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 358 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, ranking #729 (top 0.5%) among 493,668 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 216,357 followers as of October 2026 and published 17,119 posts on the platform. Gitcoin has been mentioned by 2,313 accounts a total of 11,713 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 1,450 founders, 368 angel investors, 534 influencers and 54 VCs. Among them are Balaji, Solana, vitalik.eth, ZachXBT, Erik Voorhees and Laura Shin.