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Crypto Grant Wire is an update feed detailing the happenings across Web3 grants, DAO Governance, insightful thoughts, and tools we think you might find interesting.

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🆕 Arbitrum DAO Proposes BoLD Activation, Elections, and Grant Bounty for Network Boost

The Arbitrum DAO is considering several proposals, including activating BoLD for enhanced validation and security, holding elections for community growth, and implementing a grant misuse bounty program to increase financial accountability. These initiatives could significantly impact the network's efficiency and integrity, though there have been no community discussions or determined next actions.

🏷️ Grants - Grant Proposal / Application
🏷️ Security - Audit
🏷️ Proposal - Seeking feedback


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🆕 CoW Grants Proposal for 2025: Innovation Boost or Treasury Strain?

The draft proposal by Chim9 seeks to renew the CoW Grants Program for 2025 with an additional 383,000 xDAI, aiming to continue fostering innovation in the CoW ecosystem through funded projects, while suggesting structural changes to the Grants Committee. The proposal could enhance growth but may strain the Treasury, and there has been no community discussion or determined next actions.

🏷️ Grants - Grant Proposal / Application
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🆕 CoW DAO Grant Proposal: Monitoring Infrastructure for Solver Competition and MEV Blocker

The grant application by Sailjunkie seeks funding to develop monitoring infrastructure for CoW DAO's solver competition, CoW AMMs, and MEV Blocker, with a budget of €40 per hour, capped at €600 per week, from January 13th to March 21st. The project aims to enhance analytics services, leveraging the applicant's relevant experience, but there has been no community discussion or determined next actions.

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🆕 Uniswap-Arbitrum Grant Program Wraps Up: Six Projects Still Active, Treasury Holds $651K USDC and 85K ARB

The Uniswap-Arbitrum Grant Program is concluding with six projects still active, and notable progress from Angle, Slash, and Oku, while Primex Finance's status is unclear. The treasury holds $651,008 in USDC and 85,915 ARB, with $387,950 in outstanding grants, and no community discussions or next actions have been reported.

🏷️ Grants - Grant Program Update
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🆕 SAFE DAO Creator Economy Proposal: 50,000 USDC for YouTube Content to Boost Safe Protocol Adoption

The proposal by Crown aims to establish the \"SAFE DAO Creator Economy\" to boost awareness and adoption of Safe Protocol's applications through targeted content on a dedicated YouTube channel, requesting 50,000 USDC for the project running from February 2025 to May 2025. The initiative seeks to position Safe wallets as a preferred choice in the web3 space, but there have been no community discussions or determined next actions.

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🆕 Gitcoin Commits $8.75M to Boost Arbitrum Ecosystem Growth and Governance

Gitcoin is focusing on enhancing the Arbitrum ecosystem by deploying $4.75 million in 2024 and planning over $4 million for 2025 to support builders, with a strategy to expand funding mechanisms and collaborate with stakeholders. The initiatives aim to increase funding opportunities, drive ecosystem growth, and involve active governance participation using ARB tokens, though there have been no community discussions or determined next actions.

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🆕 2024 Experiments Highlight Optimism in Citizen Selection for Retro Funding, Despite Bias Challenges

Two experiments in 2024 tested Citizen selection mechanisms for Retro Funding, revealing that domain expertise improves resource allocation accuracy, while random selection faces opt-in bias challenges; there has been no community discussion on these findings.

🏷️ Grants - Retro Funding


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📡 Update From the Grant Wire 📡

https://x.com/0xbilll/status/1875358369843941506
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🆕 Polygon Proposes $3M Liquidity Boost with Aave Amid Mixed Community Reactions

A proposal by the Polygon Community Treasury Board suggests a $3 million joint liquidity incentive program with Aave to boost liquidity and adoption on the Polygon PoS chain, with mixed community reactions as the vote is closely contested. If approved, the next steps involve allocating funds, designing the program, and launching it with ongoing monitoring and adjustments.

