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perfect thank you hi everyone for all of
those of you joining for the designing a
reround uh Workshop please we're going
to ask you
to seat according to who which group you
belong to so the exercise that we're
going to be doing in this Workshop is
I'm not sure how many of you are
familiar with retro rounds retroactive
funding
rounds yes I see some hands going up um
if you're part of an ecosystem like you
are a protocol or you want to design
around to
incentivize uh growth or different
things in an ecosystem we're going to
ask you to please sit on the left side
of this area uh everyone please try to
to come over to the middle if you are
looking to design around for a community
say you're a local community and what
you're trying to incentivize is growth
or different goals within your local uh
geographically local community or
community of a different type uh we're
we're going to ask you to see on the
right side and this is because we're
going to be making right uh you're right
so here
yeah yeah perfect so communities over
here ecosystems on this side uh and this
is because we're going to have breakout
groups so this is going to be a very
Hands-On Workshop you'll be working or
collaborating with two or three other
people that are here to go through the
process of Designing a reer
around and it's best if you are sitting
or partnered with those that are on the
same wavelength of who your audiences
are going to be what are the type of
values or behaviors that you want to
incentivize so that is why please
ecosystems to the left and communities
to the right
it's your
right yeah ecosystems is on the on the
left which is your left so if you're I'm
sorry I think oh that's some more so
ecosystems to the left and communities
to the
right do you want
about perfect we're going to be handing
out some posted notes so that it's
easier for you to uh brainstorm uh usual
uh advice from workshops one idea per
posted note is going to make it a lot
easier for you all to know what to do
with these different
ideas
and okay
commun is
here to the
right
and I think this will also come clear
and happy to go over any questions
around seating when we get to the
breakout
groups
perfect so before diving right into it
how many of you know what retroactive
funding rounds are can
I Boop poop there we go yes yes um can I
get a hands up from those of you that
know what a Reacher round is if not
because I'm just going to walk through
it perfect so one of the reasons why
we've been experimenting with Reacher
around as of late is the fact that it is
meant to be easier than running a
proactive grants programs right in a
proactive grants programs program what
you're trying to do basically is predict
the future you're trying to understand
if people are going to do what they say
and promise that they are going to do
you're trying to predict if this is
still going to be relevant to your
ecosystem or to your community by the
time it is done
and you're trying to assess as well if
the team that is doing it is going to be
capable of doing it so basically we're
trying to fulfill the role of a VC when
we're not VCS when we don't have that
information when we don't have the tools
that VCS
have and this is why or through this
logic this other mechanism came up and
vitalic uh came up with it or right
about it not came up with it but right
about it and the most relevant thing
here is that in reach rounds we expect
that it's easier to agree on what was
useful rather than trying to predict
what is going to be
useful and so retroactive rounds are a
funding
mechanism um you might have heard them
as retroactive rounds which is the
latest re branding that optimism has
given to this funding mechanism but
previously and I think it's more widely
known as Reacher bgf retroactive public
goods funding
rounds and in this is a funding
mechanism that has two sides of it the
first one is we have a results Oracle
this results Oracle can be a group of
people it can be a smart contract but
right now all of the forms in which
we've seen it have been groups of groups
of people that reward projects that they
recognize as having had and as having
already provided value either to an
ecosystem or to a
community however we know that the
design of this Oracle is actually a
complicated thing so what we've seen as
well and what is expected of these
retroactive rounds is that we have them
running over over and over again because
we're experimenting with the design of
these rounds which is also what we're
going to be exploring today in this
Workshop we're not expecting to have the
best design from the get-go we know that
we're going to learn and get closer to
this best design in an iterative way
we're going to be trying out different
hypothesis we're going to be trying out
different variables we will be engaging
different audiences and through that
process we expect to get to a better
outcome of how these allocations are
done and uh I will mention that reactive
funding is not a new thing this is not
something that was invented in the web 3
space we actually have institutions that
have been running these type of funding
rounds for really long times and maybe
I'm not sure who knows what this is but
this is the Nobel price or like the
Insignia that is given as a Nobel price
and the Nobel Prize is one of the best
examples of a retroactive funding
