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

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Grants Round 9 Hackathon lead sponsor Ideamarket aims to replace corporate media as the arbiter of public credibility. To help achieve this, Ideamarket offers creators a new income stream without dependence on ads or paywalls. Think of Ideamarket as “Chainlink for public narratives” — a DeFi lego that can plug into any public square, past […]
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As more artists and creatives use Ethereum to mint NFTs, so too has a five-year-running question been fervently revived: when will Ethereum turn off the energy-intensive Proof of Work consensus mechanism, and replace it with Proof of Stake? The good news is since the Beacon Chain launched in December 2020, Proof of Stake (PoS) is technically already here. More than one-hundred thousand active validators are staking a combined 3.4 million ETH (nearly $6.3 billion in dollar terms). This new PoS sy… … More

Hello fellow Kyberians,Development of Kyber 3.0 is now in full swing and the team have started shipping important components of the upgrade. One such component is the upgrade to the KNC token itself which will vastly expand its role in growing Kyber Network and this important upgrade is currently being voted on by the KyberDAO. We provide more information on this below.Another important component is the Dynamic Market Maker and the team recently released the DMM Whitepaper which covers how this … … More

An Open Science Initiative to Explore the Attack Vectors of Quadratic Funding In our previous articles on the Gitcoin Grants research collaboration at BlockScience, we openly explored research directions aimed at identifying collusion patterns in the Grants ecosystem using network science techniques implemented in cadCAD. In this article, we explore hypothetical collusion scenarios that exploit the mechanism of Quadratic Funding […]
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This is a cross-post from the Ethereum.org announcement, intended to let the Gitcoin community see the information mirrored where they are, TL;DR Berlin is ready to be deployed! We’re moving fast: the first testnet to upgrade, Ropsten, is scheduled to upgrade on March 10th. Mainnet is scheduled for April 14th. If you are running an Ethereum node, you should […]
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I Want My NFT !Fanatical human connections through fantastic technologyOpenviewThe power of the creator classes and the fervour of fans continues unabated and although the web has democratised the creative process and streaming services have restored the music industry’s revenue base, the artists themselves continue to struggle and with all this technology we have only been treading water.Unique software tokens (Non Fungible Tokens or NFTs) are a new building block for media networks and marketp… … More