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**GreenPill**

GreenPill is about crypto-economic systems that create positive externalities for their neighbors & for the world.

We explore the intersection of programmable money, game theory, & mechanism design. We search for powerful new ways to fund, design, develop, & market regenerative web3-era applications and digital assets. We launch the meme of regenerative crypto-economics into the world.

Ethereum is the ultimate substrate for human coordination. Learn about the web3 builders who are solving coordination failures and creating a more regenerative infrastructure for the world using Ethereum.

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109 - Next Generation Quadratic Funding with Joel Miller Apr 27, 2023

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----- Are you ready for cluster mapping?

Joel Miller is preforming research at the intersection of computer/socials sciences and economics as a Computer Science PHD candidate at the University of Illinois Chicago. Together, along with co-authors Glen Weyl and Leon Richsen, has authored a paper in December 2022 that explores an array of pluralistic quadratic funding, collusion resistance, and incentivization across social differences entitled 'Beyond Collusion Resistance: Leveraging Social Information for Plural Funding and Voting'.

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0:00 Intro 2:13 Joel's Motivation 6:16 QF Optimal Assumptions 15:50 First Mechanism 19:06 Second and Solution Mechanism 28:14 Efficiency at Scale 32:45 Pluralism

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Joel Miller https://twitter.com/CS_Synthesist

Plural QF Github https://github.com/Jmiller4/plural-qf

Beyond Collusion Resistance: Leveraging Social Information for Plural Funding and Voting. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4311507

Plural Voting Tool https://pluralvote.radicalxchange.org/

Gitcoin Proposal https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/gcp-evolving-gitcoin-grants-the-q-e-d-quadratic-experimentation-and-development-program/14174

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----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research.

Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures

108 - Gitcoin Beta Round with Ben West, Michelle Ma, Nate Gosselin Apr 25, 2023

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----- The next Gitcoin Quadratic Funding round is here!

Starting on April 25th and going until May 9th, you'll be able to participate in funding your favorite upcoming ReFi and Green Pill projects and help democratize public goods. We're joined today by Nate Gosselin and Michelle Ma, Product Leads at Allo Protocol and Gitcoin, as well as lead trouble maker and Grants Program Lead Ben West to discuss what to expect with the upcoming round and dive deep on the subject of quadratic funding and the next chapter of public goods.

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0:00 Intro 3:07 The Grants Round 16:27 Grants Stack 26:17 Democratizing Quadratic Funding 32:12 Allo Protocol 38:42 High Level Gitcoin Reflections 44:31 Closing Thoughts

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Nate Gosselin https://twitter.com/heynate_g

Ben West https://twitter.com/BenWest

Michelle Ma https://twitter.com/musingsbymima

To contribute to current round: https://grants.gitcoin.co/ To run a QF round on your own (avail May 15): https://manager.gitcoin.co/ Grantee Portal: https://Link.Gitcoin.co/grantee

Join the Greenpill Discord: https://discord.gg/NDAzFSvJdx

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107 - Goldfinch with Co-Founders Mike Sall & Blake West Apr 21, 2023

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----- Is overcollateralization holding us back?

Today on Green Pill, Kevin is joined by the co-founders of Greenfinch, Mike Sall and Blake West, who set out to tackle the imbalances they saw in providing capital access to underserved communities globally by removing the largest financial barrier to entry. Goldfinch has served over 2 million people across 20 countries and is a decentralized DeFi lending protocol whose goal is to provide sound, undercollateralized loans that are backed and fully collateralized off-chain.

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------ Topics Covered:

0:00 Intro 1:52 Goldfinch Overview 5:12 Expanding Capital Access 12:55 Overcoming The Finance Stigma 19:35 Real World Sustainability 24:10 Don't Trust, Verify

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Mike Sall https://twitter.com/sall

Blake West https://twitter.com/_blakewest

Goldfinch https://goldfinch.finance/

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106 - Regens Unite with Xavier Damman and Leen Schelfhout Apr 18, 2023

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----- What does Regen and the ReFi movement mean to you?

