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We are building out the social infrastructure for a participatory and permissionless PDX DAO. 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", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Research, Tool Curation, Advocacy, Education/Onboarding, Community Engagement, Bioregional Federation Building, Interregional and Global Collaboration. Regarding collaborative infrastructure, we consider ourselves working on almost all of the above options.", "hidden": false, "question": "How would you classify the types of activities this grant will fund?", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Public facing document reflecting on early research and community engagement for the Open Protocol Research Group.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please describe the first milestone within your project which you hope to achieve with the funding from this grant round?", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "This will take the form of a mirror article that can be submitted to any facilitators. 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", "hidden": false, "question": "(Optional) Please describe the third milestone within your project which you hope to achieve with the funding from this grant round?", "questionId": 17}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Video and photo documentation, review and reflections on the successes and failures of the event and materials (fliers, powerpoints etc) related to the event will be made open source.", "hidden": false, "question": "(Optional) How can this third milestone be verified?", "questionId": 18}], "project": {"id": "0x7e2f8282fb470955338fe9e0545ad1fa935164e6409d09eb52bee74bb4532b82", "title": "Ethereal Forest", "logoImg": "bafkreia4mrahw3xniozpdlzs3lcn7glt2bdai5ohpnvgjk33zwdh6o5gkm", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreigr5zjz2xsyqmutz53nvxvkztjfcorzp5ykkdeatogrwxwtuafwxq", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://etherealforest.org/", "bannerImg": "bafkreiecsuuvfwazeo3mkvqxjirngj3v3q7xazhoilobhq635c7g2hpqli", "createdAt": 1713135217466, "credentials": {"twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..UR3bk9msr7rjB7-9-rZS0CCdtjLQDX5eImoYuIOTwqja7jp0peB7qpyfkGTmp44DSYwXdX4OQhkamL-OTcfVDg", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2024-04-14T22:21:00.169Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2024-04-14T22:21:00.169Z", "expirationDate": "2024-07-13T22:21:00.169Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0xC9d20533c5b8a79526377e5d05dC79b87B28E92F", "hash": "v0.0.0:ZPp1JF125xTk/3VsJus24FrKgKa8RkZuY85GK6qvw9k=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#EthForestDAO"}}}, "description": "As noted in our [previous application](https://checker.gitcoin.co/public/project/show/ethereal-forest-is-building-pdx-dao-as-a-public-good), the goal of Ethereal Forest is to generate the conditions for a participatory city DAO with pluralistic inputs from diverse elements in the city - a federated \u201cDAO of DAOs\u201d to be known as PDX DAO. For reasons outlined in that document - in particular, lack of adoption, technological capacity and understanding of the more radical aspects of the web3 use case - the work of generating these conditions is a fairly ambitious task that requires multiple approaches. We outlined the four following strategies for completing this task as follows:\n\n***Research***: Investigating and identifying the areas of greatest potential for creative implementation of the blockchain, p2p, and open protocol toolkit for substantive benefit to the city, with an eye toward the thriving of extra-institutional p2p-style systems.\n\n***Curating Tools***: Developing in tangent with that community-oriented research a library of blockchain and p2p tools and implementation strategies that will aid non-coercive coordination institutions in the city. This means using our research experience to find specific implementation opportunities, and connecting with builders and protocols that want the benefit of practically oriented public trials to better understand and improve their own projects.\n\n***Engaging Community***: Further building our relationships and networks with the artists, makers, organizers, producers and builders who make up the city, with the eventual goal of scaling horizontally into many on-chain organizations that will take equal footing with Ethereal Forest in the participatory structure of PDX DAO.\n\n***Interregional and Global Collaboration***: Making available our research and processes to projects and protocols that may benefit from the strategic contingency of the local; developing institutions of ILLness (Intercity Localist Library) and OOPs (Observed Operating Protocols) in order to protocolize and share our knowledge sets.\n\n**Progress**\n\nAn element of Ethereal Forest has formalized a ***Research*** plan and begun early work for our **Open Protocol Research Group**, an investigation into informal social protocols that animate artistic and mutual aid substrates of cities, how they differ from the traditional array of resource-legible institutions, and how DAOs and other p2p tools can be used to help them \u201cbootstrap\u201d mutual legibility between them and exotic resource gathering systems. Our goal is to explore how Portland\u2019s informal systems are expanding the Overton Window of institutional possibility, and how the crypto world can aid those systems, but this process begins with a series of interviews with members of the same communities in town that we hope will become the substrate for PDX DAO.  Read the [OPRG proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CyDTski397G3fuC7IXpDFAtRrJazfk8q4fbW8mGiLpk/edit)].