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We are so excited to share the announcement of round 1 of the Clanker Ecosystem Fund grants! Huge thank you to @gmfarcaster for all of their work making this vision a reality. The Clanker Ecosystem Fund has created 4 categories of grant awards: BUILDER GRANTS: For projects that have demonstrated sustained contribution, execution, and ecosystem impact. These are often larger grants because they reward proven work rather than speculative ideas. SUSTAINABILITY GRANTS: For smaller community projects, tools, media, or cultural contributions that make the ecosystem better. Some projects simply need enough support to continue existing. These grants may fund: infrastructure costs (APIs, hosting, etc), design costs, content or media creation costs, tooling maintenance FRESH CLANK GRANTS: Smaller grants intended to recognize projects that created energy, attention, or momentum within the ecosystem recently. These grants exist to encourage people to build, experiment, and ship publicly without feeling like they need years of history before receiving recognition. ACTIVATION GRANTS: These may be awarded along with one of the other categories of awards. Activation Grants : Small-to-medium grants intended to spark specific activity, events, or short-term ecosystem initiatives. These are intentionally temporary and outcome-oriented. Starting with BUILDER GRANTS: the CEF is recognizing 3 projects in this category and we are also including ACTIVATION GRANTS for each of these grantees as well. All three have been long term builders in the ecosystem and have driven attention to both Clanker and @farcaster_xyz via their apps. (@gmfarcaster will be sharing more about every project in separate posts at a later time) @qrcoindotfun by @0FJAKE $8000 usdc Builder Grant, $2000 Activation Grant @betrmint by @toady_hawk and @netnose $8000 usdc Builder Grant, $2000 Activation Grant @tryEmerge by @AtownBrown and the Emerge team $5000 usdc Builder Grant, $1000 Activation Grant (additional grantees in next post)

Clanker Ecosystem Fund Grants Pt 4 Continuing on with the SUSTAINABILITY GRANTS category AND the FRESH CLANK category - some of these grantees also earned ACTIVATION GRANTS. @amongtraitorsgg by @saltorious1 $2,000 Sustainability Grant, $500 Activation Grant AutoBoy by @TheFirmPressHQ $2,000 Sustainability Grant @DotA_Agents by @AzFlin $2,000 Fresh Clank Grant, $1000 Activation Grant CharmsAI by @charmsai $2,500 Fresh Clank Grant @viniapp_xyz by @1dolinski and @NikolaiLeb $2,000 Sustainability Grant AND $1,000 Fresh Clank Grant for @NikolaiLeb for UCI (continued in next post)

We are so excited to share the announcement of round 1 of the Clanker Ecosystem Fund grants! Huge thank you to @gmfarcaster for all of their work making this vision a reality. The Clanker Ecosystem Fund has created 4 categories of grant awards: BUILDER GRANTS: For projects that have demonstrated sustained contribution, execution, and ecosystem impact. These are often larger grants because they reward proven work rather than speculative ideas. SUSTAINABILITY GRANTS: For smaller community projects, tools, media, or cultural contributions that make the ecosystem better. Some projects simply need enough support to continue existing. These grants may fund: infrastructure costs (APIs, hosting, etc), design costs, content or media creation costs, tooling maintenance FRESH CLANK GRANTS: Smaller grants intended to recognize projects that created energy, attention, or momentum within the ecosystem recently. These grants exist to encourage people to build, experiment, and ship publicly without feeling like they need years of history before receiving recognition. ACTIVATION GRANTS: These may be awarded along with one of the other categories of awards. Activation Grants : Small-to-medium grants intended to spark specific activity, events, or short-term ecosystem initiatives. These are intentionally temporary and outcome-oriented. Starting with BUILDER GRANTS: the CEF is recognizing 3 projects in this category and we are also including ACTIVATION GRANTS for each of these grantees as well. All three have been long term builders in the ecosystem and have driven attention to both Clanker and @farcaster_xyz via their apps. (@gmfarcaster will be sharing more about every project in separate posts at a later time) @qrcoindotfun by @0FJAKE $8000 usdc Builder Grant, $2000 Activation Grant @betrmint by @toady_hawk and @netnose $8000 usdc Builder Grant, $2000 Activation Grant @tryEmerge by @AtownBrown and the Emerge team $5000 usdc Builder Grant, $1000 Activation Grant (additional grantees in next post)

We are so excited to share the announcement of round 1 of the Clanker Ecosystem Fund grants! Huge thank you to @gmfarcaster for all of their work making this vision a reality. The Clanker Ecosystem Fund has created 4 categories of grant awards: BUILDER GRANTS: For projects that have demonstrated sustained contribution, execution, and ecosystem impact. These are often larger grants because they reward proven work rather than speculative ideas. SUSTAINABILITY GRANTS: For smaller community projects, tools, media, or cultural contributions that make the ecosystem better. Some projects simply need enough support to continue existing. These grants may fund: infrastructure costs (APIs, hosting, etc), design costs, content or media creation costs, tooling maintenance FRESH CLANK GRANTS: Smaller grants intended to recognize projects that created energy, attention, or momentum within the ecosystem recently. These grants exist to encourage people to build, experiment, and ship publicly without feeling like they need years of history before receiving recognition. ACTIVATION GRANTS: These may be awarded along with one of the other categories of awards. Activation Grants : Small-to-medium grants intended to spark specific activity, events, or short-term ecosystem initiatives. These are intentionally temporary and outcome-oriented. Starting with BUILDER GRANTS: the CEF is recognizing 3 projects in this category and we are also including ACTIVATION GRANTS for each of these grantees as well. All three have been long term builders in the ecosystem and have driven attention to both Clanker and @farcaster_xyz via their apps. (@gmfarcaster will be sharing more about every project in separate posts at a later time) @qrcoindotfun by @0FJAKE $8000 usdc Builder Grant, $2000 Activation Grant @betrmint by @toady_hawk and @netnose $8000 usdc Builder Grant, $2000 Activation Grant @tryEmerge by @AtownBrown and the Emerge team $5000 usdc Builder Grant, $1000 Activation Grant (additional grantees in next post)

We are so excited to announce round 1 of the Clanker Ecosystem Fund grants! 🧵 Thank you to @JackDishman for first coming to us with this idea and for @rish_neynar and the @farcaster_xyz team for entrusting us as stewards. We've created 4 categories of grant awards: BUILDER GRANTS: For projects that have demonstrated sustained contribution, execution, and ecosystem impact. These are often larger grants because they reward proven work rather than speculative ideas. SUSTAINABILITY GRANTS: For smaller community projects, tools, media, or cultural contributions that make the ecosystem better. Some projects simply need enough support to continue existing. These grants may fund: infrastructure costs (APIs, hosting, etc), design costs, content or media creation costs, tooling maintenance FRESH CLANK GRANTS: Smaller grants intended to recognize projects that created energy, attention, or momentum within the ecosystem recently. These grants exist to encourage people to build, experiment, and ship publicly without feeling like they need years of history before receiving recognition. ACTIVATION GRANTS: These may be awarded along with one of the other categories of awards. Activation Grants : Small-to-medium grants intended to spark specific activity, events, or short-term ecosystem initiatives. These are intentionally temporary and outcome-oriented. Starting with our BUILDER GRANTS: we are recognizing 3 projects in this category and we are also including ACTIVATION GRANTS for each of these grantees as well. All three have been long term builders in the ecosystem and have driven attention to both Clanker and Farcaster via their apps. (we'll be sharing more about every project in separate casts at a later time) @qrcoindotfun by @0FJAKE $8000 usdc Builder Grant, $2000 Activation Grant @betrmint by @toady_hawk and @netnose $8000 usdc Builder Grant, $2000 Activation Grant @tryEmerge by @AtownBrown and the Emerge team $5000 usdc Builder Grant, $1000 Activation Grant (next group of grantees in next reply)

Continuing on with the SUSTAINABILITY GRANTS category. @checkrsocial by @david_tomu $2,000 Sustainability Grant Empire Builder by @Yerbearserker and @DiviFlyy $2,000 Sustainability Grant Purple Rain by MVR @HamsterOnBase $2,000 Sustainability Grant @indexy_xyz by @Kaloh_xyz $2,000 Sustainability Grant @faircaster by @runn3rrr $2,000 Sustainability Grant (continued in next reply)

Extremely honored and excited to announce that @betrmint has been selected to receive $10,000 in grants from the inaugural funding round of the @clanker_world Ecosystem Fund (CEF), enabled by @rish_neynar and stewarded by @ProfWerder and @age_shulman. We were awarded both an $8,000 Builder Grant and a $2,000 Activation Grant. It’s not always easy to keep your head down and continue building through the ups and downs of this space, so this recognition feels incredibly validating for @netnose and I regarding the impact BETRMINT and its community have had across the Farcaster ecosystem. This funding gives us additional runway to keep iterating, experimenting, and improving the app for our community, all while making @farcaster_xyz and @base a BETR place for creators and founders alike. We already have some pretty fun ideas brewing for the Activation Grant too, which should help bring even more art to the timeline this summer, so stay tuned! 👀 Winning together is $BETR… Clank! Clank!

