We’re here with our last hurrah before we head into 2021. Read on for the latest news on select recipients!
gitcoin for CLR matching
from Gitcoin CLR Grants were one of the first real world uses of quadratic fundingwith the number of unique contributors to a grant that leads Greater weight than the total in dollars to determine the amount of the counterpart.
CLR grants have come a long way since the first round in early 2018! With 16 organizations and almost as many people pledging matching funds from round 8, has become a true community-driven support system for the many open source contributors to the ecosystem. The platform itself has also matured, with recent user interface enhancements including:
- A “shopping cart” that allows users to donate to multiple grants at once and share their cart with friends
- Integration of zksync to scale, allowing multiple donations to be integrated into a single transaction
- collections so users can keep track of their favorites or explore other people’s top picks
EIP 1559 R&D
Proposing changes to the Ethereum fee market, EIP 1559 has been a focus of community-wide discussion and development since 2019. A recent multi-recipient grant went to support continued research and development driven by the Community: Consensys received funding to help coordinate research and development efforts, while funds sent to 1559 multisig are managed by signers from various organizations to support community efforts, including client deployment, infrastructure, rewards for errors and disclosure.
There has been with alot of work done in EIP 1559 prior to this grant, and that progress hasn’t slowed down! A small sample of recent updates:
Track EIP 1559 R&D progress via Tim Beiko’s regular page updates, implementers call notesor keep an eye on him main network preparation checklist.
A few more quick mentions
And of course we can’t leave without acknowledging the massive achievement of all customer teams and other builders who contributed to December 1st eth2 beacon chain launch!
Until next year :hey:
