Join us in Denver on Feb 27th
WHERE
Denver, CO
Number 38
WHEN
February 27th, 2025
10am-6:30pm
From conference to collective
What began as a simple conference has evolved into a movement exploring how access to capital can empower builders and help create a more decentralized, collaborative future.
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Speakers
Programming
This year’s Schelling Point programming is split across two stages, each designed to foster impactful conversations and collaboration.
Summit Stage
Successive Ecosystem Building: From Zero to Hero
Anke Liu (Stellar Development Foundation)
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Kevin Owocki (Founder, Gitcoin), and MathildaDV (Chief of Staff, Gitcoin)
Sensemaking to Strategy: Evolving Gitcoin Grants Through Domains
MathildaDV (Chief of Staff, Gitcoin), Monty Merlin (Founder, Localism Fund), Paul Glavin (Founder, Gardens), John Guilding, (PSE, Ethereum Foundation), moderated by Luuk Weber (Founder, EcoLabs)
Crypto is…”? Unblocking Use Cases of Ethereum
Ori Shimony (Ethereum Foundation Use Case Lab), Paul Brody (Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and EY), Venkatesh Rao (Program Director, Summer of Protocols), Theo Beutel (Ethereum Foundation Academic Secretariat)
Octant v2: Using DeFi for continuous funding
James Kiernan (Head of Impact, Octant)
Spark Stage
Rethinking Government Funding: Lessons from On-chain Capital Allocation
David DAO (GainForest and Eval Science), Azeem Khan (MorphL2), Mike Cooper (Metagov), moderated by Disruption Joe (Mother DAO)
Increasing Trust in Smart Contracts
Conor Svensson (Founder, Enscribe)
Crowdsourcing the Future: Incentivizing the World to Define Ethereum's Next Mission
Adam Stallard (Founder, BrightID, Updraft)
DAO Stewardship in Practice - Human Coordination as Ethereum's Core Challenge
Stella Achenbach (Unlock Protocol DAO)
Summit Stage
Gitcoin 3.3
Kevin Owocki (Founder, Gitcoin)
Keynote: By Juan Benet
Juan Benet (Founder, Protocol Labs)
Lunch/Networking
Building Alignment and Speed into Filecoin PGF
Sejal Rekhan (PGF Steward, Protocol Labs), Disruption Joe, Head Bathroom Valet
Deep Funding - Connecting Revenue and Revenue Centers in Open Networks
Devansh Mehta (AI & Public Goods Lead, Ethereum Foundation)
Hyperstition Markets: New Psychotechnology for Reality Engineering
Jake Hartnell (CEO, EN0VA / Layer)
The Networked Firm: Capital Allocation in the Age of Blockchain and AI
Daniel Ospina (Founder, RNDAO), Kevin Owocki (Founder, Gitcoin)
ETH Core Dev Under-Compensation (and what we can do about it)
Trenton Van Epps (Member & Organizer, Protocol Guild)
Hypercerts on AT Protocol: Rewriting How We Recognize — and Reward — Value Creation
Holke Brammer (Founder & Director, Hypercerts Foundation)
Spark Stage
Gitcoin Rainbowpaper Fireside Chat
Juan Benet (Founder, Protocol Labs), Kevin Owocki (Founder, Gitcoin)
Lunch/Networking
Workshop: The Earth Computer: Visualizing Assembly
Vengist, Exuent (Researcher), Kevin Owocki (Founder, Gitcoin)
How to build Public Goods Funding R&D
Sejal Rehkan (PGF Steward, Protocol Labs), David Dao (Founder & Chief Scientist, GainForest.Earth)
Towards an Impact Taxonomy for Capital Allocation in Web3
Sam McCarthy (Ecosystem Growth Lead, DAOstar / Metagov)
Gitcoin 3.3: How do we get there?
Jon Bo (Fractional CTO, Gitcoin), Kevin Owocki (Founder, Gitcoin)
Programming
This year’s Schelling Point programming is split across two stages, each designed to foster impactful conversations and collaboration.
Verifiable Impact: Measuring What Matters in Web3 Funding
Meg Lister, GM of Gitcoin, unpacks how on-chain metrics are reshaping grant funding—ensuring funding drives real, measurable outcomes in web3.
The Role of AI in the Future of Web3 Funding
Explore how AI is transforming Web3 funding by enhancing grant evaluations, optimizing capital allocation, and driving smarter, data-driven decisions.
Retro Done Right: Evolving Impact-Based Funding
Learn how retroactive funding drives impact-based grants, when it works best, and how it's evolving to reward meaningful contributions in Web3.
Fireside Chat: Building a Grants Program That Scales
Polygon and Gitcoin explore how to build scalable grants programs that enable democratic funding decisions, empower communities, and drive measurable impact.
Rethinking government funding: Lessons from on-chain capital allocation
Explore what on-chain funding can learn from traditional government programs, the benefits blockchain offers, and what it would take to make decentralized public funding a reality.
Human-Distilled Judgment: A New Era for Funding Decisions
Explore how human-distilled judgment is reshaping funding models. Deep Funding and Neural Quorum Governance leaders share approaches, principles, and real-world use cases.
Supporting Builder Growth: Lessons from 22 Rounds of Gitcoin Grants
Learn how Gitcoin Grants has supported builders through funding and beyond. Builders share their experiences, as well as feedback to program managers on how to best support their success.
Fireside Chat: Exploring Novel Mechanisms to Support Builders Across Their Lifecycle
Juan Benet and Kevin Owocki discuss emerging funding models that go beyond grants, exploring how ecosystems can provide sustained support for builders from ideation to scale.
Scaling the World Computer: A Bet on Futarchy
CEO & Cofounder of Butter, Vaughn (noturhandle), discusses how Conditional Funding Markets, and specifically Futarchy can address issues in funding public goods, ecosystem growth, and service providers.
The Venue
Number 38 is an expansive indoor-outdoor venue in the heart of Denver's RiNo Art District, offering the perfect setting for our community to connect, learn, and collaborate. The venue features multiple stages, state-of-the-art AV equipment, and comfortable spaces for both presentations and networking.
3560 Chestnut Pl,
Denver, CO
80216, United States
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