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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 Launches Gaming Ventures Initiative to Drive Adoption with DAO Oversight and Long-Term Focus

The Arbitrum Gaming Ventures (AGV) initiative is a structured investment program to boost gaming adoption on Arbitrum, emphasizing transparency, long-term value, and DAO oversight, with capital deployment planned from Q1 2025 to Q2 2027 and returns expected mainly between 2027 and 2032. Community reaction has been limited but mostly positive, with some requests for clearer reporting, improved document accessibility, and more details on liquidity management and investment mechanisms.

🏷️ Grants - Grant Program Update


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🆕 ENS Public Goods Working Group awards $50k grants to Remix Labs and Fabric for infrastructure and standards development

The ENS Public Goods Working Group is granting $50,000 USDC each to Remix Labs and Fabric to support key infrastructure and standards development in the ENS and Ethereum ecosystems, aiming to enhance decentralization, accessibility, and reliability. There have been no community discussions or next actions determined.

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🆕 Proposal to Enable Gauge Rewards for Balancer V3 Pools on Optimism Using OP Grants

This proposal aims to enable gauge rewards for various Balancer V3 pools on Optimism, incentivizing liquidity and supporting ecosystem growth by leveraging OP grants and a core-pool framework. There are no recorded community reactions yet, and the vote is still ongoing.

🏷️ Proposal - Currently voting
🏷️ Grants - Grant Funding


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🆕 MIP 103 Proposes $500K MORPHO, OP, and USDC Incentives on Unichain Pending Community Vote

MIP 103 proposes distributing $500,000 in MORPHO, OP, and USDC as incentives on Unichain to boost user engagement and platform activity. The community has not yet voted, so the proposal's approval and associated benefits or costs depend on reaching quorum.

🏷️ Proposal - Currently voting
🏷️ Grants - Grant Funding
🏷️ Newsworthy - Token Distribution


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🆕 Proposal Seeks $64K ETH Transfer from Aura DAO Treasury to Fund Six Months of Aura Operations

A proposal requests transferring $64,000 in ETH from the Aura DAO Treasury to the Aura Ecosystem Fund to cover a six-month operational funding gap for the Aura protocol, ensuring continued development and stability. The community has not yet voted or expressed a clear stance on the proposal.

🏷️ Grants - Grant Funding
🏷️ Proposal - Seeking feedback


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🆕 Morpho DAO and Katana Foundation Propose Token Incentives for Morpho Protocol Users on Katana Network

A proposed agreement between Morpho DAO and the Katana Foundation aims to incentivize use of the Morpho Protocol on the Katana Network by distributing Katana Network tokens and MORPHO tokens to users and ecosystem growth initiatives, with users able to opt out. There are no reported community reactions or next steps as of now.

🏷️ Proposal - Seeking feedback
🏷️ Newsworthy - Token Distribution
🏷️ Grants - Grant Funding


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🆕 Venus Protocol Proposes Integration with Arculus and $100K Marketing Budget to Target Security-Focused Users

This is a proposal for Venus Protocol to partner with Arculus, integrating Venus services into the Arculus App and requesting a $100,000 marketing budget to drive user growth, TVL, and revenue, especially targeting security-focused users. The community reaction is strongly positive across the 9 replies, with members supporting the integration for its potential to expand reach, increase TVL, and enhance security.

🏷️ Proposal - Seeking feedback
🏷️ Grants - Grant Proposal / Application
🏷️ Newsworthy - Significant adoption
🏷️ Newsworthy - Fundraising
🏷️ Security


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🆕 SafeDAO custom governance analytics dashboard proposal on hold amid limited community interest and paused grant program

A proposal was made to create a custom governance analytics dashboard for Safe, but community members questioned its immediate value due to low governance activity and the existence of similar dashboards, with some expressing interest in more granular analytics. With the grant program paused and no clear next steps, the initiative is on hold and community reaction has been limited, reflecting only moderate interest and skepticism.

🏷️ Proposal - Seeking feedback
🏷️ Grants - Grant Program Update


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🆕 Scroll DAO Proposal Seeks Retroactive Compensation for Governance Contributors and Establishes GCR Working Group

The proposal seeks to retroactively compensate Scroll DAO governance contributors from October to mid-April and establish a GCR Working Group for future recognition efforts, with a total financial request of 614,645 SCR and a transparent, structured reward system. Community reaction is limited but strongly supportive, emphasizing the importance of fair compensation, transparency, and sustainable incentives, with no next actions yet determined.

🏷️ Grants - Grant Proposal / Application
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🆕 TheGraph May 2025 Update: Storage Costs, GRC-20 Redeployment, and New Proposals for Efficiency and Security

The May 2025 update for the Knowledge Graph project details progress on storage costs, GRC-20 contract redeployment, and new proposals for actions and ranking mechanisms, aiming to improve efficiency, scalability, and security. No community feedback or next actions have been reported.

