Gitcoin's 12th round of donations is coming. What are the projects worth paying attention to

Gitcoin 是一个自 2017 年发起的开源软件开发激励平台，旨在通过区块链支持各类开源项目，促进开源运动的发展，区块链等项目可以在该平台上用一定的报酬找到需要的开发者。随着 Gitcoin 的发展，目前已延伸出了黑客马拉松「Hackathons」、众筹捐赠「Grants」、加速器孵化「Kernel」和社交属性「Kudos」等不同版块。

其中，Gitcoin Grants 捐赠活动已举办了 11 期，平台上的众多优质项目从中获益，包括 Uniswap、1inch、Zapper 等，为以太坊生态繁荣做出了巨大的贡献。而对于参与者而言，在帮助孵化以太坊生态项目的同时，不仅有机会获得各项目的代币空投，还可以更早地深入参与优质项目的早期孵化以及 Web3 的学习。

目前，新一轮 Grants Round 12（GR12）捐赠已经开始，从 2021 年 12 月 1 日持续至 12 月 16 日。接下来。律动 BlockBeats 将为你简单介绍下 Gitcoin Grants 以及 GR12，并从捐赠人数、金额以及项目创新等方面介绍 11 个优质的项目，以供参考。

Gitcoin Grants 与 GR12 简述

Gitcoin Grants 于 2019 年 2 月正式启动了第一期活动，当时以 56 人参与捐赠、 4.4 万美元的捐赠总额结束。之后，Vitalik Buterin 参与到 Gitcoin Grants 的二次资金匹配模型（Quadratic Funding）设计中来，在一定程度上极大地推动了 Gitcoin Grants 的社区影响力。通过 Quadratic Funding，用户给项目方捐赠时，项目方还可获得额外的匹配资金，这部分资金由赞助商提供。

And by reviewing data on Grants rounds from the first 11 GR12 rounds available on the official website, It can be found that the number of crowdfund_num_fists, crowdfund_contributions, and matching_pot continue to grow in each funding Round. The amount of Grants dropped briefly in GR10, but rose sharply in GR11, reflecting the growth of the Grants Round and its popularity in the industry.

其中，GR11 是 Gitcoin Grants 活动启动以来规模最大的一次，超过 1.6 万名用户参与，累计捐赠笔数约 42.9 万，几乎平均一个用户捐赠了近 27 个项目；而捐赠金额逾 150 万美元，匹配金额达 81.5 万美元，合 231.5 万美元，相比自 2019 年 2 月第一轮捐赠以来增长了近 52 倍。

And with the arrival of GR12, its popularity may continue. In addition, the authorities also received some feedback from the previous rounds of funding, and made some optimization of the donation mechanism to improve the product experience of GR12. Among them: the matching pool exceeded $2 million, breaking all previous records; The new sections include "Climate Change", "Advocacy" related to cryptography, and "Longevity" in the context of open science. And support Polygon network payment; And launched a separate decentralized giving app called dGrants.

未来，Grants 变成一种开源协议后，任何人将都可以在 dGrants 上分叉和构建该协议。这样项目就可以使用二次资助算法和相关技术来运行他们自己的捐赠计划并从中受益，用户也可以不受审查地自由创建和资助赠款。

On the other hand, the growing number of Gitcoin Grants has made it more difficult for users to select donations. So what are some of the GR12 Grants worth our attention?

DeFi

Li Finance

Li.finance is a cross-chain bridge aggregator that supports DeFi projects by providing liquidity when needed. It currently aggregates cross-chain liquidity networks such as Connext, Hop and Thorchain, aiming to enable the truly arbitrary exchange of cryptocurrencies.

在 Gitcoin 上，Li.Finance 已收到超过 700 位捐赠者的捐助，捐助金额逾 1.3 万美元，有着非常高的认可度。

rekt

Rekt is a public platform for anonymous authors to post information, which aggregates DeFi project hacking, flash loan attacks and exploits. On Gitcoin, Rekt has received donations from more than 440 donors, also totaling more than $11,000.

随着外界开始对 DeFi 越来越感兴趣，rekt 的信息正逐渐被传统媒体所参考，其内容已被彭博社、BBC、世界经济论坛等引用。

链游

Dark Forest

Dark Forest is a decentralized real-time strategy (RTS) space conquest game based on zero-knowledge proof technology zkSNARKS. The game was inspired by Liu Cixin's science fiction novel The Three-Body Problem, the second part of the Dark Forest and its namesake thought experiment. The game has received donations from 668 donors. Dark Forest has been widely recognized by players due to its variety and interestingness, and was once recommended by V God on YouTube.

在游戏中，玩家需要在一个无限的、由程序生成的、密码学特定的宇宙中扩张他们的帝国，与其他玩家进行外交和战争，来扩张自己的生存区域。宇宙中的星球分为两种：一种是普通星球，另一种是有银矿的星球；第二种可以不断产生银，普通星球则需要银来进行升级，提高属性。

NFT

POAP (Proof of Attendance Protocol)

POAP is a proof of attendance protocol that provides a way for users attending events to verify their attendance by collecting digital badges, all on the chain. Each badge is unique, which means the way to get a badge is to receive it digitally during the event. At Gitcoin, POAP has received donations from nearly 800 donors, also totaling nearly $16,000.

