Since first joining the Gitcoin community as a cause round curator in May 2021 I've been able to leverage 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 intiatiatives to raise awareness, and work with Gitcoin leads to create new regeratative funding models for public goods.

Some examples of this ongoing work include:

• 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 on behalf of Lifespan's projects.

  • As part of this I wrote 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.

• Continuing to curate Longevity and DeSci cause rounds for GR13-GR15, and producing dozens of articles, tutorials, and announcements regarding Gitcoin on our news outlet, reaching several million people per year.

• 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: Watch the video below

• Hosting large interdisciplinary online and in-person events that feature Gitcoin leaders, such as Lifespan's annual conference in New York City:

• Working with Gitcoin and other leaders in the ReFi community to lead the creation of new public goods funding models: for example - variations of quadradic funding suited to specific scenarios (such as Inverse Quadratic Funding, or IQF), Proof of Philanthropy NFTs, BioAvatar NFTs, and the forthcoming Ouroboros endowment mechanism - recently presented at Zuzalu.

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

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!