Agree with Aaron Frank. Building bridges and acting as a connector is something that the Network, Chapters/Guilds, Discord Pods and even individuals should lean into. Collaboration and fostering shared knowledge is the same wind in the sails of open source software so there is clearly something to it. For now I’d prioritize that north star, with bringing the Network onchain also top of mind.
Regen Coordination, especially in regards to impact standards and the regen initiative toolkit that Monty and co covered in the ReFi DAO Wrapped 2024 & Whats Next? feel incredibly important. We’re getting more aligned but would love to eventually get a public call scheduled to better connect Greenpill Chapters/Guilds and ReFi DAO Local Nodes. This space is still so small and we can all absolutely succeed together. Turning the hub into more of a Regen Coordination hub, and looping other communities into the Discord Pods feels like a win win.
Carried over a lot of the thoughts below from a comment I posted in r/ethereum, which recently merged with r/ethfinance and whose discord announcements we have auto-posting into the education pod. The DAO of DAO structure of the Network makes it a lot easier to start forging these informal connections imo vs having to decide whether we should or shouldn’t endorse something with the Network. Total stream of thought lists below.
As Aaron Frank mentioned, Greenpill can probably do a lot of good connecting web3 and impact communities. But we can also help build bridges across other aligned web3 regen organizations like VDAO, BioFi Project, Ma Earth, Bloom Network, Regens Unite, Breadchain, AgroforestDAO, CCN, Public Nouns, Public Goods Club, Vrbs, Kolektivo, Let’s Grow DAO, etc. Regen Coordination will help in that regard but we can certainly do things on our end to forge deeper ties. Most people don’t have a local Greenpill Chapter and I’d love to openly refer people to other local regen orgs.
There is so much interesting stuff happening in the space that Greenpillers should be introduced to. Lot of cool impact tooling and ReFi financial primitives like Impact Miner, Gain Forest, Restor, EthicsHub, Helios, Azos Finance, SolarPunkDAO, Green Goods, Silvi, Kokonut Network, Treegens, the Solar Foundation, etc
Also loop in the tooling/governance/allocation side of things EAS, Guild.xyz, RnDAO, TogetherCrew, Gardens, KarmaGAP, Coordinape, Open Civics, Endaoment, Hypercerts, Open Source Observer, Commons Stack, Metagov, Givepact and of course Gitcoin, Giveth, Octant.
Educating and onboarding people in an open and credibly neutral way is definitely something that Greenpill can do well. Referring people to resources like Carbon Copy and Kiwi News or communities like Token Engineering Commons, Kernel, SheFi, etc is also powerful.
At the simplest level having a platform that helps like minded individuals connect is valuable. Really think we should continue to make an effort to aggregate and disseminate/amplify and create tools/content to fill in the gaps. Ultimately everybody building something interesting with regen values is in a grant round somewhere or being funded or talked about by someone in the public goods niche so mapping things out (Writers Guild is working on this to an extent) and introducing more people to more things should aid the flywheel.
Getting inspiration from the old MetaGame Townhalls we could also accomplish a lot by hosting project showcases and twitter spaces with the Network accounts/socials. Always room for improvement but we do have some solid discord announcements from other servers that are published into news and pods channels (click “Channels & Roles” at the top of the discord to make sure you are seeing all the channels). I’m sure using AI tools (eventually with a twist of reputation based governance for human curation) we can do a lot more semi-automated curation and cross posting across all the platforms as well.
Rewinding a bit, no matter what our goals are, to an extent we still really have to get our house in order with multisigs, operational mechanisms, infrastructure and the talent formation/organization needed to make Greenpill Network’s foundation more functional, sustainable and anti-fragile. Don’t need to find our final form but we need to reach a checkpoint with the current iteration. And from there we can really make a push to decentralize even more and bring additional people into the fold to work on specific tasks. Pretty confident we are moving in the right direction but actually crafting a well oiled machine that can turn the diverse energy we have in the Network into a functionally efficient organization with maximum impact on all fronts that we can accurately measure is difficult. So is finding the balance between optimistically and lovingly working together while also preparing to battle Moloch.
Gotta build out Greenpill with a strong focus on optimizing capital allocation and sustainable flows so that it can scale at a healthy pace. We need to fund and support our Chapters/Guilds with all the forms of capital and do our best to funnel individuals in their direction. Bunch of Chapters/Guilds can thrive even if the Network stagnated but we need to find the proper balance to support Chapters/Guilds and also the people currently putting in the effort to help the Network operate and advance. We should be very cognizant of financial sustainability but for sure need to utilize our treasury more.
Think we should also use funds to conduct a bunch of allocation experiments to take part in the rounds/epochs/experiments happening in the pgf space. Output of that will be supporting the plurality of public goods and education of our community through immersion. @SwiftEvo’s proposal to help fund the GG23 DeSci Round fits into that vision well imo. Gotta continue accomplishing/supporting more than is to be expected with the funds we deploy, and then scaling capital formation should be doable when the time is right.
Kinda dumped a lot of different thoughts into this post but hopefully it is digestible and cohesive. Still so much to do but there is definitely a palpable momentum across Greenpill and I’m excited to see how 2025 plays out.