Program: Gitcoin Grants 24 · Role: Domain co-designer & operator · Year: 2025
The problem
Ethereum’s multi-chain future depends on open interop standards, shared tooling, and measurement systems — exactly the kind of work that struggles to attract funding because it is invisible to end users. GG24 introduced domain-based rounds, and interoperability needed a domain thesis: what to fund, why, and how to know if it worked.
What I did
- Domain design: co-authored the domain thesis for the Interop Standards, Infrastructure & Analytics round — scoping which layers of the interop stack the round should fund.
- Landscape research: mapped the interop ecosystem so donors could see where each grantee sits in the stack.
- Round operations: ran a $100K+ quadratic funding round on Giveth, from grantee curation through payout.
- Retrospective: published a full retrospective so the next domain operator starts from evidence, not anecdotes.
What the data showed
In a companion capital-allocation analysis across GG24, I demonstrated that quadratic funding reliably funds visible, legible work but structurally underfunds ecosystem-critical infrastructure. That finding directly informs how domain operators design future rounds — including whether QF is the right mechanism for a given domain at all.
Artifacts
- Domain announcement & thesis
- Interop landscape deep-dive
- Round retrospective
- GG24 capital-allocation analysis · Dashboard
- Green Pill podcast segment on the round
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