Gitcoin creates solutions that empower communities to fund, build, and protect what matters. Through Gitcoin Grants Program, they've distributed over $50m to early stage builders championing projects across DeFi, climate, open source and beyond. Their core products include Gitcoin Grants Stack, our end-to-end grants solution, Allo Protocol, our open-source funding protocol, and Gitcoin Passport, our decentralized identity management tool.
The Gitcoin Grants Program is a quarterly initiative run by Gitcoin DAO that empowers everyday believers in web3 to drive funding toward what they believe matters, with the impact of individual donations being magnified by the use of the Quadratic Funding (QF) distribution mechanism. QF was introduced in a paper published in 2018 by Vitalik Buterin, Zoe Hitzig, and Glen Weyl.
Gitcoin Grants Stack is the first-ever decentralized, fully-customizable, smart contract-enabled solution that connects grants program managers, project owners and donors to manage and participate in community-powered (Quadratic Funding) grants programs. Grants Stack is built with Gitcoin’s open-source funding allocation protocol Allo Protocol.
Gitcoin Passport is a Sybil resistance and privacy-preserving identity management tool that enables individuals and communities to authentically and securely interact through sovereign data control and privacy-preserving identity validation. Passport makes it easy to prove one’s humanity and build online reputation, all in one place. Gitcoin Passport is built with Gitcoin’s open-source sybil resistance protocol Passport Protocol.