Tané - Lido community education in APAC

[Tane]

Dear Lido Community,

We prepared a grant proposal for community education in the Asia Pacific region to support these initiatives.

1. Simple DVT
2. Community Staking Module
3. Lido Community Lifeguards Initiative

This proposal has already been approved by the LEGO Council.

We highly appreciate any kind of comments, feedback and contributions.

Overview

Education and empowerment for the community to drive decentralization.

We, Tané, wholeheartedly support the initiative mentioned above and aim to contribute as much as possible driven by our belief in the fundamental values of Lido,

Keep Ethereum decentralized, accessible to all, and resistant to censorship

We express our utmost gratitude to those who have worked on or supported these initiatives. At the same time, we recognize the challenges in achieving broader outreach and have been considering how we can contribute to addressing this issue.

In this proposal, we suggest using the funds received as a grant to increase the number of individuals and community members who get involved in decentralizing Lido by introducing ways to contribute to it, putting a strong emphasis on CSM and Simple DVT. This will be done via various channels; podcasts, articles and events.

Objectives

The importance of Simple DVT and CSM in enhancing the decentralization of Lido, and by extension Ethereum, is significant. The goal of this initiative is to introduce various ways to get involved in the decentralization of Ethereum through Lido, with the introduction of Simple DVT and CSM being crucial components.

More specifically, the aim is for individuals and community members who engage with the educational content created within this initiative or participate in the events held to set up their nodes and become solo stakers themselves, or if not, to contribute to Lido’s decentralization from different aspects.

We are presenting a focused, short-term segment of a larger, long-term plan. Our intention is to start quickly and efficiently by requesting a more modest grant size, which will allow us to initiate our project with agility. We believe this approach will enable us to demonstrate the potential of our broader vision while ensuring a streamlined and effective implementation of the initial phase.

Key Activities

These activities will continue to be executed in an appropriate form throughout all phases.

Educational contents

Create educational content aimed at individuals and organizations to understand Lido.

• Podcast series that covers topics below.
• Article series that covers topics below.
• Tutorials and detailed guides for setting up nodes using CSM/ Simple DVT.

Organizing events

Organize an educational event that covers the topics below.

• Introduction of Lido and its underlying technology
• Simple DVT explained

Activities by numbers

• offline event: 1
• podcast: 6+
  • every week updates over 2 months
  • several Lido-focused episodes
• article : 3
• tutorial/setup guide: 1

Topics to be covered

1. Introduction of Lido

• Provide basic information for listeners with varying levels of understanding of Lido, ensuring a consistent foundational comprehension.
• A brief review of Liquid Staking / The significance and benefits of Liquid Staking / Differences from other LSTs / Lido’s value, etc.

2. Introducing (Re)GOOSE #1: The background

• Focus on the reasons why ReGOOSE was needed.
• What is ReGOOSE in a nutshell? / Why was ReGOOSE needed? (Changes in the environment surrounding ETH staking: Restaking / Preconfirmations / MVI)

3. Introducing (Re)GOOSE #2: Strategy (Lido Alliance)

• We will discuss what ReGOOSE aims to achieve, one aspect at a time. Mainly focus on the content of this blog.
• We will also discuss the current landscape of Lido Alliance.

4. Why is Lido good for Ethereum: Path to decentralization

• Introduce Lido’s strategy related to non-technical decentralization.
• Dual governance / ossification / others (from GOOSE’s topic)

5. Overview of technical decentralization — introducing the SimpleDVT, and CSM

• Share the initiatives related to technical decentralization one by one.

6. Deeper dive into the CSM: how to participate in the early adoption period and how communities can work with Lido via the Community Lifeguards

Budget and duration

We have received 10,000 DAI for this initiative.
Here’s the budget breakdown.

• Podcast $4,000
• Writings (3 articles + 1 guide) $2,000
• Event cost $4,000
  • Labour cost $2,500
  • Venue fee $1,500

We will organize and complete all these activities by the end of August.

Conclusion

We have received 10,000 DAI to educate the APAC community, especially in Japan, to get them involved in decentralizing Lido. We will introduce ways to contribute, with a strong emphasis on CSM and Simple DVT.

We will provide podcast content, written materials, and an on-site event.

We’ve already started working on this. We recorded and shared the 1st episode of our podcast containing Lido’s topic. We will keep on working as proposed here.

Reports will be shared after finishing all these activities, supposedly by the end of August.

About Tané

• Tané is a crypto investment and research firm backed by major Japanese enterprises such as SoftBank.
• Our mission is to enhance the blockchain ecosystem through decentralization and credible neutrality, empowering individuals globally.
• We want to achieve the mission by doing network operations that contribute to blockchain networks by running validators, participating in DAO governance, etc.
• We also got a delegation of $OP from a16z to participate in DAO governance.
• Our Website: https://tanelabs.com/
• Our Network activities: https://networkoperations.tanelabs.com/

Our previous work:

We held a side event at ETHGlobal Tokyo. April, 2023.

MEV workshop in Tokyo. June, 2023.

Infra+DeFi Meetup in Tokyo. March, 2024

Podcasts (in Japanese)

• Ethereum roadmap and light client
• DAO governance and its issues
• The role of rollups and shared sequencer/Blockchain’s trilemma
• For more topics, visit our Spotify channel

Writings on MEV, intent, modular blockchain etc.

• MEV guide for beginners
• Why Decentralization Matters
• Modular Blockchain Thesis
• More writings can be found here

Representatives and contacts

Ikuma Mutobe : Founding Partner
Takeshi Ohishi: Co-founder, Head of Network Operations
Shoji Tateno: BD and Research

[SEEDOrg]

As an organization rooted in educational models we are fully supporting Tane in this proposal and their work in APAC.

[Tane]

Dear Lido Community and LEGO Council,

Summary

This June, we proposed a grant request that supports Lido Community Lifeguards, which got approved later on. The objective was to expand the awareness of CSM and DVT to strengthen the community of solo stakers in Japan/APAC by organizing an event and making resources such as writings and podcast episodes.

We are pleased to report that Tané has effectively fulfilled the objectives of the CLI grant.

1. We hosted a side event of EDCON, where 100+ people got interested in CSM and DVT.

We had more than 100 people at the venue, the majority of them being Japanese working in the various fields of crypto including exchanges, enterprises, and startups. There were also attendees from outside Japan, especially from the APAC region.

Two sessions were held for both CSM and DVT, and we had a lot of questions in the Q&A session, proving that we gained strong interest from the community.

Although it wasn’t within the scope, we maximized this opportunity by also making these sessions into YouTube videos to make them accessible to those who failed to attend this event.

2. We published Japanese Articles and Podcasts about Lido, DVT, and CSM.

There had not been a single resource that had abundant information on what Lido had been doing as well as those staking modules. This time we created 6+ episodes of Podcast, 3 writings and a translated guide about the CSM node setup originally created by Sam.

Because this kind of resource is scarce in Japan, we received good feedback on those materials, proving that they reached the community and delivered the information as a starting point for bringing them into the Lido community.

We believe this initiative was successful and meaningful for both Lido and the Japanese ecosystem because of the gap we managed to fill; the Japanese ecosystem has different kinds of crypto community but doesn’t have access to the information overseas, while for Lido it is not easy to access to the local community because of the language barrier.

As an outcome, we already saw some community-organized events about Lido and solo-staking. This is something we have barely seen before, and we believe this is a good indicator of the impact this initiative made.

We will keep committed to supporting Lido’s mission of keeping Ethereum decentralized, accessible to all, and resistant to censorship in various aspects including initiatives like this community education.

We will be planning an additional program for this as we believe continuity is one of the key success factors for community education/engagement.

Activities and Achievements

1. Organizing Educational Events

We organized an on-site educational event that attracted over 100 attendees. The event facilitated meaningful interactions and active discussions, including Q&A sessions.

Our aims were:

• To expand awareness of Lido’s staking modules by gathering various kinds of people within the field.
• To foster active discussions among participants and speakers, ensuring everyone leaves with deep understanding.
• To contribute to the crypto ecosystem in both Japan and worldwide.

We’d already succeeded in creating venues for intense discussions through builder-centric events like MEV Day and Tané Summit #0. This time, we hosted Tané Summit #1 as an even more enhanced event.

Key highlights of this event included:

• The majority of participants were Japanese and most of the rest were from the APAC region. Those include founders, builders, researchers working in this industry, and there was also attendance from enterprises and exchanges.

