How to find funding, building community, and decentralizing venture-capital | Shawn Dimantha

Colfax.eth is the Co-founder & CEO of GitPOAP. He is a builder of all builders and he came initially from the EthStaker community.  He is passionate about Ethereum and open source. Colfax started giving away POAP tokens and found that it actually led to more contributions. Now, he has spun it up into an entire product, which makes it very easy to give out POAP tokens if you run an open-source project. We have several big releases for earni.fi announced here. Earnifi now lets you save a GitHub username and search for GitPOAPs! Listen to the entire episode for those product announcements! Links: https://twitter.com/colfaxselby https://twitter.com/gitpoap https://www.gitpoap.io/p/colfax.eth https://twitter.com/ethStaker https://earni.fi

Today Joe and I covered the Pocket Network, where node runners can get paid to serve RPC requests. Joe is unique because he comes from a crypto-anarchist background where you run your own node. He's got in-depth knowledge about core infra and the backend, which application developers like me rarely dig into. If you want to know how blockchains work at a lower-level, this is your episode. Links: Pocket Network

We spoke about airdrop farming, web3 social, and how to keep up with everything in web3. Albert Hu, aka thatguyintech, is a Developer Advocate at Alchemy. Albert shares the story of how he got started on Alchemy and the 5 categories he uses to prioritize his time. We also talked about Devcon, what’s been happening in the Web 3 ecosystem, and what will happen in the future of blockchain. Links: https://twitter.com/thatguyintech https://www.thatguyintech.com/

Here is round two with Patrick Collins, the world's leading BlockChain educator. He is a YouTuber, Software Engineer / Developer Advocate at Chainlink Labs, and CEO & Founder of Alpha Chain. In this episode, we talked about Devcon Bogota and analyzed all the hot topics, from hacks, to decentralized storage and smart contracts. Stay tuned until the end as Patrick shares a few tips on how you can do better when it comes to NFT storage and the decentralized storage options you have available as a developer. Patrick’s Links: https://linktr.ee/PatrickAlphaC

Shawn Dimantha is in product leadership at Google & YouTube helping to build the future of the creator economy. He is also growing the venture/investment DAO ecosystem - primarily via Hydra Ventures DAO, and he is co-leading the Kernel DeFi. We discussed Web3 communities and the importance of building communities in the space. He shares the story of how he got started in Web3, particularly within the Ethereum ecosystem. Shawn is also hosting his podcast, where you can listen to the stories of the builders creating the DeFi industry. Links: https://www.shawndimantha.com/ https://twitter.com/HydraVentures_ https://twitter.com/kerneldefipod Shawn’s podcast http://spoti.fi/3lUieTX http://apple.co/3OTX7xF

Following my win at EthBogota, I explain how Modular Open-Sourcing works. This is my methodology for creating production-ready software and releasing it to GitHub through hackathons.  I owe Sam and Joshua a massive thank you for the opportunity to unpack my current thoughts here. I'm sure this episode will be worth revisiting for years as we discuss timeless lessons like meaning, luck, open-sourcing, and hackathons. Links: • https://github.com/dawsbot/essential-eth * https://earni.fi * https://github.com/dawsbot/email-seems-valid * https://www.devsdosomething.fm/

Harsh Rajat is a full-stack developer who became a product and business leader. We talked about PUSH (formerly Ethereum Push Notification Service (EPNS)), wallet-to-wallet communication, and Hackathons. Harsh started his entrepreneurial journey with mobile apps and games and has 11 years of entrepreneurial experience in various spectrums of tech (Mobile, Web Services, SaaS, and Blockchain). Links https://twitter.com/harshrajat https://epns.io/ https://cryptozombies.io/

Mentor.eth is a Biologist turned programmer! We talked about web 3, DAOs, and entrepreneurship. He explains how he went from working in a lab to web 3 programming. He's a talented dev with multiple helpful open-source projects available on GitHub. Links - Poap.xyz - oniondao.web.app - rocketeer.fans - signer.is - github.com/actuallymentor

David Silverman is a Product Manager at Aave Company. He helps shape the Lens Social Protocol and advance web3 Social. He thinks at the speed of lightning, so good luck keeping up! We discussed web3 user experience, gasless transactions, and upcoming Ethereum Improvement Proposals. Links: • David on Lenster: https://lenster.xyz/u/davidev.lens • David on Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidesilverman • Lens on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LensProtocol

This interview was done on-site at EthMexico. Joshua is an engineer at SuperFluid and a contributor to the Huff programming language. We covered streaming tokens, the huff programming language, and a short mention of Cairo. Zero-Knowledge programming is brand-new and jtriley is on the cutting edge! Links: • Joshua on Twitter • Joshua on GitHub • Cairo language • Huff Language