Drips is a decentralized protocol and application built on Ethereum for funding open-source projects through token streaming and dependency-based capital distribution. Drips's Twitter Score is 27 out of 1000 as of July 2026, ranking #41,184 (top 10%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Drips was founded by Eleftherios Diakomichalis and is backed by Radworks, which identifies Drips as one of the separate organizations it funds. A 2025 Drips Org proposal requested a total budget of $1,833,676 from Radworks, comprising 75% in USDC and 25% in RAD. In September 2023, the Radworks community voted to stream $1 million from its treasury over one year to 30 critical software dependencies through Drips, split equally between RAD and USDC.
Drips allows users to build Drip Lists containing up to 200 open-source GitHub repositories, Ethereum addresses, or other Drip Lists, with received funding propagating through project dependency relationships. The protocol supports both one-time and continuous funding using ERC-20 tokens, and its smart-contract code is published under a GPL-3.0 open-source license. A security review of the protocol and application was commissioned from Spearbit.
Drips expanded beyond Ethereum by deploying on Filecoin and introducing network switching within the application. The protocol also introduced Drips Wave, a recurring bounty-cycle system through which maintainers nominate issues, contributors complete work, and rewards are distributed on-chain. Its first full Wave launched with the Stellar Development Foundation in January 2026, and Drips remained active as of June 2026, publishing product updates for its sixth Stellar Wave.
Drips has 3,320 followers as of July 2026 and has published 828 posts. Drips has been mentioned by 49 accounts a total of 87 times.
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The accounts that follow Drips include 105 founders, 30 angel investors and 31 influencers, among them John Wang, Banteg, 0xMaki, Jake Brukhman, mikedemarais.eth and Austin Griffith.