Lauren Luz

<h2>What is Giveth?</h2> Giveth is a community focused on Building the Future of Giving using blockchain technology. Our intention is to support and reward the funding of public goods by creating open, transparent and free access to the revolutionary funding opportunities available within the web3 ecosystem. Read more on our <a href="https://blog.giveth.io/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">blog</a> or in our <a href="https://docs.giveth.io/whatisgiveth/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">docs</a>!&nbsp;<h2>What is Giveth.io?</h2> Giveth.io is the free, open-source, and decentralized application for peer-to-peer donations that you are using right now. 💜 Giveth.io allows anyone to open crypto funding portals by creating projects for their for-good initiatives on our DApp. Donors can choose from a wide range of projects that run the gambit on for-good ventures - feeding the homeless, funding open-source software, saving the environment. Projects can be made in minutes, and donations can made in seconds! <h2>How are donations being used?</h2> Donations are our primary source of funding and are deeply appreciated! Donations to Giveth.io will help our team keep the platform alive and running, add new features, expand our community support and outreach, and ultimately, build a world where public goods are abundant and public goods supporters thrive. Fun fact: Donation made to this project act as entries to the <a href="https://blog.giveth.io/givbacks-reloaded-introducing-the-new-givbacks-program-92d3827ba970" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">GIVbacks raffle</a>, and give you a chance to win up to 500,000 <a href="https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/giveth" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">GIV</a> ﻿🎉﻿ <h2>How can you get in touch?</h2> Your questions, suggestions and feedback are needed to help us shape and tailor our platform to your needs. Check out our <a href="https://giveth.io/support" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Support Page</a> and our <a href="https://giveth.io/join" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Join Page</a> for ways to contribute to or join our thriving community. Let us welcome you personally to the Future of Giving! <img src="https://giveth.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/QmWvewDX9TfxUN8tVCYZo6cAKVLtsMaro7EsbwY3cXBVJN">

WHAT IS GIVETH?
Giveth is a community focused on Building the Future of Giving using blockchain
technology. Our intention is to support and reward the funding of public goods
by creating open, transparent and free access to the revolutionary funding
opportunities available within the web3 ecosyst...

Trace

The Giveth Community of Makers

Commons Stack

Commons Stack is raising funds to cover the costs of our research around the Quadratic Accelerator, aka q/acc. We hope this research will be able to support the continued improvement of the q/acc program for use in the Giveth ecosystem (for Gurves) and other Commons focused ecosystems in the future. <h1>What is Commons Stack?</h1> We, Commons Stack, started as a think-tank primarily focused on crypto-economic primitives to underpin a design framework for a Commons, a tokenized community with a mission benefitting a public good. We aspired to scale commons as a way to realign incentives with public goods. To achieve this, we needed to elaborate cultural designs that reinforce commoning principles and create novel tools such as the Augmented Bonding Curve (ABC), Conviction Voting and the Praise reward and reputation system.&nbsp; Our Commons design pattern is a curated library of tools and processes for governance, funding, proposal, analytics and initialization of a Commons. Some have come straight out of our research collaborations -&nbsp;such as the ABC, CV and the Praise reward system - while others were chosen from those available in the web3 tooling marketplace. To&nbsp;really understand what we are trying to build, try out the Commons Simulator: <a href="https://sim.commonsstack.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://sim.commonsstack.org/</a> We see the work of Elinor Ostrom as our North Star and set out to weave her principles of governing commons into the cultural fabric of a Commons. Our Cultural Build defines practices for clear boundaries, conflict resolution, monitoring, participatory decision-making, as well as others.&nbsp; Among our milestones are supporting BlockScience in open-sourcing cadCAD, developing the edutainment program Commons Simulator, launching the Trusted Seed, developing a collaborative economics method, deploying the Token Engineering Commons (TEC) - the first field test for our Commons design patterns, launching the Commons Prize and starting our commons collaboration with Grassroots Economics, the winner of the prize. While we have already had some success, we have only just begun. Our research continues. The lessons learned from a first field test, the Token Engineering Commons (TEC), are being rolled into new deployment protocols and our curated commons library of tools and processes continues to evolve.&nbsp; We did not get this far alone. We have collaborated with BlockScience, Blossom Labs, Metagov, Curve Labs, PrimeDAO, Giveth, 1Hive, Aragon, Token Engineering Academy, Token Engineering Commons, and many others.

Commons Stack is raising funds to cover the costs of our research around the
Quadratic Accelerator, aka q/acc. We hope this research will be able to support
the continued improvement of the q/acc program for use in the Giveth ecosystem
(for Gurves) and other Commons focused ecosystems in the futu...

