Describe your project and why you classify it as a Public Good?
Gardens (built by 1Hive) 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, which they can use to invest their treasuries in any combination of instances.
Our emphasis is on a community experience that’s healthy, fun, intuitive, secure, trustless and open.
The keystone of Gardens v2 infrastructure is the Community Covenant, which serves the role of:
- encoding a community’s values / mission in an on-chain social contract
- linking that Covenant to the various smart contracts that make up the communities funding and spending strategies.
- allowing people to signal support for the community through token staking
All of our code is open-source. Always has been and always will be. 
How much have you raised from each of your funding sources and from who?
Over the last 3 years we’ve raised ~$120,000 - here’s an approximate breakdown:
- $60,000 - 1Hive Funding Proposals
- $30,000 - Gitcoin Grants
- $15,000 - Polygon Ecosystem Grant
- $10,000 - Allo on Arbitrum Hackathon winnings
- $2,000 - Giveth Donations
Project Roadmap
Our focus is on hyperscaling funding for digital and physical ecosystems by improving the ROI for expenditures on public goods.
Phase 1 - 2024
- Build an exceptional grants funding platform! Focus on web3 ecosystems currently running grants programs + open-source software communities in crypto.
- Build coordination mechanisms that help these orgs fund public goods so they can reach hyper-scalable growth.
Phase 2 - 2025-26
- Expand to web2 open-source software communities. Provide coordination infrastructure and funding mechanisms that allow for community-owned digital collectives to fund and build and maintain digital public goods sustainably and scalably.
Phase 3 - 2027-28
- Expand to real world public goods. Provide a UI/UX so simple that any group of people can easily spin up a community and coordinate funding and decision-making sustainably and scalably for their cause.
Our goal is to spur an economic revolution in Public Goods production. Success for gardens isn’t accomplished until over half the world’s wealth is stored in entities whose primary purpose is to fund Public Goods.
What milestones have you achieved?
We launched Gardens v1 in Spring of 2021 and reached a max TVL of $40.5 million in December 2021. To date, millions of dollars of funding has been distributed to Gardens communities through Conviction Voting. In the last 3 years Gardens has fostered:
- 50+ communities
- 3,000+ members
- 400+ proposals passed
- 12 disputes ruled on by Celeste
A proof of concept for our new platform overhaul recently won Best Novel Funding Mechanism in the Allo on Arbitrum Hackathon
Tell us more about milestones you’d like to achieve
We are aiming for beta launch of our first major platform overhaul (dubbed internally as “Gardens v2”) in April 2024.
By the end of 2024 Gardens aims to reach:
- 5+ ecosystems with active gardens communities
- 20+ active gardens communities
- 1,000+ active community members
- $1M distributed through gardens v2 Funding Pools
- $50M+ TVL - measured in Funding Pool token balances of all gardens v2 communities
Our Team
Gardens is a globally distributed team with 8 contributors spanning 6 countries and 3 continents! Collectively we have 2 decades experience in web3.
- Paul Glavin - Project Manager/Growth
- Felipe Novaes Roche - Lead Full Stack Developer
- Matias - Lead UI/UX
- Luciano Scaminaci - UI/UX developer
- Kevin Mansour - Full Stack Developer
- Rodrigo Perez - Full Stack Developer, Advisor
- Abidemi - Grants + Fundraising
- Vero - Designer
- Gabi - Advisor
Links:
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/gardensdao
- Github: GitHub - 1Hive/gardens-v2
- V1 App: https://gardens.1hive.org/
