Berlin 2023
In-person / Sept 8-9
Paris 2023
In-person / July 15-16
This year, DeSci.Berlin and Funding the Commons join forces to host their next editions during Berlin Blockchain Week, set to unfold in the city's vibrant tech landscape on 8-9 September.
On the 8th, DeSci.Berlin takes center stage, orchestrating intensive workshops and insightful talks by key players in the field. Attendees will delve into the complexities of decentralized science, from innovative research funding avenues to the conceptualization of biotech DAOs.
On the 9th, Funding the Commons takes the reins, and will feature a unique emphasis on builders and interactive programming. In contrast to the storied academia of its Paris event, Berlin FTC will celebrate the hands-on spirit of creation and innovation.
This combined event will ignite the development of new partnerships, projects, and initiatives with each day providing a distinct platform to engage with the wider blockchain and decentralized science communities.
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Speakers
TO BE ANNOUNCED.
The call for speakers is open! Please complete an application to let us know you're interested in speaking at Funding the Commons: Berlin 2023.
Angela
Kreitenweis
Token Engineering Academy
Andrea
Leiter
Sovereign Nature Initiative
Anirudha
Bose
Brave
Beth
McCarthy
Curve Labs / Funding the Commons
Brenda
Loya
Tellor
Cem
Dagdelen
Curve Labs, Giza
Charlie
Durand
Extra Labs
Cheeky
Gorilla
Protocol Guild
CJ
Hetherington
Gigawatt Labs
David
Casey
Protocol Labs
Dawn
Drescher
AI Safety Impact Markets
Ela
Kagel
Supermarkt
Ele
Diakomichalis
Drips.Network
Erik
Bordeleau
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Feems
DAO Gov Collective & Workonchain
Garm
Lucassen
Glo Dollar
Hanna
Fiegenbaum
University of Leipzig/Ostrom Research & BLCK-IoT
Holke
Brammer
Hypercerts
Isabela
Fernandes
The Tor Project
Jeff
Pulver
Von
Jonas
Seiferth
Optimism
Julian
Zawistowski
Golem Foundation (Octant)
Kiba
Gateaux
Debt DAO
Laura
Lotti
Other Internet
Laura
NaMu
IEF/WAGMI LATAM
Lou
de Kerhuelvez
Foresight Europe
Madeleine
Parker
Newfoundation / Newlife / Newforum
Manu
Alzuru
Company
MarÃa Paula
Fernández
JPG
Nate
Gosselin
Gitcoin / Allo Protocol
Nadiem
Sissouno
Mento Labs
Nick
Houde
Other Internet
Noah
Yeh
da0
Oliver
Beige
Polycentric
Philipp
Pieper
Swarm
Philipp
Von Der Wippel
Project Together
Rafa
Folklore
René
Reinsberg
Celo
Romina
Bungert
Bila Hora Ventures
Sara
Johnstone
NuMundo / Funding the Commons
Shinya
Mori
Fracton Ventures
Sofia
Cossar
BlockchainGov
Stefi
Pereira
Open Data Community
Tara
Merk
Other Internet
Tony
Lai
CodeX Stanford Blockchain Group
Vivian
Chen
da0
Wassim
Alsindi
MIT Computational Law Journal
Yin
Aiwen
Commons·Art / ReUnion Network
Schedule
September 8, 2023
September 9, 2023
September 8, 2023
September 9, 2023
10:00 CEST / 8:00 UTC
Opening Talks on Main Stage
The winners of the first-ever Funding the Commons Fund Public Goods Virtual Hackathon will be announced.
David
Casey
Watch Session
10:30 CEST / 8:30 UTC
Funding the Commons Stage: Meet and Greet
The winners of the first-ever Funding the Commons Fund Public Goods Virtual Hackathon will be announced.
David
Casey
Watch Session
11:00 CEST / 9:00 UTC
Sovereign Infrastructures Workshop
30-minutes of structured discussion followed by a 30-minute roundtable.
Brenda
Loya
Dawn
Drescher
Laura
NaMu
Madeleine
Parker
Watch Session
12:00 CEST / 10:00 UTC
Fireside Chat with René Reinsberg and David Casey
The winners of the first-ever Funding the Commons Fund Public Goods Virtual Hackathon will be announced.
