
Bringing Web3 to the US Government w/ Shadman Hossain of CGI & LabsDAO
03/19/24 • 55 min
On this episode of the Public Goods Podcast, we have Shadman Hossain, Manager of Emerging Technology at CGI & Founder of Labs DAO. Shadman discusses his onboarding into blockchain, journey as a startup founder, building blockchain solutions for government, transitioning from private to public blockchains, and a vision for a “United States of DAOs”.
Shadman on Github https://github.com/shadmoney and LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/shadman-hossain/
About CGI https://www.cgi.com/en
Labs DAO Github https://github.com/labsdao
Labs DAO Anacostia https://github.com/LabsDAO/Anacostia-blockchain
Labs DAO First Community Call https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/r/eventedit/copy/NGprdGZvYjlmYjBqaXV0dXFrMGdhczF2ZGMgaG9zc2FpbmNhcGl0YWxAbQ/aG9zc2FpbmNhcGl0YWxAZ21haWwuY29t
Resources Mentioned
- State of Wyoming DAO LLC Laws https://sos.wyo.gov/Business/Docs/DAOs_FAQs.pdf
- Request FInance https://www.request.finance/
- Snapshot https://snapshot.org/
- Collab Land https://www.collab.land/
- Zama (Full Homomorphic Encryption) https://www.zama.ai/
- Solana Private Transactions “Confidential Transfers” https://www.theblock.co/post/255200/solana-under-the-radar-update-native-privacy-spl-tokens
- Network States by Balaji https://thenetworkstate.com/
- Zuzalu https://zuzalu.city/
- ATX DAO https://www.atxdao.com/
- Drips Network https://drips.network/
- Moon DAO https://www.moondao.com/
- Open Source Observer https://www.opensource.observer/
- Hyperledger https://www.hyperledger.org/
- What is DePIN? https://cointelegraph.com/explained/decentralized-physical-infrastructure-network-depin-explained
- Clave ZK Sync Wallet https://twitter.com/getclave
- What are paymasters? https://www.stackup.sh/blog/what-are-paymasters
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On this episode of the Public Goods Podcast, we have Shadman Hossain, Manager of Emerging Technology at CGI & Founder of Labs DAO. Shadman discusses his onboarding into blockchain, journey as a startup founder, building blockchain solutions for government, transitioning from private to public blockchains, and a vision for a “United States of DAOs”.
Shadman on Github https://github.com/shadmoney and LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/shadman-hossain/
About CGI https://www.cgi.com/en
Labs DAO Github https://github.com/labsdao
Labs DAO Anacostia https://github.com/LabsDAO/Anacostia-blockchain
Labs DAO First Community Call https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/r/eventedit/copy/NGprdGZvYjlmYjBqaXV0dXFrMGdhczF2ZGMgaG9zc2FpbmNhcGl0YWxAbQ/aG9zc2FpbmNhcGl0YWxAZ21haWwuY29t
Resources Mentioned
- State of Wyoming DAO LLC Laws https://sos.wyo.gov/Business/Docs/DAOs_FAQs.pdf
- Request FInance https://www.request.finance/
- Snapshot https://snapshot.org/
- Collab Land https://www.collab.land/
- Zama (Full Homomorphic Encryption) https://www.zama.ai/
- Solana Private Transactions “Confidential Transfers” https://www.theblock.co/post/255200/solana-under-the-radar-update-native-privacy-spl-tokens
- Network States by Balaji https://thenetworkstate.com/
- Zuzalu https://zuzalu.city/
- ATX DAO https://www.atxdao.com/
- Drips Network https://drips.network/
- Moon DAO https://www.moondao.com/
- Open Source Observer https://www.opensource.observer/
- Hyperledger https://www.hyperledger.org/
- What is DePIN? https://cointelegraph.com/explained/decentralized-physical-infrastructure-network-depin-explained
- Clave ZK Sync Wallet https://twitter.com/getclave
- What are paymasters? https://www.stackup.sh/blog/what-are-paymasters
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Retroactive Builders Round https://bos.potlock.org/?tab=pot&potId=build.v1.potfactory.potlock.near
About the round https://blog.potlock.org/retroactive-funding-round-for-near-builders-83a6934979d9
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Snax Twitter
Pizza DAO Discord https://discord.com/invite/PizzaDAO
Organize your own global pizza https://parties.pizzadao.xyz/
Rare Pizzas https://www.rarepizzas.com/ https://twitter.com/RarePizzas
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- Nouns Vision Glasses https://opensea.io/collection/nouns-vision-glasses?tab=items
- College DAO https://collegedao.io/
- Colored Coins https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Colored_Coins
- BluntDAO https://bluntdao.org
- GroundsDAO https://groundsdao.wtf/
- Bored and Hungry Brand https://justboredandhungry.com/
- Solana Pay https://solanapay.com/
- SuperFluid Streaming https://www.superfluid.finance/
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Public Goods Podcast - Bringing Web3 to the US Government w/ Shadman Hossain of CGI & LabsDAO
Transcript
Hello, everybody. Welcome to another edition of the Public Goods Podcast. Today we have Shadman Hossain which is not only one of my friends in this space, but like a big brother to me of blockchain. We've done a lot of Web3 things together. And this is a very interesting and unique perspective as opposed to other episodes. Before we've had people building funding mechanisms, people building DAOs. And honestly, it's a little bit about an intersection of a lot of these
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