Welcome to Gitcoin
Connect with the community developing digital public goods, creating financial freedom, and defining the future of the open web.
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Connect with the community developing digital public goods, creating financial freedom, and defining the future of the open web.
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The first thing to know about Gitcoin is that we are mission first. is to build and fund digital public goods. We believe that Open Source Software is a digital public good that creates $400bn/year in value, but that creators of OSS don’t have great ways to monetize their work on this digital infrastructure. Our goal is to correct this asymmetry
Gitcoin is community first, and our software products a double sided market that connects digital creatives to the people who want to fund their work. And visa versa. So far . Specifically, the way we do that is:
Giving members opportunities to .
Giving members opportunities to .
Giving members opportunities to .
How do we do that?
- gig-based work for web3 projects.
- Build w the coolest web3 projects.
- Crowdfunding for Open Source.
- A web3-native, community centric accelerator.
- a small, modular tool for engaging people for showing up.
- a decentralized tool for engaging contributors.
There are three important concepts to know to understand how to interact with GitcoinDAO.
Workstreams are the primary mechanism through which work is organized in the DAO.
Gitcoin operates in a quarterly cadence. Every quarter, the Gitcoin ecosystem revolves around a quarterly stacked event - a combination Gitcoin Grants round, Hackathon, and KERNEL block - where millions of $$$ of funding are deployed to the community. Typically a quarter looks like this:
Plan for quarterly stacked event.
Execute quarterly stacked event.
Learn from the quarterly stacked event.
Repeat
The next quarterly event is GR12 starting in December 2021.
Right now the DAO is focused on:
Creating more ecosystem impact (measured in $$$ distributed to devs)
Decentralizing Gitcoin.
As of September 2021, here is the way you can get involved in the DAO.
Explore any workstreams (use links above).
Use Gitcoin to earn, learn, or fund. (use links above).
Explore any of the links below:
I LOVE IT…The community has been outstanding. I have made contact outside of slack w a couple of people. William Schwab was kind enough to ZOOM w me for an hour and tell me his story, letme pick his brain, and as he shared some valuable resources with me. - John Wilkinson
KERNEL is the greatest thing to ever happen to my crypto/business/personal life. I have made plenty of new friends, connected with people who believe in me and want to work together on other projects, and of course learned a lot from other seedlings, mentors and speakers. - Ethan Chiasson
Gitcoin gave me the first break into Ethereum and the crypto space. It helped me find bounties that I could work on and get paid in crypto. After my first ever bounty I got paid a lot and I felt euphoric. - Sebastian TF
I am amazed on a daily basis at the incredible projects and communities in this space. The Gitcoin team and quadratic funding is an invaluable catalyst to bring it all to fruition. Thank you! - Hishamaru Konkon
What Gitcoin is doing with public goods funding is absolutely incredible. Nothing but respect to the team and the larger community for the contributions made. - Frobo
In order to make sure that Gitcoin is serving its mission and community first, Gitcoin is governed by the community. In May 2021, . GTC is a governance token with no economic value that governs Gitcoin Grants + GitcoinDAO.
Most of the action happens on , , or on
are ultimately responsible for governing GitcoinDAO.
is the DAO rapid prototyping workstream
is focused on our mission of funding public goods.
is in charge of preventing fraud on Gitcoin Grants.
is the mechanism through which Gitcoin is progressively decentralizing.
is the DAO marketing division.
If you want to learn more about the GitcoinDAO, read this post :
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Read the weekly posts by .
Get engaged on , , or on
Checkout .
Gitcoin Grants is establishing itself as a significant pillar of the Ethereum ecosystem that more and more projects are relying on for some or all of their support. ~
Gitcoin grants quadratic funding is not just for funds allocation, it’s also a great signaling tool! For the last few rounds, going to has led me to discover a lot of really cool Ethereum projects I previously did not know about. - Vitalik Buterin
Thanks to it has helped us to discover our earliest talent and supercharged @KodaDot development. - Matej
People ask me all the time how I got into Solidity and NFT dev. The answer is ! Beginning of the year I just started doing bounties for a bunch of different projects (@synthetix_io @akashnet_ @SovrynBTC etc) and found the NFT ones were my fave. Such a good way to learn! - sarasioux.eth
