Funding the Commons

Region

Delaware

USA

Targeted SDGs

9. Industry, Innovation, Technology and Infrastructure

16. Peace, justice and strong institutions

Description

Funding the Commons builds bridges between builders, researchers, and funders to transform funding mechanisms and infrastructure for digital public goods.

Impact

Through conferences, residencies, hackathons, and pilot funding, FtC supports innovation in public goods funding, incubates new funding mechanisms, and fosters collaboration across Web2, Web3, philanthropy, and academia.

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Gitcoin

Gitcoin is a platform dedicated to supporting open-source software development by connecting developers with funding opportunities.

Protocol

Public Goods

Regen Atlas

Regen Atlas is a global, open-source marketplace for green crypto-assets, designed to simplify discovery, trading, and creation of sustainability-linked tokens. It offers a geospatial interface that aggregates the full value chain—issuers, certifiers, raters, buyers—so users can explore diverse regenerative assets, from carbon credits to biodiversity tokens. Regen Atlas integrates Uniswap to enable one-click on-chain purchases of Celo-based green assets and has expanded to list over 100 assets built with expanded UI support and new geographic incentives through its evolving interface and database

Protocol

Restoration

Hypercerts

Hypercerts are semi-fungible tokens that document the impact of a project, including who did the work, what was done, and when. These tokens can be evaluated by third parties and sold to funders, allowing contributors to receive funding based on the actual impact of their work.

Protocol

Public Goods

CASE STUDIES

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