bestape | Kyle M. Smith
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Including the event Gitcoin co-hosted with LexDAO at the Gitcoin House [here](https://x.com/lex_DAO/status/1762904086633177247).\n\n![image](https://images.mirror-media.xyz/publication-images/MsqFgSexh1qgDeyrA25as.png?height=412&width=571)\n\nThank you for your consideration! \n\n# from Gitcoin Citizens Round \"GCR\" 2 to GCR 3\n\nThank you to the 54 unique donations! It's a honor to have gotten so many gifts from the community 🙏.\n\nGCR 2 was open to mixed work, both retroactive and planned. GCR 3 is now retroactive only, but I'll use what I planned in GCR 2 to retroactively show how close my plans were to reality. \n\n## past before GCR 3\nI've gotten the LexDAO community to help Gitcoin:\n\n* navigate more legally complex grants disputes during the centralized grants era, e.g. this intro [here](https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/proposal-grants-policy-update-projects-with-tokens/10125/31)\n* transition to a Cayman Foundation by getting the LexDAO community to review Gitcoin DAO's draft operating agreement\n\nI was a Gitcoin Librarian. \n\nI've helped with Gitcoin spinoffs, including:\n* [Schelling Point](https://schellingpoint.gitcoin.co/) and [Cheerbot.org](https://Cheerbot.org) at the Solar Punk exhibit and Moonshot Collective [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM8PsTv9_8w).\n\n![image](https://64.media.tumblr.com/a22a4042e7d47ddc3da5b4c415d1a62b/5d6e33cde0be5a71-17/s400x600/b502b59ef96cf8e5d8aec0556925ff13a432e0fc.gifv)\n\n![image](https://images.mirror-media.xyz/publication-images/VuA4haqI0EwHK_FwiEkpO.png?height=768&width=1366)\n\n![image](https://images.mirror-media.xyz/publication-images/TIdPgpK1DVBmh8hgJSL-b.png?height=331&width=658)\n\n* a [KERNEL.community](https://kernel.community) block 3 fellow\n* [Pluriverse.wtf](https://pluriverse.wtf) Gitcoin comic #3 liaison\n\n![image](https://images.mirror-media.xyz/publication-images/vWPBDweGsVFPGqCdegqV7.png?height=1322&width=1029)\n\nI project managed getting the Hats protocol + Snapshot.org strategy completed.\n\n## planned for after GCR 2\n\n### OpenCivics round (GCR 2 planned)\n\nI am one of the core contributors getting the OpenCivics round active.\n\nThe first OpenCivics round should be ready by GG19. \n\nAs of writing, this first round will likely have a matching pool of $100k or more!\n\n### OpenCivics GG19 round (GCR 3 retrospect)\n\nThe OpenCivics round was a success! More info [here](https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/announcing-the-opencivics-genesis-round-for-gg19/16879/4) and [here](https://reportcards.gitcoin.co/424/0xe60a569ec8aac2045d9fda306dc2a16cc1e52a90).\n\n* www.daocoalition.org (the DAO-defender lobbying group we're getting prepared) participated in the round.\n\n* OpenCivics is continuing on in GG20 [here](https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/gg20-proposal-opencivics-consortium-round/18296).\n\n### Hats protocol + Gitcoin Passport (GCR 2 planned)\n\nThough the project we attempted at Permissionless II was too ambitious, we were able to figure out what we need to get done and who needs to do it. \n\nI plan to complete this project by the end of 2024. It will be a Hats strategy that is a hatter (self-mint functionality) that only requires a passing Passport score. \n\nI hope we can use this Hats strategy as the leaf node in the OpenCivics Hats tree.\n\n### Hats protocol + Gitcoin Passport (GCR 3 retrospect)\n\nWe successfully integrated Hats and Gitcoin Passport!\n\nwww.daocoalition.org \"DC\" and OpenCivics have not yet implemented Hats x Gitcoin Passport. DC will do as soon as possible.\n\nMore about why I'm so passionate about Gitcoin Passport [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8qABVbZssY) and [here](https://x.com/bestape/status/1726016138516074522).\n\n![image](https://images.mirror-media.xyz/publication-images/earFu0hoPNHus5C-b2paF.png?height=768&width=1366)\n\n![image](https://images.mirror-media.xyz/publication-images/JoeTvSf_raxGewN60-TUS.png?height=810&width=1440)\n\n### Hats protocol + Allo protocol (GCR 2 planned)\n\nThis is similar to the Hats strategy for Passport but is more involved and will likely take longer to complete.\n\nGitcoin devs have already done work on this, but we'll need a dedicated project manager (me!?) to get it over the finish line. \n\nThe plan is to use this strategy for future OpenCivics rounds.