OKX and Gitcoin Form Strategic Partnership: Building a Dream Factory for Quality Web3 Projects Together

Recently, OKX announced a strategic partnership with Gitcoin. The two will jointly provide technical, funding, and other support to Web3 developers, making the Web3 ecosystem even more prosperous.

Compared to the mature Web2 world, Web3, as a completely new product, has always lacked a comprehensive and powerful unicorn incubation mechanism, making high-quality development difficult to achieve. OKX's deep partnership with Gitcoin at this moment is precisely the breakthrough point for this dilemma.

I. Two Giants with Complementary Strengths, Building a Quality Project Incubator for the Web3 World Together

The former is a leading crypto asset exchange and global Web3 infrastructure, while the latter is the industry's top crowdfunding platform for open-source software. Their respective strengths are in trading ecosystems, crypto technology, and developer community building and quality project screening. These two highly complementary key players will jointly incubate more quality Web3 projects.

A quality project incubator for the Web3 world is thus born. In the future, we will see Web3 versions of YouTube, TikTok, Google, and Amazon set sail from here.

Regarding this crucial strategic partnership, Gitcoin Foundation Director Kyle Weiss stated: Our deep collaboration with OKX allows us to better fulfill our mission and vision — promoting open-source networks and incubating top-tier projects. Going forward, we can provide stronger funding support for more excellent developers and their surrounding communities. Developers worldwide will benefit from this partnership.

II. Gitcoin: An Open-Source Platform for Quality Projects and Developers, Building Unicorn Potential Through Crowdfunding and Donations

Those familiar with the crypto world know that Gitcoin was the earliest platform focused on open-source network construction and open-source project incubation. In March 2020, Ethereum founder Vitalik even publicly praised it on social media. Why are open-source networks so important to the crypto world?

First, we know that source code is to the internet world what sunlight, air, and water are to our daily lives. When source code is enclosed in isolated giant ecosystems, the circulation and interaction of network technology are greatly restricted, ultimately affecting the iteration and progress of internet technology as a whole. This pattern may be reluctantly accepted in the Web2 world, but it appears out of place in the Web3 world, or even goes against the trends of the times.

Therefore, to accelerate the circulation and sharing of source code, there must be professional organizers to create a multi-functional platform for many skilled but underappreciated grassroots developers to showcase themselves, exchange insights, share information, and connect with funding. Gitcoin plays exactly this role.

When Gitcoin was founded in 2017, it built a platform and community based on open-source technology for global developers, encouraging excellent developers to share source code and providing everyone with a flexible project financing platform. To date, Gitcoin has raised over $70 million in funding for various projects (donations alone reached $45 million), with a total community user base of over 300,000 (including developers, investors, tech enthusiasts, and tech media professionals).

To seamlessly connect quality early-stage projects with a broad base of investors, Gitcoin has also conducted multiple rounds of crowdfunding and donation activities. Users can inject funds with low thresholds and low costs to support their favorite projects and help them become Web3 unicorns. This activity has become a major event in the Web3 world, with popularity climbing repeatedly. A considerable number of investors even regard it as the primary reference for discovering quality seed-round projects. In the 14th round of crowdfunding donations held in June of this year, over 44,000 community users donated to over 1,250 projects, with over 600,000 individual donations and a total crowdfunding amount of $4.9 million. Multiple data points from this round of activity reached historical highs.

III. OKX Empowers Gitcoin in All Aspects and Provides Strong Support for Web3 Unicorns

Of course, Gitcoin's system and approach are both based on community-driven operations, which sounds very decentralized, very Crypto, and aligns with the core spirit of blockchain, making tech geeks and crypto asset enthusiasts talk about it with enthusiasm. This is also the core of Gitcoin's remarkable achievements over 5 years. However, the path Gitcoin relies on may appear somewhat lagging in the rapidly evolving and fast-iterating crypto world, and lacks risk resilience in irreversible downturn cycles.

Because investing in and discovering quality projects requires mastering timing cycles and being able to quickly mobilize abundant funding and technical strength to complete resource conversion. Most importantly, both project incubators and project operation developers need to navigate through different cycles together to strengthen the project's vitality, which requires both to have stronger backers behind them. At this point, the relatively young Gitcoin can only seek external force support within the Web3 framework. OKX is the most ideal choice, whether judged by comprehensive strength or philosophical alignment.

OKX leads the entire industry in multiple dimensions including CEX user scale, user experience, risk control technology, and product functionality. Currently, OKX's total global user base exceeds 20 million, and it has built a complete Web3 ecosystem covering OKTC Chain, Web3 Wallet, NFT Marketplace, and DeFi project library. It can empower Gitcoin in terms of technical interaction, project screening, user resources, and funding support.

OKX Ventures head Jeff Ren stated: In a tightening environment, Gitcoin continues to deliver vitality and hope to the Web3 world through multiple rounds of crowdfunding donation activities, which will strongly promote technological innovation and industry infrastructure construction. This initiative also aligns completely with OKX's core philosophy and development path. We are delighted to support Gitcoin's development and will engage in deeper collaboration going forward to lay a solid foundation for the Web3 world.

Notably, OKX has achieved breakthrough visibility in the global entertainment and cultural sphere this year through a series of actions, deeply integrating Web3 with cultural and entertainment life. For example, sponsoring Premier League Manchester City, and signing top golfer Ian Poulter, among others. OKX's strategic partnership with Gitcoin, like the aforementioned details, is a concrete manifestation of practicing "Making the World Better with Crypto."

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