rpgf1_1.json

[
  {
    "Project Name": "blst - BLS12-381 Signatures",
    "Project Website": "https://github.com/supranational/blst",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Supranational",
    "Project Lead Email": "hello@supranational.net",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "This project is a core cryptography library for all of the Ethereum 2 clients. The library is crucial to the security and performance of Eth2 and the transition to PoS. BLS12-381 can also be used to enable new wallet types and using retroactive public goods funding to support maintenance of the library and feature development will benefit the entire Eth ecosystem."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Hive",
    "Project Website": "https://github.com/ethereum/hive",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Felix Lange",
    "Project Lead Email": "felix@ethereum.org",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Hive has caught several bugs in nethermind and geth (https://github.com/ethereum/hive#trophies) and is actively maintained by Felix and others from the geth team, including Martin H Swende and now Jared Wasinger. This is an extremely important test suite for possible future client implementors to check behaviour/spec conformance and is an important component of the ethereum CI pipeline, results can be viewed here: https://hivetests.ethdevops.io/. Hive will likely also be repurposed to support eth2 in the future."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Watch The Burn",
    "Project Website": "https://watchtheburn.com",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Mohamed Mansour",
    "Project Lead Email": "hello@mohamedmansour.com",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "It is a great informative website that showcases Ethereum Burn, it is completely open sourced, all the development and design is public and it really helped the community validate EIP-1559!"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Synthetix",
    "Project Website": "synthetix.io",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Kain Warwick",
    "Project Lead Email": "@kaiynne",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "First project where I tested L2. It was awesome! Go Ethereum!"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "DeFi Llama",
    "Project Website": "defillama.com",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "0xngmi",
    "Project Lead Email": "@0xngmi",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "They are an open source, impartial platform for information on various defi projects (including those on Optimism). They provide a public service at no cost and have no revenue stream!!"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "TrueBlocks",
    "Project Website": "http://trueblocks.io",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Thomas Jay Rush (self-nominating)",
    "Project Lead Email": "jrush@quickblocks.io",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "We've been working since early 2016 on the same mission. To truly decentralize access to on chain data in a way that avoids all the obvious downsides of web 2.0 APIs (which is basically the only way people access on chain data today). We've made amazing progress perhaps best described here https://unchainedindex.io, however if you read our blog posts and white papers here (https://trueblocks.io/) you'll learn a lot about us as well. We've devised a way to build an index of \"every appearance of every address as it appears anywhere on the Ethereum mainnet.\" Furthermore, we've figured out how to share that index to end users in a fair and equitable way where each user carries his/her own burden and shares that burden with others through IPFS. This allows us to create a local-first desktop application that can do 18-decimal place, every-14-second, fully-reconciled accounting on any address. Here's a picture of what that might look like: https://twitter.com/trueblocks/status/1445511417017163784. Sorry if this is a self-nomination, and if this violates the rules, please excuse me and feel free to ignore."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "CryptoFees.info",
    "Project Website": "https://cryptofees.info",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "David Mihal",
    "Project Lead Email": "david@dmihal.com",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "CryptoFees (and other sites in the CryptoStas family like OpenOrgs, MoneyMovers, etc) provide trustworthy, unbiased metrics about various crypto protocols. All sites are open-source, and all data is sourced from open data providers such as the Graph Protocol. As part of building CryptoFees, we contribute to many existing subgraphs (such as Uniswap V3) and build new subgraphs (such as the Optimism fees subgraph).\n\nReceiving retroactive public-good funding will allow myself and the other contributors to the project to continue adding new protocols to our sites and exploring new metrics that we can share with the rest of the crypto community."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "DappTools",
    "Project Website": "dapp.tools",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "David Terry & Martin Lundfall",
    "Project Lead Email": "fv@dapp.org",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "DappTools has been the silent backbone of Ethereum's core smart contract projects since the very beginning. Notable users include MakerDAO, the ETH2 Deposit Contract, RAI, Fractional, and Tinlake. The project has been around for nearly 5 years and Martin/David continue to maintain it and push the boundaries of formal verification and fuzzing of smart contracts. HEVM has provided one of the simplest ways to break into formal verification via the `hevm symbolic` feature and their evm implementation serves as the backend for widely relied upon tools like Echidna. We owe (at least in part) much of Ethereum's core tooling and infrastructure to DappTools, so it only makes sense to reward them for their work and fund their continued development."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "EIP1559",
    "Project Website": "https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-1559.md",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Eric Conner",
    "Project Lead Email": "info@ethhub.io",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Hi, EIP1559 contributes to UX on Ethereum, reducing the frequency of gas fee spike. Also it reduces the ETH supply somehow, increasing the value in ETH."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "L2BEAT",
    "Project Website": "https://l2beat.com/",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Piotr Szlachciak",
    "Project Lead Email": "szlachciak.piotr@gmail.com",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "L2BEAT is a community-run website dedicated to providing research and statistics about different layer 2 implementations on Ethereum.\nIt's a great educational resource that increases transparency of the L2 ecosystem.\nThanks to the information provided by L2BEAT users can learn about different risks and tradeoffs of various L2 solutions.\nIt empowers users with tools to make a well-informed decision on which L2 scaling solution they want to use."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Web3-react",
    "Project Website": "https://github.com/NoahZinsmeister/web3-react",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Noah zinsmeister",
    "Project Lead Email": "noahwz@pm.me",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "This is a really complete library to integrate with web3 inside reactjs  apps. It helps to connect to the different wallets and have modern React patterns. A lot of projects and people depend on it. But it has struggled to keep up maintenance last year."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "DappTools",
    "Project Website": "https://dapp.tools",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "David Terry & Martin Lundfall",
    "Project Lead Email": "fv@dapp.org",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "DappTools simp"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Bankless",
    "Project Website": "https://www.youtube.com/c/Bankless",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Ryan Sean Adams",
    "Project Lead Email": "https://twitter.com/ryansadams",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "These guys are doing a fantastic jobb of uniting Ethereum, educating everyone from US regulators to small time crypto investors, by bring the news and the people of Ethereum to the masses, they are an invaluable resource for Ethereum and should be rewarded."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Rotki",
    "Project Website": "rotki.com",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Lefteris Karapetsas",
    "Project Lead Email": "lefteris@rotki.com",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Rotki has been building an open source, decentralized, independent in spirit portfolio tracker tirelessly."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "solidity-coverage",
    "Project Website": "https://github.com/sc-forks/solidity-coverage",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Alex Rea, Chris Gewecke",
    "Project Lead Email": "christophergewecke@gmail.com",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "The project was developed originally by Alex Rea @area from @joincolony in the spare time of the project which is still only privately funded. Chris Gewecke @cgewecke has since picked up the lead and continues to maintain what is probably the only Solidity code coverage package out there."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Frame",
    "Project Website": "https://frame.sh/",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Jordan Muir",
