Metacartel is a community-led open software project + angel fund investing in early-stage (DApps)

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<h3>Our Mission</h3>MetaCartel’s mission is to accelerate the creation of Web 3 with the belief that it will make the world a richer, fairer place.<h3>Our Culture</h3>We are people first and take chances on people.We are action-oriented and move fast.We thrive in chaos and are comfortable with the pressure.We back ourselves and believe in the work we are doing.We do not believe in cynicism, we watch for opportunities.We have a dancing chilli as a logo, we have fun. YOLO.<h3>Our Community</h3>Since late 2018, we have grown an active community of over 800+ builders and held over 30+ meetups all the world and holds an active presence at most major Ethereum developer events.

<h3>about the event</h3>Bringing together a limited number of attendees, MCON gives you an experience of valuable conversations, learnings and experimental growth all about DAOs.Join the Meta Network as we head to DAOSchool, This year MCON takes over a boutique high school campus in downtown Denver "Evan School" on Acoma.If you've only ever dreamed of drinking tequila in between classes we're here to make it a reality.With 6 classrooms of experiences to choose from, a main hall seating only 200 people you'll be encouraged to choose your own adventure while attending different talks and discussions. Worst comes to worse you can always form a circle on the lawn. <h3>agenda and speakers</h3>day 1:<ul><li>Opening Ceremony // pet3rpan (1kx, MetaCartel) &amp; Yalor Mewn (MetaCartel)</li><li>P2E Governance: Why governance matters for self sovereign virtual economies // Flam Sanct (The Citadel Game) &amp; Nemo (Daedalaus, Lobsterchat)</li><li>The Nouns DAO Experiment // Noun (Nouns DAO) &amp; Callum Howard (FireEyes)</li><li>2018 vs. 2023: Narratives in Play // James Young (CollabLand, MetaCartel) &amp; pet3rpan (1kx, MetaCartel)</li><li>Kumbayah DAOs: How to Defend Your DAO Against Incompetence and Bureaucracy (Lessons Learned) // Rafa0 (Mirror DAO) &amp; Kevin Owocki (Gitcoin)</li><li>Headless Bands: Web3 x Music. Where Experimentation on the Fringes is Going // Matthew (SongCamp) &amp; David Hoffman (Bankless)</li><li>Do We Realy Need Another DAO Tooling Project? // Julia Rosenberg (Orca) &amp; Dennison Bertram (Tally)</li></ul>day 2:<ul><li>Scaling the Service DAO Model // Adam (Code Arena) &amp; Kolten (1kx)</li><li>The Last 2 Years of Investment DAOs: Where Next? // Victor Rortvedt (MCV, Hydra Ventures) &amp; Katia (MCV, LAO, Red DAO, Noise DAO)</li><li>Navigating Governance Hell and How to Prevent Chaos: The Value of Distributed Governance // MonetSupply (Tally) &amp; Frogmonke (Orca)</li><li>The Evolution of Gnosis DAO (Gnosis Safe, CowSwap, Gnosis Chain) // Stefan George (Gnosis DAO) &amp; Andrew Thurman (Nansen)</li><li>Go Fork Yourself: Governance as a Social Graph? // David Phelps (Joke DAO, Cow Fund)</li><li>Community Manager Talent: Building Up Web3's Pipeline of Community Builders // Chase Chapman (Otherside Pod) &amp; Matt Wright (Consensys, WGMI DAO, EVM Fund)</li><li>Broke DAOs: Spending Without Any Oversight. How DAOs in the Last 2 Years Have Spent Their Money Doing Absolutely Nothing // Shreyas (Llama) &amp; Derek Hsu (Reverie)</li></ul>

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<h3>projects to apply</h3>What do we fund?<ul><li>DApps built on Ethereum</li><li>New consumer facing use-case experiments</li><li>Creation of new DAOs</li><li>Cryptonative experiments</li><li>Projects with longevity</li><li>Community oriented initiatives</li></ul>What do we not fund?<ul><li>We don’t typically fund developer tooling or infrastructure</li><li>We don’t typically fund anything that isn’t user facing</li></ul> <h3>about the grant</h3>What is MetaCartel Grants?<ul><li>Non-profit grants fund focused on creation and impact</li><li>Funded mostly by individuals in the community</li></ul> <h3>how to apply</h3><ul><li>Join us on Discord</li></ul>Head to the #grant-request channel on our Discord, and select "Start your grant request"This will create a private discord channel with some initial screening questions. Please fill these out as the first step, which will allow us to provide quick feedback in regards to whether the project would be in the scope of funding.<ul><li>Connect with your MetaGuide and make your pitch</li></ul>A personal MetaGuide will claim your ticket and request a brief video call within a few days to discuss further. Those requesting funds are asked to create a short pitch video (~2 minutes), providing a high level overview for the MetaCartel community to review.<ul><li>Create a detailed forum proposal</li></ul>If your pitch received a thumbs up from the community, it's time for a more detailed forum proposal on the MetaCartel Forum. This will then be reviewed in more detail, and feedback will be provided within the forum.See example proposal submission<ul><li>Present at a MetaCartel Town Hall</li></ul>If forum consensus is to proceed, you will be invited to a MetaCartel Town Hall meeting. This is an opportunity to give your final pitch, and to officially introduce yourself to the community. If the meeting goes well, your case will be handed over to a MetaCartel DAO member to be championed in and create the official grant proposal in the DAO.<ul><li>Create a proposal for funding through DAOHaus platform</li></ul>If you get a strong yes signal from us, we’ll likely provide feedback and also have additional feedback for the project before we commit to a grant.<ul><li>Receiving funding 🎉</li></ul>

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