program people that are granted Nobel
prizes have been are people that have
done research usually like decades ago
and it's until it has been proven that
this research has been really meaningful
to society that they get awarded a cash
prize and a lot of other things that
come with being a noble
laate um but this is the it's a similar
experiment that we running with
retroactive rounds in which we're
looking at what has done what has
yielded a very valuable contribution to
an ecosystem or to a community and we
want to reward that because we want to
incentivize more people to have this
type of behaviors of contributing to the
communities or to the
ecosystems so one of the things that I
suggest for all of those thinking of
running retroactive rounds is this is an
eter process and it takes time it is um
resource intensive so don't try to run
it's not going to be perfect at the
first time it's going to require several
iterations and you will need to take
your time and going through this
process
okay so this is a mechanism that was
made Popular by optimism optimism has
run already six rounds we are currently
or we just closed I think one day ago
the latest sixth round um optimism for
those of you that don't know it is an L2
that has committed to this funding model
from inception from the moment in which
optimism minted its token they decided
that the fees generate and its model
they decided that the fees generated by
the sequencer were going to be directed
to this mechanism and is they are going
to be used to fund public goods and to
fund projects that are creating uh that
are providing an impact or benefits to
the
ecosystem they've been also pioneering
in the experimentation of this mechanism
so while they started with a small round
in 20 back in 2021 in which they gave
out about 1 million USD and had a small
subset of Voters this has continued to
grow and evolve throughout the years
their largest round was in 2023 in which
they dis they allocated over 30 they
allocated about 30 million op through
different categories and they had a set
of about 140 voters they've also been
experimenting with other type of rounds
like the latest fourth round in which
they used a Mech um voting style called
uh metrics impact metrics people voted
in Impact metrics instead of projects
but it's been going back back and forth
in between voting for projects or for
metrics and this is something that
they've committed 850 million op
throughout the rest of the life and this
is only what was allocated at the
Inception of the token there's also all
of the funds that are being generated
through sequencer fees that are going to
continue with this uh that are meant to
continue this mechanism funding this
mechanism it's important to note though
that op optimism is not the only
ecosystem running retra rounds there's
already been several rounds run by other
ecosystems such as filecoin that is
currently running its second rer round
there's also pocket which ran its uh its
own round at the meet this year
interestingly also using the funds that
they received from the optimism Reacher
round and funding that they received
from arbitrium to reward its own
contributors there's also the cell EOS
system that ran around earlier this year
and is looking to run another round at
the end of this year and the Lea P2P
library or Leaf P2P ecosystem that has
also run its own reer around to fund uh
those that have been providing value to
this um to this
Library ENT and in addition to that it's
not only ecosystems that can use this
mechanism but we've also seen local
communities using this mechanism to
incentivize specific types of behaviors
so one of the really nice things about
Reacher rounds is that what you're doing
is you're creating a feedback loop of
behaviors that you're incentivizing that
are going to enable your community or
your ecosystem to get to a goal right so
while we can see that for ecosystems
this may be growing your tvl making your
users more sticky or growing the number
of your users we can also see that local
communities that are trying to onboard
more people into web 3 that are trying
to become more regenerative can also use
this mechanism to incentivize this type
of positive behaviors and people will
know that this is something that is
going to continue to happen and this
type of behavior will continue to be
rewarded as long as these rer rounds are
run with um like there is this
expectation that this rounds will
continue to run so we've also seen
groups such as Dow drops which ran one
retroactive round as such earlier last
year whom they were uh targeting was
ethereum contributors regardless of
which L2 or which ecosystem within the
ethereum ecosystem they were um they
were contributing to and what their type
of contributions were we've also seen
local communities such as eth Colombia
and ethereum Mexico host their own
rounds and we've also seen other
educational communities such as
cryptoversity that also doing this type
of experiments to incentivize more
people in particular behaviors that they
find relevant to their
communities and so as I mentioned before
reer rounds are mechanisms and there's
four five steps that I usually look at
when designing
mechanisms um and
when I that I usually look at when
designing mechanisms and that it's good
to keep in mind because these affect
like the steps and as we scope them
affect the rest of the process and it's
also important to think of it as
