Covid-19 restrictions made the ETHLocal Residency round impossible for this year. 😱
See our NFT Stamp launch instead! ✈️
In collaboration with powerful tech residencies in stunning European locations (Barcelona, Piedmont, and Edinburgh), we are glad to open the applications to Ethereum developers who are crypto nomads, want a breath of fresh air, or need to go back to the source.
“It is literally rehab for burnt-out crypto developers.”
APPLY TO ONE RESIDENCY CITADELS 🌲
If you would like to stay at one of these residencies below and help them with an Ethereum-related project, apply below before March 15, 2021. Due to COVID-19, we realise that only local travel might be authorised. We are closely monitoring the developments in the regions where the residencies are located.
Read more about each residency projects below by clicking on the location of your choice or read the FAQs to learn more.
Click on each location below to learn more about the residency and the project they propose for this season. And then apply away!
FAQs ABOUT THE RESIDENCY PROGRAMME AND THE ROLE GAME 🎒🥾
Who are Pilgrims? 🤠
Pilgrims are those, amongst the crypto community of developers, designers and innovators, who believe in the true power of decentralisation and spend their time and energies in writing code, building solutions, organising events and supporting each other in the journey towards a social transformation. Digital nomads become Pilgrims as they enter their first ETHLocal residency, and can level up their status by accomplishing more ETHLocal residencies as well as taking on ETHLocal bounties.
What are Citadels? 🌲🏰🌲
The ETHLocal network is built upon Citadels: the very places and their communities where this iteration happens. By hosting ETHLocal residencies, locations become Citadels and earn LOCAL tokens representing voting power in the ETHLocal DFO. Citadels can level up their status by hosting more residencies.
How do the residencies work? 🥾🧳
Every Citadel joining the program will host a Pilgrim for a minimum stay of 14 days. They will provide their Pilgrim with food and accommodation. During the stay, the Pilgrim will develop her/his project for the Citadel. Projects can have different scientific, social and economic purposes: e.g. they can be aimed at implementing Dapps (decentralized apps) for the Citadel’s specific needs as well as for ETHLocal general goals, or providing the local community with an educational program about Web3 and blockchain. At the end of the residency, the final outcome of the residency provided by the Pilgrim will be ITEMized, split among Citadel, Pilgrim and ETHLocal and uploaded to the ETHLocal Github repository.
What’s in it for Citadels? 🏰❓
Citadels will be given a unique opportunity to access valuable tech and knowledge contributions and profit from engaging with an international network of developers and startups, who might become returning customers. ETHLocal will also grant Citadels with different forms of funding and incentives, in stable-coins and LOCAL tokens, for every residency that they will host.
What’s in it for Pilgrims? 🤠❓
Selected Pilgrims will be granted a one-of-a-kind experience in some of the most amazing and inspiring communities in Europe, as well as the access to the local and regional funding networks to eventually follow up with their residencies’ work. A final evaluation of their residency’s outcome will also grant Pilgrims with a reward of LOCAL tokens, thus acquiring new Skins and boosting their reputation in the ETHLocal and ETHEREUM communities.
LOCAL-based Reputation System 💪
Citadels and Pilgrims can earn LOCALs mainly via residencies, but also via occasional ETHLocal bounties and calls-to-action. Earning LOCALs provides both Citadels and Pilgrims with Upgrades & Skins, Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs) representing level upgrades in the ETHLocal ecosystem. The higher the level reached, the higher the reputation and possibilities of action in ETHLocal governance and future financial success. Badges will provide the Citadels and Pilgrims with enhanced long-term governance, financial and interaction possibilities. We will dedicate the first months of 2021 designing them.
Residencies Funding 💸
ETHLocal offers Citadels three types of incentives to support the residencies’s expenses:
FULL StableCoin grant: the Citadel will be granted a fixed amount of stable-coins (DAIs) per day of residency. Stable-coins are tokens whose value is tight to USD or EUR, and are exchangeable against them on most crypto exchanges. ETHLocal provides up to the equivalent of EUR 14 / day to each residency.
MIXED StableCoin/LOCAL grant: the Citadel will be granted a basic amount of stable-coins per day of residency ( EUR 7/day) plus a total of 500 LOCALs.
FULL LOCAL grant: the Citadel will be granted a total amount of 1000 LOCALs, thus granting the Citadel with the first Upgrade.