It’s the end of the first round of Quadratic Trust! A huge congratulations goes out to SHLOMS for winning the round and to Simona Pop and Austin Griffith for rounding out the top 3. You will all be receiving some sweet sweet Gitcoin schwag. Quadratic Trust was created with the…

Making it easier to support open source The concept for Quadratic Trust came from a simple idea: How can we make it easier to support open source projects? With quadratic funding, you can support projects with money. But not everyone has money to spare, and projects can also benefit from…

A Progress Update for Supporters — Thank you to all of our supporters! Your donations, and the support of Consensys Grants, Gitcoin Grants, and the Interchain Foundation are making blockchain education accessible and fun. We are well on our way to reaching over 1 million African youth! As a reminder, Trust is a graphic novel that…

This holiday season, support the organizations that support crypto! Pathways to Education A better future for Canada starts with high school graduation. Pathways to Education is a national charitable organization breaking the cycle of poverty through education. Its award-winning program is creating positive social change by supporting youth living in low-income communities to…

Earlier this year Facebook announced Libra, their proprietary cryptocurrency, with the goal of launching it across all their platforms in 2020. Based on a basket of fiat currencies, Libra would be more stable than traditional cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, and could provide an alternate financial system for the more than one…

For those looking to invest a little more and want to do it right The best way to understand bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is simply to buy some and try them out. I always recommend everyone buy $1 worth as an interesting learning experience. Whether to invest, what you invest…

We’re at the edge of one of the greatest societal shifts since the separation of church and state. Ten years ago, with the creation of bitcoin, people were given the ability to digitally transact value without the need for a government to manage the system. …

As humanitarians, we’ve dedicated ourselves to the eradication of human suffering — poverty, famine, epidemics. We advocate against the underlying causes — civil war, natural disasters, climate change. Seldom though, do we talk about the consequences of poorly managed financial systems - systems that have been remanding populations into poverty…

There’s a lot of talk in the blockchain space about using the technology to create social impact. From facilitating remittances to improving transparency to reducing counterfeit goods, if the world has a problem, blockchain might be a solution. …