Edge City Lanna ECL Adam Hurwitz How I'd like to get involved I'd love to join the Edge City Lanna community in Chiang Mai (CM) to accelerate the progress of real-world crypto with the current and upcoming projects I'm working on. Last month in July I moved to CM leading up to Devcon to begin learning about the current state of real-world crypto in Southeast Asia and what the largest opportunities are. It will be mutually beneficial to work alongside both local builders and those who've traveled here to share our experience and build together. I have experience and enjoy building in open source as part of communities both in fast growing places like Latin America and in traditional tech San Francisco. As a nomad I enjoy exploring cities through coffee and tea cafes, healthy local food, and running. I am passionate about making wellness accessible, and I’ve found personal success with my fitness goals with slow-carb nutrition, intermittent fasting, and natural shoe running. My experience I have 11 years of experience across product, software, and business development

🔰 Adam Hurwitz Safe Grants Program Appendix Business/Product council proposal, June 2023 About me I became involved with Safe in 2021 through exploring all of the crypto account options available. I was impressed with Safe's open-source technology, team, and track record which has inspired me to make contributions to the ecosystem. As a nomad I enjoy exploring cities through coffee and tea cafes, casual food, and running. I learned more deeply about proof-of-stake (PoS) while living in Medellín, Colombia, for 3 months in 2019. I discovered the local DASH team and DASH’s hybrid PoS structure. I contributed to a few open-source initiatives and became excited for Ethereum’s PoS future. Living in Colombia was also impactful learning about real-world crypto use cases that I did not experience living in the San Francisco Bay Area for 7 years. I am returning to Latam this August for 3 months. You can follow me on Twitter at @adamshurwitz. SafeDAO contributions

☀️ Adam Hurwitz Summer of Protocols (SoP) Ideas === summerofprotocols.com Opening and decentralizing collaboration protocols There’s only two ways to make money in business: One is to bundle; the other is unbundle - Jim Barksdale (CEO) and Marc Andreessen (Co-founder) of Netscape 1 This also applies to how decentralized sources of information can centralize over time. As information moves faster than ever this poses great risk to collaborative decision making if information's origins are not known (closed-source) and controlled by a few gatekeepers (centralized).

Managing account access control protocols for coordination As advancements in identity and access management software and hardware drasticaly decrease the cost of production, a rapidly increasing number of individuals have access to cutting edge technology. These technologies include biometrics, cryptography, AI, and sybil resistance. Using these technologies makes it possible for individuals to coordinate on open-source work, who otherwise may not be able to to work together due the restrictions in being able to trust others with access to their software and/or communities. Biometrics are built into most base-level mobile phones and there are affordable standalone devices like Yubico Yubikeys. As AI improves existing devices will be able to accurately verify users based on unique pattern recognition to each user. Cryptocurrency addresses have many uses as both accounts for financial and non-financial applications by individuals and organizations. In order to realize the full potential of addresses and make use of crypto's security benefits of self-ownership it is important to build easy-to-use experiences that provide the ability to manage and customize access to accounts. This will research the range of existing protocols available (e.g., Delegate Cash, Delegatable, Sismo, Warm, Zodiac, etc.) 1, which use cases are the best fit for each, and areas of improvement. Account access can range from attribute based access control (ABAC), that is allowing hot wallets to access social accounts on behalf of tokens/NFTs held in cold storage, to role based access control (RBAC), like enabling social recovery strategies to certain addresses and setting access to tools for people based a team position. Here are more use cases outlined for Safe accounts (Formerly Gnosis Safe) in the Safe forum. 2

Ethereum proof-of-stake (PoS) protocol and the potential for remote validators Remote-friendly validators for Ethereum proof-of-stake (PoS) helps to improve decentralization. Remote-friendly means that one can participate as a validator while not permanently residing in one location, e.g. Digital nomads. This will research the requirements of Ethereum PoS and the capability of technologies that could make remote validation possible. By exploring these proof-of-concepts, it will help push the boundaries of PoS validation, increases access, participation, and improve the health of the Ethereum ecosystem. Vitalik Buterin has communicated the goal of mobile-friendly staking in the long-term, e.g., September 2022 on Bankless' show, "138 - What’s Next? Vitalik Buterin | Part I" (51:45) 1. Potential emerging technology includes staking protocols (Rocket Pool minipools 2, Stakewise, etc.), decentralized hosting services (Akash 3 and Aleph), and hardware (Staking-specific devices like Avado, Dappnode, Proteus, laptops, and some in the Rocket Pool community even running Linux virtual machines on Google Pixel phones). These tools have the potential to provide non-developers who are tech-savvy the ability to run validators. The remote-friendly requirement increases access for everyone. This aligns well with Ethereans values of geographic diversity as their are local communities, meetups, and events in cities around the world. Another aspect could be comparing the feasibility remote Ethereum validation to other PoS protocols that provide value back to Ethereum, e.g. data storage networks (IPFS and Arweave), and related chains like Gnosis Chain. The first step would be to research and open-source the results of what is possible with existing hardware and software solutions. Given there is a viable path forward, launch a working proof-of-concept (PoC) on a testnet and sharing the process and results along the way.

☀️ Adam Hurwitz Summer of Protocols (SoP) Ideas Opening and decentralizing collaboration protocols Managing account access control protocols for coordination Ethereum proof-of-stake (PoS) protocol and the potential for remote validators

Chris 🤝 Adam === DAOs How other DAOs work How do you see that happening in other protocols? The SafeDAO is the first crypto community I've participated in from the beginning of its creation so this is a great learning experience for me. I have participated in Dash.org's DAO and other open-source communities within Android. Dash In 2019 I learned in-depth about DAOs and proof-of-stake (PoS) while living in Colombia for 3 months, meeting a part of the Dash.org's core team, and pitching 2 open-source projects.