MetaCamp, an unconference event organized by members of MetaCartel key players of the DAO ecosystem, hosted in Costa Rica. The event has taken a $30,000 DAI Community-Backed Credit Line on Debt DAO to finance event production in the 3 months leading up to it. Interestingly, the lender was another MetaCartel community members willing to put up a 0% interest rate even though there are no tokens put up as collateral. Instead the lender is being paid with perks at the MetaCamp event in Costa Rica and in my capacity as the event organizer, aka Yalor.eth, iv’e tied the debt to my public ENS thereby backing it with my personal reputation within the MetaCartel and broader Ethereum community.

It feels like such a long time ago that I was stumbling around Dapps and DAO tooling, exploring topics I barely understood, and fighting my way through the feeling of imposter syndrome that inevitably comes from being “new to crypto”. I remember picking up bartending shifts and dreaming of working from my laptop full-time.