I think you should feel good that Gitcoin has impacted many lives.
Stats from: https://impact.gitcoin.co/
There are more case studies on https://impact.gitcoin.co/ also
Tho I do wince at the idea of a motive to make a profit from $GTC. We have always been very careful not to promise profit or create an expectation of profit. And to advise people to do their own research, not give more $$ than they can afford to lose, and other best practices…
This is because crypto is very risky (and especially small caps like Gitcoin are especially risky), and while we are working hard to make Gitcoin successful, there is no guarantee that Gitcoin is going to make it.
I thought a debate worth having was whether gitcoin’s treasury should seek upside in alumni projects (a treasury question; gtc itself would confer no economic rights either way).
For example a project like uniswap now has a $10bn fully dilluted value, but got some of its first capital on Gitcoin. But the same is also true for other alumni: 1inch exchange, walletconnect, and so on…
If Gitcoin was able to get just 1% of each of these projects at seed stage, it would be a viable business for a very long time.
Gitcoin has an unfair competitive advantage over other seed stage investors/funders bc it finds the coolest, newest, best stuff, first. If it were to launch a venture fund I think it would do very well. (to be explicit: this was musing about organizational strategy, not a representation about gtc. no fund was launched.)
That said, I think there are other worthwhile ideas here too:
clarification (added 2026-08-04): this post was exploratory thinking shared for community debate, not an offer or a promise. gtc is a governance token with no economic rights, as it has been since launch in may 2021. finances discussed on the gov forum are those of gitcoin’s organizational entities. comments here entertained community-proposed mechanisms (buybacks, alumni upside) as topics for governance debate. entertaining a debate is not a commitment, and none of these mechanisms were implemented. dyor.
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