Grants Protocol

Grants Protocol aims to decentralize funding access, empowering any community to run their own grants program.

Gitcoin Grants

Gitcoin Grants is a canonical example of the Grants Protocol's capabilities, and will continue its mission to support public goods.

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Millions in open source project funding

We've helped thousands of projects and teams grow their open source ecosystems.

Why build Web3?

The internet has unlocked unprecedented opportunities for collaboration and creation. Now web3 technology like open source protocols and decentralized blockchains give us the ability to take that co-creation to a new scale. The Gitcoin community uses this technology to fund and build digital public goods projects that serve everyone, and solve our most immediate problems.

Open

Open source code meets open economies. Build resilient projects, better coordination, and positive-sum outcomes.

Empowering

Growing networks with aligned incentives towards the wellbeing of each participant and the system as a whole.

Collaborative

Through distributed funding and organizations, we build together toward our shared goals.

Who’s using Gitcoin?

Gitcoin grants quadratic funding is not just for funds allocation, it's also a great signaling tool! For the last few rounds, going to https://gitcoin.co/grants/ (sort by top match) has led me to discover a lot of really cool Ethereum projects I previously did not know about.

Vitalik Buterin

Founder of Ethereum

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

Developer

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

Full-Stack Developer

As one of the first quadratic freelancers to go through the platform, my grant enabled me to leave my job and build open source tutorials and prototypes for the open internet. Super excited to see quadratic funding continue to help high leverage outliers find their place in our ecosystem.

Austin Griffith

Javascript Developer

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 Alumni

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