• Active questions were posed after each presentation, creating a high-energy atmosphere and a high-quality learning environment.

  During Sam’s session, attendees asked several questions about managing slashing risk and APY, indicating strong interest from the community.

• We covered diverse topics of crypto that brought different kinds of attendees.

  The topics we covered during the event included Modular Blockchain, Staking & Restaking, ZK (Zero-Knowledge proofs), FHE (Fully Homomorphic Encryption), Privacy, MEV (Maximal Extractable Value), and AI x Crypto.

2. Creation and Publication of Videos

Although not originally within the scope of the grant, we produced and published videos of the event. This initiative ensures that the content is accessible to a wider audience and allows for continuous learning beyond the event.

"2 ETH home staking and Lido CSM" by Samuel Chong, Lido Community Lifeguard @Tané Summit #1

Fireside chat by Alon, CEO of SSV Labs and Sam from Lido CLI @Tané Summit #1

3. Development of Japanese Articles and Podcasts

There was a huge gap to be bridged; the Japanese ecosystem has different kinds of crypto communities but doesn’t have access to the information overseas, while for Lido it is not too easy to access the local community because of the language barrier.

To fill this gap, we created in-depth Japanese articles and podcasts about Lido, intentionally designing the content to address the needs and interests of the Japanese crypto community, especially solo stakers. Rather than solely focusing on the Community Staking Module (CSM), we structured our content to first convey the overall importance and appeal of Lido. By covering a broad range of topics in their native language, we aimed to help the audience correctly understand Lido’s significance within the Ethereum ecosystem.

The topics followed what was proposed initially.

1. Introduction of Lido
2. Introducing (Re)GOOSE #1: The background
3. Introducing (Re)GOOSE #2: Strategy (Lido Alliance)
4. Why is Lido good for Ethereum: Path to decentralization
5. Overview of technical decentralization — introducing the SimpleDVT, and CSM
6. Deeper dive into the CSM: how to participate in the early adoption period and how communities can work with Lido via the Community Lifeguards

Our approach included:

• Using simple language: we deliberately employed straightforward vocabulary and provided additional explanations to make the content accessible to individuals who are not too familiar with crypto. Simplifying complex concepts ensured that even newcomers could grasp the material.
• Building a cohesive narrative: we organized the information to create an overarching story that naturally led the audience toward exploring the CSM. By gradually introducing concepts, we guided listeners and readers from foundational knowledge to more advanced topics, culminating in actionable steps they could take.
• Enhancing engagement through podcasts: recognizing the value of interactive content, we designed our podcasts to be engaging and varied. We incorporated interactive elements and varied the pacing to maintain listener interest, making them easy and enjoyable to listen to.

Such comprehensive explanations of Lido in Japanese were previously nonexistent, and having readily accessible resources is crucial for ongoing education and engagement within the community.

After the release, we received good feedback on those materials. This proved that there was a need for these kinds of resources and that these resources gained communities’ interest in CSM and DVT.

Writings

1. #1 Basics of Lido and the Current Position in the Market
2. #2 Lido’s Growth Strategy and Governance
3. #3 Lido’s Staking Modules Including DVT and CSM

Tweet post of the first writing

Tané

Podcast Episodes

1. Introduction of Lido
2. Introducing (Re)GOOSE #1: The Background
3. Introducing (Re)GOOSE #2: Strategy (Lido Alliance)
4. Why is Lido Good for Ethereum: Path to Decentralization
5. Overview of Technical Decentralization — Introducing Simple DVT and CSM
6. Deeper Dive into the CSM: Participation and Community Engagement via Lido Community Lifeguards

We also covered an additional topic:

Lido’s Client Diversity

CSM Guide

CSM with ETH Docker

After a discussion with Sam, we shifted the scope of this CSM guide translation as there was another translation project occurred.

Conclusion

We are deeply grateful to the Lido Community and the LEGO Council for entrusting us with this opportunity to educate and empower the Japanese crypto community. By overcoming language barriers through organizing impactful events, creating accessible educational content, and fostering meaningful discussions, we have significantly advanced the understanding and engagement of solo-stakers and enthusiasts in Japan. This resulted in seeing more staking-related events in Japan.

We share the same values that emphasize decentralization and censorship resistance inherent in Ethereum and Lido. Leveraging our background in Japan, we aim to continue contributing to Lido in various ways.