# Best of gov.gitcoin.co on Kiwi News

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14 stories from gov.gitcoin.co have been shared on Kiwi News since 6 May 2023, with 35 upvotes and 0 comments in total. The latest was shared on 12 May 2025. They are listed below, most upvoted first.

Summaries are AI summaries of the linked article.

## 1. Cradle-to-unicorn public goods funding

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Cradle-to-unicorn-public-goods-funding?index=0x65666a158087bc56cb0bea3833eda5fb6fab8671edd71efbbf99ccf12047d3a8ddea8a9a
- Source: https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/cradle-to-unicorn-public-goods-funding/17189
- Shared 28 November 2023, 7 upvotes, 0 comments

This post by @ccerv1 and @owocki proposes a funding lifecycle for Ethereum public goods, split into cradle, maturity and unicorn stages, modeled on venture-funded startups. It argues that funding should cover every viable project from prospective grants through community funding to retroactive rewards, and that projects which fail should face no stigma, with their lessons shared publicly. The authors also suggest that successful projects such as 1inch and Uniswap, which moved from Gitcoin grants to donating to matching pools and Protocol Guild, could fund the next generation, and that retroactive funding such as Optimism RetroPGF could be the basis for an "Impact = Profit" model.

## 2. How might we scale Gitcoin's Impact from $50mm GMV to $500m GMV?

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/How-might-we-scale-Gitcoins-Impact-from-dollar50mm-GMV-to-dollar500m-GMV?index=0x652ea6bb857d09a04811311e6b05a065156a046cc47a8f00ee2337de460bbf17f518e42e
- Source: https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/how-might-we-scale-gitcoins-impact-from-50mm-gmv-to-500m-gmv/16697
- Shared 17 October 2023, 6 upvotes, 0 comments

The author proposes ways Gitcoin could grow its Gross Marketplace Value tenfold, from about $50 million to $500 million, and says the bulk of the post covers approaches that scale super-linearly. Ideas named include modular "aqueducts" for recurring funding, grants and airdrops for every EVM ecosystem (estimated in the tens or hundreds of millions of dollars yearly), and fiat ecosystem grants (estimated in the tens of billions yearly). The post also lists "economically exothermic" funding sources such as MEV and sequencer fees, and describes Passport as a possible billion-dollar opportunity.

## 3. Public goods funding must be evolutionary!

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Public-goods-funding-must-be-evolutionary?index=0x6635158434e73230f4000121060f58330103c1fde76d216a8e9af85e30801e8ff6f7c4be
- Source: https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/public-goods-funding-must-be-evolutionary/18728
- Shared 3 May 2024, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

Public goods funding rounds must evolve over time because Goodhart's Law, which holds that "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure," erodes their effectiveness across repeated rounds. The post argues that rounds, whether quadratic funding or badgeholder review, will show diminishing returns unless designers continually revise their measures. Suggested tools include randomness in evaluation, diversified and dynamic metrics, caps such as limiting one metric to 20% of allocation, and community feedback. The post also argues for balancing crypto's emphasis on immutability, reserving it for elements like intra-round vote counting, with iterative change between rounds.

## 4. TEMP CHECK - Rapid Prototyping @ Gitcoin 🧪

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/TEMP-CHECK-Rapid-Prototyping-Gitcoin?index=0x65aa6bc69ba1a91ec06a56b447aa514d1d94fe68289d19a3e64368ef7b96b994c4037377
- Source: https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/temp-check-rapid-prototyping-gitcoin/17419
- Shared 19 January 2024, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

The author proposes a Rapid Prototyping workstream at Gitcoin to create value through 0-to-1 product innovation, arguing that Gitcoin's past bets were often left behind by trends such as MACI, RPGF and Hypercerts. The proposal sets a success KPI of raising the hit rate from 2/10 to 5/10, with prioritization by a Priority Council and budgets brought by each executive sponsor, with no shared slush fund. Initial Priority Councils are listed for Grants, Passport, RegenLearnings.xyz and Allo, and the post asks whether Rapid Prototyping should be a standalone process or a new team.

