The OpenCivics Collaborative Research Round 03 generated valuable insights into the evolving landscape of on-chain quadratic funding for public goods. This retrospective offers some general reflections with regard to the round specifically as well as a set of potential upgrades and coordination efforts that we hope will improve Allo Protocol and Passport as products and the entire Gitcoin ecosystem as a community exploring similar design challenges.
Overall, the round was the most streamlined that we’ve run thus far. We chose not to implement a cap to the total number of projects included which minimized the deliberative process and resource triage of our previous round. Each round creates an opportunity for on-going learning and development of our Grants Program and we look forward to sharing what we learned!
OpenCivics Collaborative Research Round 03 distributed $38,750 USDC in matching funds to 16 projects. The round raised $3,778.70 in crowdfunding from 141 donors with 337 total donations, averaging $11.21 per donation. Overall, donors generated a 10x multiplier of their donations in matching funds.
Project Name | Number of Contributions | Total Matching (USD) | Total Crowdfunding (USD) | Total Funds (USD) |
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Stephen Reid: Technological Metamodernism | 37 | 5,518.75 | 1,483.53 | 7,002.28 |
MycoFi for Municipal Resilience | 33 | 5,518.75 | 268.93 | 5,787.68 |
Ethereal Forest's Open Protocol Research Group | 23 | 4,271.33 | 542.02 | 4,813.35 |
VoiceDeck: A Marketplace for Journalism Impact | 28 | 4,012.55 | 228.40 | 4,240.95 |
Bonding Curve Research Group (BCRG) | 21 | 2,621.20 | 52.95 | 2,674.15 |
RnDAO - empowering humane collaboration | 25 | 1,857.13 | 117.68 | 1,974.81 |
Governance in Context with Knowledge Org | 21 | 1,797.82 | 322.39 | 2,120.21 |
Catalyzing Bioregional Innovation | 23 | 2,475.52 | 222.41 | 2,697.93 |
Sideways Ostrom5 | 28 | 1,270.20 | 239.99 | 1,510.19 |
Flow State (Streaming Quadratic Funding) | 16 | 1,419.51 | 42.95 | 1,462.46 |
LexClinic [alpha-to-beta] | 12 | 1,000.00 | 62.40 | 1,062.40 |
Systematizing the Status of Commons Protocols | 22 | 1,797.18 | 75.32 | 1,872.50 |
The Embodied Governance Playbook | 12 | 1,025.70 | 36.88 | 1,062.58 |
Impact Reporting Interoperability | 14 | 1,000.00 | 36.62 | 1,036.62 |
Distributed Governance Score Framework: DAO Ind | 6 | 1,000.00 | 8.71 | 1,008.71 |
Compared with our previous round, both the number of donors and the total crowdfunding amount saw significant decreases.
The percentage change between the OpenCivics Consortium Grant Round 02 and the OpenCivics Collaborative Research Grant Round 03 is as follows: