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Gitcoin Monthly

February 2025

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Agenda today

  • Kudos
  • Eth Denver
  • 2025 Funding + Goals
  • GG 23 Update
  • Q1 Rocks

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What is the current Allo GMV?

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Follow and turn on notifications!

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Kudos to Jess for being on it with SP, for managing all the various moving parts like a pro and continuing to push the event forward - it's going to be a good un!

-Harry

Kudos to everyone working on retro product. So exciting to see this come to life and it’s looking great.

-Mathilda

KUDOS!

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ETHDENVER UPDATE

  • We have secured many great sponsors for Schelling Point! Stellar, Uniswap, Butter, Polygon, Filecoin, the list goes on! Metamask/Consensys will also have a small presence! Ecosystem growth!
  • Everyone should have their travel booked as well as their physical Rain card, unless they opted out. Will allocate per diem leading up to event.
  • TLDR of events (that I know of):
    • Arrivals: 2/23-2/25
    • Team Taco Tuesday: 2/25
    • Allo Summoning Event: 2/26
    • Schelling Point: 2/27
    • GG HH: 2/27 evening
    • Allo Chill & Shill: 3/1
  • I will send out the updated Comms Hub to those attending including addresses, links, etc. - we will be needing all hands on deck for Schelling Point so will be pinging everyone to see where we best fit!

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Org 2025 Funding

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How have things shifted?

  • Decline in token prices has decreased our runway
    • Dec 2024: GTC @ ~$1.10, treasury @ $20M
    • Feb 2025: GTC @ $0.42, treasury @ ~$9.8M�
  • We’ve decreased costs as much as we comfortably can

  • Budgets for DAO (12 mo) and GL (6 mo) have been funded and are NOT included above

  • Additional ~$7M in other wallets (CSDO, Attestations, OP, Avax, Treasury Div) to diversify.

  • This is when good businesses are made OR broken!

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GL 2025 Funding + Goals

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Grants Lab Goals

By the end of 2025, distribute $25M of grants, generating at least 5x returns ($125M) in measurable ecosystem growth for our partners.

Generate $2M in revenue to extend our runway + ground for future growth.

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Current Treasury spend plans

  • Starting: $9.8M
    • GL Funding H2: -$1.5M
    • Allo Funding 2025: -$2M
    • EOY = $6.3M Remaining

  • We’ve had years of runway in the past, which is atypical for a startup of our stage and size. Having 12-18 mos is actually the norm.
    • Act with urgency and keep momentum high!

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How we respond

  • REVENUE. $1M target in H1 2025, $2M 2025 total
    • This is make-or-break for us.
    • Revenue > GMV
    • Increase focus on large deals + large customers

  • Token utility for GTC
    • Launch grant curation experiments in GG23
    • Big opportunity to improve treasury value, though starting from early stages

  • Improved practices for managing non-stablecoin revenue
    • Explore charging in stables for smaller customers

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Pipeline & Revenue Updates

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January Revenue Performance

  • Signed deal with Polygon: 300K POL (~$90,000 USD) in revenue
    • Value at booking: $141,000

  • Collected fees for FIL R2: 9,000 FIL (~$30,420 USD) in revenue

  • Total revenue: $120,420 = 12% to H1 goal!

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Q1 Pipeline

  • Lots of smaller deals in the pipeline
    • a: $10,000 (ongoing)
    • b: $20,000 (kicks off 2/20)
    • c: $20,000 (late Feb/March)
    • d: $20,000 (late Feb/March)

  • Big bet: 3M $Z deal @ 10% fee with Y for direct grants + custom claiming flow

  • Total pipeline revenue: $397,000 USD

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Looking forward

  • It’s clear that big customers = big revenue impacts
    • Land + expand approach is working, let’s lean in!
    • Delight our big customers at every opportunity across product, marketing, and services

  • Starting Q1 strong is a result of working these deals throughout Q4 – we are already working our potential Q2 deals
    • a (up to $10M GMV)
    • b ($Ms GMV + 5-10% fee)
    • c contest ($1-3M GMV + 5% fee)
    • d ($1-2M GMV, 3% fee)
    • e (RF + futarchy, $Ms + 10% fee)
    • f (custom build + pricing TBD)

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Product Opportunities in Pipeline

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GG 23

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GG23:

April 2 - 23

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QF Round

Retro Round

  • 3 OSS rounds
    • Web3 Infra
    • dApps & Apps
    • Developer Tooling
  • $600k* in matching
  • Open to anyone (except those participating in RF)

  • Top 30 OSS projects
    • Taken from GG18 - GG22
  • Floor minimum amount all projects will receive RE: funding.
    • Makes the retro round valuable for builders to participate.
  • $600k*
  • Curated round, w/ direct outreach from our team
  • 3 Tiers of badgeholders
    • ‘Experts’
    • GTC Holders
    • Donors

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Community Rounds

  • Using Grant Ships as the new governance mechanism
    • Gamification
    • Onchain success metrics
  • Increased funding
  • Rounds can run on any platform/mechanism they choose
  • Dates will align with OSS Program
  • Accepted rounds will 'compete' for best GG23 outcome, unlocking prizes & perks for GG24
  • Applications open

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Q1 Rocks Update

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Gitcoin 2025 Rocks - Q1

  • Launch multi-mechanism Gitcoin Grants 🟢
    • Demonstrate the impact of new funding mechanisms vs QF by publishing a thorough data-backed analysis of the potential ecosystem impact and how we will measure it.

GG23 will run on 3+ mechanisms, including experiments from the community. In-depth case study planned.

  • Launch the Builder Onboarding 🟢 & Incentive Program 🔴
    • Enroll at least 50 builders who apply for both GG + partner rounds within their first 90 days.

Onboarding program planned for GG23, incentive program pushed to after GG23.

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Gitcoin 2025 Rocks - Q1

  • 🟡Capitalize on OGC momentum to distribute $1M in grants through the tool
    • Final review with OP grants council today
    • ZKSync kicking off shortly

  • 🟡Land one major new enterprise partner at $3m+/year
    • Working on partnership with Z for direct grants + custom claiming flow

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Questions

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Thank You