Will Ruddick

<h1>Grassroots Economics</h1> Who?Grassroots Economics is a non-profit foundation dedicated to empowering marginalized communities by enabling them to create sustainable, self-reliant economies. Through collaboration with local leaders, small businesses, and community members, we facilitate resource coordination and foster economic resilience. <div class="ql-video-wrapper"><iframe class="ql-video" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zNfJWXvezIk?showinfo=0"></iframe></div> What?The project focuses on implementing Commitment Pooling protocols and Community Inclusion Currencies, inspired by traditional practices like Mweria. These systems empower communities to pool resources, share commitments, and exchange goods and services without relying solely on national currency. By utilizing decentralized tools like the Sarafu Network, communities create digital vouchers that represent their commitments and resources, enhancing local trade and mutual support. Grassroots Economics seeks to connect people to their own abundance by supporting them in pooling their commitments or resources together in the form of Community Asset Vouchers - which are blockchain based credit obligations backed by the goods and services of community groups in vulnerable communities in Kenya and growing to other countries. Our vision is of communities creating their own medium of exchange linked to local values and connected to other communities via <a href="https://grassecon.org/commitment-pooling" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Commitment Pooling</a> and creating an emergent, healthy polycentric economic system. Our work is also anchored in Syntropic Agroforestry as the basis for local economies and sustainable food production. <img src="https://giveth.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/QmTWsRs9chM5PBG59E2Ukthpi8qJ8c7HL8YJDSRJ5eSBM2"> Why?Grassroots Economics was established to address the challenges faced by communities experiencing economic exclusion and instability. Many people struggle to access basic needs due to reliance on unstable national currencies. By rediscovering ancestral resource coordination practices and integrating them with modern digital tools, Grassroots Economics helps communities unlock their collective potential, reduce poverty, and build resilient, equitable economies. Where?The foundation operates primarily in Kenya, working with rural villages, urban slums, and refugee communities. Its impact has extended to various communities across East Africa and beyond, creating scalable models adaptable to diverse socio-economic and cultural contexts. <img src="https://giveth.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/QmfFE2M9AZjR22k1VdzpLHQj3wokfjmBRwgPgrc4PjzbPv"> We've reached over 300 vouchers world wide and 40 pools connecting them! See <a href="https://sarafu.network/vouchers" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://sarafu.network/vouchers</a> How?Grassroots Economics works through a collaborative, step-by-step approach: <ol><li>Engagement and Visioning: Partnering with community members to identify local challenges and opportunities.</li><li>Training and Tools: Educating communities about Commitment Pooling and how to use digital vouchers.</li><li>Implementation: Supporting the setup of local economies using Community Inclusion Currencies and pooling systems.</li><li>Support and Scaling: Providing ongoing mentorship, resources, and technical support to ensure long-term success and scalability.</li></ol> Watch to understand more:<div class="ql-video-wrapper"><iframe class="ql-video" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7dHMe0cRh5M?showinfo=0"></iframe></div> When?Grassroots Economics began its journey over a decade ago and continues to expand its reach and impact. Projects are ongoing, with efforts to scale globally, ensuring that communities worldwide can benefit from the tools and insights offered by the foundation. We need help in testing, developing, integrating and maintaining <a href="https://docs.grassecon.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">open source software and documentation</a> Please join us on our <a href="https://docs.grassecon.org/community" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">team</a> and help us fund this really important work! Besides software development and support, we train organizations and communities around the world how to design, start and maintain community currencies - Your support also helps support new communities to develop their own programs. For more information, visit: <a href="https://grassecon.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://grassecon.org</a>Contact us at <a href="mailto:info@grassecon.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">info@grassecon.org</a>

GRASSROOTS ECONOMICS
Who?
Grassroots Economics is a non-profit foundation dedicated to empowering
marginalized communities by enabling them to create sustainable, self-reliant
economies. Through collaboration with local leaders, small businesses, and
community members, we facilitate resource coor...

Giveth

Grassroots Economics

Kyle W

We're on a mission to create technologies and opportunities that enable communities to build, fund and protect what matters. Now, as a technology organization, Gitcoin is bringing capital allocation strategies to web3 in permissionless ways. As leaders in the Grants allocation space, we will move more money into the hands of the builders, dreamers, and the web3 community at large. With Grants Stack, you can configure direct grants programs, quadratic funding rounds and even retro active funding rounds. Grants Stack is built on Allo, Gitcoin's allocation protocol. Allo is the first protocol to combine three core components: A universal project registry, with diverse funding strategies (how the capital is allocated), with robust payout strategies (ensure accountability with the capital that is being allocation). Combined, Allo makes it easy to run a grants program, learn more about projects or fund what matters. The Gitcoin Grants Program is a quarterly initiative run by Gitcoin that empowers everyday believers in web3 to drive funding toward what they believe matters, with the impact of individual donations being magnified by the use of the Quadratic Funding (QF) distribution mechanism. The objective of this grant is to help us grow &amp; sustain the builders who are pioneering in the capital allocation space and supporting public goods globally.

We're on a mission to create technologies and opportunities that enable
communities to build, fund and protect what matters.
Now, as a technology organization, Gitcoin is bringing capital allocation
strategies to web3 in permissionless ways. As leaders in the Grants allocation
space, we will move...

