Pacific Town Hall Meeting Recaps

Pacific Town Hall - August 23, 2023 Meetup

Attendees: 5

Pacific Town Hall this week was very cozy with 5 participants showing up on Zoom.

We kicked things off with:

Announcements:

  • Ed Eykholt
    ** Blocktrust
    *** working on wrapping up Fund 9 proposals
    *** Identity Wallet: blocktrust identity wallet
    *** Fund 10 proposals underway
  • RJ
    ** CRCI
    *** https://www.crci.review/
    *** Working on DeFi Fundamental analysis
    *** Fund 10 proposal: https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/104883
    *** Increased transparency and accountability, to protect the ecosystem
    *** 28 critical metrics tracked over 8 categories for DeFi projects in the Cardano ecosystem
  • Quasar
    ** Project Catalyst Discord server
    *** trying to get it more active
    ** Category scoping workshops
    *** trying to build momentum and understanding in the community
    ** Gamechanger Wallet
    *** NFT mint - 100 gift wallets, pre-loaded with 2 ADA and 2 NFTs to be distributed at Rare Bloom via a QR code
    *** Gamechanger is 100% browser-based wallet
    *** Getting close to moving B2 to mainnet
  • Nori
    ** ODIN
    *** Space Trains
    *** Sociocracy 3.0
    *** Fund 10
    **** Space Trains and Metadata: Scaling our Communities of Trust: Community

We then had a lively discussion around around various topics:

Discussion
- Voltaire
- SanchoNetwork
- https://sancho.network/
- There is energy to give Voltaire to the community as soon as possible
- Rumors:
- Fund 11 is the same as Fund 10
- Fund 12 might be the first to go through CIP-1694
- dRep model and MVG by March of next year
- Identity
- Self-sovereign Social Graphs and Identity
- Backup and recovery of identity
- We could split your keys into pieces that are held by trusted individuals or communities and require 3 of 5 to reconstitute the key for you
- Analog to digital transition (driver’s license, diplomas, birth certificates)
- credentials don’t go on the blockchain, they remain private by default
- Crypto Wild West
- Bad actors are judgement proof, we can’t do much
- Bad actors might have good intentions but poor results or mistakes
- There are no standards
- There is no insurance
- Vancouver Cardano Summit
- Will happen November 11, at the Cascades Casino in Delta, BC