Gitcoin is evolving 🦋
Gitcoin Grants will continue to be a public good on which the web3 ecosystem can rely. Soon, though, we’ll also be launching a concurrent offering: Grants Protocol 🍃
🤔 How will the Gitcoin Grants Program be run in the future?
🛠️ Join us on Wednesday, November 30th at 12pm ET to discuss it!
🌱 We will share our thinking about how the program will be run and hear YOUR thoughts about the program's future
🏛️ This event is open to DAO Citizens (go to the #citizen-start-here channel to get the role ahead of the call!)
🔔 Get notified of when the event starts in #citizen-forum: discord.com/events/562828676480237578/1046838693643698256
sybil resistance is one of the most important challenges of our generation
shout out to everyone working to create a free, open internet made for humans, not bots
Gitcoin is excited to announce our next round of Gitcoin Steward Council members!\n\nWe welcome Eugyal, Ccerv1, drnicka, Annika, Dabit3, lthrift, Epowell101, Griff, Pop, and ebransom.\n\nWe can't wait to get to work! Read the full announcement here:\n\ngo.gitcoin.co/blog/gitcoin-announces-the-results-of-the-first-ever-quadratically-elected-steward-council
🤖 Gitcoin’s brand — it’s more than a logo
🎨 Join us on Wednesday, November 30th at 12pm ET to explore what our brand means, why it matters, and the evolution of Gitcoin’s brand strategy
🏛️ This event is open to DAO Citizens (go to the #citizen-start-here channel to get the role ahead of the call!)
🔔 Get notified of when the event starts in #citizen-forum: discord.com/events/562828676480237578/1049380977249636532
In collaboration with UNICEF's Office of Innovation, we're kicking off Alpha Round Season, and today we're thrilled to introduce you to the 10 participating grantees!
Meet the grantees and find out how you can support their work:
Wow.
Thank you @vitalik.lens 🙏
Super honored for the shoutout of our DAO model, our Grants Program, and our Gitcoin Passport product as some of the “applications that are proving themselves already, and are only getting stronger”
(And overall, great read: vitalik.eth.limo/general/2022/12/05/excited.html))
Regarding your callout of Gitcoin Passport, we appreciate you noticing the intentionality behind our product design in being a “meta-aggregator” of identity solutions.
With Passport, devs don’t have to rely on just one type of proof of identity/reputation service.
Devs can ask potential users/members to verify that they have whatever combination of identity markers needed (e.g. Proof of Humanity, a set of POAPs, token balances) to be users/members.
We appreciate you recognizing the value we provide to these identity services + users.
We also love the callout that adopting a DAO structure can often be mismatched to goals of the organizers, and yet at the same time, there are instances where a DAO structure can be greatly additive to a mission.
Thank you for naming Gitcoin DAO as one of those examples.
We’re glad you mentioned that our DAO structure affords many benefits, including that it gives users confidence that it will still be around in five years, so that public goods funders can start projects now and hope to be rewarded later.
We want to last + build things that last.
Finally we agree with your call to action to build applications that might seem “stable and boring”—because it is these apps that will be most valuable for the web3 ecosystem and its citizens in the long term.
There’s nothing we’re more excited about building than Gitcoin Grants (and its decentralized future), and Gitcoin Passport.
In the future, it will be obvious that sybil defense + helping people fund their shared needs was one of the least boring things you could work on in web3.
Join us tomorrow as we kick off a very exciting Retro PGF Round with our friends Optimism 🚀\n\n📆: Wednesday, 12/7\n\n⏰: 9am PST/12pm EST\n\n📍 Twitter Spaces\n\nSet your reminder 🔔: twitter.com/i/spaces/1ynJOambWvqKR?s=20
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.
The five “test” alpha rounds we’ll be running in the coming months are the first step to realizing our decentralized future. Learn more about the upcoming rounds and how you can get involved here: