Context

This brief serves as an artifact for the early stages of the Grant Explorer and Round Manager product domains. It documents initial goals, assumptions, and considerations so that the team can get started and further flesh out the vision/strategy for the product.

The Grants 2.0 Vision

GPC’s mission is to build protocols that enable communities to achieve sovereignty through the funding of their shared needs. Currently we are building three protocols: Passport, a Grants Protocol (aka Round Manager), and a Project Protocol (aka Grant Hub).

We believe that launching open-source, modular, and decentralized protocols creates permissionless core primitives and infrastructure for the ecosystem that allows other builders to move more quickly. Further, these protocols are public goods.

Round Manager and Grant Explorer are the primary unlocks to scaling our Grants protocol horizontally and allowing any project or team to use Grants as a mechanism to fund public goods.

Grants 2.0: Where We Are So Far

Round Manager and Grant Explorer are the last two core domains of Grants 2.0 to kickoff (after dPopp and Grant Hub), which gives the team some additional information to inform early development.

Domains

The Gitcoin Event Storming group initially outlined a number of domains that have been redistributed as part of the Grants 2.0 roadmap. At this point in time (May 2022), those domains are loosely allocated as:

There are some key domains that we expect to have somewhat fuzzy boundaries and (potentially) have shared interfaces: