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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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🆕 Polygon Community Treasury Board Unveils Season 3 Strategy With 80M POL Budget, Expanded Investments, Tiered Governance

The Polygon Community Treasury Board announced its Season 3 Strategy on 2024-06-10, introducing an 80 million POL budget, expanded investment options, a tiered governance model, and stricter accountability measures to improve capital deployment and transparency through the end of 2025. There has been no community reaction or next actions determined.

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🆕 obUSD team proposes monthly yield on vested grants for Season 6+ Optimism builders

The obUSD team proposes a solution allowing Season 6+ builder grantees to earn monthly yield on their vested grant funds, reducing financial strain and leveraging proven yield mechanisms from Breadchain. There are no reported costs or community reactions, and no next actions have been set.

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🆕 BuildUnion proposes $24k Grant Progress Tracking Dashboard for GnosisDAO with real-time transparency and ML risk detection

BuildUnion proposes a $24,000 Grant Progress Tracking Dashboard for GnosisDAO to centralize and provide real-time, transparent tracking of grant spending and project progress, featuring milestone tracking, automated alerts, and ML-powered risk detection. The dashboard aims to improve transparency and accountability, but there has been no community feedback or next steps identified.

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🆕 GnosisDAO Proposal Seeks $30M Annual Stablecoin Grant for Gnosis Ltd Operations and Development

This proposal seeks an annual $30 million stablecoin grant from GnosisDAO to fund Gnosis Ltd’s operations from July 1, 2025, supporting ongoing development and ecosystem stability, with quarterly reporting and future funding subject to DAO review. The community response is currently unanimously positive, but the required quorum of 75,000 votes has not yet been met.

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🆕 Lido DAO Proposes $5,000 Grant to Join Grow3dge Accelerator and Host Workshop for Womxn Web3 Leaders

This is a $5,000 grant proposal for Lido DAO to join the Grow3dge Accelerator and host a workshop for 35 womxn Web3 leaders, aiming to boost Lido’s ecosystem impact, diversity, and partnerships through education and outreach. The proposal offers capacity building and expanded market reach with no noted community feedback or next steps.

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🆕 Proposal seeks $10,000 in SCR from Scroll DAO for SI<3> Grow3dge Accelerator and 'Scroll Live' showcase to boost ecosystem growth

A proposal requests $10,000 in SCR from Scroll DAO to support Scroll and eight ecosystem projects' participation in the SI<3> Grow3dge Accelerator and a 'Scroll Live' showcase, aiming to boost ecosystem growth, partnerships, and onboarding of new users, especially women-led and scaling projects. The main benefits are increased capacity, visibility, and alignment for Scroll, with no community feedback or next steps reported.

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🆕 Aave v3.5 Proposed: Precision, Efficiency, Security Upgrades and Audit Refund to BGD Labs

Aave v3.5 is a proposed protocol upgrade focused on improving mathematical precision, efficiency, and security through explicit rounding rules, better internal accounting, and extensive audits, with a $96,050 refund to BGD Labs for audit costs included in the governance proposal. There has been no community discussion or determined next action.

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🆕 BuildUnion proposes $3,999 ML-powered dashboard for Polygon grant tracking and transparency

BuildUnion proposes a $3,999 dashboard for Polygon to centralize and transparently track grant project progress, spending, and risks with real-time updates and ML-powered features, aiming to improve accountability and community engagement. There has been no community feedback or next steps decided.

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🆕 Arbitrum R&D Collective V2 Delivers Report on Grants and Governance After Six-Month Term

The Arbitrum Research & Development Collective V2 concluded its six-month term on July 12, 2025, delivering a comprehensive report with recommendations to improve Arbitrum’s grant programs, incentive structures, governance resilience, and technical processes, at a cost of $294,880.00 USD. The research outputs are expected to inform future DAO decisions, but there has been no community discussion or next steps announced.

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🆕 Proposal for $78,000 MORPHO Grant to Aragon for Trustless Guardian Governance Module for Morpho v2 Vaults Faces Low Participation

A proposal seeks a $78,000 grant in $MORPHO for Aragon to develop a trustless guardian governance module for Morpho v2 vaults, aiming to enhance security and decentralization. Community response is largely against the proposal, with low participation and the quorum of 500,000 votes not yet reached.

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🆕 Retroactive Funding Proposal Seeks 88 ETH for Optimism Security Council's Season 7 Work

This is a retroactive funding request for 88 ETH from Superchain revenue to fairly compensate the Optimism Security Council for their increased workload and expanded responsibilities during Season 7 (1 January 2025 to 30 June 2025), without impacting future OP budgets. The proposal has received supportive responses from key delegates, with no significant opposition noted in the 4 replies.

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🆕 MakerDAO Releases Mid-2025 Atlas Operational Expense Report Highlighting Ecosystem Growth and Budget Shifts

This is a mid-year 2025 update on Atlas-enabled operational expenses, showing detailed financial activity and increased transparency, with significant spending supporting ecosystem growth, protocol governance, and the Launch Project. The report notes rising USDS expenses, a major reduction in SKY expenses, new budget categories, and a push toward \"0 Core Expenses by 2025,\" but there has been no community discussion or next actions identified.

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🆕 CIP-70: Proposal to Transfer 50 ETH from CoW DAO Treasury for Ops and Reorganize Safe Signers

CIP-70 proposes transferring 50 ETH from the CoW DAO Treasury to the Ops Safe for operational expenses and reorganizing Safe signers for better oversight, with all current votes in favor but quorum not yet reached as of now. If approved, this will ensure continued funding and improved control for CoW DAO operations, with no stated costs beyond the 50 ETH transfer.

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