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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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🆕 Optimism Season 7 Retro Funding allocates 8M OP to 200 Superchain projects, driving DeFi and multi-chain growth

Season 7 Retro Funding allocated 8 million OP to 200 Superchain projects, prioritizing DeFi and multi-chain initiatives, resulting in significant growth in TVL, transaction volume, and user engagement, with improved funding efficiency compared to previous rounds. While the model shows promise, the analysis notes potential biases and outlier-driven results, and there has been no recorded community response or next steps as of July 2025.

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🆕 Proposal to Integrate Blackhole DEX with CoW Swap and Other Aggregators, Offering $8K Grant

This is a proposal to integrate Blackhole, a ve3,3 DEX on Avalanche C-Chain, with major DEX aggregators like CoW Swap, offering an $8000 (USDC) grant as an incentive. The integration aims to boost Blackhole’s liquidity and trading volume, but there has been no community feedback or next steps decided.

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🆕 Balancer DAO Proposal Seeks $49K USDC for Contributor Retreat in Madrid

This is a funding proposal (BIP-860) requesting 49,030 USDC for a four-day Balancer DAO retreat in Madrid, Spain in Q4 2025, aiming to boost collaboration, productivity, and team cohesion among 20 contributors. The community vote is ongoing with no feedback or votes yet, and the proposal requires 2,000,000 votes to proceed.

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🆕 BIP-860 Proposes 49,030 USDC for Balancer Ecosystem Event in Madrid to Foster Collaboration

BIP-860 proposes allocating 49,030 USDC to fund a Balancer ecosystem ONsite event in Madrid from October 20 to October 24, 2025, aiming to boost collaboration, morale, and strategic alignment among 20 contributors. The community vote is ongoing with no feedback or votes recorded yet.

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🆕 BuildUnion Proposes $5,000 Progress Tracking Dashboard for Optimism-Funded Projects

BuildUnion proposes a $5,000 Project Progress Tracking Dashboard for Optimism-funded initiatives to centralize oversight, improve transparency, and enable early risk detection with features like milestone tracking, automated alerts, and ML-powered risk analysis. There has been no community feedback or determined next steps as of now.

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🆕 Morpho Proposal MIP 112 Seeks 200,000 OP to Incentivize USDC Growth on Base

This is about a proposal (MIP 112) to allocate 200,000 OP tokens to incentivize USDC growth on Base, aiming to increase TVL by $5M. The community is strongly supporting the proposal, with all votes so far in favor and the quorum already surpassed.

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🆕 MakerDAO: Proposal for $5K Project Tracking Dashboard to Improve Transparency and Oversight Receives Limited Feedback

BuildUnion proposes a $5,000 Project Progress Tracking Dashboard to centralize oversight, improve transparency, and enable risk management for Sky-funded initiatives, with features like real-time updates and ML-powered analytics. With only two replies, community reaction is limited but includes both support and concerns about making project progress public.

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📡 Update From the Grant Wire 📡

https://x.com/Interledger/status/1947359268883062988
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🆕 Proposal to Develop $2,999 Project Tracking Dashboard for Frax Finance Faces Minimal Community Feedback

A proposal suggests building a $2,999 Project Progress Tracking Dashboard for Frax Finance to centralize oversight, improve transparency, and enable early risk detection for funded initiatives, with features like milestone tracking, real-time updates, and ML-powered analytics. Community reaction is minimal, with one member suggesting such tracking should be handled by the core team and referencing makerburn.com as a model.

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🆕 ENS Grant Proposal Seeks Funding for Greenpill Dev Guild Web3 Public Goods Education

This is about afo.eth's ENS public goods grant application for the Greenpill Dev Guild, which seeks funding (2k–5k USDC per milestone) to deliver educational resources, infographics, and workshops that help Public Goods organizations adopt Web3 tools, with activities scheduled from August 1st 2025 to November 14th 2025. The proposal aims to increase accessibility and community engagement in Web3 for public goods, with no community feedback or next steps reported.

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🆕 Aavegotchi DAO Proposal Seeks $26.9k for Compliance Costs; Faces Low Participation and Opposition

This proposal requests $26,952 from the DAO Treasury to reimburse Pixelcraft Studios for compliance-related expenses and to fund future unbudgeted costs, aiming to maintain the Foundation's regulatory standing. Community participation is currently low, with most votes against the proposal and quorum not yet reached.

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🆕 Rocketpool GMC Finalizes Round 26 Awards, Opens Dispute Period, Considers Stablecoin Conversion Proposal

The GMC finalized award decisions for five applications in Round 26, detailed funding amounts, and opened a dispute period ending on August 10, 2025 at 23:59 UTC, while also considering a stablecoin conversion proposal to improve operational transparency. No community discussions or next actions have been reported.

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🆕 Arbitrum Announces $10M ARB Incentive Program and New Partners, Delays Season 1 Launch to August 2025

The July 2025 DRIP Update announces Objective Labs and Merkl as official partners, postpones Season 1’s launch to the end of August 2025 for improved branding and strategy, and outlines a $10M ARB incentive program to boost Arbitrum’s lending markets through competitive, performance-based rewards. The community, including lending markets and asset issuers, is responding positively to the program’s structure, partner selection, and branding focus, with no immediate next actions specified.

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🆕 Sov proposes retroactive funding round for CoW DAO to reward impactful contributions

Sov proposed a retroactive funding round for CoW DAO, modeled after Optimism, to reward impactful contributions in five strategic areas, with awards starting at 5,000 xDAI and 5,000 vested COW tokens, funded by the Grants Council budget. The program aims to incentivize high-quality work and ecosystem growth, but there has been no community feedback or next steps decided.

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🆕 Gnosis Pay GNO rewards pool nears depletion amid rising usage; calls for transparency and sustainable incentives

The Gnosis Pay GNO rewards pool is nearly depleted due to increased usage, prompting calls for urgent transparency, interim funding, and a sustainable incentive plan to prevent user loss and maintain confidence. No community discussions or next actions have been reported.

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