Big experiment brewing at Gitcoin 👀

In GG23, you can now stake your GTC on projects you believe in.

Not just for vibes — there are real rewards involved. Here's how it works 🧵 This is a first-of-its-kind experiment.

Stake your GTC
Signal support for projects
Earn rewards

Let’s break it down 👇

Babe, wake up - #GG22 donations are LIVE until Nov 6 23:59 UTC!

#GG22 is your chance to shape the future by Funding What Matters to seed and grow the next wave of high-impact web3 builders

There’s $1.4M+ available in total matching across the OSS Program and 7 Community Rounds

OSS Program rounds:

- Hackathon Alumni
- Developer Tooling & Libraries
- dApps & Apps
- Web3 Infrastructure

Donate 👇

grants.gitcoin.co We're offering $1M in matching funds to support open-source software projects. We're specifically looking to fund developer tools, web3 infrastructure, dApps & Apps, and projects from previous hackathons.

You can check the approved projects here 👇

grants.gitcoin.co

And now, the moment you’ve been waiting for… #GG22 is one week away!

We've got:

🟢 $1.2M+ total matching funds
🟢 4 OSS rounds with $1M matching
🟢 7 Community rounds with $125K+ matching

Let's break down what's exciting about GG22 👇 🌍 OSS Program: Powering the future!
$1M in matching funds are dedicated to advancing OSS projects. We’re funding dev tools, Web3 infrastructure, dApps, and Hackathon Alumni. If you're building in these areas, this is YOUR chance to grow!

⏰ Get your applications in by EOD tomorrow for a guaranteed review before the Gitcoin Grants Beta round begins! grants.gitcoin.co

The cut-off date for applications for core and some featured rounds is 04/21/23 at 23:59 UTC, and the round goes live on 04/25/23 12:00 UTC 🫡 ✅An important eligibility requirement for each round is to be a project that has had meaningful Github/social media activity in the prior 3 months that has demonstrated work completed towards the project’s mission.

✨GRANTEES: This is the final week to apply for the Gitcoin Grants Beta Round✨

Final day to apply is Friday, April 21st at 23:59 UTC

Learn more below ⤵️ 🤝 To apply, head over to grants.gitcoin.co and you'll see the 5 core rounds: Climate Solutions, ZK Tech, OSS, Community & Ed and ETH Infra managed by Gitcoin & the featured rounds that are managed independently

📣IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THE GITCOIN PROGRAM ALPHA ROUND GRANTEES📣

Apologies for the delay! Here's the link to the gov post with the matching payout info: gov.gitcoin.co/t/discussion-p…

Keep reading for more 🔑 updates regarding the timeline :
#Alphalife 🔗 Check out the final matching calculations for January's Gitcoin Program Alpha Round:

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

📣 ANNOUNCING gtcETH 📣

We are partnering with @indexcoop to create Gitcoin Staked ETH Index (gtcETH) -- a positive-sum opportunity to fund public goods 🤝

Check out the details of this exciting new funding mechanism 👇 gtcETH will enable token holders to access the top ETH liquid staking tokens through a single token while simultaneously contributing to public goods funding ☀️

📣 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨

We are excited to announce the launch of Gitcoin Grants Stack: a protocol-enabled suite of tools that makes it easy for communities to collectively allocate capital to fund their shared needs 🤝

Read all about it 👇 Our Grants Program has grown immensely since its launch in 2019. We learned there isn't a single model that is right for every org ✨

Being able to tweak aspects like project eligibility criteria or donor matching settings allows the community to dial in the right program 🌈

With 88 epic grantees, 6,372 unique donors, $144,668 donations, and 333,333 in matching funding, the Open Source Software Round is popping off! 🚀

Read more to learn about the OSS Round 👇 In our first QF round in 2019, we raised $38k for Open Source Software. Now, 15 rounds later, our grants program has distributed $38M in funding. 🤯📈

📣 📣 The results are in for our first Alpha Round with @UNICEFinnovate 👀

Read our latest article by @azeemk_ on how the ten amazing grantees did during this historic round:

link.gitcoin.co/unicefalphares… This historic QF round ran from December 9 to December 21, 2022, and included 10 projects from all the over the world 🌍

GM!

