Introducing our yield-donating vaults aka growth engines.

Round 2 is coming ✨ Two additional $400K grants will be allocated to @unichain lending protocols based on forecasted TVL growth Mark your calendars: forecasting starts on August 11-15

Today I received a really exciting newsletter in my inbox. @sovereignsignal has just released part 1 of 3 of his @Optimism funding retrospective series. If you're contributing to the Collective, it's a must read! 🔴✨

Ever wondered where the story of @optimism grants begins? 🔴 Before they had the means to distribute at scale, they were the ones looking for grants to sustain and that experience shaped everything. New piece on how, sometimes, struggle can breed innovation

Big changes are coming to @EthereumFndn’s ecosystem development cluster to support real-world adoption. Here’s what’s changing and why it matters🧵

Dev Tools Guild goals: Fund critical infrastructure — many of the tools devs rely on are built and maintained by small, focused teams or a single individual. We exist to ensure foundational work is sustainably supported and aligned with Ethereum’s long-term growth. 🧵

Eddie Van Halen guitar solo 🎸

🤖 a great first MCP server to add to your stack: 🏷️ ENS MCP 🧐 now my agents can look up ENS names on their own and i can describe all my addresses by name! 🫡 "make atg.eth the owner of this contract please" 👉 📣 shoutout to justhadi.eth

will go a step further here we need more experimentation again in crypto we had so much fun last cycle because there were random things being launched every single week

Grants in crypto fail on multiple grounds (inner dealings, high overhead, accountability, etc.). Still, probably most importantly, they fail to fulfil the objective of rollup growth spending - rapidly bootstrapping an active onchain ecosystem, so what has worked 🧵