David
Casey
René
Reinsberg
Watch Session
12:30 CEST / 10:30 UTC
Civic Tech Panel
Seeing Plurality in Taiwan's Civic Tech Movement
Noah
Yeh
Vivian
Chen
Watch Session
14:00 CEST / 12:00 UTC
Mechanism Design Praxis
30-minutes of structured discussion followed by a 30-minute roundtable.
Charlie
Durand
CJ
Hetherington
Garm
Lucassen
Madeleine
Parker
Shinya
Mori
Stefi
Pereira
Watch Session
16:00 CEST / 14:00 UTC
Measuring Impact
30-minutes of structured discussion followed by a 30-minute roundtable.
Brenda
Loya
Ela
Kagel
Hanna
Fiegenbaum
Laura
NaMu
Watch Session
17:00 CEST / 15:00 UTC
Adaptive Cultural UI
30-minutes of structured discussion followed by a 30-minute roundtable.
Feems
Madeleine
Parker
Manu
Alzuru
Rafa
Yin
Aiwen
Watch Session
9:50 CEST / 7:50 UTC
Funding the Commons Builder Residency Update
Talk Description
Sara
Johnstone
Watch Session
10:10 CEST / 8:10 UTC
Retroactive Public Goods Funding: 2 Years In
I will share about Retroactive Public Goods Funding, what we learned in running 2 rounds of RetroPGF at Optimism, and what's next on our journey to summon Ether's Phoenix
Jonas
Seiferth
Watch Session
10:30 CEST / 8:30 UTC
Circumventing Censorship with Tor
Talk Description
Isabella
Fernandez
Watch Session
11:00 CEST / 9:00 UTC
New Types of Partnerships Between Civil Society and Governments through Open Social Innovation
Current societal challenges require new types of partnerships between politics, civil society and business. But effective collaboration is often hard to achieve. This talk will be about how multi- and cross-sectoral stakeholder collaboration can be orchestrated by sharing learnings from recent Open Social Innovation processes.
Phillip
Von Der Wippel
Watch Session
11:20 CEST / 9:20 UTC
Web3 Work: The Contributor’s Perspective
In this talk we’ll present the findings from our 6-month long research project of labor conditions in Web3 and DAOs, including insights from 38 DAO contributors representing >50 DAOs. We’ll discuss the present and futures of work through DAOs as they emerged from our ethnography and reflect on key challenges that organizations need to face to improve working conditions for contributors at the ecosystem-level.
Laura
Lotti
Nick
Houde
Tara
Merk
Watch Session
11:40 CEST / 9:40 UTC
Refunding the Commons?
In the course of his multi-year survey of applied cryptographic networks, Wassim has been reviewing efforts to use novel technological scaffolds to build organizations, institutions, and community infrastructure in the virtual realm. In this conversation, Beth McCarthy and Wassim will discuss case studies exploring the past, present, and possible futures of protocols, DAOs, public goods, decentralised communities, and the commons.
Beth
McCarthy
Wassim
Alsindi
Watch Session
12:00 CEST / 10:00 UTC
Infrastructuring Open Conspiracies
At the intersection of mechanism art, political philosophy and ecosystem design, we will share some perspectives on designing web3-based funding mechanisms for the arts. Our starting point: the artworld is a place where a myriad of partly (in)commensurable creative practices engage in complex and mostly opaque processes of mutual qualitative evaluations, financially and memetically extending between Staatskunst, (i.e. the art of writing grants), crowdfunding, and the hyperstitional swirls of the art market.
Cem
Dagdelen
Erik
Bordeleau
Watch Session
12:20 CEST / 10:20 UTC
Putting the "Design" in Mechanism Design: Tracing the Evolution of Economics as a Design Language
The digital world increasingly requires us to design "economic engines": computational abstractions that find optimal ways allocate resources. This talk traces the origins of "economic engineering" and delineates the directions in which economics has to evolve to become a design language, and conversely, how engineers can adopt economic concepts in their design work.
Oliver
Beige
Watch Session
12:40 CEST / 10:40 UTC
Dialing into the Future: Sustainable Funding & Value Synergy in Open Source
Explore the journey of Free World Dialup and how its open-source foundation paves the way for sustainable public good funding. Join Jeff Pulver as he dives into aligning stakeholder values to ensure the longevity and impact of open networks.
