Funding The Commons

What kind of infrastructure do resilient, collective futures require? 🌀 In Berlin, we gathered builders, researchers, funders, and creators to answer that question. This is our Forum recap. 📽️

it was such a pleasure, and labor of love, curating the program for this special event! thank you @FundingCommons for the opportunity to create interdisciplinary, intersectional discourse and my wonderful co-curators for helping it happen 🫶❤️‍🔥

📢 CALL FOR SPEAKERS We're organizing a virtual Grants Summit at the Metagov Grant Innovation Lab on 20 - 21 August, 2025. We're looking for speakers for the following tracks: - Sustainable Funding & Growth - Outputs, Outcomes, & Impact. 👇

If this market is treating you well, please remember to fund things that are important to you and your communities 💚

Introducing our yield-donating vaults aka growth engines.

builders of open source dev tools it's remarkable to see how many teams & individual maintainers have kept going through a turbulent market, with very little recognition. many devs are likely passing up opportunities to make much more $$$ because they love OSS and ethereum…

"We are in a narrative war. And disinformation is not just about moderating content and fake news, it's also about the lack of truthful information. And technology is a key component of who is going to win that war." 📺 Watch the full interview with @Isa. Thanks…

It takes an army to onboard local government to public goods funding mechanisms so we brought in the big guns! Huge thank you to Shu and Shinya for joining us in our effort to bring governments and their communities onchain💚

Missed @EthCC? Holke from @hypercerts shared how to build open funding networks, incl. a demo of funding regenerative projects via @GainForestNow’s ecocertain.xyz🌱 Watch it now: youtube.com/watch?v=bQ2Z0p… @maearthmedia @gitcoin @protocollabs @OctantApp @Optimism @Celo

If everything’s a public good, the term starts to lose meaning. Adding “onchain” doesn’t clarify; it complicates. Hot take from Caolán of @EthIreland. Is it time to draw clearer lines? 🔥

The strength of an ecosystem is measured by how it treats its public goods. 🏗️

What do YOU think we should fund in #GG24? 👇

Octant $GLM lockers! The Epoch 8 allocation window starts Friday! 🗳️ 30 incredible Ethereum public goods projects are ready for your support. With matching up to 65x, every donation makes a big impact! Browse them now in the @OctantApp and shortlist favorites for quick…

Say no to cookies, browser tracking, and login walls. Isabela Fernandes from @torproject on how anonymity protects freedom & why little acts of digital disobedience change everything.🔒

Every dollar toward open source is an investment in more builders, more trust, and more innovation. 🧑‍💻

🥁🥁🥁 The ETHGlobal Cannes 2025 finalists are in! 🇫🇷 We're thrilled to share 10 projects that stuck out from 334 built: ⚡️ BeamPay 🛡️ OnlyDanks 😛 PolyBet 🐐 livestakes 👟 Pace Club 🅿️ POAPrivacy 🩸 PrivyCycle 🌈 ChromaMind ♻️ PrivacyLinks 🌉 Hashlocked Dive in to each below!…

Most open infrastructure runs on unpaid care. ⚙️ @rjdrost is working to change that with @eigenlayer—and it could mark a turning point for open source.

Immense thanks to the engines of goodness: @Celo @cLabs @vocdoni @Giveth @selfprotocol @minipay @CeloPublicGoods @EthicHub @TalentProtocol @FundingCommons @PositiveBlock @crecimientoar @growthepie_eth @B4GSummit @ChainforGood @CeloDevs & many others! You powered the room. 2/

📍Day 2 in Cannes for @EthCC MiniPay’s Head of Commercial & Ecosystem @MurraySpark joined voices from @FundingCommons and @CeloPublicGoods on today’s @B4GSummit panel — discussing blockchain use cases for financial inclusion and humanitarian aid. Crypto meets the real world 🌍…

We are at the @B4GSummit in Cannes today! 📍 If you're around, come say hi. Our director @david1casey is currently speaking on the panel about web3 for financial inclusion & humanitarian aid. 🤝