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With the temporary recovery of the encryption market, the financing and development of various Web3 tracks have become active again, and many industry participants are busy in the Spring Festival of 2023. On January 17, Gitcoin, known as the "Arsenal of Ethereum", opened a new round of donations, which attracted a lot of enthusiasm. Different from the previous donations, this Gitcoin donation replaced the title of "GR 16" with "Alpha Round", and a series of new donation mechanisms followed.
This Alpha Round adopts a new donation page and continues the previous "Quadratic Funding" secondary matching donation model. The duration will be from January 17th to 31st. It is estimated that more than 200 recipients or projects will allocate 1 million USD donation. As a test donation, Alpha Round is also a transitional donation round for Gitcoin from Quadratic Funding to GitcoinDAO. The difference from the previous ones is that this donation introduces the anti-sybil attack "Gitcoin Passport" to replace the previous "Trust Bonus" model. The recipients need to bind their social media accounts and reach a certain score before they can get the donation.
The Alpha Round consists of three distinct groups of projects dedicated to the development of open source software, Ethereum infrastructure, and climate solutions. All projects received more than $1,000 in GR 14 and GR 15 rounds, a total of 164 projects. BlockBeats combed through it and picked out some noteworthy projects.DefiLlama、Lenster、Lenstube、Commons Stackfirst level title
1.ChainEye
Open Source Software Group
The open source software group (Web3 Open Source Software Round) has a total of 87 shortlisted projects or recipients, mainly focusing on promoting the development of Ethereum and Web3 ecology, which is the group with the most projects among the three categories. Apart from
In addition to these star projects, there are also many projects worthy of attention in the fields of DeFi, security, and on-chain tools.
2.Umbra
ChainEye is an open source full-chain analysis tool designed to provide retail investors with cutting-edge free full-chain analysis tools. The project was launched in the fourth quarter of 2021 and currently has over 100,000 visits. Currently, ChainEye mainly has five functions: BridgeEye, Multichain Gas, ETH Staking, PRC List and Stable Coins Dashboard.
BridgeEye is a cross-chain bridge comparison tool, users can use it to find the optimal cross-chain solution, currently supports Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, BNB Chain. Multichain Gas can help users view the gas history and time distribution of each chain. ETH Staking can help users view metrics such as APY, TVL, and liquidity of different Ethereum staking protocols. RPC List is to measure the optimal RPC for users in terms of block height, delay, node provider information, etc. The Stable Coins Dashboard can provide observation indicators of various stable coins.
In addition, ChainEye will also launch the ChainMap function, which will first support Optimism and gradually expand to other public chain ecosystems. Users can use this function to find potential opportunities such as DeFi harvesting and lending, NFT mining, airdrops, and DAO governance in each chain ecology.
3.MetaMail
Umbra is a Web3 privacy protocol designed to help users receive and pay private assets on the Ethereum and L2 networks. Its MVP version will be launched in June 2021, supporting the Ethereum mainnet and many second-layer solutions. It has processed nearly 10 million payments with a transaction value of over $50 million.
Umbra designed a set of simple privacy standards to enable stealth addresses for users on the Ethereum mainnet, through which payers can send ETH or other ERC 20 Tokens to addresses controlled by the receiver, and there is no one other than the payer and payer. People know the transfer information. The transfer transaction will appear on-chain to an unused Ethereum address, while the payer generates a new address off-chain using the payee's published public key. In addition, using the Meta-Transactions function, Umbra allows the payee to use the received Token to pay the gas fee to the relayer.In the future, the Umbra team will focus on product improvements through withdrawal integration, new network deployments, and performance, and work with researchers to develop a Stealth Address EIP so that Umbra can maintain its identity as an open public product protocol.》。
MetaMail is a Web3 email provider. Users use wallets or ENS domain names as email addresses to sign for security. It is compatible with other emails such as Gmail, and it is completely free without Gas fees. MetaMail won the gold award in the EthShanghai Hackathon and open-sourced the front-end code on Github. The team also plans to open-source its email protocol in the future to help users host their own MetaMail services.
BlockBeats, as the first batch of media concerned about MetaMail, conducted an exclusive interview with the founder of MetaMail, see "UBI。
Dialog MetaMail: Web3.0 provides the perfect solution for EmailLoanshark。
CirclesUBI is a permissionless community basic income (UBI) system. People can jointly organize their own wealth distribution system through Circles and provide each other with basic income. Since its launch in October 2020, CirclesUBI has deployed more than 200,000 on Gnosis account.
