Add Gitcoin Grants Round 18 campaign entry

src/content/campaigns/gitcoin-grants-round-18.md

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+---
+id: '1770997173018'
+slug: gitcoin-grants-round-18
+name: "Gitcoin Grants Round 18"
+shortDescription: "Gitcoin Grants Round 18 used quadratic funding to support Ethereum infrastructure, climate, education, and open-source public goods."
+tags:
+  - gitcoin
+  - quadratic funding
+  - ethereum
+  - climate
+  - education
+  - open source
+featured: false
+lastUpdated: '2026-05-11'
+authors:
+  - "GBOYEE"
+relatedMechanisms:
+  - quadratic-funding
+relatedApps:
+  - gitcoin-grants-stack
+relatedCaseStudies:
+
+relatedResearch:
+  - liberal-radicalism-paper
+relatedCampaigns:
+  - gitcoin-grants-20-gg20
+  - gitcoin-grants-21-gg21
+  - gitcoin-grants-22-gg22
+ctaUrl: 'https://grants.gitcoin.co'
+matchingPoolUsd: '$1M+'
+projectsCount: '480+ core'
+startDate: '2023-08-15'
+endDate: '2023-08-29'
+banner: /content-images/campaigns/gitcoin-grants-round-18/banner.png
+---
+
+**Gitcoin Grants Round 18 (GG18)** was a quadratic funding campaign focused on Ethereum infrastructure, climate solutions, Web3 community and education, and open-source public goods. The round ran from August 15 to August 29, 2023 and continued Gitcoin's long-running grants program by using community donations as preference signals and matching pool capital to amplify projects with broad support.
+
+GG18 sits in the middle of Gitcoin's transition from earlier centralized grants rounds toward the decentralized Grants Stack era. It still centered on quadratic funding, but the round's themes show the widening scope of Gitcoin Grants: core Ethereum tooling, public-good software, Web3 education, and climate-aligned work were treated as part of the same ecosystem funding problem.
+
+## How It Works
+
+GG18 followed the familiar Gitcoin Grants pattern:
+
+1. **Projects applied to thematic rounds.** Builders submitted grant profiles for categories aligned with Ethereum infrastructure, climate, Web3 community and education, and open-source public goods.
+
+2. **Donors contributed during the round window.** Community members made small or large donations to projects they wanted to support. Each donation acted both as funding and as a signal of contributor preference.
+
+3. **Quadratic funding amplified broad support.** Matching funds were allocated using the quadratic funding principle: projects with support from many distinct contributors received stronger matching than projects relying on a small number of large donors.
+
+4. **Sybil resistance protected the matching pool.** Gitcoin Passport and round-level review processes helped reduce the impact of duplicate or coordinated accounts.
+
+5. **Projects received direct donations and matching funds.** After review, eligible projects received both their donor contributions and the matching allocations computed from the round.
+
+## Core Rounds
+
+### Ethereum Infrastructure
+
+Ethereum Infrastructure funded work that helped developers and users rely on the ecosystem more safely and effectively. This included protocol infrastructure, core ecosystem ideas, developer tooling, and other projects directly advancing Ethereum.
+
+### Climate Solutions
+
+Climate and ReFi projects used Gitcoin Grants as a way to coordinate support for environmental monitoring, climate coordination, carbon-related tooling, and regenerative finance experiments. Quadratic funding was useful here because many climate public goods have broad beneficiaries but limited direct revenue.
+
+### Web3 Community and Education
+
+The Web3 Community and Education round supported non-software public goods that helped people understand, use, and participate in Web3. This included educational resources, advocacy, community growth, user protection, inclusion, and diversity work.
+
+### Web3 Open Source Software
+
+Open-source software remained a core Gitcoin Grants category. GG18 supported maintainers and teams building shared digital infrastructure, especially projects whose benefits extended beyond a single company or protocol.
+
+## Eligibility
+
+Eligibility depended on the specific GG18 round, but the campaign followed several common Gitcoin Grants standards:
+
+- Projects needed to be public-good oriented and aligned with the relevant round category.
+- Applicants were expected to provide clear project descriptions, public links, and evidence of ongoing work.
+- Open-source projects needed visible repositories or other public artifacts.
+- Donors and grantees were subject to Gitcoin's sybil resistance, round review, and compliance processes.
+
+These rules helped keep the matching pool focused on credible projects while still leaving room for community discovery through donor participation.
+
+## Why It Matters
+
+GG18 is useful as a directory entry because it shows Gitcoin Grants operating at a mature stage of its quadratic funding era. By 2024, Gitcoin had already proven that QF could fund public goods at scale; GG18 applied that pattern across categories that later became central to Gitcoin's multi-domain strategy.
+
+The round also illustrates a recurring design tradeoff in public goods funding. Quadratic funding is strong at surfacing broad community support, but it requires careful sybil resistance, clear eligibility rules, and post-round review. GG18 combined these pieces into a campaign that helped bridge the early Grants Stack alpha and beta rounds with later Gitcoin Grants iterations.
+
+## Highlights
+
+- GG18 used quadratic funding as the core allocation mechanism.
+- The campaign included four core rounds: Climate Solutions, Ethereum Infrastructure, Web3 Community and Education, and Web3 Open Source Software.
+- Multi-round checkout helped donors support projects across rounds in a single flow.
+- Core rounds ran primarily on Optimism, while Ethereum Infrastructure used PGN.
+- Gitcoin Passport and review processes helped protect the matching pool from manipulation.
+- The round provided a snapshot of Gitcoin Grants during the decentralized Grants Stack era.
+
+## Further Reading
+
+- [Announcing: Gitcoin Grants 18](https://www.gitcoin.co/blog/announcing-gitcoin-grants-18)
+- [Gitcoin Grants Round 18: Results and Recap](https://www.gitcoin.co/blog/gitcoin-grants-round-18-results-and-recap)
+- [GG18 Results Ratification Proposal](https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/proposal-ratify-the-results-of-gg18-and-formally-request-the-community-multisig-holders-to-payout-matching-allocations/16553)
+- [Gitcoin Passport](https://passport.gitcoin.co)

src/data/authors.json

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   {
     "name": "Gitcoin Team"
   },
+  {
+    "name": "GBOYEE",
+    "social": "https://github.com/GBOYEE"
+  },
   {
     "name": "Gitcoin"
   }