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Project Name
Gardens 🌱
Description*
Gardens is a community decision-making platform giving organizations streamlined access to web3’s best allocation mechanisms, which they can use to spend shared resources and source collective wisdom modularly, in any combination of instances.
Our goal is to hyperscale ecosystems by improving the ROI for expenditures on ecosystem growth and public goods by orders of magnitude.
Describe the contribution and impact of your project.
Contribution description*
Gardens provides the communities of the Superchain with an open-source, modular governance platform that allows decentralized collectives to source decisions and allocate shared resources more effectively than ever before.
Our first governance modules available on Gardens v2 feature conviction voting, a peer-reviewed decision mechanism first theorized by BlockScience, and battle-tested on Gardens v1 over the course of 4 years with as much as $40M in TVL at its peak. In Gardens v2, we improved the mechanism by making it modular and adding key features like custom voting weight systems, pool types, sybil resistance integrations, and by making it available on the Superchain with deployments to Optimism and Base networks.
On app.gardens.fund the projects of the Superchain ecosystem can now create a Gardens community with an enforceable Covenant, and deploy any number of custom governance pools pools dedicated to as many decisions and resource allocation events they need. Users in the Superchain can view these communities and join to take part in voting, proposal creation, or proposal disputes.
We believe our platform will help scale the Superchain ecosystem significantly by offering its projects a free, fair, and bottom-up approach to growing their community and public goods.
Impact description*
Gardens has seen healthy growth in communities and activity on the Optimism network, finding traction with web3 projects, chapter-based network communities, and public goods ecosystem growth organizations especially. Some of our most active communities on Optimism include:
Early activity from these communities has been largely experimental, signaling support for new initiatives, getting acquainted with the platform’s mechanisms, and onboarding their first users for governance.