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title: Takeaways from ETH Denver 2024

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-PGF:
  * "Allocation" VS "distribution" in PGF as a way to break down the PGF process into parts
  * "Impact measurement" is super hot right now. But I thing everyone is mostly confused about this, since it is very hard
  * Running "funding experiments" and then learning from thiem is really hot. Everyone is talking about this
  
-PL:
  * At Shelling Point house in his talk, Juan announced a possible cultural norm of 10% for PGF. He is not sure that's achievable
  * Juan wants to fund citations
  * PL going ahead with a RetroPGF round
  * Unknown who is leading PL PGF yet, but could be Tom and Kiran from CEL (https://research.protocol.ai/groups/cryptoeconlab/)
  * What is "PL Blue Fund"? (TG Group name)
  
-Arbitrum:
  * Joe is a clown
  * Devansh is actually a smart and thoughtful guy
  * Arbitrum views themselves as "pragmatic/responsible" spenders
  * Devansh said the people we should speak with are Cliffton and Patrick. He can make an intro to Patrick
  
-ENS
  * We met with Greg from ENS twice. Nice productive meetings
  * Greg introduced us to Alex Slobo from ENS who manages ecosystem grants (?) and some other things. He may be the best person at ENS for us to work with and he is interested in running an experiment of some sort with Drips.
  
-Gitcoin:
  * Gitcoin 2.0
  * EasyRetroPGF gaining momentum
  * QF has a lot of traction still. I heard streaming QF mentioned several times.
  
-Other funders:
  * I spoke with a guy from a Latam VC who was very interested in possible funding and wanted to follow up
  
-Misc:
  * Gas fees for running the splitting bot are worrying me more
  * Need to keep an eye on legal/regulatory/tax. Especially related to Github oracle and splitting
  * Edge City and popup cities in general are super hot. Juan wants to start a popup city in April in Argentina to work with Milei