If artifacts have politics and we want to use artifacts to bring about change, we must first embrace the underlying politics necessary for transformation.

Possibly for the first time in the history of humankind, a group of individuals with a shared interest have the collective power to transparently institutionalize and autonomously operate a mission irrespective of where they pay their taxes or what they do for a living. The theoretical potential of Web3, however, hinges on having interoperable digital rails and the lego blocks to facilitate this transformation in ways that are resilient and sustainable. In this article, we will review the Gitcoin community’s role in persistently pushing for progress to solve high quality problems to enable this transformation.

The motivations for a decentralized social network have roots in the restrictions laid by contemporary platforms on what users and developers can do to build a healthy ecosystem. For a detailed analysis of these motivations and resulting architecture choices, the essay "Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks" by Varun Srinivasan is a good starting point. The following wish list is inspired based on what an open protocol for a sufficiently decentralized social network, like Farcaster, can enable for users.

Impact DAOs are communities with positive externalities rooted in collective action for a shared cause³. They amplify their impact by stacking on each other and derive compounding effects from the mutual collaboration to build a regenerative economy.

While most chatter on Web3 is stuck on speculative tokens and NFTs, there is a confluence of programmable money, game theory, and mechanism design taking shape to thrive public goods.

The following proposal won the most votes in the Open Community Track for the strategy to transform Codeless Conduct into a DAO

The following is a thought experiment to explore how Open Collective can Exit to Community. The goal here is to “transition from a privately owned company to a structure that allows us to share power and revenue” with its community comprising of employees, Fiscal Hosts, Collectives, funders, investors, and individual contributors.

For centuries now, we have been designing our social, industrial, and political institutions with a "control-first" mindset. Web 3.0 provides the protocols, infrastructure, and tools for "transparency-first" organizations and communities. There has never been a better time to re-imagine efforts to bring change at scale with and for those affected.

Every generation has a seminal fight or two that define its years of existence. The memorable ones include people joining hands for the greater good in spite of individual sacrifices. The most memorable ones are rooted in defending the lines for equity and justice.