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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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🆕 MakerDAO outlines secure payment request process for Atlas Core Development contributors for August 2025

This is about the official process for Atlas Core Development contributors to request August 2025 payments, requiring specific information and cryptographic signatures for new payment addresses, with a submission deadline of August 11th and payments processed on August 21st. The process aims to ensure secure, transparent, and organized payment distribution, with no reported community feedback.

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🆕 Eth.limo Q2 2025: Technical Upgrades, Tornado Cash Legal Work, 212M Requests, Ongoing Risks

The Eth.limo Q2 2025 update highlights major technical improvements, ongoing legal work related to the Tornado Cash trial, and strong operational metrics, with 212,439,066 requests recorded for the quarter. While the project benefits from enhanced reliability and transparency, it faces potential risks from legal challenges, and there has been no community response or next steps identified.

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🆕 $32k Proposal Seeks to Upgrade Gardens Governance Platform for Gitcoin 3.0 Integration

A $32,000 funding proposal aims to upgrade the Gardens governance platform with improved UI/UX, smart contract architecture (Diamond Pattern), and growth initiatives, targeting mass adoption and integration with Gitcoin 3.0. Expected benefits include increased usage, higher TVF, and better onboarding, with no reported community feedback or next steps as of now.

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🆕 Aavegotchi DAO Proposal Seeks $10,450 for Cayman Islands Legal Counsel Amid Low Voter Turnout

The proposal requests $10,450 from the Aavegotchi DAO to hire legal counsel in the Cayman Islands, aiming to enhance compliance and operational security for the DAO and its Foundation. While most current voters support the initiative, community participation is low and quorum has not yet been reached.

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🆕 Grant Proposal Seeks $15K from Arbitrum Gaming DAO for 3-Month Game Promotion Campaign

A grant proposal noscriptd “Arbitrum Bites: Gaming Content Propulsion” requests $15,000 from the Arbitrum Gaming DAO to fund a 3-month campaign promoting Arbitrum-native games via short-form videos, blogs, and paid media, with clear KPIs for user acquisition and engagement. The proposal aims to increase visibility among Gen Z, includes a detailed budget and milestone plan, and is currently open for community feedback, with no discussions or next steps yet.

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🆕 dYdX MegaVault July Update: 8 New Markets, Higher Volume, TVL, and APR

This is a monthly update from gauntlet on the dYdX MegaVault for the period from 2025-07-01 to 2025-07-31, highlighting the addition of 8 new markets, increased trading volume and TVL, and improved APR, with no community feedback or next steps identified. The main benefits are expanded market coverage and higher engagement, with no costs or negative reactions reported.

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🆕 Milestones and Metrics Council in S8/S9 Tracks Grant Progress for Oversight and Transparency

This is an official communication thread for the Milestones and Metrics Council in S8 and S9, focused on tracking and assessing grant milestones for improved oversight and transparency. There are no reported costs or community reactions, and no next actions have been set.

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🆕 Arbitrum DAO and Entropy Advisors Report Technical Progress, Treasury Updates, and Open Governance Vote

This is a monthly update on Arbitrum DAO and Entropy Advisors activities, highlighting completed technical milestones, treasury consolidation, governance updates, new incentive programs, and ongoing data initiatives, with the aim of improving operational efficiency, transparency, and ecosystem growth. The main cost is the transition of responsibilities and management roles, while the community has not shown notable reactions; a Tally vote on the Entropy Advisors Y2-Y3 mandate is open until August 7, with the new term starting on September 1 if approved.

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🆕 BuildUnion Proposes ML-Powered Grant & Bounty Tracking Dashboard for Superfluid DAO

BuildUnion has proposed a $3,999, 12-month Grant & Bounty Progress Tracking Dashboard for Superfluid DAO, aiming to centralize and automate milestone tracking, risk detection, and community engagement through real-time updates and ML-powered analytics. The main benefits are increased transparency and accountability, with no community feedback or next steps reported.

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🆕 Morpho to Hold Governance Call August 7 for Updates on Grants and Association Activities

Morpho is holding a Governance Call on August 7, 2025, from 17:00 to 18:00 UTC to provide updates on grants and association activities, encourage community participation, and ensure transparency by recording and publishing the session. There have been no community discussions or next actions determined.

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🆕 ZKsync Proposal Seeks 8.5M ZK for Guardian Funding and Operations (2024–2026)

The \"TPP-X ZKsync Guardians Funding 2024-2026\" proposal requests 8.5 million ZK tokens to fund Guardian compensation and operational costs from September 2024 to September 2026, with unused tokens to be returned or left unminted and oversight by the Token Assembly and Security Council. There have been no community discussions or next actions determined.

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🆕 GMX DAO Proposal Seeks $110K/Month Treasury Swap for GT Tokens to Fund Solana Operations

This is a proposal for the GMX DAO to provide $110,000 per month to GMX Solana via a treasury swap for GT tokens, aiming to fund core operations and give the DAO long-term exposure to GT. Community reaction is largely critical, with concerns about the high cost relative to DAO income, lack of clear KPIs, insufficient transparency, and skepticism about GT’s value, though some suggest conditional or time-limited support if more detailed plans and accountability are provided.

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🆕 Gauntlet Proposes Extending Compound User Incentives on Arbitrum, Base, and Optimism with Additional COMP Allocation

Gauntlet has proposed allocating 6,570 COMP to Arbitrum, 6,750 COMP to Base, and 2,025 COMP to Optimism to extend user incentives on these chains by three months, with an on-chain vote scheduled for August 11, 2025. This would maintain protocol activity at the cost of additional COMP tokens, and there has been no community feedback so far.

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