The 13th round of Gitcoin donations is about to end. Which projects have the highest support?

Author: Biscuit, Chain Catcher

The 15-day Gitcoin Round 13 Donation will end at 8 AM Beijing time on March 25. The number of projects participating in this round of donations has reached 830, and the main prize pool has increased from 1 million yuan in the previous round to 1.2 million dollars.

It is understood that the overall structure of Round 13 grants is similar to that of Round 12, with three types of rounds:

• Main round of 1.2 million dollars, primarily funding projects in the Ethereum ecosystem
• Ecosystem (ZK Tech, Open Gaming, Polygon, ENS, Algorand, OlympusDAO, NFTs, Uniswap, and Radicle)
• Climate solutions, aid to Ukraine, life sciences

In terms of fundraising methods, Gitcoin adopts a "quadratic" fundraising approach, where the more people participate in the donations, the better the matching effect; at the same time, small donations will be well matched. This fundraising method means that the projects with the most community support (in terms of the number of contributors) will receive the largest portion of the matching pool, fully reflecting the significance of community decision-making and allowing the funded projects to meet the original intention of adding value to the community.

In this article, Chain Catcher will introduce 20 high-quality projects that have emerged in this Gitcoin donation event, sorted by the number of project contributors (based on the statistics at the time of publication) for readers' reference.

If you are still unsure how to donate to projects on Gitcoin, you can read our previous tutorial "Super Detailed Gitcoin Donation Guide, ZkSync Interaction Done in One Go," which we believe will be helpful to you.

1. Orbiter Finance

Supported by 9,464 contributors

Website: https://www.orbiter.finance/

Introduction: Orbiter Finance is a decentralized cross-Rollup bridge that allows for instant transfer of Ethereum native assets between L1 and L2.

Orbiter builds infrastructure for L2 developers by designing a cross-domain security model using SPV technology and provides decentralized liquidity services through organizing a Market Maker DAO.

2. zkRollups

Supported by 7,811 contributors

Website: https://zkrollups.xyz/

Introduction: zkrollups.xyz is a search tool in the zkRollup ecosystem. It has been accessed by over 50,000 users, averaging more than 5,250 users per week. The project's goal is to aggregate all projects built on zkRollups, making them easy to find through an intuitive directory.

3. DefiLlama

Supported by 6,294 contributors

Website: https://defillama.com/

Introduction: DefiLlama is the largest TVL aggregator in the DeFi space, tracking over 800 DeFi protocols from more than 80 different blockchains. The project's data is completely open-source and maintained by a team of enthusiasts from hundreds of protocols.

However, it is worth noting that the official donation page clearly states that this donation is unrelated to any potential token issuance plans in the future.

4. Fileverse

Supported by 6,124 contributors

Website: https://fileverse.io/

Introduction: Fileverse aims to enable individuals, teams, communities, and DAOs to easily upload, encrypt, and share files with any number of Ethereum addresses, while storing them on decentralized data storage protocols like IPFS. It allows for easy file sharing between blockchain addresses and uses the protocol's features to control who can access users' documents, images, audio, and video.

5. POAPathon

Supported by 6,050 contributors

Website: https://www.poapathon.com

Introduction: POAPathon's mission is to inspire the world to connect and create. POAPathon achieves this mission through design competitions, on-demand entertainment, live event production, and collaborative creative spaces. The events focus on creative design, web3, NFTs, DeFi, and POAP, with use cases similar to collecting buttons or badges in real life.

6. Banksea Finance

Supported by 5,477 contributors

Website: https://banksea.finance/

Introduction: Banksea is dedicated to building the first NFT AI oracle protocol and a lending platform based on NFT pools, helping to solve many problems in the NFT lending market, such as the lack of NFT valuation mechanisms, low asset utilization for NFT holders, and insufficient security for lender funds. To this end, the team has developed an AI-based NFT valuation mechanism to provide market solutions for NFT pool-based lending.

7. PawnSpace

Supported by 5,035 contributors

Website: https://pawnspace.io/

Introduction: PawnSpace is a decentralized NFT collateral lending platform that helps you convert NFTs into financial opportunities. The protocol is currently being built on Polygon, with an alpha version now live on the Mumbai Testnet.

8. Dark Forest

Supported by 4,992 contributors

Website: https://zkga.me

Introduction: Dark Forest is an MMO strategy game built on the Gnosis Chain (formerly xDai) using zkSNARKs. Players explore an infinite, procedurally generated universe, conquer planets, and develop a space empire.

9. Zunami Protocol

Supported by 4,880 contributors

Website: https://www.zunami.io/

Introduction: Zunami Protocol is a yield aggregation protocol built on Ethereum. By collaborating with stablecoin protocols, Zunami simplifies the difficulty and cost of interacting with DeFi protocols for users, ultimately increasing users' mining returns.

