Gitcoin Grants To Advance DEI in Web3
Since 2019, Gitcoin has been an invaluable tool for communities seeking to build open source software, with over $60MM in funding going to thousands of projects.
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Announcing Gitcoin Grants’ New $500k Ethereum Infrastructure Round
Gitcoin is an internet-native organization that uses quadratic funding to help communities fund their shared needs. Using this model, Gitcoin has funded some of the...
The Gitcoin Torch
The grassroots effort to fund Ethereum’s OSS projects
On February 23rd at 5:36PM, EthHub creator Eric Conner sent a tweet. Less than 3 weeks later, $14K had been brought together for Ethereum commons.
A Recap: Gitcoin at ETHDenver
The Burner Wallet, Kudos, and Grant Matching, oh my!
Gitcoin was built in Colorado. It’s a big part of our culture and history, and we showed up ETHDenver in a big way to celebrate!
2019 has a lot of fantastic events lined up — and they all have to live up to high expectations set this weekend at ETHDenver. Set in the Sports Castle, 1,500 participants (including 750 hackers) shuttled into 6 floors including three hacking floors, a chill room, a Maker Space, and lots of interesting conversations about Ethereum and the future of the internet.
Experiments With Liberal Radicalism
A crowdfund matching mechanism for public goods, like open source
A recent paper entitled Liberal Radicalism proposes a mechanism to fund public goods in a new and unique fashion. Written by Vitalik Buterin, Zoë Hitzig, and Glen Weyl, the paper introduces a mechanism called Capital-constrained Liberal Radicalism (‘CLR’) which I’ll explain in greater detail below.A summary of the paper (and the CLR mechanism) from the paper is as follows.
Gitcoin Grants
Recurring payments for your work in open source
We’re excited to kick off 2019 with the announcement of Gitcoin Grants! Our newest product focuses on providing recurring funding for your work in open source software.
Open Source Financial Freedom
Our roadmap towards the financial sustainability of open source
Open source software has been an unequivocal good for the world. It produces billions of dollars a year in economic value, billion dollar companies, and hundreds of thousands of well paying 21st century jobs for developers like me and you.
EIP 1337 (Subscriptions) Launches
Forget tokenization, subscriptions on the blockchain are here
I am thrilled to announce the launch of EIP 1337 Alliance. Following enthusiastic feedback of EIP 948 (our initial subscriptions EIP) and in depth architecture technical deep dives, we’ve settled on a subscription standard for Ethereum which will help move the ecosystem forward in UX, business models and more. It’s been a great six month journey, and we’re excited to bring this to bear!
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.
Gitcoin’s Sprint To The Holidays
Updates from our summer, the road to Devcon, and Q4 Objectives
The Gitcoin team has been hard at work throughout the summer and fall growing open source. As we transition into winter, we’ll look back at what we accomplished in Q3 while looking forward to the holiday season.