OpenCivics is a decentralized community of practice and solidarity network co-founded by Benjamin Life, Timothy Archer, and Patricia Parkinson to advance open civic innovation through Web3-enabled coordination and public-goods funding. OpenCivics's Twitter Score is 10 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #92,631 among 486,573 tracked accounts.
OpenCivics began development in 2022 and soft-launched at the end of 2023, operating as a fiscally sponsored project of the Buckminster Fuller Institute and accepting donations in both fiat and cryptocurrencies. Its first grant round, completed in 2023, placed among the top three crowdfunded community rounds on Gitcoin, and the organization has since distributed more than $361,000 across six community-led grant rounds, funding more than 47 project grants with participation from more than 1,000 unique donors.
OpenCivics co-stewarded the Localism Fund with Regen Coordi-Nation, with support from Gitcoin, Ma Earth, the Ethereum Foundation, and Celo Public Goods. In October 2024, OpenCivics partnered with the BioFi Project, the Design School for Regenerating Earth, and Regen Coordi-Nation on the BioFi Pathfinders Round for Gitcoin Grants Round 22 on Celo. OpenCivics has also previously received backing from the Lobby3 / deCiv Fund.
OpenCivics's work spans decentralized project management, multisignature wallets, collaborative knowledge management, quadratic funding, and participatory allocation for civic public goods. The network maintains affiliations with ReFi DAO and GreenPill Network. OpenCivics has published 558 posts and has been mentioned by 14 accounts a total of 25 times, with 1,607 followers as of September 2026 across the platform.
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The accounts that follow OpenCivics include 53 founders, 10 angel investors, 15 influencers and 1 VCs, among them gabrielShapir0, Austin Griffith, Gitcoin, zac.eth, Dan FinIay and Notscottmoore.