    "Project Lead Email": "jordan@frame.sh",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "The Frame team (of just 2 people!) is building a fantastic product, which I think might even become superior to Metamask one day. It's not quite there yet because the team is self-funded, and is operating with marginal resources. I believe that the industry needs some serious competition to Metamask, as a healthy thing, to become more robust, and to accelerate the UX space development as a whole. Frame just needs a little push from the community to take their game to the next level!"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "gas-reporter",
    "Project Website": "https://github.com/cgewecke/eth-gas-reporter",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Chris Gewecke",
    "Project Lead Email": "christophergewecke@gmail.com",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "eth-gas-reporter and hardhat-gas-reporter are there in every.ci.build helping keep gas costs in check. And Chris has been maintaining these and a bunch of other tools out of the goodness of his heart for years now."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Ipsilon",
    "Project Website": "https://notes.ethereum.org/@ipsilon",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Alex Beregszaszi",
    "Project Lead Email": "alex@ethereum.org",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "The Ipsilon team is one of the most prolific contributors to virtual machines in the blockchain field, yet they are relatively unknown by the broader community.\n\nEarly on in the Ethereum 2.0, they researched different ideas in \"sharded execution\" and wrote some of first musings on \"cross-shard communication\". Many of these ideas have influenced how rollups communicate to each other and the roadmap for eth2.\n\nAdditionally, they developed the fastest EVM interpreter to date, evmone, a just-in-time compiler for EVM, and a fast, blockchain-focused WASM interpreter named Fizzy.\n\nMore recently, they have created a road map to evolve the EVM into a safer, more powerful platform. A few of the proposals in this suite:\n\n* EOF -- The Ethereum Object Format will allow backwards incompatible changes into the EVM. The potential of this is unlimited, but a few of their initial proposals will allow improved code analysis and reduce execution time.\n* EVM384 -- Native bignum operations that can be used to implement cryptographic primitives efficiently, without having to wait for a precompile.\n* Improved bounds on various aspects of the EVM to improve network safety and simplify some logic that relies on unbounded values.\n\nIpsilon has been a great contributor to the ecosystem for many years. A few hundred words can't account for all the ideas they've had or reviewed, nor the code they've written or reviewed. It's probably safe to say that some member of the team has thoroughly reviewed every EVM change since Spurious Dragon.\n\nI think they are as deserving as anyone to receive a retroPGF."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Erigon",
    "Project Website": "github.com/ledgerwatch/erigon",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Alexey Akhunov",
    "Project Lead Email": "don’t know",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "They are building a host of good ethereum clients, along with the starknet client. They should receive some of the funding to promote the open development of these systems, as well as client diversity and innovation."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "EthernautDAO",
    "Project Website": "https://forum.ethernautdao.io/",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Alejandro Santander",
    "Project Lead Email": "palebluedot@gmail.com",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "EthernautDAO is the consolidation of numerous non-profit efforts made during the past few years to produce educational content like the Ethernaut CTF game, the Ethernaut diaries, and more, into a community that can proliferate this concept of educating because... well, because it's fun! The EthernautDAO has a lot of plans for the near future, and would certainly enjoy a bit of community recognition and help. Our goal is to transform web2 devs into web3 devs in a mere instant, and grow the Ethereum dev community by aligning incentives in a gamified way. We've  trained about a dozen devs so far with zero resources, and have even succeeded in getting most of them hired by web3 teams. We need some help  to scale this process exponentially."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "BuidlGuidl",
    "Project Website": "https://buidlguidl.com",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Austin Griffith",
    "Project Lead Email": "austin@ethereum.org",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "The 🏰BuidlGuidl creates composable and forkable components for the Ethereum developer ecosystem. I'm streaming (mostly my own) ETH to developers to build generic components and tutorials for web3."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "go-ethereum",
    "Project Website": "https://geth.ethereum.org/",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Péter Szilágyi (?) (or the EF?)",
    "Project Lead Email": "idk",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Since the Optimism team worked together with the Ethereum community to create and host the first Geth Workshop at EthCC 2021, it was apparent that the go-ethereum team is in need of a lot of support from the broader Ethereum community so that geth can continue to be relied upon as critical infrastructure. Thus, this nomination is made in the hope if the geth team were to receive RPGF, they will use it to improve the team's and software's resilience -- e.g. hosting more workshops, hiring more engineers, offering resources for students/learners, hosting hackathons, etc."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Kovan",
    "Project Website": "https://kovan.etherscan.io/",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Igor Barinov",
    "Project Lead Email": "igor@blockscout.com",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Kovan is a resilient and secure testnet that has served as the primary testing and proving grounds for Optimism as their testnet of choice. \n\nIn operation since March 2017, the Kovan POA-based testnet is dedicated to providing reliability and Ethereum-patchset compatibility for applications including London. Supporting the chain infrastructure and upgrades can be costly and time-consuming. \n\nAfter it was abandoned by Parity in 2019 due to their Polkadot plans https://www.parity.io/blog/announcing-the-end-of-parity-support-for-kovan/ we decided to keep it alive, swapped consensus from pure AuRa to POA, added support of the second client Nethermind, forked to Berlin and London, removed unused PWASM dependency\n\nKovan continues to play a vital role as a testbed for Optimism development as well as associated Ethereum tools and infrastructure, and funding will help support a healthy and robust testing environment. BlockScout is also open to working more closely with the Optimism team in an ongoing capacity to ensure feature and infra availability on Kovan."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Chainlink",
    "Project Website": "https://chain.link/",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Sergey Narazov",
    "Project Lead Email": "@Sergey",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Chainlink is the infrastructure for DeFi to provide true price feed and ensure the security for a particular project. No Chainlink No DeFi"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Lyra Finance",
    "Project Website": "Lyra.finance",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Lyra",
    "Project Lead Email": "nhexus01@gmail.com",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "good support"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Ethersjs",
    "Project Website": "https://docs.ethers.io/v5/",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Richard Moore",
    "Project Lead Email": "me@ricmoo.com",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Richard has worked tirelessly to build and maintain ethers.js since 2016, with no expectation of return. The library is a feature complete and compact way to interact with the Ethereum blockchain, is downloaded over 1m times a month, and has over 2k dependent projects. \n\nAlthough ethersjs is so widely adopted, it has not received much attention beyond Gitcoin Grants. While these donations have helped considerably, they likely don't do justice to how much time, energy, and care Richard has put into making Ethereum what it is today.\n\nAs Nadia Eghbal and others have written, the work that goes into the most core dependencies in open source is often the most invisible. Let's shine some light on ethers.js."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Etherscan",
    "Project Website": "etherscan.io",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Matthew Tan",
    "Project Lead Email": "matt@etherscan.io",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Etherscan is definitely the most undervalued platform we have out there. They have been giving out excellent service most of the time but not charging most of the users anything! They might make money from ads and API Pro service but I believe they need more funds to continue providing crypto world with amazing data and details that we might not get from other explorer. Etherscan is definitely a God's gift from Heaven!"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "ENVELOP",
    "Project Website": "envelop.is",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Aleksandr Shedogubov",