L2

L2BEAT

L2BEAT is the aggregation of Layer2 network data on ethereum, dedicated to providing research and statistics on ethereum Layer2 technology. At Gitcoin, L2BEAT has received contributions from more than 460 donors, also totaling nearly $15,000.

L2BEAT 有两个核心功能，统计了所有狭义上以太坊 L2 网络的资产锁仓量数据，以及整理了各个 L2 网络在风险上的一些对比。此外，用户还可以快速查看各个 L2 网络的特性、风险以及权衡。

以太坊 2.0

Lighthouse

Lighthouse is the security-focused Ethereum 2.0 client. It's free and open source, enabling users to take advantage of the sharded proof of claim ethereum 2.0 platform while laying the foundation for distributed future improvements.

Lighthouse 完全开源，在 Apache 2.0 下获得许可，以安全为中心，Fuzzing 技术已被不断应用，并已进行了几次外部安全审查。此外，Lighthouse 由各种组织资助，包括以太坊基金会、ConsenSys 等，并积极参与到以太坊 2.0 的规范和安全建设中。

Web 3

RSS3

RSS3 is a next-generation decentralized social and content protocol that returns data including relationships, content, and portraits to users through built-in commerce, recommendation, and storage mechanisms. RSS3 hopes to replace the traditional centralized distribution as the core of the Web2 application ecosystem, to create a more prosperous and healthy content social network. On Gitcoin, RSS3 has received donations of more than $13,000 from nearly 440 donors.

此外，官方开发的 RSS3 PASS，是基于 RSS3 开发的一系列应用，用户可以通过消耗 PASS 代币注册 RSS3 的 RNS，这是一个类似于 ENS 的域名，它不能转让，也不会过期。目前，Ghost 和 Hexo 等博客框架已经支持 RSS3，去中心化微博平台 Misskey 也已经接入了 RSS3 生态。

brightID

BrightID is a decentralized social identity authentication system for the Web3 era, based primarily on Ethereum, combined with non-private information channels such as off-chain meeting videos. Instead of submitting sensitive information such as identity details, BrightID allows individuals to authenticate their on-chain accounts through a trust mechanism between acquaintances.

BrightID 通过一系列算法来识别真实账号和虚假账号，其中有 already know、just met 和 suspicious 三种类型，如果选择了错误的方式，用户的账号则会处于危险之中，通过这种类似博弈论的方式来确保网络中活动的人在现实世界里是真实的。

隐私

Frame

Frame is a privacy-conscious native Ethereum wallet, an operating system-level Ethereum portal that connects users' accounts to Dapps like MetaMask, but Frame is not a browser extension, it's a native app. On Gitcoin, Frame has received donations of more than $12,000 from nearly 600 donors.

Frame 创建了一个系统范围的 Web3 接口，使用户的 macOS、Linux 或 Windows 机器上的任何网络应用程序、本机应用程序都可以利用去中心化的网络，并且适用于所有 Ledger、Trezor 和 Grid+ 硬件签名者。

ZeroPool

ZeroPool is a privacy solution that users can use to hide the amount, source of funds, and target address from any outside observer, store or perform the exchange of ETH and any other ERC-20 token. The project began as a hackathon event at ETHBoston and was funded by ConsenSys for $25,000.

ZeroPool 包含两部分，集合了零知识证明（ZKP）和未花费的交易输出（UTXO）的智能合约，以及使用 Baby JubJub 椭圆曲线生成的公私钥对的 Chrome 浏览器插件钱包。

DAO

BanklessDAO

BanklessDAO originated from Bankless, which was founded in 2019 as a newsletter tracking the crypto industry, and later added podcasts and other content in 2020. BanklessDAO, on the other hand, is the product of community consensus. It has no legal entity in the traditional commercial society and operates completely independently of Bankless media. The two do not cross each other in business and law.

BanklessDAO 是一个开放的社区，任何人都可以通过 Discord 加入 BanklessDAO 的服务器，并获得浏览绝大部分信息和历史工作文档的权限。目前，Discord 里成员根据自己的兴趣和能力，自发组织了 13 个不同方向的公会，并建设了 200 多个频道。

总结

以上项目只是律动 BlockBeats 关注到的部分，难以做到全面概括，其中不乏有些在前几轮捐赠中就备受关注的项目。此外，由于 Gitcoin Grants 对于项目申请比较开放，只要具备一定的信息都能申请，而且更多时候采用的都是事后处理的模式，所以也存在不少「骗捐」的项目。因此律动 BlockBeats 总结了几点注意事项和捐赠技巧，供大家参考。

1）进入项目详情页后，关注基本信息是否齐全，比如：官网网址、推特、简介等；

2）观察推特账号后是否带有一个「勾」的标志，没有的话，表明没有得到 Gitcoin grants 关于其推特所有权的验证；

3）为了最大可能满足未来空投门槛，捐赠金额不宜过小，此前的几次项目追溯空投中，就直接过滤掉了捐赠金额 1 美元以下的地址；

4) You can choose to donate through layer 2. GR12 also supports Polygon network payment, which can save more gas costs, or you can choose to donate when the network environment is good.

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