Funding The Commons is a public-goods funding and coordination project incubated by Protocol Labs's Network Goods team to bridge builders and researchers working on public-goods funding mechanisms. Funding The Commons's Twitter Score is 47 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #19,446 (top 5%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Funding The Commons runs events, residencies, hackathons, and real-world pilots exploring new models for funding public goods. Its first event brought together speakers including Juan Benet, Vitalik Buterin, and Karl Floersch. The project actively participates in open grant rounds involving Quadratic Funding, Gitcoin, RetroPGF, and Hypercerts, and has a conference scheduled for March 2026.
Funding The Commons is backed by Protocol Labs, Filecoin Foundation, Octant, Optimism RetroPGF, Drips, Stellar Development Foundation, NEAR Foundation, and Holonym Foundation. It is also affiliated with UNICEF Office of Innovation and Earth Commons. The account has published 5,090 posts and has been mentioned by 131 accounts a total of 444 times.
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Funding The Commons draws a following from across the public goods and Web3 ecosystem. The accounts that follow Funding The Commons include 236 founders, 55 angel investors, 53 influencers and 4 VCs, among them Sreeram Kannan, MoonPay, Shaw Spiritacc, Austin Griffith, Owockai and Notsofast.