Golem Foundation

Let's say hi to the next 10 projects featured in Epoch Four! 👋 🌄 EcoSynthesisX's flagship initiatives include an NFT collection and an Impact Marketplace, designed to highlight and reward positive contributions through their Impact Onchain Rank system. 🥩 EthStaker is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting solo stakers and the decentralization of the consensus layer. 🏰 BuidlGuidl is a curated group of builders creating open source tools and educational content. They're building tools and educational content to teach the next wave of builders how/what they can build on Ethereum / EVMs. 🤝🚀 TogetherCrew is a community success tool supporting community builders in their day-to-day tasks with insights and automations. They contribute to a sustainable growth of communities without burning out community builders. 🌟 Blockscout allows any project to fork Blockscout and use it as a block explorer for their network free of charge. This includes optimistic rollups, zk rollups, L3s, Bitcoin L2s, appchains - all shapes and sizes of EVM-compatible chain. 🦇🔊 Ethereum Attestation Service (EAS) is an infrastructure public good for making attestations onchain or offchain about anything. It’s open-source, permissionless, and token-free. 🐍 Vyper is a pythonic smart contract programming language for the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). There are over 5000 Vyper contracts deployed across a dozen chains, securing over $2 billion of value. 🚀 Abundance Protocol is to building out an Impact App to align Farcaster’s tipping economy with the interests of communities. This will allow individuals who create impact in the ecosystem to be noticed and rewarded for their work, while building a system that incentivizes users to surface the most impactful work. 🔒 Trustful allows users to easily bring their deeds to on-chain attestations in a format that supports broad usability and to use those attestations to receive attestation scores custom for each community or use case. 🦋 DeSciLATAM is making DeSci accessible in Spanish and Portuguese by organizing events, producing educational content, and collaborating with universities and research centers. If you want to find out more, head over to the projects' forums. Links in the comment section below 👇

💃 Kicking off a series of posts showcasing the 30 projects participating in Epoch 4, let's meet the first ten! 🛡 Revoke.cash provides free and open source tools that crypto users can use to keep themselves safe. This includes a token approvals dashboard and a pre-transaction check browser extension. 😎 Dappnode is your self-sovereignty operating system. Dappnode's been providing Free Open Source Software since 2018 and have helped thousands of node runners and home stakers. 💗 L2BEAT is dedicated to providing on-chain transparency. They strive to be an impartial and independent watchdog that acts in the best interest of users and the broader L2 ecosystem, while remaining credibly neutral and faithful to reality and facts. 🍕 PizzaDAO is aiming to enable community ownership of commercial real estate and build open source small business software. These are fundamental tools to help communities all over the world build wealth and maintain ownership of their neighborhoods. 🧅 The Tor Project allows users to browse privately and explore freely. They’re a nonprofit defending your privacy and freedom online. 💧DAO Drops  is the public goods arm of dOrg, an OG services DAO that's building open source tools for decentralized communities. 🤝🚀 Funding the Commons facilitates an ecosystem where builders, funders, researchers, and academics can connect, significantly accelerating innovation and increasing the visibility of important projects. ⚖️ Pairwise is an open-source dapp that streamlines community decisions and aggregates these choices into clear recommendations. 🙏 Praise is a peer-recognition tool boosting community intelligence and collaboration with rewards, tested by Giveth, BanklessDAO, and others! 🐻 Open Source Observer (OSO) helps funders use data to measure the impact of open source software contributions. If you want to find out more, head over to the projects' forums. Links in the comment section below 👇

GM on this beautiful Monday (not being ironic!) 🤩 💚 This Monday is extra special for us: it's the beginning of the Allocation Window for Epoch 4! 🚀 We'll be running a series of posts reminding you of the projects that are taking part. Keep your eyes peeled and don't forget to ask questions and make informed allocations. 👀 The Allocation Window: 🚀 Starts: 15 July, 2024 | 9 am PST | 6 pm CEST 🏁 Ends: 29 July, 2024 | 9 am PST| 6 pm CEST Happy allocating! 💚

✨ GM, folks! Start your Monday well with this fresh interview with Carl Cervone from #OpenSourceObserver ✨ Also, remember that Open Source Observer is one of the 2️⃣2️⃣ projects that made it to Epoch 4’s Allocation Window! The Allocation Window opens next Monday, July 15th. 😎

🚨 Time for an announcement!🚨 We’re transitioning to #QuadraticFunding (QF). This is one of many steps we’re taking to better support community-driven projects. 🤔 Why QF? We’ve had this in the works and on our roadmap since last year. QF amplifies the impact of small contributions, making fund allocation fairer and more democratic. Community participation is important to us, and every vote and donation matters. With QF, we can ensure that everyone has a voice in funding decisions in Octant epoch rounds.

