Stefi

For the past months I’ve been deep in research on how to measure the real ROI of onchain public goods funding. I’ve done it all independently, without sponsorship, because I truly believe we can build a more sustainable funding system in web3, and that allocating resources well can genuinely change the world. Now I’m looking for support to keep building this. I’ve submitted my research (Onchain ROI Lab) to the @FundingCommons Frontier Fund on Artizen. This weekend, contributions are matched 4x, so any support can go much further. Project: artizen.fund/index/p/onchai… Fund: artizen.fund/index/mf/fundi… If you care about making public goods funding more measurable and sustainable, I’d really appreciate the support, it can be money , it can be votes 🙏

@devanshmehta @Artizen Cool product review, but have you looked into the tokenomics? I’ve been diving into it since I’m participating in one of the funds. Glorious Definitely worth checking out. Do you have a project in any of the funds too?

product review: @Artizen its been such a drought for new public goods funding mechanisms that im glad Artizen has emerged as a new torchbearer for the space, with over $5 million in their endowment to be distributed algorithmically to creatives i used their product today to support the amazing @LironAchdut first, a word on UX; im shocked at how enshittified @privy_io has become after its acquisition by @stripe 1. the force login with email was super annoying and unnecessary when i just want to connect my wallet and pay 2. after i go through the whole rigmarole, i see a very pleasant screen showing how far we have come: the option of choosing bank , card or crypto 3. i choose crypto, and immediately encounter a flow breaking bug for artizen in firefox it cant detect that i have already installed metamask. no matter, i see an option to pay by QR which gives me a public key to send the money to. thanks for saving us from your own janky tech, stripe 4. i see stripe taking an obscene $50 fee for a transfer that costs only $0.46 on ethereum 🤮 Now, onto the actual product 1. i like how they've implemented a feature ive long requested @gitcoin : rather than announce a matching pool, the amount coming out from their pot depends on participation if donation is made during a "boost" window in this example, my $3500 could give a match of $20k to the project! instead of having matching funds in a QF round as a fixed variable ($200k b/w all projects!), they make the amount disbursed vary according to how much the community contributes: more participation, more matching funds 2. since they dont do sybil, their main flaw is that projects can simply borrow money, support themselves with it in the round, and then get free matching 3. they also haven't seriously tackled the eligibility question seriously, beyond it being up to campaign curators. if only good projects take part in a round, it doesnt matter if your exact allocation isn't perfect overall definitely worth checking out and getting your project to apply for a relevant category!

@NieceOfAnton @davidgasquez it may interest you

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For the past months I’ve been deep in research on how to measure the real ROI of onchain public goods funding. I’ve done it all independently, without sponsorship, because I truly believe we can build a more sustainable funding system in web3, and that allocating resources well can genuinely change the world. Now I’m looking for support to keep building this. I’ve submitted my research (Onchain ROI Lab) to the @FundingCommons Frontier Fund on Artizen. This weekend, contributions are matched 4x, so any support can go much further. Project: artizen.fund/index/p/onchai… Fund: artizen.fund/index/mf/fundi… If you care about making public goods funding more measurable and sustainable, I’d really appreciate the support, it can be money , it can be votes 🙏

@LucaTheNaiky @cryptoeconlab @Filecoin Wow, that is really cool Luca, congrats!

Yesterday at @cryptoeconlab we launched AutoCap on @Filecoin Mainnet 🚀 AutoCap is an automatic FIL+ allocator that distributes DataCap based on verifiable on-chain activity. Round 1 is now live. More staged rounds to follow. We’re excited to see AutoCap become a practical tool for Storage Providers operating on Filecoin. 🔗 filautocap.xyz 📝 cryptoeconlab.com/blog/autocap-d… #Filecoin #CryptoEconomics

Here’s the revised version with that added, keeping it natural and clear: --- Hey @sejal_rekhan, not sure if you have someone directly focused on measuring ROI of grant distribution, but if so, there’s a “data nerd” section in this piece with tips and best practices for applying causal analysis to onchain transaction data. Also, the first section that is on missing infrastructure and best practices, is useful for grant managers thinking about how to evaluate impact more robustly.

I’ve just wrapped up the first phase of my research on applying causal analysis to evaluate the impact of funding for onchain projects. I had already shared the main research post, now I’m publishing a follow-up with: • Gaps in infra & best practices that are holding back more robust grant impact evaluation • Key learnings from interviews + the research process • Practical tips for data folks applying causal methods in this context • All queries used to access the data + the full analysis notebook If you’re working with grants, public goods funding, or onchain data, would love your thoughts. github.com/stefi-says/onc…

@davidgasquez I would love your opinion on this.

Una gran persona y un proyecto muy importante y real.