Jeff
Pulver
Watch Session
14:00 CEST / 14:10 UTC
Public Goods Hackathon Winners Announced
Talk Description
David
Casey
Orin
Ayodele
Watch Session
14:10 CEST / 12:10 UTC
Public Goods for Advancing the Field of Token Engineering
Talk Description
Angela
Kreitenweis
Watch Session
14:30 CEST / 12:30 UTC
Funding Ethereum's Core Protocol Work
The Protocol Guild enables a funding mechanism that can be used by Ethereum's ecosystem and community to help fund Ethereum's core protocol work, in a unique way that creates strong incentives to onboard and retain contributors over the long term. In this talk we'll cover learnings from our 1-year pilot, as well as our plans for the future.
Cheeky
Gorilla
Watch Session
14:50 CEST / 12:50 UTC
Open Source All Things
Open-source is a foundational aspect of public goods, and should not be an afterthought. In this talk, I'll share our experience of building Brave Wallet as a free and open-source project, and explore how open-source isn't just a buzzword but a key ingredient in making public goods fair and resilient.
Anirudha
Bose
Watch Session
15:10 CEST / 13:10 UTC
Unpaid Position: Building a Better and More Sustainable Future for Cultural Public Goods
Talk Description
Beth
McCarthy
MarÃa
Paula
Fernandez
Watch Session
15:30 CEST / 13:30 UTC
Interdependence, On-Chain Graphs & Public Goods
Talk Description
Ele
Diakomichalis
Watch Session
16:00 CEST / 14:00 UTC
Gitcoin's Allo Protocol: Empowering Communities to Invest in Their Future
Web3 has unlocked a new era of digitally connected communities. In order to thrive, these modern communities will need sophisticated tools for investing in their future. Come learn how we're creating a foundation for this new whole new category of coordination.
Nate
Gosselin
Watch Session
16:20 CEST / 14:20 UTC
Ecoweaving: Collective Action for the Eco-Commons
Ecoweaving is an initiative weaving people, projects, places, and worldviews in an emerging ecosystem of indigenous wisdom and innovation from intersections in finance, ecology, computational law, and beyond, with the goal of collective action and coordination around the crises in climate and ecological collapse. Join us to learn more about this extitution, gathering as individuals to attune our capacity to create change in consciousness and systems in resonance with our collective will.
Tony
Lai
Watch Session
16:40 CEST / 14:40 UTC
Introducing DEEP: A Pathway Toward Flipping the Economics of Ecology
At Sovereign Nature Initiative, we develop the Decentralised Ecological Economics Protocol (DEEP) with the goal of flipping the economics of ecology. Our approach facilitates the flow of value between ecological work and digital creativity, enabling sustainable validation of ecological efforts. By effectively integrating ecological work with the digital realm through processing eco-data, we not only generate value, but we also imbue digital assets with tangible and real-life significance.
Andrea
Leiter
Watch Session
17:00 CEST / 19:00 UTC
Making or Breaking the Stablecoin Market
The rise of stablecoins has presented a unique set of opportunities and challenges. Nadiem’s discussion will explore the important, yet often overlooked, role of intermediaries in the decentralized systems of stablecoin distribution, focusing on their impact on network architecture, market efficiency, and overall adoption.
Nadiem
Sissouno
Watch Session
17:20 CEST / 15:20 UTC
Octant and Beyond: Ideas for Regenerative Web3 Self-Funding
After a brief presentation of Octant I will discuss ideas how we can mobilize more regenerative funding for public goods with Octant-like designs.
Julian
Zawistowski
Watch Session
17:40 CEST / 15:40 UTC
From Hypercerts to Hyperboards: Advancing Modern Impact Funding Systems
Hypercerts, an implementation of the idea of impact certificates, are a new primitive for impact funding system. Hyperboards provide a new visualization and functionalities for collections of hypercerts. In his talk Holke demos how hyperboards advance the uses of hypercerts to power modern impact funding systems.
Holke
Brammer
Watch Session
11:00 CEST / 9:00 UTC
The Build Opportunity for Digitally Local Communities
DAOs are just the tip of the iceberg — we're about to see an explosion of digitally local communities that will need tooling to invest in their shared needs. Allo Protocol is designed to be a foundational resource allocation protocol, so that you can focus on building the products that will power the modern community.
Nate
Gosselin
Watch Session
11:25 CEST / 9:25 UTC
Unconference
The winners of the first-ever Funding the Commons Fund Public Goods Virtual Hackathon will be announced.
David
Casey
Watch Session
14:00 CEST / 12:00 UTC
New Sovereignties in a Networked World: Exploring the Emergence of Coordi-Nations
We observe that contemporary civilization is beginning to (re)structure around networks as an animating force for cooperation, alliance and mutual support; exhibiting nascent but growing patterns of constitutive sovereignty across all scales.
