How quadratic funding sustained early Optimism research that became a leading Ethereum L2.
Empowering Communitiesto fund and build what matters.
5M+
Unique Donations
230+
Funding Rounds
$60,000,000+
Funding Distributed
Year by Year
GrowingOur Impact
Launched in 2019, Gitcoin Grants empowers people and collectives in web3 to direct funding toward projects and causes they believe in. What began as a focused experiment has grown into a durable engine for public goods, with funding volume expanding dramatically each year.
$0.7m
2019
$2.8m
2020
$13.2m
2021
$21.4m
2022
Our Impact
Raising On Gitcoin
Our Impact
Gitcoin By the Numbers
270k
Unique Supporters
28.2B
Grantee Market Cap
3715
Projects Funded
$3M+
Frauds Prevented
In Action
Read Our Case Studies
How a Gitcoin grant funded EIP-1559 implementation and signaled community demand for the upgrade.
How quadratic funding sustained Ethereum's leading privacy protocol before OFAC sanctions.
How Gitcoin Grants enabled Austin Griffith to leave his job and build open-source tools that brought thousands of developers into Ethereum.
How quadratic funding built community-backed support for crypto policy advocacy and litigation.
How the Filecoin ecosystem adopted retroactive public goods funding using Drips infrastructure, distributing over 580,000 FIL across multiple rounds.
How a $50k Gitcoin grant helped 1inch's co-founders go from sleeping at hackathon venues to building a DEX aggregator with $250B+ in trading volume.
Our Partners
We partner with some of the most impactful organizations fueling the future of open source software and public goods
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IMO all donors to the gitcoin matching pool deserve to get big beautiful statues in the metaverse honoring their contributions.
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) June 23, 2022
Don't praise working for no money. This is not the spirit of #opensource.
— Lefteris Karapetsas | Hiring for @rotkiapp (@LefterisJP) June 20, 2022
Work should be paid, and work made in the open should even be paid more.
Instead of perpetuating the legend of the poor opensource maintainer let's find ways to sustainably fund #opensource.
❤️ @gitcoin
I would love to see more non-speculative Ethereum apps take off during this bear market.
— sassal.eth 🦇🔊 (@sassal0x) July 4, 2022
So far the most popular ones I can think of (that have actual active users) are Gitcoin, POAP and ENS.
What else is there?
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