Good Morning Harmony Protocol Community,
Below is a brief summary of ETHLisbon videos where Our Founder @stse and COO @lij interview web 3 developers and builders, to include Chief officers and creatives regarding social, geographic or developmental issues. The intention of this post is to increase awareness of other protocols or products which are solving today’s issues.
These are individual clips from the Harmony Protocol Youtube channel during their time at ETHLisbon, please like and subscribe to that channel. Also please share, retweet, upvote and like.
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Much love to the videographer and editor of all videos, great touches with the Lo-fi tunes and sweet graphics during shot transitions!
Motivation - To the ONEs who build- A love Letter in Lisbon
“There’s a revolution happening right NOW, if you WANT to live in a world you LOVE then BUILD IT!”
- To start this thread up, an interview with Near Protocol
Alex of Near Protocol by Stephen Tse
Stephen opened up by asking Alex about his start at Near Protocol
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Near Launched in 2018 - is also a Sharded Chain
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Alex background in database design & architecture - engineering
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Alex mentioned how the database ecosystem is more mature with strong engineers
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Database tech already built and the innovation behind it comes out just once a year, not such a thrilling space to be, people who may like writing papers instead of solving issues may find the space to be suitable
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Alex said AI space was over-hyped, that the blockchain space is healthier and with more ambitious people
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Also stated that the blockchain development sector is heavily unexplored and how bridges in 2019 were awful in stark contrast to today, where they are throughout the blockchain space
Alex began talking further about DAOs
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DAO tooling called Sputnik on Near Protocol which if the DAO is focused in or around NFT, music or education it would be easier to onboard and simple to use web wallet
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Integration with payment and invoice systems for the DAOs to pay people
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Alex mentioned he would like the DAOs to be the next wave, although Metaverse seems to be ready to carry the torch as DAOs have so much more to grow
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Problems with today DAOs is lack of self organization and difficult to get participation
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Theres a shortage of tooling for DAOs in order for it to be successful wave such as the summer of Defi, and the recent emergence of NFTs
Closing comments by Alex - If you are young get involved in cryptography, take on math, "this is where the money will be"
-Next video is Gabriella Chang from Ethic Hub
Gabriella interview by Stephen Tse
Gabriella (Chief Success Officer) opened up the conversation going into her background as a developer in Mexico, where she saw first-hand the issues the coffee producers were facing. At that time Gabriella and those with Ethic Hub decided to tackle the issues with the traditional financial system which tends to leave out ¼ of the population which includes small farmers.
The solution they came up with was Ethic Hub
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Although most farmers are organized, due to geographic location there is many that lack financial tools
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Many farmers only have one hectare of land and although most have profitable activity, they still are living within poverty
Stephen asked “why is this financial instrument important, and it’s not just simple as crowdfunding?” - such as Gofundme
Maria responded with the following points
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Through the platform they provide a transnational decentralized crowd-lending services backed by crowd collateral
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Provides lending to farmers to be able to access resources with the financial instrument having fixed lending rate at 8% APY
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Farmers unite forming an organization through a representative who provides the tools for them to access the resources which Ethic Hub provides
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What the platform plans to do is connect DeFi farmers to traditional farmers
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50% of total supply locked, the platform is over-collateralized
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2017 Ethic Hub launched at the exact moment of the bear market, which for everyone in that space especially builders a difficult time, gave the team a strong foundation to build on
She also mentioned that farmers who live in poverty provide 80% of the total supply of coffee beans
Ethnic Hub soon plans to expand throughout other regions within South America and intends to launch a pilot into cacao. It also plans to offer the tools to farmers in Honduras and Brazil.
Gabriella finished by saying “Be aware of the technology that is around us which could be utilized to do new things, not the same things faster”.
