Background

The second CLR round in Honduras was accomplished! We learned a few things from last year’s round and the Honduras community came out strong with the Public Goods Round 2023. This round had 10,000 DAI as a matching pool and was deployed on Arbitrum One.

Organized by Ethereum Tegucigalpa for the Ethereum Honduras community, this round was initially planned for the end of 2022 but we decided to move it forward to 2023 to have enough time to implement the new contracts created during the Devcon round.

Here are the highlights of the round:

• Added support to multiple languages to clr.fund frontend.

• Added Spanish translation to the clr.fund frontend.

• 10.87K DAI in overall funding.

• 18 projects applied and 11 were accepted in the round.

• 9 events were held for this round (5 of them physical in 3 cities and 4 of them online).

• 42 voters (last round 23).

• 4 local Ethereum communities participated (last round 2).

What is different about this round?

With the experience we had in previous rounds, we wanted to increase the impact of the round, and for that, we implemented new criteria for projects:

• Projects must be Public Goods.

• Applicants must know how to turn ETH / DAI into local currency.

• Projects must commit to sharing how the funds are spent and metrics of the impact of the funds.

• Projects must be 6+ months old and have a verifiable track record.

• Projects must comply with the Ethereum Honduras code of conduct.

While we value new ideas and projects, we understand that most new projects are destined to fail, we wanted to focus this round on those public goods projects that have an impact on our local communities and the new criteria focused on retroactive funding them.

Timeline

One of our goals was to increase community participation, for that we aimed to organize multiple events, physical and digital to increase awareness and teach people how to vote. We had the help of other local communities which organized these events and taught people how to vote.

Community Onboarding Activities

We had a kick-off for the Public Goods Round on X/Twitter Spaces with 63 listeners with the goal of reaching the Honduran community, we continued with the following actions:

• Created several posts and tutorials providing detailed information regarding the different stages of the round and how to participate.

• 5 in-person meetups in 3 cities.

• Another X Space to present projects, with 213 listeners and 8 projects presented.

• 3 project feedback sessions.

• Permanent one-on-one assessment of applicants in different aspects of their projects or application process.

• Continuous community leads communications during the round to better advertise and have a successful round.

Project Onboarding

This round had a different approach, by advertising public goods funding in Honduras not only for projects run by people already participating in the Ethereum Honduras community but also for others that already had some track record in doing social good.

The round received 18 applications, and 11 were approved because they showed some past experience in the activities they required funding. It wasn’t just an idea that was starting and that perhaps required more resources than what they could get from the round.

Here is a rundown of the project organizers:

For people who had no previous experience in blockchain or Web3, it was really key to be contacted by people they already knew and trusted to get them to participate. Once they came in contact with the Ethereum Honduras community through social media, X spaces, and meetups, and follow-up with one-on-one assessment was really helpful in their process of completing applications.

Result Analysis

Most of the projects had some kind of educational component, so for this analysis, we subcategorize them based on the type of impact they have. What’s more interesting is that opening to any public good further increased the diversity, including for the first time Animal Care and Climate Solutions projects.

Projects Evolution

Since the last round, only two applied with the same projects. Ethereum TGU and Powart to the people. Criptoliteral evolved into Ethereum La Ceiba, and Trad Defi into Zapper in Español. The rest of the projects were all new to the round.

It’s interesting to see how Powart to the people, a new project to the community in the last round continued to work and raised from the last place to the fourth one. Constancy is something that the community values a lot.

Another interesting metric is that Ethereum communities were the top-ranked, I expected this, as most of the onboarding and education about CLR, QF, and Ethereum comes from these communities, also the events were hosted by these communities, so until we are able to open voting to more people outside the ecosystem, I expect this to happen.

Just as in the previous round, only POAP holders of local Ethereum community events were able to vote, we wanted the Honduras community to distribute the funds. 97 addresses were enabled to vote from which 42 did vote a 43% voting participation. While this seems low, it’s almost a 2x increase from the last round-up from 23 voters.

Another important metric for us is the total contributions of 794.4 DAI were donated, up from 444 DAI.

Conclusions

• Having tech support and ongoing comms with the CLR team really makes the process go smoothly. We had several sessions as we went through the different motions of the round all the while considering the community requirements and times.

• Communities appreciate having innovations in the rounds because it gives them a chance to give feedback that is taken into account, learn more about using the CLR tools, onboard new members, and innovate their projects.

• It does take some conversations and reminders for the community to procure more sustainable or results-oriented projects. Particularly in funding opportunities that will not provide the total amount of resources for the project's objectives to be met. This round was advertised as a propeller to further support ongoing projects and a learning experience to apply for further funding within these innovative funding schemes for public goods.

• Procuring more result-based projects does require further follow-up on behalf of the round organizers. This phase is still ongoing so we will report how the experience turned out once the execution phase of the projects has been completed.

A special shout-out to the incredible support of the CLR.team, Vee, and Q, you guys rock! and of course to the community that supported the projects with a vote. See you in the next round 🫡 !