A new round of Gitcoin donations opens: Which projects deserve attention?
Author: Jack, BlockBeats
With the temporary recovery of the encryption market, the financing and development of various Web3 tracks have become active again. Many industry participants are busy during the Spring Festival in 2023 . On January 17th, Gitcoin, known as the "Arsenal of Ethereum", opened a new round of donations, which attracted a lot of enthusiasm. Different from previous donations, this Gitcoin donation replaced the title of "GR16" with "Alpha Round", and a series of new donation mechanisms followed.
This Alpha Round uses a new donation page, which continues the previous "Quadratic Funding" twice The matching donation model, which will run from January 17 to 31, is expected to distribute $1 million in donations to more than 200 grantees or projects. As a test donation, Alpha Round is also a transitional donation round for Gitcoin from Quadratic Funding to GitcoinDAO. The difference from the previous ones is that this donation introduces the anti-sybil attack "Gitcoin Passport" to replace the previous "Trust Bonus" model. The recipients need to bind their social media accounts and reach a certain score before they can get the donation.
Alpha Round consists of three different groups of projects dedicated to open source software, Ethereum Development of facilities and climate solutions. All projects received more than $1,000 in GR14 and GR15 rounds, a total of 164 projects. BlockBeats combed through it and picked out some noteworthy projects.
Open Source Software Group
The open source software group (Web3 Open Source Software Round) has a total of 87 shortlisted projects or recipients, mainly focusing on To promote the development of Ethereum and Web3 ecology, it is the group with the most projects among the three categories. except DefiLlama, Lenster, Lenstube, ChainEye
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ChainEye is an open source full-chain analysis tool designed to provide retail investors with cutting-edge free A full-chain analysis tool, the project was launched in the fourth quarter of 2021 and currently has over 100,000 visits. Currently, ChainEye mainly has five functions: BridgeEye, Multichain Gas, ETH Staking, PRC List and Stable Coins Dashboard.
BridgeEye is a cross-chain bridge comparison tool, users can use it to find the optimal cross-chain The solution currently supports Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, and BNB Chain. Multichain Gas can help users view the gas history and time distribution of each chain. ETH Staking can help users view metrics such as APY, TVL, and liquidity of different Ethereum staking protocols. RPC List is to measure the optimal RPC for users in terms of block height, delay, node provider information, etc. The Stable Coins Dashboard can provide observation indicators for various stable coins.
In addition, ChainEye will also launch the ChainMap function, which will first support Optimism and gradually expand to other Public chain ecology. Users can use this function to find potential opportunities such as DeFi harvesting and lending, NFT mining, airdrops, and DAO governance in each chain ecology.
2. Umbra
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Umbra is a Web3 privacy protocol designed to help users achieve privacy on Ethereum and L2 networks Asset receipt and payment, its MVP version will be launched in June 2021, supporting the Ethereum main network and many second-layer solutions. It has processed nearly 100,000 payments so far, with a transaction value of over 50 million US dollars.
Umbra has designed a simple set of privacy standards to enable invisibility for users on Ethereum mainnet Address, the payer can send ETH or other ERC20 Token to the address controlled by the recipient through the stealth address, and no one except the payee and payee knows the transfer information. The transfer transaction will appear on-chain to an unused Ethereum address, while the payer generates a new address off-chain using the payee's published public key. In addition, using the Meta-Transactions function, Umbra allows the payee to use the received Token to pay the gas fee to the relayer.
In the future, the Umbra team will focus on improving Product improvements, and working with researchers to develop a Stealth Address EIP so that Umbra can maintain its identity as an open public product protocol.
3. MetaMail
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MetaMail is a Web3 email provider, users use wallet or ENS domain name as email address Signature for security, it's compatible with other emails like Gmail, and it's completely free with no gas fees. MetaMail won the gold award in the EthShanghai Hackathon and open-sourced the front-end code on Github. The team also plans to open-source its email protocol in the future to help users host their own MetaMail services.
BlockBeats, as the first batch of media concerned about MetaMail, conducted an exclusive interview with the founder of MetaMail. See "Conversation with MetaMail: The perfect solution for Email provided by Web3.0".
4. CirclesUBI
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CirclesUBI is a permissionless Community Basic Income (UBI) system, People can organize together through Circles Own wealth distribution system and provide basic income to each other, CirclesUBI has deployed over 200,000 accounts on Gnosis since its launch in October 2020.
