Gardens GG23 Community Round

Ideas

• Create a $GTC community so $GTC holders decide where funding goes. Pool ideas:
• "$GTC contributor onboarding" - get $GTC to people who are likely to use it to govern the growth of Gitcoin.
• "best communities on Gardens" - a classic, more competitive pool where Gardens communities rally $GTC support to get funding.
• "most promising new Ethereum OSS" also competitive, but targeted grants for new projects to not overlap with retro funding. Considerations: how to make ecosystem-wide pools that are less competitive and more collaborative? don't want to overlap with retro funding. leverage bottom-up governance.
• Seasonal Funding model a la Pop-up Commons: https://www.notion.so/1hive-gardens/Case-Study-Pop-up-Commons-Conviction-Voting-for-Seasonal-Ecosystem-Funding-183d6929d0148086b20bfa27f27214e5
• Direct rewards for Gardens growth. Use Gardens participation metrics (members, transactions, TVL…) to reward the most successful communities on Gardens.
• Chapter Based Orgs: funding for orgs like Greenpill, RefiDAO, OpenCivics, Zuzalu - encourage them to
• MVP seed funding - Funding Pool to request shared liquidity for your token

Funding Pools:

• "Matching Funds for your Funding Pool" - a Funding Pool where communities can request matching funding for funding pools they build in Gardens communities.
• Allo Integrations - request funding to integrate your Allo mechanism to Gardens.

Signaling Pools:

• "Best OSS on Ethereum" - curated list of best projects on Ethereum
• Ecosystem priorities: identify most underserved public goods in web3, then pool identifying most promising fixes for that priority.
• Regens of Web3 - curated registry of the most valuable regens in the space