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Carl Cervone ☕️
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Carl Cervone ☕️
@carl_cervone
data enthusiast • working on @osobserver • prev: @hypercerts @protocollabs @gitcoin @ycombinator enveritas
- You can be pro-crypto and agree that: -99% of tokens have ponzi dynamics -99% of projects have no utility -99% of hodlers only care about number go up (and probably also agree that public goods are good)
- every single library for javascript developers that applied for @Optimism retropgf received funding every. single. one. to the tune of ~$10M (2.8M OP) total these are projects w/o VC funding, tokens, SaaS fees, etc web2 doesn't fund its dependencies - the new internet does.
- Somehow in web3 it feels like all your former lives, passion projects and fleeting interests are suddenly relevant again
- Just finished a long write-up on RetroPGF3 results. Some insights on what this round favored: - Open > closed source - Offchain > onchain impact - Developer libraries > end user applications - Peanut butter > power law distributions - Small > big teams
- just finished my second @gitcoin shopping spree: 52 grants, mostly DeSci, Climate, ETH Infra. Will make a few more trips this GR15!
- Web3 climate projects, platforms, and creators _-_ /~~ ~~\ /~~ ~~\ \ _- -_ / ~ \\ // ~ | | | | // \\ ---------------- A green 🧵
- blockchains are coordination tech, not fintech (though they are also quite useful for fintech)
- if crypto becomes a social and political movement, it can change the world if it remains a financial movement, it won’t even change finance
- crypto has created a substrate for funding "long tail public goods" on an internet-wide scale short tail public goods are the things we all recognize as valuable. they deserve and often get the lion's share of funding. but every short tail public good started out on the long
- in the long run, i think @gitcoin's biggest impact will be the connective tissue it's creating: not just between projects & funders, but also among projects and people who share the same north star ...
- Regen reading list: - Braiding Sweetgrass - The Gift - Godol Escher & Bach - Greenpilled - Impact Networks - Meditations on Moloch - Overstory - Reinventing Organizations What else?
- @KlimaDAO treasury exceeds 14M tons of CO2. That's more than the annual emissions of 119 countries - incl. Lithuania, Tanzania, Paraguay. Pretty remarkable progress in 3 months.
