Name: Web3 Wednesday - Funding Public Goods w/ Thomas Jay Rush & Ben DiFrancesco
Start: 2023-11-29T17:30:00-05:00
End: 2023-11-29T20:30:00-05:00
Location: The Blockspace

Join us for Web3 Wednesday for talks from Philadelphia's leading experts in web3 and blockchain. Discover the future of decentralized technologies, share your insights, and forge valuable connections. Whether you're an industry pro or a curious beginner Web3 Wednesday is a great event to engage, learn, and grow.

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Decentralized Philly

Technology

New Technology

Cryptography

Decentralized Systems & Applications

Bitcoin

Smart Contracts

Ethereum

Blockchain

Blockchain Security

Make New Friends

Social Networking

Fun Times

**Thomas Jay Rush**
Rush founded TrueBlocks, LLC in early 2016 in response to the infamous DAO hack. Why did it take ten hours for anyone to notice that "the DAO is being drained"? A long-time blockchain enthusiast, Rush founded the Philadelphia Ehtereum Meeetup group, has been involved with *GitCoin* since its inception including a stint as a Steward, and is a frequent speaker and writer about blockchain technology, decentralization, and indexing EVM chains.

**Ben DiFrancesco**
Ben is the founder and lead Engineer at ScopeLift, a crypto focused dev shop building in the Ethereum ecosystem. ScopeLift has worked with *Gitcoin* as a client since early 2020, helping to build out key features of the *Gitcoin Grants* platform during its early growth. Earlier this year, ScopeLift helped the *Gitcoin* DAO upgrade their onchain governance contracts. In addition to working with Gitcoin as a client, ScopeLift has also been the beneficiary of grants via the Gitcoin platform. Specifically, ScopeLift's project *Umbra* has received much of its funding via *Gitcoin*. Umbra is a stealth address system which enables privacy preserving payments on the EVM. It's been in development since May 2020 and remains an open source, fully grant funded project.

Web3 Wednesday - Funding Public Goods w/ Thomas Jay Rush & Ben DiFrancesco

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