
Funding the Future Onchain: Empowering Open Source & Public Goods with Gitcoin | Kevin Owocki & Meg Lister
About this episode
In today's podcast we host two guests: Kevin Owocki, co-founder of Gitcoin, and Meg Lister, GM at Gitcoin Grants Labs. Gitcoin is a platform that connects developers with open-source projects for funding, collaboration, and building digital public goods through various forms of contribution like coding, design, and more. In our conversation we learn about the origin story of Gitcoin and breakdown the main funding mechanisms, such as quadratic funding and retroactive funding, benefits of onchain capital allocation over traditional funding mechanisms, and we delve into Allo Protocol, an open-source protocol that enables groups to efficiently and transparently allocate pooled capital.
0:00 Intro
1:37 Kevin Owocki and Meg Lister
4:12 The Story of Gitcoin
12:39 Quadratic and Retroactive Funding
18:21 Main Usecases
24:35 Grants Programs in the Bull
28:44 Onchain Capital Allocation
33:53 Allo Protocol
37:33 Gitcoin Token
38:17 Revenue
41:01 Ultimate Vision
49:05 Fiat Onramps
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