On November 5th, Superchain Ecosystem announced that it has approved three new grants for the 29th installment of its Optimism Grant: 500,000 OP to Optimistic Rollup Kroma using zkEVM, 1 million OP to Derive (formerly Lyra), and 450,000 OP to derivative Superchain Polynomial. These OP grants will be used to incentivize developer growth and customer engagement in its ecosystem.
Binance announced it had hired Grant Thornton, a UK accounting firm, to advise the exchange on accounting and taxation. The firm will also help Binance prepare for audits, but will not act as an auditor for the exchange. Binance previously worked with Mazars, an audit firm that suspended its work with the exchange in December 2022. Grant Thornton previously worked with stablecoin issuer Circle.
FLock.io announced that it has received an undisclosed grant from the Ethereum Foundation Academic Grants Round 2024 for research on incentives for its blockchain-based machine learning solution.
On August 7th, Gitcoin announced that Gitcoin Grants 21 has been officially launched and will last until 7:59 on August 22nd. The theme of this round of grants is to cooperate with partners and empower external communities. This round includes Celo and Arbitrum ecological rounds and 9 community rounds. Users no longer need to collect Passport stamps, and Gitcoin Grants Stack provides technical support.
ETC Grants Dao wrote on X that it is currently in discussions with Bitcoin and Ethereum spot ETF issuer VanEck on the possibility and feasibility of launching an Ethereum Classic (ETC) ETF/ETN.
On July 2nd, Gitcoin recently released the Gitcoin Grants 2024 strategy and update. Due to time constraints, only three rounds of GG competitions will be held in 2024. GG20 has ended from April 23rd to May 7th; GG21 will be held from August 7th to 21st, a total of 10 rounds of community activities, no open source software (OSS) rounds, the first 5 rounds of community round matching funds are 125,000 US dollars; GG22 is planned to be launched at the end of October, including 4 rounds of open sour...
On June 27th, Worldcoin announced the first wave of recipients of the Worldcoin Community Grant Program, including Axiom (prototyping applications for a universal Groth16 validator circuit, validated with batches of WorldID proofs), Proof of Passport, Farcaster Humaniser (an application authentication layer built on Farcaster), Alphaday, Only Dust, Encode Club, Wormhole, zkSnap, TACEO, Cometh, Herodotus, World Poll, Agora, Fuzzing Labs, Satori, BBB & Company.
Gitcoin has announced the launch of the Grants Program Canvas, designed to simplify the creation of Web3 grant programs. Gitcoin Grants Program Canvas is a free tool developed by Gitcoin in collaboration with the likes of Arbitrum, Optimism, Uniswap, and Polygon. Using a visual and modular approach, it takes on the complex task of planning a grant program and simplifies it into 4 key stages: definition, design, execution, and learning.
On June 19, Manta Network announced that applications are now open for the $10 million Moon Mission Meme Grants grant program, which is reported to be part of the 50 million ecological fund launched by the Manta Foundation.