## 5. Sunsetting Gitcoin Grants Stack

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Sunsetting-Gitcoin-Grants-Stack?index=0x680fd13ffce25d514280b591c8c4cae9038d62dfa9c26c7d88dd1c5269faf205d95c5be7
- Source: https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/focusing-gitcoins-future-sunsetting-grants-stack-eol-may-2025/20333
- Shared 28 April 2025, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

Gitcoin is winding down its Grants Labs business unit and the Grants Stack technology as of the end of May 2025, saying its expenses had outpaced revenue for some time. Interim Executive Director (the post's author, named only by role) states that Gitcoin as a whole generates about $1M per year in revenue while spending about $3M per year, with Grants Labs a significant part of that burn. The organization says it will refocus on the Gitcoin Grants Program, with Gitcoin Passport, now part of human.tech, continuing independently, and that the grants program's rounds, including GG24, will continue.

## 6. Gitcoin Passport spin-out and budget proposal

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Gitcoin-Passport-spin-out-and-budget-proposal?index=0x667194ae3a0c4431622b77f2ec60c68c4f80e68e1057112c171c6f7e6d8cdaef59505fe0
- Source: https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/proposal-s23-gitcoin-passport-business-unit-budget-proposal/18958
- Shared 18 June 2024, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

Gitcoin's Passport business unit has proposed a vote to spin out of Gitcoin DAO, with a request for a net allocation of [TBD] GTC, equivalent to about $1,604,857, to fund the business for six months. In return, Gitcoin would hold equity, a token allocation if a token launches, and a board seat, with the Gitcoin Foundation to formalize these terms. The team targets completing the spinout in July, when it would begin using its own website, Discord and email. Passport reports 1.4M unique passports, 1.75M GTC staked, and revenue from OP and Linea.

## 7. Ephemeral DAOs: An underexplored design space

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Ephemeral-DAOs-An-underexplored-design-space?index=0x663a3cd53c3146c7e88ff6114a7a5c55a9974b22aa5069f6ef7c0ead8a9962b47b0e185c
- Source: https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/ephemeral-daos-an-underexplored-design-space/18749
- Shared 7 May 2024, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

Kevin, writing in a post on Ephemeral DAOs, argues that DAOs designed to exist for a short time and then dissolve form an underexplored design space with lower stakes, pragmatic decisions and faster experimentation. He defines DAOs broadly as how groups of humans coordinate around a shared objective, and calls projects that fall short of full decentralization and autonomy "DAO-ey." Examples given include SealOrg whitehat campaigns, pop-up villages, Gitcoin Grants and Optimism Retro Funding rounds. The post proposes that Gitcoin acts as an "Ephemeral DAO factory," iterating each round's design, and says that ephemeral DAOs need mechanisms for fairly winding down.

## 8. Gitcoin entering the end game

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Gitcoin-entering-the-end-game?index=0x65d7b2cbc4ef712dbd3169136b7495a5cb99dfd3880f91337fd18a5da09d5558cd18cab2
- Source: https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/gitcoin-entering-the-end-game/17560
- Shared 22 February 2024, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

Gitcoin is refocusing in 2024 on grants as its main focus, which it describes as entering its "end game." It is forming a business unit called Grants Labs, led by @meglister, to achieve product-market fit for Grants Stack and Allo Protocol, with a long-term goal of $1 billion in funds distributed through Allo. The organization is also shutting down PGN over the next six months and preparing to spin out Passport, led by @Jeremy, into a standalone project. Gitcoin further announced the Ecosystem Collective subDAO and the Citizen Grants Program, which is expected to launch in mid-February.

## 9. Announcing the spin down of PGN (EoL June 2024)

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Announcing-the-spin-down-of-PGN-EoL-June-2024?index=0x65aee9953b27cf16f42d207899a3c71867f9f3474839b3d46f8a9a62427b1acec491bf74
- Source: https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/announcing-the-spin-down-of-pgn-eol-june-2024/17430
- Shared 22 January 2024, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

The Public Goods Network (PGN) team announced it will wind down the network over the next six months, with shutdown tentatively planned for June 2024, after reviewing usage, incentives, cost and staffing. The team cited several shortfalls: Contract Secured Revenue was not viable to integrate given the requirements to maintain parity with Bedrock, bridge liquidity was low, and traffic was far below other emerging L2s. Operating costs also exceeded initial estimates, and Gitcoin said it was not involved early enough in the decision to fund the network. Bridging onto PGN will be disabled, and users are encouraged to bridge assets off the network.

