Season 4 ideas - Growing Funding Pools on Gardens

Ecosystem Campaigns
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1. Project Name

  • Gardens :seedling:

2. Project Description

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.

3. Website

4. How does the project use Superfluid?

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

6. Social Links

7. Dune dashboard

8. Contract Addresses

  • see Dune Dashboard above ^

9. Networks -

  • Optimism, Arbitrum, Base, Gnosis Chain, Celo, Polygon

10. Supertoken info

  • Gardens streams were launched in September and have now added over $50k to funding pools on Gardens through Superfluid. Currently there are ~50 active funding pools with ~$200k in TVL total on Gardens. We expect a $SUP allocation will help incentivize these communities add token streams to their pools on Gardens, which can be tracked here on DefiLlama: https://defillama.com/protocol/gardens
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Hey @paul, glad to see Gardens here.

Are streaming contributions enabled only for pure Super Token-based pools (e.g. G$)?

If you’re supporting all pools, then I presume the wrapped version of tokens is unwrapped before being distributed to proposals.

In this latter scenario, we miss out on introducing the power of streaming to the recipients and potential pull-through adoption (until streaming CV…). So, even though it has less reach, I’d lean toward using SUP incentives only for pure Super Token pools (or, I suppose, if the pool were denominated in the wrapped Super Token token instead of the ERC20).

This ensures a level of commitment by the pool operators to that Superfluid ecosystem that we can count on and reward.

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Hey Graven - streaming contributions into pools work for both native Super tokens and downgraded tokens in the funding pool. And yes when the funding tokens isn’t a Super token then it’s unwrapped before it’s distributed to the beneficiary.

I’m on board with incentivizing super token pools only. I am really hoping we can focus the incentives on a $SUP Garden for the community. This requires that transferability of the token to happen on time, but there is a lot we can do to support the entire ecosystem from a Garden governed by $SUP. So I like the idea of a campaign primarily incentivizing that, and then including native super tokens in other community’s funding pools too.

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