Auryn Macmillan - clr.fund

Auryn Macmillan

Round 9 is underway

Round 9 is underway

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

CLRFund round 9 is coming!

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.

Update to Clrfund's QF Implementation

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.

$350k ETH Staking QF Round

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$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.

CLRFund Round 8 Final Splash

CLRFund Round 8 Final Splash

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

The Quadratic Funding Flywheel

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!

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.

Trusted Setup Completed

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

Join our Trusted Setup Ceremony

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.

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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.

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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. 🤯️

$4,000 - Round 4 Launch

$4,000 - Round 4 Launch

TL;DR - Round 4 is live with a ~$4,000 matching pool and some nice UI updates. And ETHDenver is using clr.fund to distribute its 15,000 Dai Open Track prizepool.

Round 3 Review

TL;DR - With a ~2,000 wxDai matching pool, Round 3 had 31 unique contributors and 22 public goods projects. The matching pool for Round 4 will double again, to ~4,000 wxDai, and ETHDenver will allocate the $15,000 prizepool using an instance of clr.fund.

Round 3: Doubleup to Rollup

Round 3: Doubleup to Rollup

TL;DR - Round 3 is live and doubled since last round (~2,000 Dai). We’re planning to double the matching pool each round until we deploy to a rollup.

Round 2 Review

TL;DR - another successful round in the books; 16 people allocated 1,007 wxDai to 16 Ethereum Public Goods projects. This round represents a milestone. So to celebrate, we’re going to start increasing the size of the matching pools! 🎉️

Round 1 Review & Round 2 Launch

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Round 1 Review & Round 2 Launch

TL;DR - clr.fund round 1 went off without a hitch, 26 people allocated 1,231 wxDai to 15 Ethereum public goods projects. Round 2 is about to kick off with another 1,000 wxDai of matching funds up for grabs, along with several improvements.

Round 0 Review & Round 1 Launch

Round 0 Review & Round 1 Launch

TL;DR - clr.fund’s inaugural round 0 worked as expected, no news is good news. This small round represented a huge milestone for quadratic funding. Round 1 of clr.fund is starting now!

How to contribute to clr.fund’s first real-money matching round!

How to contribute to clr.fund’s first real-money matching round!

clr.fund just kicked off its first real-money matching round, with a handful of Ethereum public goods projects and roughly ~$1,000 in matching funds.

Progress Update #3

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Progress Update #3

TL;DR - It's alive! (on Goerli) We successfully ran our first complete funding round on a the Goerli testnet and distributed 2,574 WEENUS to three dummy projects, without revealing which projects people contributed to.

Progress Update #2

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Progress Update #2

TL;DR - The Ethereum Foundation has committed $21k in funding to go towards the first two production rounds of matching, we wrote a clr.fund constitution, and successfully ran the first test round on a local dev environment.

Progress Update #1

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Progress Update #1

A few weeks back, the first $5k tranche of our $20k Moloch grant was approved. Here is a quick recap of what we've been up to since then.