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Impact, in the open

What Funding the Commons delivers, in absolute numbers — public-goods funding facilitated, builders and projects through our residencies and hackathons, and a growing community — read live from our metrics, each carrying its source.

Generated 2026-06-29.
In numbers

The top line

What FtC has delivered, in absolute numbers — read live from Metric History.

Alumni follow-on raised
$16.67M
Capital residency alumni have raised since the program — grants, venture, prizes, tokens
residency-alumni-pipe · as of 2026-06-05
2024-112026-06
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Public-goods funding facilitated
$580K
Gross PGF moved through FtC campaigns + hackathons to builders
pgf-pipe · as of 2026-06-29
2023-082026-06
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Builders hosted
110
Across 3 residency cohorts since 2023
program-pipe · as of 2025-11-14
2023-092025-11
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Alumni now at foundations
9
EF · Protocol Labs & more
residency-alumni-pipe · as of 2026-06-05
Verified impact · public goods

Public goods funding flows

The PGF numbers FtC stands behind: the total public-goods funding FtC has distributed through the ecosystem — the match pools it fiscally hosts (campaigns: Tor QF, Artizen Frontier Fund) plus the prize funds paid to builders through its hackathons — and what FtC has received as a grantee. Gross volume FtC moves for the ecosystem (pool totals, not per-project allocation), not revenue FtC keeps. Read from Metric History; written by ftc-pgf-pipe.py.

PGF — campaigns
$267K
Match pools FtC fiscally hosts (Tor QF · Artizen Frontier Fund)
pgf-pipe · as of 2026-06-29
2026-042026-06
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PGF — hackathon prize funds
$313K
Prizes paid to builders through FtC hackathons (DoraHacks · RealFi · buidlbox)
pgf-pipe · as of 2026-06-29
2023-082026-06
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PGF received by FtC
$526K
Public-goods grants FtC won as a grantee, all-time (Optimism RetroPGF · Octant · Gitcoin · Giveth)
revenue-ledger · as of 2026-06-29
2024-012026-06
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Verified impact · residencies

Builder residencies

Three cohorts since 2023 — Berlin, Chiang Mai, and Buenos Aires — building public-goods software. Cohort counts are read from Metric History (written from 07-ops/metrics/residency-cohorts.csv); the alumni-outcome cards are identified floors from the internal roster (07-ops/metrics/residency-alumni.csv) and will rise as external enrichment fills gaps.

Builders hosted
110
Across 3 cohorts since 2023
program-pipe · as of 2025-11-14
Projects built
88
Public-goods projects
program-pipe · as of 2025-11-14
Cohorts
3
Berlin · Chiang Mai · Buenos Aires
program-pipe · as of 2025-11-14
Alumni profiled
78
Where-are-they-now profiles built
program-pipe · as of 2026-06-05
Now at foundations
9
EF · Protocol Labs — identified
program-pipe · as of 2026-06-05
Founders / C-suite
33
Identified floor, pre-enrichment
program-pipe · as of 2026-06-05
CohortBuildersProjects
Berlin 20234025
Chiang Mai 20244024
Buenos Aires 20253039
Notable alumni · what residents built
Talent pipeline: FtC residency alumni have since been hired into the Ethereum Foundation, Protocol Labs, and other ecosystem foundations.

Public-goods flagships

GainForest
David Dao

Decentralized nature finance & conservation-data income

XPRIZE Rainforest · WEF Davos 50 · ETH Next Billion · gainforest.earth
Hypercerts
Ken Beckers · Sharfy · Adam Spiers

On-chain impact certificates for retroactive public-goods funding

v0.2 in production · hypercerts.org
ZK Email
Aayush Gupta

Zero-knowledge proofs from email (DKIM) for trustless identity & account recovery

0xPARC + EF PSE backed; widely integrated · github.com
Muqa
Tomislav Mamic

Quadratic funding for municipal & local public goods

ETH Next Billion Fellow · muqa.org

Traction at scale

Blockradar
Abdulfatai Suleiman

Non-custodial stablecoin wallet infrastructure for fintechs

$100M+ on-chain volume · 100+ fintechs · blockradar.co

Mission & humanitarian

Rahat
Manjik Shrestha

Blockchain humanitarian aid & anticipatory action

UNICEF-supported · rahat.io
Xcapit
Fernando Boiero

Blockchain + AI for governments & NGOs (digital ID / DPI)

Public-good software factory · xcapit.com
Verified impact · hackathons

Hackathons

Builders and prototypes from FtC-run and co-produced hackathons, read from Metric History (written from 07-ops/metrics/hackathons.csv). Prize funds distributed to builders are counted under public goods funding flows above.

Builders
1,659
Across hackathons run
program-pipe · as of 2026-04-15
Projects shipped
318
Prototypes submitted
program-pipe · as of 2026-04-15
Hackathons
5
FtC-run / co-produced
program-pipe · as of 2026-04-15
HackathonBuildersProjectsSponsors
Fund Public Goods (buidlbox) 2023431
Funding the Commons & Earth Commons Hackathon 20243561168
RealFi Hack 2025240648
NEAR Innovation Sandbox 2026484854
Intelligence at the Frontier (IatF) Hackathon 20261485314
Reach · community

Audience

Total audience is the sum of Funding the Commons' public channels: Mailing list (CRM) (5,569) · Luma subscribers (4,332) · YouTube subscribers (901) · Telegram members (777) — read from our metrics source of truth.

Total audience
24,202
+49% since 2024
2024-12 → 2026-05
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Public goods funding
Hackathons
Residencies
Shared data layer (AT Protocol)
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Generated 2026-06-29.