What is Grant Ships?

It is an onchain, competitive/gamified grants platform available for use by Arbitrum DAO.

Where did it come from?

Grant Ships was made possible through a grant from Arbitrum Foundation via Plurality Labs & Thrive. It is being developed by The DAO Masons.

Grant Ships has since received a followup grant through the Thank Arb Firestarters program for additional development.

How do we know it works?

We tested it with a 90K ARB pilot funding program. Three 'ship operator' teams competed to best allocate their portion of the funds within the "Web3 Gaming on Arbitrum" funding domain.

Evolution in Action

Grant Ships is built on the premise that explicit and visible competition, accountability and selection pressure on grants programs will force them to mature into something that is both effective and aligned with the desires of the DAO.

Pilot Overview

A detailed, graphical breakdown where we grade our performance on each of these 4 aspects of the Flywheel is available in our Pilot Restrospective PDF - it is worth a scroll.

Onchain Capital Allocation Handbook

On this evolution front, Grant Ships was featured in Kevin Owocki's Onchain Capital Allocation Handbook

Video Overviews:

Grant Ships Pilot Overview

Feature Spotlight: Dual-token Voting & Badges:

Feature Spotlight: Project Profiles and Grant Applications:

How Can Arbitrum Fund Web3 Gaming?:

Coming Up

Over the next few weeks we will be highlighting some of the projects that were funded during the pilot alongside some of the features and capabilities that should be of interest to the voting members of Arbitrum DAO.