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Rebuilding the Matriarchy: Funding Female Founders is a panel discussion that brings together leading voices in the web3 ecosystem to explore the challenges and opportunities for women in the industry. The panel will be moderated by Valerie Song, co-founder of F3, an organization that connects female founders with female investors in the web3 ecosystem. Joining her on the panel are Sydney Lai of Magic Labs and Cynthia Huang of DTravel.

The panel will delve into the current funding state for female-led ventures in web3 and the systemic barriers preventing women from accessing capital. The discussion will also explore innovative solutions and strategies for increasing the participation and representation of women in the industry, including using blockchain technology to create new financial instruments and utilities for liberation. The panel will also discuss the importance of creating a culture of equity, empowerment, care, trust, inclusion, growth, and responsibility in the web3 ecosystem.

This panel is not just about discussing the problem but also about sharing the stories and the strategies of the panelists and the organization they lead, who are actively working towards solving this problem and creating a more inclusive and equitable future in web3. Join us as we hear from these leading voices in the industry and learn about their groundbreaking work to break down barriers and support female founders in the web3 ecosystem.

Lauren Luz (Product Lead, Giveth)

Product Lead & GIV economy Steward at Giveth. Passionate about using web3 tools to create regenerative systems around creating public goods.

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete” Buckminster Fuller

The world today is driven by capitalism. There is exceptional innovation in the private goods sector because the creation of scarce goods and services is controlled by market feedback.

Without the opportunity to use market feedback, public goods lack effective coordination and funding mechanisms. The sector is dominated mainly by governments (funded by taxes) and nonprofits (funded by donations).

DAOs provide an opportunity to build new systems where public goods can be created from the “bottom-up” with end-user input and cooperative community engagement, and abundant, non-excludable value can be created with a global impact.

Impact DAOs benefit from decentralized governance, regenerative funding mechanisms, and a diverse stakeholder group and have the potential to change the world for the better.

Kelvin Fichter (Benevolent Chaos Monkey and The Optimism Collective), Kames Geraghty (District Labs), Masha Healy
(Co-Founder / Grants Lead, and Impact Cards / Celo Foundation), Evin McMullen (CEO & Co-Founder Disco.xyz )

We used to live in a world where the only input to an individual’s reputation and identity was their word. After all, “A man is only as good as his word.”

Now we face the opposite problem: too many inputs from too many unverified sources. It’s less about your word and whatever words an algorithm places on top of a search field.

At its core, Web3 can take promises made with words and verify them with actions, putting your wallet address where your mouth is. But how should this information be visualized? How do we unify a user’s identity, protect their privacy, and verify sources contributing to this identity? How do we take work out of silos and collaborate? What does reputation look like in this new ecosystem?

Disco is creating data backpacks for off-chain credentials. Optimism has started widely adopting on-chain NFT quests, and impact cards are measuring impact on and off-chain, and so on. As more projects try to represent the multifaceted actions and build the Web3 persona, let’s ask some tough questions about what this should look like, existing projects philosophies on web3 identity, and, more importantly, where should this information live on-chain, off-chain, and both?

EthDenver attendees are the stewards of identity and reputation now and what it will look like in the future. The ideas shared in this panel will spread into the work that builders are doing and become a point of consideration for users. How will this project contribute to building the Web3 persona, how do you want to be represented in Web3, and do you agree with this approach? An individual chooses their words and their actions, but it’s up to us to find a way for them to relay this to the broader Web3 ecosystem accurately. “

Katie Talati (Director of Research, Arca) talks about what comes next for Defi?
A discussion on the challenges to further adoption of Defi, such as regulation, technology, and the existence of incumbents.

Martin Köppelmann (leading contributor at the GnosisDAO). The Ethereum ecosystem is currently focused on a rollup-centric approach. This presentation discusses the limitations and tradeoffs concerning decentralization and credible neutrality. We are comparing the hierarchical roll-up approach to the tradeoffs of approaches with a flatter hierarchy.

The Premiere of short films (5 mins each) on DAOs and chat with the filmmakers and subjects.
Series of 6 short documentaries/ historical artifacts on early crypto communities. Some of the subjects will be at ETH Denver! A couple of the subjects are Snax and Ameen! The filmmakers will also be at ETH Denver. Join us for the premiere of the short films, plus a discussion and Q&A with the people involved.

A panel discussion at ETH Denver 20230 finding local solutions to global problems.

• What impact means and why building for impact is so important
• Modes of making an impact, philosophies of change, and how to apply them to your project
• Existing and upcoming novel mechanisms for building impact projects in web3
• The relevance of DAOs, in particular to the impact of landscape

Guests:
Shuya Gong (Interaction Designer, Chaotic Goods)
Scott Moore (Co-Founder, Gitcoin)
Daniel Hwang (Shuya)
Amreen P (UNICEF)
Christopher Krohn (Blockchain x Climate)

Jasper Driessens (Co-founder, Glo Foundation)

• 650 million people live in extreme poverty. Basic income programs can fix this, but require money.
• Money now comes from donations, but there’s not enough donations in the world.
• Introducing Glo, a new stablecoin that helps end extreme poverty by redirecting 100% of revenue to basic income programs.
• Extreme poverty is the worst kind of poverty and is defined as living with under $2.15/day.

650 million people currently live in extreme poverty. The good news is there is a relatively simple solution: giving them basic incomes. This has been done on small scales and generally works well. The bad news is that to give everyone in extreme poverty a basic income, we’d need ~$311 billion per year. Currently, these basic incomes are funded by charitable donations. But that won’t cut it: total overseas giving, private and public, from all countries combined is $243 billion per year. So even if 100% of that were directed to basic incomes (highly unlikely), it’s not enough.

Can we find other sources of money to lift people out of extreme poverty?

Can we fund basic incomes without depending on donations?

Introducing Glo (USDGLO), the stablecoin that reduces extreme poverty. Exactly like other stablecoins we invest our assets under management in US Government Bonds: T-Bills. Still, unlike other stablecoins we redirect 100% of the proceeds of those T-Bills to basic income programs for people in extreme poverty. Currently, stablecoin issuers make 4.2% interest on their assets. With a $60 billion+ market cap, Tether is making $2 billion annually in interest. That’s enough to lift over 4 million people out of extreme poverty. All you need to do is switch to a different stablecoin. Oh, and more thing: transfers in USDGLO dollars are 10% cheaper than the competition due to smart-contract optimization.

Diana Chen (Founder Rehash) talks about experimenting with DAOs. Specifically, DAOs that use NFTs to govern and/or gate their community. She shows examples from podcasts like Rehash and Mint, which have both released podcast NFTs for purchase, as well as up-and-coming DAO communities that have experimented with some novel ideas over the last year, such as Rehash and Newt (Aave). She also highlights both the successes and failures of these experiments and shares an analysis of why certain experiments have succeeded while others have failed. The talk concludes with an actionable game plan that DAO contributors can follow if they’re interested in experimenting with their NFT-driven DAO.

This is an important topic to include at ETH Denver 2023 because there is no better time than a bear market to experiment. Everything is low(er) stakes, which makes it less scary and disastrous to experiment and fail. This is the best time for us to try new things and learn from our wins and losses so that when the next bull market comes around, the DAOs and communities that make it until then will have such a stronger foundation than a newer community that got its start in the bull market.