Gitcoin Grants 19: Talk about projects you may not know about

Nov 21, 2023

Gitcoin Grants is a quarterly public fundraiser where your small donation can amplify the impact, bringing in larger external funding matches for your favorite projects.

How to maximize the benefits of matching donations?

This Gitcoin Grants 19 has two mechanisms:

Gitcoin Passport: At least 15 points are required, and the maximum score is 25 points. The matching donation benefit is calculated based on the score ( reference material ). Personally, I think the more the better, but there is no need to force it. After all, the higher the score, the more personal data may need to be connected.
Clustering Matching: People who donate to the same project portfolio will be classified into the same group, reducing the effectiveness of matching donations. Therefore, it is recommended to donate to at least one project that you have never heard of but can identify with after reading it, so that you can avoid donating to the same combination as others.

This time Gitcoin Grants 19 (hereinafter referred to as GG19) officially promotes its own Public Goods Network (PGN) blockchain. The support is not yet widespread. It is necessary to use a cross-chain bridge ( official document ) to transfer assets there. For novices May be more troublesome.

Therefore, this article specifically focuses on two areas and recommends related projects:

Global Chinese Community: Using Optimism (OP Mainnet)
Ethereum Infrastructure: Using Polygon

These two blockchains are very popular, and most centralized exchanges also support them, and they can be directly transferred to encrypted wallets for donations.

Global Chinese Community (GCC)

In web3, there are many important achievements led by Chinese people. For example, in the field of hardware wallets, Ledger or Trezor are popular in Europe and the United States, while in the Chinese circle there are CoolWallet, which was launched in 2016, and Keystone, which deeply integrates the MetaMask wallet.

This GG19 is organized by GCC, the previous round of investors, in conjunction with Metapool and Mask Network. The on-demand screening projects are as follows:

Web3Matters Weekly : Yes, it’s us again! Come and donate, your favorite "Web3Matters Weekly" is going to establish Web3Matters DAO! Get your Travelogger NFT ready!
Nowhere Publishing (NFT books with open access content) : Enclave Publishing is the “ Enclave Bookstore ” you have heard of.
Nomad Matters Nomad Project : Matters officially launches the project, please refer to the article on this site " Nomad Matters Nomad Project Launched: Practicing a Responsible Digital Nomad Life ".
FABDAO : Originated from the community of Taiwan's largest public welfare NFT fundraising project "Baiyue Project %", the funds raised in the last round of GG18 will also be launched on 11/23 " FAB DAO Subsidy Like! " to further distribute to more projects .
DeSci Asia : The Asian branch of "Decentralized Science" co-founded by Matt City community partner @swiftevo . It is recommended to read his path of exploration " DeSci's Self-Study Path ".
viaPrize : Trying to create a platform that "crowds sources ideas, raises bonuses, and rewards execution" (ideas are crowdsourced, rewards are crowdfunded, and project execution is an open invitation)
Dapp-Learning : Blockchain developer community, there are many Chinese course videos on YouTube ( link ).
Upchain : A blockchain community that has been operating for five years! According to the official round project description , US$5,000 has been raised in the past, and other public finance projects have been developed, such as Decert.me .
DeCert.me : This project has also independently raised funds and integrated a "tutorial, challenge, and certification" platform.
Gitcoin China Ecosystem Development : A Chinese community that focuses on Gitcoin. The initiator is bobjiang.eth .
Web3event : Web3 event information around the world
Nextme : Web3 version of about.me personal page service. In the long run, it wants to be a creator economic network.
Tradao : a platform for derivative crypto financial trading
Mini Bridge: "0" rate Cross-L2 protocol by Chaineye : Last time in GG18, Chaineye provided complete statistics. This time there are also GG19 statistics . In October, it launched the latest small-amount transfer platform, which provides PGN cross- Chain Bridge!
POAPin : A third-party POAP app developed using the cross-platform framework Flutter , just like the official POAP app .
MetaMail : An email service that uses web3 wallets to encrypt and sign emails. It may popularize the concept of PGP encrypted emails. You can refer to this article .
Inferer : The latest product is web3 wallet on-chain analysis 👉🏼 https://id.inferer.xyz
savor : from Savor Labs , which is developing an L3 solution.
Thunder Chat : Encrypted instant messaging software
Metopia : a reputation system built on the Base blockchain

