Vitalik published an article "We should talk less about public goods funding and more about open source funding", which points out that the word "public goods" is a century old. In digital ecosystems, especially decentralized digital ecosystems, public goods are extremely important: things...
Devansh Mehta announced in a post that he will join the Ethereum Foundation as the head of AI x public goods governance. His role is to penetrate the AI/ML community, help dapp developers in the ecosystem, and innovate the application scenarios of AI agents. Devansh Mehta previously worked at Arbitrum and Gitcoin. In the short term, he is working in three directions: 1/AI x ecosystem growth funding; 2/AI x usefulness; 3/AI x governance. Devansh says the third direction of his work is institution...
Aerodrome announced that its Public Goods Fund (PGF) has repurchased $1.50 million worth of AERO tokens and locked them up as veAERO.
Aerodrome announced that 16 million AEROs have been acquired by the Public Goods Fund and locked up as veAEROs.
On October 16th, Gitcoin, a Web3 public goods protocol, announced the launch of Grants 22, which will last from October 23rd to November 6th. Funding applications are open, and the introduction of on-chain proof and cross-chain donation capabilities is introduced. This round of funding focuses on expanding open-source software (OSS) and supporting digital public goods. There are 4 OSS rounds with a total donation of 1 million US dollars, and 7 community rounds with donations of 12,500 to 20,000 ...
On September 1st, at 3:00 pm UTC on August 30th, the third round of ATOM Economic Zone Public Goods Long-term Funding (AEZ Quadratic Grant) has been completed on the global developer incentive platform DoraHacks. This round of community MACI privacy voting and quadratic funding stage will enter the on-chain result Tally and anti-witch attack check. The final result of MACI voting and the quadratic funding result will jointly determine the allocation of 8000 ATOM + 31,111 USDC in this round of fu...
Optimism announced that the fifth round of retroactive public goods fundraising (Retro Funding 5: OP Stack) will open for applications on August 15 and close on August 29. 8 million OP will be used to reward OP Stack contributors between October 2023 and August 2024. The review process for this round of applications will take place from August 30 to September 13, voting will take place from September 14 to September 28, and the results will be announced and the grant delivery date will be Octobe...
FilOz, the Filecoin Ecosystem New Public Goods design and development team, has received a start-up grant from the Protocol Labs Filecoin Public Goods Fund, providing the FilOz team with three years of base funding. FilOz focuses on maintaining cyber security and coordinating regular upgrades, driving protocol R & D, Lotus implementation, and community development. FilOz's priorities for 2024 include accelerating storage adoption, enhancing Filecoin utility through cross-chain interoperability, ...
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan has started to recruit enterprises for "Digital Public Goods Demonstration Projects Using Web 3.0 and Blockchain in 2025". Specifically, the following five topics will be identified and demonstration experiments will be conducted: physical assets and intangible assets issuance/circulation market, resource circulation system information platform, formulation of rights management systems and rules such as sports industry portrait rights, formula...
Optimism announced on the X platform that the fourth round of retrospective public goods fundraising applications has been opened, and 10 million OP is dedicated to on-chain builders who deploy contracts on Superchain and generate blockchain space demand. Applications close at 03:00 Beijing time on June 7.