Original title: "Gitcoin's new round of donations is coming! The new Alpha test round, only 159 projects were shortlisted, the Trust Bonus was cancelled, please keep this donation guide >
Original source: Shouyi, Biteye
Gitcoin is a donation platform for open source software. Users can support various decentralized open source projects through Gitcoin. Early projects can also receive donations on Gitcoin to maintain operations. Some well-known projects such as Uniswap, 1inch, MaskNetwork, ENS, etc. have participated in Gitcoin Grants, so Gitcoin is also known as the "Arsenal of Ethereum".
In each round of Gitcoin Grants, in addition to receiving donations from users, Gitcoin will also use a secondary funding matching model (Quadratic Funding) allocates the funds of the Ethereum Foundation for high-quality projects. This allocation method has also been approved by Vitalik Buterin, which greatly promotes the community influence of Gitcoin Grants. The Gitcoin Grants donation activity has been carried out for 15 rounds so far. In the process of helping the project grow, it also brings rewards such as token airdrops to donors. More and more users have entered the Web3 world through Gitcoin.
Gitcoin has been exploring more efficient ways to donate, working to move from Quadratic Matching (aka QF’s centralized grants) to GitcoinDAO: creating a decentralized and customizable grants protocol.
Therefore, the new round of Grants Round 16 (GR 16) will not come, instead it will last from January 17th to January 31st, 2023Gitcoin Alpha Round。
According to Gitcoin's plan, it will conduct a Test Alpha Round with UNICEF, Fantom, Optimism, and Alchemix in the next few months to ensure continued support for developers during the transition to GitcoinDAO.
Next, Biteye will briefly introduce the differences between Gitcoin Alpha Round and previous donations, and carefully selected 11 high-quality projects for you. Note that participating in each donation round canTable of contents。
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1. Introduction to Gitcoin Alpha Round
2. Gitcoin Alpha Round Donation Proposal
3. Gitcoin Alpha Round Donation Tutorial
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1. Introduction to Gitcoin Alpha Round
1. The Gitcoin Alpha Round program supports 200 grantees working on open source software, Ethereum infrastructure, and climate solutions, with a total matching pool of $1 million, still takingSecond matching donation。
2. The duration of Gitcoin Alpha Round is from January 17th to 31st, you can joinOfficial TGFor the latest updates on donations, Gitcoin Alpha Round is introducing a new donation page.
3. Gitcoin Alpha Round cancels Trust Bonus and replaces it withGitcoin Passport, users can log in and bind social media and wallets to increase their weight. Only users who reach the specified score can get matching donations.
4. Projects in the Gitcoin Alpha Round will only be generated from previous donation rounds (standards are grants received in GR 14 or GR 15 totaling more than $1,000 (donation + round-specific match), or in GR 14 or GR 15 grants from at least 150 unique donors in GR 15), this round considers approximately 200 projects, of which:
（1 ）Open Source Software Round(Open Source Software Round) will be provided byGovernance postsGR 14 and GR 15 previously funded by grantees outlined in GR 14 and GR 15, approximately 250 projects, 87 were actually shortlisted;
（2 ）Ethereum Infrastructure Round(Ethereum Infrastructure Round) will consist of 32 projects from GR 14 and GR 15, 22 were actually shortlisted;
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2. Gitcoin Alpha Round Donation Proposal
Based on past rounds of donations, Biteye has concluded the following donation suggestions:
1. Although Gitcoin has no limitation on the donation amount, the minimum amount for each project is at least greater than 1 U. On the other hand, due to the price fluctuation of ETH, you can choose DAI for donation; if you donate with eth, considering the price fluctuation, it is recommended to donate 0.002 above eth;
2. Gitcoin donation is a good chain interaction behavior. Optimism once considered "users donating Gitcoin on the mainnet" as one of the weights of the airdrop;
3. In the past, Gitcoin donations can be made through zkSync, which not only saves costs but also realizes the interaction of zkSync, but this time only ETH, OP, and FTM chain donations are supported according to different rounds;
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3. Gitcoin Alpha Round Donation Tutorial
If you already know how to donate, you can directly check the recommended items in the fourth part to donate
If you don't know the Gitcoin donation process yet, you can check out the following donation videos first:
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4. Gitcoin Alpha Round donation project introduction (continuously updated)
(Click on the project name to enter the project donation interface)
(1) Open Source Software Round
open source softwareMost of them are Web3, Defi, NFT and other concepts. The projects on these tracks have also had precedents for airdropping donors in the past
DefiLlama focuses on the professional analysis of TVL data of Defi projects, classifies the current Defi and public chains, and conducts and long-term tracking of their TVL. There is also an Airdrops on the homepage of DefiLlama, which recommends some protocols that may have airdrops for users.
2.ChainEye
ChainEye is an open source full-chain analysis tool used by more than 80,000 users. At present, it has BridgeEye (cross-chain bridge comparison tool), On-chain&CEX transfer fee (on-chain & CEX transfer fee query), Multichain Gas (multi-chain gas fee query), multi-chain stablecoin query, ETH 2.0 query and other functions, and will follow up Develop new features such as security modules, nft modules, etc. ChainEye promises to provide users with free data services permanently, and will return the income of the tool ToB to the community and users.
3.Umbra
As a protocol, Umbra defines a set of simple standards for private transfers on Ethereum through smart contracts. Umbra currently supports mainnet and multiple L2s, and will continue to deploy to multiple chains with funding.
4.Lenster
Lenster is a decentralized, permissionless social media app built with the Lens Protocol. Lenster runs on the Polygon network, so users can interact seamlessly with the dApp, there are no fees to pay, and no one can delete anything from the app, not even admins. Lenster is powered by Lens Protocol, a decentralized social graph built by Aave.
5.Tally
Tally is an open-source and community-governed decentralized Web3 wallet. It has the expectation of community governance. It is outspoken against Matamask and wants to get a share of the latter's market share.
6.Phi
Phi (philand.xyz) is a Metaverse created by ENS and wallet addresses, making"on-chain identity"visualization becomes easier. It incentivizes users to interact with various web3 protocols, which provides positive feedback for all protocols and accelerates the overall network effect of web3.
Optinames are tradable and transferable subdomains wrapped as ERC 721s and fully integrated with the Ethereum Name Service (ENS), they can be resolved on L1 Ethereum by utilizing an off-chain resolver.
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(2) Ethereum Infrastructure Round
Ethereum infrastructureAlthough the probability of issuing coins is low, it is an important certificate to participate in the ecological construction of Ethereum
It has been accepted by DefiLlama and continues to operate until now. It is one of the common tools for querying new chain RPC. It is absolutely worthy of the four words of public goods. It currently supports most public chains and testnets, and can query the delay between different RPCs .
10.L 2B EAT
L 2B EAT is an analysis and research site about Ethereum's second layer (L2) scaling. It provides different non-micro indicators besides total value locked (TVL), and is a very convenient website for daily observation and comparison of L2.
climate solutions
climate solutionsMost of them are public welfare products, and the probability of issuing coins and airdrops is low. Biteye only introduces innovative projects, and users can choose whether to donate or not
11.TaterDAO
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