Hitchiker’s guide to the Ethereumverse - An Ethereum focused webinar series optimized for the APAC Region === [TOC] # Background Smaller events play a crucial role in making Ethereum inclusive, accessible, and cohesive: anyone with an internet connection and a laptop can participate in a virtual meetup or join an online hackathon team, and there are myriad opportunities at any given time. With this in mind, the Devcon team is collaborating with ESP to host a round of grants of $500-1500 for meetups and small events Events start from now until January # Why us We've run large scale events before and are committed to growing blockchain ecosystems too! [ONCC Connect](https://campus.opennodes.com/connect/) - successful student event with focus on tangible results [Tribe ecosystem report](https://opennodes.com/singapore-ecosystem-report-2020) - working with many stakeholders [SWITCH blockchain pavilion](https://tribex.co/switch-2020/) - event organising experience # Parameters ## EF resources - Grant funding by event - Being listed in the [devcon site](https://www.devcon.org/en/#participate) - Connections to speakers and projects # Event Requirements - Ethereum focused - APAC friendly - Free to attend - Open to anyone - If held in person, compliant with all local COVID-19 restrictions and guidance (but it will be virtual) - Not focused on investment, price or token sales # Ideas ## Incentivise healthy participation - **Event wrapup posts**: bounties for people to do roundups of the events (blogposts etc inspired 1729). Twitter, retweet, look for influenial folks to blogpost. - **Onboarding others to Web3**: create public goods and provide incentives for contributors to curate content relevant to some chosen themes as NFTs and we give them their eth can get speakers to sponsor too. - **Incentivised skills pathways**: curate education pathways where we host events that people can do study jams and if they complete tasks as they go, we incentivise them with some rewards # Hitchiker's guide to the Ethereumverse Format: 2.5 Hour zoom webinar (1 hour talk, .5 hour gather.town) ## Sequence of events - First 1 hour: Focused talks - Webinar host to prep some questions beforehand to steer the AMA in the right direction - Introduce potential tasks people can do to keep involved - Last 90 mins: unconference style at gather.town - unstructured conversations for mingling and interaction - 24+1 speaker # Topics for the Guidebook 6 main topics, 3 talks each optimised for APAC timezone. ## Meta-structure for 1 hour talk 1. **Curated pre-readings for the talk**, at most half an hour of reading, covering key points. Speakers will get the key points. We can provide bounties to students to curate these readings. 3. **-5 mins to talk**: set up zoom, have a banner explaining structure of talk and introducing speaker 4. **0 min**: event starts on time no matter what, record 5. **+5 min**: ELI5, cannot use banned words (technical terms) speakers given a heads up 6. **+20 min**: cover key questions prepared beforehand especially from the pre-readings 7. **+40 min**: demos, explainers, speakers can do a quick sharing for 20 mins 8. **+55 min**: cover questions asked during the event itself 9. **+60 min**: admin and wrap up, move attendees to gather.town 10. **+90 min**: gather.town mingle around **Talks are separated into a series with individual events under them, this is currently a proposed list that we hope to fill and get advice on** ## NFT series ### Eulerbeats ### Larvalabs ### Lesser known folks ## Games series ### Axie ### Dark forest ### Lesser known folks ## DAO series ### Index coop ### MakerDAO ### GitcoinDAO - Open source grant program - Regenerative finance ## Web3 Infrastructure series ### EIP-1559 - Introduction to EIP-1559 - Easy to understand overview - Why is it important? - What is the response like? - How have the testnet launches been so far? - Potential speakers: Barnabe and Tim Beiko ### Layer2 scaling: optimism ### Chainlink ## Defi series ### Sushi ### 88mph ### Balancer ### Lesser known folks ## ETH2 series ### Staking: rocketpool/ lido - Introduction to ETH2 - What does a switch from PoW to PoS look like? - Intro to the 3 phases of PoS Ethereum - What is the Beacon Chain and what does it look like in its current state? - What is the Altair fork and the major upgrades that it brings with it? - Potential speakers: Danny Ryan, Barnabe Monnot, Vitalik Buterin, Aditya Asgaonkar ## MEV series ### Flashbots - Introduction to MEVs - What are MEV's and what does financial arbitrage look like in Blockchain systems? - Introduction to flashbots - Organizational aims - Intro to flashbots architecture - MEV Attacks Hall of Fame - Potential speakers: Flashbots team ### Hobbyist validators and decentralising the chain ## Event logistics (High Level) - poap.xyz for attendance - luma similar to [Orbit's community camp](https://lu.ma/communitycamp/events) - curate opportunities that are less known and showcase more esoteric projects - timezone 8pm SGT which is 1pm UTC, each event should last 1 hour with half an hour for other things - gather town for mini interactions (24+speaker per group to stay in free tier) ---- ## Social media presence 1) Landing page - To redirect people to the right places 2) Luma page - posts for articles, calender for events, subscribers list, donations 3) Twitter, LinkedIn protocol 4) Use the project discord communities + twitter for post event discussions ## Bounties 1) Pre-event: Research posts (Template provided) - 3 days to complete 3) Post-event: Transcription - English (Template provided) - 3 days to complete 5) Translation tasks - 3 days to complete - Chinese - Vietnamese - Malay - Japanese - For each task (w/o gas): $25*10 = $250 - Gas: $100 - Buffer: $150 ### Task templates **From how ScribeDAO does tweets** We'd appreciate it if you used a sort of standard template for your ScribeDAO posts. TL;DR - Try to make it look like this post from our very own @MikeImp.crypto | UD (It was the first ScribeDAO post to be included on The Daily Ape!): https://twitter.com/mikeyimp/status/1431058898711195651 - In your first tweet: - Please mention the original author's twitter handle. If you have room to spell out the whole title, great! If not, summarize! - Link the source - Consider a TL;DR-type statement summarizing the idea behind the entire piece. The reader doesn't know what the article is about - this might just pull him into your thread! - If you have room, declare this to be a @scribedao post! If you don't have room, at least be sure to include "@scribedao". This way the ScribeDAO Twitter account can see and retweet your post! - If you have even more room, throw in the article's estimated read time, like @bilbobaggins did here: https://twitter.com/mark_murdock3/status/1430258376743784450 - In your final tweet, ask the reader to follow @scribedao, like @Brunny did here: https://twitter.com/blulinski/status/1431001328621326344?s=21 - We're trying to save the reader some time, so if in doubt, please shoot for ~10 bullet points, divvied out among 3-4 main topics. Flexible, of course - some pieces are just too damn long! @Pure did a great job keeping it short in this post: https://twitter.com/PureCrypto/status/1430679902207021067 - Finally, this whole DAO started because we liked what @cmsintern was doing with UpOnly podcasts. He's working with a lot of source material, so he screenshots his notes and crams eight screenshots into two Tweets. REALLY IMPORTANT: You can read the content of his screenshots before you open them. Big font, narrow line width. We'd love to see this for the long-form stuff: https://twitter.com/cmsintern/status/1431016295533883395?s=20 ## Hit list **Protocol to ask** - [ ] E-mail sent with explainer (we need a template for this) - [ ] Speaker requested - [ ] Date decided - [ ] Follow-up before event ## Guest Wishlist 1) Vitalik Buterin 2) Justin Drake 3) Tim Beiko 4) Danny Ryan 5) Barnabe Monnot 6) Micah 7) Ben Eddington 8) Evan Van Ness 9) Trent Van Epps 10) Aya Miyaguchi 11) Aditya Asgaonkar 12) Hsiao-Wei Wang 13) Karl Floersch 14) Alex Stokes 15) Kevin Owocki 16) Austin Griffith 17) Brian Gu 18) Peter Pan (Came on the Bankless episode on crypto culture) 19) Hudson Jameson 20) Sandeep (From Polygon) 21) Ed Felton 22) Eric / Snofro 23) Pooja Ranjan 24) Loi Luu 25) Shane Hong ## Event logistics Pre event includes: - Sending out emails to the guests - Sending them a brief overview of the event: objectives, format etc. - Suggest potential dates and potential topics of discussions - Get feedback on required background information to be gathered before the talk - Once confirmed double chack the following - Speaker bio + pic to be publicized - Send cal invite to the speaker to confirm date - Zoom link - Publicize the talk [To be done at least 2 weeks in advance] - Main channel: Twitter (Get the ESP team to reshare to reach multple audience) - 2 times: 2 weeks before the event and a few days before the event (as a follow up) - Update the lu.ma page and calander (this is where people can add the event to the calander + sign up for the FCFS gather town interaction) - Open up the research bounty and provide the template (more logistical information on this: In the bounties section) Event will be split into 2: - Open for all Zoom webinar (1 hour): For open community discussions - Questions to be prepped by us before hand to steer the discussion in certain way - Bankless style: A conversation between the 2 of us + the guests that people tune into and follow - Limited to 20-30 gathertown discussion between attendees and the speakers (30-45 mins) - Based on FCFS, those that sign up first get the invite Post even includes: - Publicising the bounties - Bounties will be publicised on Twitter with clear instructions - Participants will be reuqired to send a link to their response in a tweet tagging us using a particular hashtag (to make it easier for us to filter) - The best ones, as selected by us, will earn the reward, POAP and have their items published on our Luma page - Leverage the existing communities (Discord servers, Twitter spaces etc.) for the projects that we feature to spark up post event discussions **Missing pieces** - Graphics: Logo, website design and posters - How to showcase lesser known APAC projects - Not gripping enough to take the entire spotlight - Not too small to take up a section of the webinar