Kevin Owocki on folding Gitcoin quadratic funding into Buoy

Kevin Owocki argues that qf folds into the second pilot (local money) instead of standing alone as a platform, and that the qf / funding platform stops being its own bet and becomes a feature of buoy, which he calls pilot 2, targeting November.

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USC Builders Grant: $10,000 non-dilutive seed pool for two digital-asset or fintech teams

The VanEck Digital Assets Initiative at USC Marshall is taking applications for a 10-week accelerator with mentorship and no equity or token allocation taken.

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Artizen pauses operations; users told to claim payouts and withdraw funds

Artizen, a funding platform for art, science, technology and culture projects, says it "is pausing operations." Its site now tells users to "Sign in to claim your creator payout or withdraw ART and USDC from your Artizen wallet."

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Entropy Advisors proposed that ArbitrumDAO adopt USDG as a core strategic initiative

The proposal would add 100M ARB to DRIP, bringing its remaining budget to ~165M ARB, combine Seasons Two through Four into a single USDG-focused season, and extend the program through one year from onchain approval (est. November 2027).

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Logos RFP-005 (Multisig and Coordination) is open for proposals until October 16, 2026

Logos asks for an audited M-of-N multisig program on the Logos Execution Zone (LEZ) with an encrypted, metadata-resistant coordination channel for signers.

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Celestia Foundation Delegation Program Cohort 9 is open

Cohort 9 has 35 seats with a 12-month delegation duration; applications opened 1 October 2026 and close 1 November 2026, and delegation begins 1 December 2026.

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SafeDAO SEP 56 requests ~7,400,000 SAFE to fund Safenet Aegis

Vote closed October 6, 2026 with all votes for Accept (about 29.4M SAFE).

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Targeted RFP: Cosmos Hub Sponsored Endpoint Provider

The Interchain Foundation's Ecosystem Growth Delegations tranche posted a Targeted RFP on October 6, 2026 for one provider to run a sponsored public RPC, API and gRPC endpoint service for the Cosmos Hub, with the award running for four quarterly rounds.

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ZCG-Funded V12 Credits for AI Security Scans: Applications Open

Zcash Community Grants opened applications on October 7, 2026 for ZCG-funded credits on V12, the AI security auditor built by the team behind Zellic. Any team or individual building open-source software for the Zcash ecosystem can apply, including teams that are not current ZCG grantees. ZCG reviews applications on a rolling basis and allocates credits from a ZCG-funded pool, starting with ongoing PR scans.

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Stacks Treasury Committee Q3 2026 Community Update — Shift to Fewer, Larger Grants

The update reports approximately $6.6 million deployed across DeFi liquidity and market-making initiatives, with Q3 spending of approximately $4.5 million in fiat and approximately 8.4 million STX (around $1.75 million).

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Rocket Pool GMC Round 42 accepts grant proposals through November 7, 2026 at 23:59 UTC

Apply by replying with the official forum template, including the requested USD amount, milestones and payment schedule; proposals are evaluated for protocol benefit, feasibility and cost effectiveness.

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OpenSats — Four New Bitcoin Core Grants and One Renewal (October 2026 wave)

OpenSats is pleased to announce four first-time grants and one renewal from the General Fund supporting work on Bitcoin Core. First-time recipients: Futurile (Guix), yuvicc (libbitcoinkernel), Pol Espinasa (Bitcoin Core wallet), Pablo Martin (testing and review). @janb84 received a renewal.

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Polkadot OpenGov Referendum 1944 — dotUSD Treasury Liquidity

The proposal says it will use treasury funds for the initial liquidity in the DOT x dotUSD pool, with $2.5M in USDT to mint dotUSD and $2.5M in DOT allocated initially to the pool.

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Arbitrum Security Program is accepting applications

The 12-month program covers the security lifecycle for projects building on Arbitrum, commits 1.76M USDC and 25M ARB (about $7.8M), and includes AI-assisted screening, human-conducted audits, bug bounty, and the ArbitrumDAO Security Council.

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Balancer BIP-928 — Orderly Winddown and Distribution of the Treasury

Balancer token holders approved BIP-928, an orderly winddown and in-kind distribution of the treasury to BAL holders, with a winddown budget of $150k from 1 November 2026 to May 2027.

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Decentraland DAO proposal to return DAO Committee multisig funds to Treasury passes with 80% Yes

The proposal states: "The money left the Treasury, the Committee executed the orders, but the Committee failed to return it to the DAO." Amount: over $1.7M.

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Arkiv Global Tour Stop hackathon: $5,000 USDC + Devcon 8 tickets

A 10-day online hackathon from Oct 9 to 18, 2026 for projects built on Arkiv around the Ethereum Foundation's CROPS themes. Best Indian Use Case wins $2,000 USDC; four global CROPS tracks win $750 USDC each; each of the five winning teams also gets one Devcon 8 ticket.

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Beldex Grants Program

Funds developers, startups and teams worldwide building privacy-focused applications, tools and infrastructure on the Beldex network, with a $1M total grant pool and rolling applications.

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Hacker House Goa 2026: AI x Crypto builder residency with $50,000+ in bounties

Running October 28 to 31, 2026 in Goa, India, with 247 builders selected from 10,000+ registrations, teams of 1 to 3, free registration, and a public demo day using on-chain voting.

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Arbitrum Foundation launches Dune Credit Program: 2,500 Dune credits a month for public dashboards

The Arbitrum Foundation is backing analysts with 2,500 Dune credits per month to create and maintain public dashboards across the Arbitrum ecosystem. Applications are open through the form linked in the post.

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ETH Shenzhen 2026 Hackathon: $3,000 in main prizes plus bounties, register by Oct 22

ETH Shenzhen 2026 takes place in Shenzhen on October 24 to 25 for Ethereum builders, developers and communities working on AI, Web3 and open-source projects, with $3,000 in main prizes plus additional bounties and developer resources. Registration closes October 22, with a co-building day and demo judging on October 24 and the conference and awards on October 25.

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