Today, Kevin is joined by the co-founders of Regens Unite Xavier Damman and Leen Schelfhout. Regens Unite is a community that invites people from a wide range of sectors, backgrounds, and experiences to unite, learn together, and work on regenerative solutions for their communities and our collective environments.

Together, they have published the "Regens Unite Handbook: A Practical Guide for Regenerative Gatherings" and in our discussion today talk about what it means and the necessary steps to take to evolve the culture and to how to participate IRL.

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------ Topics Covered:

0:00 Intro 1:32 What is Regen's Unite? 7:50 Defining Regen 15:55 Regens IRL 22:00 ReFi's Identity 29:40 Maximum Success 35:46 Evolving the Culture 47:00 How to Contribute

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Xavier Damman https://twitter.com/xdamman

Leen Schelfout https://twitter.com/leen_schelfhout

Regens Unite https://www.regensunite.earth/ https://twitter.com/regensunite

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105 - Integral Currency Matrix with Stephanie Lepp Apr 14, 2023

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----- Polarization is becoming worse than ever, and the question is often is asked: is technology to blame?

In this thrilling discussion, we're joined by Stephanie Lepp - an award-winning producer and creator of Infinite Lunchbox, a production studio devoted to accelerating the evolution of culture in America. She's the former Executive Director at the Institute for Cultural Evolution, a non-profit think tank devoted to transcending polarization. Before that, she was the Executive Producer at the Center for Humane Technology, the organization at the heart of the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma.

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0:00 Intro 1:41 The Polarization Problem 11:02 What do? 12:06 Golemann's SLS Matrix 19:55 Golemann's Applied To Money 35:01 Rethinking Currency 41:11 Defining Multi-Polar Traps

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Stephanie Lepp https://twitter.com/stephlepp

Stephanie's DAO SLS Matrix Tweet https://twitter.com/stephlepp/status/1611243574011777024

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104 - Mapping Digital Tribes with Nadia Asparouhova Apr 11, 2023

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----- What's your digital tribe?

Todays guest is Nadia Asparouhova, who has been trying to understand techs growing social and political influence and researching what the new tech elite of tomorrow will look like. A former independent researcher at Protocol Labs, she was the 2nd employee at Substack, spent many years putting open source ideals into practice at Github, and she's the author of the book 'Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software'.

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0:00 Intro 0:57 Mapping Digital Worlds 7:35 Interpreting Tech's Influence 11:30 Capital Tribalization 19:15 Web3's Role 26:28 Network States 30:17 Lessons From A Changing Era

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Nadia Asparouhova https://nadia.xyz/ https://twitter.com/nayafia

Mapping Digital Worlds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvAyJImbEeA

Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software https://www.amazon.com/Working-Public-Making-Maintenance-Software/dp/B08KWR85F8/ref=sr_1_1

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103 - Celo 2.0 with Rene Reinsberg Apr 06, 2023

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Rene Reinsberg is a co-founder of Celo and currently President of the Celo Foundation. Celo's layer-1 blockchain is at the center of an ecosystem of technologies, organizations and individuals that all share a common mission of building a regenerative financial system that creates the conditions for prosperity for everyone.

In this episode, we cover Celo's position in the marketplace, funding public goods, and using crypto for regenerative economics.

