This quarter the community efforts were focused on finishing activities that started in Q3 and preparing for 2024. We organized developer bootcamps, and educational meetups with universities, discussed the 2024 roadmap, and prepared a CLR round.

Highlights

• 1 Public Goods CLR Round.

• 11 Online Activities.

• 2 Developer Bootcamps.

• 8 Collaborations.

• 2 Discussion Forums.

• 2 Meetups.

New Year Edition: CLR Public Goods Funding

As this was our second round in a year it was fairly easier to deploy and we had to do less funding. This round was smaller than our previous round but we are particularly proud as this is our first self-funded community CLR Round. The heavy muscle was in November and December, and the first days of January to claim the funds.

Regarding the projects, most of the ones that participated in this round were part of previous rounds, a requirement for projects that participated in the past was that they needed to specify how the funds were used to be accepted, the distribution of projects was:

Public Goods Round X Spaces

We organized 2 X spaces, one to announce our Public Good Funding Round in an X space, where 79 tuned in.

And another space to talk with the participant projects and learn what they were up to with the funds of previous rounds. 68 tuned in.

Round Highlights:

• Faster Deploy time (~2 months).

• 5,549.5 DAI in overall funding.

• 9 Projects were accepted.

• 2 Online Events.

• 21 Voters.

Developer Bootcamps

In partnership with Scroll and Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana (UNITEC), we hosted two developer bootcamps for students focused on the basics of smart contract development using solidity and react. The bootcamps were hosted in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula.

The topics covered in the bootcamps were:

• Ethereum fundamentals.

• Wallets and how to create one with Metamask.

• Solidity Smart Contracts using Remix.

• How to create an ERC20 Token.

• Developers Tools.

• Scroll and L2s.

• How to bridge and deploy contracts in Scroll.

• Frontend Web3

ETH Latam

ETH Latam 2024 was officially confirmed for March 13-14 in the city of San Pedro Sula, the Honduran community has been working hard with ETH KIPU to host the event and welcome the international community.

Rumbo a ETH Latam

ETH Latam is co-created with multiple contributors of the Latam community, as Devcon Colombia paved the way with Road to Devcon, we wanted to invite the Latam community to be part of this celebration with our flavor named #RumboaETHLatam.

The first space was created in the ETH KIPU Discord to share with the global community what Honduras has to offer.

Another edition was organized on X and focused on the events happening in Central America within the #RumboaETHLatam framework, participating members of El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, Guatemala, and Costa Rica. 373 tuned in.

Collaborations

Aula Abierta: Ciclo Introductorio a Gobernanza

Aula Abierta (Open Class) was an introductory cycle of four talks focused on governance that started last quarter with an introduction to DAOs. Aula Abierta was created with the collaboration of Ethereum Honduras, Kleros, Layer2 en Español, Optimism en Español, and SEED Latam.

The topics covered in the remaining talks were:

• History of Politics and Lessons for DAO Governance.

• Active participation in Optimism Governance.

• Season 5 of the Optimism Governance.

The recording of all the talks can be seen here:

Orange is the New Green

The Ethereum SPS community was present at the event “Orange is the New Green” at the School of Art and Design of UNITEC to talk about NFT storytelling and a workshop for creating NFTs with students of creative careers.

Blockchain y Comercio Internacional: Un Nuevo Horizonte

The Ethereum SPS community gave a talk to students of International Commerce of the UNAH-CU. The students learned the basics of blockchain, Ethereum, and L2s and received a POAP for participating.

We ❤️ The Art

In collaboration with H.E.R DAO Latam, we hosted a talk to discuss We ❤️ The Art an on-chain art contest hosted by Optimism. In this space, we talked about what is Optimism and had two artists invited to talk about their art and their experience in the NFT space.

#aPRENDOcripto Honduras 2nd Edition

Powart To The People, a project led by Malcolncollaborated with Proof of Integrity to organize the second edition of #aPRENDOcripto in Honduras, a free educational program focused on personal finances and blockchain. It is conducted in person within vulnerable neighborhoods, offering participants personalized support from teachers and mentors to enhance the learning experience.

Other Community Activities

Forum for leaders of Ethereum communities in emerging markets

Devconnect is a week-long gathering of independent Ethereum events to learn, share, and make progress together.

The venue had an open space to have deep discussions, ETH KIPU hosted a forum for leaders of communities in emerging markets to discuss:

• How to build strong communities.

• Collaboration and innovation with other entities.

• Sustainability of communities.

We were proud to join the discussion with members from Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula participating.

Intro a ZkSync

Meetup in Tegucigalpa to learn the basics of zkSync, and zk rollups with an interactive session where participants did swaps and pools using DeFi protocols on the network hosted with zkSync en Español.

Hablando Starknet

Ethereum SPS hosted a Space with 0xNurstar and Nadai02010 to discuss everything about StarkNet. 91 tuned in.

Building Communities Around the World - Scroll Mainnet Launch

Scroll, a native zkEVM that has been running in testnet for a while, in October it was launched into mainnet, an achievement we as a community celebrate as we have two community members working at Scroll. There was a talk about building communities around the world with the participation of Juan that talked about Honduras.

Strategic Revision Session

As it’s becoming a common practice, at the end of the year contributors from Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula, and La Ceiba, gathered to discuss 2023, what could be improved, and what’s coming for 2024. To change a little, this session was organized in San Pedro Sula.

Some of the discussion topics we had:

• Meritocracy and Multisig tools.

• Improve the definition of Ethereum Honduras to outside audiences.

• A hacker house or community hub.

• The TGU roadmap for 2024.

• Integrations with EAS and Zupass.

• ETH Latam contributions.

Wrong Quarter 😅

In the last quarter, we included some activities that were really from this quarter:

• Meetup Chill (Tegucigalpa Meetup)

• How to Manage Toxic Behaviours Online (Article)

You can read about those activities in our past report:

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What’s Coming

We are excited that ETH Latam is going to be in Q1 2024, expect from us that a lot of efforts go toward the organization and hosting of the event. However, we will do some local community activities to prepare Hondurans who are interested in assisting ETH Latam.

Thanks again to all our partners who opened their doors to us and the EF Ecosystem Support Program for their trust. You can help us reach out to more people by sharing this post. If you want to contact us feel free to send us a message on Twitter @EthereumHN.