Wow.

Thank you @vitalik.lens 🙏

Super honored for the shoutout of our DAO model, our Grants Program, and our Gitcoin Passport product as some of the “applications that are proving themselves already, and are only getting stronger”

(And overall, great read: vitalik.eth.limo/general/2022/12/05/excited.html))

Regarding your callout of Gitcoin Passport, we appreciate you noticing the intentionality behind our product design in being a “meta-aggregator” of identity solutions.

With Passport, devs don’t have to rely on just one type of proof of identity/reputation service.

Devs can ask potential users/members to verify that they have whatever combination of identity markers needed (e.g. Proof of Humanity, a set of POAPs, token balances) to be users/members.

We appreciate you recognizing the value we provide to these identity services + users.

We also love the callout that adopting a DAO structure can often be mismatched to goals of the organizers, and yet at the same time, there are instances where a DAO structure can be greatly additive to a mission.

Thank you for naming Gitcoin DAO as one of those examples.

We’re glad you mentioned that our DAO structure affords many benefits, including that it gives users confidence that it will still be around in five years, so that public goods funders can start projects now and hope to be rewarded later.



We want to last + build things that last.

Finally we agree with your call to action to build applications that might seem “stable and boring”—because it is these apps that will be most valuable for the web3 ecosystem and its citizens in the long term.

There’s nothing we’re more excited about building than Gitcoin Grants (and its decentralized future), and Gitcoin Passport.

In the future, it will be obvious that sybil defense + helping people fund their shared needs was one of the least boring things you could work on in web3.