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This community was built for educating up and coming community professionals and leaders in the web3 space. To meet this talent gap in our current state—our aim is to (1) open source resources, standards, strategies and tools that will support this future workforce, (2) create bootcamps and workshops that help grow the talent pool of the space overall, and (3) be the leading DAO-as-a-Service for Community development in web3.
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**We believe community professionals are the role of the future.**
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In web3, there is a huge demand online for Community Moderators, Community Managers, Community Directors, Community Leads or more technical positions like Developer Evangelists, Developer Advocates. Being a vital aspect to the success of web3 projects, community roles are a growing trend.
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Through the Wgmi—we’re assembling the brightest minds from web2 to web3 that have built online communities… to open source this knowledge and onboard the next generation of Community professionals. By sharing resources, experiences, tools, processes, and evangelizing newcomers to roll up their sleeves—we can create a factory of leaders that will be guiding the next generation of developments on Ethereum with respect to DeFi, NFTs, DAOs and more.
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Brewing [from a Tweet](https://twitter.com/mateo_ventures/status/1437432152392617984?s=20), there was demonstrated an obvious demand from both companies seeking web3 community managers and crypto natives seeking a role as a community professional. In web2 there are quite a few community managers, directors, leaders, advocates, ambassadors… but we have yet to bridge them over to web3 where their skills are highly demanded. In web3, there are some additional learnings such as using IRC (e.g. Discord), Mobile Chat (e.g. Telegram), Social Media (e.g. Twitter), Wallets (e.g. Metamask) and various tokens (e.g. erc-721s/NFTs, erc-20s, L2s, testnets, sidechains on Ethereum) as gated experiences. There is also the knowledge-base of the NFT, DeFi, protocol layer and various other complexities to the blockchain, web3, Ethereum ecosystem that we as community folks need to unbundle.
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The goal of this community is to bridge folks into this new world, offer them the standards from community professionals across the world (not in web3) and with community experts in web3. At our disposal we have some of the world’s best community folks looking at this industry. We’re here to bring everyone to this side of things, learn from community professionals cut from any fabric, and tie in web3 learnings from the other half of folks in the space.
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### Our Culture…
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**Community first** — attributed to [Metacartel’s Community-First Manifesto](https://github.com/metacartel/mission/blob/master/community-first-manifesto.md), we’re focused on what brings value back to our immediate community and the wider Ethereum ecosystem at large. We care more about making impact over time versus creating fomo around prospective monetary value of "community".
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**Radical transparency** — There is no “us” and “them” in Community. There is only the monster of coordination that we are all fighting over—in web3 we call this “moloch”. Web3 culture is about building in public, transparent governance, and deploying in open source. The success of the community is how efficiently we can deploy work, and how engaged we can bring in the wider community.
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**Collaboration** — The internet sure did not build itself. There is also not one founder of the web, of blockchain, of Etheruem. There are thousands of engineers, contributors, inventors, creators, and entrepreneurs that made the access to connectivity what it is today. We believe heavily in leveraging everyone’s skills to achieve a common goal.
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**Contribution** — We believe in solving problems, fixing issues and participating for the sake of Community. Our members willingly contribute code, content, communication, and effort to help the greater cause. There is the understanding that work = incentives and recognition based on [Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs](https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html), however, to gain the community’s trust, value is interpreted as how much you contribute to the whole before you're to expect anything in return. This is our culture; we give more than we take.
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### The vision ahead…
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The world is changing rapidly and folks are trying to figure out how to add value in their careers. As online communities are flourishing and digital assets on blockchains, Ethereum specifically, are creating self-custodial experiences—we’re excited to support and bolster this emerging workforce.
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Looking ahead, we imagine wgmi will hire and off-board thousands of Community professionals into the web3 ecosystem over time. We see a world where community leaders, directors, managers and more—are leading the future businesses and technologies of the world.
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Our focus is around setting standards and common practices between Community professionals, to fill the talent gap, and make sure every project in web3 is able to execute on a [Community-first mindset](https://github.com/metacartel/mission/blob/master/community-first-manifesto.md).
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_**[Join the revolution with us](https://wgmi.community/). We’re putting the WE in web3.**_
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# Post-Mortem: First AI Agent Ran Hackathon — mattwright.eth
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What if agents could not only innovate but also orchestrate innovation itself? From running hackathons to managing DAOs, agents are poised to revolutionize how we build decentralized systems.
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Imagine if agents could run hackathons. Or all kinds of innovation programs like accelerators, incubators, launchpads... What if they could manage communities and be the lore keepers or knowledge providers of a protocol’s history. Agents could likely be more friend than foe, more alive than “they’re just software”.
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As someone who has organized around 500+ hackathons in their career, attended thousands, and managed accelerator programs at various levels— so much of this can be programmed…
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**Let’s take the human out of the loop for:**
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* First and foremost, organizing IRL vs URL (there are definitely trade-offs here)
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* Creating hackathon challenges and bounties
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* Working with partners on collecting sponsorship, adjusting their docs or developer goals to the challenges, coordinating invoicing to the bounty pool and organizers
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* JUDGING, my my, this part is painful.. please robots save us..
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* Verifying winning teams, running KYC/ AML, paying out bounties to wallets
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This is the tip of the iceberg for hackathons and the beginning of so much more…
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One of my first: Angelhack Hong Kong 2015
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We led the first AI agent ran hackathon.
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Now, I’m sure others have ran a hackathon with AI tools. What we were looking to accomplish was to set the precedent of autonomous agents that can execute onchain activities, permission parties, sign transactions, mint assets, and make payments.
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The **Autonomous Hackathon** was a bold experiment to answer this question. For three days, agents took the reins—creating challenges, judging submissions, and distributing rewards in what may be the first truly agent-driven hackathon. This wasn’t just an event; it was a call to reimagine the systems that govern and sustain our decentralized world. Shout out to [David from Lit Protocol](https://x.com/davidlsneider) for the inspiration!
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Together, we began to co-create a future where technology works with us, not over us. A future where agents cultivate innovation, amplify public goods, and unlock possibilities far beyond what we can imagine.
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**We had three major challenge areas.** The community wanted to see developers build agents of course, the more radical the better, but we also wanted to see the rise of collective intelligence, or use of multiple agents. Lastly, we want to see more agent integrations where agents can inherit new extensible applications through evm infrastructures that have been cooking for yearsss.
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[Here are some of the ideas I think should be built](https://mirror.xyz/mattwright.eth/lMiFZnjbJ_jYCzE05XKzvTqrRqeRkJGXa8pIGNBBo2A).
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Autonomous Hackathon Challenges
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Hackathons Reimagined ✨
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Organizing a hackathon is traditionally a labor-intensive process, but it doesn’t have to be. Imagine an agent-driven model where the vision-setting becomes a dynamic, collaborative effort. An agent could engage the community to determine “vibes” and goals—such as developer applications, team submissions, project quality, and partner integrations—aligning stakeholders from the outset. Infrastructure-heavy tasks like FAQs, submission guidelines, judging criteria, developer resources, and even payment distribution can be automated, creating a seamless experience for participants while reducing operational bottlenecks. With a system like this, the hackathon could function as an autonomous grants program, aligning funding with community priorities and running continuously with minimal intervention.
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Hackathon judging criteria
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This vision goes beyond automation—it’s about transforming hackathons into innovation pipelines that protocols can own. Agents could notify past participants, manage outreach, and curate a network of developers aligned with core protocol goals. This hybrid approach, blending automated processes with thoughtful human engagement, would not only scale innovation but also provide rich feedback loops for protocols. By empowering developers through autonomy and extensibility, protocols could foster a decentralized ecosystem where engineering priorities are constantly refined and innovation becomes a perpetual motion machine.
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_**Here were the agents that made it all happen…**_
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Our agent co-workers
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Innovation comes at a cost..
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First, let’s start with the good. We had **500+ Builders** signed up, showcasing interest from across the Web3 ecosystem, **41 Project Submissions**, ranging from governance agents to multi-agent systems, and hosted **20+ Workshops**, focusing on agent development, integrations, and frameworks. This was a massive win for the ecosystem.
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The biggest issues with [the hackathon](https://x.com/Gaianet_AI/status/1861933051523039647) were that we were building the boat…while filling the ocean with water… and then continuing to build while sailing… The pace of decentralized AI is fast, but years behind centralized AI development.
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