multiple steps because this means that
you can change the things and the sub
mechanisms that are part of the
mechanism design or in this case the
Retro mechanism so first
we have funding and when we're thinking
of the reacher rounds sometimes you
don't need to worry about funding
sometimes you're optimism and you just
have funding but if you're a local round
or you're a local community that wants
to host round you need to think about
where am I going to get the funding for
running this round not only to run the
operations of this round but also what
where am I going to get the funds to
give out to the community because
they've done the behaviors that I want
to incentivize second second is the
design of the round and when I talk
about design I'm not talking about the
images that we're going to use or the
fonts or the colors that we're going to
use but who the audience is what is it
that I'm trying to incentivize all of
this work that leads up to the round and
we also have the data aggregation So
based on the design that you're using
based on the things that you're trying
to incentivize and based on your
audience you're going to be able to
determine what are the type of metrics
and data that I can use to measure if
people have actually people or projects
have actually generated value to my
ecosystem or to my
community this is the why the how and
the what then third we have the decision
making so what we've seen so far has
been groups of people in different sizes
voting on who gets the funding but
there's other ways in which we can have
this decisionmaking process take place
this could be two different groups of
voting uh groups that vote you can have
one group that votes then people review
the vote they approve it or decline it
and this is why I wanted to call out
there's this decision making process
which can be its own mechanism then
there's the disbursement process or
disbursement mechanism which can be
you're streaming the tokens over a
certain amount of time or you're giving
the lumsum and then you have really
important approach postmortem analysis
you definitely want to look at how your
round went to understand if you did the
right things when you were designing
year round and the then in this Workshop
we're going to focus on the design
because this is the most relevant part
of your round if you don't get the
design for your round right you won't
know if you are actually achieving the
goal that you wanted to achieve and
therefore you won't know if you're using
your resources in the most efficient and
effective way to achieve your goal which
means you're not going to be able to
evaluate if the program that you just
ran actually made a difference for your
ecosystem or for your community and if
you should even think of running it
again so why are we going to focus on
the design and the scope first is we
have a lot of participants and a lot of
audiences that participate in around
each of them have different incentives
but this is a game that we're all
playing together and we want to make
sure that we're aligning everyone's
incentives so that we're able to get to
the goal so we want to be
specific uh also around what the
incentives are that we want to have IMB
in the community or in the
ecosystem and it's essential as I
mentioned for knowing what the what the
goal is is going to be essential for us
to know if it worked second it's also
going to help us improve the stakeholder
management this can be a very time
intensive process so we want to make
sure that people know what they are
supposed to do when they are supposed to
do the things and why they are supposed
to do these things if we're asking them
to vote if we're asking them to review
projects if we're asking them to provide
specific data we need them to understand
why they are doing these things so that
the reround it the retround itself can
be successful number three is we want to
mitigate risks through the design we
want to understand and recognize what
are the unknowns in this design what are
the variables that we're unable to
influence or that we're unable to
control in these experiments and we also
want to know what could go wrong and if
there is something that we can avoid
that we can do to avoid it going wrong
and the fourth one is we need to
optimize our resources specifically for
local community rounds I know that
ecosystems tend to have a lot of funds
and this is also what enables them to
experiment with this type of uh of
mechanisms but this may be something
that local communities cannot afford
because it's they are either being
funded one by one or they have a more
limited Runway which means that you need
to be able to pick your battles in terms
of where you're allocating your funding
you need to be able to clearly identify
where should you be putting your time
where should you be putting your funds
and where should you be directing the
attention of your community when you're
running this type of rounds you want to
identify what are the most high impact
areas that you want to be uh focusing
your initial or your first iterations of
the rounds on
and in terms of incentives as I
mentioned before with this type of
mechanism we're looking at not
predicting we're not trying to predict
the future we're trying to assess what
has already been useful so we want to
align incentives so the hypothesis here
with this mechanism is that people out
