Since first joining the Gitcoin community as a cause round curator in May 2021 I've been actively leveraging my expertise in leading grassroots movements (such as for longevity research with Lifespan.io and VitaDAO) and skills as a high-impact technology inventor to bring in many new members into the Gitcoin ecosystem, foster the creation of large-scale PR initiatives to raise awareness, and work with Gitcoin leads to create new attestation / social reward models and regenerative funding mechanisms for public goods.

Recent Gitcoin-Related Work

Examples of recent projects I've worked on to help the Gitcoin community:

• Inventing "Proof of Philanthropy" - a new type of "Demi-Soulbound" dynamic NFT ,which scales in power and aesthetics based on tracked on-chain philanthropic giving, including donations to Gitcoin campaigns. A successful open source prototype has been developed with (w/ art by Gitcoin artist Colton Orr), and is already tracking donations to specific Gitcoin campaigns (for example those to this Vitalia-related grant).

• Over 100 of these prototype NFTs have already been minted by public-goods supporters and upgrades are currently in progress, including integrations with Gitcoin Passport.

• Worked with Gitcoin and other organizations in the ReFi community to build on this to create new public goods funding models: for example - variations of quadradic funding suited to specific scenarios (such as Inverse Quadratic Funding, or IQF), and the "Ouroboros" endowment mechanism - originally presented at Zuzalu and described in detail at our 2023 Longevity and DeSci Summit. Development of these positive-sum models has recently begun, together with leaders of various aligned organizations - such as Gitcoin, Hypercerts Foundation, Lifespan.io, Endaoment, Better Giving, Weavechain, and VitaDAO.

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• Hosting Gitcoin leaders to speak at Lifespan's events - most recently the Longevity and DeSci Summit - creating connections with hundreds of key leaders across multiple industries and impactful coverage from outlets such as CoinTelegraph.

• Working on a decentralized intervention for Alzheimer's disease, which - while not directly Gitcoin related - will eventually help many Gitcoin community members if successful.

Earlier Work

Some examples of earlier work include:

• Producing dozens of articles, tutorials, and announcements regarding Gitcoin for Lifespan.io's news outlet, reaching several million people per year.

• Co-leading the inaugural Longevity Cause Round in GR12, together with Lifespan, VitaDAO, and Gitcoin team members, curating projects in the round, as well as submitting a few of Lifespan's projects, and continuing to curate Longevity and DeSci cause rounds for GR13-GR15. This included writing comprehensive tutorial articles which onboarded hundreds of new Gitcoin members, produced related video content and outreach materials summarizing the success of the round, reaching over 30k members in the Lifespan.io community.

• Discussing Gitcoin on CoinTelegraph, as part one of the most viewed articles on the platform in the categories of Medicine and Science:

• Educating the teams of large influencers to foster the creation of content to raise awareness for Gitcoin, and explaining Gitcoin to adjacent communities - such as on the Enjin and Axie Infinity podcasts:

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Thank you for letting me build in public!

I want to thank everyone for reading this, and for supporting me if you can. For the last few years I've been doing most of the above work with zero personal compensation, and was beginning to question how long I could keep it up. Knowing that retroactive funding models like this are arising to support people like me is more meaningful than I can express.

I appreciate you all so much, and I’m looking forward to working with you in the future

Thank You!