clrfund

Round 9 is underway

Dive into clr.fund round 9 by contributing to your favourite public goods!

Ethereum

CLRFund round 9 is coming!

CLRFund round 9 is finally happening! The round goes live on June 26th with a ~$50k matching pool. Make sure to register your projects today.

🚀 NEW QUADRATIC FUNDING ROUND IS LIVE🚀

TL;DR - A new Quadratic Funding round is now open! Applicants, submit your applications here to get funded! Contributors, donate to your favourite projects that build on Public Goods here! Clr.fund is proud to announce a funding round to help boost important projects that contribute towards funding and

clrfund

Update to Clrfund's QF Implementation

After the recent $350k Ethstaker x Clrfund round, an issue was identified with our implementation of Quadratic Funding, resulting in funding allocations different from what is described in the original CLR paper. A fix has now been implemented, future rounds will use the correct QF implementation.

clrfund Featured

$350k ETH Staking QF Round

TL;DR - Backed by the Ethereum Foundation, clr.fund and ETHStaker have teamed up to run a Quadratic Funding (QF) round with a 350,000 DAI matching pool dedicated to funding open source public goods for the Ethereum staking ecosystem.

Quadratic Funding

Adventures in ETHland: Quadratic Funding for Urban Services

When a new town finds itself in political deadlock, Quadratic Funding helps fund public services which are most needed.

Ethereum

CLRFund Round 8 Final Splash

TL;DR - CLRFund Round 8 was an absolute roller coaster.

clrfund

The Quadratic Funding Flywheel

Why use QF over more traditional grant giving mechanisms? The answer, in short, is because it’s better -- it’s more efficient and more impactful -- for everyone involved. Quadratic Funding is a grant-giving flywheel.

CLRFund Round 8 is alive!

Sup nerds! It’s been a few months since our PB setting round seven, but round eight is finally here, and with some big changes too! Head straight over to clr.fund to experience the changes for yourself, or keep reading to learn about what we’ve been up to.

DAO

Clr Spotlight Series: Rotki

In this week's Spotlight series we chat with Lefteris Karapetsas, founder of Rotki, an open source portfolio tracker, accounting and analytics tool that protects your privacy.

Trusted Setup Completed

tl;dr: Clr.fund has completed a trusted setup with a record breaking number of participants. Here’s how you can verify your contribution. Overview We just concluded our first trusted setup ceremony for the brand new MACI circuits that will let us scale the number of contributors by several

DAO

Clr Spotlight Series: Vyper

This week we dive in with another round 7 recipient, Vasa, founder of Vyper, the fun, interactive way to learn Vyper lang. So fun that you can literally learn Vyper by building a Pokémon game.

decentralized

Spotlight Series: DeepDAO

This week we dive in with Eyal from DeepDAO, that offers DAO insights into the decentralized world. DeepDAO lists, ranks and analyzes top DAOs across multiple metrics and has Governance + People feeds in the current beta.

decentralized

Clr Spotlight Series: Upala

This week we dive in with Petr from Upala, a proof of personhood system that provides human uniqueness score.

Join our Trusted Setup Ceremony

Contribute to the security of clr.fund at ceremony.clr.fund by adding some of your very own small batch, home grown, artisanal entropy to our trusted setup.

ecosystem

Clr Spotlight Series

This week we dive in with Clement Lesaege, cofounder of Kleros, decentralized arbitration service for the disputes of the new economy.

brightID

Clr Spotlight Series: Minerva Wallet

This week we dive in with Thomas Zeinzinger, cofounder of Minerva wallet, a super usable app for sovereign identities, data and money.

ecosystem Featured

Clr Spotlight Series: BrightID

Our second clr spotlight is on a super unique project that continues to be pivotal to the clr.fund mission: BrightID [https://www.brightid.org/]. We were stoked to have the opportunity to dive in with BrightID founder Adam Stallard [https://twitter.com/cadamstallard]who happens to be a very

ecosystem

Clr Spotlight Series: Ethereum Cat Herders

Our first spotlight is on the incredible organization that we know and love, Ethereum Cat Herders. This week we talk to Pooja. Pooja is Herder in Chief at Ethereum Cat Herders and is a dynamic herder of Ethereum humans + projects in the web3 space. ELI5 - what is Ethereum Cat

Back to Basics: Quadratics + Philanthropy

Quadratic Funding is a niche interest area. You could confidently assume very few people outside of web3 have come across the concept, let alone negotiated this nice little equation for funding mechanisms: $A  funding mechanism  Φ : C |P| → F determines the total level of funding for each good p ∈ P,

Featured

Spicy 🌶 Round 7 Review

A massive thanks to everyone who contributed to clr.fund's stellar round 7!! The contributor cap was most definitely met coming in hot at 512 contributors. So how about this matching pool? We started with a $8k matching pool (double the previous round's pool) which pulled in a whopping $10,

Ethereum

Announcing the Spicy 🌶 Seventh Round

clr.fund Round 7 just went live! 🎉️ We’ve increased the matching pool to $8k and it has 13 days remaining. Time to get busy and contribute, and enable the flywheel to really spin.

Ethereum Featured

Round 5 Review

TL;DR - Round 5 just wrapped up. The community distributed ~$2,900 to eleven Ethereum public goods projects. The updates all worked as expected, so the matching pool for next round will be scaled up to ~$8,000.

Quadratic Funding

Round 5 Launch

TL;DR - clr.fund round 5 just went live! 🎉️ We’ve reduced the matching pool to $1,000 and the duration around a week, because this round tests some new contracts that address issues from round 4. We’re also using a new registry contract, so make sure to add your favourite projects.

Quadratic Funding Featured

Round 4 Review

TL;DR - Holy moly what a round! With a ~$4k matching pool, the more than 200 community members contributed a whopping ~$3k to the projects they like and managed to hit the message cap on MACI. 🤯️