Metrics Garden Labs is an Impact Studio founded by LauNaMu that contributes to the adoption and advancement of Impact Assessment in web3 through publicly available research, experiments, resources, and workshops.

The main goal of Metrics Garden Labs is to advance the field of Impact Assessment in the web3 space, and through this improve the funding of Public Goods.

Currently, we're developing our first open experiment: Impact Garden Protocol - A tool to attest to derived impact on-chain, and leverage insights from the Superchain Collective that can be used to inform decision-making in Retroactive Rounds.

Our platform is solving the lack of verifiable and structured data from the beneficiaries of projects that enable the growth of the Superchain and that are valuable to the Optimism Collective and web3 overall. Impact Garden Protocol expects that this experiment will serve to explore what type of contributions and artifacts have been valuable to whom and most importantly in which context. This experiment explores the avenues in which qualitative data can serve to inform new systems and the improvement of existing ones over time.

Additionally, once this data is available, funders and project owners will be able to understand if the current incentives they are pushing for with their funding programs are leading to the results they were interested in.

What this looks like:

• Developers attesting to the benefit of using a particular library to launch their app on Base.
• New-comers to the ecosystem attesting to the usefulness of a Bootcamp or educational course to get started in the Optimism Collective.
• New delegates attesting to the value of 1:1 sessions with seasoned Delegates to onboard them into Arbitrum's Governance.

In mid-May we launched our first outreach test on Farcaster protocol for the following reasons:

1. Improve the UX of Attestations by enabling this process through a Frame
2. Incentivize the process by subsidizing issuance to a select group of members in the Farcaster protocol to avoid sybil attacks
3. Leverage the Farcaster Social Graph to increase the signal provided by these attestations.

This project was selected to be 1 of 15 projects participating in the EAS Launchpad Cohort 1, out of 155 applicants.

Funding received will be used to cover the technical and operational costs of this project as we continue to make the required changes to launch the MVP in early August and kick start data collection.

Additional improvements we look to introduce to the MVP in the long-term are:

• Based on the experimentation with the social graph; we want to increase the number of people for whom the issuing of attestations is subsidized.
• Explore having projects subsidize the attestations of their own artifacts.
• Enable multi-ecosystem attesting.