    "Project Lead Email": "alex@envelop.is",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Hello!\n\nWe are building cross-chain infrastructure for NFTs (protocol, oracle and index) that will unleash new applications on NFTs in metaverces/games (from power of game assets based on collateral of wNFT to non-pledge rental of NFTs) and economics (from tokenizing payment channels (roll-ups) to building up secured derivatives).\nOur main idea is to give new hedging opportunities for NFT market to minimize bad effects of harmful price dumps. \nMainly we focus on B2B integrations (NFTStars will launch our protocol integrated next week), but also gives B2C users free tools as well. \n\nENVELOP consists from 3 main elements:\n- Protocol is a tool set that will allow any non-tech person to build economics for any NFT by wrapping it and setting up price growth model, on-chain royalties payments, insurance collected inside collateral of wNFT. (now launched in main nets of Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain and Polygon; Avalanche, Polkadot, Flow, Solana and Ziliqa upcoming),\n- Oracle will give scoring and antifraud system based on ZK-mechanics, this will allow fast estimation of NFTs , especially of wNFTs with multiple assets inside (in development).\n- Index will let to form personal indexes from NFT projects or just buy existing ones to hedge to the whole NFT-market  (in development).\n\nOur tokenomics is based on micro-DAO strategy, where holders can vote by staking tokens for one or another project we integrate with, or it could sector (gaming, marketplace, art, metaverce etc.), or just the whole ENVELOP DAO. By staking holder will not only share incomes but also will share our costs on each case.\n\nOur media:\nWebsite: https://envelop.is/\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/Envelop_project\nTwitter CEO: https://twitter.com/aleks_env\nMedium: https://envelop.medium.com/\nTelegram ru chat: https://t.me/envelop_rus\nTelegram chat: https://t.me/envelop_en\nTelegram ru: https://t.me/envelop_ru\nTelegram: https://t.me/envelop_protocol\nReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/NIFTSY/\nYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ENVELOP"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "C4",
    "Project Website": "www.thec4coin.com",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Michael Anderson",
    "Project Lead Email": "Wealth@TheC4Coin.com",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Black businesses earn 1/20th the American average, and Black founders receive less than 1% of VC/PE money. C4 is spearheading a marketplace where capital meets Black businssses with a DeFi component that puts capital and introduces The West’s most neglected group of people into the most critical opportunity from which to create egalitarian outcomes. The US government reneged on a commitment to fund such a FinTech project focused on democratizing access to capital and contracts for “Minority Business Development—of which participation covers around 1%. After putting in the work, the Government failing to commit left  the founders stranded. Such is the history of America and it’s Black population. From the inception, leaders promised freedom yet Blacks possess as much wealth in 2020 as they did in 1865, around 1%. Blockchain gave the team a way to create instant liquidity, so that they might transfer to experience honed in catalyzing economic development for underserved and underrepresented groups in a DeFi investment and tokenization platform focused on leveling the playing field. Entrepreneurship is freedom, and crypto is the path to liberation. American ideals and principles will only be made real when technological innovation focused on increasing access to cutting edge liquidity generation is deliberate and intentional in including Black Indigenous People of Color. Culture x capital = community change, hence C4 is the future of DeFi in color. Thank you for your commitment to create more egalitarian outcomes with reverberations for the entire world."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "OVM security research",
    "Project Website": "https://github.com/ethereum-optimism/optimism/blob/ad4b432f934eef4b97f49399c510e3bc99c5a4c3/packages/contracts/contracts/optimistic-ethereum/OVM/execution/OVM_ExecutionManager.sol#L186",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Yoav Weiss",
    "Project Lead Email": "hacker@hidden.domain.name",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Extensive security research of OVM:\n\n* Fraud proofs (differences between L1 and L2 execution).\n* EOA contracts.\n* Sequencer implementation and contracts.\n* Other critical OVM components.\n\nFindings were not published, but shared with the Optimism team in order to improve security.\n\nThe retroactive value of this work can be vouched by Karl, Jing, and other Optimists who joined the conversation."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "DappTools",
    "Project Website": "dapp.tools",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "David Terry & Martin Lundfall",
    "Project Lead Email": "fv@dapp.org",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "I like what they have been doing for the last 5 years! Cheers to it!"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "GoatNFT",
    "Project Website": "http://goatnft.io/",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "yopoing",
    "Project Lead Email": "yopoing@gmail.com",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "GoatNFT is committed to becoming the most professional, credible and efficient NFT decentralized trading platform across the globe to provide users with a full-link solution for asset transactions, asset trust, and asset circulation. GoatNFT is divided into three major sections. The first is trading transaction, which is mainly used for entity asset transaction, copyright confirmation in the network and other issues. This section is source of credit output in the whole ecology. The second is asset circulation, mainly for the lack of asset circulation. Different circulation model will be adopted for different NFT in the platform. The third is value discovery. Multiple value discovery models are designed in this section to assist NFT with reasonable market value. With the mutually-supporting and coordinated three sections, the ecological closed loop within the platform will be finally realized.eth fee are expensive, we want to use optimism."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Ethersjs",
    "Project Website": "https://ethers.io",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "ricmoo",
    "Project Lead Email": "ricmoo",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Been a fundational component of many dapps and tools including my own"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Prettier solidity",
    "Project Website": "https://github.com/prettier-solidity/prettier-plugin-solidity",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Franco Victorio",
    "Project Lead Email": "victorio.franco@gmail.com",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Underfunded but very useful tool"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "js-ethereum-cryptography",
    "Project Website": "https://github.com/ethereum/js-ethereum-cryptography",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Patricio Palladino",
    "Project Lead Email": "patricio@nomiclabs.io",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Every cryptographic primitive needed to work on Ethereum, for the browser and Node.js. Used behind the scenes in many developer tools like EthereumJS stack"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Kotal",
    "Project Website": "https://kotal.co",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Mostafa Farghaly",
    "Project Lead Email": "mostafa@kotal.co",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Kotal is 100% free and open source deployment and integration framework for Ethereum, Ethereum 2.0, IPFS, Filecoin, Algorand, and Polkadot. Kotal is open source alterantive to Infura, AlchemyAPI, QuickNode, and BlockDaemon."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "WalletConnect",
    "Project Website": "https://walletconnect.org/",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Pedro",
    "Project Lead Email": "Gomes",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Have you ever tried to use Rainbow on your favorite NFT platform? To swap tokens on Uniswap using Coinbase Wallet? All of these common behaviors we're seeing in this latest wave of web3 are only possible because of WalletConnect.\n\nWalletConnect is an open source protocol for connecting decentralized applications to mobile wallets with QR code scanning or deep linking. WalletConnect was started by Pedro Gomes in 2018, and still continues to be maintained almost solely by him even as we near the end of 2021.\n\nAs we move into this next phase of consumer adoption, we risk losing sight of the people who made everything we use possible. I have no doubt that Pedro is one of those people, and we should be proud to support him."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Otterscan",
    "Project Website": "https://github.com/wmitsuda/otterscan",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Willian Mitsuda",
    "Project Lead Email": "wmitsuda@gmail.com",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Otterscan is the most affordable way for regular people to run a mainnet block explorer locally. Since everything is local, everything is fast, private, and it runs on consumer grade hardware.\n\nIt is built on top of Erigon, currently the only ETH client able to run an archive node on consumer grade hardware (syncs in < 1 week, takes ~1.5 TB; regular external SSDs do the work).\n\nOtterscan implements some non-standard JSON-RPC methods as Erigon patches to extract additional information (e.g. internal ETH transfers) directly from Erigon DB.\n\nThen, we use this data with other public datasets (4bytes, Sourcify) to provide a 100% local block explorer. It is a SPA and requires only a patched, synced Erigon archive node, no additional middleware (SQL DBs, indexers) is necessary.\n\nIt supports open standards like ENS, and widespread sources of info like Chainlink for getting historical price info directly from the archive, no external sources are needed.\n\nCommunity members have even made it available into a dappnode package."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "optimismPBR (Public Benefit Robot)",