there will build what matters to this
ecosystem or to this community
and once they've generated this value
they're going to be rewarded for it but
if we're not telling them properly what
is it that this ecosystem needs or if
that is not clear and um it's not of
common understanding for the community
it's going to be very hard to have
people building the things that are
actually doing meaningful work for the
ecosystem and for example this is
something that we've seen in optimism
and that we've seen in some of the other
future rounds in which there's a lot of
work that is being done but this is not
exactly what is needed or we see
multiple versions of the same thing
being replicated and not being used by
the Target audiences that people are
trying to save time or improve their
work if we're not and this stems from a
lack of communication and a lack of
clarity in terms of where is the
ecosystem headed what is actually needed
what is still going to be used full in 3
four five 6 months from now so if we
give this information either as local
community or
ecosystems to the audience like to the
community members we're going to be able
to get them excited of contributing to
the ecosystem and know that they will be
receiving a reward and we will avoid
having
to like have them lose Faith or hope in
this mechanism or process by building
something that is not going to be
rewarded because it wasn't impactful or
useful and as I was mentioning this
predictability of having these rounds is
going to create reliability you want to
have your Builders or the members of
your community know that the round
there's going to be multiple rounds so
they are going to continue behaving in
this particular way that you've said you
want through this mechanism what we're
doing is we're creating new behaviors
we're asking people to actively change
what they do with the expectation of a
future reward and this change in
behaviors happens over time it's not
going to happen from one day to another
and it's not going to be cemented only
after one round so it's also important
that as we continue to iterate on these
designs and on these rounds we make sure
that we're not completely disrupting the
expectations from the participants cuz
it's going to make it really hard
to keep the behavior keep incentivizing
the behaviors that we want to see in the
ecosystem see okay so I'm going to stop
very quickly there because now we're
going to jump into the breakout
groups um do you does anyone have any
questions so far on to rer
rounds no perfect so next thing that
we're going to do is we're going to
design our own Reacher round
yes can I project okay all
right
testing uh I'm just curious if you could
share some more examples of retro rounds
and what are the
differences in the round as you change
what you're funding like if it's
software or if it's governance or if
it's something else
thanks yes so
the depending on what it is on who your
audience is and what their capabilities
are for example in terms of oo perfect
uh in terms of generating different data
that you want to aggregate for people to
vote um depending on how much funding
you have depending on precisely the
things that you're looking to fund and
incentivize uh you're going to have
different one different types of
communication that you're having with
them uh there's also going to be as I
mentioned different types of data that
you're going to be gathering so for
example I um designed and ran the E
Mexico round what we were focusing on
there was this is a geographically
specific round and what we were looking
to incentivize were five different
things in the community we wanted people
that were prioritizing onboarding others
into the web 3 ecosystem so we were
looking at an increase on on wallets
regardless of which chain this was
happening in so I think this is also
going to be one of the main differences
that you might see from local
communities versus ecosystem specific
communities uh sorry ecosystem specific
rounds in which ecosystem specific
rounds will look to increase the value
to their own ecosystems which makes
sense in that it is their funding and
they have goals that they need to
achieve within their own ecosystem to be
successful um so you'd be looking at
more specific metrics such as as
mentioned tvl number of users number of
transactions am um transaction size or
if it's libraries number of uh projects
that are using this Library within my
ecosystem um then on the community
rounds uh what we we were experimenting
with in the Ean Mexico Community was
looking at number of people onboarded
into web 3 we were also looking at
reducing the gender gap so number of
like projects that were specifically
targeting onboarding women or supporting
women in the web 3 space we were also
looking at refi communities in Mexico so
looking at how many had interacted with
local regenerative projects how many of
them had onboarded local regenerative
projects or use cases in the refi space
uh we were also looking at education so
Partnerships with universities and these
were some of the type of behaviors that
we were trying to incentivize in the
long term as well so for us uh let's say
that an ecosystem would be uh pushing
for a growth on number of users in their
own ecosystem we were pushing for a
number of new users or new attendees to
web 3 events because our hypothesis and
this is also where the designing and
understanding well what is your North
