results are in, we need to find the signal. Thes...

RetroPGF is a unique kind of repeated game. With each round, we are iterating on both the rules and the composition of players. These things matter a ...

✨ An impact vector is a direction of positive impact that projects in the Optimism ecosystem should work towards. Context As the L2 space grows more...

Open Source Observer is a platform for measuring the impact of open source software (OSS) contributions. We launched a few months ago with a commitmen...

Here’s a talk I gave at the Greenpill NYC series on September 23, 2023. Two months after the event, I turned my notes from the talk into this blog pos...

This is a note I wrote on October 28, 2022 shortly after joining Protocol Labs to work on hypercerts. I’m sharing it as a blog post, almost exactly on...

In a small nation — I will tell you which one at the end of this essay — an intriguing economic experiment has been unfolding over the past few years....

Co-authored with Raymond Cheng, this piece extends gratitude to Jonas Seiferth and Kevin Olsen for their review of a previous draft and insightful fee...

Introduction Our lives are increasingly moving online, sparking new modes of interaction, communication, and creation. As we transition to a world whe...

The latest Gitcoin Grants round showcased an impressive array of 649 projects across 15 funding pools, offering nearly $1.5 million in matching funds....

In this blog post, we will discuss exactly why the predominant model of rewarding impact is broken and how funders can use hypercerts to have more im...

The Problem Most family-oriented educational placemats suck. They look like color photocopies of text books. They encourage kids to memorize arbitrary...

Any proceeds from collecting this essay will go towards Gitcoin Grants! Intro This is my first attempt at creating a series of modular, oracular impa...

Food is more than just a calorie-delivery mechanism. It has cultural and spiritual significance in many communities. Its cultivation and consumption h...

You made it! First off, congratulations for making it this far! Hopefully it’s been an interesting and engaging 14 days, going from setting up your fi...

CORE CONCEPTS Today we’ll make a contribution to support public goods and other projects that have positive externalities on the world. In doing so, w...

CORE CONCEPTS We’ve already introduced the concept of composability -- that is, the power to use open data and source code to build new applications ...