## 10. How SBTs can make Gitcoin Grants more pluralistic

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/How-SBTs-can-make-Gitcoin-Grants-more-pluralistic?index=0x64561a25aa15e2095bdc2d52d501512a96c6d7018057b9c4017eb476259794db912947c3
- Source: https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/how-soulbound-tokens-can-make-gitcoin-grants-more-pluralistic/10077
- Shared 6 May 2023, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

The author proposes using soulbound token journals, personal records of attestations such as grant rounds, projects, and GitHub organizations, to measure cooperation between contributors and make Gitcoin Grants' quadratic funding more pluralistic. Under the proposed method, pairs of contributors who share more attestations would receive lower matching weights, while pairs with no shared attestations could receive a weight of 100%. The text gives a worked example in which two shared attestations out of five relevant ones yield a cooperative multiplier of 2/5 and a matching weight of 3/5. It presents this simple division as a first step, not a finished model, and suggests the FDD workstream or a dedicated Plurality working group could lead the work.

## 11. GG23 OSS Program Quadratic Funding Results

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/GG23-OSS-Program-Quadratic-Funding-Results?index=0x6821e4da59daea671ead765c74b833a2cc4875426147f854466ce4b33a84ae5a4cdbe2e0
- Source: https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/gg23-oss-program-quadratic-funding-results/20334
- Shared 12 May 2025, 1 upvote, 0 comments

Gitcoin has published the results of its GG23 OSS Program Quadratic Funding rounds, with payouts planned for May 2, 2025 after one week of community review and feedback. The rounds covered three program rounds, $600k in matching, $95,278.16 total crowdfunded, 9,991 unique donors and 235 projects. The post says the round used COCM, a pluralistic variant of quadratic funding, together with Gitcoin Passport's model-based sybil detection, with no closed-source silencing of sybils or donors. Pheasant Network and Vine Finance were removed from matching for participating in quid pro quo during GG23.

## 12. Lifetime Gitcoin Grants Data Analysis and Hypothesis Testing

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Lifetime-Gitcoin-Grants-Data-Analysis-and-Hypothesis-Testing?index=0x66dc21ab3886acac27d51bd05a089fdee646069aace658dcf7eb5decf1855631b84c0ef0
- Source: https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/lifetime-gitcoin-grants-data-analysis-and-hypothesis-testing/9595
- Shared 7 September 2024, 1 upvote, 0 comments

This Gitcoin Bounty submission analyzes lifetime Gitcoin Grants data and reports that North American grants have dominated the platform while Africa has been neglected. It reports a drastic increase in matching pools in Round 12, which was not close to any earlier round, and says the new pool structure led many users to leave their region unstated. The authors also found that fewer than 0.1% of the 1,886 unique grants changed region or category in ways the data shows, which they read as evidence that Gitcoin caught opportunistic behaviour. The report also provides cleaned data and open-source Python code.

## 13. Long tail public goods funding

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Long-tail-public-goods-funding?index=0x65ac006faf56f8d14cfb2f8d704f4fd01c8510e4c05c88eb9a8ade1c18b19a6066ceb55f
- Source: https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/long-tail-public-goods-funding/17318
- Shared 20 January 2024, 1 upvote, 0 comments

Crypto crowdfunding tools have made it possible to fund "long tail public goods," small and little-known projects, at internet-wide scale, and the authors argue that funding this long tail is a best practice. The article, by @ccerv1 and @owocki, says quadratic funding and similar mechanisms give money and signal to promising efforts, helping them rise toward the short tail of well-known public goods. It cites Gitcoin, which began as a long-tail project in 2017 and now allocates to thousands of long tail projects, and Buidl Guidl, whose founder Austin Griffith said Vitalik discovered him through quadratic matching. It also reports that 68 new rounds appeared in 2023 and that the GG19 web3 community round funded over 300 projects, while the ETH Infrastructure round had fewer than 30.

## 14. Ratify the Results of GG18

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Ratify-the-Results-of-GG18?index=0x65117ac8844c1ea76b783c1f3b98fb1f180260f0773d78a9961b18d09ae73188c5198218
- Source: https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/proposal-ratify-the-results-of-gg18-and-formally-request-the-community-multisig-holders-to-payout-matching-allocations/16553
- Shared 25 September 2023, 1 upvote, 0 comments

Gitcoin's GG18 matching results have been published, and a Snapshot vote proposed to ratify them so the community multisig holders can process payouts. The results used Cluster-Match Quadratic Funding, which the proposal says reduces matching for sybil and colluding activity and favors projects backed by diverse communities. Post-round analysis had a $300k financial impact, with $150k reduced from projects that showed sybil or collusive activity and redistributed to others. The round crowdfunded $680k across 328k contributions, and the proposal says the vote would run from September 26 to October 1.