We're excited to share Karma's progress each month as we work to become the ultimate all-in-one funding platform for web3! This report gives you a quick rundown of all the cool new features, improvements, and fixes we rolled out across the Karma ecosystem in September.
This year, we've really made some great strides in building our full-stack funding platform with four key parts: application intake and review, onchain project registry, impact metric and monitoring, and finally, direct and retro funds payout features. That last one is super important, and it's where we've put most of our energy, which is now live and being used in the Optimism Season 8 grants round.
Here’s a rundown of our major achievements in September:
Major Features
We rolled out several significant new features designed to improve the application and evaluation process.
Application Versioning & History Tracking: We built a complete versioning system for grant applications, which means you can now see every change made to an application over time.
Tracks all changes made to applications over time
Shows visual diffs between versions
Provides a timeline view of edits
Helps reviewers understand how applications evolved
AI-Powered Grant Evaluation: We integrated AI capabilities to assist with grant review processes, making evaluations faster and more consistent.
AI scoring for applications with sortable columns
Admin controls for triggering AI evaluations
Reference-based evaluation system
Enhanced CSV exports with evaluation scores
Post-Approval Form Fields: We created a new system for collecting additional information from grantees after their applications are approved, streamlining the post-approval workflow.
Privy Integration: We seamlessly integrated privy.io into our backend, allowing users to log in with their wallets effortlessly.
Communities Page Enhancement: We redesigned the communities experience to make it more intuitive and visually appealing.
Improved navigation and discovery
Better categorisation and filtering
Enhanced visual layout
Multi-chain community aggregation
Whitelabel Platform - Shared Domain Hosting: We launched a new shared subdomain architecture for our whitelabel platform, allowing multiple funding programs to be hosted under a unified domain with custom client configurations, so communities can bring their own branding and style while Karma handles the backend.
Celo Public Goods, Regen Coordination, and Optimism are already live at app.karmahq.xyz. With the Karma-powered platform, you can easily navigate all communities, see funding opportunities, and apply directly in the app, making accessing grant funding easier than ever.
System Improvements
We focused on enhancing the platform's performance, infrastructure, and overall developer experience this month.
Performance & Infrastructure: We made critical updates to improve the stability and speed of the platform.
Rate Limiting System: Implemented comprehensive global rate limiting to protect API endpoints and improve system stability
Goldsky Migration: Moved subgraphs (Arbitrum, Optimism, Celo) to Goldsky for better performance and reliability
Grant Indexing V2: Improved the grant indexing flow for faster and more accurate data processing
Developer Experience: We improved our developer tools to make it easier for our team to build and maintain the platform.
Swagger Documentation: Added comprehensive API documentation for V2 endpoints
Data & Analytics: We expanded our data and analytics capabilities to provide more comprehensive insights.
Impact Indicators: Added support for GoodDollar and other community impact indicators
External Data Providers: Integrated support for external data sources and custom datapoints.
User Experience
We rolled out a series of updates to make the platform more user-friendly and efficient for everyone, from applicants to reviewers.
Frontend Improvements: We redesigned several key elements of the user interface for a smoother experience.
Redesigned grant card layouts for better information display
Improved application form state management
Enhanced navigation flows across the platform
Better loading states and error handling
Reviewer & Admin Tools: We enhanced tools for reviewers and administrators, making their tasks more efficient and manageable.
Enhanced reviewer role system with granular permissions
Improved program validation workflows
Better filtering for expired programs
Enhanced CSV export capabilities
Notifications & Communication: We improved our notification and communication systems to keep everyone better informed.
Improved email notifications in direct funding platform
Added approval notification workflows
Enhanced grantee communication templates
Technical Highlights
Our engineering teams made significant progress across all major repositories, ensuring a robust and scalable platform.
Backend (gap-indexer): Our backend team focused on solidifying the core architecture and improving reliability.
40+ pull requests merged
Implemented proper V2 architecture patterns
Enhanced error handling with Sentry integration
Improved test coverage and validation
Frontend (gap-app-v2): The frontend team worked on improving the user-facing application with better code quality and integration.
15+ pull requests merged
Better TypeScript coverage
Improved component architecture
Enhanced Web3 integration
Whitelabel Platform: Our team focused on making the platform more flexible and accessible for custom deployments.
20+ pull requests merged
Multi-tenant architecture implementation
Enhanced testing infrastructure
Better accessibility features
Platform Capabilities
The Karma platform now offers an even broader range of powerful features to support grant applications and evaluations.
The Karma platform now supports:
Multi-chain grant applications and donations
AI-assisted grant evaluation
Comprehensive application version history
Post-approval workflows
Community impact tracking with custom indicators
Rate-limited, secure API access
Enhanced reviewer collaboration tools
Whitelabel funding platform deployment
Looking Forward
This month saw significant progress in making the platform more scalable, secure, and user-friendly, laying a strong foundation for future growth.
Total Activity: We merged over 75 pull requests across all repositories, addressing new features, improvements, and critical fixes, showing our commitment to continuous development.
Overall the Karma app has gone through a massive transformation combining multiple key modules that come together to create the best funding platform on the market. Thanks to our community for all the feedback and patience. We look forward to seeing what opportunities this brings to our builder community.
Finally the Karma team will be at Devconnect this November in Buenos Aires, Argentina. We are definitely looking forward to connecting with the extended Ethereum builder community. If you plan to be there too reach out and we can grab a coffee. You can always reach out to us on discord or telegram.
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