Gitcoin

Paul Glavin

<a href="https://gardens.1hive.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">﻿🌱﻿</a> Gardens (built by <a href="https://1hive.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">1Hive</a>) is a modular coordination mechanism giving organizations in low trust + inefficient environments streamlined access to web3’s best spending strategies like Conviction Voting, Quadratic Funding, Streaming Proposals, Bounties, and more, which they can use to invest their treasuries in any combination of instances. Our emphasis is on a community experience that’s healthy, fun, intuitive, secure, open, and trustless The keystone of Gardens infrastructure is the Community Covenant, which serves the role of:<ol><li>encoding a community’s values / mission in an on-chain social contract</li><li>linking that Covenant to the various smart contracts that make up the communities funding and spending strategies.</li><li>allowing people to stake tokens to support the Covenant, giving them access to participate in spending strategies and community decisions.</li></ol> All of our code is open-source. Always has been and always will be. 🌱 Gardens v1 pioneered the Conviction Voting funding mechanism, and saw modest adoption - reaching a max TVL of $40.5 million and distributing millions of dollars in tokens to Gardens communities with no successful attacks or malicious/abusive proposals passed to date. Gardens v1 numbers:<ul><li>30+ communities</li><li>3,000+ members</li><li>400+ proposals passed</li><li>12 disputes resolved through Celeste arbitration</li></ul> Gardens v2 launched in April 2024. Helpful Links:<ul><li><a href="https://gardensdao.eth.limo/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">App</a></li><li><a href="https://discord.gg/zdPMxcVAXW" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Discord</a></li><li><a href="https://x.com/gardens_fund" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter / X</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/1Hive/gardens-v2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Github</a></li><li><a href="https://1hive.gitbook.io/gardens/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wiki</a></li><li><a href="https://warpcast.com/gardens" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Farcaster</a></li></ul>

﻿🌱﻿ Gardens (built by 1Hive) is a modular coordination mechanism giving
organizations in low trust + inefficient environments streamlined access to
web3’s best spending strategies like Conviction Voting, Quadratic Funding,
Streaming Proposals, Bounties, and more, which they can use to invest the...

1Hive Gardens

Public Nouns Operations

Public Nouns (<a href="https://publicnouns.wtf/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://publicnouns.wtf/</a>) exists to promote, fund, and proliferate aligned projects that focus on serving our public.Inspired greatly by Nouns DAO and the mechanisms it’s pushed forward, Public Nouns is a project that leverages these awesome mechanisms to help fund Public Goods and experimentation thereof.Borrowing from the Charity:Water model, Public Nouns has a goal to fund any operational expenses separate from the funds that go into the Public Nouns DAO treasury.&nbsp;&nbsp;By supporting Public Nouns Operations, you help allow 100% of funds that go into the Public Nouns DAO treasury via sales of Public Nouns to be used towards Public Goods and experimentation thereof.Public Nouns launched at the end of September, and has raised over 165 ETH in its first 70 sales of Public Nouns.&nbsp;&nbsp;Docs: <a href="https://docs.publicnouns.wtf/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://docs.publicnouns.wtf/</a>Manifesto: <a href="https://docs.publicnouns.wtf/manifesto" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://docs.publicnouns.wtf/manifesto</a><h2>Funding Operations</h2>The Public Nouns Operations will be funded out of pNounders.eth multisig.&nbsp;Funding into pNounders.eth would planned to be used for things like:<ul><li>Kickstarting some early experimentation</li><li>Bots set-up</li><li>Starting iteration on governance and research (interested in exploring things like RageQuit into Public Nouns)</li><li>Proliferating the Public Noun meme from the start, for Public Goods sake of course</li><li>Retroactive to contributors</li><li>Hosting and ongoing maintenance</li><li>Ensure Public Nouns is well supported to start</li></ul><h2>Success</h2>There are varying degrees of success when it comes to deploying a new project. While success could be as minimal as being net positive $1 in favor of Public Goods versus what it cost to launch, we’re setting our sights much higher. We’re setting out to gamify the funding of Public Goods using the proven flywheel mechanism of Nouns, and then iterate beyond on creative ways to continue funding Public Goods. Success would be Public Nouns becoming a formidable addition to the Public Goods-funding ecosystem.<h2>Public Nouns Details</h2><img src="https://giveth.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/QmTNPL83mKdaZ55VCkdk1S77hmDthPFrqMaUSkh2fAbWUn">Quick examples of public good attributes added to the mix<h2>PG Nounders “pNounders”</h2>PG Nounders “pNounders” “pounding the pavement for public goods” Founders of Public Nouns. This small starting group of aligned public goods communities kickstarted and deployed the initiative:<ul><li>Moloch (attr: Demon)</li><li>MetaCartel (attr: Chili)</li><li>Gitcoin (attr: Bot/Green Pill)</li><li>Panvala (attr: stampee)</li><li>Radicle (attr: seedling)</li><li>CLR.FUND (attr: Bubbles)</li><li>Optimism (attr: OPossum)</li></ul>

Public Nouns (https://publicnouns.wtf/) exists to promote, fund, and proliferate
aligned projects that focus on serving our public.
Inspired greatly by Nouns DAO and the mechanisms it’s pushed forward, Public
Nouns is a project that leverages these awesome mechanisms to help fund Public
Goods and...

