A Nación Bankless Perspective

Hello my dear Gitcoiners and Refi enthusiasts. Today we are pleased to be writing to you as we have found it exciting and fascinating to be contributing to Gitcoin with multiple protocols such as Arbitrum, and Optimism which are starting to explore the Grant Stack. These proposals have been changing in many ways and we are sure they will continue to grow.

TL;DR: Three Steps for Decentralization: Coordination with other communities, Creation of a Decentralized front end for Meta Pool and running a Gitcoin Round for DAO in Latam.

Who are we?

Nación Bankless is an offshoot of BanklessDAO oriented on creating educational media in Spanish to allow people to use blockchain finance and understand the values within crypto, decentralization, sovereignty, commons and ownership. With this we started, and now we have dedicated ourselves to public goods, to be an incubator of ideas for those who can't write their proposals or help them to report their progress to the world, using tools like Hypercertz, NFT minted in Zora or Mint.fun, this thanks to our researchers and web3 enthusiasts every day working to be better.

Team Members:

CryptoReuMD (Champion) Rheumatologist, MD, Currently founder of Nación Bankless, Champion of Bankless en Español of the International Media Nodes, since Session, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and the current 9. Co-Founder of Ethereum Mexico, Community Builder of Espacio Cripto, Advocate of HumanDAO, Member of DeSci Latam, Bankless DeSci. Participant in the governance forum for BanklessDAO, Optimism Colectivo, Arbitrum DAO, Push DAO, Gticoin

Anaphant (OP Management): Industrial engineer specialized in project management, digital tools and web3 economy. As a BanklessDAO contributor for almost a year, Anaphant is guild coordinator for the Translators Guild and ops coordinator for the International Media Nodes, bringing the Bankless movement to all corners of the world, while also contributing to Bankless Card product development. Passionate about bringing web3 impact and solutions into the “real” world, she is also a member of the newly founded ReFi DAO Barcelona local node. Here to make the world a better place.

Jasu: (Product Management)Product manager in AI | web 3 creating decentralized products and coordinating projects in Bankless DAO as a product lead in Bankless Card. I have worked advising the visual construction of protocols such as Pocket Network, Scipro Pro and IP protocol. Ex consultant for LATAM Startups.

Brenkiria (Diario Nación Bankless, Research and Input) Editor in chief, graphic designer, coordinator of the Spanish news section of the Latin American universe, professional trader, and content creator at Locura Trader, currently leading the public goods and financial education section. Member of BanklessDAO - Nación Bankless since seasons 6, 7, 8 and 9. Karen (Research, Lawyer, Finance Expert, Karen is the leader of the tokenology project, currently evaluating the financial health of the SubDAO, with deep knowledge about global and local economy, cryptonomics, she also has personal finance courses, specialist in legal aspects thanks to her profession, member of BanklessDAO since sessions 5, 6, 7, 8, in charge of our multisig. Speaker in IRL events of Espacio Cripto, Bankless, Cryptoverisdad, NounsAmigosDAO, Talent Land.

Fabian (Chief editor) Our lead translator, editor, creative newsletter, GM:NB section, the daily local, global and creative news content newsletter, creator of Encriptados, active member of the DeFi communities, plus a strong background in Decentralization and Scalability. He is a member with extensive experience in NFT, blockchain experimentation and birth projects. Bankless member

Vykorowsky: (Web page designer) Graphic Designer, actually has their own YouTube Channel and community called Locura Trader, he has been working for Nacion Bankless since season 8, now committed to creating the Landing Page for Nacion Bankless, API for Notifications for Push Protocol and the Decentralized Frontend for Meta Pool.

Monica Talan (Lead - CryptoConexión). She is the founder of CryptoConexión, a Spanish-language platform to drive awareness and engagement in the decentralized economy. Today the platform is attracting users in Latin America who are new to blockchain, crypto, Web3, NFTs, AI.

Ana Lopez (Education Lead - CryptoConexión). She brings more than a decade of experience in EdTech and heads the education arm at CryptoConexion, leading the efforts to create more than 100 tutorials plus the grants and education directory.

Sonia Pacheco (Social Media - CryptoConexión). With a background in graphic design she has been leading CryptoConexión’s social media efforts across multiple channels.

What have we done so far?

We have participated in the Meta Pool and the core Round, where we have coordinated IRL events, we will be doing webinars and one more event in Mexico City, we created a newsletter, a Banner for our readers and an intro for those who visit us on YouTube, besides we were part of the media committee of Ethereum Mexico and we also support Meta Pool. You can find this report published in the Gitcoin forum since our transparency is the best letter of introduction.

We have also been in charge of making introductory videos, CryptoReuMD which is our champion managed to sneak into the Citizen Rounds within the first 10 places, with the intention of continuing the process of governance and decentralization.

We have also worked with wonderful projects such as International Media Nodes and the Onboarding events for Optimism, Web3 Beach and Gold Coast. To this day we are still creating, experimenting and evaluating the best way to continue growing and with your help, we will be able to do more for our community every day.

What are our plans now?