Star and what is your goal is really
relevant because it's what we are trying
to in iviz in the long term is we want
to have more people educated and
participating in the web 3 space that
would be one in terms of like onboarding
second we want to see more women
integrated into the space so allocating
funding to that as well uh I would say
those are two of the main difference
that we've observed I know as well that
I believe ethereum Colombia one of the
things that they were incentivizing as
well is number of people running their
own notes um so how people are actively
participating in security ing ethereum
uh but those are some of the things that
are Stark differences and I think also
another thing that is very dependent on
whether it's an ecosystem or a local
community thing is um local communities
are very different from one another in
terms of the things that are needed in
one country or one city are going to be
very different from what's needed in a
different country or a different city
and how we framed as well the round that
Ean Mexico ran is we want to fund the
edges where impact is happening and this
impact might not be clearly understood
by someone that is very far away so say
even if this is impact that they are
onboarding everyone into optimism this
might be very difficult for optimism to
recognize from such a far away point of
like oh why is this relevant in Mexico
in this type of scenario but this is
something that local communities if they
are the ones running the rounds if they
are the ones designing and determining
what is impactful in this specific
situation or in this specific uh
reality they're going to be better able
to identify and understand why this was
impactful and why it should be rewarded
so I also think that one of the big
difference is how close you are to the
impact that is being
generated so that people are able to to
identify and
funded that's a very broad
spectrum hello so I have a question I
had a question about how you can measure
the postmortem analysis and I was
thinking like should that should be
done I was thinking about how an
ecosystem that runs
pgf rounds retro pgf rounds can make the
postmortem analysis and I was thinking
like this is a whole design space on how
you can do that how you can measure
the how much you incentivize the project
that from the previous round compared to
the next round after one year so yeah my
question is
how how for example the analysis of
previous optimiz rounds
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happened perfect so for each of the
optimism rounds there has been
hypothesis that are set at the beginning
of the rounds in terms of lessons
learned from the previous rounds and
then why are they making the design
changes that they are doing with it's
sort of like we are say now we're going
for impact metrics based voting and
we're doing this because we expect that
people are going to have an easier time
deciding which type of metric is more
relevant to them they won't have to
we're going to be reducing time because
they not be reviewing each of the
projects and then once the voting comes
to an end and allocations are done
there's usually also an exit survey that
is sent and all of these data is then
aggregated to understand do we I think
this one has been more of a sentiment
analysis unlike do we feel confident
that the allocation was done better in
comparison to round three um there's
still room a lot of room for improvement
to be quite honest in terms of analyzing
the postmortem of the rounds
specifically when it comes to the impact
that funding has had on the projects uh
I think for some of the rer rounds this
is still um is still to be done um and
there are some I think open source
Observer has done some in terms of one
year after rer pgf 3 to prject Pro have
projects continue to build on optimism
and continue to ship and generate value
in the ecosystem I think that's one good
approach uh something else that I know
um like SEL myself and others have been
exploring is can we create
counterfactuals to understand if this
injection of capital or injection of
funding to the projects actually made a
difference difference if we were to look
at this in the future had they never
received funding would it still look the
same uh which can help us understand if
this actually makes a difference for
this type of projects or in this type of
situation but I think that is still
pretty nent uh and not a lot of it yeah
I know that not a lot of it or none of
it has been done
yet okay perfect
so um
um okay so we're going to get into
breakout groups of three to four people
um they can let's see I think five can
also be good um but if you can just get
together um so perfect I think we have
three here uh see jel is going to help
us as well in term of like putting
together the
groups um do you want to get
together do want to be one
hello perfect
a yeah just come over
here do you have things to ride with
okay
perfect and what we're going to be doing
is we're going to go through a set of
prompts and the first one
is we're going to go through a set of
prompts and this is going to be the
process through which we design a
retroactive round you can choose
whichever whether you want to design it
for a community you can choose whether
you want to design it for an ecosystem
for example I see the gcoin team here
maybe they want to design a rer around
for members in their