🏷️ Grants - Grant Proposal / Application
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🆕 CoW Protocol seeks 12,000 xDAI grant for ethers.js upgrade; community mildly supportive

The discussion is about a grant application to upgrade the CoW Protocol SDK from ethers.js v5 to v6, aiming to improve developer flexibility, code quality, and reduce technical debt, with a total request of 12,000 xDAI divided into two milestones. The community reaction is limited but supportive, with validation from Chim9 allowing further progress.

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🆕 CowDAO Proposes SDK Upgrade to Ether-V6 with 15k EURO Request, Community Weighs In

The grant proposal discusses upgrading the Cow Protocol's SDK from ether-V5 to ether-V6, aiming to improve performance and compatibility, with a funding request of 15,000 EURO in xDAI token. Community reactions are limited, with suggestions for milestone-based payments and alternative library considerations, but no definitive next actions have been decided.

🏷️ Grants - Grant Proposal / Application
🏷️ Grants - Grant Funding
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🆕 Chaos Labs Proposes $1.5M DYDX Token Distribution to 3,007 Users with Anti-Gaming Measures

The proposal by Chaos Labs involves distributing $1.5 million in DYDX tokens to 3,007 users as part of the dYdX Chain Incentives Program, ensuring fair distribution by analyzing trading data to avoid artificial trading, with transparency provided through the dYdX Chaos Labs Risk Portal and community engagement via an on-chain voting proposal. There have been no community discussions or determined next actions.

🏷️ Grants - Grants Available
🏷️ Proposal - Seeking feedback
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🆕 Optimism Grants Council Season 7 Targets Transparency and TVL Boost on Superchain

The Optimism Grants Council for Governance Season 7 aims to enhance transparency and accountability in the grant application process, reduce delegate workload, and potentially increase the Total Value Locked (TVL) on the Superchain, with no current community discussions or next actions specified.

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🆕 Simplifying ENS Governance Token Grants with Hedgey Finance: A Guide by estmcmxci

The guide by estmcmxci on managing ENS governance token grants via Hedgey Finance aims to simplify access, enhance participation, and improve management of token allocations, following the approval of EP 5.19 and EP 5.26. There have been no community discussions or next actions determined.

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🆕 Optimism in Season 7: Grants Council's New Procedures Aim to Boost TVL and Trust

The Internal Operating Procedures for the Grants Council in Season 7 aim to enhance TVL across the Superchain by improving communication, feedback, and transparency, with structured cycle management and decision-making processes. While these measures could lead to more effective grant management and increased trust, the decision-making requirements might slow down processes, and there has been no community discussion or determined next actions.

🏷️ Grants - Grant Program Update


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🆕 Aave Grants DAO Shuts Down: Debates on Treasury Redistribution Begin

The Aave Grants DAO (AGD) has ceased operations as of August 2024, with discussions ongoing about redistributing its remaining treasury assets, which could create new opportunities for incentive programs but may also leave a funding gap for projects that relied on AGD support. Community reactions are limited, with some support for the wind-down and suggestions for managing the treasury assets.

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🆕 Retro Funding Season 7: Balancing Objectivity and Decentralization with Metrics-Driven Approach

The discussion is about implementing a \"metrics-driven, humans in the loop\" approach for Retro Funding Season 7, using an Evaluation Algorithm to assess impact, with concerns raised about centralization and restricted proposal rights. While the approach aims to improve objectivity and efficiency in funding decisions, the community, particularly mel.eth, criticizes it for contradicting decentralization principles and calls for more transparency and open proposal rights.

🏷️ Grants - Grant Proposal / Application
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🆕 M&M Council Optimistically Refines Procedures for Season 7 Milestone Tracking

The Milestones and Metrics Council (M&M Council) is refining its internal procedures for Season 7 to improve communication, cycle management, and workflow efficiency in tracking grant milestones, with no current community discussions or next actions determined. These procedures aim to enhance milestone tracking and issue resolution through structured processes and tools like Charmverse.

🏷️ Grants - Grant Program Update


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