In her remarks, Dr. Angela Becerra Vidergar will draw from her experience as a writer, producer, and university instructor to address the need for novel infrastructures to support the sustained growth of new spaces for cultural exploration. She connects lessons learned from teaching the rhetoric of space exploration at Stanford University and ventures in open-source publishing as sandboxes for thinking through the mechanisms that can make or break emerging frontiers such as the Web3 revolution.

A smart contract is a self-executing contract with the terms of the agreement between buyer and seller (or donor and organization) being directly written into lines of code. This session will focus on the computational element of blockchain technology. Smart contracts allow for implementing user-defined operations of arbitrary complexity that are not possible through plain cryptocurrency protocols. They are a powerful feature that, when properly designed and coded, can result in autonomous, efficient, and transparent systems. Participants will design and program smart contracts in Python and test and deploy them in a development environment.

Decentralized Applications, or dApps, are applications that are run in a decentralized computing system, like a blockchain. This guide will introduce what dApps are and how dApps are architected and implemented on the blockchain.

Building on Class I and II content, participants will be introduced to Hypercerts: a tool to build scalable retrospective reward systems for impact. In his role as the Head of Research at Protocol Labs, Evan Miyazono is at the cutting edge of what the future of philanthropy may look like. He will present the notion that coordination and collaboration are the keys to solving the world's greatest challenges. Leveraging tools built in his lab, he’ll articulate the role that Development Professionals can play in a new fundraising landscape.

After a review of lessons learned from Day 1, Dr. Daniel Enos and Pavel Rutherford will discuss a Stanford University initiative being undertaken in Chile. Stanford Solutions is launching an observational study to validate an effective treatment that could halt the onset of renal failure in dialysis patients. The challenge will be to track the impact of the treatment as well as fund its subsequent clinical trials. Dr. Enos will discuss the other issues tied to poor kidney health in Chile, as well as the issues that may be faced during the observational study itself.

Participants will be embedded within teams led by builders in the Web3 space. Each team will have 40 minutes to build a Hypercert and the relevant funding framework for the Stanford Observational Study Project. Team leads in Data Science, UX Design, and Data Visualization will walk embedded attendees through their design process while also receiving input from the group on donor or development operations concerns. Each team will then combine their respective work and present a final product.

The panel will sit down with Team leads and Dr. Enos to discuss issues encountered during Hackathon Session I and use cases of the new application in other sectors.

Using the framework from Hackathon Session I, Teams will build a Hypercert for use within the Community Development fundraising context. Measuring impact for current and potential donors will be the focus while also facilitating meaningful engagement with the organization itself.

Join the Expanse Faculty to wrap up the event with where we're headed next and opportunities to take action.