Today’s the day! We’re excited to announce Gitcoin Grants Round 10 began this morning at 9:00 AM MST. Through the past 9 rounds, and with the support of the Web3 community, we’ve helped distribute over $10 million to over 1,600 key ecosystem projects. These projects represent a wide variety of public goods, from Ethereum infrastructure […]
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Quadratic Funding is under Sybil attack We’re on the cusp of Grants Round 10, and each round has been more successful than the last. We expect that trend will continue through this round as well. The Gitcoin mission is to enable communities to build and fund the open web, so of course we’re always excited […]
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Anil Hansjee, General Partner at Fabric Ventures, Former PayPal VenturesAt Fabric Ventures, we are always excited to innovate at the juncture between traditional financial services and new open economy financial incentive models, to encourage a more inclusive, efficient and liquid financial services industry. Our new General Partner, Anil Hansjee is rejoining the Fabric family, having played a fundamental role in the fund’s genesis at Firestartr.Anil joins full-time at Fabric Ventures with a wea… … More

The Gitcoin Team is pleased to announce that ENS, the decentralized naming protocol, has made a $700k investment in support of digital public goods. ENS joins a stacked group of veteran Ethereum organizations who have contributed over $5mm to help build open source through Gitcoin hackathons and grants rounds. ENS is a pillar of the […]
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Over the last three years, we’ve collectively built legitimacy around the idea of supporting the core infrastructure we all rely on, and we’re proud of what we’ve been able to accomplish for the Ethereum and broader web3 community. We couldn’t have done it without all of you, and as we’ve mentioned before, there’s still much […]
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In this post, we’re excited to introduce the GTC token and our DAO that will govern Gitcoin — two crucial components allowing Gitcoin to decentralize and build an equitable protocol for funding open source development. The contract address for GTC is 0xde30da39c46104798bb5aa3fe8b9e0e1f348163f  — please triple check that you are interacting with the proper token! Here’s […]
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We recently closed 1confirmation fund III, a new $125M venture fund. The fund allows us to continue investing in the companies, cryptocurrencies and NFTs empowering people around the world to have more control of their lives.We launched our $26M fund I at the peak of the last bull market in 2017 and have since grown AUM to over $800M. Our beliefs about the future have remained consistent since our initial launch 4 years ago:Blockchains are shifting power from institutions to people. It started i… … More

When Gitcoin first started in 2017 we focused on the mission of growing and sustaining open source software. During my 10 years in tech startups I had seen that everything and I mean everything in the startup ecosystem was built on top of open source. From the protocols that are the substrate of the internet, to Linux, […]
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Learn how DAO alignment can be found and how the incentive structures are identified with this review of our facilitation of Meta Gamma Delta DAO’s discovery process. The post A Hands-On Approach to Aligning Goals & Incentives with Meta Gamma Delta DAO appeared first on Gitcoin’s Blog. … More

On Wednesday, May 12, 2021 Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin sent 49 trillion Akita Inu tokens (AKITA) worth approximately $8mm at the time of this posting to the Gitcoin Community’s multisig wallet. This wallet is used to offer matching funds for Gitcoin Grants rounds. Gitcoin Grants is a quarterly crowdfunding campaign for open source projects. These […]
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Uniswap V3, the third iteration of the Uniswap protocol, has been deployed to the Ethereum mainnet! … More

Solve sybil-resistance & create a transparency loop for Gitcoin to be governed by the community, thus saving the planet by restoring the balance of funding between public and private goods. Sounds simple, right? On second thought, it wasn’t that simple. Since the first grants round, we knew that at some point these questions would come […]
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Hello fellow Kyberians,With so much going on this month where do we even begin! We’ve now launched the Kyber Dynamic Market Maker on mainnet, the KyberDAO has approved the KNC migration and is in the process of voting on the upgrade of the KyberDAO itself, we’ve released our Layer 2 rollup research, and a certain KyberSwap team announced the upcoming launch of a fully featured brand new wallet called Krystal! Lets jump right in..Kyber Dynamic Market Maker LaunchAnd here it is, the most efficient… … More

Gitcoin began in 2017 as a passion project for Kevin Owocki with the goal of empowering developers to earn while building open source, digital public goods projects. By that fall, Gitcoin gained the support of Joe Lubin and was brought into the ConsenSys family, where Kevin and the team experimented with novel funding models. Now, […]
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It is our great pleasure to announce Skynet’s Spring 2021 hackathon, featuring more than $25,000 in prizes for participants. This hackathon is focused around content and media, and for the first time ever they are opening the prize pool to every single member of the community. The official kickoff begins April 9th! Sign up here: https://gitcoin.co/hackathon/built-to-explore/onboard […]
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