{"id":151021,"date":"2023-09-07T00:05:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T18:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/?p=151021"},"modified":"2023-09-07T00:05:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T18:35:10","slug":"gitcoins-founder-wants-to-return-from-the-sidelines-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/gitcoins-founder-wants-to-return-from-the-sidelines-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Gitcoin\u2019s founder wants to return from the sidelines &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Gitcoin co-founder Kevin Owocki has revealed his intention to return to the DAO dedicated to building digital public goods infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>This time, however, Owocki <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gov.gitcoin.co\/t\/i-intend-to-return-to-gitcoin\/16452\">says<\/a> he does not plan to take center stage but rather work with the community and find out where he can add value.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Blockworks, Owocki said he believes he can contribute to the ecosystem by spreading awareness and information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really trying to add value from the edges and be a network catalyst to help synthesize information across different stakeholders,\u201d Owocki told Blockworks. \u201cI\u2019m not returning as some sort of benevolent dictator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With Gitcoin\u2019s governance process decentralized, Owocki plans to submit proposals over the next couple of months and gauge community interest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always say there are three different types of feedback: There\u2019s do feedback \u2014 which is \u2018I want you to do this\u2019; there\u2019s try feedback \u2014 which is \u2018I want you to try this\u2019; then there\u2019s considered feedback,\u201d Owocki said. \u201cI\u2019ve been very mindful that at this stage, I\u2019m really just giving considered feedback.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"envisioning-next-steps\">Envisioning next steps<\/h2>\n<p>One area that Owocki is interested in working on is helping Gitcoin go to market through grants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Gitcoin grants 1.0 was like a screwdriver \u2014 it is just quadratic funding, then Gitcoin grants 2.0 would be a Swiss army knife \u2014 it\u2019s got quadratic funding, quadratic voting and the team is building milestone-based payments and conviction voting and dominance insurance contracts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Owocki sees himself playing a role in finding products suitable for market participants and also building trust among the different parts of the ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, Owocki notes that he intends to deliver his own version of an \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blockworks.co\/news\/makerdao-endgame-update\">Endgame Plan<\/a>\u201d \u2014 similar to that of MakerDAO co-founder Rune Christensen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI may do something like that, but instead of it being top-down, it\u2019s going to be more of a bottoms-up synthesis of different participants. It\u2019s not going to be my vision, it\u2019s going to be the things that are genuinely coming from the participants in the network,\u201d Owocki said.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<p><strong>Get the day\u2019s top crypto news and insights delivered to your email every evening.\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blockworks.co\/newsletter?source=end\">Subscribe to Blockworks\u2019 free newsletter<\/a>\u00a0now.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Want alpha sent directly to your inbox? Get degen trade ideas, governance updates, token performance, can\u2019t-miss tweets and more from\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blockworks.co\/newsletter\/research\">Blockworks Research\u2019s Daily Debrief<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Can\u2019t wait? 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In an interview with Blockworks, Owocki said he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[230,225,221,227,226,228,229,60,223,224,222],"class_list":["post-151021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-brave","tag-coinbase","tag-crypto","tag-decentralised","tag-decentralized","tag-decentralized-exchange","tag-erc-20","tag-featured","tag-meme-coin","tag-robinhood","tag-solana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151024,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151021\/revisions\/151024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}