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The current price of Gitcoin is $0.3448 with a 25.38% change in the last 24 hours.
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Gitcoin is an Ethereum-based project that funds public goods: open-source software, research, and infrastructure that benefits everyone but has no natural paying customer. Its best known contribution is popularizing quadratic funding at scale, where many small donations are matched from a pool in a way that weights the number of contributors far more heavily than the size of any single donation.
GTC is the governance token of that effort. It is a standard ERC-20 on Ethereum at 0xDe30da39c46104798bB5aA3fe8B9e0e1F348163F, and a live read on September 11, 2026 returned the name "Gitcoin," the symbol "GTC," 18 decimals, and a total supply of exactly 100,000,000 tokens.
What Gitcoin is today differs from what it was in 2021. It has stepped back from operating grant rounds itself and repositioned as a coordinator, describing itself as "your trusted directory and reference library for funding mechanisms, platforms, case studies, and research in the new internet."
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Gitcoin was founded in 2017 by Kevin Owocki as a platform for paying open-source developers in crypto for bounties on GitHub issues. Gitcoin Grants, the quadratic funding program, followed and became its defining product. GTC launched in May 2021 to hand control to a DAO, distributed retroactively to past contributors and grant participants, and has functioned as a governance instrument rather than a fee token ever since.
The most important recent chapter is the restructuring. Gitcoin Passport, the sybil-resistance identity product, was acquired by the Holonym Foundation in February 2025 and rebranded as Human Passport under human.tech, and Grants Stack, the application Gitcoin built for running rounds, was wound down. GG24, whose main donation window ran October 14 to October 28, 2025, was the first round of what the DAO calls Gitcoin 3.0, distributing more than $1.8 million across six thematic domains. Roughly $632,500 of that matching capital came from partners outside the core DAO treasury, the first time external funders supplied more than a third.
Quadratic funding Contributors donate to projects they value, and a matching pool is distributed using a formula in which the square of the sum of the square roots of contributions sets each project's share. A project with many small backers is matched far more heavily than one with a few large ones.
Domain allocators Under Gitcoin 3.0, community-appointed operators independently design, manage, and evaluate rounds within a problem area. Gitcoin ran the core open-source domains in GG24 and delegated the others, moving from platform operator to ecosystem coordinator.
Mechanism plurality GG24 did not run on a single mechanism. Its six domains used quadratic funding via Giveth, MACI private voting, conviction voting, retroactive funding, direct grants, milestone-based funding, and peer-reviewed hypercerts, with Allo Protocol providing the underlying capital allocation contracts.
Sybil resistance Because quadratic funding rewards unique participants, fake accounts are the core attack. Identity scoring, historically through Gitcoin Passport and now through Human Passport, filters contributions before matching is calculated.
According to the project's own GTC Token Center, GTC is "a governance token that you can use to get utility within the Gitcoin network," with these uses:
The standard description of GTC as a fixed 100,000,000 token needs one correction. The contract is a Compound-style governance token, and its bytecode exposes mint, minter, setMinter, and mintingAllowedAfter. Calling those on September 11, 2026 returned a mintCap of 2, a minimumTimeBetweenMints of exactly 365 days, and a mintingAllowedAfter timestamp of January 1, 2022. A designated minter may therefore increase supply by up to 2% per year, and that permission has been available since the start of 2022. Total supply still reads exactly 100,000,000, so the power has not been used, but GTC is not immutably capped in code. It is capped by governance choice.
Gitcoin's durable contribution is mechanism design, not software. Quadratic funding moved from an academic paper into repeated real-world deployment largely because Gitcoin ran it publicly, for years, at meaningful scale, and published what went wrong. The sybil, collusion, and matching pool sustainability problems were surfaced by that practice rather than by theory.
The 2025 restructuring is itself distinctive. Most projects respond to a shrinking treasury by adding products. Gitcoin sold a product line, retired its own application, and became a coordinator that convenes other people's mechanisms and platforms.
Gitcoin is not a blockchain. Compared with adjacent projects:
GTC is an ERC-20 on Ethereum and inherits Ethereum's security. Governance runs through on-chain voting with delegation, using the standard Compound pattern of vote checkpoints and delegate signatures, which the contract bytecode confirms is present.
The harder problem is not cryptographic. Quadratic funding is only meaningful if contributors are distinct people, an identity problem handled by off-chain scoring and staking through Human Passport. That is a probabilistic defense rather than a proof, and Gitcoin has disqualified sybil contributions in past rounds.
Gitcoin is the reason quadratic funding is a practical technique rather than a paper. Over many rounds it funded a large amount of Ethereum infrastructure that no market would have paid for directly, and it generated the empirical record that everyone designing a public goods program now reads. Its current form is smaller and more federated, but the mechanisms, case studies, and Allo contracts are used well beyond Gitcoin itself.
GTC trades on centralized exchanges and on Ethereum decentralized exchanges, where it can be swapped directly from a self-custody wallet. Availability varies by jurisdiction. GTC is native to Ethereum, so any version on another network is a bridged representation and should be verified before use.
GTC is often available on:
After purchase, GTC can be held:
If you intend to vote, remember that governance power requires delegation. Holding GTC without delegating, including to yourself, leaves your voting weight inactive.
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Read the complete paper trading guideThe current price of Gitcoin is $0.3448 with a 25.38% change in the last 24 hours.
The daily trading volume is $21,338,561 representing a 100.39% change in the past 24 hours.
The market capitalization of Gitcoin is $30,164,097, ranking #421 globally.
The fully diluted valuation (FDV) of Gitcoin is $34,476,602, calculated assuming the maximum supply of 100,000,000 GTC is in circulation.
Circulating: 87,491,502. Total: 100,000,000. Max: 100,000,000.
In the last 24 hours, Gitcoin traded between a low of $0.2565 and a high of $0.3705.
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