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 45 out of 1000 as of July 2026, ranking #23,689 (top 5%) among 531,432 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 4,946 posts and has been mentioned by 119 accounts a total of 418 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 221 founders, 48 angel investors, 73 influencers and 2 VCs, among them MoonPay, Sreeram Kannan, Notsofast, Austin Griffith, Owockai and Erika Lee.