Funding the Commons

Exploring new models & mechanisms for public goods funding, via events, residencies, hackathons & real-world pilots. Incubated by @ProtocolLabs. 🤝

[Funding the Commons @FundingCommons]

The Internet Freedom round with @torproject closes today. 🌐

Last hours to support 10 projects keeping the web open and free, with nearly $185K in matching funds.

Supported by @cakewallet @Logos_network @OctantApp @ZcashCommGrants

https://t.co/vfBC9NPTUI

[Funding the Commons @FundingCommons]

Octant Epoch 12 is open beyond GLM holders this round: anyone with ETH can support the participating projects, and even small donations get matched and amplified.

Grateful to be participating. Open through June 30. 👇
https://t.co/IWhZNE2zEW

[renaissancing @renaissancing_]

we are building nothing less than the machinery of freedom - not just for today, but for the next thousand years

[Octant @OctantApp]

Delightful news from the EF. $30,000 more in matching to support a free and open internet.

Today’s the last day to participate. Every dollar counts and no $ is too small.

[Funding the Commons @FundingCommons]

@rakshitaphilip @OctantApp Thanks for donating! BTC, ETH, and transparent ZEC show up here (and in your wallet): https://t.co/B5nl7vLo64

Monero stays private by design, but it still reaches the project. 🙏

[franzi @_franzihei]

Long live internet freedom! ✊
Our community is used to quadratic funding rounds quite a bit already, but this must be the first time (?) that such a funding mechanism actually branches out of our Ethereum bubble. Exciting! Let's support them - I just participated 🖤

[Funding the Commons @FundingCommons]

@ScorpiusAlphaX 🙌🙌🙌

[Ethereum Foundation @ethereumfndn]

2/ The Ethereum Foundation will be contributing USD 30,000 to the matching pool to support an open and free internet.

Participate here.
https://t.co/tn3JLol2Ry

[Seth For Privacy @sethforprivacy]

Last chance!

[Ethereum @ethereum]

The Internet Freedom funding round by @torproject and @FundingCommons closes today.

[Ethereum Foundation @ethereumfndn]

1/ Today is the final day to support the quadratic funding round for Internet Freedom by @torproject and @FundingCommons.

Donations go to 10 organizations working across privacy, anti-censorship, and secure-journalism projects.

[Octant @OctantApp]

HAPPENING NOW: We're chatting with @poojaranjan19 from @ECHInstitute, @david1casey from @FundingCommons, and @maggielove_ from @shefiorg.

Our special co-host joining @nicnode today is Alex Sotos @alexsotodigital. Alex is a governance and coordination specialist helping distributed organizations make decisions, process tensions, and learn from experience over time.

He works at the intersection of theory and practice: studying, designing, facilitating, and experimenting.

[Octant @OctantApp]

AI for communities. Blessing or Curse? with @shefiorg, @FundingCommons and @ECHInstitute https://t.co/1dX0nO2EIi

[Web3Privacy Now @web3privacy]

Last day to support the Internet Freedom campaign by @torproject & @FundingCommons

Act now >> https://t.co/JiCw3wlvEF

See 🧵 to learn why

[Funding the Commons @FundingCommons]

@0xMatt @torproject @Logos_network @cakewallet @OctantApp @web3privacy @SecureDrop @r2refresh @OpenObservatory @PasKoocheh @unredacted_org @ZcashCommGrants Hi Matt, thanks for letting us know! If you have a chance, please send us a screenshot of the page & we'll try to fix with Coinbase or adjust for future rounds!

[Funding the Commons @FundingCommons]

Consider this your badge. ✊

If you've backed our Internet Freedom round with @torproject, or you're about to, repost and let people know where you stand.

The round closes June 18. Support #InternetFreedom 🌐

https://t.co/vfBC9NPTUI

[OONI @OpenObservatory]

📢 Only 15 hours left to support OONI in the internet freedom quadratic funding campaign: https://t.co/dqy0wMTlCU 🐙✨

Your support enables us to provide free tools for detecting internet censorship and to continue hosting the world's largest open dataset on internet censorship, supporting research and advocacy worldwide.

Because this is a quadratic funding campaign, even small donations can have an outsized impact.

Thank you for your support 🙏❤️

#FundInternetFreedom

@torproject
@FundingCommons
@web3privacy
@cakewallet
@ZcashCommGrants
@Logos_network
@OctantApp
@SecureDrop
@guardianproject
@BPFreeSpeech
@open_archive
@PasKoocheh
@unredacted_org

[Golem Foundation @GolemFoundation]

Today is the final day of @torproject's & @FundingCommons #FundInternetFreedom round.

