Case Studies
Learn from real funding experiments across the ecosystem. Discover what worked, what didn't, and the lessons that can guide future initiatives.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Short-Term Incentive Program
Gitcoin GG20: Community Rounds at Scale
GG20 demonstrated the maturation of community-run quadratic funding rounds, with multiple ecosystems running independent rounds on Grants Stack.
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Gitcoin Grants 20
Octant: Staking-Powered Public Goods Funding
How Octant created a sustainable funding model using staked ETH rewards, distributing millions to public goods across 9 epochs.
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Octant Epochs 1-9
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