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Gardens is a community governance platform optimized for bottom-up decision-making. It uses an enforceable Covenant tied to modular conviction voting pools to securely and intelligently signal sentiment and allocate resources to communities and ecosystems as effectively as possible.
This proposal seeks $32,000 to enhance Gardens' UI/UX and implement key improvements needed to transition Gardens from a niche product to one capable of mass adoption.
Expected Outcomes: 2x increase in Gardens usage, significant reduction in onboarding friction, and 5x increase in TVF through Allo.
We are the builders and maintainers of the Gardens platform. Gardens is a key ecosystem partner of Gitcoin, having run 2 successful community rounds to date.
In GG22, our Gardens Community Round allocated $30k to communities and raised $14k in external funding - a 1.7x multiplier on Gitcoin's $20k investment (retrospective).
GG23 significantly improved on these results, with $58k allocated and $40k external funding raised - a 3.05x multiplier on Gitcoin's $21k investment (retrospective).
We expect to continue this trajectory in our GG24 Exit-to-Community round.
Despite finding product-market fit with pop-up cities, regen communities, and ecosystem growth organizations, Gardens has flown under the radar due to user unfriendliness, complexity, and competitive landscape challenges. This funding directly addresses these shortcomings and brings Gardens from a niche experimental mechanism to platform ready for mass adoption.