🏷️ Grants - Grantee Update
🏷️ Changes - Technical Change
🏷️ Changes - New deployment


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🆕 Proposal to Integrate Venus Protocol with Arculus Wallet Seeks $100K, Targets Increased TVL and Revenue

This proposal seeks $100,000 from the Venus Treasury to integrate Venus Protocol’s services into the Arculus wallet app, aiming to attract security-focused and institutional users and potentially increase TVL by $500M–$800M+ and annual revenue by $1.6M–$2.5M. The community response is strongly positive, with all current votes in favor and quorum already achieved.

🏷️ Grants - Grant Proposal / Application
🏷️ Proposal - Currently voting
🏷️ Proposal - Result: Passed


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🆕 Arbitrum AGV May Update: $10M Investment Cohort and Shift to Direct Capital Deployment in Web3 Gaming

The AGV Monthly Update for May 2025 announces a $10M investment cohort and a shift from grants to direct capital deployment in Web3 gaming, with enhanced transparency and expanded outreach as key benefits; there are no explicit costs mentioned. Community reaction is positive, with praise for AGV's strategic direction, transparency, and execution, but only one reply reflects limited community feedback.

🏷️ Grants - Grant Program Update


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🆕 The Graph: Semiotic May 2025 Update Brings Security, Testing, and AI Infrastructure Improvements

This is about the Semiotic May 2025 update, highlighting technical improvements such as enhanced security, expanded testing, and better coordination between Indexers and core development teams, with ongoing work on AI initiatives and infrastructure upgrades. The benefits include increased reliability and future-proofing, with no reported community feedback or specified costs.

🏷️ Grants - Grantee Update
🏷️ Newsworthy - Technical


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🆕 Arbitrum DAO Moves to Reclaim 6.9M ARB from Event Horizon After Governance Shift

The proposal concerns whether to reduce, maintain, or end the 7,000,000 ARB delegation from the Arbitrum DAO treasury to Event Horizon, following its shift toward agentic governance; the community overwhelmingly supports reducing the delegation to 100,000 ARB, allowing limited continued experimentation while returning most ARB to the treasury. If this outcome is finalized, 6,900,000 ARB will be returned to the DAO, setting a precedent for handling pivots in funded initiatives.

🏷️ Proposal - Seeking feedback
🏷️ Grants - Grant Funding
🏷️ Newsworthy - Affecting Governance


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🆕 Arbitrum DAO Proposal Seeks to Reallocate $3.5M USDC to Restore Yield Without New Funds

This proposal recommends reallocating $3.5 million in USDC, redeemed from USDM, into yield-bearing assets within the STEP 2 budget of the Arbitrum DAO to restore an estimated $13,000 per month in lost yield, with no new funds required. Community response across 10 replies is limited but broadly supportive, with several members advocating for more efficient, administrative handling of similar reallocations in the future.

🏷️ Proposal - Seeking feedback
🏷️ Grants - Grant Funding


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🆕 Arbitrum and DApp World launch gamified courses with $10k grant, certify hundreds of developers

The Arbitrum DApp World initiative used a $10,000 grant to create and launch two intermediate-level, gamified Arbitrum courses on DApp World, resulting in hundreds of developer enrollments and certifications, thereby expanding the Arbitrum developer ecosystem and providing lasting educational resources. There have been no community discussions or next actions identified.

🏷️ Grants - Grantee Update


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🆕 MakerDAO: wbs Confirms Key Governance Actions Align with Atlas Protocols via Signed Messages

This is about wbs submitting and confirming, with cryptographically signed messages, that several key governance and operational actions align with Atlas protocols, including upgrades, funding, and compensation processes. There are no identified costs or community reactions, and no next actions have been set.

🏷️ Changes - Technical Change
🏷️ Grants - Grant Funding


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🆕 The GraphOps June 2025 Update: Subgraph MCP Launch, Kubernetes Improvements, Horizon Contract Support

This is a monthly update from the GraphOps team as of June 2025, highlighting the launch of Subgraph MCP for direct LLM-Subgraph interaction, infrastructure improvements via Kubernetes Launchpad, and enhanced network operations with Horizon contract support. The benefits include advanced data querying, improved reliability, and better user experience, with no reported community feedback or specified next actions.

🏷️ Grants - Grantee Update
🏷️ Newsworthy - Technical


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🆕 Celestia Foundation Opens Applications for Delegation Program Cohort 5 with Updated Rules

The Celestia Foundation has opened applications for Cohort 5 of its Delegation Program, offering 15 seats with updated rules that allow validators to be jailed once and place less emphasis on contributions, aiming to increase inclusivity and refresh the selection process. All applicants, including current delegates, must reapply, and there has been no recorded community reaction.

🏷️ Grants - Grants Available
🏷️ Grants - Grant Program Update


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🆕 The Graph Core Team Updates: Substreams Enhancements, New Blockchain Integrations, and Market Platform Improvements

This is an update on The Graph Core Team's recent achievements and upcoming plans, focusing on enhancing Substreams, expanding blockchain integrations (including TRON and Solana), and improving thegraph.market platform as of May 2025. These efforts aim to improve developer experience and platform accessibility, with no reported community feedback or specified next actions.

🏷️ Grants - Grantee Update


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