This workshop is an interactive exploration of these new networked sovereignties. In particular, we introduce the concept of Coordi-Nations, a new institutional structure that offers an innovative and collaborative approach to global cooperation and coordination.
We will critically examine why these entities are needed, how they may distinguish themselves from existing models of governance, and explore their potential structure and functionality. This workshop seeks not only to present a novel concept but to actively engage participants in the co-creation of this emerging paradigm.
Lou
de Kerhuelvez
Sofia
Cossar
Watch Session
16:00 CEST / 14:00 UTC
Unconference
The winners of the first-ever Funding the Commons Fund Public Goods Virtual Hackathon will be announced.
David
Casey
Watch Session
Builder Residency 2023
Discover the power of collaboration and innovation at the Funding the Commons Berlin Residency, a month-long, immersive experience designed for builders and hackers. This intensive in-person program will take place in the vibrant city of Berlin from 1-30 September 2023, and will focus on public goods funding infrastructure, impact evaluators, impact certification systems, and other elements of the public goods funding stack. Both Web2 and Web3 projects and builders are eligible and encouraged to participate in this transformative event.
The residency embodies our mission to foster the development of a sustainable decentralized funding ecosystem for public goods. Expect a bustling in-person hub for hackers, developers, and designers, engrossed in creating innovative solutions that advance the public goods funding ecosystem. The Berlin Residency is your chance to be part of an experiment in a purpose-driven community that drives change through applied technology and collaboration.
Whether you're an individual developer or part of a project team, if you are ready to contribute to and learn from this vibrant community we invite you to apply. We value open-source and expect the outputs of the residency to be accessible and usable by the wider community.
Let's Fund Your Next Project
Artizen and Funding the Commons have partnered to launch a 10 ETH Match Fund to support projects that promote, celebrate, and develop public goods in diverse fields such as art, science, technology, and startups. We seek visionary proposals that demonstrate a commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation in the public goods sphere.
Istanbul 2023
d:pact is a day summit at the heart of Istanbul during DevConnect, 15th of November, which covers Media, Impact and Regenerative Movements. The summit is co-organized by Merkezsiz, a dynamic web3 media organization in Turkey, and Paribu Hub, the ecosystem hub of cryptocurrency exchange Paribu. It's an immersive experience that goes beyond technical jargon, diving deep into complex technical concepts from a non-technical perspective. Funding the Commons joins d:pact and Regens Unite as a content partner, adding another layer and depth to the discussions.
This bustling metropolis is the perfect setting for a conference that delves into the realms of Media, Impact and Regenerative Movements. Its rich history, cultural diversity, and strategic location make it an ideal host for a gathering of forward-thinkers and changemakers. Istanbul's unique position as a bridge between continents symbolizes the very essence of d:pact - bridging gaps and connecting people. It's a melting pot of ideas, cultures, and perspectives, serving as a catalyst for stimulating discussions and forging meaningful connections. Istanbul's vibrant atmosphere fosters an environment where innovative approaches can thrive and drive positive change in our interconnected world.
At its core, the purpose of the d:pact summit is to explore pressing questions that define our rapidly evolving world. How does the media influence society? How can we enhance public goods? How can regenerative movements promote sustainability? How does governance shape communities? How does culture impact our identities? These questions serve as our compass, guiding us through fresh talks, workshops, and discussions.
In the heart of Istanbul, we invite you to embark on a journey of exploration. Together, we'll intensify our efforts to understand and harness the power of Web3's connectivity. It's not just a conference; it's a platform for collective sense-building and a celebration of the transformative potential that lies within our interconnected world.
Taipei 2023
Taipei is known as the land of digital democracy. Located in the center of Asia, Taipei presents itself with both traditional sceneries and Taipei is home to g0v, the civic tech community that plays a significant role in Taiwan’s digital democracy movement. Funding the Commons is working with da0, the web3 branch under g0v to create an one-and-only experience on public goods discussion.
During December 2023, Taipei becomes the global headquarters of the blockchain industry for one week, as it hosts Taipei Blockchain Week, the rising conference series that focuses on connecting Taiwan and global community.
As we set foot in Taipei, we will see a inspiring, innovative yet cultural environment that incubated strong public infrastructure, which creates a brand new dynamic for the 8th installment of Funding the Commons.
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