Gitcoin Grants Protocol to Launch Five Alpha Testing Rounds, Partnering with UNICEF, Fantom, Optimism, and Alchemix

Gitcoin announced that its decentralized grants protocol, Grants Protocol, will launch five alpha testing rounds in the coming months, the move is the first step in the transition from Gitcoin Grants to Grants Protocol. The first round of the five rounds of Alpha testing was the cooperation pilot between Gitcoin Protocol and the UNICEF Innovation Office, which was conducted from December 9th to 21st; the second round was that the Fantom Foundation allocated 125,000 FTM to the Projects built within the Fantom ecosystem will run from December 12 to January 2, 2023; the third round is Gitcoin's simplified Alpha round, which is divided into open source software, Ethereum infrastructure and climate solutions rounds, and will be held in 2023 The fourth round is the second round of Optimism's retroactive public goods funding, which will be held from January 31 to February 10, 2023; the fifth round will be the second round of Alchemix in February next year. Voting round, exact date to be determined.