We envision a world shaped by community-led positive change.
Since 2017, Gitcoin has empowered communities to build, fund and protect what matters to them.
Modular, Permissionless Protocols
Funding technology and tooling
Ongoing Grants Programming
Over the past 5 years we’ve supported the funding of public goods, enabling communities to fund their shared needs
2017
Gitcoin is founded
We started with the goal of supporting the development of open source projects and monetizing open source software through bounties.
2018
Quadratic Funding Paper Published
Vitalik published his seminal paper on Quadratic Funding, a novel mechanism for democratically allocating philanthropic funds.
What’s Quadratic Funding? ↗2019
Gitcoin Grants Program Launched
Gitcoin Grants became the first implementation of Quadratic Funding to maximize impact, and has funded many boundary-pushing projects since.
In web3...
Bankless
Uniswap
POAP
Optimism
TORNADO
and beyond...
Unicef OOF
Electronic Frontier FoundatioN
UkraineDAO
UNCHAIN
FUND
INTERNET
ARCHIVE
2024
$60,000,000+ Distributed
To date, Gitcoin Grants has generated $60+ million of funding.