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Voting is a critical component in the decision-making process of DAOs (Decentralised Autonomous Organisations), where web3 voting mechanisms strive for transparency and verifiability. Despite these goals, these mechanisms often face issues like voter apathy, manipulation, and a lack of privacy. These challenges can lead to unrepresentative outcomes and weaken the integrity of governance systems. Common problems in web3 voting include voters being influenced by early trends in the voting process…

Funding the Commons (FtC) is actively expanding a Public Goods community, engaging through a variety of initiatives like conferences, residencies, hackathons, working groups, and developing public goods funding infrastructure. Our aim is to assist builders in leveraging existing infrastructure and applying it in practical, real-world scenarios. Through our residency programs and conferences, we facilitate connections between enterprises, governments, protocols, and builders within the web3…

Open Source Observer is designed to assess the ROI of funding open source teams, with a primary focus on supporting open source communities and funders. Our approach includes tracking the impact of grants on crucial ecosystem metrics like user growth and developer activity over time, developing reward functions for funding allocation based on comprehensive impact analysis, and performing detailed analyses of prominent projects to reduce bias. Our service is a one-stop solution for essential…

Pairwise stands at the forefront of a transformative movement in the Web3 domain, embodying a humble yet ambitious endeavor to reshape the contours of digital democracy. At its core, Pairwise is designed to streamline the decision-making process, making it more accessible and intuitive for all participants. By presenting choices in pairs, it simplifies the often overwhelming task of navigating a multitude of options, ensuring that every voice in the community is heard and valued. Born from the…

A massive online coordination game in the making - a mash-up of an educational, social and freelancing platform and an MMO-RPG, using Web3 to build a new game of life and stick it to Moloch. We are DAOists and Regens; producing content, organizing events & building a platform for people who want to work in Web3, build things and make an impact: * Teaching people about the true potential and good uses of Web3 * Helping people join the space as builders rather than degens * Connecting builders…

The Tor Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Our mission is to advance human rights and freedoms by creating and deploying free and open source anonymity and privacy technologies, supporting their unrestricted availability and use, and furthering their scientific and popular understanding. We develop free and open source software for privacy and freedom online, protecting people from tracking, surveillance, and censorship—the Tor network and Tor Browser. The Tor network is a decentralized privacy…

BrightID is an alternative to nation-state and biometric identities that allows anyone in the world to access public goods fairly as a unique individual by connecting to people they already know in an anonymous social graph. BrightID is built for privacy. No personal information or biometrics are stored on servers, blockchains or registries. It doesn’t share personal information (even the BrightID identifier itself) with applications–only anonymous verifications. BrightID enables universal…

OnionDAO has been incentivizing people to run Tor exit nodes since April 2022. Currently, we do so by giving out POAPs, which caused us to attract enough people to run about 10% of Tor exit nodes. The Tor network provides a secure and anonymous way to connect to the internet. It is designed to defeat censorship and to make privacy accessible. Many of us have a background in Ethereum staking. We are philosophically aligned with the Tor network, but we operate independently from the Tor…

Glo Dollar ($USDGLO) is a fiat-backed stablecoin created to lift people out of extreme poverty. Like other fiat-backed stablecoins, USDGLO is minted when (and only when) an equivalent amount of USD is deposited into the reserve. Unlike other stablecoins, the Glo Dollar’s creator, Glo Foundation, donates all of its earnings from the reserve to GiveDirectly, an NGO that makes basic income payments in developing countries. Through the adoption of a stablecoin, we seek to create a sustainable…

PublicHAUS serves as the governing framework of the [DAOhaus](https://daohaus.club/) ecosystem and protocol, fostering a collaborative space where DAOhaus contributors, supporters, and enthusiasts converge to propel the DAOhaus vision forward. Its essence lies in employing decentralized digital coordination, facilitated by Moloch DAO contracts and the DAOhaus SDK, to manage the framework collectively as we navigate towards a decentralized, autonomous future. The initiative is underpinned by…

The Hypercerts Foundation pioneers open-source protocols to transparently fund and reward positive impact. Hypercerts are the web3 standard for account for impactful work, tracking financial and non-financial contributions. As an extension of ERC 1155 semi-fungible tokens, hypercerts create a single, open, shared, and decentralized database for funding mechanisms. This database avoids the creation of new funding silos, as hypercerts can be integrated into any existing funding platform, thereby…

Praise is a community intelligence system that promotes active participation and collaboration through peer recognition and rewards. We help communities become more intelligent, productive and inclusive by providing a simple way for community members to acknowledge, praise and reward each other’s contributions. Praise has been tried and tested over several years and proven to be a useful tool for community building. We, the team have been working with the new version of Praise for the past 2…