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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 👇🧵

AI's accelerating faster than the systems built to support us. 🪪 Identity 💸 Income 🧭 Information 🏗️ Infrastructure And when old systems stop working, capital starts flowing differently. The question now is whether we keep funding one-off interventions, or build funding systems to sustain what comes next. 💚 🔗 ↓ gitcoin.co/research/struc…

ICYMI: public goods funding is sooo back

@OctantApp Full program details on site ↓ gitcoin.co/case-studies/f…

We're turning idle treasury capital into sustainable matching funds with @OctantApp 🤝 With an Octant vault, Gitcoin treasury assets now generate yield that flows directly into future funding rounds. Principal preserved. Impact compounded. Funding what matters, sustainably. 💚

Capitalism can price a barrel of oil, but not a stable climate. It can price a software license, but not the open source library it depends on. It can price an hour of labor, but not a year of parenting. What we call externalities are only external to the accounting system: they’re the substrate every market depends on, even when markets structurally can’t see them. But a new economy is being compiled – one that can finally account for this substrate. One block at a time ↓ gitcoin.co/research/post-…

Defensive infrastructure depends most on the layers you can't see: A privacy protocol is only as private as the chips it runs on. An open-source AI model is only as open as the compute that trains it. A coordination tool is only as resilient as the network it routes over. And because each layer carries the integrity of every layer underneath it, AI doesn't need to defeat the strongest layer to do damage – it only has to find the weakest one and exploit it faster than the layers above can adapt. That's how a single failure becomes contagion across the stack, and it's why defending what matters means funding builders at every layer 💚

Funding what matters requires civilizational-scale infrastructure – not a single large platform, but a pluralistic ecosystem of coordinated tools. The threats defining this century demand a response bigger and more distributed than any one institution or mechanism can meaningfully address alone. Decentralized funding is becoming a structural requirement, which means the landscape is now something we collectively hold. 💚 🔗 ↓ gitcoin.co/research/plura…

Onchain funding's often treated as niche infrastructure for open source, but it’s really a live rehearsal for distributed coordination. Climate change, AI risk, institutional erosion – each requires strangers to align priorities, incentives, and resources at civilizational scale. Public goods funding gives that alignment a live proving ground: quadratic funding surfaces community priorities, retroactive funding rewards proven work, and coalitional funding amplifies impact through visible commitments. Funding open source matters. Learning how to coordinate matters too. Especially before crisis turns our need for alignment into an excuse for consolidating control. @owocki on what's at stake ↓ gitcoin.co/research/civil…

d/acc funding doesn't depend on what the Fed decides tomorrow. Build anyway 💚

Bees don't talk to each other 🐝 They coordinate through traces left in a shared environment that signal what to do next. That’s stigmergy: indirect coordination through environmental signals. Open source already works this way: bugs, TODOs, unfinished features. Onchain systems do too: treasury balances, proposals, protocol states. And in a world where AI agents can read and respond to signals autonomously, stigmergy is a way to turn shared environment into shared direction at machine speed. Read more ↓ 🔗 gitcoin.co/mechanisms/sti…

The way we collectively make sense of the world was built for a slower one. Centralization, stratification, bureaucratic control – these tactics work best when the problem is cleanly defined. But when problems become entangled or increasingly complex, these tactics begin to break down. Misinformation, polarization, institutional decay – we're feeling the impact of this breakdown in real time. What we need now is a new model for collective understanding that can adapt faster than these legacy responses fail. 💚 We have some ideas ↓ gitcoin.co/research/a-net…

When a handful of firms become the interface between billions of people and our understanding of the world, the risk of epistemic capture becomes material. When AI extends that mediation from what we see to how we reason, the risk becomes existential. At that point, the central question shifts from who gets to build the models to who gets to define reality itself. 🛡️ To make sure that agency stays ours, we need infrastructure that keeps collective sensemaking in human hands ↓ gitcoin.co/research/colle…

‼️ FINAL 24 HOURS: Public Goods Network (PGN) shuts down tomorrow Monday April 20 at 9 AM EST Please withdraw any remaining funds before this deadline. Unclaimed funds will move to the Gitcoin Foundation treasury and will not be recoverable after shut down. ✅ Easy claim app (by @owocki): pgnclaim.vercel.app 📜 Governance post: gov.gitcoin.co/t/temp-check-w… 🗳️ Snapshot vote (passed): snapshot.org/#/s:gitcoindao… 📖 Claim instructions: docs.publicgoods.network/using-pgn/clai… Thank you for being part of the PGN experiment with us 💚

over the last 8 years, @gitcoin has helped fund the internet’s public goods millions of contributions tens of thousands of builders $70M+ deployed to what actually matters not hype not speculation real funding for real infrastructure open source climate coordination systems the stuff everything else depends on and we’re just getting started if you’re building something that matters or want to support those who are help fund what matters ↓ gitcoin.co

AI didn’t create the need for defensive infrastructure, but it makes every part of it more urgent at the same time. It’s intuitive to think about risk domain by domain: separate problems, separate solutions, separate funding. But AI doesn’t respect those boundaries; it reduces the cost of applying pressure across multiple domains at once. Which means the systems we rely on aren’t just important individually – they're interdependent. A governance system only works if the identities participating are real. ⬇️ Identity systems only work if the cryptography beneath them holds. ⬇️ Cryptography only matters if the physical infrastructure running it stays online. When one layer fails, the layers above it collapse. And when pressure's applied across every layer simultaneously, defense has to be simultaneous too 🤝

Governance post ↓ 🔗 gov.gitcoin.co/t/temp-check-w… Snapshot vote ↓ 🔗 snapshot.org/#/s:gitcoindao… Steps to claim funds ↓ 🔗 docs.publicgoods.network/using-pgn/clai… Thank you for being a part of PGN 💚

❗ Last week to withdraw your funds from Public Goods Network (PGN) PGN is shutting down Monday April 20, 9 AM EST. Unclaimed funds will be withdrawn to the Gitcoin Foundation treasury after that deadline. @owocki app to help ↓

@MrPicule Love to see it 💚 Stay tuned. You might like what we have cookin with d/acc Fund.

@gitcoin I suppose that’s why there are tech leaders and founders with a clear vision. I’m new to this field and am just trying to build my own protocol, so I can’t answer that question

@MrPicule Agreed. Diversity in experience, perspective, and the redundancy afforded by collective expertise is critical. Now if we could just coordinate that effort in a distributed way. Protocol?

That is precisely why this task is entrusted not to a single person but to large teams of professionals; they cannot afford to make mistakes. A prime example is the selection of targets for attack using AI, this clearly illustrates that programmers must do their utmost to ensure the AI has no chance of making a mistake, which means the issue here is more one of human competence

In 2024, Romania annulled its presidential election. An obscure candidate had surged from 1% in polls to win the first round, boosted by AI-generated deepfakes on social. The court voided the result. That same year, a finance worker at Arup wired $25 million to scammers after a fake request from his CFO. He'd verified on a video call with his executive team before sending. Every person on that call was AI-generated. In early 2026, the bet that AI agents will make human software workers redundant wiped $2 trillion from SaaS market cap. Not a cyberattack or a recession. An economy repricing human work as nonessential. Our current systems weren't designed to protect us from the acceleration we're experiencing. It's time to build ones that are 🤝