We’re here with our last hurray before we head into 2021 – keep reading for the latest news on a few recipients!
Gitcoin for CLR matching
Gitcoins CLR Scholarships were one of the first real uses of quadratic financingwith the number of unique contributors to a grant more weight than the dollar total to determine the amount of consideration.
CLR grants have progressed a lot since the first round at the beginning of 2018! With 16 organizations and almost as many individuals pledging matching funds to date Round 8it has become a true community support system for the many open source contributors in the ecosystem. The platform itself has also matured, with recent UI improvements including:
- A “shopping cart” allowing users to donate to multiple grants at once and share their cart with friends
- Integration of zksync for scaling, allowing multiple donations to be grouped into a single transaction
- Collections so users can follow their favorites or browse other people’s top picks
EIP1559 R&D
EIP 1559, which proposes changes to the Ethereum fee market, has been the subject of community-wide discussion and development since 2019. A recent multi-recipient grant was intended to support research and ongoing community development: Consensys has received funding to help coordinate research and development efforts, while funds sent to multisig 1559 are administered by signatories from multiple organizations to support community efforts including client implementation, infrastructure, bug bounties, and awareness.
There had been a lot of work made on EIP 1559 before this grant, and that progress has not slowed down! A small sample of recent updates:
Follow EIP 1559 R&D progress via Tim Beiko’s regular service updates, call notes from performersor keep an eye on the Mainnet Readiness Checklist.
Some other quick mentions
And of course we can’t leave without recognizing massive achievement of all the customer teams and other builders who contributed to the realization of December 1st launching eth2 beacon chain!
See you next year :wave:
