GG22 Community Round Proposal - Growing the Public Gardens 🌱

[paul2]

Name of Proposed Round:

Growing the Public Gardens - by 1Hive & Gardens v2

Description:

Gardens v2, incubated by the 1Hive DAO, is a community funding platform specializing in Conviction Voting and enforceable Community Covenants. This round is dedicated to communities building on Gardens v2, funding Council Safes to help boost their community’s growth.

Social Handle of Your Organization:

Twitter/X: gardens_fund and 1hiveorg

Farcaster: gardens

Eligibility Criteria:

• Project has an active community on Gardens v2 by October 17, 2024.
  To create a community on Gardens v2, go to https://app.gardens.fund - available on Optimism, Arbitrum, Polygon, and Gnosis Chain networks.
• Project’s beneficiary address is the Gardens community’s Council Safe address Gardens v2 community.
• Project’s Community Covenant in Gardens v2 states the shared purpose and values of the Community clearly.
• Project is incubating shared value for non-private goods (OK for the org to also have private goods or services being sold separate from this). Some examples include open-source software projects, public goods providers, web3 and real world communities, token ecosystems, L1/L2/L3 networks, clubs, interest groups, and activists.
• Funding from this round will be distributed through Gardens v2, either through Funding Pools or using results of Signaling Pools (learn more at https://docs.gardens.fund/) .
• Projects need to set-up a Karma GAP profile or provide information in a public database with their updates (eg. Notion).

Marketing Plan:

Gardens is in contact with nearly 100 communities who have all expressed interest in trying out the platform and/or using Conviction Voting. We plan to focus on these communities for marketing for this round, helping them set up on Gardens and giving them the resources and support they need to run successful pilots on Gardens v2 beta version.

1Hive marketing plan, which has channels, audience and team who will be executing on promotion of your round.]

Separate from reaching out to communities that Gardens is already in contact with, 1Hive and Gardens will run a collaborative marketing campaign on X/Twitter, Discord, and Farcaster to get the word out to our wider community and audience.

Round History:

If approved this will be our first Round being run on Gitcoin as an organization. Our team and advisors have extensive experience in running rounds and have onboarded/consulted other organizations as well. We are confident in our ability to manage and run this round in a way that doesn’t only support our goals as 1Hive/Gardens, but grows the public goods pie for all.

Team Running This Round:

Clearly identify the round operator with relevant experience, and provide detailed bios and social handle links for at least two additional team members, emphasizing their relevant experience.

• Round Operator 1: @paul2
  Gardens Project Lead and 1Hive Contributor, 4 years full time experience in public goods crypto, Paul_Glavin on X/Twitter
• Round Operator 2: @Sov
  Experienced GG round operator, Cartographer’s Syndicate Lead, sovereignsignal on X/Twitter
• Gardens Lead Dev: @Gossman
  Full Stack web3 engineer, 1HIve contributor since 2022, leading Gardens platform build and community support, Corantin101 on X/Twitter

Alignment with Gitcoin’s Intents:

1Hive is one of the first DAOs in web3 that supported public goods. Gardens v2 is built on Allo Protocol, meaning all funding allocated to Council Safes in this round will directly contribute to Allo GMV.

Anticipated Size of the Matching Pool:

• The matching pool is anticipated to be $10,000, raised by 1HIve
• Funding address: 0xc6c2E9EFB898A42DB4137B07b727b45e0C353d81
• 1Hive’s treasury is currently over $600k, so if this round is successful the community can support many rounds like this going forward.

Advisors for This Round:

Clearly identify any advisors and their relevant experience. Indicate if any have run a round for Gitcoin or participated in running a round in the past. List any advisors and their relevant experience.

• @ZER8 - Round Operator for 5 GG matching rounds
• @sejalrekhan - experienced Gitcoin contributor and running a Gardens v2 Council Safe with Sov.

Funding Mechanism:

Gardens v2

https://docs.gardens.fund

Community Size and Engagement:

Gardens:

X/Twitter: 1.8k followers
Discord: 100+ members
Communities building on Gardens v2: 10, with 80+ requests for access
Fundraising: $70k raised in 2024 to date from Grants, donations, hackathon winnings and DAO funding proposals.

