Gitcoin

What is Gitcoin?

Connect with the community developing protocols that help communities fund their shared needs.

Our Purpose

Our purpose is to empower communities to fund their shared needs. This purpose guides our work as both an impact and protocol DAO. We are focused on building and funding tools that support community-driven shared resources.

How we support our purpose

Gitcoin is a community first, and our software products are a double-sided market that connects digital creatives to the people who want to fund their work. As of April 2023, our grants program has distributed over $50M of funding.

The DAO that governs Gitcoin

1. Most of the action happens on Discord, gov.gitcoin.co, or Twitter.
2. Stewards are ultimately responsible for governing GitcoinDAO.
3. Workstreams are the primary mechanism through which work is organized in the DAO.

DAO Workstreams

1. Gitcoin Product Collective is the DAO’s product development team and Moonshot Collective was the DAO’s rapid prototyping workstream. They have both merged into a single Workstream within the DAO.
2. Public Goods is focused on our mission of funding public goods.
3. Fraud Detection & Defense is in charge of preventing fraud on Gitcoin Grants.
4. Memes, Merch, & Marketing is the DAO marketing division.
5. DAO Ops handles DAO operations.

DAO’s Quarterly Cadence

Gitcoin operates in a quarterly cadence. Every quarter, the Gitcoin ecosystem revolves around a quarterly stacked event of a Gitcoin Grants Round. Typically a quarter looks like this:

1. Plan for the quarterly stacked event
2. Execute the quarterly stacked event
3. Learn from the quarterly stacked event
4. Repeat

The next quarterly event is a the Gitcoin Grants Beta Round, planned for April 25th – May 9th, 2023.

How to get involved.

Here are the ways you can get involved in the DAO.

1. Signup for the weekly GitcoinDAO Digest.
2. Get engaged on Discord, gov.gitcoin.co, or on Twitter.
3. Check out and see available openings on the streams.