“Radical Results: Gitcoin’s $25K Match—Results and Lessons Learned from Our First $25K in Matching”, 2019-02-22 (; backlinks; similar):
A few weeks ago, we announced a radical experiment in Open Source Funding. Using the matching method outlined in “Liberal Radicalism”—a paper by Glen Weyl, Vitalik Buterin, and Zoë Hitzig—we announced a $25K fund to match any contributions made to 25 Ethereum infrastructure projects.
Gitcoin’s CLR Matching, By The Numbers
The top three projects in matching funding for this round were Prysmatic Labs, Moloch DAO, and Uniswap
- $13,242 was contributed by 132 unique contributors across 26 projects
The top 10 projects all received over $1,000 in matching donations from the CLR fund
A total of $38,242 was contributed to Ethereum OSS infrastructure in two weeks
…We are encouraged by the results made in the first round of CLR matching and are hopeful for the emergence of new mechanisms to enable funding to public goods. We’ll explore a few of these in future rounds, and are especially interested in inflation funding mechanisms to fund public infrastructure.