This week, we'd like to introduce you to Wlodzimierz Gogloza, Octant's Head of Communications! ✨ ⭐ Włodek, what do you do at Octant? I used to be responsible for public outreach. Right now, I’m mostly involved in internal communications, making sure that different teams working on Octant are well aligned and on track to deliver some exciting new upgrades to the app. You'll still see me giving presentations at conferences or meetups from time to time, and I occasionally write for our website and social media channels, though. ⭐ What’s your favourite thing about what we’re building? The long-term sustainability of our funding model. Octant is financed through a 100,000 ETH stake. We operate over 3,100 validators, helping secure the Ethereum network and using the returns to financially empower our community and fund high-impact public goods projects in web3 and beyond. It's a win-win-win scenario: the network benefits, our community thrives, and we have and we have a reliable source of funding for essential non-profit projects. ⭐ What’s the best thing you’ve read/watched recently? I've been on a Dan Simmons kick lately. After several attempts, I finally got hooked on his classic sci-fi series, Hyperion, and have since devoured several of his other novels across different genres. He's an incredibly versatile author who's found success in horror, historical fiction, hardboiled crime, and even highbrow literary fiction. I'm currently absorbed in The Terror, a fictionalized account of Captain John Franklin's lost Arctic expedition from 1840s. It's a chilling horror story where the cold, darkness, sickness, and hunger are far more terrifying than any supernatural monster. On the non-fiction side, two recent favorites: "Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings" by Neil Price: This book offers an excellent overview of current academic research on the Vikings. It's a subject I'm well-versed in from my previous academic life, and I still learned a lot. "I Am Dynamite! A Life of Nietzsche" by Sue Prideaux: An informative and entertaining biography of the often misunderstood philosopher. ⭐ What are you currently listening to on repeat? I'm lucky to have many talented friends who play in bands, run record labels, organize gigs, and edit zines, so I’m constantly exposed to new music. Therefore, I rarely listen to just one record, much less a song, on repeat. However, there are some genres I gravitate toward at various times and on different occasions. When working, I mostly listen to instrumental music—jazz, electronic, and drone. A recent favorite that blends these genres is Hinode Tapes' "Kiki Mori" LP on Instant Classic Records (their whole catalog is worth checking out!). When not at work, I blast noise rock, hardcore punk, and industrial records by underground artists that are probably way too obscure to mention on LinkedIn. 😉

Government is not able to fund everything and traditional philanthropy is falling short and has a trust problem. 🏛 💸 How can a new generation of purpose-minded innovators fund the gap? 🤔 Watch and listen to this inspiring panel from Consensus 2024 by CoinDesk which features our very own Head of Marketing, Mashal! Link in comments ⬇

✨ GM, folks! Up for a good read? ✨ 📚 Today we're chatting with Tobias Schreier from growthepie! 🥧 Find out about growthepie's new features and plans, as well as who they're inspired by and what excites them. 🤩

✨ We're stoked to introduce this new series "Let's chat with..." where we talk to projects featured in previous Octant epochs. ✨ ✨ First up we're chatting to cheeky-gorilla.eth from Protocol Guild! ⛓ 🛡️ 🌐 Visit Protocol Guild's website: https://lnkd.in/dxVppVJB 🐦 Follow Cheeky on X: https://lnkd.in/dkxmrZ4x Check out the post below and give it some love! 💕

This week, we'd like to introduce you to Marta Brewer, Octant's Commucations Officer! ✨ ⭐ Marta, what do you do at Octant? At Octant, I help with our comms. I’ve written posts for our blog, done interviews with people who work in the space and taken care of our socials (I’m the one posting here on LinkedIn, hi!). I love that this means collaborating with the whole team. I also get to explore and experiment with the ways in which we communicate what’s important to us as a project. Creative freedom is something that’s very much alive at Octant. ⭐ What’s your favourite thing about what we’re building? I think it’s the fact that we’re creating a place where great ideas can flourish. There’s nothing better than the satisfaction you get when you know you’ve been able to play even the smallest part in the journey of something that’s making the world better. ⭐ What’s the best thing you’re read/watched recently? I recently read the essay by British mathematician G. H. Hardy called “A Mathematician’s Apology”. It offers an insight into the mind of a very interesting human and shines a light on the beauty of mathematics. I think it’s quite moving in a way. ⭐ What are you currently listening to on repeat? I’m completely and utterly obsessed with Maruja’s new EP called “Connla’s Well”. It’s an incredible concoction of punk, harsh noise, with strong jazz influences. Also, this Jazz Jamboree performance commemorating Krzysztof Komeda from 1994 is something I’ve been listening to while working and studying - https://lnkd.in/dNKaQDWY.