We ask our Community Stewards to ratify the GR15 payout amounts as being correct, fair, and abiding to community norms, including the judgments and sanctions made by the Fraud Detection & Defense workstream.
The full list of final results & payout amounts can be found here.
We would like to suggest voting on Snapshot to begin on Wednesday, October 5th in advance of payouts being made on Friday, October 14th.
Options to vote on:
1. Ratify the round results
You ratify the results as reported by the Public Goods Funding & Fraud Detection & Defense workstreams and request the keyholders of the community multisig to payout funds according to the GR15 final payout amounts through the non-custodial GR15 deployment contract.
2. Request further deliberation
You do not ratify the results and request keyholders of the community multi-sig wallet to delay payment until further notice.
TLDR from the GR15 Round [blog post to follow on Monday]:
- Grants Round 15 (GR15) ran from September 7-22, 2022.
- Almost $4.4M will be distributed to public goods as part of the round, of which $3.1M came from the combined matching pools and $1.3M was contributed by the community.
- Strong participation from the community with over 39,700 contributors making over 465,000 contributions to over 1,400 grants.
- GR15 featured 17 rounds:
- The main round
- 12 Ecosystem rounds: Aurora, a16z, Eth Infra (Coinbase, Yearn), ENS, Forta, Loot, Mask, Open Gaming, PlanckerDAO & Scroll, Polygon, Unlock Protocol, ZKTech
- 4 cause rounds: Climate Solutions, Advocacy â Crypto Regulation, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Decentralized Science (DeSci) [NEW]
- In GR15, we had the same main pool structure as we have the past three rounds â in GR12, the community chose to pilot a single pool approach with a maximum cap for the main round rather than a category-based setup. The main round funded over 1,000 grants with over $800,000 in funding. While this is a huge contribution to funding public goods, we have reached the scale that requires us to potentially refocus the Gitcoin grants program. The generality of the round and broad eligibility policy criteria made for a challenging review process at this scale. As a result there may be changes to the main round as we rethink how we structure the Gitcoin grants program when we move it to the protocol.
- In GR15 the main pool was smaller in total funds ($500,000) but it is the first round that we did not use any of the funds from the multisig (last round we pulled the full $1M that funded the main round matching pool from the multisig). This is a huge success around rallying more support for our main round as a whole.
Weâre excited for GR16 and beyond as we reconsider how we run our Gitcoin Grants Program in the process of transitioning it successfully to the protocol.
FDDâs Governance Brief for an overview of sybil detection will be out soon, stay tuned.
For questions, comments, or concerns on any of the above, please comment below or join the Gitcoin Discord.