Description

La Paz, Bolivia is a hostile environment for a community of Ethernauts. And it is not because of the lack of oxygen due to the altitude, but because the commerce of cryptocurrency is prohibited.

Despite the circumstances, the Ethereum Bolivia community has managed to organize events with more than 100 attendees. The secret: focus on development.

In our last meeting, the community showed a lot of interest in actively participating and working groups were formed with 3 objectives in particular: Create education programs IN SPANISH and support for ecosystem developers, with a focus on underserved communities Support for Web3 projects that solve local problems. Inform and educate authorities and government

The plan is to form a DAO, whose tokens have no monetary value, but can only be used for the governance and resource allocation of the community. The way to earn these tokens is by contributing to the community and advancing educational content. Once we receive sponsors and have a treasury, the idea is for the community to decide how to use those funds: funding projects, sending groups of members to hackathons, organizing community events, etc...

First project ideas include: creating a DAO to make validator nodes more accessible and encourage decentralization by creating "The World's Highest Validator Node", an information group to get government institutions to remove the cryptocurrency ban, a diploma course to learn about blockchain, etc…

What we’ve achieved

Since July we’ve had a monthly meet-up in La Paz, and this year we started doing monthly online meet-ups as well. Our monthly meetings host between 10 and 25 people.

In August 2022 we hosted our Ethereum Bolivia - Road to Devcon event at the Univalle university, and hosted around 150 people.

Our regular activities

Monthly in-person meet-up in the two biggest cities: La Paz & Santa Cruz Monthly on-line meet-up Yearly Ethereum Bolivia event to educate the broader public + hackathon Regular workshops around different topics (e.g. solidity development, intro to web3, etc..)

Funding

Most of the funding will go to the organisation of our Ethereum Bolivia event & hackathon. We will also use the funds to continue organizing our monthly meet-ups and workshops.

We want to have a treasury to economically incentivize the activities we have planned (see description) and use it to have representation of Bolivia in international activities, such as hackathons, conferences, etc…

Team

We recently expanded our core team with the most active members of the community: Abidan, Huascar,

Founding members:

Gabriela Melendrez - QA Software Engineer, member of the AGETIC team at the Bolivian government, founder of Mind Blockchain, Asoblockchain Bolivia. Promoter of technology in her country and for the movement Women in Tech for the Technovation Bolivia team.

Ayrton Paredes - Web developer, core member of Ethereum Bolivia and currently building Even3.app

Samuel Gallardo - Enthusiast of the Ethereum ecosystem since 2020, promoter of new technologies. Currently learning about development tools for web3, DAOs and dApps. Interested in transmitting knowledge to the younger members to motivate them.

Nico Gallardo - Founding member of 2 web3 communities: W3b Lab in Amsterdam and Ethereum Bolivia. Founder of Troop Labs, a venture studio that aims to bring web3 to the masses leveraging web3 social. Web3 and Bitcoin public speaker and educator. Devcon Scholar.

Fabi Acarapi - Lead QA Software Engineer at one of the biggest Bolivian Start-ups. Influential person in the technology sector in Bolivia. Promoter of women in technology around the world. H.E.R. DAO Scholar.