5 years, 20 Grants, 3715 projects crowd-funded and over $60M raised towards public goods funding, from 4.2M unique donations. Gitcoin’s headline numbers are indicative of the massive success their quadratic funding (QF) and public goods funding models (PGF) have seen over the years. With Gitcoin 2.0, crowd-funding is further decentralised, Allo Protocol being open-source and permissionless: any ecosystem treasury can create their own Gitcoin Grants program to help their community fund what matters to them.
Topics discussed in this episode:
0:00 - Introduction
3:14 - Kevin’s background and Gitcoin’s journey so far
6:44 - The utility of Gitcoin Passport
10:58 - Gitcoin Grants sybil protection dilemma
15:13 - Public goods & capital allocation
18:20 - Quadratic funding (QF) & retroactive public goods funding (RPGF)
23:35 - New allocation models introduced by Gitcoin 2.0
28:06 - $GTC token utility & decentralising Allo Protocol
39:41 - The current landscape of DAOs
Links mentioned in this episode:
- Kevin Owocki on Twitter: bit.ly/4dwt24j
- Gitcoin on Twitter: bit.ly/4dtnU0Z
- Gitcoin governance forums: bit.ly/3yaX5yq
Sponsors:
- Gnosis: Gnosis builds decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem, since 2015. This year marks the launch of Gnosis Pay- the world's first Decentralized Payment Network. Get started today at gnosis.io/ -
- Chorus1: Chorus One is one of the largest node operators worldwide, supporting more than 100,000 delegators, across 45 networks. The recently launched OPUS allows staking up to 8,000 ETH in a single transaction. Enjoy the highest yields and institutional grade security at chorus.one/? -
This episode is hosted by Friederike Ernst.
Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/547