Our efforts will focus on three concepts

1.- Allied Nations for Gitcoin: We have decided that together we are stronger, because sometimes efforts are easily mitigated when we do not have an echo of participation or even we can present similar and repetitive ideas, so the quality does not decrease but the audience and impact is blurred. For this reason we invited CryptoConexión and Kairos Research to collaborate on an innovative Gitcoin 19 campaign that will include several ways to drive engagement: Activity on X with Post, Spaces and Threads. Activity on YouTube, we will have Shill Spaces on our YouTube channel.

Initiatives:

-Newsletter and webinars/YouTube videos talking about Gitcoin Passport, Gitcoin Grant stack, Moloch Traps

-Blog post explaining concept on CryptoConexion and an episode on the podcast with all allied nations

-Activity on social media platforms including LinkedIn and Instagram

-All the process and activities will be tracked within our Notion page: https://www.notion.so/bankless/Contenido-7dee065797cd432291e16b67fe31c192

2.- We want to participate in the creation of a decentralized frontend from the Bankless Nation page, which will be created with the funds raised in this initiative, a page for onboarding new users to understand what crypto is all about, with direct links to the GitCoin pages with content translated into Spanish, Push update in our channel, so that people do not have to enter the Gitcoin page and have notifications of the rounds directly in their Push app and wallet. The channel is already created so we will just keep updating. In the same way this page will allow Staking with Meta Pool, page that will be created with WordPress and stored in IPFS, page that will be a public good and its maintenance and hosting will be sponsored by Nación Bankless with the funds obtained during the round, we do not charge at all for this process and neither for the creation of the page, everything will be collected from Round 19.

3.- We want to create our own Gitcoin round for DAO in Spanish that wants to start tooling with the Grants Stack and as an experiment we want to implement it inside Nacion Bankless, so this is going to be great if we can create it. With the help of some of our friends and with the funds that we are achieving, maybe in the first rounds we are going to pay for Notion subscriptions or plane tickets, but that’s how everything starts. So part of the funds are going to be designated for our own protocol round.

KPI: -We will track activity with Hypercertz and NFT for like-minded communities, participating in our events, in order to monitor the impact and chain activity of our participation. With a minimum target of 50 Hypercertz across the entire proposal, among attendees,

-We will evaluate our Push channel activity with active subscribers in relation to notifications.

-We will publish the traffic obtained within the Bankless Nation page with a connection to the Wallet and the number of people who have Staked through the Meta Pool contract.

The first Gticoin Rounds are going to be just in between the 19-20 rounds. A report is going to be available before the 20° round starts.

Strength in numbers

Nación Bankless, CryptoConexión and Kairos Research have strong communities that can be reached by our combined efforts, having a greater impact:

Nación Bankless

Substack: We have actually 355 subscribers, with an Open Rate of 29.83%, we have a massive increase with the event in Cuzco, with 11.9K views in our newsletters and news and 25K views in three months, including the gap week.

In our YouTube Channel we were very busy doing live sessions and reaching 162 subscribers, 46, 772 impressions with an engagement % of 1.4% for our videos:

We are concentrating our efforts on X, with now 2, 233 Twitter followers, with an engagement of 4.7%, 94 K impressions, with a lot of clicks and interactions

We have all this work from the past season in this Google doc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1leDjQqzBLtY-Ts6RwYPV64RXIcdnH-lC2eiSQMxdF3A/edit?usp=sharing

PROJECT CHANNELS

Website: https://nacionbankless.substack.com/ Socials: https://linktr.ee/NacionBankless DeWork: https://app.dework.xyz/nacion-bankless

CryptoConexión

CryptoConexión, launched on October 31, 2021, has been a vital educational platform for Spanish and Portuguese speakers. Our mission: Ensure that communities in Latin America have access to easy to understand content about Web 3 and blockchain. We are working to provide access via easy to understand non-technical information in these languages. Our focus is to onboard leaders, support them in their journey and protect individuals from fraud. Why Spanish and why Latin America? Our impact to date includes reaching more than 100,000 users across platforms, including our more than 94,000 users on CryptoConexión. The top three countries from where we receive traffic are Mexico, Colombia and Argentina.

Source: Google Search Console

Impact on End User Experience & Adoption - Education Our primary goal is to educate and drive end-users, thereby fostering adoption and engagement. We are a top of the funnel project, driving awareness, engagement and leading to connecting with different events and initiatives to drive adoption.

1. Free Educational Content - our public goods contribution:

a.- More than 100 free tutorials, a glossary, and an events calendar.

b.- Two directories: a grants directory and a course directory, providing access to thousands of resources in an easy to access platform

2. Social Media Outreach:

We leverage our social media platforms to drive engagement - we have more than 8,076 followers across platforms.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CryptoConexion

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cryptoconexion/

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/cryptoconexion/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/76621542/admin/feed/posts/

Newsletter: https://cryptoconexion.com/newsletter/. The newsletter has 386 subscribers and a 35%+ open rate.

Project Notion Page: https://www.notion.so/bankless/Bankless-in-Spanish-e51a368ec3dd4a4c99ca797377fae4b5Cr

With all this in mind we are going to keep evolving, contributing to the space and make our own grant ecosystem based in Gitcoin tools. -Go Bankless