bestape (mixed work)

As a LEETH certified legal engineer and core contributor to LexDAO who's volunteered over the years for Gitcoin, I am in a unique position to help the Gitcoin community.

Though I've listed past work in this submission, I'm most excited about what I plan to do for the Gitcoin community in the years to come.

Thank you for your consideration!

past

I've gotten the LexDAO community to help Gitcoin:

• navigate more legally complex grants disputes during the centralized grants era
• transition to a Cayman Foundation by getting the LexDAO community to review Gitcoin DAO's draft operating agreement

I was a Gitcoin Librarian.

I've helped with Gitcoin spinoffs, including:

• Schelling Point and Cheerbot.org at the Solar Punk exhibit
• a KERNEL.community fellow
• Pluriverse.wtf Gitcoin comic #3 liaison

Given my future plans, it is relevant to know that I project managed getting the Hats protocol + Snapshot.org strategy completed.

future

OpenCivics round

I am one of the core contributors getting the OpenCivics round active.

The first OpenCivics round should be ready by GG19.

As of writing, this first round will likely have a matching pool of $100k or more!

Hats protocol + Gitcoin Passport

Though 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.

I 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.

I hope we can use this Hats strategy as the leaf node in the OpenCivics Hats tree.

Hats protocol + Allo protocol

This is similar to the Hats strategy for Passport but is more involved and will likely take longer to complete.

Gitcoin devs have already done work on this, but we'll need a dedicated project manager (me!?) to get it over the finish line.

The plan is to use this strategy for future OpenCivics rounds.

follow-on QF for VC portfolio rounds

Though I need to re-enroll, my first attempt going through the Venture Institutue program showed me that we have a very exciting opportunity to better realize the Mensarious Oath using Quadratic Funding on Gitcoin.

Please read the first draft of this idea at ape.mirror.xyz, 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.

square root approximations

In 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.

These Fibonacci sequences are described at my Github under OEIS contributions.

mathart for Gitcoin

The images in this application are from an art installation I made at Cabin.city, explained in this ape.morror.xyz draft.