This interview is a part of our on-going series, where we highlight our epoch 3 participants.
What's Gardens?
Gardens is a modular coordination mechanism giving organizations in low trust + inefficient environments streamlined access to web3’s best spending strategies like Conviction Voting, Quadratic Funding, Streaming Proposals, Bounties, and more. Our goal is to hyperscale ecosystems by improving the ROI for expenditures on public goods by orders of magnitude.
Why should Octant users vote for Gardens in epoch 3?
Gardens v2 is designed to foster the growth products and services naturally unsuitable for private ownership markets - AKA “Public Goods.” This type of economic value is severely and tragically underserved and underfunded in both the digital and meatspace worlds. We are solving this by creating governance frameworks and funding mechanisms that can better harness the “wisdom of the crowds.”
By increasing the ROI on Public Goods investments we will greatly increase the amount of capital allocated to their creation, and as a byproduct Earth can become a far more valuable place.
Your project is interesting because:
- Web3-leading innovation in community funding allocation, packaged in a fun and friendly UI.
- Born from 1Hive Gardens, using best lessons from 3 years of Conviction Voting DAOs.
- Built with Allo Protocol for easy integration with many funding allocation strategies.
- Winner, “Best Novel Funding Mechanism” in Allo on Arbitrum Hackathon, January 2024.
- Funded entirely by grants, donations, hackathons, and DAO funding proposals (~$40k).
Progress in the last 3 months:
- Alpha version of gardens v2 shipped and live on Arbitrum Sepolia.
- Site Hierarchy: Ecosystems, Communities, Pools
- Create a Community, Create a Funding Pool, Create a Funding Proposal
- Join a Community, Activate Governance Weight, Manage Support on Proposal
- Funding Pool types: Grants and Signalling
- Governance Weight Point Systems: Fixed, Capped, Unlimited, and Quadratic
➡️ Follow on X at @gardensdao
➡️ Read the Gardens update on our forum
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