hi everybody my name is Vivek Singh
how's everyone doing today good awesome
welcome to Def Con we're really excited
to be here I work on a project called
get coin alongside Kevin here
Alisa Scott are in the back hanging out
we're all here and are very excited to
talk to you so as I mentioned I'm Vivek
one of the cofounders of the project
Kevin here started get coin in his
basement about 18 months ago now and get
coin has been on main net for for about
12 months and we're excited to share a
little bit more about how we think about
get coin and a new product that we have
launched just just today so for anyone
who doesn't know what get coin is it is
a place to get coins there's no get coin
token but you can receive bounties in
eath die or any other ERC 20 token for
contributing code to open-source
projects our mission is to grow up in
source and there's no better place than
the etherium ecosystem to do that so
we're really excited to be here and
continue that mission so growing open
source has been has been the kind of
rallying cry of get coin and and we have
a couple of other products that are
coming into that that space as time
passes alongside the bounties product
that we're most known for so to kind of
preface that get coin is really a p2p
network as you can see on left here you
have what a traditional corporation
might look like and really this room is
something kind of like this mesh over
here which is a bunch of people working
on different things that are kind of
related to aetherium but also have their
own specifications and interests and the
geek coin mesh network that you're
looking at is developers who are working
on projects like meta masks and get coin
and aetherium and and many others enter
and are contributing to many different
things and and we really think that that
this is the future of how we're
will happen and we're excited to be
building out a suite of tools that's
that's associated with this mesh network
so this is what we think it can look
like which is a little crazier than our
mesh network more edges more companies
more open source projects and
contributors working all across them and
finding ways to to deliver value so the
other important thing to note is that
the network is you know although we can
show it in one way on the last slide we
can also show it as as everyone in this
room we're all humans we all have a lot
to to give and personalities and and we
value more than just getting paid for
working on open source projects which is
something that get coin is is well-known
for for bringing into the ecosystem so
we want to make sure to remember that
along the way this is just one last
slide the other thing that we think the
network must do is provide value so get
coin is has been doing hopefully some of
that along the way we've done $375,000
but the bounties last month we had
27,000 active users if you post a bounty
you'll get somebody working on it within
six hours usually and within seven or
eight days the bounty will be turned
around and we've seen 16 of those those
3d humans hired into full-time roles in
the usually the etherium ecosystem so
we're excited to have played a small
part there and with that
we'll talk a little bit about an
experiment we're launching and I'll let
Kevin talk a little more about that
thanks thanks for Vake the one other
thing I want to note on this slide over
here is that we just added this new
metric of of about 30,000 monthly active
users to our results page and it is is
my my dream to help Joe Lubin win his
bet with Jimmy song by being one of
those five projects that has more than
100k monthly users within I forget how
many years so let's all help him do that
all right so we are launching an
experiment
get coin is playing in a space
open-source software that has
traditionally been sort of intrinsically
motivated developers contribute to open
source software for a number of reasons
because they're a software that they
want to see in the world because they
want to meet other people who are
like-minded because they want to
increase their skill set and they want
to work on stuff that's aligned with
their values get coin is very extrinsic
ly motivating right now because it's
it's bounties and so one of the things
that we realized was that there's sort
of a mismatch between our target
community and why they do why they do
work and and sort of and in the get
coins products so we are launching today
a new product that's meant to be focused
a little bit more on intrinsic
motivation and hopefully over the next
year get coin will be known as less as
bounties for open source software and
more of a suite of tools that are for
blockchain based developers so is with
great pleasure that I will show you
kudos which is a non fungible token
backed by the ethereum blockchain that
has beautiful art which represents a
sincere compliment that you got from a
member of your team I've been in
software and entrepreneurship for the
last ten years I've built some really
great stuff but the thing that I really
accruing over time is great
relationships with badass developers and
product managers and creators of all
types and so
representing that use case in that
relationship with the people who are
building web 3 and the community the
mesh network of three-dimensional humans
that we're building at get coin is the
endgame here and hopefully we'll have a
little bit of fun while we bootstrapped
reputation and web 3 with these non
fungible tokens so if you know someone
whose contributions are magical and you
want to celebrate that
or you just like pretty colors then you
can send this magical unicorn kudos if
you know someone who is a Linux wizard
it was really good on the command line I
was able to solve all of your problems
on Linux then you can send them a Linux
wizard kudos if you know someone who is
a genius then you can send them this
genius kudos I don't know why you would
send this kudos but I heard developers
like memes so we're gonna see if meme
meme kudos are a thing and let's see
this is by and large the weirdest kudos
that we've made
I think the Metallica Feeny if you're in
here I'm sorry that I'm so creepy but
you gave us you gave the world
blockchain so that's that's without
artwork is every kudos is created by an
artist who has a crypto economic
incentive to deliver more art to the
ecosystem right now we're launching with
140 kudos in the marketplace that have
all been bootstrapped by us but because
when you purchase a kudos and send it to
your coworker you're directly supporting
the artist our hope is that the universe
of kudos will be expanded to more
accurately rossette resemble the
universe of compliments that humanity
can send to each other and that the
liquidity on kudos will will increase
over time and we also hope to integrate
kudos into other platforms we think that
compliments in non fungible tokens are
possibly cooperative of bootstrapping
reputation and stickiness on on web 3
platforms so really excited to launch
this experiment at get coin cove / kudos
today and i would like to say thank you
to the etherium foundation the ECF in
the community for all of these support
Cheers see around
you