According to Mars Finance news, Trusta.AI, an AI Trusted Identification Network (Crypto+AI), announced the completion of a new round of financing, with this round led by institutions such as ConsenSys, Starknet, GSR, and the UFLY Labs ecosystem fund. The new funds will be used to deepen the construction of the encrypted digital trust network and promote secure interactions between human users and AI agents in the Web3 world. It is reported that Trusta.AI provides exclusive Airdrop consulting and Sybil Attack protection solutions for over 10 ecosystems, including Celestia, Starknet, Arbitrum, and Binance, with product integration covering Binance (BAB monthly detection), Galxe (Web3 credit score), and Gitcoin.

Gitcoin decided to shut down Grants Lab due to financial sustainability challenges and key team members’ departures. Gitcoin will continue focusing on its core programs like Gitcoin Grants and HumnPassport with a leaner team structure. --- Shocking news came from Gitcoin co-founder Kevin

Key Takeaways: By May 2025, Gitcoin will formally close down its Grants Lab business unit and Grants Stack technology. Financial constraints and a necessity to give Gitcoin’s main Grants Program top priority have led to this choice. Gitcoin is still dedicated to improving the Grants Program

Gitcoin announces the official closure of Grants Lab, marking the end of support for Grants Stack. The decision follows evolving dynamics in funding, changes in the Web3 ecosystem, and key team departures. The company plans to focus funding efforts through a leaner structure on the Gitcoin Grants program.

The co-founder of Gitcoin announced the closure of the main software development department Grants Lab, and some team members will leave. Grants Lab is facing financial difficulties and lacks a profitable model, and will no longer apply for the 2025 budget; funds will be used for employee severance compensation. Gitcoin is committed to supporting the transition of departing employees.

Schelling Point, now in its eighth edition, has evolved into one of the most awaited gatherings for Web3 leads shaping the future of capital allocation and ecosystem growth.

Original author: CHUNZHEN Reprint: Luke, Mars Finance After summarizing the 4 rounds of Gitcoin DeSci projects, which projects are worth following? Since the first round of DeSci financing by Gitcoin in 2022, Gitcoin has conducted a total of 4 rounds of DeSci financing, donating a total of over 850,000 USD (with the matching pool accounting for 739,000 USD) to support 225 projects. In the current discussion around DeSci, this issue of the Public Goods Report takes stock of Gitcoin's 4 rounds of DeSci financing and attempts to identify promising DeSci projects. GR15 (October 2022) GR15's DeSci Genesis Wheel has gained 2309 contributors

Translator's Preface In this article, the author uses the concept of 'Circles' as a starting point to reveal layer by layer that we often only follow the circles we are in in our daily lives, often using distance as an excuse to ignore the support for public goods outside of our circles. The article also explores how to extend the mechanism of supporting public goods to a broader field, beyond the circles we directly encounter, and create a truly effective system for supporting public goods. Through such an extension, we can build a 'diverse and civilized scale infrastructure for supporting public goods'. Main content The inspiration for this article comes from the work and thought leadership of the organizations mentioned in the article, such as Gitcoin, Optimism, Drips, Superfluid, Hypercerts, as well as Juan Benet and Raymond.

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Original author: Biteye Winning Airdrops through Gitcoin Donations is like opening a mystery box, and in order to help everyone better judge, Biteye analyzed the Airdrop rules of Optimism, Dmail, Namada, NIM Network, and Celestia. They both Airdrop Addresses that have participated in Gitcoin donations, and the rules are slightly different, see the comparison below. Rule 1 : Gitcoin donors can directly get the Airdrop, unlimited rounds and amounts Optimism is the Ethereum Layer 2, and in the first round Airdrop distributed 5% of the OP supply to 248, 699 Address, including Gitcoin donors. The main requirement is to have passed Gitcoin on L1 before the snapshot

> This article selects the four most representative Grants, namely the Ethereum Foundation Ecosystem Support Program (ESP), Gitcoin Grants, Optimism RPGF and Uniswap Foundation Grants, trying to find out from the projects and research donated in 2023 " Hidden gem". Written by: Innocence Web3 Grant can be understood as the agreement using part of its income or native tokens to incentivize protocols, projects or research that are beneficial to the entire Web3 ecosystem or a specific ecosystem. For projects, Grant not only provides financial support, but also means endorsement and diversified support; for large protocols, Grant helps retain developers, thereby promoting the development of the entire ecosystem.

> When you can achieve better collective intelligence, you can achieve better collective resource allocation. Speech: Gitcoin founder talks about nearly 30 mechanisms for coordinating crowd intelligence Compiler: Yu Xing In the 65th episode of the GreenPill Podcast, Giveth's Griff Green and Gitcoin founder Kevin Owocki discussed nearly 30 different mechanisms for coordinating collective intelligence, aiming to achieve better collective resource allocation. This article is extracted from their Conversation. Coordination Mechanism Diagram Originally posted by Kevin Owocki on Twitter via Octavian >

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As the OP Stack family has added a new army, its sequencer revenue is used for the first time in the public goods funding mechanism.