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Decentralized notifications have the potential for a robust notification ecosystem without the centralized drawbacks of web2 notifications. Applications need better methods to communicate with users quickly and in response to events other than Twitter, Discord, or email. Users deserve to control what notifications they receive and should benefit from the open-source nature of web3 by requesting notifications about protocol behavior.
A year in web3 can feel like a lifetime. While the downfall of firms like Celsius, FTX, and 3AC dominated news headlines in 2022, the progress of Gitcoin and the wider regenerative community have given us high hopes for what web3 can accomplish in the future.
In the beginning, it's all about survival. Sergej Kunz and Anton Bukov bounced through blockchain events and hackathons, taking their winnings from one event and moving on to the next. They took part in 17 hackathons around the globe and would sleep in the hackathon area or sometimes just not sleep at all.
Then, a typo in their Gitcoin grant application led to an extra $45k in grant funding going to the early development team of 1inch. This fortunate mistake was just one of the many contributing factors that helped them go from Gitcoin Grantees to Gitcoin Funders in just over two years. It has awakened an inspiration and a drive to give back to the world, and to the ecosystem that helped them build their own future.
Building a brand new product in a brand new ecosystem is hard enough. Now, building it during a Bear Market can come with an even more daunting challenge. But not...
Gitcoin was founded in 2017 with the mission to build and sustain digital public goods. While there are a number of podcasts and blog posts written about why
As a developer, one of the beautiful things about open source code is that it tells a story. As you look through the release notes, commit history, features/bugs/issues, a picture emerges. It might not always be a clear picture, but at the very least, you can usually establish a foundation for how and why certain features exist and what they intend to do.
The Gitcoin Team is pleased to announce that ENS, the decentralized naming protocol, has made a $700k investment in support of digital public goods. ENS joins a stacked group of veteran Ethereum organizations who have contributed over $5mm to help build open source through Gitcoin hackathons and grants rounds.
Over the last three years, we’ve collectively built legitimacy around the idea of supporting the core infrastructure we all rely on, and we’re proud of what we’ve been able to accomplish for the Ethereum and broader web3 community. We couldn’t have done it without all of you, and as we’ve mentioned before, there’s still much more to be done.
Hey there! You’re reading a post written at the launch of Gitcoin DAO, May 2021, and a lot has happened in the past year and half.
As an addendum to this original post, here’s an update on what the DAO has accomplished since its launch:
If you’re trying to understand the utility of GTC, in short it is a governance token that holders use to:
Keep reading onward to learn about the token’s history
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------In this post, we’re excited to introduce the GTC token and our DAO that will govern Gitcoin — two crucial components allowing Gitcoin to decentralize and build an equitable protocol for funding open source development.