ecosystem um I see different people from
latam communities over there maybe they
want to design it for a Latin American
Community something that Cal and I were
also brainstorming uh earlier on this
Workshop is someone and it might be an
experiment that SEL and I do right now
as well is what if we were to design a
rer round for
Devcon so anyone can take that prompt up
as well
and so the first prompt is we're going
to ask you to introduce yourselves in
your group in case you don't know each
other please make it short because we
are going to have eight minutes for this
first prompt so introduce yourselves and
choose your
adventure uh choose who are you
designing this retro round for is it for
a local community is it for an ecosystem
and just agree with the other members of
your team which audience you're looking
to engage with is it going to be again a
local community is it going to be an
ecosystem and if you have any questions
throughout this process please raise
your hand and say J or myself will walk
to you and um yeah answer any questions
that there may be we're going to have
eight minutes for this so please
introduce yourself share why you're in
this why you're in this workshop and if
you're part of a community or an e
system and then decide who are you
designing this round for
go yes if you have any questions just
raise your hands and say Jer myself will
come
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we have 1 minute left so please come to
a decision
of what Adventure you're going to follow
for the next prompt
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and time is up so please I hope you've
written down either in one of the posted
notes well like just or somewhere else
what is the adventure that you're going
to follow if you're going to be uh
designing this retro around for a local
community or if you're thinking of it as
a web3 ecosystem or ethereum as a whole
or
Devcon so the next prompt that we're
going to be looking at is based on your
groups and based on who you've decided
to design this round for you will be
defining what is the North Star that you
want to
achieve and here is what the North Star
is what is the end goal that we want to
reach what is the end goal that you want
to reach within this community what is
the end goal that you want to reach
within this
ecosystem and it's important as I
mentioned before to know this because if
we don't know where we're going then
we're not going to be able to tell if
we've gotten there or how we're going to
get there and this means we're not going
to be able to measure what are the type
of what's the type of data and what are
the type of metrics that would be useful
for us to leverage when we're deciding
who should be funded and we're also not
going to know what are the type of
behaviors that we want to incentivize
for people to follow that are going to
get us closer to this hypothetical
goal and I will inite you as well to
think of this not as a short-term goal
it could be a short-term goal but it's
better to think of it as a long-term
goal like if you're doing this for a
local community how do you want this
community to look 50 years from now 60
years from now what is this like bright
future that we're aiming
for and as I mentioned before you can
have it be a one-year goal I know that a
lot of the ecosystems plan in more short
term because it makes sense for what
they trying to do uh but try to aim for
this long-term Vision even if you're an
ecosystem we want to play Infinite games
which means we're incentivizing
behaviors that are going to be healthy
for what we're trying to achieve in the
long
run and so the second prompt is Define
with your team members what is the North
Star that you're going to be fulfilling
for this either local community or
ecosystem what is the overarch and here
are some questions that will help you in
defining this North Star and here feel
free to use the posted notes and
remember one idea per posted note that's
going to make it a lot easier when
you're looking at the different ideas
that you have what is the overarching
objective that you hope to achieve by
running this round as well not only this
round but like in the long term and how
does this round how can this line around
with this overarching goal then what is
the long-term Vision that you have for
your community or for your ecosystem
them and what are going to be your goals
for this round and so for this one we're
going to have about 10 to 12 minutes I
think it might be too much but we'll be
going around and if it is too much we'll
just qu it
short so go
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we just have one
Northstar um what I would suggest is you
each of you write uh what are some of
the things that would be very relevant
to have in this round write it in a
posted notes and then you share them
like you past them in the middle for
everyone else to see and then people can
either agree or disagree with the things
that you've identified are valuable for
there to be or like that could be the
north star that you're going
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ideas
and choose what the north north star is
going to be for your pro for your round
we're done and we're up to the next
prompt so now you've already defined
what is going to be the North Star for
your um for your community or your
ecosystem and the thing that you're
going to have in mind as you're design
find ing the rest of the steps of the
rer round next is we're going to
identify who are the audiences that are
involved in these richual rounds uh who
are one the projects or people that you
expect to fund through this round it's
going to be either the projects that are
applying or if you're not asking them to
apply you already have a way in which
you identify who's going to be legible
to participate in this round who who are
they what do they look like are they
individuals are they
groups second as I mentioned before most
of the Retro rounds as we've seen them
is people vote on who gets allocated the
funds so who are going to be your voters
is it going to be everyone that belongs
to the community is it going to be a
selected group of people that are very
and have a lot of high context into your
ecosystem
and third is you're also going to
identify who is benefiting from this
overall impact that the people that
you're funding or the projects that
you're funding are generating like who
are the end users or end receivers of
the impact that is being
generated and map out who these
audiences are so that you can understand
what are their incentives what are they
trying to achieve whether it is within
your ecosystem or within your community
but what is the what moves them forward
and what are they trying to achieve so
that you can then continue to design
something that will ensure that you're
aligning their incentives with the
incentives that you're trying to achieve
through this round and here there are
some questions to guide you through
thinking through this the first one is
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wrong but here it is uh as I mentioned
before identifying who is the audience
in terms of who are benefiting from the
impact that's been generated who are the
people that would be voting in your
round and who are the projects or people
that would be receiving funding through
this
round and for this we are going to give
8
minutes let's
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and the time is up for this next
prompt and we're going to move to to the
next prompt in which we are going to be
looking at setting behaviors and
defining what these behaviors are so
what we are as I had mentioned before in
these retro rounds what we're doing is
we're incentivizing very specific
behaviors that we want to see that we
have a loose idea that are going to take
us to this North Star that are going to
enable us to get to these goals so for
this next prompt
uh what you're going to be doing is
you're going to be thinking about what
are the type of behaviors that you want
to see the type of benefits the type of
recognition um that you want people to
have or you think people will uh
appreciate from participating in this
type of actions that are going to get
you closer to the North Star so think
also about what are some of the
Milestones that are in between where you
are right now and getting to the North
Star so that you can identify what are
the type of behaviors that I'm trying to
inside for people to do that are going
to get me closer if you're looking at an
ecosystem round maybe this behavior is
contributing to the open source code
maybe this Behavior looks like
deploying uh smart contracts and
attracting new users into my ecosystem
if we're thinking of a local round
if one of the things that you're
incentivizing or you value the most is
say um protecting the forest maybe the
type of behavior that you're looking for
is planting trees or protecting trees
that are already in a specific Place uh
taking care of the
trees these are the type of behaviors
that you might want to
incentivize that people have or do as
you're going through and that is going
to be rewarded at the end of the round
so we're actually going to give uh I
know it says 12 minutes but we're only
going to give eight minutes for this
part as well and you can start
now and try to be as specific as
possible when you're thinking of the
behaviors that people are going to
have um because this part is going to
help us to identify what is the data and
what are the metrics that we can use to
measure the type of behaviors that
people have already completed and that
we could reward in the round so again
sort of like if we are looking to
protect the like if it's a local
community and what they want is to
preserve a particular area then maybe
we're going to be looking at planting
trees or having a more healthy ecosystem
and then how do we Define what a healthy
ecosystem looks like is it the number of
trees that are in a specific space is it
the type of behavior that people are
having when going
around so this is what we're going to be
looking at
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okay we have one more minute before we
go to the last prompt
okay we're going to move on to the last
prompt since both uh since the groups
are already done with this
prompt and as I mentioned to both of the
teams the way in which you're designing
your round is going to inform the
evaluation process that voters are going
to be able to complete when you are uh
giving them information to decide who
should the funds be allocated to and
it's also going to inform the type of
data that you're able to already extract
from existing sources or that you need
to create hope like the best thing there
is to create it in a standardized way so
