We hit up Curitiba for the “Blockchain Weekend” at the end of September and jumped into three great events. We dove into governance, grants, and reputation, plus we ran an interesting ENS Workshop. It was the perfect opportunity to share insights with the enthusiastic web3 community in Curitiba. Here's a glimpse of how it all went down:
Let's talk about Trustful
On Friday night, we got the chance to speak at an event hosted by the Brazilian ambassadors of the Stellar network. We started things off by giving a simple overview of blockchain. Since it was an onboarding event, and some people were new to the tech, we wanted to make sure everyone was on the same page.
Later on, we dove back into governance and introduced Trustful as a great use case. Trustful is all about collecting data to build trust and reputation in our privacy-driven world. The product helps to create a database within an ecosystem, tracking everything a “wallet” has achieved—like how much it has contributed, engaged, and added value. Therefore, each DAO or ecosystem can decide how they are going to use that information.
Right now, we’re deploying a version of Trustful on Stellar, and we got to show off a bit of how it works in real-time.
ENS Workshop - at a pub!
The next day, we headed back to the same bar from Friday—yep, we can totally run a workshop on Ethereum and its services in a pub! The goal of the Blockchain Weekend was to deliver quality blockchain content in laid-back settings, so we could connect more with the participants—and have fun doing what we love.
So, back to the workshop; it was a sunny Saturday, and Alex and Lucas were all set to lead the ENS session. They started from scratch, covering everything from an introduction to Ethereum concepts, its addresses, and comparisons between DNS and ENS, all the way to contract architecture and buying an ENS domain on the testnet.
We’d already presented this in other cities, and it was awesome to bring it to Curitiba. During the happy hour after the presentation, we exchanged more project ideas with the participants.
Governance, grants and how to make it better
To wrap up the weekend on a high note, we headed to a board game shop on Sunday! It might sound a bit odd, but governance and grants have a lot in common with board games. You need strategies, coordination, and communication because things can fall apart if someone isn't on the same page.
In a partnership between Trustful (by Blockful) and the Cartographers Syndicate, we hosted this event to cover a few grants-related topics. Alex and Novak did a brilliant overview of how governance works within DAOs with various examples and introduced what grants are all about.
The downside of grants is that, without a standard model, each ecosystem creates its grant opportunities in its own way, which can be confusing and often frustrating for applicants. But that's the problem Cartographers aim to solve. Dani explained how the group seeks to improve this funding system by bringing together experts to collaborate, share ideas, and promote innovation, creating records, encouraging research, and testing new methods.
With that in mind, we also organized a group activity to brainstorm solutions for the biggest challenges in the grant system. And here's the kicker: the winning team walked away with an extra 20 USD in their wallet.
Pretty cool for a Sunday afternoon, don't you think?
We were really happy to spend these days in Curitiba and to hang out with everyone who participated in the events. We exchanged a lot of ideas—and even had some open-source contributions to the ENS project, which is incredibly valuable for the entire community. We're very grateful for that!
Thank you to everyone who joined us these days, and we hope to be part of more events soon!