Ethereum Community Fund | Info-Defence, ECF Pensieve - QJ | ETHDam III - 2025

Welcome to the 3rd Edition of ETHDam, hosted May 9–11, 2025 in Amsterdam. This year, we brought together the brightest minds in privacy, security, and AI for a unique 48-hour hackathon + conference combo. 🌷 https://www.ethdam.com// 🌷 ------------------ Ethereum Community Fund ECF Pensieve: Decentralized Social Consensus - Community-owned knowledge base for Info Defence - QJ | ETHDam III - 2025 🎤 About the Speaker: QJ Wang, Executive Director of Ethereum Community Fund(ECF) since 2018. ECF was founded by the early ethereum community to address the needs of decentralisation communities, in 2017 when it’s conceptualised, ECF was one of the first grant program in the place to coordinate funding; and as it evolves to continue to repond to community's needs, ECF has researching, developing and promoting projects that leverage web3 technologies to support coordination in general. Lately ECF has been coordinating building of relaunch of historical voting tool carbonvote.com and the community empowering toolset Zuzalu.city that features complete data ownership of users, encryption, zk and radical markets experiments. 𝕏 Follow: https://x.com/QJ_ECF https://ecf.network/ https://x.com/ethereumecf ------------------ About ETHDam & CryptoCanal ETHDam is powered by CryptoCanal, an education and events platform rooted in Amsterdam, expanding into Rotterdam and Zürich. Keep up with us to see updates on future events: https://www.cryptocanal.org/ Follow CryptoCanal on X: https://twitter.com/CryptoCanal Join CryptoCanal TG Community: https://t.me/CryptoCanalCommunity Join CryptoCanal Discord: https://discord.com/invite/XJVjpCqQBz CryptoCanal unites crypto enthusiasts committed to making a positive impact. Unapologetically political, we prioritize education, events, and services while championing cypherpunk values like privacy, sovereignty, and censorship resistance. ------------------ 🎥 Credits: Intro / outro by babyPRO - https://babypro.art/ ETHDam Photography by Paulus – https://concretestate.eu/ MC of ETHDam - James Campbell - he builds decentralized, end-to-end encrypted, privacy tools. Come and say hello on Farcaster https://farcaster.xyz/theref ------------------ Special thanks to our partners who made ETHDam possible: 🌹 Hackathon – Bouquet: Oasis Network https://oasisprotocol.org/ 🌷 Hackathon – Petal: Circles https://aboutcircles.com 💛 Conference – Gold: Zano https://zano.org/ Dash https://www.dash.org/ Bitvavo https://bitvavo.com/en 🩶 Conference – Silver: Igra Labs https://igralabs.com/hero 💛 Conference – Copper: Lido https://lido.fi/ DeTrip https://detrip.travel/ Cake Wallet https://cakewallet.com/ The Grid https://thegrid.id/ Calimero Network https://calimero.network/ 0xbow https://0xbow.io/ Mina https://minaprotocol.com/ JobStash https://jobstash.xyz/ Cyber Capital https://www.cyber.capital/ POAP https://poap.xyz/ Acronym Foundation (Supported our Top 10 Hackers) https://acronymfoundation.org/ 🌱 Sponsor: EF Ecosystem Support Program https://esp.ethereum.foundation ------------------ 00:00 Welcome 00:36 Context: Info Defense in Web3 01:57 Centralization & Info Infrastructure Challenges 03:35 Data Coordination & Ownership Issues 05:20 Problems in Grant Programs & Accountability 07:00 ECF’s Reform Toward Open Grant Systems 08:33 Building Verifiable Project Information 10:04 Introduction to Pensive Mechanism 12:00 Identity-Agnostic Reputation System 14:00 Governance Dynamics & Info Finance Mechanism