We are very happy to announce the first round winners of the ETC Grants DAO program!

After receiving many proposals and much analysis by the program's committee, formed by Bitmain and the ETC Cooperative, which included proposal evaluations, technical reviews, and due diligence, we have selected the grantees who will receive nearly $700K USD in grants payable in ETC ranging from $3,800 for community initiatives, to more than $50,000 for premium grants.

The list of winners is the following:

Alphaday - $3.8K

Alphaday is a powerful crypto workflow aggregator that pulls in news, on-chain data, social media, web3 services and much more into one customizable UI.

Blockscout - $50K

Blockscout is a decentralized, open-source block explorer.

ClassicDAO - $25K

ClassicDAO is creating a new DAO which has special functionality and incentives for building projects that grow Ethereum Classic from its core up.

ETC Fans Community Building - $10K

ETC fans helps users understand the development process and latest news of the ETC project in a one stop shop, and becomes a window to understanding the ETC community. ETC fans is a bridge linking users and the market; influencing more users to pay attention to and participate in the ETC ecosystem.

Ethereum Classic Plugin for PluGeth - $50K

This project creates a plugin to allow standard PluGeth to sync and run Ethereum Classic.

FindTruman - $35K

FindTruman is the FIRST steam-like story-gameplay co-creation platform in Web3.

Flash - $50K

Flash is an NFT aggregation trading platform that provides functions such as NFT creation, browsing, purchase, and sale.

Giveth - $50K

At Giveth we would like to add our donation application https://giveth.io to Ethereum Classic so that every project on Giveth can raise funds with ETC.

HebeSwap Oracle - $50K

HebeSwap Oracle is a blockchain middleware that enables the integration of off-chain data and events into the ETC blockchain. This middleware serves as a bridge between off-chain data sources and the blockchain, allowing smart contracts to access and utilize off-chain data. By doing so, HebeSwap Oracle expands the range of application scenarios for smart contracts and blockchain technology.

Incentivized Micro-Contributions System - $2K

The Incentivized Micro-Contributions System is a rewards-focused platform using ETC to incentivize small contributions to Ethereum Classic, seamlessly integrating with Github and social media, to increase awareness and network engagement.

iZUMi Finance - $50K

iZUMi Finance is a multi-chain DeFi protocol providing One-Stop Liquidity as a Service (LaaS).

KEEN (ODK) Stablecoin Protocol - $50K

KEEN is a decentralized stablecoin protocol built on the Ethereum platform using smart contracts. Its stablecoin name is ODK, which is similar to the MakerDao protocol. It uses excess collateral assets to endorse the value of the stablecoin.

Magic Tower - $50K

Magic Tower is an RPG blockchain game redeveloped based on the traditional game IP Magic Tower, which integrates SocialFi, GameFi, DeFi and other elements.

Mechaverse - $25K

Mechaverse is a Meta-Dimensional Strategy Game-Fi in The Era of Web3, with the NFT authorization of various well-known Japanese IPs.

NerveNetwork - $20K

NerveNetwork is an asset relay network connecting multiple blockchains, a completely gas-free blockchain.

Patient Money YouTube Channel - $10K

Patient Money is creating high quality, fact based Ethereum Classic content as seen here: https://www.youtube.com/@PatientMoney.

POW Summit sponsorship - $20K

ETC Cooperative is proposing that ETC Grants DAO sponsor the POW Summit to bring awareness of the grants program to the broader POW ecosystem.

TIMESFINANCE - $50K

TIMESFINANCE is liquidity strategy service platform for liquidity providers.

WBM- Real Estate WEB3 Ecosystem - $50K

WBM is building a new chapter for asset tokenization, relying on real property real estate as the underlying value, and building real estate NFTs, real estate asset tokens, and income tokens on Ethereum Classic.

We thank all the participants for their effort, and our reviewers for the hard work evaluating and ranking these amazing projects. We will be doing profile interviews and social media promotions communicating each one of the winner projects' and initiatives.

Thank you for reading this article!

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