Garm Lucassen

Glo Dollar (USDGLO) is the stablecoin that funds public goods. 🌈☀️Stablecoin companies generate up to $7.4 billion annually from their stablecoin reserves. Our approach is different—we funnel all our profits to public goods and charities.Holding Glo Dollars creates a virtuous cycle to grow ecosystems, instead of extracting yield for gains. By choosing Glo Dollar, you’re funding public goods. At no cost.<img src="https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/4cW_KbVCo-YA8J40SaGf1pl4qx3a2heYRNgRvL5ujGIu3Gv5UxsW3kvUZ_cLYhZT1BJDcGlnKblapAtOKmCLjDW1q_2p_9_vHJ9PzwkBm9utaaIijphpcA6EiPXhwcosjJMlgCtJGba3xzs48WY3kfc"> Glo Dollar is 100% fiat-backed, always redeemable 1:1 for USD and USDC, issued and regulated in the United States, and receives <a href="https://brale.xyz/stablecoins/USDGLO" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">monthly independent attestations</a>. Glo Dollar is available on 7 chains: Ethereum, Polygon, Optimism, Arbitrum, Celo, Stellar, and Base. We've just received a <a href="https://bluechip.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bluechip</a> rating, placing us among the top 10 fiat-pegged stablecoins with an initial B grade. This positions us as a safer option compared to Tether’s USDT, FDUSD, and FRAX.Glo Dollar is developed by the Glo Foundation and is issued by <a href="https://brale.xyz/stablecoins/USDGLO" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Brale</a>. How it worksWhat happens when you buy Glo Dollars:<ol><li>The fiat backing Glo Dollar is invested and earns revenue (similar to other stablecoins).</li><li>We donate 100% of our profits on these investments to public goods and charities.</li><li>You’re funding public goods at zero cost.</li></ol><img src="https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/WfmjW8GNQvjf4TLGWRyGiom10oB-DPKBnrfI-Wy6z7VfEWJDLv5CdpfUo93NRjVfYC4j0FZisMo3kRE2dvf57V82CBf04RNeeBaaHzYa6kItNLqQ9DQdyz6gz8gka2DxhgaTuGOFCghG-BSTQFwn4XY">We call this Automatic Public Goods Funding (AutoPGF), because it is:<ul><li>Simple: just hold a stablecoin</li><li>Zero-cost: holding a stablecoin is free</li><li>Embeddable: in treasuries, payroll, card transactions, …</li></ul> We’re building the world’s largest philanthropic funding mechanismThe current stablecoin market is ~$150 billion, enough to generate over $7 billion in public goods funding each year.&nbsp;But there’s no reason to stop here. We’re making Glo Dollars as accessible as the US Dollar. Everywhere consumers and companies use money, they can use Glo Dollar instead.<img src="https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/kwb9DGKm8FcWkgJhMLnVNA99CrjbPqfb_tHjqn_LRIi2T7ufnZm2q8gkttam6nMoRuLu2-ehHeZfU9tTNNiD5XQxApXNEMEYYxj7_WR0S6n4dH9bp50MNLvux2qSdyWkrOrgTe9wbV4FegRUN9toZnA"> The public goods and charities we fundChoosing the causes to support is simple and can be done from <a href="https://app.glodollar.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">our dApp</a>. Right now, users can select 3 cause areas:<ul><li>Web3 public goods</li><li>Fighting extreme poverty</li><li>Combating climate change</li></ul>We’ll add more causes on a rolling basis. We’re shipping 3 big things in the upcoming months to onboard the next billion users<ol><li>Glo Dollar credit cards, in collaboration with <a href="https://www.raincards.xyz/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rain</a>. Glo Dollar credit cards will help us make Glo Dollar accessible for mainstream real-world usage. Users can replace their fiat backing with Glo Dollars and spend Glo Dollars anywhere Visa is accepted.</li><li>Centralized exchange listings. We’ll be pitching to CEXs such as Coinbase and Kraken.</li><li>Glo Dollar ubiquity through Glo payroll, Glo credit, Glo on/offramps, …</li></ol><img src="https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/4d2lGwnwtrLXGiYiXGiv6nhOJEFON92Fzzn8sFxjfqZc3GY-FhMfFssT5OWUcslS3mzV8wDq-uNG-GpbeUehVOkSWUjiEe5KfRHoF8gc1-SKnKDohQ7XrCH3geByeWG_l7ccICcov4HNA2fBksxvwlQ"> The Glo Foundation: our teamWe’re a Public Benefit Corporation that receives fiscal sponsorship from Global Impact—who accept and process donations on our behalf.Our mission: to unlock new sources of funding for public goods and charity.We’re led by an experienced team with backgrounds in tech, academia, and crypto:<ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/jasdrie" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jasper</a> (Co-founder &amp; CEO), previously at Secfi, founded ASIF Ventures</li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/garmrdotcom" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Garm</a> (Co-founder &amp; CTO), previously at Secfi, holds a PhD in Product Management from the University of Utrecht</li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mblacken/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marcia</a> (Head of Ops), previously at Anchorage Digital, Secfi, Bank of America</li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-logerfo-a2668547/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lisa</a> (Legal Counsel), previously at Circle, Salary Finance</li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/bramvoets/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bram</a> (Head of Growth), previously at Google, Plan A</li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborahlightfoot/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Deborah</a> (Head of Finance), previously at Breeze Labs, founded Foodline.com</li></ul> Relevant links<ul><li><a href="https://www.glodollar.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Our website: glodollar.org</a></li><li><a href="https://x.com/glodollar/status/1775151425863213430" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Glo Dollar 2.0 announcement thread on X</a></li><li><a href="https://www.glodollar.org/articles/bluechip-rating" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Glo Dollar Bluechip rating</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/glodollar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Glo Dollar X account</a></li><li><a href="https://warpcast.com/glodollar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Glo Dollar Farcaster account</a></li><li><a href="https://discord.gg/tMkFWHUQn7" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Glo Dollar Discord</a></li></ul>