- The following summary is from Harsh Rajat of Ethereum Push Notificiation Service
Harsh Sajat interview by Stephen
Building communication between blockchains with on and off chain notifications to drive governance participation
User Opt-in protocol for notifications to applications such as Gitcoin, Aave, Polygon
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Any Dapp or smart contract can provide on or off chain notification in a platform-agnostic way
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Notifications can arrive through multiple crypto supported wallets such as Metamask, Trust Wallet including Solana
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Pilot co-lab, with the following- MakerDAO, Uniswap, TrueFi, Alpha Homora, Gitcoin and Aave
Harsh Sajat mentioned that he believes Harmony will be joining the co-lab program and that Harmony team knows them well
Stephen Tse asked about Harsh Sajat background , when Stephen met him Harsh won a hackathon at ETHGlobal 2020 and now is involved with EPNS
- began as a Web 2 dev back when it was iOS 3, minimal tools available
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Nightmare to program at that time, no middleware, no API
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At that point in time Apple Launched notifications, notifications were coming through email and it was really slow (constantly checking for updates)
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Harsh had really understood the infrastructure with the difficulties he faced by remaining resilient and he persevered
Stephen mentioned, he is looking forward to the use case tools for DAOs and asked Harsh to go into detail of what could they provide for DAOs
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Working with Snapshot, Aragon and Boardroom offering alerts to their users
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Notifications transform to video or call to action, which would be similar to WhatsApp or Twitter alert
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People will see the proposal and have a simple yes or no interaction, no need to go to snapshot site to cast vote
Harsh closed off by saying he knows EPNS will provide an increase in governance and community engagement with these simple tools, there would be no more hoops or hurdles of jumping through wallets to get to a snapshot. Harsh Rajat believes the tools created at EPNS will be friendly enough to onboard users giving them a text like notification so even the newest user can be involved.
Harsh Rajat loves Harmony 
- Next Manuel Alzuru from DoinGud
Manuel started developing as child by porting products from the United States to Venezuela. He went into detail about his time in Venezuela during the civil unrest they had with inflation, and his involvement on the ground led him to trouble, which is what made him move to Spain.
The concept of DoinGud is as simple as doing good deeds
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Creators tokenize assets and stream money to 17 sustainable development goals: climate change or equality while different project tackle those issues
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People can participate in governance and be involved with social causes
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NFT as a social movement, instead of group of people creating value, it just requires ONE person to see the need and value
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ETHBarcelona is upcoming which Manuel feels that the Spanish community will provide a great experience combining tech, art and activism
Later Stephen mentioned how he would like Harmony to be deeply involved with ETHBarcelona
Manuel resides in Spain and Stephen noted how the impact of the Spanish and Latino community is vast throughout the world, Manuel agreed and used Latin music as a reference also the fact that Spanish is the 2nd most spoken language.
Stephen asked how we can increase exposure in the Spanish community and how we could help
Manuel’s response was not to force people to adopt technology as in El Salvador to its citizens which could be counter intuitive to growing adoption.
Manuel final comment when Stephen said he would be a driving force for the Spanish community "Lets F*ing GO!"
- Lastly interview with Anthony Beaumont from Encode club
Encode is a Web2 to Web3 education community company
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Hackathons, coding camps, bootcamp accelerators, Encode supported during ETHLisbon
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100x subscriber increase in a year
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Everyone is hiring, Anthony says and states its both good and bad, but feels certain innovation will continue to grow
When Anthony mentioned scaling 100x, Li asked if that could actually happen, Anthony responded saying “ believes they can, although the only bottleneck with scaling is that the people are interviewed personally”, roughly just 1/3 are accepted.
Li asked Anthony why are people joining now?
Anthony mentioned developers have an upside in the market naturally due to Supply and Demand and how having only 6 months experience is about 7% of all experience. Right now there is a fairly low risk opportunity, to the people who are on fence enticed to join he believes crypto has a way to attract people whether by luck or judgement. Anthony stated that the bull market may be the reason for growth of participation, although he personally says anyone joining the space now is unlikely to make short term money.
Li asked Anthony how are ideas evolving in the development space between Web2 and Web3 devs
Anthony replied that everyone has the same evolution although, the smarter people usually move through the space faster into DeFi and NFT, where the traditional thinker from web 2 would think of bringing an application from Web2 and apply it to crypto such as tracking a supply chain or creating a piggy bank of sort.
The Key principal of Encode
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Makes it easy for Developers to do their job , Encode lays the foundation by making it simple and stress free
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Encode teaches specific blockchain applications
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The best people move fast doing multiple hackathon, hard to keep up with those hackers who excel
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Anthony says for anyone new development to take a leverage bet and get into the space
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Security and gas optimization are the key elements in coding after being taught the basics and that Encode Camp is focused on teaching these things in order to a high quality
Closing comments by Anthony after being asked what would happen a year from now,
He felt skeptical of DAOs since basic infrastructure is lacking and that the current process is inadequate through discord, snapshot and gnosis safe. He states the place of disruption for a hacker would be to build tools in the DAO space. And as for NFT and game developers make the game first then come back to the token.
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