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Coin Center: Defending Cryptocurrency Rights Through Community-Funded Advocacy
How quadratic funding built community-backed support for crypto policy advocacy and litigation.
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EIP-1559: How Quadratic Funding Legitimized Ethereum's Most Important Fee Market Reform
How a Gitcoin grant funded EIP-1559 implementation and signaled community demand for the upgrade.
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Gitcoin Citizens Round 1: Retroactive Quadratic Funding for Community Contributions
Gitcoin's first retroactive quadratic funding round, achieving a record 4× matching multiplier.
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Optimism: From Plasma Group Research to a $2B+ Layer 2 Ecosystem
How quadratic funding sustained early Optimism research that became a leading Ethereum L2.
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Tornado Cash: How Quadratic Funding Sustained Ethereum's Most Important Privacy Tool
How quadratic funding sustained Ethereum's leading privacy protocol before OFAC sanctions.
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