Gitcoin Bounties
Gitcoin DAO
Gitcoin Quests
Gitcoin Token
Gitcoin Policy
What is Gitcoin?
Connect with the community developing digital public goods, creating financial freedom, and defining the future of the open web.
Mission First
The first thing to know about Gitcoin is that we are mission first. Our mission 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
How we support our mission
Gitcoin is a 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 we’ve created $35mm worth of funding for OSS devs.
Specifically, the way we do that is:
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The DAO that governs Gitcoin
In order to make sure that Gitcoin is serving its mission and community first, Gitcoin is governed by the community. In May 2021, GTC was released. GTC is a governance token with no economic value that governs Gitcoin Grants + GitcoinDAO.
There are three important concepts to know to understand how to interact with GitcoinDAO.
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- 3.Workstreams are the primary mechanism through which work is organized in the DAO.
DAO Workstreams
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The Gitcoin/GitcoinDAO Egregore is Emerging
Gitcoin Governance
DAO’s Quarterly Cadence
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 $$ of funding are deployed to the community. Typically a quarter looks like this:
- 1.Plan for the quarterly stacked event
- 2.Execute the quarterly stacked event
- 3.Learn from the quarterly stacked event
- 4.Repeat
The next quarterly event is GR14, starting in Q2 2022.
DAO KPIs
Right now the DAO is focused on:
- 1.Creating more ecosystem impact (measured in $$ distributed to devs)
- 2.Decentralizing Gitcoin.
What are the KPIs that GitcoinDAO Optimizes for?
Gitcoin Governance
How to get involved.
As of September 2021, here is the way you can get involved in the DAO.
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- 5.Explore any workstreams (use links above).
- 6.Use Gitcoin to earn, learn, or fund. (use links above).
- 7.Explore any of the links below:
Links
Testimonials
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. ~ Vitalik Buterin
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
Gitcoin grants quadratic funding is not just for funds allocation, it’s also a great signaling tool! For the last few rounds, going to Grants | Gitcoin has led me to discover a lot of really cool Ethereum projects I previously did not know about. - Vitalik Buterin
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
Thanks to @gitcoin 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 @gitcoin! 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
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