@FundingCommons @AyaMiyagotchi @ethereum @ilblackdragon @NEARProtocol Wow, this is gold

Interested in learning from those shaping public goods infrastructure? 🌍🧱 Here’s a snapshot from our Open Conversations library: builders and leaders working across protocols, privacy, identity, AI, and climate. - @AyaMiyagotchi, @ethereum - @ilblackdragon, @NEARProtocol - @rjdrost, @eigenfoundation - @anke_g_liu, @StellarOrg - @hebbianloop, @humntech - @NanakNihal, @humntech - @JarrodBarnes, @NEARFoundation - @frankie, @nounsdao - @WillWheeler, @nounsdao - @RealInterchain, @LayerOnEth - @JakeHartnell, @LayerOnEth - @dsaezgil, @PachamaInc - @gonzaotc, @OpenZeppelin - @dwddao, @GainForestNow - @RRansil, Devonian - @asoltani, @AmazonHeadwater - @aza, @HumaneTech_ & @earthspecies - Chris Szymczak, @UNICEF - @lunarbyt, @Canarysafe Open Conversations is our short interview series on public goods infrastructure. Full library in the comments 👇

This is a project I saw a friend pour her heart into. So happy to see it go live. Congrats, and thank you for building what really matters ❤️

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@Bookof_Eth @VitalikButerin Kind of agree. But it looks like a matter of prioritization, no one or the other. What would this characteristic be mutually exclusive? Why dont we aim for both, but one then the other? We need to onboard people, making it hard does not look like a successful path

Ethereum was never meant to be comfortable. It was meant to be enduring. Not faster clicks. Not marginal yield. But a system that still works when power is unpopular, when platforms disappear, when permission is denied. Resilience over efficiency. Sovereignty over convenience. Verification over trust. This is why we build. This is why we endure the friction. This is why Ethereum matters. 📘 The Book remembers.

“Ethereum was not created to make finance efficient or apps convenient. It was created to set people free” This was an important - and controversial - line from the Trustless Manifesto ( trustlessness.eth.limo ), and it is worth revisiting it and better understanding what it means. “efficient” and “convenient” have the connotation of improving the average case, in situations where it’s already pretty good. Efficiency is about telling the world's best engineers to put their souls into reducing latency from 473 ms to 368ms, or increasing yields from 4.5% APY to 5.3% APY. Convenience is about people making one click instead of three, and reducing signup times from 1 min to 20 sec. These things can be good to do. But we must do them under the understanding that we will never be as good at this game as the Silicon Valley corporate players. And so the primary underlying game that Ethereum plays must be a different game. What is the game? Resilience. Resilience is the game where it’s not about 4.5% APY vs 5.3% APY - rather, it’s about minimizing the chance that you get -100% APY. Resilience is the game where if you become politically unpopular and get deplatformed, or if a the developers of your application go bankrupt or disappear, or if Cloudflare goes down, or if an internet cyberwar breaks out, your 2000ms latency continues to be 2000ms. Resilience is the game where anyone, anywhere in the world will be able to access the network and be a first-class participant. Resilience is sovereignty. Not sovereignty in the sense of lobbying to become a UN member state and shaking hands at Davos in two weeks, but sovereignty in the sense that people talk about "digital sovereignty" or "food sovereignty" - aggressively reducing your vulnerabilities to external dependencies that can be taken away from you on a whim. This is the sense in which the world computer can be sovereign, and in doing so make its users also sovereign. This baseline is what enables interdependence as equals, and not as vassals of corporate overlords thousands of kilometers away. This is the game that Ethereum is suited to win, and it delivers a type of value that, in our increasingly unstable world, a lot of people are going to need. The fundamental DNA of web2 consumer tech is not suited to resilience. The fundamental DNA of _finance_ often spends considerable effort on resilience, but it is a very partial form of resilience, good at solving for some types of risks but not others. Blockspace is abundant. Decentralized, permissionless and resilient blockspace is not. Ethereum must first and foremost be decentralized, permissionless and resilient block space - and then make that abundant.

@0xBitpulse hellooo. gm gm

Gm to the ones who GM back!🌅

@IoachimViju @sodofi_ I was wondering the same but I just wash my face and put on sunscreen. I will have to be a hell of concise while trying to tell a story... lol

@sodofi_ chat should i start doing vids while i do my makeup?

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I cant emphasize enough how great is to participate in an residency. The learnings are uncountable. Every residency is a pivot on how I see the world and what I envision for the future. @FundingCommons did a great job on curation and vibes In Buenos Aires. Excited to see what will come out of the next ones. If you have the chance, join the next one. Don’t hesitate.

Grateful to be selected for Octant Epoch 10. Proud to stand alongside projects we deeply respect—supporting public goods, privacy, and Ethereum’s long-term success. 💙

@GonnaEth 👀

Arg default on Feb 1st, noted.

@shutanaka_jp Got it , pretty interesting

@hey_stefi_ Thanks, Stefi! logic model maps the flow: activities → outputs → outcomes → impact. The tricky part is pinpointing those causal relationships and finding the right evidence for them. That's why we're building AI agents to help generate the model based on user intent

This is where MUSE, which I'm working on recently, comes in. You can illustrate logic model and claim hypercert on our frontend. dev.muse.beaconlabs.io/canvas