Octant

A massive online coordination game in the making - a mash-up of an educational, social and freelancing platform and an MMO-RPG, using Web3 to build a new game of life and stick it to Moloch. We are DAOists and Regens; producing content, organizing events & building a platform for people who want to work in Web3, build things and make an impact: * Teaching people about the true potential and good uses of Web3 * Helping people join the space as builders rather than degens * Connecting builders…

The Tor Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Our mission is to advance human rights and freedoms by creating and deploying free and open source anonymity and privacy technologies, supporting their unrestricted availability and use, and furthering their scientific and popular understanding. We develop free and open source software for privacy and freedom online, protecting people from tracking, surveillance, and censorship—the Tor network and Tor Browser. The Tor network is a decentralized privacy…

BrightID is an alternative to nation-state and biometric identities that allows anyone in the world to access public goods fairly as a unique individual by connecting to people they already know in an anonymous social graph. BrightID is built for privacy. No personal information or biometrics are stored on servers, blockchains or registries. It doesn’t share personal information (even the BrightID identifier itself) with applications–only anonymous verifications. BrightID enables universal…

OnionDAO has been incentivizing people to run Tor exit nodes since April 2022. Currently, we do so by giving out POAPs, which caused us to attract enough people to run about 10% of Tor exit nodes. The Tor network provides a secure and anonymous way to connect to the internet. It is designed to defeat censorship and to make privacy accessible. Many of us have a background in Ethereum staking. We are philosophically aligned with the Tor network, but we operate independently from the Tor…

Glo Dollar ($USDGLO) is a fiat-backed stablecoin created to lift people out of extreme poverty. Like other fiat-backed stablecoins, USDGLO is minted when (and only when) an equivalent amount of USD is deposited into the reserve. Unlike other stablecoins, the Glo Dollar’s creator, Glo Foundation, donates all of its earnings from the reserve to GiveDirectly, an NGO that makes basic income payments in developing countries. Through the adoption of a stablecoin, we seek to create a sustainable…

PublicHAUS serves as the governing framework of the [DAOhaus](https://daohaus.club/) ecosystem and protocol, fostering a collaborative space where DAOhaus contributors, supporters, and enthusiasts converge to propel the DAOhaus vision forward. Its essence lies in employing decentralized digital coordination, facilitated by Moloch DAO contracts and the DAOhaus SDK, to manage the framework collectively as we navigate towards a decentralized, autonomous future. The initiative is underpinned by…

The Hypercerts Foundation pioneers open-source protocols to transparently fund and reward positive impact. Hypercerts are the web3 standard for account for impactful work, tracking financial and non-financial contributions. As an extension of ERC 1155 semi-fungible tokens, hypercerts create a single, open, shared, and decentralized database for funding mechanisms. This database avoids the creation of new funding silos, as hypercerts can be integrated into any existing funding platform, thereby…

Praise is a community intelligence system that promotes active participation and collaboration through peer recognition and rewards. We help communities become more intelligent, productive and inclusive by providing a simple way for community members to acknowledge, praise and reward each other’s contributions. Praise has been tried and tested over several years and proven to be a useful tool for community building. We, the team have been working with the new version of Praise for the past 2…

The Protocol Guild is a collective of Ethereum's [active core protocol contributors](https://protocol-guild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/9-membership.html#member-list), who have a high-impact track record of both research and implementation work related to cryptography, distributed systems and cryptoeconomic protocol design. These individuals are focused not only on maintaining Ethereum and the EVM as it exists today, but also on researching and implementing cutting-edge advancements,…

Gitcoin creates solutions that empower communities to fund, build, and protect what matters. Through Gitcoin Grants Program, they've distributed over $50m to early stage builders championing projects across DeFi, climate, open source and beyond. Their core products include Gitcoin Grants Stack, our end-to-end grants solution, Allo Protocol, our open-source funding protocol, and Gitcoin Passport, our decentralized identity management tool. The Gitcoin Grants Program is a quarterly initiative…

EthStaker is a 50,000+ person community made up of stakers and whose mission is to support the decentralization of the Beaconchain. To further this goal, they encourage users to solo stake whenever feasible and lend their support to projects that streamline the solo staking user experience. However, they are cognizant of the reality that solo staking might not always be possible due to various technical and financial barriers. In addressing this issue, EthStaker seeks to educate the broader…

Drips is a new protocol (and app), built on Ethereum, that enables organizations and individuals to directly and publicly provide funding to the free and open-source software projects they depend on the most. Drips also includes gas-optimized and integrated primitives for streaming and splitting tokens, allowing users and web3 apps to stream and split funds by the second with continuous settlement for use cases like contributor payments, vesting and subscription memberships. At the core of…