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0:00 Intro 1:30 Celo 10:40 Proof of Impact 13:40 ReFi Summer 18:00 Use Cases 22:30 Talent and Capital 25:30 ReFi's Big Moment 29:13 The Post-FTX Landscape

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Rene Reisberg https://twitter.com/RegenRene

Celo https://celo.org/

Hyperstructures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7wSeSJqWsE

ReFi: Saving the World https://beincrypto.com/refi-saving-world-web3-easier-think/

Year of the Regen https://twitter.com/owocki/status/1594477266368483328

Great Crypto Reset https://www.cnbc.com/video/2023/01/18/wef-panel-discusses-the-great-crypto-reset.html

Celo 2.0 https://blog.celo.org/the-next-chapter-introducing-celo-2-0-by-clabs-b535db54a564

Branding Blockchains https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/a-new-approach-to-branding-blockchains

Climate Summit https://www.climatesummit.world/

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102 - Privacy Preserving Web3 Identity with Daniel Kelleher Apr 04, 2023

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Privacy! Identity! Positive sum games! All of these are on the agenda as we explore Civic. Join us as we discuss the frontier of decentralized identity and how positive sum games are intrinsically linked to a shared identity layer.

Daniel Kelleher is the VP of Engineering at Civic and has been asking himself what's the best way to roll out identity as we venture forth towards a more identity based web3. Together, we discuss what the future may look like as well as cover the history and the roots of Civic which allowed them to get there.

Tune in to learn how all of this relates to Solana, what Civic Pass is, what the platform looks like, and how to get started.

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0:00 Intro 4:02 Civic Me & Civic Pass Overview 9:27 The Future of Identity 15:32 Identity vs Reputation 19:21 Use Cases 25:35 Sybil Resistance 33:56 The Next Wave of Users 38:42 Decentralized Identity and Defense 43:51 Sunrise Stake & Regen Funding 48:02 Closing Out

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Daniel Kelleher https://twitter.com/danbkelleher

Civic https://www.civic.com/

Civic Me https://civic.me/

Sunrise Stake - Climate Positive Staking on Solana https://www.sunrisestake.com/

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101 - Building a Coordi-Nation with Primavera De Filippi Mar 30, 2023

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----- Have you heard of The Network State by Balaji Srinivasan? Do you agree with it's premise?

Today we're joined by Primavera De Filippi, a research fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and research director at the National Center of Scientific Research in Paris.

A long time researcher on blockchain technology, she is the director of the European-funded research project "Blockchaingov" and a co-host of the The Blockchain Socialist podcast series called "Overthrowing the Network State" in which provides an alternative narrative to the popular concept being put forth by Balaji.

Primavera joins Kevin today to explore the pros and cons of the Network State and discuss at a broad scale what we can do to organize alternatives.

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0:00 Intro 4:04 Overthrowing the Network State 10:13 Definitions and Vision 20:33 Exit vs Commons 26:33 Communations/Coordi-Nations 34:50 The Challenge 40:10 Success and Sovereignty 48:20 Plantoid

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Primavera De Filippi https://twitter.com/yaoeo

Overthrowing The Network State https://theblockchainsocialist.com/category/podcast/overthrowing-the-network-state/

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100 - Metacrisis.xyz with Stephen Reid Mar 29, 2023

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----- Will we achieve world peace through blockchain?

Stephen Reid is a facilitator, teacher, coach, and multi-faceted developer currently working closely with Supermodular and Kevin on the metacrisis.

Once a former board member of Greenpeace and the founder of The Psychedelic Society, Stephen has an extensive academic background and is avidly studying machine learning and AI at UC Berkeley. He shares with us the next frontier of blockchain use cases and the ramifications for humanity.

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0:00 Intro 5:27 The Metacrisis Recap 11:15 DAO Community Announcements 17:03 Daniel's Latest Prompts 25:55 Blockchains and Bioterrorism? 32:57 Proof of Nuclear Disarmament 42:37 Closing Thoughts

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Stephen Reid https://stephenreid.net/ https://twitter.com/lunarpunk_0x

Metacrisis DAO https://forum.metacrisis.xyz/

Previous Episodes in the Metacrisis Series with Daniel Schmachtenberger:

The Metacrisis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVEP0zAK-xQ

Superstructures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRohQKNNuM4

MetacrisisDAO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv_xBK_XZjw

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