\n\nA further effort has been developed by some of the same members to explore and consolidate the rich field of public goods funding to make them accessible and legible to impact publics, some of whom overlap with the publics explored by OPRG. This effort, called Hyperactive Public Goods [**Ecosystem Support Machine**](https://hackmd.io/lC4YmCGqRZaDH-fYInQ51g) (ESM), is beyond the strict scope of Ethereal Forest, but attests to the creative directions and collaborations that Ethereal Forest has instigated in the months since our 2023 GFEL conference. Given its project of curation and education for laypeople that are passionate about decentralization, direct democracy and impact but aren\u2019t interested in technical knowledge, we see the ESM as a natural extension of our project of ***Curating Tools*** and ***Engaging Community***.\n\n**Fun DAO**\n\nOver the course of the past year and a half, members of Ethereal Forest have helped steward the longstanding monthly ETHPDX meetup, where new folks interested in crypto (ranging from veterans to total novices) show up on a continual basis. The feedback we were hearing from many newcomers was that they wanted to participate in DAO activities, even though many of them didn\u2019t yet have a self-custody wallet or any knowledge of L2s or voting mechanisms. With Fun DAO, we took this as a great opportunity to forward our goal of ***Curating Tools*** and ***Engaging Community*** while also generating ***Research*** and feedback that could enrich the builder ecosystem. \n\n**Fun DAO** operates under simple guidelines: each month, we decide on an outing using a different DAO voting tool. If there are issues reaching quorum, onboarding new members, or if the vote fails for other reasons, we use that as an opportunity to explain bugs and pitfalls around voting processes. When it does succeed, we get to build community while also providing in-depth onboarding not only to DAOs but to new resources for democratic consensus building (often even our crypto veterans are using the tools for the first time). Our outings have included an art gallery and an arcade space, and we\u2019ve used tools including Jokerace, Pairwise and Snapshot. We are actively instigating the building of DAOHaus and Optimism composable Conviction Voting tool, bringing global consequence to our local coordination efforts. Read about [Fun DAO](https://etherealforest.org/blog/2024-01-30-build-your-own-fun-dao/) on the Ethereal Forest blog.\n\n![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFwzI33bYAAJefS?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)\n\nCorollary to Fun DAO is our [Local Onboarding Hours](https://x.com/EthForestDAO/status/1757187703056257074), which fall each month on the Tuesday following ETHPDX. In it we offer guidance generating a self-custody wallet, onboarding to L2s like Optimism and Arbitrum and broad context around the Ethereum thesis and the mechanisms of legitimacy in the network (a common question is how proof of stake works).\n\nWhile Fun DAO was generated within our own Ethereum and DAO oriented community as we build it out, we\u2019ve also spent a great deal of energy engaging non-crypto native communities on their own terms. Foremost of this is Portland\u2019s regenerative agriculture scene. We developed connections with this world in the context of our [warehouse community space](https://opencollective.com/bridgespacecommonspdx) and have built enough trust over the last year to successfully onboard community members to the value of DAOs and legibility within the broader decentralized web ecosystem. \n\nEthereal Forest has also helped instantiate Portland\u2019s **ReFi DAO Local Node**, providing the PDX DAO network with another channel of ***Interregional Collaboration*** on the regenerative cultural front. This element of PDX DAO has and will continue to be a powerful area of ***Community Engagement***. Also on  the regenerative front, we have provided resources to  local permaculture educators to onboard them to GG20's Climate Solutions Community Round.\n\nFinally, as an expression of our task of evangelizing the localist use case and the power of the urban center as a laboratory for analogue anticapture technologies that can compose with and aid the web3 toolkit, Ethereal Forest gathered and delivered [Inverted City](https://x.com/honestly_rich/status/1763822587216334927), a collaborative journal of Ethereum localism with contributors from across the space. Read [The Inverted City](https://v2.akord.com/public/vaults/active/7Bqji4Mz0QBoAm1bRtoCxcVdVPp0xrZ0yW7yWfccnuM/gallery#1a6444ce-d8ed-4382-bd5d-d3d2cad1913a) here.\n\n![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GILiyb5agAAja3P?format=jpg&name=large)\n\nOur other efforts at ***Interregional and Global Collaboration*** include the (not insubstantial) feat of building our [website](https://etherealforest.org), [newsletter](https://paragraph.xyz/@etherealforest/bulletin-1-the-ethereal-newsletter-begins), [blog](https://etherealforest.org/blog/) and [Ministry of Propaganda](https://etherealforest.org/mop/) efforts. With this infrastructure in place, we expect to make even more progress on every aspect of our cosmolocal project as the Spring moves forward. Not least of these is our early planning to coordinate **Local DAO Summer** - a global, multi-week series of talks and conversations around the question of local use cases for DAOs. This will be a frantically collaborative effort - join the [planning conversation](https://t.me/+AdlTHFhgNVszZTcx) (telegram invite) here if you\u2019re interested. \n", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "ethforestDAO"}, "recipient": "0xE0fBc583bbc90fD3529833817A03604e136C010C"}}