Researching DAOs? Don't miss:
- register/submit by May 30, 2025 for SBC 2025 DAO Workshop on Aug 3, UC Berkeley 🇺🇸 https://daoscience.org/berkeley2025
- June 23/24: DAWO 2025, Uni Zurich 🇨🇭 https://dawo25.org/
- July 21/22: DAOs at OUI 2025, Nova SBE 🇵🇹
https://event.fourwaves.com/ouiconference/pages

Ethereum

745291183405076480:broadcast

Intro to Swiss Democracy https://t.co/W2E5X4vgK9

Zuitzerland

https://x.com/zuitzerland/status/1919304979451449636?s=46

Ethereum App Builders X Space #6 – Tomorrow at 6:30PM UTC (2:30PM EST)

Featuring @spengrah from @HatsProtocol and @zhayitong from @AgoraGovernance

A conversation on why DAOs matter, how they’re run today, what’s broken, and what’s next

Set a reminder
https://t.co/FcyJoCQ3IZ

Let’s talk about DAOs. And DINOs*.

*DAO-in-name-only (🦖) https://t.co/T1btf9S2Vp

Theo

https://x.com/theobtl/status/1907525492045185437

🧞 Cool jobs at the @ethereumfndn alert 🧞‍♀️

We are hiring a Collaborative Funding Coordinator and a Project Manager Launchpad Program! Read on to learn more about each role and get the link to apply. 👇

Join us at the Ethereum Foundation's Launchpad team! If you care about public goods in Ethereum and want to work on incubating projects to become institutions, this job is you.

Argot is looking for an Ecosystem Liaison to help us manage ecosystem relations, public good fundraising, and communications.

Read more about the role:
→https://jobs.lever.co/ethereumfoundation/37e942a5-6f8f-47c8-acff-13793669f22e

If this sounds like you (or someone you know), we'd love to see you apply! ✦

Exciting opportunity for everyone who's passionate about public good funding and well familiar with Ethereum's infrastructure! 
Bonus points if you've worked with Loomio before and if you're familiar with Enspiral's approaches.

Public good funding in itself is a private good, and sometimes a club good when OGs only donate to their friends. This is why it all comes down to good governance of public good funding. 

To optimise for the long-term, we need donors to adopt fairer and more transparent distribution mechanisms. Reputation metrics should go beyond 'who knows whom' but recipients also need to be held accountable based on verifiable impact.

Aya first shared the idea of transitioning from ED of @ethereumfndn to President a year ago.

She has accomplished much in her seven years as executive director of the EF. As I see it, the role of an ED is to create an environment where others can shine and do their best work, and so every success of the EF - the steady execution of Ethereum hard forks, client interop workshops, Devcon, Ethereum's culture and steadfast commitment to its mission and values, and more - is in part a result of Aya's stewardship.

@AyaMiyagotchi will continue supporting the EF in many of the same ways in her new role. Meanwhile, we have been working on the new EF leadership structure, and will share more news soon. Stay tuned!

https://blog.ethereum.org/2025/02/25/aya-announcement

"When we hear "decentralization is the only way to build in my country" from someone in a place where democracy is broken, it reminds us how Ethereum's technical choices carry profound human implications."

.@vitalik.eth on why blockchains and ZK are great complements: 

'I consider zero-knowledge proofs as important as blockchains. […] Blockchains give you an open global audit trail, permissionlessness, censorship-resistance and more, but at the cost of privacy and scalability. What are the two things that ZK-SNARKS give you? They give you privacy and scalability.'

.@vitalik.eth on why blockchains and ZK are great complements: 

'I consider zero-knowledge proofs as important as blockchains. […] Blockchains give you an open global audit trail, permissionlessness, censorship-resistance and more, but at the cost of privacy and scalability. What are the two things that ZK-SNARKS give you? They give you privacy and scalability.'

https://youtu.be/S2Ybi2rVoIs?si=3cdbztu1Bh22g75k

„this feels like a hostile takeover of the machinery of governments by the richest man in the world.“

As we all now: As Governance doesn’t matter, until it does.

„this feels like a hostile takeover of the machinery of governments by the richest man in the world.“

As we all now: As Governance doesn’t matter, until it does.

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/

use case research @ethereumfndn | maintainer mechanism.institute

Many talk about dapps but some actually do something. :) 

@orishim is an EF EcoDev Research Fellow and looking to talk to anyone building or just interested in decentralised marketplaces. He's looking to identify which existing apps, relevant infrastructure in place and missing pieces.

Who should he talk to?

Warpcast on #Farcaster, Bluesky on #ATProtocol, Mastodon on #ActivityPub: The successors of Twitter are more open, decentralised and interoperable, but ironically only within their protocols. Will Farcaster, AT Protocol and ActivityPub ever become interoperable?

Testing @yup for cross-posting on Twitter, Farcaster (https://warpcast.com/theobtl) and Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/theobtl.bsky.social).

web3 social all-in-one. 
crosspost to Farcaster, Twitter, Lens and Bluesky | yup.io | iOS: https://t.co/gJH0Bi07r4 | Android: https://bit.ly/3uaTz4T

Theo Beutel

@theobtl