    "Project Website": "https://twitter.com/optimismPBR",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Twtter => @optimismPBR",
    "Project Lead Email": "Find him on twitter @optimismPBR",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "@optimismPBR used to provide (until Sept 8th) by brief data on OE transactions (across all apps on OE) of large token amounts. I think many people found it useful to easily see large transactions being made on OE -- making it easy to view ongoing whale activity across OE apps"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "EthStaker",
    "Project Website": "EthStaker.cc",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "superphiz",
    "Project Lead Email": "superphiz@protonmail.com",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "EthStaker is focused on educating the community on how simple and possible staking ETH can be while at the same time clarifying the pitfalls and falsities therein.\n\nThey also promote best practices in a very clear and understandable way for folks of all skill levels. \n\nThey are a community good! Fund them!"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Wildcards",
    "Project Website": "https://wildcards.world/",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Jason Smythe",
    "Project Lead Email": "jason@wildcards.world",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Wildcards is saving our planet’s wildlife. @wildcards_world directly and transparently supports high impact conservation agencies working on the ground throughout Africa, North America, South America, and Asia. The platform breaks down traditional barriers to wildlife conservations biggest challenge, funding. It allows individuals and businesses to become a guardian of a unique wildcard NFTs that represents an animal a conservation agency protects in real life. When a guardian buys a wildcard, they must set the price they are willing to sell it for. Every month, the guardian of the wildcard gives a specified portion of the price they are willing to sell that wildcard for, to the conservation agency that helps conserve that animal. At any point, someone can buy the wildcard from them, if they are willing to pay the selling price that was specified because wildcards are always for sale. When someone buys the wildcard, they must set a selling price. The new guardian of the wildcard is then responsible for giving the new monthly donation. And so, the cycle continues the generation of funds for the conservation agencies. Guardians stand to make a profit when their wildcard is bought from them, contribute transparently to wildlife conservation, and display their wildcard NFT artwork. Having already raised over 130,000 USD for 30 conservation agencies since its inception a year and a half ago, Wildcards works and @optimismPBC retroactive public goods funding would enable it to scale, build fiat on-ramps, and channel more funding to more hands-on high impact conservation efforts on the ground."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Proof of Humanity",
    "Project Website": "https://www.proofofhumanity.id/",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Santiago Siri",
    "Project Lead Email": "santi@democracy.earth",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "I am honored to nominate Proof of Humanity (PoH) for the Retroactive Public Goods Funding @optimismPBC. PoH is a Sybil-proof list of humans on the Ethereum-blockchain powered in collaboration with the team at Kleros (https://kleros.io/). \nThe goal of PoH is to make poverty a thing of the past. The community has embraced the project and is providing ideas e.g. https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1433230063189725188?s=20). The support provided could be allocated to the well-developed vaults that empower the registered humans. \nThis is a registry that invites all to be involved and therefore, has the potential to reach every single one of us humans.\nReceiving retroactive public goods funding would be a step forward towards promoting equity driven by PoH and Democracy Earth's (https://democracy.earth/) universal basic income (UBI), tokens that get streamed to verified Proof of Humanity accounts.\nThe funding could be allocated into the Democracy Earth's vaults that use Yearn Finance's DAI and ETH vaults to automatically buy and burn UBI.\nWhile PoH already helped thousands of people, the project is at its infancy and has the potential, by using Web3, to open a myriad of possibilities in today’s age of information."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Code423n4",
    "Project Website": "https://code423n4.com/",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "I don't know",
    "Project Lead Email": "https://twitter.com/code423n4",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Because it:\n-saves a lot of nerves and funds for protocol creators;\n-attracts the best smart contract auditors (wardens) from all over the world;\n-honestly distributes reward pool between all contributors;\n-values individuals as well as teams;\n-has good culture, exceptional talent and great community;\n-always tries to improve, scale and stay ahead of the competition;\n-provides high satisfaction for their clients;\n-shares funny memes in their twitter;\n-uses gamification (e.g. leaderboards) to solve real problems;\n-is open to everyone;"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Popcorn",
    "Project Website": "https://popcorn.network/",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Anthony Daniel Martin",
    "Project Lead Email": "anthony@popcorn.network",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Popcorn takes fees earned from DeFi and redirects it to non-profits through decentralized governance. The groundwork has been laid for public goods funding to be baked into the foundation of DeFi protocols without introducing any additional friction or extraordinary cost to the end user. As it is distributing rewards via on-chain decentralized governance, Optimism is an ideal solution to reduce fees and promote community participation. Thus, I believe that retroPGF will help Popcorn achieve its vision of long-term, sustainable public benefit through DeFi.\n\nGithub link: https://github.com/popcorndao/workspace"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "GSN",
    "Project Website": "https://opengsn.org/",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Liraz",
    "Project Lead Email": "Liraz@opengsn.org",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Gasless infra for Ethereum is a public good :)"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "BrightID",
    "Project Website": "https://www.brightid.org/",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Don't know",
    "Project Lead Email": "Don't know",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Sybil attacks in defi are getting out of hand.\n\nI did the registration on brightid because of \"Rabbit hole\" and was really impressed with the process and the value it could generate for defi/crypto."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Hardhat",
    "Project Website": "https://hardhat.org/",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Patricio Palladino",
    "Project Lead Email": "patricio@nomiclabs.io",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Hardhat is a backbone of modern smart contract development. It makes not only writing smart contract easy, it also helps with things like debugging and integrating with 3rd party tools via plugins. Optimism is just one of many projects that used it to build their system."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "LeapDAO",
    "Project Website": "https://github.com/leapdao",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Johann Barbie (formely) & Kosta Korenkov",
    "Project Lead Email": "johannbarbie@me.com",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "LeapDAO is a collective that formed around the idea of creating a minimal viable plasma implementation in the beginning of 2019.\n\nFrom the start, our governance structure has consisted of a mixture of Gnosis Multisigs and an engaged Holocratic process [1]. \n\n\"Gardeners\", \"Reviewers\" and \"Workers\" collaborated via Slack and GitHub [2] to build one of the first MVP Plasma implementations on Tendermint. We shipped to the Ethereum Rinkeby test network [3]. \n\nLeapDAO members actively participated in the Plasma \"Implementer Calls\" [4, 15] and contributed meaningfully with proposals to the ethresear.ch online forum [5, 6]. \n\nWe, the underwriters, believe that particularly the work around solEVM and LeapDAO founder Johann's post on \"_Why Smart Contracts are NOT feasible on Plasma_\" [6] deserve more recognition as they've informed the future work on Optimism's OVM and rollups [7].\n\nWhile developing Plasma, LeapDAO members engaged in numerous other meaningful activites. We organized a quadratic voting session (\"popup democracy\") at the Volt Deutschland party congress [8]. At cccamp and ETH Berlin Zwei, we deployed \"Planet A\" - a \"serious social game\"[9, 10] to educate on the adverserial effects of the tragedy of the commons.\n\nLeapDAO's .org domain is currently down. Shit happens. We're trying to fix it. But all LeapDAO contributions and token equity have been recorded by the LeapDAO treasury [11]. Through this record, we believe that LeapDAO is uniquely setup to receive retroactive funding by e.g. airdropping rewards to all LEAP token holders [12].