Over the past year, CirclesUBI and the Berlin Open UBI Pilot team have established local UBI system. The funds from this donation will be used to improve the core infrastructure of the project so that users can have a better experience when using CirclesUBI to pay and purchase daily necessities. In addition, the team will combine new scientific and anthropological methods to establish new network research pilots. In this donation round, there are projects with similar concepts UBI.
5. StarkDeFi
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StarkDeFi is a suite of decentralized financial products (DeFi) designed to leverage StarkNet's ZK Rollup The function promotes and simplifies the process threshold for traditional users to enter Web3.0. At present, StarkDeFi has developed its own functions such as AMM, harvesting, liquidity staking, Launchpad and NFT casting, and has also developed a variable reward mechanism function Synergy Pool. In this round of donations, there are DeFi projects with similar concepts Loanshark.
6. 0xDeadList
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Developed by the MetaMail team mentioned above, 0xDeadList is a Web3 wallet security protocol designed to Protect user private key leakage. 0xDeadList rewards "burial NFT" to encourage users and hackers to mark accounts with leaked private keys, and store the information of these leaked accounts on the chain, so that dApps can query these unsafe accounts.
The main contract of 0xDeadList provides two steps, locking address and burying address. The reporter locks the address where the private key is leaked through the former, and records the address of the reporter through the smart contract. Then the user uploads the private key of the locked address, and the reporter gets an NFT reward, and the "buried" address will receive a "tombstone SBT". At the same time, the private key of the address will be publicly recorded on the chain to ensure that the leaked address is indeed Give way. DApps connected to 0xDeadList can promptly disable wallet signatures, transfers, and transactions to ensure the safety of users’ funds. In this round of donations, there are projects similar in concept to 0xDeadList Scam Sniffer .
7. BrightID
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BrightID is a Sybil-resistant Web3 identity protocol, aiming to create a pan-Web3 pseudonymous social Graph, which allows users to prove to dApps that they are unique within any given system, currently has over 63,000 verified users. Users establish encrypted connections with people they know through mobile applications, and pseudonym connection data is shared among nodes to form a graph. Nodes determine and verify the uniqueness of each account based on its interconnectivity with other accounts.
Currently, BrightID supports a variety of mobile devices, the main functions include account recovery, Aura scoring Integration, Wifi sharing, large-scale blind signing, etc. BrightID Main DAO is currently BrightID's governing entity, responsible for the management of the application registry, website and app store entries, grants and sponsorship revenue, and all funds from this donation will go to the BBrightID MAIN DAO treasury. In this round of donations, there are projects similar in concept to BrightID Phi, Proof of Humanity, Optinames.
8. Tally
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Tally is an open source and community-governed decentralized Web3 wallet. Explain in detail. In this round of donations, projects with the same concept as Soul Wallet.
Ethereum Infrastructure Group
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A total of 22 projects were shortlisted for the Ethereum Infrastructure Round. Support the Ethereum ecosystem, covering tools, developer education, and display ecosystems. Among them, the more well-known projects are Chainlist and L2BEAT etc.
1. ChainList
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CahinList has long been a familiar name. It is an RPC query tool commonly used by many encryption users. It supports most public chains and testnets. Users can query the delay between different RPCs and privacy policies through this application.< /p>
2. L2BEAT
L2BEAT is an analysis and research website for Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solutions. In addition to TVL information, L2BEAT also provides many other important indicators to help users scrutinize the operational and technical risks within each L2 chain. The team plans to use the donation funds to develop more inspection indicators and upgrade its risk framework and automated monitoring system. In addition, The team also hopes to build dedicated tools for each L2 to enable users to perform operations such as forced transactions.
Ape Framework is a smart contract development tool that provides convenient development tools for Python developers, data engineers and security engineers in Ethereum and other EVM public chain ecosystems. The team did not elaborate further on the project.
4. ethers.js
ethers.js is an Ethereum language library for integration with Ethereum and its ecosystem The system interacts with more than 4 million monthly installs of NPM, which can be used to create dApps, wallets and utilities, as well as debug and analyze blockchain data, etc. The team did not elaborate further on the project.
5. Lodestar
Lodestar is a Typescript for Ethereum consensus Ecosystem, developed by ChainSafe Systems, the main products are productive beacon chain and validator clients. Additionally, the team is maintaining a tools repository for public consumption, including developer tools such as BLS, Discv5, and Gossipsub.
Lodestar's niche lies in its implementation language Typescript, its software and tools have unique advantages, Can help researchers and developers with rapid prototyping and browser usage. The team is also working to lead the research, standardization, and implementation of Ethereum light clients, and to work with other client implementers and developers to demonstrate the importance of using on-chain trustless data directly in the browser.
