New Applications for Quadratic Funding
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Gitcoin reports $69M funded since 2017 and shows QF growth from a $25k initial matching pool to rounds with ~600k contributions and $5M+ raised, and a recent round with ~450k contributions, $4M matched and ~40k unique donors. Civil attacks (Sybil/self-donors, airdrop farmers, fraudulent grants) drive work on pairwise bounding and privacy mechanisms like Macy voting and an open-source Bitcoin passport (≈60,000 created). A permissionless, modular grants protocol targets Q1 2023 migration to scale decentralized QF and enable retroactive funding, dominance assurance contracts and community curation.
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