My mission is law is a public good.

From the d = (c-b)/a immutable laws of geometry I discovered to the dispute resolution layer in web3, the laws I help build are public goods.

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.

More about what we're doing at LexDAO here. Including the event Gitcoin co-hosted with LexDAO at the Gitcoin House here.

Thank you for your consideration!

from Gitcoin Citizens Round "GCR" 2 to GCR 3

Thank you to the 54 unique donations! It's a honor to have gotten so many gifts from the community 🙏.

GCR 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.

past before GCR 3

I've gotten the LexDAO community to help Gitcoin:

• navigate more legally complex grants disputes during the centralized grants era, e.g. this intro here
• 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 and Moonshot Collective here.

• a KERNEL.community block 3 fellow
• Pluriverse.wtf Gitcoin comic #3 liaison

I project managed getting the Hats protocol + Snapshot.org strategy completed.

planned for after GCR 2

OpenCivics round (GCR 2 planned)

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!

OpenCivics GG19 round (GCR 3 retrospect)

The OpenCivics round was a success! More info here and here.

• www.daocoalition.org (the DAO-defender lobbying group we're getting prepared) participated in the round.

• OpenCivics is continuing on in GG20 here.

Hats protocol + Gitcoin Passport (GCR 2 planned)

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 + Gitcoin Passport (GCR 3 retrospect)

We successfully integrated Hats and Gitcoin Passport!

www.daocoalition.org "DC" and OpenCivics have not yet implemented Hats x Gitcoin Passport. DC will do as soon as possible.

More about why I'm so passionate about Gitcoin Passport here and here.

Hats protocol + Allo protocol (GCR 2 planned)

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.

Hats protocol + Allo protocol (GCR 3 retrospect)

No developments yet. Became less of a priority when the Public Goods Network "PGN" announced it was winding down.

follow-on QF for VC portfolio rounds (GCR 2 planned)

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.

follow-on QF for VC portfolio rounds (GCR 3 retrospect)

The Angel who invested in my law firm Ixian.tech is into a modified version of the idea.

We've developed the 'metabolic' concepts further during some Vitalia.city workshops, e.g. here and here.

This is still at the idea stage, but I am spending more and more time in the mycofi and regenerative economics academic communities.

square root approximations (GCR 2 planned)

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.

square root approximations (GCR 3 retrospect)

I taught a few classes at Vitalia, syllabus at powerlawgeometry.com.

I got a makerspace created at Vitalia with the help of moonDAO here so that I could build out my mathematics in real life.

We're now printing "base scale" 3D objects.

This math will eventually offer alternatives to or efficiencies for quadratic funding distributions.

mathart for Gitcoin (GCR 2 planned)

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

mathart for Gitcoin (GCR 3 retrospect)

Still open to this art being part of Gitcoin's polycentric 🍄 mycofi type vibes.

Had a co-authored book shared at the Gitcoin House at EthDenver 2024 using the mathart, see here and here

Zora work here.

original GCR 2 post on PNG network

Please wallet login here to see.