\n\nLeapDAO members have since then moved onto other projects in the Ethereum space. 0xhabitat.org is improving governance and runs on a domain-specific rollup called NutBerry [13]. Strudel.finance's aim was to limit Bitcoin's incumbency and CO2 emissions. rugpullindex.com improves AMM staking safety. Social Dist0rtion Protocol has renamed themselves to \"*Social Distancing* Protocol\". EthereumMachineOracle is a spiritual successor of solEVM [14]. Whiterabbit.one aims to decentralize movie streaming and reduce piracy the gentle way. And sushi is delicious, especially when it *flow*s.\n\nMore than anything, with this application, we, the ones that haven't managed to deploy our work onto the Ethereum mainnet, seek to find attribution and recognition for the countless hours and sleepless nights spent on contributing to open source and the Ethereum ecosystem. Hence, we'd love to get retroactive funding for our work.\n\nSigned,\nThe LeapDAO team\nDiscord: https://discord.gg/YMupQQ22ky\n\n### References\n\n- 1: https://app.glassfrog.com/organizations/14849/orgnav/roles/10883348\n- 2: https://github.com/leapdao/meta/blob/05e1570c7fac1a097efaae4f7aab4426be3ca2b3/fundingProposals/Template%20-%20Funding%20Proposal.md\n- 3: https://github.com/leapdao/meta/blob/master/playbook/operations/testnet/README.md#contracts\n- 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTKCmYB6ntA\n- 5: https://ethresear.ch/t/plasma-leap-a-state-enabled-computing-model-for-plasma/3539\n- 6: https://ethresear.ch/t/why-smart-contracts-are-not-feasible-on-plasma/2598\n- 7: https://github.com/leapdao/solEVM-enforcer\n- 8: https://twitter.com/leapdao/status/1169921680317341696?s=20\n- 9: https://www.dist0rtion.com/2019/09/18/planet-a-ccc-ethberlin-recap/\n- 10: https://medium.com/ethberlin/introducing-planet-a-the-tragedy-of-the-co%E2%82%82mmons-90e35c229475\n- 11: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SvvfFPNFXntJTOWhHn_-Qj-11IM3qUWosjn6w5aXMlo/edit\n- 12: https://etherscan.io/address/0x78230e69d6e6449db1e11904e0bd81c018454d7a\n- 13: https://ethresear.ch/t/nutberry-smart-contracts-on-layer-2/6126\n- 14: https://github.com/leapdao/EthereumMachineOracle/\n- 15: https://plasma.io/plasma-contracts.html"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Mutual Aid Monday",
    "Project Website": "https://www.patreon.com/MutualAidMondayDen",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Jessica Weiderholdt",
    "Project Lead Email": "Jess.wiederholt@gmail.com",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Do you think about the people living on the streets - who don't have access to housing?  What about the ones in 1st world communities like in the USA?  Mutual Aid Monday (MAM) is a collective of people who act with compassion and no pay - to do the next right thing.  This includes providing nutritious meals with minimum waste, clothing, housing in the form of tents, building portable storage units and even moving from encampment to encampment at 2 am to make sure that the snowfall doesn't collapse tents used as housing - which would suffocate and kill the residents inside. MAM community helps people find working solutions to surviving homelessness while seeking to be sustainable and reducing the environmental footprint accentuated by a lack of physical structure."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Proof of Humanity",
    "Project Website": "https://proofofhumanity.id/",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Santiago Siri",
    "Project Lead Email": "siri@democracyearth.com",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Proof of Humanity is creating a proof of personhood protocol that is easily audited, safe and decentralized. Proof of Personshood protocols can sparkle the next wave of web3 dapps, enabling a social layer to the blockchain that can unlock a lot of possibilities. Funding would allow the team to create incentives to bootstrap these dapps."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Codechecks",
    "Project Website": "https://github.com/codechecks",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Kris Kaczor",
    "Project Lead Email": "chris@kaczor.io",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "The codechecks CI integration displays a pull request's gas consumption changes relative to its target branch in Github. It's like coveralls for gas. If you care about coding for cheap gas execution, there's really no other tool but codechecks."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "unblock",
    "Project Website": "https://unblock.net/",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Catalin Zorzini",
    "Project Lead Email": "gzorzini@gmail.com",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "✌️completely non-profit, self-funded initiative \n🪂highlighting exclusively crypto projects for social good\n📚educating new-comers in the space with in-depth guides and tutorials\n😇team of 9 volunteers, all seasoned writers and social entrepreneurs\n🌸been around from 2017"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "hardhat-deploy",
    "Project Website": "https://github.com/wighawag/hardhat-deploy",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Ronan Sandford",
    "Project Lead Email": "wighawag@gmail.com",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "This is biased as I self nominate myself, but hardhat-deploy (an hardhat plugin) is used by many project in the ecosystem mostly because the features it provide to deploy and test smart contract. It has unique features not present anywhere else like hot contract replacement."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Solidity",
    "Project Website": "https://github.com/ethereum/solidity",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Alex Beregszaszi & Christian Reitwießner",
    "Project Lead Email": "chris@ethereum.org",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "None of this would have been possible without Solidity!"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Proof of Humanity",
    "Project Website": "https://www.proofofhumanity.id/",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Santiago Siri",
    "Project Lead Email": "santi@democracy.earth",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "it has a great side proyect, the $ubi wich aim to end world poverty, since joining ive met a great group of people, hope it works"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "MILLION",
    "Project Website": "https://www.milliontoken.org/",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Patrick Shyu",
    "Project Lead Email": "contact@milliontoken.org",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Store of value"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "EIP1559",
    "Project Website": "https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-1559",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Tim Beiko",
    "Project Lead Email": "tim.beiko@ethereum.org",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Tim may now work for the Ethereum Foundation but before that he was a dedicated member of the community just trying to find ways to help out. His energy and spirit represent what Ethereum is all about."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "OpenEthereum",
    "Project Website": "https://github.com/openethereum/openethereum",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Unmaintained",
    "Project Lead Email": "n/a",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "OpenEthereum runs the Kovan testnet which many projects use. Its unclear if Erigon will be able to run Kovan by the time of the next hardfork that will be delaying the difficulty bomb. It would be useful for some funds to be used to implement the next hardfork in OpenEthereum to buy more time for Erigon to take over the Kovan testnet. See https://github.com/ethereum/execution-specs/blob/master/network-upgrades/mainnet-upgrades/arrow-glacier.md for information about the next hardfork"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Brownie.Eth",
    "Project Website": "https://eth-brownie.readthedocs.io/en/stable/",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Ben hauser",
    "Project Lead Email": "Can’t find",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "It was the project that brought web3.py to life. Without it web3.py would still be widely underutilized"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Giveth",
    "Project Website": "https://giveth.io",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Griff Green",
