Gitcoin: donations to developing projects and Gitcoin Passport
Gitcoin is a kind of crowdfunding platform that helps young developers and projects to get additional funding by collecting donations, as well as receiving grants directly from Gitcoin DAO. Development can be done in any of the available programming languages; the only criterion is completely open source.
Donations
Using this feature, you can support a project at the earliest stage of development by investing some of your funds. Some projects may thank you with coins in the future if they are successfully launched. One of the brightest examples is Optimism.
But you should always remember that donation is just a donation to the development team, which does not oblige them to give you an airdrop or any reward.
Gitcoin Passport
Web3 is an identifier that uses various on-chain and non-on-chain metrics to verify identity without storing personal data, thus ensuring complete privacy of users.
Using its internal rating, projects can distinguish a real user from a bot or Sybil without resorting to KYC procedures. Therefore, more and more projects are requiring it to be in place. For example, projects will need a rating greater than 15 to donate, and Linea needs a rating greater than 20 to get points in one of their Galxe campaigns.
Getting a Gitcoin Passport
- Go to the site, click Sign-in with Ethereum and connect your wallet.
- Next, activate all possible sliders and click Confirm Stamps:
Note: if there are no sliders, just click Confirm Stamps.
- Once the on-chain data is pulled up, the initial rating will be displayed. If you are a beginner, it will range from 0 to 5. By following the steps described later in the guide, you will be able to increase it:
- Connect all possible social networks by clicking Connect Account:
- Next, go below and verify 4 more items by clicking Verify Account:
Minimum requirements for successful verification:
- ETH — one transaction on the network, made more than 30 days ago.
- NFT Holder — any NFT on the ETH network.
- ZkSync — one transaction on the ZkSync network.
- Snapshot — participation in one vote.
- After connecting social networks and successful verification, your Gitcoin Passport’s score should be close to 15.
If your score is still below 15, you can perform other tasks to increase it. You can find the detailed points table at the link.
Donate to projects
- Go to the site and connect your wallet.
- Choose your favorite project or developer.
- Click Add to cart and go to the cart:
- Choose the token you want to donate to the project. Enter the desired amount and click Submit your donation. Then confirm the transaction:
Donate to Projects, Grants 18
Gitcoin has launched Donate to Grants 18, in which you can donate funds to developing projects.
Note: to donate, you must have a Gitcoin Passport with a rating greater than twenty. You can check it at link.
- Go to the site and choose one of the four sections:
- Choose any project you like and click on it:
- Click Add to Cart and go to cart:
- Choose an asset, in which you will make a donation. Enter the desired amount and click Submit your donation! Then confirm the transaction:
Note: you need ETH or DAI on the Optimism network to donate.
Donate to Projects, Grants 19
Gitcoin has launched the Donate to Grants 19 campaign, which invites donations to developing projects. You can read more about the donations and the reasons for our interest, above in the article.
Note: to donate, you must have a Gitcoin Passport with a rating of more than fifteen. How to get such a rating is described in guide.
- Go to the site, browse below and choose one of the categories:
- Next, connect your wallet and choose your favorite project in the list:
- Click Add to Cart and go to cart:
- Enter the desired donation amount and confirm it:
Note: depending on the selected category, you can donate to the project with MATIC tokens in Polygon network or ETH and DAI in L2 network Gitcoin PGN.
Donate to Projects, Grants 22
Gitcoin has launched the Donate to Grants 22 campaign, which invites you to donate to developing projects. You can read more about donating and why you should do it in the article above.
- Go to the site, browse below and choose one of the categories:
- Then select the project you like in the list:
- Click Add to Cart and go to cart:
- Enter the desired amount of donation and confirm it:
The deadline for participation in Grants 22 is November 6, 2024.
Conclusion
Having a Gitcoin Passport and participating in donations can show that you are a really active and interested Web3 user. Who not only hunts for drops, but also helps young developers to develop. This activity should be considered as a wallet warming and a possible multiplier for drops from third-party projects.
Highlights
- You can donate in this round until 27.06.2023.
- Donations do not guarantee any drops.
- The higher the score of your Gitcoin Passport the better.
- Third-party projects use Gitcoin Passport as an ID.
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