##### tags: `grant` `proposal` `external`

# Describe your project and why you classify it as a Public Good

Though LexDAO came into existence within the EVM ecosystem, our mission is to ensure 'law is a public good,' which is a public good that encompasses far more than the EVM ecosystem!

'Law is a public good' is arguably the most important public good in the EVM ecosystem, because bad law can and does destroy EVM prosperity.

Unfortunately, we are not aware of any organization other than LexDAO with a mission of ensuring 'law is a public good.' However, LexDAO is also the legal engineering guild, so we mostly focus on how to support 'law is a public good' through information technologies:

Software might be eating the world (Andreessen), but law is the software of society (Lessig) and text is the universal interface (Unix)!

As such, LexDAO focuses on ensuring legally impactful text, whether computational or vague, is as creative commons and open source software as possible.

# How much have you raised from each of your funding sources and from who?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OWOyfsYIIgeUYIXpfungkrJVhmzwJezcf6A3_LlQYbI/edit#gid=0

# Share your project roadmap:

https://snapshot.org/#/lexdao.eth/proposal/0xf8c4af3d930bc4fd26bd9599cab8aee2a7df45d5ca67809284af3edf5699f767 and https://github.com/lexDAO/Grants/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file#grant-request-process and https://discord.com/channels/682960432272506907/1243949931644059820/1243986948264300685 . We'll consolidate this during the main round.

# What milestones have you achieved?

Cryptolawer directory, newsletter, weekly study group, ETHDenver events, multiple services and products offshoots such as:

* https://twitter.com/cougardao (RWA DAO)

* https://twitter.com/taterdao (RWA DAO)

* https://doc.lex.clinic (running Creative Commons working group on NFTs)

* https://lexblock.xyz (professional legal engineering project management)

* https://twitter.com/kali__gg (legally integrated DAO summoner from Moloch framework authors)

* https://twitter.com/ixiantech (legal engineering law firm in a polycentric jurisdiction)

* https://www.daocoalition.org (helped Hats Protocol integrate Snapshot.org and Gitcoin Passport at https://github.com/daocoa )

* https://x.com/web3coalition (got DDEX.net to create an NFT working group with a web3 leader as co-chair, Open Source Orchestra collab bull-revival plans for this or next year's Music Biz conference)

* https://folk.gg (experiments in web3 permissionless-copyright)

* Conference reflections at https://github.com/lexDAO/LexDAO-Articles/tree/master/Event-Artifacts

# Tell us more about milestones you'd like to achieve

During the bear market, we were focused on keeping the lights on. Now that we have funds again we plan to have a dedicated General Counsel who can produce public good templates for the web3 community, spin up the Journal of Legal Engineering with https://descier.science , attend and host events at multiple conferences as we did with ETHDenver 2024, turn grants-out back on including retroactive funding for groups like https://coala.global , improve our legal directory, turn weekly legal hacks back on (we already turned weekly study group back on), switch to https://www.hatsprotocol.xyz governance, complete the web3-GAAP tools proto-described at https://ape.mirror.xyz as iNFTs and legal seals and likely other initiatives by our members as we can now focus our attention on the non-essential roadmap goals.

Active proposals listed at https://github.com/lexDAO/Grants/tree/main/request

# Funding Goal and Budget:

We'd like to cover another 6 months of operations runway at $136,800 for 6 months https://github.com/lexDAO/DAO-Proposals/blob/main/Proposals/2024-03-30_LexDAO%202024%20Operating%20Budget.md

# Tell us more about your team:

Some of the top legal engineers and cyptolawyers are members of LexDAO. Here is a list of some of our members: https://twitter.com/search?q=lexdao&src=typed_query&f=user https://twitter.com/search?q=lex_dao&src=typed_query&f=user

Our event at the Gitcoin House this ETHDenver had x3 the capacity sign up to attend: https://twitter.com/lex_DAO/status/1762904086633177247

# Social Credibility (development progress, awards, notable GitHub commits, referrals)

https://optimistic.etherscan.io/address/0x581b5e51ffbb742f92e818fb177cad8a30e43f3e , https://github.com/lexdao/ricardian , https://github.com/lexdao/lexlockerv2 , https://github.com/lexdao/kali , https://github.com/kalidao/wrappr , https://github.com/kalidao/keep , https://lexdao.substack.com/s/lexnews-weekly , https://lexdao.substack.com/ , https://ie.nani.ooo/ , https://github.com/lexDAO/hackmd

# Why's your project important?

# How do you define impact for your project? What metrics are you tracking?

We are spending this year's funds on upgrading our metrics. Too much of our impact goes unquantified. Important metrics we are capturing include: number of active members, growth of our newsletter, attendees at our IRL vents, how many offshoots have spun out of our DAO, how many people looking for legal services awe connect with cryptolawyers.

# Share your project impact metrics and results

From epoch 3 application: we would love to work with you and other professionals to help us better capture metrics, plan a portion of our OP RetroPGF3 to create an anual impact report. We've already reached out to https://twitter.com/carl_cervone and General Magic for assistance and are in the early stages of the process. The Commons Economy Roadmap has already generated a report for us, and we're in talks with them about adding additional elements to their report. We'll likely explore hypercerts with more focus.

Update: we are now working with Clinamenic and the Commons Economy Roadmap team. https://hackmd.io/Uh7HLwKMTBiOBt27-J3X4w and https://hackmd.io/q3on-SF4SzONETb61D6kuQ