Glo Dollar (USDGLO) is the stablecoin that funds public goods. 🌈☀️
Stablecoin companies generate up to $7.4 billion annually from their stablecoin
reserves. Our approach is different—we funnel all our profits to public goods
and charities.
Holding Glo Dollars creates a virtuous cycle to grow eco...

Glo Dollar

Moe Nick

Who? Pairwise is a project built by<a href="https://generalmagic.io/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> General Magic</a> with a lot of support from rockstar DAO OGs. <ul><li class="ql-indent-1"><a href="https://twitter.com/thegrifft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@thegrifft</a> - Product Owner. Top 10 Arbitrum Delegate. Co-founder of Giveth, Commons Stack, General Magic, Dappnode, and more. Been DAOing in Ethereum since 2015.</li><li class="ql-indent-1"><a href="https://twitter.com/moe_nick" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@moe_nick </a>- Product Manager. Products &amp; Fintech Enthusiast.<a href="https://t.co/Jl3jzZY0e7" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> </a><a href="http://giveth.io" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://giveth.io</a> Product Manager, ex-MyDigipay, ex-Tadbirpardaz, ex- Finnotech</li><li class="ql-indent-1"><a href="https://twitter.com/zeptimusQ" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ZeptimusQ</a> - Marketing - Transparency and accountability advocate. A passionate representative focused on decentralized governance.</li><li class="ql-indent-1"><a href="https://twitter.com/markoprljic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@markoprljic</a> - Design lead - Head of Design and Business Developer at General Magic. “Magic Marko” is a top notch designer and has been practicing his art on web2 and web3 projects for over a decade.</li><li class="ql-indent-1"><a href="https://github.com/mmahdigh" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Mahdi</a> - Mahdi was crucial in developing Pairwise for Optimism, expertly handling both the algorithm and backend, and contributing significantly to frontend enhancements.</li></ul> What? Say goodbye to endless forum scrolling and hello to easy, efficient and fun community signaling with Pairwise! Our open-source, snapshot-style voting dapp, based on the <a href="https://blog.colony.io/introducing-budgetbox/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">big brain algorithm research out of Colony in 2018</a>, offers a fast-paced and intuitive experience, perfect for the next generation of DAOs. Join us in revolutionizing governance with the power of algorithms and give your community a fun way to engage in governance, as opposed to boring old voting.Why? Current voting mechanisms provide poor user experience and require a high cognitive overhead leading to intense voter apathy.&nbsp;As an ecosystem, we expect community members to spend a lot of time reading forum posts and have designed our tooling around this expectation. This will not scale.&nbsp;Where? Pairwise will be a public good for the Web3 ecosystem. It will be implemented as a DApp with its own frontend and backend, and can be used in various contexts, such as community governance or project funding, with custom frontends. Pairwise voting will be compatible with all Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) chains and the development will be fully open source, and will also include documentation for developers who want to use the system in their own projects.How? Our project is structured into five main milestones, each focusing on a specific aspect of the ecosystem. These range from initial platform development and integration to creating a mechanism for incentivizing voting and enhancing voting interfaces.When? Our first milestone is targeted at 2.5 months post-initiation, contingent on securing our initial 40k funding mark. We're pretty close, and with your backing, we're confident we'll get there in no time. So, let's buckle up and get ready for this exciting ride.<a href="https://gyazo.com/4251974db3e5f0b3a5f8d5d0208444a2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Here's</a> our roadmap for the journey ahead.<h2> </h2>Grants received so far<h2>Grants received so far</h2><ul><li>ENS Small grant Public Goods round 5 ( 1 ETH )</li><li>ENS Small grant Public Goods round 7 ( 1 ETH )</li><li>ENS Small grant Public Goods round 9 ( 1 ETH )</li><li>ENS Small grant Public Goods round 10 ( 0.3 ETH )</li><li>Gitcoin (1.5k USD )</li><li>Gitcoin ARB round (5k ARB+390UDSC)</li><li>Octant Epoch 2 (6.05 ETH)</li><li>Octant Epoch 3 (7.98 ETH)</li><li>Optimisms RPGF 2 ( 7805.18 OP )</li><li>Optimisms RPGF 3 (96,809.50 OP )</li><li>Optimisms grant ( 95K OP )</li><li class="ql-indent-1">The allocated funds are not intended for this specific roadmap. However, elements of the operational proposal could potentially be repurposed, thereby conserving resources within the overall budget.</li></ul>Dorahacks (0.64118904 BNB + 1000 USDT )Product Features<ul><li>Make your own community space</li><li>Make your own Pairwise votes</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Add options&nbsp;</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Add a question</li><li>Extremely simple UX</li><li>Multichain support</li></ul> Pairvise v1 atpairwise.vote

Who? Pairwise is a project built by General Magic with a lot of support from
rockstar DAO OGs.
 * @thegrifft - Product Owner. Top 10 Arbitrum Delegate. Co-founder of Giveth,
   Commons Stack, General Magic, Dappnode, and more. Been DAOing in Ethereum
   since 2015.
 * @moe_nick - Product Manager....

Pairwise - Simplifying Choices Amplifying Voices

David Casey

We build bridges between builders, funders, and researchers to transform the funding mechanisms for public goods. Alongside our sister series, Earth Commons, which focuses on nature’s commons, we aim to cultivate a sustainable ecosystem by uniting diverse communities from Web2, Web3, research, philanthropy, and industry.Funding the Commons (FtC)&nbsp;focuses on innovating public goods funding infrastructure through integrating Web2 and Ethereum platforms. Our initiatives, including conferences, builder residencies, hackathons, and impact pilot projects, accelerate the growth of the public goods funding ecosystem and shape the discourse around commons. Our community fosters collaboration, mentorship, and innovation.Key Initiatives:<ul><li>Conferences:&nbsp;FtC has organized 10 international conferences, strategically designed to foster innovation in public goods funding. These events unite global leaders in Web3, public goods funding, and decentralized governance to share knowledge and promote impactful collaborations.</li><li>Builder Residencies:&nbsp;These 1-month co-living experiences drive public goods projects forward through community workshops, mentorship, and peer support. Our Thailand residency, for example, explores applied use cases of commons funding in a local context.</li><li>Hackathons:&nbsp;Designed to ignite innovation in public goods funding infrastructure, FtC hackathons offer sponsor challenges, prizes, and mentorship to empower developers and integrate existing PGF platforms.</li><li>Impact Pilot Projects:&nbsp;FtC incubates selected projects, leveraging its ecosystem’s tools to contribute to sustainable public goods funding infrastructure.</li></ul>By fostering a global community of builders, researchers, and funders, FtC is accelerating the growth of the public goods funding ecosystem and shaping the future of commons stewardship.

We build bridges between builders, funders, and researchers to transform the
funding mechanisms for public goods. Alongside our sister series, Earth Commons,
which focuses on nature’s commons, we aim to cultivate a sustainable ecosystem
by uniting diverse communities from Web2, Web3, research, ph...

Funding the Commons

Graven Prest

Flow State is a streaming funding platform &amp; builder cooperative that makes working for and investing in the public good more sustainable. We’re focused on two key ideas to create employment by the (network) commons for more builders:<ul><li>Streaming allocation mechanisms - Using the full potential of programmable money to deliver continuous funding where and when needed.</li><li>Digital cooperative legal structure - Combining a traditional legal structure with web3 rails to reward impact creators and funders with rights to the org’s future cash flows (in a transparent, compliant way).</li></ul> Our flagship product, <a href="https://docs.flowstate.network/platform/streaming-qf/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Streaming Quadratic Funding (SQF)</a>, brings the free-rider-incentive-busting quadratic funding mechanism to a real-time, continuous form. With SQF... <ul><li>Public good builders earn sustainable funding by delivering on their mission—fewer distractions hunting/shilling grants and more focus on growing impact and cultivating long-term supporter relationships.</li><li>Donors make high-conviction funding decisions where and when they find something they care about rather than in chaotic, time-constrained voting periods. Think of it like a QF-supercharged Patreon where supporters invest in future value creation rather than providing one-off charity.</li><li>Ecosystems attract, retain, and amplify talent. No one likes funding uncertainty, administrative delays, or capital inefficiency. Streaming grants are a competitive advantage on both sides of the impact funding equation.</li></ul> Streams, you (don't) have to stop. You smoke too tough. Your swag too different...<img src="https://giveth.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/QmSCYzCKrPw6TvwMxuFqgBtYa7Qx59kwopr2eFAX44hBdZ">Programmable money streams are awesome. They provide a foundation for more composable, capable, and efficient money. SQF is really just the start of what we can do with <a href="https://x.com/GravenPrest/status/1892713630707163418" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Superfluid-style streaming</a>. We've recently developed and released tools like <a href="https://flowstate.network/flow-splitters" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Flow Splitters</a> for teams, guilds (﻿👀﻿ <a href="https://giveth.io/project/guild-guild" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">more here soon</a>), and communities to manage dynamic many-to-many streams. We have a flexible, direct voting strategy (<a href="https://github.com/flow-state-coop/council" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Flow Councils</a>) queued up for the right partner/use case (<a href="about:blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">hit us up</a>). And Flow State was recently included (along with Giveth!) in <a href="https://claim.superfluid.org/apps" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Superfluid's Streaming Programmatic Rewards campaign</a>. It helped push our <a href="https://flowstate.network/pool?chainId=8453&amp;poolId=63" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Octant SQF round over 25 ETH streamed to builders and 1,300+ concurrent donation streams</a>! Stay tuned for more exciting announcements in Q2 2025!

Flow State is a streaming funding platform & builder cooperative that makes
working for and investing in the public good more sustainable.
We’re focused on two key ideas to create employment by the (network) commons for
more builders:
 * Streaming allocation mechanisms - Using the full potential ...

Flow State

Deep Funding

Driving rewards to open source dependencies with a market of AIs as the engine and humans as the steering wheel, deep funding requires 3 components: <ul><li>A data layer mapping all contributions to an ecosystem</li><li>An open contest to crowdsource the relative value between contributions</li><li>A jury to express preferences on a randomly selected set of contributions </li></ul> The model(s) best aligning with jury spot checks distribute funds across the dependency graph, thus scaling high quality human judgement <img src="https://giveth.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/QmfMgtuPsdDRUASe8uNDeUn7sFb3W9f21xnQU8Qdf8VC3s"> In most funding rounds, selection procedures require a committee or donors to have an opinion on all eligible projects. In deep funding, the jury votes carefully on a few projects. These selections serve as test data to choose a winning model that decides allocations to all projects, using a data science competition approach (like the ones on Kaggle or Pond) where anyone can submit models giving weights to projects in a round.&nbsp; <h1>Pilot Implementations</h1> Deep Funding kicked off with a <a href="https://huggingface.co/spaces/DeepFunding/PredictiveFundingChallengeforOpenSourceDependencies" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">competition</a> using funding data from 2019-2024 from Open Collective, Gitcoin, Optimism and Octant. Participants needed to build open source AI or metrics based models to predict funding received by projects in these past rounds. You can see our proof of work <a href="https://research.allo.capital/t/submission-of-entries-to-the-deep-funding-mini-contest/22/17" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a> - 15 high quality submissions from participants that are being judged for $20k in prizes! <h1>What's Next</h1> The next contest asks participants to submit machine learning or metrics based model that gives 15,000 weights indicating the contribution of ~5000 open source repos to the ethereum universe The model that best aligns with juror rankings for a subset of these dependencies gets to allocate $170,000 based on their weights <img src="https://giveth.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/QmZJZttu3Z44HdfuzeFmDcGo6oj52pb2oMRXa4Ej5dRxac">Simultaneously, we are spreading the meme of predictive funding challenges where models guess the amount received by a project before the round even starts. Proof of Work: <a href="https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/gcp-xxx-predictive-funding-competition-for-gg23/19902/6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/gcp-xxx-predictive-funding-competition-for-gg23/19902/6</a> Your support will help the 6 partners involved in Deep Funding; VoiceDeck as StoryTeller						Open Source Observer as Wizard				Pairwise as RefereeDrips as Sprinkler									Pollen Labs as Accelerator							Allo as Weaver

Driving rewards to open source dependencies with a market of AIs as the engine
and humans as the steering wheel, deep funding requires 3 components:
 * A data layer mapping all contributions to an ecosystem
 * An open contest to crowdsource the relative value between contributions
 * A jury to ex...

Eugene Leventhal

The Grant Innovation Lab (GIL) is a collective dedicated to advancing the effectiveness of grant programs, exploring topics such as operations, mechanisms, decentralization, transparency, and impact measurement, amongst others. The GIL team consists of grant managers independent researchers, and evaluation experts with extensive experience running and researching grant programs. Our ultimate goal is to produce as much shared knowledge, and to disseminate it, so that all grant programs can improve. The GIL has produced research such as: <ul><li>State of Web3 Grants Report 2023, </li><li>3 Retroactive Funding Program Case Studies,</li><li>Takeaways from the 2024 Web Grant Summit in Denver,</li><li>Takeaways from the 2024 Grant Operator Workshop in Denver,</li><li>Grant Maturity Index, and</li><li>State of Web3 Grants Report 2024.</li></ul> For 2025, we are mainly prioritizing 2 projects:<ol><li>State of Web3 Grants 2025, which will focus on mapping different mechanisms to desired outcomes to better understand which mechanisms support which results, and</li><li>the Impact Handbook, which will produce a series of comprehensive frameworks for operators to use to support the evaluation of different kinds of grant programs. </li></ol> In addition to our research, the GIL also focuses on shared resources and on community building, which has included events such as: <ul><li>a dinner at DevConnect Istanbul,</li><li>a Web3 Grant Summit in Denver,</li><li>co-hosted the Grant Funding Forum in Brussels,</li><li>host a monthly grant operator call, and </li><li>hosted a 2-day Grant Operator Workshop in Denver in Feb 2025.</li></ul> Our partners and previous funders have included Gitcoin, Octant, Questbook, CharmVerse, DFINITY, ENS Public Goods Grants, Mantle, Rootstock, Manta, the Ethereum Foundation, and Optimism. We are seeking additional funding in order to start working on better supporting grantees and to seed to new research efforts.

The Grant Innovation Lab (GIL) is a collective dedicated to advancing the
effectiveness of grant programs, exploring topics such as operations,
mechanisms, decentralization, transparency, and impact measurement, amongst
others. The GIL team consists of grant managers independent researchers, and
...

