
How quadratic funding sustained early Optimism research that became a leading Ethereum L2.
Launched in 2019, Gitcoin Grants empowers people and collectives in web3 to direct funding toward projects and causes they believe in. What began as a focused experiment has grown into a durable engine for public goods, with funding volume expanding dramatically each year.


How quadratic funding sustained early Optimism research that became a leading Ethereum L2.

How a Gitcoin grant funded EIP-1559 implementation and signaled community demand for the upgrade.
How quadratic funding sustained Ethereum's leading privacy protocol before OFAC sanctions.

How Gitcoin Grants enabled Austin Griffith to leave his job and build open-source tools that brought thousands of developers into Ethereum.

How quadratic funding built community-backed support for crypto policy advocacy and litigation.

How the Filecoin ecosystem adopted retroactive public goods funding using Drips infrastructure, distributing over 580,000 FIL across multiple rounds.

How a $50k Gitcoin grant helped 1inch's co-founders go from sleeping at hackathon venues to building a DEX aggregator with $250B+ in trading volume.
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