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Gitcoin's 13th round of donations begins, taking stock of projects worthy of attention

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A new round of Grants Round 13 donations has begun. What projects are worthy of attention?

Gitcoin is an open source software development incentive platform launched in 2017, which aims to provide funds for various open source projects, especially non-profit projects that are beneficial to ecological development, through quadratic donation technology support. (See Rhythm's previous reports for details: "Gitcoin: The "Arsenal" of the Ethereum Ecosystem | Project Introduction》)

Currently, the Gitcoin donation event has entered its 13th phase, and the event will start on March 9th and end on March 23rd. In this round of donations, the main prize pool has been raised to $1.2 million from $1 million in the previous round. In addition, targeted matching donation prize pools have been set up for projects belonging to specific fields. For example, the bonus pool for addressing climate change is 465,000 US dollars, and the zk technology-related bonus pool is 275,000 yuan. (See the picture below for details)

The number of projects participating in this round of donations has reached 778. Rhythm Blockbeats observed the top projects that currently accept donations, and found that the proportion of projects aimed at bottom-level development and community education has increased significantly. Among the top-ranked projects, projects with potential airdrop opportunities such as DeFi protocols have been rarely seen.

Perhaps in the current environment where the entire market environment is gradually cooling down, the speculative attributes of Gitcoin donations in the previous bull market are gradually fading. The whole donation activity has also begun to really return to its original intention of supporting non-profit open source projects.

Therefore, in this article, in addition to selecting interesting projects of different categories, we will also introduce some such as data aggregation websites, community education podcasts, etc., although not necessarily A product that has speculative value but has real use value for users.

Data aggregation application

Defillama

DefiLlama is a well-known DeFi TVL data dashboard. It is currently known for supporting most mainstream public chains and ecological application data in the market. I believe that most users in the encryption circle have used it its products.

However, it should be noted that the official DefiLlama made it clear on the donation page that this donation has nothing to do with possible future Token issuance plans.

NFTSCAN (nftscan.com)

NFTSCAN is a professional NFT asset browser, providing developers and users with secure and stable NFT data support services. At present, NFTSCAN has integrated mainstream NFT projects in Ethereum and BNB Chain.

zkRollups.xyz

As more and more zk-Rollup projects are currently launched, the cost for users to keep track of related projects is also increasing. And zkRollups.xyz officially helps users solve this problem. Its website aggregates the current mainstream projects using zk-Rollup technology, including the zk-Rollup protocol of mainstream public chains, wallets supporting zk-Rollup, and mainstream applications using zk-Rollup technology.

After this donation, the team plans to continue to improve the layout and navigation of the website, and add related Token information and comparison functions between projects.

BridgeEye

BridgeEye is a cross-chain comparison tool. Given the transfer-out chain, transfer-in chain and asset class, users can automatically calculate the supported cross-chain bridges by BridgeEye, estimate the time and cost of different cross-chain solutions, and help users choose the best cross-chain path.

NFT Price Floor

NFT Price Floor is a statistic An aggregation website for NFT project floor price and transaction volume information. According to the information on the donation page, the funds donated this time will be used to add new data and improve functions such as the front end of the website and chart display.

Rotki

Rotki is an encrypted asset management software, which is different from our commonly used online data management platform . Rotki uses local computer software for data management, and user data is stored in the user's local computer. It is worth mentioning that while Rotki supports the import of Ethereum data, it also supports the import of data from some centralized trading platforms.

Community Education

Web3 Dekodemo Door

Web3 Random Door is a podcast program originating from the Chinese community, which mainly discusses hot industry events such as DAO, NFT, and GameFi. This donation will be used for the recording and production of follow-up programs, subscription to data analysis software, etc.

NFT

PawnSpace

PawnSpace is a decentralized NFT mortgage lending platform deployed on Polygon. The platform allows any NFT that complies with the ERC-721 standard to be mortgaged, and the valuation of the NFT is determined through the market, and financial operations such as mortgage lending are performed.

Banksea Finance

Banksea is also committed to improving the liquidity of NFT assets and providing holders with financial functions such as mortgage lending. Different from other projects, Banksea adopts a lending model based on NFT pools. Lenders can put their own assets into the fund pool and obtain corresponding benefits, while borrowers can mortgage their NFTs by evaluating their mortgage interest rates and interest The rate at which the transaction is completed.

In addition, Banksea combines AI algorithms to evaluate the value of NFT assets, and builds a risk control model before, during, and after lending to fully protect the security of platform funds .

POAPathon

POAPathon helps customers directly contact artists, so that artists can provide POAP design services directly to customers. On the POAPathon platform, customers can directly publish design requirements, and artists submit their works to receive design bonuses.

Games

dfdao (Dark Forest Gaming Collective)

dfdao is the game player community of the famous chain game Dark Forest. The founders of dfdao were originally just a group of dark forest players. They established a community in May 2021, and their goal is to obtain higher scores in the game through cooperation. And make Dark Forest a positive-sum ecosystem - where players can compete, collaborate, learn and build - where all participants can benefit from the game's development.

Proceeds from this donation will be used to fund the following projects: launch the community on Layer2, build a credible PvP arena mode for the game, and build a fund pool for community grants .

DeFi

Zunami Protocol

Zunami Protocol is a revenue aggregation protocol built on Ethereum. Through cooperation with the stablecoin protocol, Zunami will simplify the difficulty and cost of use for users in the process of interacting with the DeFi protocol, and ultimately increase the user's mining income. Zunami Protocol's revenue aggregation strategy is mainly aimed at stable currency applications, which can save users more gas costs than similar Curve-Convex in the market.

Donation channels

Although the gas cost of Ethereum has been gradually reduced, for users who make small donations, this Gitcoin donation activity still supports payment through Polygon and Zksync .