In the past year, CirclesUBI and the Berlin Open UBI Pilot team have established local UBI systems in Berlin and other places. The funds from this donation will be used to improve the core infrastructure of the project so that users can have a better experience when using CirclesUBI to pay and purchase daily necessities. In addition, the team will combine new scientific and anthropological methods to establish new network research pilots. In this donation round, there are projects with similar conceptsScam Sniffer。
7.BrightID
StarkDeFi is a set of decentralized financial products (DeFi), which aims to use StarkNet's ZK Rollup function to facilitate and simplify the process threshold for traditional users to enter Web3.0. At present, StarkDeFi has developed its own functions such as AMM, harvesting, liquidity staking, Launchpad and NFT casting, and has also developed a variable reward mechanism function Synergy Pool. In this round of donations, there are DeFi projects with similar concepts
0x DeadList, developed by the aforementioned MetaMail team, is a Web3 wallet security protocol designed to protect users' private keys from leaking. 0x DeadList rewards "burial NFT" to encourage users and hackers to mark accounts with leaked private keys, and store the information of these leaked accounts on the chain, so that dApps can query these unsafe accounts.Phi、Proof of Humanity、Optinames。
8.Tally
BrightID is a Sybil-resistant Web3 identity protocol that aims to create a pan-Web3 pseudonymous social graph, allowing users to prove to dApps that they are only unique in any given system, and currently has over 63,000 verified users. Users establish encrypted connections with people they know through mobile applications, and pseudonym connection data is shared among nodes to form a graph. Nodes determine and verify the uniqueness of each account based on its interconnectivity with other accounts.Soul Wallet。
Currently, BrightID supports a variety of mobile devices, and its main functions include account recovery, Aura scoring integration, Wifi sharing, large-scale blind signing, etc. BrightID Main DAO is currently BrightID's management entity, responsible for the management of application registry, website and app store entries, grants and sponsorship income, etc. The donation funds will be all BBrightID MAIN DAO treasury. In this round of donations, projects similar in concept to BrightID are also
Ethereum Infrastructure GroupChainlistandL 2B EATwait.
A total of 22 projects were shortlisted for the Ethereum Infrastructure Round. These projects directly support the Ethereum ecosystem, covering tools, developer education, and display ecosystems. Among them, the more well-known projects include
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ChainList has long been a familiar name. It is an RPC query tool commonly used by many encryption users. It supports most public chains and testnets. Users can query the delay between different RPCs and privacy policies through this application.
5.Lodestar
L 2B EAT is an analysis and research website for Ethereum’s Layer 2 scaling solutions. In addition to TVL information, L 2B EAT also provides many other important indicators to help users carefully review the internal operation and technical risks of each L2 chain. The team plans to use the funds from the donation to develop additional inspection indicators and upgrade its risk framework and automated monitoring systems. Additionally, the team hopes to build dedicated tools for each L2 to enable users to perform operations such as forced transactions.
Ape Framework is a smart contract development tool that provides convenient development tools for Python developers, data engineers and security engineers in Ethereum and other EVM public chain ecosystems. The team did not elaborate further on the project.
Lodestar is a Typescript ecosystem for Ethereum consensus, developed by ChainSafe Systems, the main products are a productive beacon chain and validator client. Additionally, the team is maintaining a tools repository for public consumption, including developer tools such as BLS, Discv 5, and Gossipsub.Otterscan。
Lodestar's niche lies in its implementation language, Typescript, and its software and tools are uniquely positioned to help researchers and developers with rapid prototyping and browser usage. The team is also working to lead the research, standardization, and implementation of Ethereum light clients, and to work with other client implementers and developers to demonstrate the importance of using on-chain trustless data directly in the browser.
Blockscout is an open source block browser that benchmarks against Etherscan. The team is currently working on a product update called "Blockscout 2.0" to upgrade its functions and user experience, and provide developers with more customized functions, including support for Rollup and optimized API , dApp marketplace, and Rust authoring services infrastructure, etc. In this round of donations, projects with the same concept as
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climate solutions
2.ReFiDAO
The Climate Solutions Round includes 50 projects from GR 15, covering areas such as renewable energy, carbon markets, verified infrastructure, oceans and agriculture.
Solarpunk Nomads is an environmental group that has been promoting the social movement of "solarpunk nomadism" since last April. The team hopes to use the funds from this round of donations to develop two Solarpunk Nomads, which are community-owned vehicles used to accelerate the transition to a more sustainable society.ReFi Spring、ReCommon。
The first Solarpunk Nomads vehicle is a solar-powered electric vehicle with a trailer and will be stationed mainly in Central Europe, while the second is an eco-car developed in partnership with AtlantisDAO, partially powered by solar panels and will be stationed mainly in Southern India for educational activities and expeditions to document climate change.
ReFiDAO is a DAO organization focusing on the ReFi (Regenerate Finance) field, aiming to accelerate the popularization of renewable energy, and hopes to use this donation to launch the ReFi Commons Incubator and Commons Stack in cooperation with the Commons Stack, so as to introduce more new talents into ReFi , and accelerate the development of local entrepreneurial communities.Kokonut Network、Atlantis、Treejer Protocol、Astral Protocol。
4.WaterDAO
ReFi Commons aims to help entrepreneurial communities in specific cities or environmental protection fields. The ReFi Commons Prize will serve as an incubator treasury. It will first incubate three local communities and launch its governance tokens by mechanism. Since then, each ReFi Commons community has participated in the global ReFiDAO community and provided key talent and capital entrances. In this round of donations, projects with the same concept as
Bloom Network is a physical social network designed to help people find and get involved in grassroots climate action where they live. There are currently over 30,000 members and 22 local communities worldwide. Currently, Bloom Network has released the MVP version of the multi-user blogging platform, which includes renewable energy action templates, blogs, and local Bloom community information feeds.Carbon DAO、AgroforestDAO。
5.Silvi
The new round of donation funds will be used to complete social interactions on the Bloom platform, including connecting member NFTs to login systems, local DAO community formation, and more. In addition, Bloom Network's technical team is also working with dOrg.tech to build related DAO tools. In this round of donations, projects with the same concept as
WaterDAO aims to improve the transparency of water sources and production methods, and establish a water credit classification system. The community hopes to enable individuals or companies to support efficient and transparent water producers while maintaining operational efficiency by creating trusted and verifiable water credits that can be easily purchased and used to offset water consumption.Hibiscus DAO。
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