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The Public Goods Working Group is responsible for funding public goods in web3 that are not ENS-specific or ENS-centric. These are projects that may receive grants from other major (protocol) DAOs because of the positive and often broad impact the project has on the wider Ethereum ecosystem.

Examples of public goods projects that have received or would be eligible to receive funding from the Public Goods WG include Ethers, WAGMI, cryptofees.info, revoke.cash, or web3scaffold — all projects that could receive funding from other DAOs. Funding may also be used to fund web3 public goods through other platforms, such as Gitcoin.

For the Q3/Q4 Term of 2023, the elected Stewards of the Public Goods Working Group are:

There are weekly Public Goods WG meetings and everyone is welcome. Meetings are held at 1pm ET on Tuesdays.

To view the agenda and meeting notes for each Public Goods weekly meeting, visit this post on the Governance Forum, which is updated weekly.

If you would like to add an item to the agenda, you can reach out to the Lead Steward, coltron.eth, by messaging him on the governance forum or sending a DM on Twitter.

The Public Goods WG is funded at the start of each term. The funding process is set out in Rule 10 of the Working Group Rules. A funding request is first passed as a Social Proposal on its own, then as a Collective Executable Proposal, with the other WG funding requests.

The funding request proposals for the current term can be found below:

[EP 3.1.3] [Social] Q1/Q2 2023 Funding Request: Public Goods Working Group

[EP 3.2] [Executable] Q1/Q2 2023 Working Groups Funding Request

Funding requests approved in an Executable Proposal are paid out from the DAO treasury (wallet.ensdao.eth) to the Public Goods WG multisig (ens-publicgoods.pod.xyz).

Based on the approved funding requests, steward allocate funding towards specific initiatives. Where practical, new multisigs (a.k.a pods) are funded with the specific purpose of distributing funds to a particular cause/initiative.

If there are a small number of initiatives a working group supports with its funding, then payments can be made straight from the working group multisig.

Public Goods stewards are empowered to distribute funds as they see fit, in pursuit of the purpose of their working group, pursuant to Rule 10.5 of the Working Group Rules. This means stewards may reallocate funds previously earmarked for another purpose in a funding request, to the extent it doesn’t conflict with any rules of the DAO or the Constitution.

The Public Goods WG multisig has four signers: the three stewards elected for the term plus the Secretary, who is appointed by a majority of stewards each term.

In order for a transaction to be executed, 3 of 4 signers must approve the transaction.

The current signers on the Public Goods WG multisig for Q1/Q2 2023 are shown in the image below.

The Public Goods multisig is viewable through the DNS-linked ENS name ens-publicgoods.pod.xyz or the wallet address 0xcD42b4c4D102cc22864e3A1341Bb0529c17fD87d.

One-Year Pod: The PG WG currently has one pod, named one-year. The one-year pod is funded for the purpose of distributing funds related to the Public Goods Scholarship which was awarded in December 2022.

Gitcoin Grants: In January 2023, the PG WG donated $50k to be put towards the Eth Infrastructure and Open Source Software rounds in the Gitcoin Alpha Round.

Last term, the PG WG also donated $50k the main round of Gitcoin Grants Round 15, held in September 2022 along with $50k for the ETH infrastructure round.

Rapid Grants: Rapid Grants are grants up to $10k each for web3 public goods. To request a rapid grants from the PG WG, reach out to a steward or join the weekly PG WG meeting.

Large Grants: Large Grants are grants up to $100k each for web3 public goods. To submit your public goods project for consideration, reach out to a steward for more information on how to apply.

View the current balance and transaction history of the PG WG multisig and related pods below. The signers on the multsig/pod are responsible for the distribution of funds from the pod.

If you are seeking funding from the Public Goods WG, you are encouraged to attend a weekly PG WG meeting and/or reach out to a Public Goods steward.

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