Zunami Protocol's yield aggregation strategy primarily targets stablecoin applications, allowing users to save more gas costs compared to similar Curve-Convex options in the market.

10. Dataverse

Supported by 4,647 contributors

Website: https://dataverse.art

Introduction: Dataverse is a crypto data space accessible only by your identity. Think of it as the next-generation Finder for managing new assets like NFTs. Saving and organizing real content from various platforms is easier than ever. Encrypt your favorites into secure folders and unlock personalized networks in one place.

11. NFT Price Floor

Supported by 4,028 contributors

Website: https://nftpricefloor.com/

Introduction: NFT Price Floor is a Coingecko-style data center and analytics platform. This project helps users obtain the price floor, sales data, trading volume, and historical price charts of their favorite collectibles.

12. Umbra

Supported by 3,890 contributors

Website: https://github.com/ScopeLift/umbra-protocol

Introduction: As a protocol, Umbra defines a set of simple standards, along with a singleton smart contract instance, to enable stealth addresses on Ethereum. Using stealth addresses, payers can send Ether or ERC20 tokens to an address controlled by the recipient, but no one other than the two parties knows who the recipient is.

By leveraging meta-transactions, Umbra allows withdrawers to pay gas to relayers using the tokens they receive. This avoids the need to fund the stealth address with ETH before withdrawal.

13. Krebit

Supported by 3,802 contributors

Website: https://krebit.id/

Introduction: Krebit.id is an open authentication protocol, DAO, and Web3 verifiable credential marketplace, created by issuers for off-chain claims stored in Ceramic and registered on-chain in KRB reputation tokens.

14. Secure Remote Password with ENS

Supported by 3,574 contributors

Website: https://www.crypteriat.org/

Introduction: This agent is part of the core foundation we created for Compose DAO, an organization that introduces new standards in the DeFi space. The project aims to provide high-quality open-source projects, enabling DApp portfolios to leverage new fog computing infrastructure.

15. BridgeEye

Supported by 3,480 contributors

Website: https://defieye.io/

Introduction: BridgeEye - DeFieye cross-bridge tool is a multi-chain bridge comparison tool. Users can use this tool to find the best cross-chain bridge options given a source chain, target chain, and asset amount. After launching a few months ago, the tool has already attracted over 40k user visits.

The next step is to develop a T2E (transfer to Earn) model, allowing users to earn rewards while transferring assets across chains.

16. Rotki

Supported by 3,262 contributors

Website: https://rotki.com

Introduction: Rotki is an open-source portfolio tracking, accounting, analytics, and tax reporting tool that protects user privacy.

Rotki's mission is to bring transparency to the crypto and financial sectors through open-source solutions. Most importantly, unlike almost all other competing services, which consist of closed-source SaaS that force users to hand over all their financial data to the service, Rotki encrypts user data and stores it on local machines.

17. dfdao (Dark Forest Gaming Collective)

Supported by 3,103 contributors

Website: http://dfdao.xyz

Introduction: dfdao is the player community of the famous blockchain game Dark Forest. The founders of dfdao were originally just a group of Dark Forest players who established the community in May 2021, aiming to achieve higher scores in the game through collaboration. They want Dark Forest to become a positive-sum ecosystem where players can compete, collaborate, learn, and build, with all participants benefiting from the game's development.

The funds raised from this donation will be used to support the following projects: launching a community on Layer 2, establishing a trusted PvP arena mode for the game, and creating a funding pool for community grants.

18. NFTSCAN

Supported by 2,809 contributors

Website: https://nftscan.com/

Introduction: NFTSCAN is a professional NFT asset browser and data open platform, aiming to become one of the most influential infrastructures in the blockchain field, providing developers with secure and stable data services and offering users simple and efficient retrieval services.

19. Orange Wallet

Supported by 2,505 contributors

Website: https://orangewallet.app

Introduction: Orange Wallet is a DeFi and NFT wallet focused on cross-chain functionality, featuring many cool and unique functions, such as allowing users to mint NFTs directly using their phone's camera, transferring funds between networks, improving the DeFi user interface to make it usable in just three clicks, and enabling users to use multiple chains without realizing it, cross-chain transactions, as well as more features like NFT markets, staking platforms, and social media logins coming soon.

20. Proof of Integrity

Supported by 2,357 contributors

Website: https://www.proofofintegrity.org/

Introduction: Proof of Integrity is a decentralized non-profit protocol designed to prove the needs of those in need, providing an ideal platform for the poor to obtain basic income and allowing the wealthy to help for free by seeing the full impact of their donations. POI offers a wide range of social protection programs that will tackle various aspects of poverty and power equality.