Despite Q4 2022’s crypto confidence crash, web3 dev activity surged 453% with 4.6M+ smart contracts deployed. Explore more in Alchemy’s report.

Change log 2023-01-12 Created initial post 2023-01-18 Added Addendum at the end of the proposal clarifying the grant program name, scope, compensation details, termination clause and conflict of interest. 2023-01-24: a) The ask amount decreased by…

It may be January but today we are celebrating Aave grant recipients from December 🎉💙👻

Keep reading as we introduce each grantee & the latest updates from Aave Grants.

Congrats to all the grantees!

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Last week we launched Daily Grants for Human Creativity, and have already awarded more than $10,000. Now we're ready to open applications to everyone. Please tag all the artists, scientists, and creators you want us to support!

💸 Apply for Funding: htt…

Here is how I used onchain data to decide what to fund on the new @gitcoin grants protocol:
https://t.co/rsranufKge

@owocki and I put out a brief proposal for a systematic exploration of the coordination mechanism design space that @gitcoin grants could simulate to better understand which mechanisms work for different types of communities.
https://t.co/ScfFPt6tZu

NEW Micro Grants Program 🚀

We have partnered with @BuidlersTribe to launch the Biconomy Micro Grants Program on https://t.co/aVEEEMrVvS🚀

Apply here: https://t.co/PmfYzHfWbS

Introducing the $150M Injective Ecosystem Fund to accelerate developer adoption 🚀

The initiative is supported by the largest institutions in the space including @PanteraCapital, @KuCoinVentures, @jump_, @idgcapital, @gate_labs, @delphi_labs, and more.

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Voting schedules are the key to structure in DAO governance (and for a good reason)

co-authored by @nategosselin, @Viriya & @alexalombardo We’re excited to introduce two new Gitcoin products: Gitcoin Grants Stack & Allo Protocol! This is foundational reading for anyone learning about our products and Gitcoin’s future as a protocol DAO.…

Decentralizing Gitcoin’s Grants Program Authors: Janine Leger, Scott Moore, Connor O’Day, Ben West, Maxwell Kanter, Madison Adams Thank you this team and the whole of PGF and broader DAO contributors who helped thinking through this initial strategy. We’re…

AI can enable DAOs, but DAOs can also enable AI in an unstoppable feedback loop. Get to know AI DAOs.

Since the emergence of DeFi, experts have been discussing ways to incentivize the creation of public goods. Public goods, such as core infrastructure and services, play a crucial role in creating a more efficient ecosystem for users. However, their development…

We are thrilled to announce the awarded projects from the recent Semaphore Community Grants round. This grants round invited builders, researchers, developers and privacy advocates to build privacy preserving applications integrating Semaphore, an anonymous…

To elaborate on this:

I see crypto and web3 living in a dichotomy.

Crypto is hard permissionlessness and web3 is compromise to improve adoption and compliance.

Order and Chaos is the dichotomy of dichotomies.