6. Blockscout
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Blockscout is an open-source block explorer against Etherscan. The team is currently working on a project called "Blockscout 2.0” to upgrade its functionality and user experience, and provide developers with more customized features, including support for Rollup, optimized API, dApp market, and Rust writing service infrastructure, etc. In this round of donations, projects with the same concept as Otterscan.
Climate Solutions
Climate Solutions Round includes 50 projects from GR15 covering renewable energy, Fields such as carbon markets, verification infrastructure, marine and agriculture.
Solarpunk Nomads is an environmental organization that has been promoting Solarpunk Nomads since last April "ism" social movement. The team hopes to use the funds from this round of donations to develop two Solarpunk Nomads, which are community-owned vehicles used to accelerate the transition to a more sustainable society.
The first Solarpunk Nomads vehicle is a solar electric vehicle with a trailer that will mainly Stationed in Central Europe, the second, an eco-car developed in partnership with AtlantisDAO and powered in part by solar panels, will be stationed primarily in southern India for educational activities and expeditions to document climate change.
2. ReFiDAO
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ReFiDAO is a DAO organization focusing on the field of ReFi (Regenerate Finance), aiming to accelerate the development of renewable energy It is hoped that through this donation, the ReFi Commons Incubator and the Commons Stack, which cooperate with the Commons Stack, will be launched to introduce more new talents into ReFi and accelerate the development of the local entrepreneurial community.
ReFi Commons aims to help entrepreneurial communities in specific cities or in the environmental sector, and the ReFi Commons Prize will serve as The incubator treasury first incubates three local communities and launches its governance tokens by mechanism. Since then, each ReFi Commons community has participated in the global ReFiDAO community and provided key talent and capital entrances. In this round of donations, projects with the same concept as ReFi Spring, < a href="https://grant-explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/1/0x1b165fe4da6bc58ab8370ddc763d367d29f50ef0/0x34da3ca2039af745fdf37add512a3cb5fdd7b7b0a5c95fd74877742b534222 b3-0x1b165fe4da6bc58ab8370ddc763d367d29f50ef0">ReCommon.
Bloom Network is a physical social network designed to help people find and get involved in grassroots environmental actions where they live. There are currently over 30,000 members worldwide and 22 local communities. Currently, Bloom Network has released the MVP version of the multi-user blogging platform, which includes renewable energy action templates, blogs, and local Bloom community information feeds.
The new round of donation funds will be used to complete social interactions on the Bloom platform, including NFTs are connected to login systems, local DAO community formation, and more. In addition, Bloom Network's technical team is also working with dOrg.tech to build related DAO tools. In this round of donations, projects with the same concept as Kokonut Network, < a href="https://grant-explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/1/0x1b165fe4da6bc58ab8370ddc763d367d29f50ef0/0x13fdb2715bc255356cf8f34ec8d40f3ffd0e2d38299b5533ee2c7772e294 8e5b-0x1b165fe4da6bc58ab8370ddc763d367d29f50ef0">Atlantis, Treejer Protocol, Astral Protocol.
4. WaterDAO
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WaterDAO aims to improve the transparency of water sources and production methods, and establish a water credit classification system. The community hopes to enable individuals or companies to support efficient and transparent water producers while maintaining operational efficiency by creating trusted and verifiable water credits that can be easily purchased and used to offset water consumption.
Currently, WaterDAO has launched credit rating development, solvent extraction desalination testing and solar desalination analysis tools are available gender and other research projects. Donation funds will be used to develop automated monitoring systems and scale up our verification efforts, and help get the first RH2O points on-chain. In this round of donations, projects with the same concept as Carbon DAO, < a href="https://grant-explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/1/0x1b165fe4da6bc58ab8370ddc763d367d29f50ef0/0xb63a68c4f785e348b96618bf48d466ffeabad13402f4f4ce93da66ede1cf3a 98-0x1b165fe4da6bc58ab8370ddc763d367d29f50ef0">AgroforestDAO.
5. Silvi
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The Silvi team hopes to build a set of economic and coordination tools to achieve the goal of planting a trillion tree saplings around the world. Silvi stakes the net present value of New Tree Forwards by locking a committed budget into a performance-based program that rewards treekeepers when verifiable targets reach tree milestones.
In addition, Silvi will put its data on the chain through NFT technology and IPFS, and issue local governance tokens, which contain all the data and Contract, with instructions for unique release schedules and committed budget requirements based on tree type, location, schedule, relationships and stakeholders, etc. In this round of donations, projects with the same concept as Hibiscus DAO.
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