> What you've worked on in recent months and what you have coming up (e.g. goals/plans).

Over the last few months, the Drips team has continued to improve the Drips webapp, adding the following key features:

1) **Added support for "gives" in the webapp.** Using gives allows funders to instantly send support to Drip Lists and recipients projects, similar to an ordinary Ethereum transaction, but while still splitting those funds according to the recipients' splits configurations. Ultimately this results in more flexibility for funders around when and how they commit their support.

2. **New back-end data service.** In early December the Drips team migrated the "back end" for the webapp to a new custom-built event-processing data service similar to The Graph. The new service has already dramatically improved the performance of the app and we are super excited for the new features and experiences it will unlock in the future. Like everything we build, the back end is open source. Check out the repositories [here](https://github.com/drips-network/events-processor) and [here](https://github.com/drips-network/graphql-api).

As for our roadmap, you can learn more by reviewing the [Drips Team's org proposal to the Radworks DAO for 2024](https://community.radworks.org/t/discussion-rgp-19-drips-org-proposal-2024/3409) which was passed on 12/1/2023 and which contains a more detailed description of the project's progress this year and our plans for 2024.

> What you're spending the received funding on and what you're planning to spend potential future funding on.

The Drips team has committed to donate all funds received in Octant's Epochs zero and one to [fund Octant's own list of critical software dependencies](https://twitter.com/OctantApp/status/1714307750275231936). These funds should start streaming in the next few weeks. Our current intention is to continue to re-donate all funds received from any future Octant rounds to the same cause of directly supporting the FOSS projects Octant depends on.

> Did you receive any other sources of grant funding since the previous Octant Epoch. For example, RetroPGF, Gitcoin, etc. If so please include ammounts of funding.

This question may be less relevant for Drips than for other projects, since as described above, 100% of any funds we receive from Octant will be directly re-donated to fund the FOSS projects Octant depends on. In other words, the Drips team itself will not receive any of the funds awarded to it in this Octant round. However, for the sake of transparency, the Drips team did receive a large grant from the Radworks DAO on 12/1/2023, which is intended to fund our team's work continuing to build open solutions for funding FOSS in 2024. You can learn more [here](https://community.radworks.org/t/submission-rgp-19-drips-org-proposal-2024/3429).

> Did you receive any other sources of grant funding since the previous Octant epoch? For example, RetroPGF, Gitcoin, etc.? If so, please include how amounts of funding.

No