ChainCatcher news, Devansh Mehta announced on X that he has joined the Ethereum Foundation as the head of AI x Public Goods / Governance. He was previously active in the Arbitrum and Gitcoin ecosystems.Mehta stated that he is currently focusing on three directions: AI x ecosystem growth funding, AI x practicality, and AI x governance. For example, he plans to use AI to predict the funding situation of Ethereum ecosystem projects, develop an AI scoring mechanism to measure the utility of decentralized applications, and explore the introduction of AI prediction market mechanisms into DAO governance to optimize the proposal decision-making process.

ChainCatcher news, Ethereum Foundation member Devansh Mehta announced that the AI-based project donation amount prediction competition has officially started. Participants are required to predict the relative funding ratios among 1023 groups of projects based on the provided 2387 training comparison data. This competition serves as a warm-up for the official contest at the end of January, which will involve 4303 Ethereum repositories and their dependent projects.Devansh Mehta stated that Vitalik will fund this event with $20,000, and the contributions of participants may influence the funding methods for future open-source projects, gaining recognition from the community and Ethereum developers.