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      • πŸ¦‹FAQs for Transitioning to Allo v2
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      • πŸ“°How to create a project in Builder
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      • 🌿Transition to Allo v2: Builder Guide
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      • πŸ”Navigating Explorer
      • πŸ“ƒHow to apply to a round in Explorer
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      • πŸ‘οΈHow can I view my past donations?
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      • πŸ“šWhen is the next Grants Round?
      • πŸ“šWhat are Public Goods?
      • πŸ“šWhy should I contribute?
      • πŸ“šWhat are the Grants Round rules I need to follow?
      • πŸ€–What is Quadratic funding?
      • πŸ€–Why is Quadratic funding powerful?
      • πŸ€–How do you prevent Sybil attacks?
      • 🀨I see a bug or I've got a question, what do I do?
      • πŸŽ‰How much volume has Gitcoin Grants done?
      • πŸ€”What is our Quid Pro Quo Policy?
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          • What are we protecting?
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    • πŸ€”cGrants/Bounties & Hackathons Sunsetting FAQ
      • πŸ€”What’s happening to the Hackathons and the Bounties program?
      • πŸ€”How to retrieve my data from cGrants
      • πŸ€”What is happening to my data?
    • Gitcoin Governance
      • 🏒What are the governance workstreams?
      • 🏒What is the Stewards delegation program?
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  1. Gitcoin Grants

How is the Gitcoin Grants program changing?

Gitcoin is transitioning from cGrants to the Grants Protocol

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Last updated 11 months ago

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Historically, the Gitcoin Grants Rounds operated on a quarterly cadence. However, has approved the decision to retire our centralized quadratic funding platform (cGrants) and transition to a decentralized and customizable , which is in sync with our destination as GitcoinDAO.

As a result, Gitcoin ran a streamlined Alpha Round on the protocol in January 2023 with the goal of testing the product while supporting established grantees. The next phase of this testing period introduces the in April 2023.

Gitcoin’s renewed purpose which was ratified in July of 2022 is To Empower Communities to Fund their Shared Needs. In order to fulfill this purpose fully, we are creating a suite of permissionless, modular, and decentralized protocols that will allow communities to rapidly test different funding mechanisms on top of a deeply liquid registry of projects and enable projects to grow sustainably.

Why are these changes being made?

Even though Gitcoin Grants built a strong use case for the value of Quadratic Funding to fund public goods, we built it as a centralized platform. It has come to a stage now where we need to decentralize it to scale it more widely and achieve our purpose.

Read this in-depth blog to learn more:

Governance
Gitcoin Grants Stack
Gitcoin Grants Beta Round
Announcing the Decentralized Future of Gitcoin Grants