March 10 - 21st, 2022
After a 6-week planning marathon for ETHDenver, Blu3 DAO was asked to plan a scholarship program for ETHRio with less than 10 days away! Initially, we thought it’d be an impossible task. However, Blu3 DAO core members were quick to jump in and take the lead. In 5 days, we were able to promote the scholarship, review the applications and select 40 incredible scholars!
Blu3 DAO brought 40 scholars to Rio, Brazil for an intense but life-changing event! There were 10 core team RIO members and 30 scholars. Blu3 DAO prioritized women and non-binary scholars in our selection process, with a focused of local scholars from LATAM. The selection process was incredibly competitive (25% acceptance rate) and highly rigorous, but this resulted in high quality talent and contributions from Blu3 scholars.
A BIG THANK YOU to our generous sponsor and partner - Harmony & the Harmony RIO team!💙
"Seems like I lived ten years of friendship in ten days" - Marcelo, Brazil, Blu3 DAO scholar and PhD (Researcher on Institutions)
Organized an icebreaker session to welcome scholars to ETHRio at the beautiful Fairmont Hotel’s poolside lounge area with a review of Blu3 DAO’s mission, Harmony’s sponsorship and vision, scholars expectations and ETHRio schedule of Blu3, Harmony, and main ETHRio conference activities.
Planned, managed and executed a “Day with Blu3 DAO and Harmony” - this is a 2-hour session for scholars and visitors to learn about Harmony and Blu3 DAO. Event was well attended by approximately 50 people. Topics included:
Choreographed, rehearsed and produced the Music Video “Out Out” with Blu3 members and co-founders @Amy Soon and @Novell, led by artist, songwriter, singer Rime Salmi. Final performance featuring artist Rime at Harmony’s main closing event.
Planned, managed and conducted an intimate TGI by the beach with Blu3 scholars and the Harmony team. The event was key to fostering intimacy and a sense of community in Blu3. More than 50 people attended the night event and have received tremendous positive feedback.
Actively assisted scholars and grantees in writing and reviewing Project Y proposals. Amongst Blu3 DAO scholars, a total of 14 new DAOs (see list below) were formed directly from scholars and Blu3 assisted in a total of 22 DAOs formation (including non scholars) out of the total of 32 Project Y grants by Harmony. Process for DAOs formed includes:
Closing Blu3 DAO event with scholars at the beautiful Fairmont Hotel - with closing messages about the culture and future of Blu3 DAO. Partnered with Black Leaders DAO to give a presentation on “Defi - Liquidity Pooling” and Harmony’s ONE Book: Create Wealth in Harmony book giveaway by author @Amy Soon.
Attended and provided full support to Harmony key events - with on-the-ground participation, support, assistance when needed and marketing to promote these events, including:
Sent 3 Blu3 DAO hackathon teams to participate in ETH RIO hackathon. All 3 teams WON in their respective categories!
Omnisig - Multisig for DAOs with Defi capabilities (1st place on Open track)
by scholars Nikita, Amy, Novell, Al, Chris, Sidsel
Black Leaders DAO - Social Token Launch (1st place on Social Tokens and Social track) by scholars Daphne, Sunny, Marcelo, Aline
Kreadive DAO - “A Cara do Rio” the first NFT Drop with social impact in Brazil (2nd place on NFT and Social Track) by scholars Aminta, William and Craig
Scholars who formed DAOs and received project Y grants: Note: Project Y grants are provided to grantees $10,000, which can be substantial to the LATAM community. (GDP per capita of USD $7k)
(1) Harmony Latam DAO (Doris and team) - recruit developers/daos/validators in latam
(2) OLAB Blockchain Observatory (Rory, Marcelo) - Latam blockchain research
(3) Crypto Mujeres (Annalisa, Carolina, Natalia) - web3 cohort training for women in spanish
(4) Black Leaders DAO (Daphne, Diego, Melonie) - enable local black businesses
**(5) Blockchain Press Club DAO** (Diana, Almendra, Vera) - education platform for journalists
(6) Metoo DAO (Marina, Maria, Patricia) - educate and promote anti-harassment for women
(7) Cryptolingo DAO (Juliana, Sunny, Shing) - learn-to-earn web3 onboarding videos in spanish, portuguese and mandarin
(8) Omnisig Wallet (Chris, Alex V., Clark) - enable harmony multisig with defi and improved UX for DAOs
(9) Kreadive DAO (Will, Aminta, Craig) - enable artists and photojournalists on NFT platforms
(10) Blu3 LATAM DAO (Marysol, Mariana, Randy) - enable LATAM women to pursue web3 careers and launch LATAM DAOs and social tokens
(11) Nomad DAO (Al, Sasha, Catherine) - provide homes at crypto conferences while providing web3 content for various protocols
(12) Piper DAO (Nikita, Adam, Ben) - decentralized mobile text messaging provider services
(13) Mempodera (Aline, Fausto Diego) - web3 education for Brazilian kids & families
(14) Blockchain Na Sala de Aula (Marcelo, Mariana, Lucas) - decentralized network of teachers to educate blockchain and web3 in poor areas of LATAM