<aside> <img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/0defbbce-2b1d-457a-ac21-54681faa121d/1lKCnIMB8qvRyiEkAZCvfug-2.png" alt="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/0defbbce-2b1d-457a-ac21-54681faa121d/1lKCnIMB8qvRyiEkAZCvfug-2.png" width="40px" /> The Public Goods Library (aka “The Library”) is a public goods discussion group hosted by Gitcoin.
If you are interested in participating in the Public Goods Library, you are in the right place! This document provides a brief overview of Gitcoin, public goods, The Library, and how you can get involved.
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<aside> <img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/6b18e935-7f70-4bf3-93d2-342aa19e067b/1lKCnIMB8qvRyiEkAZCvfug-2.png" alt="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/6b18e935-7f70-4bf3-93d2-342aa19e067b/1lKCnIMB8qvRyiEkAZCvfug-2.png" width="40px" /> Gitcoin is fundamentally focused on building and funding digital public goods. We want to create a society that values creators and replaces corporatized infrastructure with sustainable, open, digital tools and spaces (the metaverse should not be owned by a single company).
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Mainly, Gitcoin has focused on achieving this through Gitcoin Grants, a platform that leverages quadratic funding to help communities (like Ethereum) signal what kinds of public goods they care about and in the process get creators sustainable funding to continue their work.
Gitcoin Grants rounds take place on a quarterly cadence, where we try to rally the energy of the community collectively, while the remaining time goes into learning from what went well, what didn’t, and how we can get even more funding to more public goods projects the next time around.
To learn more about Gitcoin, refer to this overview.
<aside> <img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/304ed9b0-709d-44e2-8163-d51ab62fd9b9/1lKCnIMB8qvRyiEkAZCvfug-2.png" alt="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/304ed9b0-709d-44e2-8163-d51ab62fd9b9/1lKCnIMB8qvRyiEkAZCvfug-2.png" width="40px" /> A public good has two key characteristics; it is non-excludable (costly or impossible for one user to exclude others from using a good) and non-rivalrous (when one person is using a good, it does not prevent others from using it). Together, these characteristics make it difficult for market producers to sell the good to individual consumers.
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We teamed up with Crypto, Culture, and Society DAO to create a starter pack for those who are new to the concept of public goods.
Want even more of a deeper dive and continue the conversation? Join our Public Goods Library community!
<aside> <img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/527c0244-a7c4-4329-8b49-fc1e4d016317/1lKCnIMB8qvRyiEkAZCvfug-2.png" alt="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/527c0244-a7c4-4329-8b49-fc1e4d016317/1lKCnIMB8qvRyiEkAZCvfug-2.png" width="40px" /> The Public Goods Library (aka “The Library”) is a public goods discussion group.
Every Wednesday at 11 am ET, we invite a guest to host a philosophical discussion on the Gitcoin Discord server. Topics are rooted in web3 and public goods, but range from DAOs, community, governance, and everything in between. One of our main guiding questions is: what are “Public Goods”, and how do we create, fund, and sustain them?
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