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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Developer Preview: Filecoin in MetaMaskThis build of MetaMask is a special developer release that contains early support for Filecoin, based on the upcoming MetaMask Snaps extensibility system. We are making this special developer build available so that Filecoin developers can start building Web3 sites based on Filecoin.A few things to note: Although the Filecoin Snap is pre-installed in this build, the final product will install the Snap through the connect flow when a consumer connects to the… … More

Dear Funders League MultiSig Key Holders, Grants Round 9 (GR9) came to a close on March 25th, 2021, and it is time to take the journey to the Quadratic Lands where we honor our sacred agreement to support public goods in the Ethereum ecosystem. We do that by transferring funds from the Grants MultiSig to […]
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The first quarter of 2021 has been one of explosive growth for Centre and for USDC, the world’s most trusted stablecoin. After starting the year at just over $4 billion, last week we reached $11 billion in market cap.We began the year with the announcements that USDC was fully integrated with the Algorand, Stellar and Solana blockchains. Activity on these chains has doubled over the past month. We look forward to sharing more news on our multi-chain approach in the coming weeks.Use cases for USD… … More

A Framework for Community-Based Algorithmic Policy Making This post shares our most recent findings on social and technical behaviors in Gitcoin Grant Round 9, and proposes a framework for community-based policy making in semi-automated systems.These processes need the help of the Gitcoin community to continue testing, iterating, and improving ‘decentralized’ community-based funding methods like Quadratic […]
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The Most Trusted Way to Access, Store and Swap Tokens Just Went MobileStarting today, MetaMask Mobile users can now swap tokens inside their wallet, with a single swipe, using the Swaps feature. MetaMask Swaps is the most convenient source of information for getting the best price and lowest network fees by combining data from automated market makers, professional market makers, request for quotes (RFQs), and individual decentralized exchanges (DEXs). MetaMask is the leading non-custodial wallet… … More

The Most Trusted Way to Buy, Store and Swap Tokens Just Went MobileStarting today, MetaMask Mobile users can now swap tokens inside their wallet, with a single swipe, using the Swaps feature. MetaMask Swaps is the most convenient source of information for getting the best price and lowest network fees by combining data from automated market makers, professional market makers, request for quotes (RFQs), and individual decentralized exchanges (DEXs). MetaMask is the leading non-custodial wallet, m… … More