Dapp used by cities to run quadratic funding campaigns in participatory budgeting programs.
Leveraging Ethereum, it empowers citizens to directly participate in the allocation of funds for urban greenery projects, enhancing transparency and community engagement.
Our goal is to help local governments harness Ethereum to improve civic participation and public goods funding, and onboard as many local organisations and citizens as possible.
We are onboarding new users on Ethereum, one city at a time.
Currently, majority of newly acquired users create their Ethereum account to keep their crypto assets safe or transfer funds internationally.
In order to reach next billion users and achieve it’s potential, Ethereum must find other ways of acquiring new users. Another imperative, as we are approaching the era of near instant and free transactions on Ethereum, is finding reliable ways of onboarding users with non-speculative motivation.
Ethereum has many other uses than banking. It powers marketplaces, democracies, businesses, social networks, and more, but in these other use-cases, it either didn’t reach product market fit yet, found an effective go-to-market strategy, or even tried targeting all the potential market segments.
One use-case which rose to popularity over the last few years is public goods funding. There are now Gitcoin, Giveth, Drips, Octant, DAO Drops, Retro PGF, CLR Fund and other projects with their own protocols and applications serving this use-case on Ethereum.
These are well known and used within Ethereum community evolved and battle-tested. Ethereum has also evolved a lot and reached maturity in many ways in the last few years, notably with cheap transactions on L2s, account abstraction and growth of stablecoins.
This is why, now is the perfect time to explore if governments can use Ethereum and its public goods funding tools too.
There is a good opportunity to do this now. I have nurtured good relationship with the administration and current government of City of Split, Croatia. City’s parks and other green spaces are managed by City-owned company called Parks company. Last year they have created a page on their website that allows citizens to donate and propose how the money should be spent for small interventions into green spaces. They would match each donation to complete the funding of each project. They called this project “Zazelenimo Split”, eng. let’s make Split greener.
We have partnered with them to turn this unique participatory budgeting program into a quadratic funding campaign on Ethereum using Gitcoin’s Allo protocol. They have agreed to implement the projects that receive funding, and match total donations with 3 times more funding.
If the first campaign proves successful, we believe the city will continue running campaigns multiple times per year. Also, we believe we will be able to get other cities to do it too. In each city, citizens that never had touched Ethereum, will get Ethereum account and use it to participate in these campaigns.
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