Flow State (Streaming Quadratic Funding)
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A digital platform enhancing sustainable funding for public goods through continuous, programmable money allocation and a cooperative legal structure. Features include Streaming Quadratic Funding for real-time support and streamlined grant management.

Flow State is a digital coop and impact funding platform that makes public good contributions more sustainable.

We’re focused on two big ideas:

  • Streaming allocation mechanisms - Using the full potential of programmable money to deliver continuous funding where and when needed
  • Digital cooperative legal structure - Combining a traditional legal structure with web3 rails to reward impact creators and funders with rights to the org’s future cash flows (in a transparent, compliant way—👋, Gensler)

Our flagship product, Streaming Quadratic Funding (SQF), brings the free-rider-incentive-busting quadratic funding mechanism to a real-time, continuous form. With SQF...

  • Public good builders earn sustainable funding by delivering on their mission—fewer distractions hunting/shilling grants and more focus on growing impact and cultivating long-term supporter relationships.
  • Donors make high-conviction funding decisions where and when they find something they care about rather than in chaotic, time-constrained voting periods. Think of it like a QF-supercharged Patreon where supporters are actively enabling future value creation rather than providing one-off charity.
  • Ecosystems attract, retain, and amplify talent. No one likes funding uncertainty, administrative delays, or capital inefficiency. Streaming grants are a competitive advantage on both sides of the impact funding equation.

Background SQF was initiated as a feature for/by the Geo Web with support from Superfluid and Gitcoin Allo. The community response convinced us to pursue the ideas introduced in the pilot as a stand-alone project. Our core team of contributors includes:

  • Graven Prest - Product & Operations
  • Gary Sheng - Community & Business Development
  • Stefano De Berardinis - Engineering
  • Xian Zheng - Engineering

We’re public goods builders through and through. We know the struggle. We’re excited to bring our hard-earned grantee perspective, streaming funding tools, and unique legal structure to (the open-source) market and transform how public goods are funded and built.

What We’ve Been Working On

  • A no-code interface for configuring and managing SQF rounds (think Grants Stack for streaming grants)
    • Allo-integrated grantee applications and round operator review
    • A new, scalable SQF donation UI
    • Custom-generated Farcaster Frames for grantees (with live matching multiplier calculation)
  • Supporting multiple onchain voter eligibility methods
  • Our digital coop structure
    • Superfluid-integrated patronage distributions
    • Transparent incentives for member funders, grantees, and ecosystems
  • Soon-to-launch SQF rounds with select partners
  • Designs for streaming quadratic voting, direct streaming grants, and more!

Flow State (Streaming Quadratic Funding) History

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