What are the notable projects in the 15th round of the Gitcoin donation campaign?

Author: Biscuit, Chain Catcher

The 15th round of the Gitcoin donation campaign (GR15) officially launched on September 7 and will run until the 22nd. As the most influential donation platform and event in the crypto industry, Gitcoin positions itself as the place for the birth, validation, and funding of web3 projects. If any project is available for free use by everyone and has a positive impact on the world, it may qualify to participate in the Gitcoin donation campaign and gain economic benefits from its contributions to the community.

What makes Gitcoin unique is that it uses quadratic funding to help projects and organizations raise funds. Before each round of donation activities, Gitcoin raises funds from various parties in the crypto industry to match the actual donations made by users in each round. For specific matching models, refer to the "Comprehensive Understanding of Gitcoin: Technical Solutions and Current Weaknesses in Public Goods Fundraising."

As of this round, Gitcoin has distributed over $64 million in donation funds. Over three years, Gitcoin has facilitated more than 2,500 grants from tens of thousands of unique donors, involving over 2 million donations.

In this round of donations, the total matching funds committed from the crypto industry exceed $2.8 million, setting a new record. This includes the main round ($500,000), four cause rounds ($1 million matching pool), and 13 ecosystem rounds ($1.3 million+ matching pool).

In the main round, GR15 will distribute $500,000 in matching funds through quadratic funding, which can greatly assist in funding and sustaining future Web3 projects.

The four cause rounds will match projects with $1 million, covering climate solutions, crypto advocacy/regulation, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), as well as the newly added decentralized science (DeSci).

The ecosystem rounds will match projects with $1.3 million, including three brand new rounds. The ecosystem rounds fund grants that support specific ecosystem goals, such as Ethereum, Polygon, or Optimism. The newly added three rounds are a16z (@a16z), Greater China Community (@PlanckerDao), and Forta (@FortaNetwork).

Currently, over 2,800 projects have registered and participated in donations on the Gitcoin official website. Compared to previous donation events, the number of popular tracks like DeFi and NFTs has decreased in GR15, while the mention frequency of education and community projects has increased.

This article highlights some noteworthy projects in GR15 compiled by Chain Catcher.

ChainEye

ChainEye is an open-source full-chain analysis tool used by over 80,000 users. It currently features BridgeEye (cross-chain bridge comparison tool), On-chain & CEX transfer fee (chain & CEX transfer fee query), Multichain Gas (multi-chain gas fee query), and more.

In the future, ChainEye will also develop new features such as a security module and an NFT module. ChainEye promises to provide users with free data services permanently and will return the ToB revenue of the tool to the community and users.

Official website: https://chaineye.tools/

Cryptoant

Cryptoant is a Dapp for managing payment requests, payroll, and reports for DAOs, serving as an add-on application to Gnosis Safes. It allows DAO administrators to set up recurring payments (such as salaries), receive payment/refund requests from members, and create annotated transaction histories for approved and/or rejected payments. Additionally, Cryptoant supports batch execution of payments in a single multi-signature transaction.

Official website: http://www.cryptoant.club/

Contri.build

Contri.build is a web3 community credential infrastructure centered on the interaction data layer between people and organizations, using the SBT protocol (community credentials) as a carrier. It serves as an entry point for community management SaaS, forging the relationship between people and organizations into an SBT, completing the missing interaction data between people and organizations in the web3 ecosystem, allowing everyone to gain on-chain reputation through contributions, and enabling DAOs to manage members based on their on-chain identities.

Notably, Contri.build is a product born during a hackathon and won first place in this year's Wanxiang Hackathon. The donation actions can also be recorded within the Contri.build product.

Official website: https://contri.build

Lenstube

Lenstube is an open-source Web3 video-sharing social media platform based on the Lens protocol, running on the Polygon mainnet. Creators can upload their content to Arweave, with data permanently stored on Polygon. With low gas fees, users can publish their video content and monetize it. Additionally, viewers can support users by minting their favorite content and tipping, or by joining channels through memberships.

Lenstube aims to develop a decentralized video-sharing application that allows content creators to own their video content and always monetize it through various means (such as an NFT module).

Official website: https://lenstube.xyz/

LXDAO

LXDAO is a DAO focused on research and development. LX stands for conscience, representing the core values of the community: doing sustainable and valuable things. The community gathers builders to construct and maintain valuable Web3 projects sustainably.

First, LX builders post an idea in the community, and builders discuss it. This is like a brainstorming phase. Once the idea matures, builders skilled in product management begin designing the product, and project managers propose it (including development resources, budget, etc.). Then, a community vote is conducted. Once approved, the project manager will start assembling a team with the appropriate skills from the community. During development, the project manager needs to write a project progress report weekly.

Official website: https://lxdao.io/

Lenster

Lenster is a decentralized, permissionless social media application built on the Lens Protocol. Lenster operates on the Polygon network and only requires users to submit a username (chosen by the user) and a wallet address, without collecting any sensitive information, providing good privacy for users.

Additionally, Lenster hosts data on the decentralized file storage system IPFS, meaning there is no downtime, and no one can DDoS the platform.

Official website: https://lenster.xyz/

SyncSwap

SyncSwap is a decentralized exchange (DEX) built by the zkSync development team MatterLabs, bringing easy-to-use, fast, and low-cost DeFi to everyone, powered by zero-knowledge technology to inherit Ethereum's security.