Today is a good day.

We're halfway through our Gitcoin Program Alpha Round with 11,000+ unique donors and more than $235k+ total donated by the community 🌈✨

Here are the stats broken down👇 Open Source Software:

🙌 88 grantees

🤝 7,270 unique donors

✨$166,555 in donations

📣 📣The Gitcoin Program Alpha Round is LIVE!

☀️A Quadratic Funding round that will support 200 grantees working on Open Source, Ethereum Infrastructure, and Climate Solutions with a $1M total matching pool ☀️ From Jan 17th to 31st, vote with your wallet to allocate our $1M matching pool to a select group of impact-driven grantees. In the process, you’ll be helping Gitcoin level up as we test and improve the UX of our new decentralized grants platform 🚀

Hackathons create a decentralized environment for participants to build a product more significant than themselves. 👷‍♀️💻🌱

Who participates in hackathons? And why should you get involved?

@QuinnFos answers those q’s in his latest feature:

go.gitcoin.co/blog/the-power… Hackathons are not exclusive to developers. They’re also for designers, technological creatives, and product managers.

So long as you’re willing to work on a team to help create minimum viable digital products, anyone can take part in a hackathon.

🙌 Today marks a moment in history!! 🥳

For the first time ever, @UNICEFinnovate is facilitating a Quadratic Funding grants round for 10 impact-focused, innovative projects from around the world!

🎉 Support them today: gitcoin.info/unicef @UNICEFinnovate is @UNICEF's venture capital arm working to discover and fund projects using emerging technology to improve the lives of young people! 💙

Our QF pilot will nourish social impact projects that work directly with affected communities 🌱

go.gitcoin.co/blog/gitcoin-u…

✨Web3 grants programs come in all shapes and sizes✨

What are the best practices if you want to launch your own program? 🤔

Let's look at what drove three leading programs to major success. 🧵

go.gitcoin.co/blog/successfu… Web3’s tradition of generous grants programs provides a much-needed bulwark for the open web’s dedicated builders. 👷‍♂️

Grants programs are responsible for keeping the innovative and collaborative spirit of open source alive and kicking. 🚀

A clip from @NathanVDH0x from our recent twitter space on the Snapshot- Passport integration. 🔗🤝

Keep scrolling to read some amazing highlights from the event!🔥 Gitcoin Passport is a digital ID using verifiable credentials to confirm identity authentications from across the internet without storing personal/private information. 🔐✅

PSA: Gitcoin is partnering with @optimismFND! 🚀

The Optimism Foundation’s 2nd retroactive public goods funding round will be one of the test rounds deployed on Gitcoin’s grants protocol.

Keep reading to learn more about this round 🧵 Supporting open source public goods that are overlooked by conventional funding sources remains a part of our mission.

We’re proud to use our grants protocol to help Optimism test new ways to support open source contributors in their ecosystem.

As you probably heard, we're evolving our Grants Program to become more decentralized + customizable!

On that note, we're thrilled to share how you can participate in the first rounds of our Alpha Rounds Test Season—which uses our new grants protocol 🧵

go.gitcoin.co/blog/announcin… The five “test” alpha rounds we’ll be running in the coming months are the first step to realizing our decentralized future. Keep reading to learn more about the upcoming rounds...

There are less than TWO WEEKS left until Grants Round 14 kicks off!

We’re excited to announce that GR14 will have over $1M in matching funds across 12+ ecosystem rounds! 🤯

Round Brief & Eligibility links are at the end of the thread, but let’s break it down first🧵

/1 Starting with the new additions:
Ethereum Infrastructure👀
Subgraph Scholarships (@graphprotocol)
Web3 Social (@realMaskNetwork)
Unlock Protocol (@UnlockProtocol)
Aurora (@auroraisnear)
Protocol Labs (IPFS / Filecoin) (@protocollabs)
Celo (@CeloOrg)

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