Ethereum Infrastructure

This core area has been changed to an invitation-only system this time. The selected projects are highly valued by the official and have long-term development. Users who really care about the Ethereum ecosystem cannot miss it.

The supporting functions of Matt City are on the Polygon blockchain! If you have assets in your wallet, you might as well take a look:

EthStaker : Promotes the teaching and community of Ethereum verification nodes, very active
Dappnode : Not only provides Debian-based OS, but also sells verification node hardware in packages!
Ethereum on ARM : The main recommendation is to use the $350 ARM development board with only 10W power to run the verification node!
NiceNode : Run verification nodes on your own computer, with a simple and beautiful interface
Stereum - Ethereum Node Installer & Manager : Install Ethereum verification nodes with Node.js and Vue
eth-wizard: An Ethereum validator installation wizard : Install the Ethereum verification node using Python
Ethereum Staking Guides by CoinCashew : A comprehensive collection of staking and information on various cryptocurrencies, including basic wallet tutorials.
Somer Esat Ethereum Staking Guides (Ubuntu) : Technical documents for various consensus layers of Ethereum stake
Protocol Guild : Ethereum core proposal contributor community
Candide Labs : an open source wallet dedicated to developing Account Abstraction
rotki : native crypto asset management software (but of course it’s an Electron app)
Ethereum Attestation Service : Ethereum Attestation Service, an ambitious framework that can be used to verify identity, voting, property, etc.
Blockscout Block Explorer - Decentralized, Open-Source, Transparent Block Explorer for All Chains : Did you know that the most popular etherscan is not an open source software? Blockscout not only has an Ethereum blockchain browser , it is also the basis of this PGN blockchain browser ; it is developed in the Elixir programming language.
beaconcha.in : Another open source blockchain browser developed in Golang programming language.
Blockhead: portfolio tracker, block explorer and web3 browser : Another set of open source blockchain browser + asset dashboard + Dapps, developed with Node.js and Svelte.
Otterscan : a local blockchain browser
TrueBlocks and the Unchained Index : Blockchain database indexing mechanism
ZK Email : Using zero-knowledge proof, just email can be used as a wallet! ? (and various applications)
PLUME: Pseudonymously Linked Unique Message Entities, aka Verifiably Deterministic Signatures on Ethereum : If you still don’t understand such a long project name, you probably don’t need to click on it.
ethers.js : an important Ethereum application library
wagmi : You will see this TypeScript library in many Ethereum applications, such as the Matt City you are looking at !
eth.limo : A gateway that supports ENS and IPFS. You may most often see the URLs of articles published by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin on Twitter at https://vitalik.eth.limo . Matt City also supports it ( Take liuguo.eth.limo as an example)
Ephemery Testnet : Ethereum testnet based on EIP-6916 automatic reset
L2BEAT : The Ethereum L2 blockchain dashboard that most people will refer to

say a few more words

Since the establishment of "Web3Matters Matt Weekly", its relationship with Gitcoin Grants:

I accidentally discovered that the editors all have different fields of interest, so the 27th issue launched the Gitcoin Grants Beta Round special issue for the first time.
Participated in fundraising for the first time and launched Gitcoin Grants 18 special issue again in the 42nd issue
Tomorrow (11/22) we will launch the 55th issue of Gitcoin Grants 19 , please subscribe!

We will launch Web3Matters DAO, where Travellogger holders can participate in governance voting and jointly use the funds raised this time to make "Web3Matters Weekly" better!

Donations welcome: