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Gitcoin screws up transfer, sends $460K to unrecoverable address

Crypto developer platform Gitcoin has admitted to losing approximately $460,000 of Gitcoin (GTC) tokens after mistakenly sending the funds to an unrecoverable contract address.On Oct. 6, project lead “CoachJonathan” posted details of the incident on the Gitcoin governance forum. He said the transfer of GTC from the treasury was intended

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Gitcoin and Metalabel ‘Vitalik’ NFT Collection Takes Top Spot on Opensea

The mint, executed by blockchain funding company Gitcoin and NFT platform Metalabel, aims to commemorate a 2018 paper about Quadratic Funding, a public fundraising mechanism authored by Ethereum Foundation founder Vitalik Buterin, Harvard economist Zoë Hitzig, and social activism organization RadicalxChange founder Glen Weyl. Original Source

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Gitcoin, Crowdfunding Platform for Open-Source Software, Votes to Seed Staked ETH Index for Staked Ether on Ethereum

On Friday, Gitcoin community members passed a governance proposal with almost unanimous support to formalize a relationship with the index provider Index Cooperative, and transfer 100 ether (ETH) worth $164,600 into two liquidity pools meant to “ensure deeper liquidity and reduce swapping fees for moving into gtcETH,” according to a

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Gitcoin and Polkadot Cooperate to Bring New Developers to Blockchain

A partnership announced on Tuesday between the Gitcoin project and Polkadot will help the interoperable blockchain platform’s developers find community support and funding.Gitcoin’s current function can be considered as an experiment in a new way of funding public goods based on the concept of "Capital-constrained Liberal Radicalism," or CLR,  championed by

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