Gitcoin Launches Sensemaking Season for Strategic Funding Allocation

🤔 Who Controls The Money?

By Gitcoin
Jun 19, 2025, 2:49 PM
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Gitcoin 3.​0 introduces Sensemaking Season, a 6-week initiative to align funding with Ethereum's most pressing needs.​ The process follows four key phases:

  • Phase 1: Community crowdsources key problems
  • Phase 2: Data and community validation
  • Phase 3: GTC holder voting on funding domains
  • Phase 4: Matching mechanisms to domains

Participation options include:

  • Submitting reports
  • Sharing signals
  • Joining working groups
  • Contributing to design

The initiative emphasizes community-driven decision making, involving builders, domain experts, GTC holders, and donors.​

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Gitcoin 3.0 is here. We’re not just funding projects—we’re solving Ethereum’s biggest challenges by aligning funding with real need. Sensemaking Szn = 6 weeks of identifying, validating, and prioritizing those needs. Which problems should we fund? How should we fund them? That’s

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