$GLM is accepted for direct donations alongside BTC, ETH, XMR, and ZEC - across ten Tor-curated internet-freedom projects.

Quadratic matching closes with the round, with @OctantApp among the backers of the matching pool.

https://t.co/lNkDEhGK9J

[Funding the Commons @FundingCommons]

@alexabelonix GM GM Alexa!

[Funding the Commons @FundingCommons]

Gm to everyone who supports a free & open web. 🌐

[Funding the Commons @FundingCommons]

@polymutex @torproject @Logos_network @cakewallet @OctantApp @web3privacy @SecureDrop @r2refresh @OpenObservatory @PasKoocheh @unredacted_org @ZcashCommGrants Hi! The addresses are still going to be active, so you'll only miss out on the matching. Hopefully there'll be future roudns, too!

[Ethereum @ethereum]

Ethereum is for shipping.

Here are 25 things the Ethereum ecosystem launched, upgraded, and announced over the past month.

0/ @thedaofund Ethereum Security Quadratic Funding Round with @Giveth wrapped. The fund supported 134 security projects and had 3,934 unique donors.

1/ @Ronin_Network, one of the largest gaming blockchains, completed its migration to an Ethereum L2.

2/ Clear Signing went live. It is an open standard designed to help end blind signing and make transaction data human-readable before signing. Contributors include wallets and hardware, infrastructure, tooling, individual builders, and the Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security initiative, with the @ethereumfndn acting as a neutral steward.

3/ @SEAL_911 and @Wonderland_Fi introduced DARC, a Digital Asset Risk & Compliance standard for crypto teams, with continuous monitoring across GitHub, infrastructure, multisigs, DNS, and more.

4/ @arbitrum announced that LG Electronics' blockchain team is piloting an onchain advertising network on Arbitrum.

5/ @base activated Azul, its first standalone network upgrade, introducing multiproofs, new execution and consensus clients, CLZ opcode support, Osaka repricings, and performance upgrades up to 5,000 TPS.

6/ @Mastercard expanded stablecoin settlement support to include USDC, PYUSD, USDG, USDP, and SoFiUSD on Ethereum mainnet, @arbitrum, and @base.

7/ @EFDevcon 8 Mumbai early bird tickets went live. Tickets were available paid in ETH.

8/ Türkiye's Directorate of Communications (@Communications) registered cbiletisim.eth, making its first step in establishing an official onchain identity with @ensdomains.

9/ @CashApp launched stablecoin support, allowing nearly 60 million users to send and receive USDC with no wallet setup required, live on Ethereum mainnet and @Arbitrum.

10/ @torproject and @FundingCommons launched a web3-native crowdfunding initiative supporting 10 internet freedom projects.

11/ @JPMorgan launched a second tokenized money market fund on Ethereum.

11/ @lifiprotocol launched LIFI Intents, a full-stack intent execution engine built on the Open Intents Framework, an initiative for standardizing crosschain intents.

12/ @l2beat launched Token Frameworks, a dedicated place to explore interoperability solutions, token movement, volume, speed, chains, and framework adoption.

13/ @PrivacyEthereum launched a private transfers dashboard comparing 11 protocols across privacy, cost, UX, decentralization, compliance, verifiability, state, and composability.

14/ @Veildotcash launched Veil MCP 0.2.0, enabling agents to make private x402 payments on @base.

15/ @src_co_ introduced SLOW, reversible, self-custodial crypto payments on Ethereum.

16/ @ensdomains ecosystem builders launched ENS8004, a web app that converts an ENS name into an onchain AI agent other applications can find and verify.

17/ @OctantApp introduced properQF in Epoch 12, integrating quadratic funding into the funding round.

18/ @AragonProject launched onchain profiles, making governance participants readable across forums by resolving ENS names, avatars, bios, websites, and social links from Ethereum mainnet.

19/ The Ethereum Community Hub network expanded to Lisbon, hosted at the @gnosisDAO office.

20/ @SuccinctLabs introduced data confidentiality to OP Succinct, enabling institutions to keep transactions confidential while settling to Ethereum.

21/ @HardhatHQ 3 became stable, bringing Solidity tests, multichain support, a Rust-powered runtime, a revamped build system, and Hardhat Ignition for deployments.

22/ The inaugural @ethconf, in NYC, brought together thousands of founders, industry leaders, and builders to discuss building on top of Ethereum.

23/ @EthPrague brought Ethereum builders together in Prague to discuss protocol development, privacy, culture, and long- term societal impact.

24/ @ETHGlobal introduced a new format where, for the first time at an ETHGlobal hackathon, projects do not have to begin from zero.