SyncSwap supports customizable fee structures, advanced routing, voting escrow token models, and governance, among other features. Additionally, SyncSwap focuses on user experience, adopting a newly designed interface and fast, low-cost L2 technology. SyncSwap's vision is to establish a fully seamless, easy-to-use, and feature-rich one-stop DeFi hub.

Official website: https://syncswap.xyz/

StarkDeFi

StarkDeFi is a DeFi hub based on StarkNet, aimed at increasing the adoption of blockchain technology using ZK-Rollup technology. The protocol facilitates and simplifies the onboarding process for "next-generation users" in the blockchain space through a hub that accommodates various DeFi solutions. StarkDeFi products include decentralized exchanges (DEX), yield aggregators, NFT minting platforms, staking pools, Launchpads, and more.

Official website: https://www.starkdefi.com/

Scopefy

The Scopefy protocol is a Web3 social graph on the Polygon network, designed to empower content creators to own their links with the community, forming a fully composable, user-owned social graph.

Scopefy achieves graph functionality by allowing users to create profiles and interact with each other through these profiles. After creating a profile, users will receive a sequential ID profile NFT. This NFT controls the profile, making its owner the actual controller of the given profile.

Official website: https://www.scopefy.life/

Metopia

Metopia is an infrastructure project for generating on-chain NFT identities and DAO applications, providing users with applications for governance, rewards, and launchpads to create data-based user reputation systems.

The reputation system automatically aggregates user profiles from data protocols (RSS3, Ceramic, Moralis, The Graph, etc.). The governance platform allows for customizing DAO governance strategies based on user contributions and credentials. The rewards certification platform allows the community to reward members' contributions through POAP, SBT, and more.

Metopia serves as the infrastructure for creating user-side reputation systems and a provider of governance based on user reputation, creating new community standards for Web 3, from membership management to community development.

Official website: https://metopia.xyz/

My First NFT

MyFirstNFT is a public welfare and non-profit educational project aimed at Web3 newcomers. MyFirstNFT can answer some basic questions for crypto newcomers, such as the basic concepts of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and NFTs. The team's goal is to help more Web3 enthusiasts easily understand and learn Web3 concepts and knowledge, allowing them to quickly and safely enter the Web3 world.

In the future, MyFirstNFT will add more languages, improve the interactive experience (especially the mobile version), and optimize content to make it easier to understand, hoping to spark more interest in Web3 among people.

Official website: https://myfirstnft.info/

MetaMail

MetaMail is a web3 email provider. MetaMail users use wallets/ENS as email addresses (e.g., suneal.eth@mmail.ink) and sign/encrypt to ensure security. MetaMail is compatible with other emails like Gmail. All these features are completely free.

Users can sign and encrypt emails when using MetaMail. The public key is recorded on the blockchain, eliminating the need to exchange public keys. When users send emails, they sign the entire email content with their private key. Recipients can verify the integrity of the email based on the digital signature.

Email content maintains the traditional email format and is seamlessly transmitted via SMTP to all other email addresses. When sending emails to other MetaMail users, the recipient's public key can be used for end-to-end encryption, ensuring that only the recipient can decrypt the email content.

Official website: https://metamail.ink/

Via

The Via protocol is a cross-chain liquidity aggregation protocol designed to create a fast, efficient, and seamless exchange experience between different blockchains.

The Via protocol can be considered the Visa and Mastercard of cryptocurrency, serving as a single infrastructure that manages transfers and payments between various networks and tokens, overcoming the barriers associated with interacting with multiple DEXs and bridges.

Via grants special status to G13 and G14 donors in Discord.

Official website: https://router.via.exchange/

tProof

tProof is a dApp for generating decentralized timestamp proofs, allowing anyone to prove that a document existed before a given date.

Users can mint two types of tProof proofs: Hash-only for those who only want to publish the file hash on-chain, and Hash-with-file, which uploads the original file to the Arweave permaweb along with the hash, attaching the public URL of the file to the minted tProof via Chainlink Oracles.

The team states that they do not plan to release a token within the next six months, but issuing a token is a necessary evolution of the protocol. The tProof token will take the form of an NFT collection, and holders will share the minting revenue of the product and participate in community governance with voting rights.

Official website: https://tproof.io/

Tally Ho

Tally Ho is an open-source decentralized Web3 wallet that supports Chrome and Brave browsers, featuring an NFT gallery, supporting categorized accounts, offering cheap swaps with no hidden fees, and governed by the community.

A unique feature of the Tally Ho wallet is that it allows users to view all accounts in one view. When users have multiple wallet addresses and assets across these accounts, the overview page becomes very useful. The overview feature provides users with a single view of all accounts to see the total balance of all assets across all accounts.

Official website: https://tally.cash/

Phi

Phi is a social gaming metaverse focused on creating "on-chain identities" using ENS and verified wallet activity, allowing for easy visualization of on-chain identities. It incentivizes users to interact with various Web3 protocols, providing positive feedback for all protocols and accelerating the overall network effects of Web3.

The protocol allows users to generate personalized spaces using their ENS, then claim objects in the game based on their wallet activity. Using these objects, users can build their own Web3 worlds to showcase their on-chain identities.

Official website: https://philand.xyz/