1Hive:

X/Twitter: 6.5k followers
Discord: 1k members

Gardens Success performance metrics:

• TVL (tokens staked in communities + tokens in funding pools + tokens in Council Safes
• Number of Active Communities
• Number of Community Members
• Number of Pools, Proposals, and Disputes
• Qualitative responses from users on their satisfaction with the platform

Type of Projects to Fund:

• We aim to fund projects that help grow the public goods pie in a tangible way
• We aim to help nurture experimental concepts that can grow into public greats
• Projects that help 1Hive and Gitcoin gain more visibility as organizations
• Experimental ideas/concepts that can lead to more Gitcoin <> 1Hive synergies
• Projects that lead to positive sum games in the space that are interoperable and have not been funded

Estimated Number of Eligible Grantees:

• 50 expected applications

Impact Assessment Plan:

• We intend to assess grantee impact through multiple methods such as Karma GAP, reputation tooling, etc
• Projects that do not have or wish to set-up a Karma profile will detailed milestones will not be accepted into the round
• We will use Convex Funding to assess the potential impact of our grantees as well

Additional Considerations:

N/A

Potential Conflicts of Interest:

ZER8 is on the Gitcoin Community Council and will not vote in support of this round directly or indirectly by not supporting other rounds.

This would include if any round operations team members are part of any projects participating to receive/get a grant

More Information:

If you do not receive matching funds from Gitcoin, will you still participate in the round?

No, if matching funds were not approved then 1Hive would directly fund Gardens Council Safes.

[MathildaDV]

Thank you @paul2 for this proposal! Really exciting to see this come through for GG22! If the council has questions throughout the week of voting and reviewing next week, they will comment on this post to check in.

[MathildaDV]

@paul2 I did have one note. The requirement for running a round is having at least one experienced round operator, so I would suggest that you ask one of your advisors to step in as another round operator, because they all have the adequate experience needed. Due to the fact that @ZER8 is a council member, I would recommend that you include @Sov as a round operator alongside you (if he would be able and willing!)

[paul2]

Thanks Mathilda - Sov will be joining as our 2nd Round Operator

Updated the forum post to reflect this.

[thedevanshmehta]

Congrats on being the toughest application i had to review for GG22

Although this will be your first time running the round, i gave good points to team since you have experienced operators like Sov, sejal and zer8 who run sessions for others to learn.

I also like your integration with the conviction funding mechanism. Over time i think QF needs to interplay with different allocation mechanisms to succeed, this is a case of that since hives is built on the allo protocol. In other words, clear alignment with gitcoin intents!

However, i confess to not fully understanding the flow of funds here. It did not help that for the question on the funding mechanism, you simply linked to your documents which did not contain fully relevant and concise information. Would have appreciated you taking the effort to give a blurb rather than linking to documents here

Anyways, from what i understand grantees enter their gardens v2safe as recipient address. Matching & donations go to this address. After they meet their milestones (convex funding) or have conviction voting? then the funds raised in the round are disbursed to projects. It was overall unclear how it actually works and required some guesswork on my part.

An orange flag was saying you are in touch with 100s of teams and 10 already building on it, but a visit to your site shows few communities onboarded so far.

I understand that you will be using this round to drum up other communities to launch on gardens, i would have still liked clear acknowledgement of the low adoption so far. and the numbers for v1 would have let me accurately score you on community, as it stands i had to grade you on community size using twitter follower numbers which isn’t the best source.

on impact assessment, I like that projects need to setup a public page or use karma gap to be eligible. However, i did not see any explanation of convex funding in your application; thankfully, @wasabi explained that “CF is a grant funding mechanism in which the rewards or benefits increase disproportionately as certain outcomes/milestones are achieved. The concept is derived from the mathematical idea of “convexity,” where a function’s rate of change increases as input values grow.”

Next time, would appreciate more explanation of these terms especially since i couldn’t find convex funding even through a google search!

Overall, an exciting experiment and I will be personally tracking the progress of gardens. the credibility of the team, the boldness of the experiment and the decent matching committed outweighed other factors during my assessment. Good luck!

[paul2]

Appreciate the constructive feedback Devansh! Apologies for not making this an easy review - we’ve got great advisors as you’ve noticed but as a first round application there’s a lot for us (me especially) to learn.

Regarding platform onboarding - note that most of the teams building for gardens haven’t yet created a community on the platform yet. There’s significant work to do before community is ready to be deployed, like the organizing of a Council Safe that will moderate the community and writing a Covenant that’s published to IPFS when the community is created.

As you’ve noticed our documentation is quite lengthy and not a great first resource for onboarding, so we’re working directly with communities on their setup in the meantime while we develop a more onboarding-friendly “how to grow using Gardens” Notion (still WIP).

I expect by GG23 we’ll have way more of these kinks worked out!

