Public Goods

A collection of 21 posts

clrfund

Round 9 is underway

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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. 🤯️

Ethereum

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.

Public Goods

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! 🎉️

Quadratic Funding Featured

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.

Ethereum Featured

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.

Ethereum

Funding Public Goods, Next Steps (Part 2)

Why and how we should keep building quadratic funding protocols