AEZ long-term community quadratic funding for public goods begins

According to official news, ATOM Economic Zone (AEZ) long-term quadratic funding grant has completed the first round of application period on the global geek sports platform DoraHacks.io, and a total of 8 projects will enter the quadratic voting round. From January 28th to February 7th, ATOM users can vote for ATOM projects selected for Grant at Dora Vota. During the voting process, a small amount of native DORA on the Dora Vota chain must be used as a handling fee. DoraHacks platform users can receive a small amount of DORA tokens through the Dora Vota faucet to pay the handling fee. AEZ Quadratic Grant will fund public goods and emerging application chains in the Cosmos ecosystem in the long term to help expand the Cosmos application chain and the entire ATOM ecosystem. The eight projects that entered the first round of quadratic voting are Packet Forward Middleware (from the Strangelove team), Pouch, Abstract SDK and CosmWasm Orchestrator (from the Abstract team), CosmWasm Interchain Accounts Controller, Fairblock Network, The Rollup and InterChain NFT Gateway (from the Ark Protocol team), covering multiple project types such as Cosmos infrastructure/SDK, privacy, education, Defi, NFT, etc. The AEZ Quadratic Grant application and community funding portals are open to the public for a long time, and project selection and quadratic funding will be conducted regularly. The distribution of the quadratic matching bonus pool in this round is determined by community voting and due diligence results of shortlisted projects.