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Kevin Owocki

Kevin Owocki

Co-founder at Gitcoin · Founder at Gitcoin

Kevin Owocki is the co-founder of Gitcoin and previously served as founder and CEO of Supermodular. He has been experimenting with web projects since , when he ran a web company from his parents' home in Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Delaware with a degree in computer science.

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just for funsies, built this last night with fable: http://resource.gitcoin.co

@owockiJul 2026

吴说获悉,以太坊基金会(EF)开发者关系成员 Sophia Dew 发文宣布,本周将是其全职服务于以太坊基金会的最后一周。Dew 在过去四年中活跃于以太坊生态,曾参与 Funding Commons、Gitcoin 及 Celo 等项目。她表示,离职后将通过其他方式继续推广以太坊及加密技术的愿景,并明确表示其依然看好以太坊的未来发展。wublock123.com/news/news-64185

@wublockchain12Jul 2026

据 Blockaid 监测,Yield Yak 网站遭遇前端攻击。该网站的子域名目前包含 eleven drainer 代码。此次攻击方式与此前 Gitcoin 遭遇的攻击类似。https://www.wublock123.com/news/news-63377

@wublockchain12Jun 2026

Honest reflection from Kevin. Huge respect for him and the Gitcoin team for pushing the frontier on public goods funding. I agree with the core diagnosis: humanity is stuck in negative-sum coordination games, and the evidence has only gotten stronger since 2022. Crypto also deserves more credit fo

@owockiJun 2026

The grant era is ending. Not dying — maturing. Ethereum public goods funding is shifting from flush treasuries and episodic grants → five structural sources: → Yield (principal stays, excess flows) → Revenue (fund your dependencies) → Convertible grants (runway with accountability) → Coalitional f

@owockiJun 2026

Ethereum tried twice to hardcode public goods funding into the protocol. Both failed. EIP 1890 died with a bang — credible neutrality killed it. EIP 6969 died with a whimper — institutional inertia buried it. The real lesson: you can't enshrine allocation logic in a neutral base layer. The funding

@hudsonjamesonJun 2026

Your feed knows what grabs your attention. It has no idea what gives your life meaning. That's Goodhart's Law at civilizational scale — systems optimize what's easy to measure, not what matters. @gitcoin on 'Meaning Awareness' 👇 http://gitcoin.co/research/meaning-awareness

@owockiJun 2026

The VRR proposal is voluntary: validators can signal a % of staking rewards to redirect to any chosen smart contract (e.g. Gitcoin, audits, research). Most likely abuse: Large staking pools/operators controlling big validator sets set defaults or steer choices toward contracts they influence or con

@lex_nodeJun 2026

吴说获悉,安全公司 Blockaid 表示,其检测引擎识别到影响 Gitcoin 子域名 files gitcoin co 的前端攻击,该网站被检测到包含 Eleven Drainer 钱包盗取代码。Blockaid 建议用户目前不要与该网站交互,并表示相关问题正在调查和修复中。Blockaid 已将 files gitcoin co 标记为恶意网站,并提示其中嵌入已知恶意代码。 wublock123.com/news/blockaid-…

@wublockchain12Jun 2026

"The problem is the allocation mechanism" yes and there has been no good solution to this in 10 years of experimenting with DAOs, gitcoin, etc. etc., there won't be now especially when they will be proposed/designed by the same people who want to get the money do you think trent.eth is willing t

@lex_nodeJun 2026