WTF is quadratic funding

ETHPorto 2023 · 16 Mar 2023 · 25:00

Sam Richards breaks down quadratic funding at ETHPorto 2023, the matching-based mechanism popularized by platforms like Gitcoin for allocating public-goods funding. The talk explains how the model weighs the number of contributors over the size of individual donations to surface community priorities. Richards frames quadratic funding as a tool for supporting open-source and public infrastructure work within the Ethereum ecosystem.

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From ETHPorto 2023, hosted by ETH Porto.