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Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Fountain, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Pandora, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform.\nIn this episode, Laura interviews Meg Lister, GM of Grants Labs at Gitcoin, and Kevin Owocki, co-founder of Gitcoin.\xa0\nThey discuss the evolution of Gitcoin from a centralized platform to a decentralized suite of protocols, Gitcoin 2.0, which allows any Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) based ecosystem to fund its public goods. They also talk about the various funding mechanisms available, including quadratic funding, retroactive public goods funding, and conviction voting.\xa0\nLearn more: What Is Retroactive Public Goods Funding?\nThe team is also exploring more futuristic concepts such as private voting systems, angel investing 2.0, and impact attestations. The ultimate goal for Gitcoin is to create a capital allocation infrastructure that funds what matters to communities, whether they are towns, states, countries, or online interest groups.\nShow highlights:\n\nKevin's background and how he came to found Gitcoin and why Meg joined the company\n\nThe differences between Gitcoin 1.0 and 2.0\n\nWhat quadratic funding is and why it is important in the blockchain ecosystem\n\nThe problem of sybil attacks and how Gitcoin Passport aims to solve it\n\nWhy Gitcoin has changed its approach to put more focus on scaling Ethereum rather than other types of grants\n\nHow Gitcoin is trying to solve capital allocation efficiency with Allo (Capital Allocation) Protocol\n\nWhat streaming quadratic funding is and how it differs from traditional quadratic funding\n\nHow retroactive public goods funding (RPGF) works\n\nWhat conviction voting is and how it addresses some of the current problems in DAOs\n\nWhich projects are using Gitcoin Passport and what for\n\nWhy Gitcoin is so focused on the Ethereum ecosystem and whether they will launch in other chains\n\nWhat the purposes of the GTC token are and how it could become a flywheel for Gitcoin\n\nHow Gitcoin can become sustainable long-term, since it's free to use at the moment\n\nThe features that are coming down the line for Gitcoin, including privacy and onchain "angel investing"\xa0\n\nWhat the future could look like if Gitcoin succeeds in its mission, according to Kevin\n\nThank you to our sponsors!\nPolkadot\nGuests:\n\n\nKevin Owocki, Co-founder of Gitcoin\n\n\nMeg Lister, GM of Grants Labs at Gitcoin\n\nLinks\nGitcoin\n\n\nGitcoin 2.0 Whitepaper, co-authored by Kevin Owocki and Meg Lister\n\n\nPublic Goods Funding: The New Meta | Kevin Owocki - Gitcoin, presentation at ETH Denver 2024\n\n\nGitcoin Entering the End Game\xa0\n\nGitcoin\u2019s Citizen Grants program\n\nImpact report\n\nCoinDesk: Why Crypto\u2019s Most Altruistic Project Is Going (Kinda) Corporate\n\n\nBlockworks: Gitcoin is restructuring to focus on grants for the Ethereum ecosystem\xa0\n\nAllo Protocol\nAnnouncement thread\nWeb3 Ecosystem Funding\n\nState of Web3 Grants Report\n\nWeb3 Innovations in Public Goods Funding\n\n\nHow To Fund Innovation: A Guide to Web3 Grants, Meg Lister for BeIn Crypto\n\nQuadratic funding\n\nORIGINAL WHITE PAPER, co-authored by Vitalik Buterin\xa0\nRetro PGF\nUnchained: What Is Retroactive Public Goods Funding?\n\nPassport\n\nIntroducing Passport - Digital Identity as a Public Good\xa0\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices