Grant Program Opportunities & RARI Ecosystem Growth

FounDAOtion #18

Happy Friday RARI fam!

This week we took a big step towards growing the RARI ecosystem: opening the grants applications! We are awarding 10k RARI to 5 developers utilizing Rarible Protocol to innovate across the following verticals:  

• Gaming

• Social

• brand loyalty 

• digital collectibles

• Governance

Click the button below to apply before April 7th 👇

P.S. Pleasant surprise: we will double your grant amount to 20k RARI if you are also building on the RARI Chain! 

Now, on to other ecosystem news:

RARI Chain integrations

Our community spoke, we listened! We are happy to introduce the brand new Relay-powered bridge that will enable you to move your ETH to RARI Chain in a fast, secure and low-cost way. Bridge below to prepare for our upcoming drops!

We are excited about other new additions to our ecosystem:

• HeyMint enables creators to launch their collections on RARI Chain for free and create allowlists to enhance their social media presence

• Newest Gelato integration helps creators and projects on RARI Chain to sponsor gas fees for their collectors

• Magic allows projects on RARI Chain to effortlessly integrate secure and user-friendly wallets into their applications

International Women’s Day activations

Did you know that most of the RARI Foundation team members are women? Safe to say that we take Women’s Day seriously ;) We teamed up with the Hug and our $1k grant winner Laura Santiago to offer a magical “Love letter” in a 24-hour open edition drop to our followers.

Over 6300 people minted the drop, and we ran out of gas reimbursement budget in 90 minutes!

To support women on their web3 journeys, we also sponsored 4 SheFi scholarships and announced the winners on our celebratory Women’s day space. We are honoured to contribute to making web3 a more inclusive and supportive space, one woman at a time.

Our next free drop is scheduled for March 20th – stay tuned and come celebrate the first day of spring with us!

Governance updates

• RRC-20 proposal regarding utilization of 2023 budget surplus was approved by the RARI DAO

• RARI DAO delegate Jaris James hosted a space about onchain identity and ownership of sensitive assets within the grant recipient project OSPN

• We hosted a Tally platform demo on a bi-weekly proposal review call