In times of mass hysteria, we can find refuge in the words of great people who came before.

"Do not be ashamed of help. Accept it as it is offered, and give thanks for it.” — Marcus Aurelius

At Lighthouse, we are grateful to be encouraged and supported by forward-thinking organisations, and we would like to acknowledge some of the recent programs and campaigns we have participated in.

RnDAO <> Arbitrum CollabTech Hackathon — Signals 📡

In a hackathon that attracted 160 builders from all around the world, we were pleased to take first place 🥇 with Signals, a brand new protocol we have been discussing internally for some time. We’ll talk more about this in a subsequent post.

For now have a quick look at our demo presented by James.

The hackathon ran for a month, and the team put in extra hours to bring our idea to life and get some real-world feedback with industry leaders.

CollabTech (as the spiritual successor to “DAO tooling“) is gaining momentum, with even Vitalik making reference to it in his recent talk at Devcon.

We are excited to share more on this in the coming weeks.

Here be… Unicorns??

Hot on our win, we turned to the community to share our results with potential collaborators to find further support in the development of this protocol.

The conversations are still ongoing, and if you are interested in participating please reach out, but one development we can share is that we are excited to be joining the January Cohort of the Uniswap Hook Incubator.

If you are wondering what Uniswap Hooks have to do with governance, keep your eyes peeled for a future update.

Gitcoin #GG22

Gitcoin is primarily known for its efforts for supporting Open Source Software (“OSS“) and has recently broadened its messaging to Fund what matters.

Given our native governance client is a public good, we were pleased to be accepted in both categories we applied to: “Web3 Infra & Apps“ and “dApps and Apps“. However, we could only choose one category (sorry reviewers) so given what we have delivered so far, “dApps and Apps“ it was. For more on what we are doing on the infrastructure side, make sure you are subscribed to this blog where we will expand on this in a future update.

Our inaugural round was a learning experience in how to position ourselves in Web3, but the real takeaway was learning about the diverse set of builders out there, pushing to create a better future. When the round closed we had ~70 people who extended their support via a donation. THANK YOU! Believe me, as bootstrapped builders…

• View our Gitcoin builder profile

• Read the GG22 impact report

• Shoutout to the Grow/regen community for hosting all the shill spaces on X.

Optimism #retrofunding

Retro funding is Optimism's premier grants program where projects are rewarded based on the belief that Impact equals Profit. Having developed and launched our native governance client over the evaluation period, we were ecstatic to finally be accepted and recognised as a forward-looking project. This again was an awesome morale boost for the team, and a step forward in increasing awareness for the product.

For retro-funding six, Arnold (1a35e1.eth) was also selected as a guest voter and had the opportunity to see how things work as a reviewer. (Of course, we removed ourselves from scoring where there was a conflict of interest)

If you would like to catch up on how the collective is currently thinking about allocating capital, we highly recommend you check out these threads:

The collective is a testament to continuous iteration, reflection and improvement. We are excited to continue to drive impact and support the Superchain, and are looking forward to seeing the outcome of this round.

• Shoutout to Dan and Rosmari from OptimismFractal for giving projects a space to highlight their work.

• Shoutout to all the Guest Voters and Reviewers in Round 6

• View accepted projects in Round Six

SAFE DAO - OBRA progress

We have also been making leaps and bounds in getting SAFE multisigs to work on mobile wallets with Snapshot- and Governor-based systems. Tiny peek here. This will be an industry first once it’s ready.

If you vote in Snapshot or Governor communities using a SAFE and would like to be one of the first people to have access to this tech — please reach out.

Fin.

The future of on-chain governance is exciting, and we’re just getting started. Let’s build it together! If you want your DAO to join the Lighthouse platform, reach out to us at hello@lighthouse.cx.

Stay tuned — there’s so much more to come. 🌐 ✨

If you are still reading, check out Arnold’s recent article about the future of network economies.