ENS Ecosystem Gitcoin Grants Round 22 Results

The GG22 ENS Ecosystem Round has ended and the ecosystem working group is happy to share the matching results!

TL;DR

  • $80,138 to ENS builders in GG22
  • Utilized Gitcoin’s Connection-oriented cluster-matching (COCM) to allocate $70k USDC to the participating projects
  • Top 5 teams receiving matching from the round are Fluidkey, eth.limo, blocksmith.js, eth.cd, and Blockscout
  • Thank you to Gitcoin and donors

ENS x Gitcoin

This was ENS’s sixth time supporting builders via Gitcoin! We’ve witnesed it grow from mainnet to L2s and onto a set of permissionless contracts instead of a centralized solution.

Key Metrics:

$70,000 Matching Pool
$10,138 Crowdfunded
3,428 Contributions
1,995 Unique Contributors
42 Participating Projects

:bulb: Project Spotlight

The 5 projects receiving funding from the round:

  1. With FluidKey, you can receive and manage funds onchain without publicly linking them to a user, all while using an ENS domain
  2. eth.limo is a privacy-preserving ENS gateway, enabling users to access Ethereum-native dApps and content
  3. Blocksmith makes it easy for developers to properly test an ENS contract with CCIP-Read
  4. eth.cd creates real-time, living profiles for every .eth name. it’s a gateway to explore, connect, and engage with ENS users
  5. Blockscout is an open-source block explorer that provides ENS support across L2s

You can find project specific metrics by searching on gitcoindonordata.com

The Matching Calculator

To combat sybil attacks, we employed Gitcoin’s COCM (Connection-Oriented Cluster Matching) algorithim as we had in GG20. The COCM analysis page can be found here.

Thank you!

Gitcoin

Thank you to Gitcoin for providing the tools necesary to run this round. It’s a unique and novel onchain experience that we believe pushes the grants space forward. The Gitcoin team was helpful and responsive to our requests.

Additionally, thank you to the Gitcoin Community Council for selecting us as a community round to receive an additional 20k USDC, growing the matching pool from 50k to 70k USDC.

Donors

Thank you to everyone who donated! Gitcoin highlights the desires of the people and by donating you are signaling support for the projects you know and love Quadratic funding isn’t possible without you!

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Distributions have been made.

In true Thanksgiving fashion, thank you all for building on ENS. :turkey: :saluting_face:

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