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🔥 New Gitcoin site just dropped Why? The funding landscape is fragmented. Lessons aren't being shared. Experiments are happening in isolation. So we built a living reference: the tools, the teams, the research, the results. All in one place. Turning hard-won experience into something everyone can use → gitcoin.co Here's what's on it 👇🧵

How to fund what matters 👇 gitcoin.co

Misinformation deployed at scale. AI accelerating behind locked doors. Energy one chokepoint away from crisis. These are coordination problems before they're anything else, and coordination problems need funding mechanisms that work. Ones that let communities move capital where it's needed, when it's needed, to solve problems that need to be solved now. The tools to fund differently already exist. What's left is the decision to use them. 💚

📣 If you still have funds on Public Goods Network (PGN), please withdraw them before 9 AM EST April 20, 2026. Following a governance vote earlier this year, PGN is shutting down and unclaimed funds will be withdrawn to the Gitcoin Foundation treasury after this deadline. Full governance post ↓ 🔗 gov.gitcoin.co/t/temp-check-w… Passed Snapshot vote ↓ 🔗 snapshot.org/#/s:gitcoindao… Steps to claim funds ↓ 🔗 docs.publicgoods.network/using-pgn/clai… Thank you for being a part of the PGN journey 💚

@CryptoEarner12 Great point, and a great emerging argument for just how interdependent the pieces of defensive building really are 🤝

@gitcoin Identity is the only way to ensure the AI and Energy revolution stays in the hands of the people.

Most funding is zero-sum by design: One committee decides. One applicant wins. Everyone else tries again. But we think funding should be positive-sum instead: Communities direct capital. Demonstrated impact gets rewarded. Contributors are sustained continuously. The right funding mechanisms not only make this real – they rebalance capitalism toward durable impact. 💚

@CryptoEarner12 🙌 An absolutely critical path for redistributing power to the people all around. What would you place next in the priority flow? AI → Energy → ?

@gitcoin Moving toward a User-Owned Energy paradigm is the natural next step after User-Owned AI. It takes the power away from massive utilities and puts it back into the hands of the builders.

@rakuflow when capital moves at the speed of code, the whole world accelerates 💫

@gitcoin Programmable capital accelerates innovation cycles by 3x.

🔀 Two forces exist together right now for the first time: → AI collapses the cost of building. → Crypto makes capital programmable. Separately, these are interesting. Combined, they're permissionless capital allocation. It’s time to fund what’s next. 🔜

The Coasean Singularity framing is especially useful here. When fiat funding fragments under agentic pressure, the question becomes: which allocation infrastructure actually survives the transition? Likely whichever agents can parse. And then a second question: whether the coordination primitives beneath it can produce outcomes we’d recognize as beneficial. We're thinking about this and would love to compare notes along the way 🫡

We need to think seriously about what funding research and social programs means when the debasing of the US dollar collides with a fragmentation of fiat under the pressure of agentic intents. If there’s a new paradigm, then these obvious public goods are perfect frontlines If it were me, I’d be quizzing @cwgoes and @jeffemmett on the matter. I’d also be querying @MIT’s @Peyman_Shahidi @gilirusak @BenSManning et al on the implications of the so-called Coasean Singularity

Biosecurity research terminated. Cybersecurity funding gutted. Climate programs eliminated. Clean energy projects cut. Even where our legacy institutions remain standing, centralized authorities decide what gets studied, funded, and built. Venture capital was never meant to answer this kind of call. But we were. And we think it's time to build better institutions: decentralized, democratic, and designed to accelerate the defense of what matters. That defense won't fund itself. So let's fund it together. 💚

@getubitel Bullish on defensive infrastructure 🤝

@gitcoin Building a better internet institution on Ethereum for years now . Your hardware, your internet 🫡

@andersonflow44 We think so too 🤝

@gitcoin ngl this BioFi concept is kinda interesting... onchain funding shaped by communities could be huge for DeFi innovation. low-interest loans + local currencies? 👀

🌱 BioFi (Bioregional Finance) is what happens when onchain funding infrastructure is shaped by the communities it serves. Bioregional Financing Facilities (BFFs) combine grant pools, venture studios, low-interest loans, and local currencies into modular capital networks designed around watersheds and ecosystems. Some start as a DAO. Others are hosted by a land trust. Many are already creating real impact: → @regen_network is tokenizing ecological state changes across multiple bioregions. → @BioFiProject supported 22 teams in designing BFFs from the Amazon to Appalachia. When capital aligns with ecology, coordination becomes local, legible, and lived. More relational, less extractive. Rooted in place to help regenerate it. Another compelling way to fund what matters 💚

@zerohue_org 🫡

@gitcoin 👏

We have some ideas 👇 gitcoin.co/research/biofi…

🌱 BioFi Pathfinders Round, Gitcoin Grants 22: we funded 14 bioregional teams around the world through quadratic funding: → $55K matching pool → 1,096 contributions → $8,813 in direct donations But there was an issue: most participants had never used a crypto wallet before. Some, especially in the Global South, struggled with unreliable internet access and electricity. Few had the social media presence to mobilize donors at the breadth that quadratic funding rewards. Even fewer had a network that could readily donate in crypto. We integrated PayPal to make it work. 🤝 And we learned: onchain funding assumes participants can transact onchain, but bioregional teams coordinate through place-based trust for a reason. So, what does onchain funding infrastructure look like for communities who aren’t on crypto twitter?

come for the funding stay for the movement