gov/acc. governance, grants, and occasionally other things @GolemFoundation @OctantApp @metagov_project
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Inspired by @VitalikButerin's d/acc work & the general trend of 'gov is dead so why bother' this year, I want to introduce gov/acc
gov/acc is an open research program focused on outlining the problems we're facing in web3, as a starting point for accelerating gov R&D
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The London AO Summit lineup just got bigger 🧵
Speakers from @GoogleDeepMind, @BritishProgress, @ARIA_research, @nyushanghai, @protocollabs on the law, security, economics and governance of autonomous organizations.
Nov 5–6, co-hosted with ARIA's Scaling Trust programme 🌟
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Epoch 13 Closing Livestream xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1jGXgBrmD…
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Introducing: our new website
Everything Octant in one place now: octant.build
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Changing times ➡️ exciting questions for the future of public goods funding
💬@dwddao during today's stream with @sejal_rekhan from @protocollabs & @OctantApp's @bbeats1
Watch back the full conversation on the 2026 Metafunding Grants here: xitter.cf/OctantApp/status/20893…
Inside the 2026 Metafunding Grants xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1qKVmyvgL…
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The 2026 MetaFunding grant results are in, and we're here to chat all about it.
Join @protocollabs' @dwddao & @sejal_rekhan and @OctantApp's @bbeats1 live today at 12:00 PM ET for a deep dive into this year's winners and the research they're doing on AI for public goods.
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This year‘s Devcon in Mumbai 🇮🇳 will, amongst others, feature a track on 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬, 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞.
Please consider submitting, and please encourage others who can share case studies of digital rights delivery in precarious contexts especially.
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At the same time, this was one of the hardest and most exciting essays I’ve ever written
I’m so honored to have been able to co-author it with such giants in the space @DrNickA @spengrah @bbeats1 @joshuaztan @trent_vanepps
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@metagov_project is presenting on the @ENS_DAO retro and the future of #DAOs at 11:30 on July 30th. @ethereuminsti @owocki @bbeats1 @arbitrum @raphbaph @OptimismGov @DAOstar_One
🚨 Super excited for the agenda of this year's SBC DAO Workshop - the speaker lineup is stacked!
When: July 30
Where: Stanford
Theme: Farewell to DAOs
Spots are still open (but limited!)
Register to attend here (and bring your hottest DAO takes): luma.com/28l6e18l
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New article on @hackernoon featuring our Octant ZK-verifications and the architecture we built for our latest funding round, Epoch 12.
"In June this stopped being theoretical for public goods funding. Octant ran its Epoch 12 quadratic funding round on exactly this architecture and closed it on June 30, crossing $9 million in cumulative funding to nonprofits and public goods projects in the process. The tally for the round's 25 grantees was accepted by a verifying contract before payouts opened. I do blockchain data analysis for a living, so instead of taking the announcement at face value, I went through the artifacts. Fifteen blobs on Ethereum mainnet, one Groth16 proof on the Succinct explorer, and a set of contracts that either accept the math or revert. This piece walks through how the pipeline works, what the proof covers, and where trust still lives."
hackernoon.com/how-proper-zk…
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Workshops on day 2, co-curated by @bbeats1, @eliza_oak, @Jamilya_eth and myself:
I: How Might Al Reshape Governance
II: The Future of the Firm and Trends in Organizational Governance
III: Future of DPI/OSS in a World of Network Nations
IV: The Future of DAOs
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For the first time in years, I'm a free agent
Now I'm looking for what's next. These are the problems I'm most drawn to:
→ Enabling both humans and AIs to coordinate across trust boundaries
→ Ensuring humans can trust the AI agents they rely on (alignment)
→ Getting DAOs to actually work (yes really!)
→ Creating the new societal institutions our era needs
→ Making Ethereum the credibly neutral foundation the world actually runs on
What I bring:
⋅Protocol & systems engineering
⋅Mechanism design
⋅Agentic engineering
⋅First-principles thinking
⋅Product sense & tech/business strategy
⋅Forward-deployed engineering
I'm open to the right role — full-time, advisory, or fractional, at a funded startup or a larger org.
If you're working on any of this, or something else you think I'd be into, I'd love to talk. My DMs are open.
(Referrals and signal-boosts welcome 🙏)
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We're proud to be supporting Ethlabs in their mission of making Ethereum the global settlement layer.
Announcing Ethlabs: a non-profit R&D lab for Ethereum and ETH
Our mission is to make Ethereum the settlement layer of the global economy.
The internet became global because shared protocols created a common language between networks. Private systems remained useful, but bounded. Finance is approaching a similar moment. As value, assets, and markets become digital, the world needs shared settlement infrastructure.
Ethereum is uniquely positioned to become that shared base layer, the neutral foundation on which users, institutions, and agents can transact without intermediation.
What we believe:
• We believe credible neutrality matters. Ten years of uptime and the lowest counterparty risk. Ground that cannot be pulled away by any one country, institution, company, or person.
• We believe ETH matters. The most valuable, programmable store of value. A decade of broad distribution, deep liquidity in onchain markets, and maximally trustless asset on Ethereum.
• We believe DeFi matters. Markets, liquidity, credit, exchange, and coordination, open to anyone.
• We believe adoption matters. Principles do not change the world until people benefit from them.
We sit between two worlds: real usage from the builders at the frontier, and the protocol that has to support it. We work with users, applications, wallets, L2s, infrastructure teams, institutions, ETH holders, core devs and researchers, then turn what they actually need into protocol work, shared standards, infrastructure, and shipped products.
Ethlabs is independent but Ethereum is a shared project. We are one node in a much larger network of stewards. This is the multi-node future.
We have spent the better part of the past decade contributing to Ethereum core research and development.
We are opinionated and transparent. We move with urgency, learn in public, and course-correct when we’re wrong.
We are building a lean, talent-dense team for people who want to do the most important work of their careers: [email protected]
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Our new governance report is live.
We gave six communities money, total freedom, and an AI that could spend it for them, then watched how they chose to govern.
A field study in AI-assisted governance, with @protocollabs @GainForestNow @OctantApp @hypercerts 👇
