Engineering support for the April Hackathon

[sarob]

To support the Buidlbox implementation and the 3 preliminary tracks https://discord.com/channels/1037443230993743902/1048288174805352530/1091515979437195314

In past hackathons we had these problems:

• on-chain data was difficult to get access to due to missing on-chain indexing, latency, and bandwidth issues
• lack of access to the normalized on-chain data feed
• lack of access to normalized data

Engineering solutions:

1. providing an on-chain index option for Gitcoin, Pocket, and / or Ethereum so hackathon participants can run a node locally but not have to store the full on-chain data. This would reduce the on-chain latency for analysis.
2. providing a regional ISP/CSP option for Hackathon participants to access Gitcoin, Pocket and / or Ethereum nodes to reduce the on-chain latency for analysis
3. getting Gitcoin, Pocket, and Ethereum on-chain data to be at-rest / normalized in either storage and or databases that is easily accessible by hackathon participants. The passport API would be a really good option. Regularly updated CSVs and PostgreSQL also good options.
4. hackathon participants using the at-rest / normalized on-chain data to do data science analysis
5. supporting the Gitcoin Beta Round with sybil and grant analysis in collaboration with the Passport team

[sarob]

149 was a first step.

now #166, #167 seem to be the next steps to supporting the hackathon.