    "Project Lead Email": "griff@giveth.io",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Giveth has been adding value to Ethereum for 5 years, funded solely by donations.\n\n2016-2019 The DAO Cleanup\nWe led the Clean up after TheDAO hack, supporting DAO token holders in our slack to claim their money back. https://medium.com/curator-multisig-phf-official-channel/dao-token-holders-come-claim-your-money-b428f186572a\n\n2016 Minime token\nWe made the Minime Token, which would be used by Aragon, Status and many other projects. https://medium.com/giveth/the-minime-token-open-sourced-by-giveth-2710c0210787\n\n2017 Parity Multisig hack\nAt a Giveth Retreat we worked with the White Hat Group (we are all the same people) to rescue over 200 million dollars that were sitting in vulnerable Parity Multisigs (the first parity multisig hack) https://mashable.com/article/ethereum-stolen-white-hat-group-rescued#ZPTC98wSEPOp\n\n2018 ScalingNOW!\nRan the ScalingNOW! effort after the CryptoKitties issues: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4Artm1rmCWGksgoRe6HF5d9eklC01IcC which culminated in a ScalingNow Summit so different scaling researchers could connect and build a stronger network. We aggregated as much scaling information as we could so everyone could learn from each other: https://medium.com/giveth/scalingnow-summit-transcript-ea5373be8523  \n\n2018-now GivethTRACE\nWe built the Giveth DApp, now named GivethTRACE as a fundraising platform for charities and open source projects that allows donors to trace their donations. It was one of the earliest DApps on Ethereum to implement a Scaling solution. We actually Bridged to Ethereum Several projects evolved off of this platform, including DAppNode, BrightID, and Commons Stack. https://trace.giveth.io\n \n2018-now Camp Decentral \nWe run Camp Decentral: a Burning Man camp that holds a crypto conference at burning man every year. 80+ hours of talks focused on the revolutionary aspects of crypto... no number go up talk allowed\n\n2018-now Giveth Home \nWe have a crypto house in Barcelona open to the blockchain4good community its a sort of hacker pad... 100s of crypto people have stayed there, and no one has ever had to pay. https://trace.giveth.io/campaign/giveth-house\n\n2018-2020 OpenSourceBlockExplorersNOW!\nWe helped to unite the various efforts being made to decentralized Ethereum infrastructure. Etherscan is great, but was a closed source central point of failure... until Blockscout emerged. When that happened this effort became DecentralizedDataNOW! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4Artm1rmCWE5qYEOTaaPRl4fD5ORXFty\n\n2018-now Rinkeby & xDai Validator\nWe were one of the original 4 xDai Validators to initialize the network with no reward for many years but this public good work has paid off now, as doing good things tends to work out in crypto! We have been part of the Rinkeby Clique since early 2020. We also Validate for the public goods focused projects: IDchain and Trustlines.  \n\n2020-now Giveth.io, the New Giveth DApp\nWe built a simpler donation application that is intended to make it easy for non-profits to start collecting crypto donations in under 10 minutes with no prior knowledge. With Gitcoin funding open source, we are focusing squarely on charities and have big plans to help non-profits take full advantage of the web3 space. https://giveth.io\n\nAnd these are just the highlights... Giveth has been a fixture of the blockchain4good community since we rose out of the ashes of TheDAO 5 years ago and are not going anywhere. Thank you for considering us."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "gas-reporter",
    "Project Website": "https://github.com/cgewecke/eth-gas-reporter",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Chris Gewecke",
    "Project Lead Email": "christophergewecke@gmail.com",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "eth-gas-reporter and hardhat-gas-reporter are there in every.ci.build helping keep gas costs in check. And Chris has been maintaining these and a bunch of other tools out of the goodness of his heart for years now."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Lyra Finance",
    "Project Website": "https://app.lyra.finance/trade/eth",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Lyra",
    "Project Lead Email": "nhexus01@gmail.com",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "On-chain Derrivatives sector turns out to be not so developed. Order execution time on Ethereum is quite slow and the cost is also very high So that I believe building a derivatives platform on Optimism is really \"product-market-fit\"."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "WePiggy",
    "Project Website": "https://wepiggy.com/",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Ron Zheng",
    "Project Lead Email": "contact@wepiggy.com",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "WePiggy can provide the Optimism community a safe, highly available and user-friendly lending protocol, a very important infrastructure, that is the asset layer of a public chain's DeFi ecosystem.\n\nWePiggy can show the excellent features of Optimism to more users and bring users into the Optimism ecosystem.\n\nThe Optimism chain's community will be more confident with Optimism from the integration."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "DAppNode",
    "Project Website": "https://DAppNode.io",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Eduardo Antuña Diez",
    "Project Lead Email": "edu@dappnode.io",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Thread is here: https://twitter.com/DAppNode/status/1450390244759584768\n\n-----\n\n📖 Story Time! 📖 \n\n👵 The Origins of DAppNode ⛓️ 🚪 \n\nCC @optimismPBC for Retroactive Public Goods Funding Thread.\n\nIn 2017 @eduadiez @jbaylina @thegrifft realized people were using Web3 the same way the use Web2: \n\n\n1️⃣  Connect to a cloud hosted web\n2️⃣  Build transaction in @metamask\n3️⃣  Knock at the door of a Node-as-a-Service and ask them to broadcast your tx to some network you might not even know.\n\nHow is that different than knocking at facebook's door and ask them please if they would send our message to our friends?\n\nWe *have to* have some trust assumptions with web2, but with web3 we can *own* direct access to the networks we want to interact with. More on that later.\n\nAround the same time, @jbaylina witnessed the Spanish government censoring websites about a Catalan Independence Referendum - They could do it, and they did it! \n\n\nSurely there was a better way to not be at the mercy of the ones with power?\n\nThe breeding ground for @dappnode was at the perfect temperature and this is the brew that was in the 3 founder's heads:\n- Decentralized systems can provide people direct access to information and value transfer. \n\nIt's like connecting directly to The Matrix vs. using an endpoint controlled by the machines in one of the vats. \n\n\n- @IPFS  websites + @ensdomains and you have decentralized, uncensorable web hosting.\n\n- Plus all the advantages of decentralized value transmission systems (crypto), new organization models (DAOs), etc. \n\nThe catch? People need to *run nodes* to \"connect directly\" instead of via a centralizing party. \n\nLet me pause here and say that public endpoints are ✨  our saviours ✨  of course but going to the 🐈  cat cafe and owning a cat 🐱 have different rewards and responsibilities.\n\nSo: Why are people not running nodes?\n1. Needs certain technical knowledge (CLI might seem bread and butter to you, but UIs still rule the world)\n2. Needs dedicated hardware that runs 24/7 (getting out of sync and sync again is a pain, trust me)\n\n\nSo DAppNode was conceived as a way to help ANYONE, regardless of their technical level, be able to OWN their own access to the web3 to create a new, uncensorable infrastructure layer for a new internet. \n\n\n🤑  Free Open Source Software\n✨  Easy to use UI\n🍹   no maintenance (auto-updates)\n🪐  Fully built with decentralized tech (no central servers, or only opt-in services)\n🛠️  SDK for anyone to build on it\n\n\nFor the user, it gives them independence, self-sovereignty. And for the network, it has the added benefit to make it more resilient, by increasing the number of nodes in different setups, countries, ISPs, hardware... you name it.\n\nFor that we got a grant from the @ethereum foundation and @AragonProject - which kickstarted the project. \n\nSince then we've been helping people run nodes, eth2 validators, decentralized storage and websites and helping people OWN their web3 and provide friends and family with access to a new world. \n\nHow many people? That's a good question: we don't know and we don't want to know. We collect NO METRICS and have NO WAY TO KNOW who runs DAppNode. We sell plug-and-play DAppNode boxes, but we don't know how many people are running the software themselves in their own machine. \n\nNeedless to say, this is a no-go for traditional investors 😅 \n\nSo, to sum up: we're building a decentralized infrastructure layer for web3. We make Ethereum more resilient, increasing the amount of decentralized nodes. We empower people to have direct access to web3. We give tools to the home staker.\n#Infrastructure is a #PublicGood."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "EthGlobal",
    "Project Website": "https://ethglobal.com/",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Kartik/Liam/Josh",
    "Project Lead Email": "kartik@ethglobal.co",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "It has long been my thesis that Ethereum and Ethereum values will win as long as we keep being a place for developers. EthGlobal is an important piece of the funnel, running hackathons on many continents and online hackathons that let devs hack on what they want to hack on, as well as being an important technical and cultural onboarding piece for new devs"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Proof of Humanity",
    "Project Website": "https://www.proofofhumanity.id/",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "santi siri",
    "Project Lead Email": "https://twitter.com/santisiri",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Sybil-resistance is a key piece to effective voting and one-per-person mechanisms for decentralized systems. Proof of humanity is a leading project in this space and could use more funding to improve the UI/UX and rigor of duplicate detection."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Proto is a machine",
    "Project Website": "Protodoesntneedawebsite.com",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Proto Lambda",
    "Project Lead Email": "i don't know",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "proto's work is super important for the future."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Danny Ryan",
    "Project Website": "ethereum.org",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Danny Ryan",
    "Project Lead Email": "danny@ethereum.org",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "our boy from the bayou is an institution of optimistic public goods"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "L2BEAT",