\n\n### Hats protocol + Allo protocol (GCR 3 retrospect)\n\nNo developments yet. Became less of a priority when the Public Goods Network \"PGN\" announced it was winding down.\n\n### follow-on QF for VC portfolio rounds (GCR 2 planned)\n\nThough I need to re-enroll, my first attempt going through the [Venture Institutue](https://govclab.com/venture-institute) program showed me that we have a **very** exciting opportunity to better realize the [Mensarious Oath](https://fi.co/insight/the-mensarius-oath#:~:text=As%20a%20professional%2C%20I%20am,public%20or%20other%20unwanted%20disclosure.) using Quadratic Funding on Gitcoin. \n\nPlease read the first draft of this idea at [ape.mirror.xyz](https://ape.mirror.xyz/J9w_GwD3gbuJvDCkC-MtNyWNSPTFjwFh2mkPAx_AwZs), but please keep in mind this draft has gone as far as capturing my core ideas but not as far as explaining them to a general audience.\n\n### follow-on QF for VC portfolio rounds (GCR 3 retrospect)\n\nThe Angel who invested in my law firm [Ixian.tech](https://ixian.tech) is into a modified version of the idea. \n\nWe've developed the 'metabolic' concepts further during some [Vitalia.city](https://vitalia.city) workshops, e.g. [here](https://x.com/ixiantech/status/1762211143102153022) and [here](https://x.com/EthereumDenver/status/1762255700447617355). \n\n![image](https://images.mirror-media.xyz/publication-images/a5r7GyQODGEfqW7e-wRav.png?height=378&width=680)\n\nThis is still at the idea stage, but I am spending more and more time in the mycofi and regenerative economics academic communities.\n\n### square root approximations (GCR 2 planned)\n\nIn my conversations with Gitcoin mathematicians, this seems unnecessary but the Fibonacci sequence work I've done in observational mathematics might help make QF algorithms more efficient. \n\nThese Fibonacci sequences are described at my Github under [OEIS contributions](https://github.com/bestape#oeis-contributions).\n\n### square root approximations (GCR 3 retrospect)\n\nI taught a few classes at Vitalia, syllabus at [powerlawgeometry.com](http://powerlawgeometry.com).\n\nI got a makerspace created at Vitalia with the help of moonDAO [here](https://snapshot.org/#/tomoondao.eth/proposal/0x5e88ff3f1d05fa2c3cde4a85fb4e5d495a4abf98a5fc1f208a05cbc83fcd7eff) so that I could build out my mathematics in real life.\n\nWe're now printing \"base scale\" 3D objects. \n\nThis math will eventually offer alternatives to or efficiencies for quadratic funding distributions.\n\n![image](https://images.mirror-media.xyz/publication-images/rBMXxXOnGy1DwrrftygAU.jpg?height=917&width=1080)\n\n![image](https://images.mirror-media.xyz/publication-images/NvtZljXI7nL8zIHysc1xp.jpg?height=1280&width=1026)\n\n![image](https://images.mirror-media.xyz/publication-images/4dTqXaojFrJL7ija9ZmrE.jpg?height=1237&width=673)\n\n### mathart for Gitcoin (GCR 2 planned)\n\nThe images in this application are from an art installation I made at [Cabin.city](https://cabin.city/), explained in this [ape.mirror.xyz](https://ape.mirror.xyz/OhCmPGRm7Cp4KtHXWr71KEktig1fyeNjpmo2fxG_0Ak) draft.\n\n![spiral set](https://images.mirror-media.xyz/publication-images/hJhJJbzGeQQobuQougJXM.png)\n\n### mathart for Gitcoin (GCR 3 retrospect)\n\nStill open to this art being part of Gitcoin's polycentric 🍄 mycofi type vibes.\n\n![image](https://images.mirror-media.xyz/publication-images/5uQtZb7kbBFAs6-GfM1fW.png?height=698&width=575)\n\nHad a co-authored book shared at the Gitcoin House at EthDenver 2024 using the mathart, see [here](https://twitter.com/EthForestDAO/status/1766229291082387659) and [here](https://x.com/bbeats1/status/1766218695771099604)\n\nZora work [here](https://zora.co/collect/oeth:0x13b6dc0b74e356186180cfb56353a75cbbd99877). \n\n![image](https://remote-image.decentralized-content.com/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fipfs.decentralized-content.com%2Fipfs%2Fbafybeib7hrsg3e5qlxutrsxj2rii3bmvzmbikuqcno2hfepnfezr342d7y&w=1080&q=75)\n\n# original GCR 2 post on PNG network\n\nPlease wallet login [here](https://builder.gitcoin.co/#/chains/424/registry/0x/projects/0xf4e38649f006745b1efff2729976a8e8230ef4a49161b617bc211256303ae316) to see.\n\n![image](https://images.mirror-media.xyz/publication-images/bAt99H8nKhTXimX3yWwWk.png?height=480&width=1225)", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}, "projectGithub": "lexDAO", "projectTwitter": "bestape"}