that people can cross compare it among
different amongst different
projects so for the last prompt we're
going to be looking at data and metrics
for this evaluation and there's two
actions here that you're going to be
looking
into or questions that you can use to
guide your process through the first one
is now you know based on the behaviors
that you want to see happen from these
different audiences what you're aiming
for and what are the potential actions
that the members or people or project
can undertake to get to the North Star
how can you measure these actions like
over here we were talking about oh we
want to have more developers building in
this particular ecosystem and we talked
about developing looking
like launching their own smart contracts
it could look like contributions into
the uh gith hubs and into the repos from
the different um libraries or tools that
are relevant to the
ecosystem then you can also
explore are there already existing data
sources for this information and if
there are not existing data sources for
it how can we measure this in a
standardized
way and we're going to give 3 minutes
for that and then we'll start wrapping
up
yeah I because we have eight
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left okay so we talking about uh how we
value like Builders terms of measure the
quity or the impact of the
C and I was using some examples in
optimism the on rounds or like the
GitHub rep stuff like that and you were
talking about maybe that's spam is not
good and maybe we should look at the
quality of the codes and I like how do
you even standardize that is it all
right very subjective it's the same
level we have in in exactly no but it is
subjective I think the good thing though
is like how can we get
subjective uh evaluations to become more
objective right like how do we push
things to become as most objective as
possible uh and that can look by like
for example if it's very very subjective
maybe it different um you have five
different things within the code that
you're reading and then that
helps
but reviewing it to a degree yeah no
you're welcome perfect so we're coming
to the end and I think now what would be
really interesting this was the last
prompt and so as I mentioned this was a
taste of what the design phase looks
like when we're looking into mechanism
design the second there's several other
steps that would follow but right now we
only focused on the design space of the
problem and so we're going to just ask
real quick the two teams if you can
share what your round whom you were
designing this round for what is the
type of incentives that you wanted to
generate what was going to be rewarded
and who the audiences are we have very
limited time so if you can explain it in
like one minute or two that'd be
great
uh hello uh so a rual funding Dr is for
ecosystem uh specifically it's Unis swap
ecosystem and uh the round we were
thinking about is the uh
uh the hook ground so uh the that they
just released so uh the goal would be to
uh increase the Builder that build on
the Unis swap hook ecosystem increase
the numbers of high quality hooks uh you
know or build hook tools people for for
for making it easier for developers to
work on it and also like onboard
builders on the ecosystem
and uh some of the audience would
include web three Builders um uh
Educators who help and also the benefit
uh this will benefit like the uh web 3
developers unof uh Unis swap users uh un
SW token holders and uh who will vote on
this uh we're still debating on this but
we think probably like uh the Unis swap
token holders but yeah uh
the behavior yes so the behavior we want
to see is we want uh that to build on
the hook ecosystem uh them to deploy uh
the smart
contracts and also uh we want you know
some like Educators content creators to
create like uh content for HS to spread
like the information to help onb people
and know so
uh yeah and and people to participate in
voting and stuff like that
y now perfect thank
you
and so please I know we're missing the
last group but I don't think we have
time for that anymore as we're two well
just make it really really brief we
still have two minutes but this is the
QR code for the group like please feel
free to join as well um and we can
continue exploring what this designs
look like
okay okay we design a retro funding a
retroactive funding for to incentivize
more H women developers H to on board to
web three and the the goals will be have
more women um contributing H to the web
three space incentivize more de to
create or to have a workshop for this
specific
um audience and the audience for or or
funding will be de that can be
individuals and also developer
communities and the behaviors that we
are looking for is first on boarding
more women with workshops F focus on
them and also more women contributing to
open source
projects ER in the mindstone
in the Milestone we have increased women
attendance by 25% in 6 months and in
gree and then have more women meetups
during a year and okay thank you awesome
thank
you so please feel free to share the
designs in the telegram group uh thanks
a lot um seal and I were really happy to
host this workshop and we're excited to
see more people approaching mechanism
design in a more uh methodological way
so that we can have better outcomes for
how we're allocating funding in the
space thank you
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