Fund a public good with hours of your skill, not just money, and get matched like a donation.
Kemi cannot spare cash for her town's open data project, but she can design. Skill Pledge lets her pledge 10 hours, the project confirms delivery, and her hours count in the quadratic match exactly like a donor's dollars.
Let anyone fund what matters with the thing they have most of: their skill.
Public goods funding rounds only count money. People with real skills and little cash, often in the places that need the projects most, cannot take part, and projects that need design, writing or code end up paying for it with the same scarce donations.
Quadratic funding only counts money, which leaves out everyone whose best gift is time and skill. Skill Pledge lets people pledge hours of design, code or translation, has the project confirm delivery, and counts those hours in the match like a donor's dollars. Owning it makes you the round operator: your rules, your matching partners, your community of contributors, and your fee for running rounds.
Two paid rounds completed with confirmed hour pledges.
One application with round data.
Verified contracts, builder profile, one completed round.
One submission.
Your community's volunteer hours tracked and confirmed in one place for a month.
30 first time contributors pledge hours.
One institutional partner.
Case study in five applications.
Three paid round operations.
Yes. Round setup, money and hour pledges, delivery confirmation, QF math with an hour to credit rate, matching pool payout and contributor profiles are built. You choose the rules and deploy from your wallet with the guide. Run a tiny round first.
You set one rule per round, such as a flat $25 credit per confirmed hour, and publish it before pledges open. Flat rates avoid ranking people's worth. Expect debate, and revisit after each round.
Hours only count after the project confirms delivery. Projects that rubber stamp lose matching eligibility next round. Keep rounds small until you trust the community.
Sponsors, foundations, local businesses or DAOs. Start with a small pool of a few hundred dollars from people who already care about the projects.
Yes: contracts deploy from your wallet, the round runs on your app, and contributor profiles live under your brand.
Everyone stakes a conviction, encrypted. The chain tallies it without ever seeing a single take. FHE on Base.
Governance by text-sized questions: one decision a week, answered in ten seconds, with real quorum.
Crowdfunding where backers get refunded by contract if the goal or the milestones are missed.
A shared house or club tracks who did the work, and the record becomes everyone's portable reliability score.
Lend the ladder, the drill, the tent: a street library of things with deposits held by contract.
A rotating savings circle (ajo, susu, chama) with payouts enforced by contract and trust scores for members.
Retro funding for the quiet helpers: the community nominates who mattered, a pot pays them.
A neighbourhood treasury where proposals unlock only after enough real neighbours physically show up.