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🆕 AgroforestDAO Wraps Up First Quadratic Funding Round on Celo, Eyes 2025 for Next Steps

AgroforestDAO completed its first Quadratic Funding Round on the Celo blockchain from December 9-19, distributing 653.25 USD from 285 donations to support 14 projects, with a focus on building a community around Food Forest Culture and public goods. The initiative, managed by GreenPill Brazil and AgroforestDAO, received positive community engagement, with grantees showing strong solidarity and collaboration, and plans for future funding rounds in 2025.

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🆕 Optimism Retrofunding Launches Data-Driven Missions to Boost Public Goods Funding

The Optimism Retrofunding (RPGF) program, formalized in October 2023, aims to enhance public goods funding by using data-driven \"Missions\" to measure and reward impact, with new initiatives focusing on Onchain Builders and Dev Tooling. While the program seeks to align funding with ecosystem priorities through tailored metrics and evaluation methods, community feedback is invited to refine its approach.

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🆕 Arbitrum's STEP November Update: Full TBILL Deployment, USDY Minting, and Dune Dashboard Enhancements

The November update for Arbitrum's Stable Treasury Endowment Program (STEP) includes full deployment to OpenEden’s TBILL and minting of USDY, enhancing transparency and stability through a Dune dashboard and new features from Superstate. The community, with limited feedback, suggests improvements in monthly updates for better investment comparison.

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🆕 Compound Growth secures 300,000 OP grant to boost LRT and Liquid Staking Tokens on Optimism

The Compound Growth program received a 300,000 OP grant from the Optimism Grants Council to expand support for Liquid Rebase Tokens and Liquid Staking Tokens on the Optimism platform, with 120,000 OP allocated to increase LRT liquidity and 180,000 OP to boost yield-bearing assets. The grant aims to enhance liquidity, asset presence, and lower borrowing interest rates, but there have been no community discussions or next actions determined.

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🆕 Uniswap DAO Votes on $250k Liquidity Mining Proposal for Sonic Deployment

The proposal seeks Uniswap DAO's approval to allocate $250k in $UNI tokens as liquidity mining rewards to support Uniswap's deployment on Sonic, an EVM layer-1 blockchain, enhancing its adoption and liquidity. The community is highly supportive, with voting results showing strong favor for the incentive match, and the vote is still ongoing.

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🆕 World Foundation Bids for Security Council Seat, Pledges 50M WLD for Optimism Ecosystem

The World Foundation has self-nominated for a position on the Security Council, leveraging its significant role in the Optimism Ecosystem and proposing a 50M WLD fund to support ecosystem growth and OP Stack improvements. The nomination is supported by at least one community member, jacob, and promises to bring expertise in cryptography and blockchain, as well as geographic diversity, to the council.

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🏷️ Proposal - Seeking feedback
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🆕 Aave Community Backs karpatkey for GHO Stablecoin Growth on Gnosis Chain

The proposal aims to appoint karpatkey to enhance the growth and adoption of the GHO stablecoin, focusing initially on the Gnosis Chain, with a budget of 250K GHO over 180 days and plans for non-custodial management to support market-making. The community is highly supportive, with unanimous votes in favor, and the next steps involve further voting processes for final approval.

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📡 Update From the Grant Wire 📡

https://x.com/ancient8_gg/status/1869394698777100389
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🆕 BIP-749: Maxis' Multisig to Streamline Reward Token Whitelisting on Balancer Gauges

BIP-749 proposes granting addreward permissions to the Maxis' omnichain multisig to streamline the whitelisting of custom reward tokens on gauges, enhancing efficiency and consistency across blockchain networks. The community has unanimously supported the proposal, and the next step involves executing the grantRole function on the authorizer across multiple chains.

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🆕 Gitcoin's Matching Pool Strategy: Community Votes on Avantgarde Finance's Asset Allocation Proposal

The proposal involves engaging Avantgarde Finance to manage Gitcoin's Matching Pool assets by allocating 70% to growth assets like ETH and 30% to stablecoins, aiming to enhance the pool's productivity and support long-term grant-making goals. The community is currently voting on the proposal, with strong support but not yet reaching the required quorum of 2,500,000 votes.

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🆕 SafeDAO's Contributor Efficiency System Set for 2025: High Satisfaction, Future Improvements Planned

The review of the Contributor Efficiency System (CES) highlights its role in supporting the grants program and OBRA framework, with a high satisfaction rating and plans for a third term in 2025, focusing on improvements in tracking, reporting, and documentation. The community has not reacted, and no next actions have been determined.

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📡 Update From the Grant Wire 📡

https://x.com/courtlandleer/status/1869454697935077883
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🆕 CoW Swap Proposal: Dual-Key Security Smart Wallet with CoW-Themed Interface

The proposal by Mookow4eva suggests creating a CoW-specific smart contract wallet with dual-key security to enhance user security and operational efficiency on CoW Swap, featuring a CoW-themed interface and integration with Safe and Modules. The community, represented by middleway.eth, has engaged with the proposal, suggesting it be considered for the CoW Grants Program and recommending further detailing of the smart contract setup and tech stack.

🏷️ Grants - Grant Proposal / Application
🏷️ Proposal - Seeking feedback
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🆕 Rocketpool Round 19 Grants Finalized: STAR Initiative Approved, RPL to LUSD Conversion Halted

The Round 19 Grants/Bounties/Retrospective Awards by the Grants Management Committee concluded with key decisions like halting the conversion of RPL inflows to LUSD and approving proposals such as the STAR Initiative to boost rETH adoption, with awards becoming official on January 11, 2025, if unchallenged. The community has not shown any reaction, and no next actions have been determined.

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🆕 Arbitrum's Stylus Sprint Extends Deadline to 2025 for Thorough Review Process

The Stylus Sprint Timeline update extends the application deadline to January 13th, 2025, allowing more applicants to participate and giving the committee additional time for thorough reviews, with selected submissions announced on January 27th, 2025. There is no noted community reaction or next actions specified.

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