Over $XM in grants has been disbursed to support and grow IPFS to date. To accelerate more implementations that advance the IPFS ecosystem, IPFS Implementations Fund (i.e. IPFS Blue Fund I) will allocate an additional $XXM in grants over 24 months (see fund announcement and deck to learn more about what is in scope).
A portion of Fund I will be allocated through Impact Evaluators (IEs), a method for retroactive funding that rewards projects based on impact achieved against a set of goals or KPIs. An IE is a tool or process that can assess the value of a system’s output so as to actuate or refine the system itself. For more on IEs, see the following resources:
The IPFS Implementations IE aims to accomplish the following goals:
To evaluate relative value of projects, a group of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) will assess the most valuable contributions to IPFS in the past calendar year (i.e. between Oct. 1, 2021 and Oct. 1, 2022). SME Evaluators will provide this input through a Quadratic Voting (QV) mechanism, where they will allocate “voice credits” to the projects that they deem to be most valuable. In QV, voice credits convert into “counted votes” according to their square root. For example, if you put one voice credit on an issue, that is one vote; four credits are two votes; nine credits are three votes, and so on. Provided below are further details on the mechanics of the IPFS IE Round 1:
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