# Q/ACC: First Light

By [Quadratic Accelerator](https://paragraph.com/@qacc) · 2024-06-10

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Quadratic Acceleration: First Light
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Giveth is building the next evolution of web3 grants to support builders on Polygon.

Many great projects depend on the Web3 grant ecosystem for funding. Still, there is a principal-agent problem: Desperate for survival, projects cut corners, focus on hitting metrics over creating value, and chase grants from competing ecosystems.

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What is the alternative to grant hopping? Tokenization! Tokenization realigns stakeholders and is a foundation for long-term self-reliance with the right supply & demand dynamics. But many small projects struggle to tokenize because:

*   They lack the capital to create liquidity 💰
    
*   Trust is hard to come by in crypto 🧐
    

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Quadratic Acceleration (q/acc) solves this. But how?!

1.  Our team will select projects & give them $MATIC to launch their own Augmented Bonding Curves.
    
2.  Communities will have the opportunity to support their teams in QF-esque rounds.
    
3.  Donations will mint project tokens for supporters, and the rest will flow to the team.
    

Quadratic Acceleration aligns incentives for ecosystems, communities, and teams in web3; it’s also the foundation for Gurves. IYKYK 😉

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The q/acc protocol resolves the irresolvable because it:

*   Frees projects from grant-hopping 🥵
    
*   Realigns teams & ecosystems 🤝
    
*   Launches new economies safely 💸
    
*   Offers built-in liquid tokenization 🌊
    

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We are building q/acc in partnership with General Magic and Inverter Network, based on CommonsStack's research and funded by a generous grant from Polygon. Go deeper:

[https://pods.media/greenpill/giveth-qacc-w-griff-green](https://pods.media/greenpill/giveth-qacc-w-griff-green)

More details are coming soon™

Don’t miss out on q/acc! 🦆

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[https://x.com/Giveth/status/1792903280663621894](https://x.com/Giveth/status/1792903280663621894)

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*Originally published on [Quadratic Accelerator](https://paragraph.com/@qacc/q-acc-first-light)*