
Building, Ecosystem, Governance, & Rewards w/ James Waugh of Build DAO
03/15/24 • 64 min
On this episode of the Public Goods Podcast, we have James Waugh, a Build DAO Council member and a director at the NEAR Builders Cooperative. James discusses building community, his time at Enigma, NEAR Foundation, and as a crypto startup founder coming to the space. He also discusses the evolution of NEAR Digital Collective, importance of DAOs, and upcoming retroactive builders round on Potlock.
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
Follow James https://twitter.com/jwaup on Twitter and on near social https://james.near.social
Join NEAR Builders at https://nearbuilders.org and the telegram at https://nearbuilders.com/
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On this episode of the Public Goods Podcast, we have James Waugh, a Build DAO Council member and a director at the NEAR Builders Cooperative. James discusses building community, his time at Enigma, NEAR Foundation, and as a crypto startup founder coming to the space. He also discusses the evolution of NEAR Digital Collective, importance of DAOs, and upcoming retroactive builders round on Potlock.
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
Follow James https://twitter.com/jwaup on Twitter and on near social https://james.near.social
Join NEAR Builders at https://nearbuilders.org and the telegram at https://nearbuilders.com/
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Public Goods RSS https://publicgoods.fm/listen
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Today we are having the Co-Founder of Holonym ID, Nanak Nihal Khalsa https://holonym.id/ talking about Zk-proof, identity, sybil resistance, SSI, Gitcoin passport, NEAR Integration and more.
Nanak’s Twitter https://twitter.com/NanakNihal
Holonym Twitter https://twitter.com/0xholonym
Silk Wallet https://www.silk.sc/
Resources Vole in the Head Proofs https://www.espe.edu.ec/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/latincrypt2023_compressed.pdf
Nada.bot https://nada.bot Gitcoin Passport https://passport.gitcoin.co/
What are ZK Snarks https://z.cash/learn/what-are-zk-snarks/
Andrew Yang Lobby3 DAO https://www.lobby3.io/
What is MPC (Multi-party computation) https://www.fireblocks.com/what-is-mpc/
What is TEE (Trusted Execution Environment)? https://www.trustonic.com/technical-articles/what-is-a-trusted-execution-environment-tee/
SpruceID (California ID Use Case) https://spruceid.com/
FHE (Fully Homomorphic Encryption) https://www.ibm.com/topics/homomorphic-encryption#:~:text=Fully%20homomorphic%20encryption%20(FHE)%20is,without%20needing%20to%20decrypt%20it
JSON Web Token https://jwt.io/
SSI (Self Sovereign Identity) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sovereign_identity
Polygon ID https://polygonid.com/
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Bringing Web3 to the US Government w/ Shadman Hossain of CGI & LabsDAO
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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