If you've been keeping up with our socials, you know we've had a packed week. We hosted #SnapshotSpaces where we got to know some of the builders and projects that are part of Epoch 5's Snapshot Vote.
💡 Grants innovation, decentralized hacker news, crypto advocacy, 3.4 million library downloads per month, bridge hacks, running Tor exit nodes, bringing transparency to the space, bringing genz to web3 (or "Gen Z depending on where you live on the internet), pizza faucet, onchain communities, public repo for CC0 assets, p2p verifiable computing network, governance by prediction markets, immersion in education, cypherpunk use cases. We spoke about it all.
And for good reason too– we've hit a new record with 42 fantastic projects participating in this Snapshot Vote. We know that's a LOT, so we've done our best to give you a glimpse of each project.
➡️ Read on for a one-liner on each project. Click on the links if you want an in-depth look into what they're building and their plans for fund usage. This time we've introduced milestone reporting. Accountability, transparency, and deeper insights updates from our epoch cohorts. Yay for more informed decision-making! 🥳
💚 The top 15 projects make it to the Epoch 5 (E5) Allocation Window. Your vote will make a difference, and will be the deciding factor in the projects making the cut.
Reminder: voting ends at 23:59 UTC on September 1st.
🔐 NetSepio democratizes cybersecurity with dVPN and dWiFi, utilizing DePIN.
🌐 Blockscout is an open source block explorer built for everyone.
🌱 Impact Garden by Metrics Garden Labs is a protocol dedicated to generating onchain impact data to enhance funding decisions for public goods.
📚 Metagov is a research nonprofit improving our understanding of governance in digital spaces.
🛠️ Greenpill Dev Guild connects regen builders to build impact, capital allocation, and coordination tools for Greenpill Chapters.
🚀 Poster.fun allows users to create memes and publish as collectibles natively on farcaster.
🌟 Abundance Protocol is creating a self-sustainable mechanism for funding all public goods.
🦫 Ethers.js is a simple, compact and complete JavaScript library for all your Ethereum needs.
#️⃣ Hashi is an oracle aggregator that provides additive security and future proofing to the cross-chain ecosystem.
🥩 Aestus MEV Relay is a community non censoring MEV Boost relay.
🌱 Regens Unite is bridging the gaps between the broad range of sectors working on regenerative solutions, connecting expertise with innovation.
🎙 Doots Podcast is the EVMavericks' weekly podcast and is a community-driven livestream, focused on collaborative web3 education.
🎮 Chainsafe Gaming is a suite of tools enabling video game developers to integrate web3 with ease.
💻 Lodestar is an Ethereum consensus client that helps secure the Ethereum blockchain.
🥝 Kiwi News is the Crypto Hacker News providing high-signal news, essays & products for builders. Built on top of a P2P protocol.
🧅 OnionDAO streams rewards to Tor exit node operators based on their performance.
🌐 MASQ Network offers borderless browsing through a web3-enabled ecosystem.
🍕 PizzaDAO is bringing the world onchain with a Global Pizza Party.
🥧📏 growthepie.xyz helps users see what's going on in the Layer 2 space and helps you navigate different chains.
⛓️⚖️ EUCI (European Crypto Initiative) is a non-profit advocacy organisation based in Brussels, which acts on behalf of Web3 organisations to negotiate a better regulatory outcome.
📚 Mechanism Institute is the go-to library for onchain mechanism designers.
☂️ DAO Drops is working on open source tools for decentralized communities.
👩🏻🚀 Dream DAO is training GenZ on how to use web3.
🏰 BuidlGuidl is a curated group of builders focused on nourishing the Ethereum ecosystem through open-source tools and educational content.
🌐 Synpress empowers developers to build high-quality, secure dApps by simplifying end-to-end testing for Web3 applications.
🛡️ Passport XYZ (aka Gitcoin Passport) enables unique humans to participate, fairly, across web3.
🦇 Wholesum network is working towards decentralization of ETH L2 sequencers via parallel proving on weak computers.
🧑🏽💻 B<>rder/ess Developers Programme is raising web3 developers from the University communities in Africa.
🐙 MetaGame is a massive online coordination game in the making.
🐍 Vyper is a contract-oriented, pythonic programming language that targets Ethereum Virtual Machines (EVMs).
🟢 NiceNode helps people run a node at home easily.
🔒 Trustful allows users to easily bring their on-chain attestations in a useful format and allows for attestation scores custom for each community or use case.
🦦🔎🪨 Otterscan is an opensource, local first, block explorer meant primarily to be run against your own node.
💧 Unitap is building a smooth experience to onboard people into web3 & to empower newbies to go from zero to one in their crypto journey.
🚀 2077 Collective is a community focused on promoting Ethereum and its ecosystem and accelerating its adoption in the real world.
🦋 DeSciLATAM is making DeSci accessible in Spanish and Portuguese by organizing events, producing educational content, and collaborating with universities and research centers.
🦙 DefiLlama is tracking defi metrics of 4k protocols.
🌄 EcoSynthesisX's flagship initiatives include an NFT collection and an Impact Marketplace, designed to highlight and reward positive contributions through their Impact Onchain Rank system.
😎 Dappnode is your self-sovereignty operating system.
🌱 1Hive Gardens is helping communities and projects in the real world coordinate and allocate resources more efficiently and with minimal administrative overhead.
💛 Gravity DAO aims to be a point of reference for web3 projects and individuals in the world, to improve conflict management skills and bring about trust.
🤝 LottoPGF allows public goods to incentivise their funding and donations through lotteries.
