Gitcoin

Gitcoin is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) founded in 2017 with the mission to empower communities to fund their shared needs, particularly open-source software and Ethereum public goods. The platform pioneered the implementation of Quadratic Funding — a democratic mechanism for allocating philanthropic funds developed by Vitalik Buterin in 2018 — through the Gitcoin Grants program launched in 2019. Gitcoin has distributed over $60 million to open-source developers and projects across the Ethereum ecosystem, supporting thousands of projects globally. Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, Gitcoin provides modular, permissionless protocols, funding technology and tooling, and ongoing grants programming to help communities coordinate and fund what matters most. It is widely regarded as the most trusted directory and reference library for Ethereum public goods funding.