Downtown Stimulus: Public Goods Funding for Main St by Kevin Owocki | Devcon SEA
Thu, Oct 2, 2025, 12:00 AM
Web3 Public Goods Funding has left web3, & successfully hit main st! 💰🏦 The downtown stimulus team raised $43k for Boulder Colorado COVID economic recovery & proved QF works in mainstream USA. Learn about this experiment & lessons from it from Gitcoin founder Kevin Owocki. Speaker(s): Kevin Owocki Skill level: Beginner Track: Real World Ethereum Keywords: Quadratic Voting, Public good, Local Impact, UI/UX, mainstream Follow us: https://twitter.com/efdevcon, https://twitter.com/ethereum, https://warpcast.com/devcon Learn more about devcon: https://www.devcon.org/ Learn more about ethereum: https://ethereum.org/ Visit the https://archive.devcon.org/ to gain access to the entire library of Devcon talks with the ease of filtering, playlists, personalized suggestions, decentralized access on Swarm, IPFS and more. Devcon is the Ethereum conference for developers, researchers, thinkers, and makers. Devcon SEA was held in Bangkok, Thailand on Nov 12 - Nov 15, 2024. Devcon is organized and presented by the Ethereum Foundation. To find out more, please visit https://ethereum.foundation/
Speakers
Kevin Owocki is a blockchain expert, computer scientist, co-founder of Gitcoin and podcast host at Greenpill.network, a network-society of thousands of hackers, dreamers, and doers focused on using crypto to bring positive digital systems to the world. Kevin co-founded Gitcoin in 2017 where his vision of a positive-sum ecosystem supported by public goods helped raise and distribute over $50 million to projects in the ecosystem.