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Gitcoin Grants Round 15 is Live - Which Projects are Worth Donating to?

Biteye

2022-09-08 03:23

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Donors help the project grow and may also receive rewards such as airdrops.

Original Title: "Gitcoin Grants Round 15 is Live – Quickly Get This Donation Guide"

Original Author: Shouyi, Biteye Community Lead

Gitcoin is a donation platform for open-source software, where users can support various decentralized open-source projects through Gitcoin. Early-stage projects can also receive donations on Gitcoin to sustain their operations. Well-known projects such as Uniswap, 1inch, MaskNetwork, ENS, etc., have participated in Gitcoin Grants, earning Gitcoin the nickname "Ethereum’s Arsenal."

In each round of Gitcoin Grants, in addition to receiving donations from users, Gitcoin also utilizes a Quadratic Funding model to allocate Ethereum Foundation funds to high-quality projects. This allocation method, endorsed by Vitalik Buterin, has significantly boosted the community impact of Gitcoin Grants. The Gitcoin Grants donation activity has gone through 14 rounds to date, helping projects grow and rewarding donors with token airdrops and other incentives, enabling more and more users to enter the Web3 world through Gitcoin.

Currently, the new Grants Round 15 (GR15) donation has begun and will run from September 7, 2022, to September 27, 2022. Next, Biteye will briefly introduce the situation of GR15 and has carefully selected 16 high-quality projects for everyone.

Table of Contents

I. Introduction to GR15

II. GR15 Donation Recommendations

Three, GR15 Donation Tutorial

Four, GR15 Donation Project Introduction

Gitcoin Round 15 Donor, some projects have also received Gitcoin grants in the past

GR15 Introduction

Gitcoin Round 15 currently has matched over $2.8 million in donation pools, including:

- Main Grants Round ($500,000, open to all projects participating in Gitcoin Round 15);

- Four Event Rounds ($1,000,000, for specific event-based donation pools)

- 13 Ecosystem Match rounds ($1.3 million, are ecosystem funds contributed by some projects such as Loot, ENS, etc.)

The four event rounds are: Climate Solutions, Advocacy - Crypto Regulation, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), and Decentralized Science (DeSci), with Decentralized Science being a new event for G15, which indirectly confirms the current direction and focus of decentralized development.

GR15 Donation Recommendations

Biteye, based on the donation situation in previous rounds, summarized the following donation recommendations:

1. While Gitcoin does not have a donation amount limit, it is advisable for the minimum amount per project to be greater than 1U. Alternatively, due to ETH price volatility, one can choose to donate in DAI;

2. Gitcoin donations are a good on-chain interaction behavior. Optimism once considered "User's Gitcoin donations on the mainnet" as one of the weights for an airdrop;

3. Gitcoin donations can be made through zkSync, saving fees and achieving interaction with zkSync;

4. Donate in a Timely Manner; Donating in the last few days may result in network congestion, causing you to miss the donation window.

GR15 Donation Tutorial

If you are already familiar with the donation process, you can directly use the following shopping cart for one-click donation: Biteye G15 Shopping Cart

1 Grant in Shared Cart: Viewed 36 times

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If you are not yet familiar with Gitcoin's donation process, you can watch the following video:

Biteye G14 Donation Tutorial: https://youtu.be/aXaPlJy9nmk

Defieye G14 Donation Tutorial - Support Twenty Developers in Three Minutes

GR15 Donation Project Introduction

(Click on the project name to access the donation interface)

DefiLlama

DefiLlama focuses on professional analysis of Defi project TVL data, categorizes current Defi and public chains, and tracks their TVL over time. DefiLlama's homepage also features an Airdrops section, recommending protocols that may have airdrops for users.

ChainEye

ChainEye is an open-source omnichain analysis tool with over 80,000 users. It currently offers features such as BridgeEye (cross-chain bridge comparison tool), On-chain & CEX transfer fee lookup, Multichain Gas fee queries, and plans to develop new features like security modules and NFT modules. ChainEye commits to providing free data services to users indefinitely and will channel the revenue from ToB tools back to the community and users.

SyncSwap

SyncSwap is MatterLabs' centralized exchange (DEX) on zkSync 2.0. SyncSwap brings DeFi to everyone with easy-to-use, fast, and low-cost features, leveraging zero-knowledge technology to inherit Ethereum's security.

Umbra

As a protocol, Umbra defines a simple standard for implementing stealth payments on Ethereum through smart contracts. Umbra currently supports the mainnet and multiple L2 solutions, with plans to deploy funds across multiple chains.

Via Protocol

The Via Protocol is a cross-chain liquidity aggregation protocol designed to create a fast, efficient, and seamless exchange experience across different blockchains. The Via Protocol can be thought of as the Visa and Mastercard of cryptocurrency, serving as a singular infrastructure managing transfers and payments across various networks and tokens, overcoming barriers associated with interacting with multiple DEXes and bridges. Via has granted special roles to G13, G14 donors in Discord.

Lenster

Lenster is a decentralized, permissionless social media application built on the Lens Protocol. Running on the Polygon network, Lenster enables users to seamlessly interact with dApps without any fees and ensures that no one can censor any content from the application, not even the administrators. Lenster is supported by the Lens Protocol, a decentralized social graph established by Aave.

Tally

Tally is an open-source, community-governed decentralized Web3 wallet with expectations of community governance, openly positioning itself against Metamask to capture a slice of the latter's market share.

JediSwap

JediSwap is a fully community-driven project and one of the first protocols to receive Starkware funding. Independent open-source contributors handle everything, including development, design, and marketing. JediSwap encourages users to contribute by joining the JediSwap Discord.

Buddle Finance

A Layer 2 cross-chain bridge inspired by Vitalik's article, currently planning deployment on mainnet, Optimism, Polygon, and Arbitrum.

Contri.build

Contri.build is a modular Web3 community contribution infrastructure that integrates user social, on-chain, and in-community activities into a personal contribution data layer. By providing a modular incentive platform and contributor NFTs, it empowers community builders with better DAO tools.

Forta Bots

Robots built using the Forta Network that can detect interactions between accounts funded by Aztec Connect and contracts for on-chain tracking.

tProof

tProof is a dApp that generates decentralized timestamp proofs, allowing anyone to prove the existence of a file before a specific date, similar to Ethsign's blockchain tool.

0xDeadList

0xDeadList is a public good project that incentivizes users to collect and report addresses with leaked private keys; users can directly log in to 0xdeadlist.io to report leaked addresses.

Building a Landscape of Voting Contracts

A on-chain voting framework to help DAOs easier build voting and manage vote results. The team proposed a voting standard EIP and reached out to two DAOs for trials.

MetaMail

Winner of the EthShanghai22 hackathon! MetaMail is a Web3 email provider. Through MetaMail, users use their wallet/ENS as email addresses and secure communication through signing/encryption. MetaMail is compatible with other mail services like Gmail, and all these features are completely free with no gas fees.

Phi

Phi (philand.xyz) is a metaverse created by ENS and wallet addresses, making the visualization of "on-chain identity" easier. It incentivizes users to interact with various web3 protocols, providing positive feedback to all protocols and accelerating the overall network effect of web3.

Biteye G15 Grants List: gitcoin.co/grants/explorer?collection_id=31338