Gitcoin Grants 2.0

• Growth of the Gitcoin grants rounds have shifted from vertical scaling (more money into the main round for the Ethereum community) to horizontal scaling (more matching pools funded by other novel ecosystems and collectives with shared cause based missions).
• We separate rounds from grants so that rounds can be run on any chain, by any party, in any manner they wish and grants can be included in those rounds as (1) the grant owner desires to be included and (2) the grant project meets the eligibility criteria of the round

Gitcoin Aqueduct:

• Automatically accrue a certain percentage of the revenue for Public Goods Round

• After a sufficient amount of tokens accrue in the Aqueduct, Gitcoin automatically holds a quadratic funding

• Side Round Protection

  The main challenge with this design is how to ensure that funds in the NFTP side-round are actually spent on NFTP ecosystem projects.

  At sufficient levels of Aqueduct funding, a fee to GitcoinDAO could easily pay for humans to help ensure grants are appropriate

  Potentially Add staking balance into account to qualify to the round