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The GG20 round, an initiative aimed at funding public goods for the common good, has officially concluded. Gitcoin expressed gratitude to all participants and partners, including Arbitrum, maearthmedia, and DeSci_Round_Ops, for their involvement in this endeavor focused on funding projects that matter.

Grants Stack has announced a new integration with Open Source Observer that provides codebase insights for projects tracked by Open Source Observer and with a linked GitHub organization. This integration allows users to view project statistics directly on the Grants Stack Explorer. Additionally, anyone can contribute to Open Source Observer through pull requests, as outlined in their documentation.

Gitcoin has released a dashboard that allows users to view grantees they have previously supported who are also participating in the current Gitcoin Grants Round 20. Users are encouraged to consider showing their support to these grantees again.

The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) Identity round for Gitcoin Grants 20 has launched with a $100K matching pool, making it the biggest round yet. The round aims to support projects actively building on top of ENS and growing the decentralized identity system around it. Projects being funded include those providing ENS infrastructure, making an impact on ENS, or introducing novel ENS implementations. The round highlights the evolution of ENS integration, from simple resolution in 2021 to more advanced use cases like native username spaces today. ENS is seen as critical identity infrastructure for decentralized networks, humanizing the digital space.

On May 1st, 2024, an initiative was announced to accelerate the adoption of blockchain technology for climate solutions on a global scale. The goal is to empower communities worldwide to fund, build, and protect environmental projects through decentralized and transparent blockchain systems.

The Gitcoin Grants Round 20 (GG20) has reached its halfway mark. As of April 28th, 2024, the campaign has raised a total of $170,000 through 42,900 donations from 13,700 unique donors. The four program rounds - Hackathon Alumni, dApps & Apps, Developer Tooling & Libraries, and Web3 Infra - have collectively received donations ranging from $4,200 to $48,000, with the number of donations and unique donors varying across each round.

Hypercerts, an Ethereum-based protocol for making and funding impact claims, is running its first community round on Gitcoin's grants platform. This marks a significant step towards Hypercerts' goal of building an interconnected funding network. The round aims to attract projects that integrate hypercerts into existing funding platforms, develop new applications built on top of hypercerts, build tooling to extend hypercerts' functionality, and pilot new use cases. Hypercerts has previously piloted its technology with Gitcoin rounds and retroactive funding initiatives, and has created hyperboards to visualize contributions. The roadmap includes releasing hyperboards, launching hypercert marketplaces, integrating with multiple funding platforms, and incorporating evaluation tools.

On April 17th, 2024, a community-focused platform celebrated its most successful funding round to date. The platform aims to empower communities by providing tools and resources to fund, build, and protect initiatives that matter to them. This latest funding round is expected to further the platform's mission and expand its reach.

Gitcoin retweeted information about the Universal Impact Pool by Endaoment.org, which aims to democratize philanthropy using the Allo Protocol. By pooling donations and distributing them based on community support, the initiative allows donors of all levels to participate in a large-scale, impactful giving process.

Gitcoin, a platform that empowers communities to fund and build open source projects, has announced the launch of the Hackathon Alumni Round. This initiative aims to provide funding for open source projects to reach their first stable version (v1). Gitcoin is encouraging developers and project teams to submit their applications for this funding opportunity.