    "Project Website": "https://l2beat.com/",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Piotr Szlachciak",
    "Project Lead Email": "hello@l2beat.com",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "A well-rounded product that enables all types of users to clearly see the ecosystem and its development. It also gives new developers a sense of direction to were scaling solutions are and heading towards."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "MetaFinance",
    "Project Website": "metafinance.com",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Vincent Karlin",
    "Project Lead Email": "hd25zxy@gmail.com",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "MetaFinance is a community-driven DeFi integrated business where income generated through our services is shared with token holders. MetaFinance includes multi-chain pools, DEX aggregator, DAO and NFT markets. We are considering Optimism solution."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Sourcecred",
    "Project Website": "sourcecred.io",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Seth Benton",
    "Project Lead Email": "s_ben@sourcecred.io",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "automating rewards for value creation is the backbone of the DAO economy. They have already an impressive tech that takes discord/discourse/github as plugins to compute value creation within a community. Brillant minds are in the projects. MakerDAO, 1hive, Balancer and many others are already using it. This tool is taking another big leap going on chain and expanding across the crypto"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Arken Finance",
    "Project Website": "arken.finance",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Kittichai Jirasukhanon",
    "Project Lead Email": "kittichai@cleverse.com",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "we would love provide better defi trading experience for everyone, through the best in class trading view and give trade better opportunity to trade defi"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "TrueBlocks",
    "Project Website": "https://trueblocks.io/",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Thomas Jay Rush",
    "Project Lead Email": "jrush@quickblocks.io",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "I know TJ has already been nominated, but he's truly the embodiment of what it means to be a good steward of the Ethereum ecosystem. The amount of time and energy he's put into working on such a key problem for the ecosystem with no expectation of a reward is inspiring."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Goerli",
    "Project Website": "https://github.com/goerli",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Ligi/Afri",
    "Project Lead Email": "N/A",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Ligi and Afri have both been part of *many* of the key stories and technologies that have shaped the Ethereum ecosystem over the last half decade. They're also two of the people that I believe most clearly represent the cypherpunk ethos that the community was started on, an ethos that has taken a back seat to the massive wave of mainstream adoption we're now seeing.\n\nGoerli, a cross-client proof-of-authority Ethereum testnet. Prior to Goerli, there was no testnet available that is both widely usable across all client implementations, and robust enough to guarantee consistent availability and high reliability. \n\nFunding these two for their work on Goerli is not just a show of support to the key infrastructure they've built, but to what they represent, and what we should strive to hold onto in the broader web3 movement. Let's not forget our roots."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "XFolio",
    "Project Website": "https://www.xfolio.finance/",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Daniel Koshman",
    "Project Lead Email": "danielkossman@yahoo.com",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Daniel and his team are building a wallet for non-native blockchain users. Xfolio DAO has won a grant from Synthetix gDAO and continues to improve their product before opening for a closed beta. The team is currently conducting user case studies and focus groups for it's flagship Web wallet which allows users to track their portfolio on multiple chains, execute cross-chain transfers, initiate P2P trades and more. They are building the wallet from the ground up to ensure onboarding users to the space is as frictionless and smooth as possible. The team believes in giving the control over a platform to the users, so they can navigate the Web 3 space in a simple, intuitive fashion by providing a superior user experience with minimal hand-holding. XFolio team was one of the first wallets/trading platforms to natively support Optimism and its bridge and is confident to continue building as Optimism reduces entry barrier for new users due to low fees, fast transaction finality and full EVM compatibility."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Proof of Humanity",
    "Project Website": "https://www.proofofhumanity.id/",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Santiago Siri",
    "Project Lead Email": "santisiri@gmail.com",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Identity shouldn't depend on badly secured nation states databases or be owned by private corporations. With Proof of Humanity we have a public, auditable and descentralized way of demonstrating personhood. On top of that, the PoH team developed the first use case for this incredible feature of the web3: Universal Basic Income. In less than a year humanity, through the PoH team,  has implemented an experiment to erradicate poverty and to allow individuals to be without the need of nations."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "elimu.ai Community",
    "Project Website": "http://elimu.ai",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Nya Ξlimu",
    "Project Lead Email": "info@elimu.ai",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "The purpose of the elimu.ai Community is to provide disadvantaged children with access to quality basic education. More than 387 million children around the world do not have access to this basic resource, and elimu.ai develops digital public goods to help solve this problem. Since its beginning in 2015, over 40 people have contributed work to the project for free, and an estimated total of 8,000-10,000 hours has been put into work on the open source software - https://github.com/elimu-ai"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Harmony Protocol",
    "Project Website": "harmony.one",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Peter Abilla",
    "Project Lead Email": "peter@harmony.one",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "BEN is focused on educating the next generation of crypto professionals. Their partnership with over 300 blockchain clubs has brought a ton of value to its student partners. Specifically, \n\n- free courses and workshops to teach students Solidity and dapp development\n- free support, including flights, airbnbs, and visas, for students to attend Ethereum & blockchain hackathons\n- free guidance counseling and connections for students looking for jobs in the space\n- free mentorship and resources for students to start and grow blockchain clubs at their universities around the world\n\nI highly recommend BEN and believe they will put the retroactive resources to good use - always focused on the student and their education and onboarding into blockchain."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Blockchain Education Network (BEN)",
    "Project Website": "blockchainedu.org",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Erick Pinos",
    "Project Lead Email": "erick@blockchainedu.org",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Blockchain Education Network is focused on educating the next generation of crypto professionals. Their partnership with over 300 blockchain clubs has brought a ton of value to its student partners. Specifically, \n\n- free courses and workshops to teach students Solidity and dapp development\n- free support, including flights, airbnbs, and visas, for students to attend Ethereum & blockchain hackathons\n- free guidance counseling and connections for students looking for jobs in the space\n- free mentorship and resources for students to start and grow blockchain clubs at their universities around the world\n\nI highly recommend BEN and believe they will put the retroactive resources to good use - always focused on the student and their education and onboarding into blockchain."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Token Engineering Commons",
    "Project Website": "tecommons.org",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Tamara Helenius",
    "Project Lead Email": "tamara@helenius.com",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "The Token Engineering Commons (TEC) is an international collective of individuals with a diverse range of specializations focused on modeling and developing ethical and sustainable token ecosystems, furthering the field of token engineering in theory and in practice. The TEC is the first “hatch” of the Commons Stack, and is built on Ostrom’s “Eight Principles for Managing a Commons.”"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Amy Finance",
    "Project Website": "https://amy.finance/",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Henry Chen",
