Introduction

HackerLink Grant is a quadratic funding dapp that supports early-stage projects and ideas from open source developer communities. Grant allows both community members and organizations (foundations, venture funds, senior projects) to participate in funding early developer projects and blockchian ventures.

The goal of HECO Grant is to fund open source developers' projects via donation, so that these projects can develop further into a venture in the HECO ecosystem.

HECO Quadratic Funding Grant Round-1 accepts following types of projects, including but not limited to:

1. HECO ecosystem applications: NFT protocols and platform-level applications, DAO and on-chain governance tools, next-gen Defi protocols, etc.
2. Toolkits on HECO: improved programming languages, wallets, scans, SDKs, etc.
3. Infrastructures on HECO, research on consensus, Layer-2 infrastructure, privacy, API services, etc.

HECO Quadratic Funding Grant Round-1 is from 16/Mar/2021 to 15/May/2021. Developers participating in this round should submit projects in Submit BUIDL page and select "HECO Grant Round 1" as project source. Submitted projects will display on the round's detail page, and a real-time community donation ranking will be available on the leaderboard.

Voting Mechanism

https://vitalik.ca/general/2019/12/07/quadratic.html

We are inspired by Vitalik Buterin's work "Quadratic Payments" and GitCoin's practice to implement this mechanism so that we can provide quadratic funding tools to the DoraHacks global hackathon community.

There are two funding sources -- the community donation and the sponsor's prize pool.

Sponsor's prize pool: $60,000 provided by HECO, $12,000 provided by EDC.

For individual community contributors: you can donate to any project(s) you like with your wallet. By clicking "Vote" following that project, you will be able to enter votes and the smart contract will return the cost (or the amount of donation) for the votes. Your votes will eventually determine how the sponsor pool gets distributed.

To learn how to use MetaMask on HECO mainnet, please refer to this page: https://polynetwork.gitbook.io/docs/creating-heco-wallet-in-metamask

For more details about HECO, see, HECO Official Website: https://www.hecochain.com HECO Developer Documentation: https://docs.hecochain.com HECO Grant Announcement: https://hidorahacks.medium.com/heco-grant-global-online-hackathon-now-open-with-60k-prize-pool-5a2edb39b844 HECO Grant Application: https://hidorahacks.medium.com/heco-grant-application-guidance-94d70148d8c7 HECO Grant Voting: https://hidorahacks.medium.com/heco-grant-voting-guidance-95f8be531680 DoraHacks Telegram：https://t.me/hackerlinkofficial DoraHacks Discord：https://discord.gg/cYgbvfu2