Gitcoin is an Ethereum public-goods funding and grants platform and DAO, co-founded by Kevin Owocki and Kyle Weiss, that pioneered Quadratic Funding for open-source and community projects. Gitcoin's Twitter Score is 364 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #705 (top 0.5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Gitcoin launched Gitcoin Grants as the first implementation of Quadratic Funding, and has since reported over $60M donated to public goods, 4.2M unique donations, and 3,715 projects funded. The GTC governance token launched in May 2021 with a total supply of 100M tokens, giving the community a formal role in directing the protocol's future through GitcoinDAO.
Gitcoin announced the sunset of Grants Stack by May 2025, while Gitcoin Grants rounds continue to operate. Most recently, Gitcoin Grants 24 in October 2025 featured a $1.8M matching pool and multiple funding mechanisms, demonstrating continued activity in the public-goods funding space.
Gitcoin is backed by Coinbase, a16z, Polygon, StarkWare, and Aave Grants, and partners with the Ethereum Foundation and Open Source Observer. Gitcoin has accumulated 216,993 followers as of August 2026 and published 17,117 posts on the platform. Gitcoin has been mentioned by 2,307 accounts a total of 11,704 times.
Gitcoin's portfolio includes Token Engineering Academy, Kickback, RadicalxChange, ECH Institute Inc, LeapDAO.eth, MGD DAO, ATX DAO and cadCAD.
Who follows Gitcoin on X?
The accounts that follow Gitcoin include 1,441 founders, 370 angel investors, 541 influencers and 54 VCs. Among them are Balaji, Solana, vitalik.eth, Erik Voorhees, ZachXBT and Laura Shin.