Gardens is a community governance platform that helps people allocate shared resources as effectively as possible.
Our platform lets communities govern themselves intelligently, using best-in-class mechanisms to give decision-making power to the people closest to the work, while protecting the greater collective from abuse and apathy.
Organizations that thrive on Gardens:
Exist for a mission, not just profit
Benefit from decentralized security and resilience
These include open source projects, pop-up cities, web3 ecosystems, chapter-based orgs, activists, and many other public goods providers — digital or IRL.
Communities on Gardens can add funds with a Superfluid stream to funding pools they set up on the app. Funding pools on Gardens are allocated using conviction voting and can be set up modularly, with each pool dedicated to a specific community need.
Being able to stream funds into pools is extremely helpful for budgeting between community segments (growth, grants, IRL events, etc) and promotes healthy long term shared resource allocation to dedicated domains in the community.
5. Team Members
Core Contributors: Paul, Gossman, Mati, Thiago, Coi, Afo
Gardens streams are a brand new feature yet to be announced. Currently there are ~30 active funding pools with ~$100k in TVL in various tokens that’ll all be able to take advantage of this new feature. We expect a $SUP allocation will help incentivize these communities add token streams to their pools on Gardens. We’ll track adoption of streaming tokens in Dune.
Can you explain a bit more the flow of funds? Who streams funds to who isn’t totally clear to me as I’m not very familiar with the app.
Would also love to hear if you have any other plans to create synergies with other ecosystem apps. There are a number of tokens and projects with Pure Supertokens that could benefit a lot from this kind of community infrastructure being built with Streams built in, but I don’t see this in your proposal
On Gardens, communities create funding pools for any purpose they define. Funds are then allocated to proposals using conviction voting.
Here’s some active funding pools on Gardens to show what that looks like:
Anyone can add funds to a pool, either with a 1-time transfer or a stream. Streams can be sent directly to the pool since the pool detects both the upgraded and downgraded token balances, and always downgrades everything before distributing to proposals.
Note that streaming really is the better way to add funds since communities can control the budget this way… not just have a pile of money that slowly dwindles.
For distributing funds from pools, we don’t yet have streaming functionality yet, but we’ve had some conversations with Flows and Flow State on possible integrations that could help make this a reality sooner. We’re also currently using Flows for our governance token distribution: ⚘GARDEN
The way we want to support other projects in the Superfluid ecosystem is to get them set up with their own funding pools on Gardens, which can be aimed at any critical funding needs they have: marketing, community engagement, dev builds, operational expenses, etc.
Since anyone can add funds into a pool. people can support their favorite projects with a token stream, get transparency in how those funds wind up getting used via the funding pool, and get agency as a community member to vote / dispute / create proposals for funding from those pools.
If they can get rewarded with $SUP for that too, even better.
