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When he raised just over $3k in Gitcoin Grants Round 1, RicMoo gained more than that first few thousand dollars, he received priceless market validation. RicMoo has returned to Gitcoin Grants every quarter since GR1, and can now comfortably say that he has fulfilled his initial goal of finding a sustainable source of community funding.
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Grants Round 14 ran from June 8-23, 2022. $4.9M will be distributed to public goods as part of the round, $3.2M from matching pools and $1.7M by the community. The post Grants Round 14: Round Results & Recap appeared first on Gitcoin’s Blog. … More

Get ready for this month’s jam-packed issue, where you’ll find details about our continued progress from the Lab, a not-too-shabby MTTR, our HackerOne bounty program, and more! Make sure you see our deprecation announcement.Security LaboratoryEndoSupport for “where are my source files” use cases complete!We finally merged the import.meta support. Had to account for the changes made to compartment spec in the tc39 proposal also. Further changes will definitely be needed as the proposal is likely … … More

Nouns DAO and Gitcoin entered a creative partnership to support public goods in December 2021. Nouns DAO was the biggest matching partner in Gitcoin’s twelfth quarterly Grants Round (GR12), with a 169 ETH contribution passed via gov proposal on December 4th, 2021. Nouns & Gitcoin also created and distributed 5 Nounbots, a limited edition collection of hybrid NFTs.
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June 2022MetaMask is deprecating two methods available in its API: eth_decrypt and eth_getEncryptionPublicKey. The methods will still exist in the API, and continue to function as they do currently: however, MetaMask no longer recommends they be used.These methods are being deprecated because they are not as secure as they could be. There are no known vulnerabilities or exploits based on these methods; however, MetaMask is not comfortable promoting their use.We are open to re-implementing a vers… … More

Why we invested in FlowdeskIt is well understood that Web3 revolutionised ownership with tokens that are freely transferable and which represent shared ownership in a project. While it is easy to issue a new token, it is incredibly difficult to grow a community so projects naturally take time to grow. Through that journey, markets to trade these tokens are essential, enabling new members to join the movement, and there is an entire industry just to facilitate that, with billions traded every day… … More

Researchers from Halborn found a case where user keys could be found unencrypted on disk in rare edge cases, which has been fixed for MetaMask Extension versions 10.11.3 and laterBackgroundSecurity researchers at Halborn have disclosed an instance where a Secret Recovery Phrase used by web based wallets like MetaMask could be extracted from the disk of a compromised computer under some conditions. The following does not impact MetaMask Mobile users, and impacts a small segment of MetaMask Extens… … More

Gitcoin ran the first hackathon on its platform in 2019 and has now facilitated over 98 hackathons. As a result, we’ve had 300,000 builders from all kinds of open-source ecosystems participate and compete in prizes worth more than $12m. The Gitcoin Passport Hackathon is a special edition for us because it invites builders to advance […]
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Since 2019 Gitcoin has been an invaluable tool for communities seeking to build open source software, with over $58m in funding going to thousands of projects.  Not only does Gitcoin help builders and creators in web3 ecosystems but it also harnesses the power of quadratic funding to support cause rounds which have included Support for […]
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Since 2019 Gitcoin has been an invaluable tool for communities seeking to build open source software, with over $58m in funding going to thousands of projects.  Not only does Gitcoin help builders and creators in web3 ecosystems but it also harnesses the power of quadratic funding to support cause rounds which have included Support for […]
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Since 2019 Gitcoin has been an invaluable tool for communities seeking to build open source software, with over $58m in funding going to thousands of projects.  Not only does Gitcoin help builders and creators in web3 ecosystems but it also harnesses the power of quadratic funding to support cause rounds which have included Support for […]
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On June 3, 2022, the first-ever ETH Shanghai Hackathon came to a close. Through the course of 14 days, 24 impressive finalist projects emerged from over 200 submissions, building and developing prototypes using development tools provided by event sponsors. The ETH Shanghai Hackathon 2022 is an event that ran parallel to the ETH Shanghai Web […]
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