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NEW - Part 2 of my @VitalikButerin interview is now live. Joined by guest cohosts @sejal_rekhan and @devanshmehta , we chat with Vitalik about deep funding via dependency graphs🌟 From measuring a project's value to humanity 👉 to assessing how much credit dependency A deserves for B's success... Deep Funding is a new primitive for valuing/funding dependancies! Deep Funding is a new frontier in onchain capital allocation! We go deep on deep funding with Vitalik in the Part 2 of the podcast. Don’t miss it! 👀🚀 00:00 Intro 01:06 Podcast Overview 02:06 Guest Introduction 03:24 Deep Funding Mechanism 08:00 Unintended consequences of Deep Funding 11:28 Alternatives in Market 12:13 Government AI initiatives filtering and eligibility 15:53 Protocol Guild 16:34 Deep funding cases other than software and GitHub 19:47 How can you contribute to the pilot's success? 23:21 Favorite underdog project for deep funding 25:11 Suggestion for other mechanism 26:54 Vote of Thanks 27:10 After Podcast Discussion 36:53 Outro

The AI Elections are LIVE and open for one week. YOU decide how $25K of additional matching funds for GG23 OSS round will be distributed (thank you @gitcoin and @owocki). Vote for your favorite configurable AI politician here: vote.deepgov.org Don't like any of them? No

Apply to our Impact Evaluator Research Retreat 2025 from July 26th to Aug 10th, 2025, Iceland. We are funding accommodation and food in Iceland, so we can jam about impactful public goods funding and mechanism design with some of the brightest minds in the world for two weeks. Travel scholarships are also available. Apply today 🌱 researchretreat.org/ierr-2025/

owocki, tell me about the coolest new experiment in gitcoin grants 23. GG23 will feature an experiment (by @dwddao ) in configurable AI politicians - basically different AI politicians which represent different constituencies that battle out how to distribute a $25k matching pool. each AI politician is completely configurable via github (and we can debate configurations via github issues/pull requests) the tooling for the round will make it super easy to explore different valuesets. as the round progresses, well be able to see how each AI agent gains/loses support over time. in gg23, there is scheduled to be a $25k funding pool distributed to open source projects via this mechanism. we'll be able to see how the votes change over time. i think this is a great practical example of @VitalikButerin 's vision of "AI as the engine, humans as the steering wheel". cant wait to see what we learn!

@dwddao kickstarting our Primer with a succinct walkthrough of how to get started with building your model for the @deep_funding mini contest! Also how cute are those cats walking by on the screen! Come drop in! (Link in comments)