QR got a grant! $10,000 from @clanker_world :) It means a lot to have @qrcoindotfun recognized and rewarded by the Clanker Ecosystem Fund following 450 days of building and 450 daily auctions for attention. Building a novel app on @base in this past year's market has not been the easiest thing in the world, but moments like these make it well worthwhile. It's great to be headlining the fund’s first round of grants alongside fellow onchain builders and now friends @toady_hawk (BETR) & @AtownBrown (EMERGE). These guys are relentless and they demonstrate the creativity & experimentation that building in crypto is all about. This is the first grant I have ever received. I appreciate that it comes purely as a result of building onchain. I didn't have to apply to any contest, fill out any forms, or play any superficial games. We just built a popular app that thousands of people open daily. That was enough. The core loop for our daily users it to get paid to discover something new onchain every day. (Bidders bid on our daily auction to win their attention). So far we have sent more than 1 million micropayments in the form of these daily rewards, and now we are the ones getting rewarded. It feels good to be on the other side. Farcaster (@farcaster_xyz) is a fantastic product and an even better network of people. It's been my pleasure to be a part of it over the last few years. The case for a crypto-native social network remains strong, even if it is not a hot topic in the market right now. Neither was privacy, for example, until it was (Zcash). Hardly anything not having to do with AI is getting much attention at the moment, but I am confident that crypto social’s moment will come. My hope is that it is sooner than later, and that Farcaster will remain the frontrunner to be the breakout product in that category at that time. Clanker has had a checkered history but ultimately it is one of the most impressive businesses I've seen built in crypto. Had it not existed, I never would have clanked QR, and likely never would have built @qrcoindotfun, so I am grateful for that. Regardless of its past, Clanker now has a fresh team, a new fund, and an opportunity as a part of Farcaster to become one of the most fun and valuable places to hang out on the internet, as Farcaster has been for years now for me personally. Big thanks to @rish_neynar, @JackDishman, @nounishprof, @age_shulman, and everyone from the clanker, farcaster, and @gmfarcaster teams for this much appreciated grant. Also thank you to everyone who opens the app every ay to check the link of the day, and to all of our bidders who have bid to win our daily auctions for attention. The onchain attention machine would be nothing without you.

We are so excited to announce round 1 of the Clanker Ecosystem Fund grants! 🧵 Thank you to @JackDishman for first coming to us with this idea and for @rish_neynar and the @farcaster_xyz team for entrusting us as stewards. We've created 4 categories of grant awards: BUILDER GRANTS: For projects that have demonstrated sustained contribution, execution, and ecosystem impact. These are often larger grants because they reward proven work rather than speculative ideas. SUSTAINABILITY GRANTS: For smaller community projects, tools, media, or cultural contributions that make the ecosystem better. Some projects simply need enough support to continue existing. These grants may fund: infrastructure costs (APIs, hosting, etc), design costs, content or media creation costs, tooling maintenance FRESH CLANK GRANTS: Smaller grants intended to recognize projects that created energy, attention, or momentum within the ecosystem recently. These grants exist to encourage people to build, experiment, and ship publicly without feeling like they need years of history before receiving recognition. ACTIVATION GRANTS: These may be awarded along with one of the other categories of awards. Activation Grants : Small-to-medium grants intended to spark specific activity, events, or short-term ecosystem initiatives. These are intentionally temporary and outcome-oriented. Starting with our BUILDER GRANTS: we are recognizing 3 projects in this category and we are also including ACTIVATION GRANTS for each of these grantees as well. All three have been long term builders in the ecosystem and have driven attention to both Clanker and Farcaster via their apps. (we'll be sharing more about every project in separate casts at a later time) @qrcoindotfun by @0FJAKE $8000 usdc Builder Grant, $2000 Activation Grant @betrmint by @toady_hawk and @netnose $8000 usdc Builder Grant, $2000 Activation Grant @tryEmerge by @AtownBrown and the Emerge team $5000 usdc Builder Grant, $1000 Activation Grant (next group of grantees in next reply)