Funding Coordinator @Ethereum Foundation
Eliza is a team member in the Funding Coordination team in the Ethereum Foundation. Her is to support non-commercial initiatives to simplify, coordinate and accelerate access to capital. Before the EF, Eliza had large experience working in Governance design, Data and Tooling in big organizations, such as MakerDAO/Sky, Hats Protocol, Obol Collective and SEEDs Latam.

David Casey is the director of Funding the Commons, a global initiative initially incubated from within Protocol Labs, that convenes builders, funders, and researchers to accelerate public goods funding infrastructure and mechanisms. It does this through conferences, builder residencies, and hackathons.

Founder(DeSci Tokyo) & Research Team Lead (Araya Inc.)
Founder of DeSci Tokyo/Research Team Leader at Araya. Ph.D. He found DeSci Tokyo as an international hub based in Tokyo. In 2024, he co-organized Funding the Commons Tokyo, which pursues a new vision of decentralized society in Japan. He is also principal Investigator for Moonshot R&D Program (Goal 9) “Realizing a Society Where People Can Live Positively Even in Adversity” (Yamada PM Group), engaged in modeling positive states with AIs. His