Gitcoin grant round 12 started on Wednesday 1st of December to Thursday 16th of December 2021. In gitcoin grant round 12 over $6.1M was raised . More than 27k contributors donated to gitcoin grant 12 .Gitcoin grants round 12 is the most successful grant round so far.
WHY GITCOIN GRANT ROUND 12 MOST SUCCESSFUL GRANT
Round 1 in Q1 of 2019 $38k was raised
Round 2 in Q2 2019 $56k was raised
Round 3 in Q3 2019 $270k was raised
Round 4 in Q1 2020 $344k was raised
Round 5 in Q2 2020 $475k was raised
Round 6 in July 2020 $401k was raised
Round 7 in September 2020 $700k was raised
Round 8 in December 2020 $1M was raised
Round 9 in march 2021 $1.9M was raised
Round 10 in june 2021 $1.6M was raised
Round 11 in September 2021 $2.5M was raised
Round 12 in December 2021 $6.5M was raised
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In gitcoin grant round 12 was improved with new features like
polygon checkout ,
many new side rounds and thematic rounds .
TOP 10 GRANT BY MATCHING AMOUNT
INTRODUCTION OF SINGLE POOL
single pool experiment was introduced in gitcoin grant round 12 which is divergence from main pool .
GITCOIN GRANT ROUND 12 ECOSYSTEM
gitcoin grant round 12 proved be more successful, by running 5 ecosystem round in GR12 (uniswap grants , polygon Grant’s, synthetix grant, Forefront Grant’s and Zk tech Grant’s) compared 1 ecosystem round in GR11(Uniswap grants).
GR12 also saw the introduction of Gitcoin’s decentralized grant protocol (Dgrants)
CONCLUSION
Am profusely happy for the record breaking grant 12 . Gitcoin is always getting better.