Episode 94 - Gitcoin - “Empowering communities to fund, build, and protect what matters” with Quadratic Funding

In episode 94, we’re excited to welcome Connor O’Day from Gitcoin, a Decentralized Autonomous Organization that is “empowering communities to fund, build, and protect what matters.” We discuss what the heck Quadratic Funding is at its core, how Web3 can empower communities and revolutionize crowdfunding, the incredible impacts of the Gitcoin grants protocol, and much more.

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~Three Key Takeaways~

• Quadratic Funding is the mathematically optimal way to fund public goods – putting more power in the hands of the community, as opposed to those with more resources.
• Traditional donation systems can be disempowering to smaller donors as they may feel that their donation doesn’t have a large impact. With Quadratic Funding’s matching mechanism, however, the impact of smaller donors is amplified.
• The future use cases of Quadratic Funding go well beyond just grant funding and could extend to other community-driven funding activities such as participatory budgeting.
  
  

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