Grant Innovation Lab

Rohit Malekar

At GrantsScope, we’re pioneering the intersection of data science and AI to empower donors in the web3 public goods funding (PGF). Our mission? To revolutionize how donors identify and support grantees during PGF rounds. The Challenge:&nbsp;In large PGF rounds, where hundreds of grantees vie for attention, the brightest spotlight often falls on those with the strongest marketing. This imbalance creates a cycle where deserving projects may go unnoticed, leading to an uneven distribution of resources and opportunities. The Result:&nbsp;This disparity not only places additional burdens on grantees to amplify their visibility but also diverts their focus from creating meaningful impact. As a result, the true potential of PGF is left untapped, and innovation in public goods is stifled. Our Solution: GrantsScopeWe believe in leveling the playing field. GrantsScope harnesses the power of data analytics, machine learning, and advanced Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance project visibility and democratize access to funding. Our experiments are designed to assist donors during quadratic funding rounds on Gitcoin Grants by<ul><li>Providing personalized recommendations, helping donors easily navigate the complexity of PGF rounds.</li><li>Offering self-discovery tools that empower donors to explore and connect with projects that resonate with their values.</li><li>Reducing information asymmetry, ensuring donors comprehensively understand the PGF landscape.</li></ul> Example #1: Use of RAG (Retrieval-Augment Generation) to allow donors to learn about grantees operating in causes they care about in GG19 <img src="https://giveth.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/Qmaj5hzYRVitzW5Bt71764X1WSrPbtZjCnSYfGAUPovWux" style="" width="563"> Example #2: Use of clustering techniques (HDBSCAN) to highlight summaries of related and distinct projects deployed during GreenPill x Octant Community Round <img src="https://giveth.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/QmUqVJfY7HWUov7ZwtqQqLXSVtDBBeXCQAbFbTdXsEKxoQ"> Example 3: Use of onchain donation history to drive personalized grantee recommendations for donors <img src="https://giveth.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/QmVe3K5sYCLDNptrq7yT552VedzJN3CqwgZsFPWU2ADUBK" style="cursor: nesw-resize;" width="563"> Our Impact: Visit <a href="https://grantsscope.xyz/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://grantsscope.xyz/</a> to access apps, source code, and sample results.Join a growing community of over 500 unique users, as verified by StreamLit analytics, in exploring innovative applications that leverage conversational experiences using LLMs (Large Language Models) and clustering techniques. As the next milestone, GrantsScope will utilize existing onchain data and clustering techniques to offer personalized recommendations to donors in Gitcoin Grants (GG20) in April 2024. The Team: <a href="https://twitter.com/RohitMalekar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rohit Malekar</a> currently maintains this project as a single-person team. It is built on data abstractions created by&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/gitcoinco/grants-stack-indexer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grants Stack Indexer&nbsp;</a>and&nbsp;<a href="https://davidgasquez.github.io/gitcoin-grants-data-portal/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gitcoin Grants Data Portal</a> with plans to integrate with <a href="https://regendata.xyz/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Regen Data</a>.

At GrantsScope, we’re pioneering the intersection of data science and AI to
empower donors in the web3 public goods funding (PGF). Our mission? To
revolutionize how donors identify and support grantees during PGF rounds.
The Challenge: In large PGF rounds, where hundreds of grantees vie for
atten...

GrantsScope - Grantee Discovery Using LLMs

<h2>Why Public Goods Matter</h2>Public goods are the backbone of society. They’re the things we all benefit from but don’t pay for directly like open-source software, clean rivers, scientific breakthroughs, or community infrastructure. They’re essential, but because they’re free to use, they’re chronically underfunded. Historically, public goods have been supported through taxes, philanthropy, and charitable donations. More recently, grants have helped fill the gap. But those approaches alone aren’t enough to keep pace with the scale of what we need. <h2>Here’s Where Web3 Comes In</h2>Web3 opens the door to something new. Instead of just asking for donations, we can design entire systems that channel value back into the commons—creating incentives, mechanisms, and currencies that make funding public goods a built-in feature of our economies. <h3>Examples of innovations include:</h3><ul><li>Donation matching that amplifies small contributions through collective power</li><li>NFT + DAO models where sales create shared pools for communities to govern</li><li>Yield-based systems that redirect staking rewards or treasury returns to the commons</li><li>Donor rewards that give contributors recognition, perks, or governance rights</li></ul> <h2>Who's in the Cause?</h2>This Cause brings together projects that are running bold experiments, leveraging blockchain tech to making public foods funding so smooth, so efficient and so effective, that the creators can focus on innovating. The fun irony? These projects building new ways to fund public goods are public goods creators themselves! <h2>Who Am I?</h2>I'm <a href="https://x.com/karmaticacid" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lauren Luz</a>. I’ve been working in the public goods funding space since 2021. I’m passionate about how we can actually use this tech to make an impact, because I see major problems in society: Public education is a "public good", but it’s designed to train members of society to be obedient and fall in line. Healthcare is a "public good" in many countries, but it's driven by big pharma and designed to keep people coming back to buy more pills, rather than with their empowerment in mind. If we solve the problem of how to effectively fund public goods, we allow for innovation in these fields, and this allows us to solve massive global problems. This Cause is collection of projects that I believe are working hard, innovating with public goods funding tech, and I want to see them succeed.

Public Goods Funding Innovations
Lauren Luz

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Public Goods Funding InnovationsLauren Luz

$115.53

577,799.62 GIV

Public Goods Funding Innovations
Lauren Luz