    "Project Lead Email": "ihenrycc@gmail.com",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Amy Finance is born to be a Layer 2 based & LP-friendly Lending Protocol. We have first built on Arbitrum and we believe that deploying on Optimism is a must way for us to achieve a successful lending protocol in L2 ecosystem. We have achieved great performance after our mainnet launch and it’s just the beginning for us. Amy is a fair launch project without a presale and private investor. It will be great if we could receive the grant from Optimism and we’ll have more resources to focus on our product and bring more convenience for Optimism users. \n\nAs a community-driven project, Amy Finance helps users to earn safe and high yields. Users are going to enjoy higher capital efficiency on Amy. By staking assets into the Assembly pool, each LP/Staker will receive the interests generated from lending and leverage trading without any loss. Moreover, users can borrow assets from the pool and conduct margin trading in one app. The transaction fee will be extremely low owing to the L2 native design. The design of Amy Finance can lift the revenue and maintain the same level of fund security as the classic lending protocols do.\n\nAmy Finance has three major parts: Lending, Margin trading and IQ mining. Users are able to enjoy high efficiency and Cex-like trading experiences on Amy Finance. As the main component of Amy Finance, Assembly Pool supplies assets for both margin trading and borrowing purposes, maximizing the utilization of assets for pool contributors. Users who stake assets into Assembly Pool will earn interest generated through margin trading and lending as well as newly minted $AMY token, with zero impermanent loss. \n\nMargin trading on Amy Finance is like using Lego blocks to build on other decentralized exchanges and brokers. Sourcing depth from other L2 exchanges, together with the execution speed of Layer2, Amy Finance offers centralized exchange-like trading experiences for any traders.\n\nUnlike other platforms that use liquidity mining to incentivize early adopters, Amy Finance follows a different path: using NFT for AMY Token Mining to attract early adopters and gamifying mining to make it more fun and enjoyable. Specifically, Amy Finance has issued Golden Cat NFT and IQ mining to gamify users’ mining and diversify their interest.The cats on Amy Finance possess different levels of IQ which are mostly related to their mining power. Amy Finance is more like a proof-of-IQ system where IQ mostly contributes to users’ yields."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Revoke.cash",
    "Project Website": "revoke.cash",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Rosco Kalis",
    "Project Lead Email": "rosco@kalis.me",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Rosco has created a way to safely track and remove erc20 and NFT allowances from your wallets.  He enables ethereum users to have an easy way to scan their wallets for potentially malicious allowances.  This is critical for keeping our wallets safe.  It is highly likely that past mysterious wallet \"hacks\" have been engineered through past unlimited allowances. I regularly check my wallet address allowances through the revoke.cash site to make sure I haven't left any attack surfaces open. Access is free and Rosco is the best for coding this for the ethereum community.  Go Rosco!!"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Shared Tools",
    "Project Website": "https://www.sharedtools.org/",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Chimera",
    "Project Lead Email": "hi@kaustav.me",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "This project is super useful! It helps anyone deploy detailed smart contracts based on ERC 20, ERC721 using a friendly UI. They also provide vote Escrow UI among other fantastic tools. Other pros include:\n\n- UI for those who don't want to use scripts to deploy contracts\n- Easy to follow controls\n- Save time and money on audits using templated farming contract, vote escrow, nft deployer factories\n- Plug and play UI for vote escrow tokens\n- Opens up the opportunity to write smart contract to a wider public\n- Active development on OVM implementations\n- A little bit of love might help the devs develop this into a full-scale mainnet tool as well"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Crate Crypto",
    "Project Website": "https://github.com/crate-crypto",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Crate-Crypto",
    "Project Lead Email": "kev@the.dev",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "It provides open source implementations of cryptography papers which have just been released or proof of concepts for protocols, to help shorten development time of companies that cannot afford to do R&D"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Cannon",
    "Project Website": "https://github.com/geohot/cannon",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "George Hotz",
    "Project Lead Email": "george@comma.ai",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "George is building an EVM equivalent fraud proof that can be used all across the Ethereum ecosystem. This will enable Optimistic Rollups to run the exact code written in Geth and even other client implementations which can compile down to MIPS. This would allow: \n1. Optimistic proofs of computation across any MIPS execution trace (truebit, already super useful);\n2. Optimistic proofs of Geth computation! This is what we need for the first generation of EVM equivalent rollups! Woot!"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Spell",
    "Project Website": "abracadabra.com",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Not sure",
    "Project Lead Email": "Not sure",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Great protocol"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Khabenskiy Fund",
    "Project Website": "https://bfkh.ru/",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Khabenskiy Konstantin",
    "Project Lead Email": "partners@bfkh.ru",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "This is a charitable foundation that helps sick children, I think no more words are needed..."
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "TypeChain",
    "Project Website": "https://github.com/dethcrypto/TypeChain",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Chris Kaczor",
    "Project Lead Email": "chris@kaczor.io",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Who is not using Typescript these days?! Everyone is! And TypeChain is a must have if you are developing Typescript based Dapps. It's an awesome project, that is included in the default stack of every Dapp these days. It's working fine and no one is talking about it, but it deserves a lot of love and appreciation!"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Giveth",
    "Project Website": "giveth.io",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Griff Green",
    "Project Lead Email": "griff@giveth.io",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "This thread explains it super well to me! https://twitter.com/Givethio/status/1454084287184130049?s=20"
  },
  {
    "Project Name": "Giveth",
    "Project Website": "giveth.io",
    "Project Lead Full Name": "Griff Green",
    "Project Lead Email": "griff@giveth.io",
    "Why should this project receive retroactive public goods funding? (500 word max)": "Problem:\nPublic goods are the most overlooked web3 opportunity. Federal, state, and local governments in just the US spent $10 TRILLION in 2021 and this cost is growing every year with no clear solution in sight. We have the opportunity to disrupt this sector GLOBALLY & Giveth is positioned to lead the way. Check out this awesome video from ETHDenver describing this problem at length: https://bit.ly/3fFPG0s\n\nOpportunity:\nGiven the crypto market outlook, user and nonprofit adoption growth, and innovations in fundraising, crypto has the potential to become the most powerful philanthropic force on the planet in the years ahead. In 2021, the largest source of charitable giving came from individuals, who gave $326.87 billion, representing 67% of total giving (National Philantropic trust: https://bit.ly/3C5KTgn).\n\nSolution: \nGiveth is using web3 to evolve philanthropy! Our community is focused on Building the Future of Giving using blockchain technology. Our intention is to support and reward the funding of public goods by creating open, transparent and free access to the revolutionary funding opportunities available within the Ethereum ecosystem. \n100% of donations go to projects. Donors are rewarded with GIVbacks. GIV holders can earn a yeild participating in the GIVeconomy. \n\n1. We encourage Decentralization:\nGiveth offers innovative open-source solutions built on blockchain technology, which is inherently decentralized.\nGiveth is pioneering and experimenting with decentralized governance and communication techniques and supporting their adoption by other communities.\n\n2. We promote Altruism:\nGiveth is an open, non-hierarchical global initiative empowering social, environmental and humanistic impact projects with modern technologies.\nGiveth supports many like-minded initiatives that are adding value to the world without necessarily having a direct profit motive.\nGiveth is building a self-sustaining giving economy that encourages and rewards altruistic intention where the collective benefits.\n\n3. We believe in the power of Community:\nGiveth is an inclusive community united around a common goal.\nA community-owned platform, building and developing our DApps based on feedback from our members (snapshot voting, GIVgarden governance, conviction voting).\nGiveth enables trust within communities by increasing transparency and accountability through blockchain technology.\nGiveth proactively reaches out to similar initiatives which we see as potential collaborators, as opposed to competitors.\n\nThus I believe Giveth is a great candidate for Optimisms’ retroPGF in order to support its long-term vision of building the future of Giving!"
  }
]