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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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🆕 Grant proposal requests 105,000 USDC for Tholgar to transfer key components to Paladin DAO amid Rings merge

A grant proposal seeks to pay the Tholgar team 105,000 USDC to transfer ownership of several key technical components to the Paladin DAO, supporting the merge between Rings and Paladin and ensuring DAO control over these products. The payment is structured in installments, with part contingent on ongoing maintenance, and there has been no community discussion or next steps determined.

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🆕 Optimism Grants Council Elections Introduce Delegate Approval Rule to Streamline Candidate Selection

This is about implementing a delegate approval rule for the Operations role in the Season 8 and 9 Grants Council elections, requiring each candidate to secure four approvals from top 100 delegates by July 22, 2024, to remain eligible. The process aims to streamline candidate selection and improve quality, but may reduce candidate diversity; with only 4 replies, community reaction is minimal.

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🆕 MakerDAO Publishes Aligned Delegate Compensation Record for June 2025, Totaling 21,062 USDS

This is an official record of Aligned Delegate compensation for June 2025, detailing payments based on updated participation and communication metrics, with a total payout of 21,062 USDS. The process aims to ensure transparency and fairness, and there has been no community discussion or next actions identified.

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🆕 Gonna.eth proposes leading Optimism Grants Council for Seasons 8-9 with 980,000 OP budget and focus on transparency, KPIs

Gonna.eth has proposed to lead the Grants Council for Seasons 8 and 9 with a 980,000 OP budget, aiming to improve operational capacity, transparency, and ecosystem growth through clear KPIs and detailed reporting. There have been no community discussions or next actions determined.

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🆕 GMX V1 GLP Fund Recovery and Distribution Proposal in Development After Arbitrum Exploit

This discussion centers on the recovery and fair distribution of GLP funds lost in a GMX V1 exploit on Arbitrum, with the community expressing support for affected users but emphasizing the need for patience and clarity as the DAO prepares a proposal for reimbursement, constrained by treasury and market cap limits. The process is ongoing, with official updates and scam warnings provided, and a formal proposal for fund distribution expected to be posted soon.

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🆕 Optimism Special Voting Cycle: Proposals and Budgets for Seasons 8–9, New Retro Funding Mission, and Anticapture Commission Discontinuation

This is about the Special Voting Cycle Roundup#39c for Optimism, where key proposals and budgets for various councils and initiatives for Seasons 8 and 9—including Grants, Developer Advisory Board, Security, Milestones & Metrics, and a new Retro Funding Mission—will be voted on between July 24th, 2025 and August 6th, 2025, with some budget increases and the discontinuation of the Anticapture Commission proposed. There have been no community discussions or reactions so far.

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🆕 Gitcoin Proposal: Embedding Ethereum Web3 Tools in Local Communities for Real-World Adoption

This discussion is about a proposal to embed Ethereum-based Web3 tools into local communities through dedicated funding rounds and pilots, aiming to drive real-world adoption, improve impact measurement, and foster regenerative local economies. Benefits include increased capital retention and inclusive governance, with limited but positive community response so far and no next actions decided.

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🆕 The GraphOps Team Details Infrastructure and Tooling Upgrades in June 2025 Report

The GraphOps team reported on their June 2025 progress, highlighting infrastructure and tooling upgrades (notably Subgraph MCP improvements, Graph Assistant beta support, and Kubernetes Launchpad updates) aimed at increasing reliability and operational efficiency. These efforts are expected to benefit the ecosystem through better monitoring, deployment, and community transparency, with no reported community feedback or specified next actions.

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🆕 Gitcoin Draft Proposal Seeks $50k–$100k for Decentralized Public Goods Funding Pilot in Ethereum/Web3

This is about a draft proposal for a dedicated domain application to improve sustainable funding and resource allocation for public goods and open source software in the Ethereum and web3 ecosystem, addressing limitations of current funding models and piloting new decentralized approaches. The proposal aims to raise $50,000–$100,000, with benefits including more sustainable, decentralized funding and improved accountability, but there have been no community discussions or next actions determined.

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🆕 Proposal to Fund Balancer Contributors' Onsite Retreat in Madrid with €51,348 Budget

This is a proposal to fund a Balancer contributors' onsite retreat in Madrid from October 20th to 24th, 2025, with a budget of 51,348 EUR to enhance collaboration, team cohesion, and strategic alignment. There are no reported community reactions or next steps, and the main cost is the event budget.

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🆕 The Graph: Semiotic June 2025 Update Improves Assistant, Agent, and EVM Block Verification

The Semiotic June 2025 update details progress on the Graph Assistant and Graph Agent, focusing on performance, accuracy, and Horizon compatibility, with ongoing cryptography improvements to support EVM block verification. These updates aim to enhance network reliability and security, with no reported community feedback or specified next actions.

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🆕 Proposal to Integrate Grant Ships into Gitcoin Grants 23 Faces Low Community Participation

This proposal aims to integrate Grant Ships into Gitcoin Grants 23 Community Rounds to improve onboarding, selection, and evaluation of grants, which could increase efficiency and transparency for the Gitcoin ecosystem. Community engagement is currently very low, with all votes in favor but far below the required quorum.

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🆕 BuildUnion proposes $2999 Grant Progress Tracking Dashboard for CowDAO with real-time updates and ML analytics

BuildUnion proposes a $2999 Grant Progress Tracking Dashboard for CowDAO to centralize and enhance transparency, accountability, and risk management in grant monitoring, with features like real-time updates and ML-powered analytics. There has been no community feedback or next steps decided.

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🆕 Proposal for Scroll Grant Progress Dashboard Faces Minimal Community Engagement Amid Overlap Concerns

BuildUnion proposed a $5,000, 12-month Grant Progress Tracking Dashboard to improve transparency and accountability for Scroll-funded projects, but community response has been minimal, with concerns about overlap with the upcoming Karma GAP solution planned for summer 2024. The only reply so far requested more information and examples, indicating limited immediate interest.

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🆕 Flow Caster: Streaming USDCx Donations to Farcaster Developers via Superfluid on Base

This is about the proposed Flow Caster app, which enables streaming USDCx donations to a curated group of 78 Farcaster developers via Superfluid on Base, aiming to support open source devs with features like leaderboards and sharing tools. The benefits include increased funding and engagement for developers, with minimal costs mentioned, and the limited community response so far has been supportive with suggestions for token support and user experience improvements.

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🆕 GMX DAO Debates $42M Reimbursement to GLP Holders After Arbitrum Exploit

The discussion is about how the GMX DAO should distribute ~$42 million in recovered funds to GLP holders after a major exploit on Arbitrum, with options including stablecoin or LP token reimbursement and whether to cover a ~$2 million shortfall from the treasury. Most of the 22 community replies favor fast, simple stablecoin payouts and full reimbursement (even if it requires treasury funds), emphasizing transparency and speed in the process.

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