Some of the most fascinating areas in crypto are experiments happening in DAO governance. @derek_hsue & I wrote a post covering interesting cases such as Optimism, Gitcoin, Nouns, Lido. It's early days but hope it can be a resource & help spark discussion!…

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Who sits on the Curve Iron Throne?

🗳 TWIG - DEC 22

🐰 @HopProtocol discusses the future of the bridge protocol
🔥 @Element_DAO publishes a draft of its governance process
🔐 @chaos_labs proposes expanding its coverage at @AaveAave
🔴 @OptimismGov awards badges to ten delegates

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Overview Since launching in May 2021, Aave Grants DAO has awarded over $4,395,000 in grants to teams building on Aave or contributing to the ecosystem. Aave Grants has also been a key driver of growth by awarding over $120k in Aave bounties across ten different…

Coordination Across Social Distance ✨

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A weekly resource covering Web3 governance, politics, and power.

“Grants programs keep the innovative and collaborative spirit of open source alive and kicking.” Successful Grants Programs in Web3 History, Gitcoin blog.

The current consensus among a majority of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocols is that governance power is granted to those who hold a certain token, and proportional to how many tokens they hold. I believe this paradigm that DeFi has cultivated is misguided…

In its 2018 introduction and subsequent work, Quadratic Funding (QF) emerged as a uniquely optimal design for the democratic provision of public goods under the

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Every Gitcoin Community Call shares something Gitcoin is working on and invites the community to provide feedback!
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🤖 This week we will be discussing: Gitcoin's sustainability

The Uniswap Grants Program began in 2021, and over the course of 18 months funded $7M to 122 grantees. Since the founding of the Uniswap Foundation in August 2022, the Grants team has awarded 33 grants via two waves of grants totaling ~$2.7M.