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Optimism RetroPGF Round 6
Rewarding governance contributions
RetroPGF 6 focuses on rewarding governance contributions to the Optimism Collective. The round distributes 2.4M OP tokens to recognize contributions to governance participation, tooling, and collective operations.
Dates
Nov 1, 2024 - Jan 31, 2025
Octant Epoch 9
Participatory public goods funding
Epoch 9 of Octant's participatory funding model is currently active. GLM stakers earn ETH rewards and choose whether to donate to curated public goods projects or claim personally. This epoch continues funding for Ethereum public goods.
Matching Pool
$1.5M+
Dates
Nov 15, 2024 - Feb 15, 2025
Arbitrum LTIP
Long-Term Incentive Pilot Program
The Long-Term Incentive Pilot Program (LTIP) distributes 45.8M ARB tokens to protocols building on Arbitrum. The program builds on learnings from STIP with improved measurement frameworks and longer-term incentive design.
Dates
Sep 1, 2024 - Mar 31, 2025
Featured Apps
Leading platforms and programs in the ecosystem
Gitcoin Grants Stack
The easiest way to run a grants program
Grants Stack is a decentralized, modular protocol for running grants programs. It enables communities to fund their shared needs through quadratic funding, direct grants, and other mechanisms. Built on the Allo Protocol, it has distributed over $60M to open source projects since 2019. GG23 (December 2024) distributed $1.2M+ across 235 projects in the core rounds.
Optimism RetroPGF
Retroactive Public Goods Funding
Retroactive Public Goods Funding (RetroPGF) is Optimism's mechanism for rewarding public goods that have already demonstrated value. RetroPGF 5 (2024) distributed 8M OP tokens to projects, while RetroPGF 6 is distributing 2.4M OP focusing on governance contributions. The program has distributed over 100M OP tokens since inception.
Giveth
Building the Future of Giving
Giveth is a zero-fee donation platform connecting donors directly with verified for-good projects. The GIVbacks program rewards donors with GIV tokens for supporting verified projects. Giveth supports projects on Ethereum, Gnosis Chain, Optimism, Polygon, Base, and other networks with fully transparent, traceable donations.
clr.fund
Permissionless quadratic funding
clr.fund is a protocol for permissionless quadratic funding using MACI (Minimal Anti-Collusion Infrastructure). It provides bribery-resistant, private voting for democratic capital allocation. The protocol enables anyone to run a quadratic funding round without central coordination.
Funding Mechanisms
Understand how different approaches to funding work
Quadratic Funding
A democratic funding mechanism that matches community contributions quadratically, amplifying the impact of many small donors over few large ones.
Best for:
Retroactive Public Goods Funding
Rewards projects after they've demonstrated impact, rather than funding promises. "It's easier to agree on what was useful than what will be useful."
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Conviction Voting
A continuous voting mechanism where support accumulates over time, allowing preferences to be expressed without discrete voting periods.
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Case Studies
Learn from real funding experiments and their outcomes
Protocol Guild: $92M+ for Ethereum Core Development
How Protocol Guild became the largest collective funding mechanism for Ethereum core contributors, receiving pledges from Lido, Uniswap, ENS, and dozens of other protocols.
Project
Protocol Guild
Optimism RetroPGF 3: 30M OP to 501 Projects
The largest retroactive funding round in crypto history distributed 30M OP tokens to 501 projects, testing scalable impact evaluation.
Project
RetroPGF Round 3
Arbitrum STIP: 71.4M ARB Incentive Experiment
Analysis of Arbitrum's Short-Term Incentive Program, which distributed 71.4M ARB to 56 protocols with mixed but valuable learnings.
Project
Short-Term Incentive Program
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