[MathildaDV]

Congratulations @paul2 ! GG22 Community Rounds Announced

[paul2]

Growing the Public Gardens: Gitcoin Community Round Results

Growing Gardens Communities through Quadratic Funding

TL;DR

• Successfully concluded a community round focused on growing Gardens ecosystem projects

• $30,000 total matching pool jointly sponsored by Gitcoin and 1Hive

• Round operated on Arbitrum network on Gitcoin

• Used Connection-Oriented Cluster-Matching (COCM) for Sybil resistance

• Notable projects like Token Engineering Commons, Public Nouns, and several chapters in the Greenpill network received strong community support.

Round Overview

The “Growing the Public Gardens” community round represents a collaborative effort between Gitcoin and 1Hive to support and expand the Gardens ecosystem. This initiative demonstrates our commitment to fostering decentralized community funding through Gardens, empowering projects that contribute to the growth and sustainability of public goods.

Key Metrics

• Total Matching Pool: $30,000 USDC

• $20,000 contributed by Gitcoin

• $10,000 contributed by 1Hive

• Total Donations: $4,210.57

• Platform: Arbitrum Network

• Matching Algorithm: 100% COCM (Connection-Oriented Cluster-Matching)

• Passport Integration: 100% of addresses scored using Passport

COCM Implementation

The round utilized pure COCM matching (100%) rather than traditional QF or blended approaches. This choice was made because:

• Round size (<$50k) made it optimal for pure COCM

• Provided better weighting for established community members

• Full Passport integration on Arbitrum provided robust Sybil resistance

• Removed front-end authentication requirements of Passport while maintaining scoring benefits

• Improved matching for projects with strong community connections

• Protected against potential manipulation through isolated wallet clusters

• Reduced friction for donors while preserving security

Notable Projects

The top 5 projects by matching funds received were:

• 1Hive Gardens
• Token Engineering Commons
• $EARTH
• Treegens
• GreenPill Brasil

Here’s the full list of projects with matching funding amounts earned in the round:

The projects earning the most matching funds demonstrated strong community connections as evidenced by their positioning in the COCM visualization’s “meaty core” - showing genuine community support rather than isolated donation patterns.

Analysis & Insights

You can view the round results in Gitcoin’s QF Calculator. The COCM visualization revealed a healthy distribution pattern:

• A dense central network of interconnected donors and projects

• Strong community overlap between successful projects

• Limited peripheral or isolated donation patterns

• Some projects (including Passport, ironically) saw reduced matching due to disconnected donor patterns

Looking Forward

This round establishes a foundation for future Gardens ecosystem funding initiatives. The success of the COCM implementation and Passport integration provides valuable insights for future rounds:

• Confirms the effectiveness of running rounds on Passport-supported networks

• Demonstrates the value of pure COCM for community-focused rounds

• Shows the strength of the Gardens community in supporting ecosystem projects

• Serves as a Proof of Concept for integrating QF and Conviction Voting via Gardens.

In future rounds we can gauge the traction of the Gardens communities for this round’s beneficiaries and incorporate success benchmarks in project eligibility for future QF funding. This will help give projects clear growth targets and performance benchmarks they can use to measure the success of their communities on Gardens and continuously improve.

Next Steps

The round operators will proceed with:

1. Funding the round contract from both sponsor safes

2. Finalizing results using the Grants Stack dashboard

3. Processing payouts to grantees through the safe

The Gardens Core Team will proceed with:

1. Developing resources like How to Grow using Gardens further to help with healthy adoption of the Gardens platform.

2. Providing ongoing support for beneficiaries on Gardens - helping projects source decisions and allocate resources with Conviction Voting so they can grow their communities as effectively as possible.

3. Incorporating feedback from communities on the Gardens platform so we can continually improve and serve their needs better.

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to:

• Gitcoin and 1Hive for their matching pool contributions

• Gardens Core Team for building and releasing the best conviction voting app to date.

• Gardens communities for rallying their communities and actively participating

• Let’s Grow DAO for their tireless promotion of GG22 and this Round in their 24/7 Space

• Round operators who brought their extensive experience to ensure a smooth execution

Conclusion

The “Growing the Public Gardens” round successfully demonstrated the power of quadratic funding in supporting decentralized community initiatives. Through careful technical implementation and strong community participation, we’ve taken another step forward in growing the Gardens ecosystem.

Our next step is to support beneficiaries in using Gardens to maximize the ROI of the investment of their matching funding in their communities. This will take a combination of hands-on guidance, incorporating user feedback, and trial and error of the first experiments that are now possible with Gardens new modular conviction voting stack.

If successful, we plan to offer this round again in GG23 and going forward to further improve the link between QF + QV, increase GMV for Allo Protocol, and most importantly, grow the decentralized communities and ecosystems that depend on this technology to thrive.