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How to Get Funds in Layer 2s & Save on Fees

What is an L2 Network? Why use one to donate to Gitcoin Grants?

Layer 2 Networks (“L2s”) are networks built on top of Ethereum that provide additional capacity to settle transactions while saving on fees and processing time. Using an L2 to donate to Gitcoin Grants can save you time and money, giving you more to support your favorite projects!

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Increasing Action On Your Gitcoin Bounty

How to put your Gitcoin contributors to productive use

We see a lot of software development ‘first dates’ between contributors and maintainers here at Gitcoin. We’ve seen a lot of things go right, but we’ve also seen a lot of things that could be improved.

This post is designed to help bounty funders who would like to see uptick in their bounty success rate.

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Build Your Own Gitcoin Avatar!

Personalize your Gitcoin profile to fit your style

Today we have a special announcement for the Gitcoin community. As part of our new onboarding flows (for both funders and contributors), we are now giving users the ability to create a personal avatar to be associated with your Gitcoin account!

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Tutorial: How to Price Work on Gitcoin

Too low and put your scope at time/quality risk; Too high and you spend too much!

One of the major decisions involved in delegating work to the crowd is deciding how to price budget and price work.

We do all the hard work of sourcing developers for you, but there’s one hard thing we can’t do: Decide what to pay those developers!

This article aims to, in 6 minutes, help you decide how to do Gitcoin bounties on a budget.

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Tutorial: Send a Tip to any Github user in 60 seconds

Gitcoin is a community of thousands of BUIDLers that are looking for projects.

Because of the strong community of Ethereum developers looking to build skills, develop relationships, and earn some ETH, it’s never been easier to incentivize work in Open Source Software to the crowd.

Did you know that Gitcoin is not just bounties? In addition to bounties, we also offer the ability to send Tips to any github username.

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Tutorial: Post a Bounty in 90 Seconds

Gitcoin is a community of thousands of BUIDLers that are looking for projects.

Because of the strong community of Ethereum developers looking to build skills, develop relationships, and earn some ETH, it’s never been easier to delegate work in Open Source Software to the crowd. To show you how easy it is, we invite you to follow along and create your own Gitcoin Bounty via this tutorial.

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