Season 5 Ideas - Established Project - Gardens 🌱

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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 using best-in-class mechanisms — giving decision-making power to the people closest to the work, while protecting the greater collective from abuse and apathy.

Communities on Gardens include open source projects, pop-up cities, web3 ecosystems, chapter-based orgs, activists, and many other public goods providers.

In Season 4 we ran a $SUP rewards campaign that successfully brought significant TVL and community engagement onto Gardens through Superfluid streams. Our Superfluid DAO community on Gardens grew to over 1,000 members with 400k $SUP staked, 70k $SUP added to the community’s growth pool, and 12k $SUP/month still actively streaming into the pool. We also gained 300+ Farcaster followers from a small social incentive included in the campaign.

3. Website

4. Project Readiness

Gardens is live in production and has been operating continuously since launch. The platform has ~$100k in TVL and $200k in funding distributed. Over 150 communities and 2.5k unique members call Gardens home.

5. How Does This Project Benefit $SUP Holders?

Our Season 4 campaign demonstrated strong results in growing Superfluid usage through Gardens:

  • 1,000+ members joined the Superfluid DAO community on Gardens

  • 400k $SUP staked in the Superfluid DAO community as governance tokens

  • 70k $SUP added to the Superfluid growth pool, with 12k $SUP/month still streaming in

  • Meaningful funding pool inflows visible on DefiLlama

For Season 5, we plan to largely replicate the Season 4 structure that proved effective, with rewards for:

  • Streaming tokens into funding pools on Gardens via Superfluid

  • One-time transfers of Pure Super Tokens into funding pools

  • Community-level matching — all members of communities where members stream/add funds receive matched rewards, weighted by funds added to pools and governance tokens staked

  • New Followers on Farcaster

We’ll be removing the bonus multiplier for the Superfluid DAO community, as our Season 4 bonus achieved its goal of launching an active community. Activity on Superfluid DAO will continue to be rewarded in line with rewards across all communities on Gardens.

6. How Does the Project Use Superfluid?

Communities on Gardens can add funds via Superfluid streams to funding pools they set up on the app. Funding pools are allocated using conviction voting and are modularly configurable, with each pool dedicated to a specific community need (grants, operations, events, growth, etc.).

Streaming funds into pools is extremely useful for budgeting across community segments and promotes healthy long-term shared resource allocation.

The Gardens team is also working on Streaming Conviction Voting - a new funding pool type where funding can be streamed to proposal beneficiaries based on conviction: https://github.com/orgs/1Hive/projects/18?pane=issue&itemId=153933614&issue=1Hive|gardens-v2|801

In Season 4, we awarded additional incentives for the newly formed Superfluid DAO community, here on Gardens: https://app.gardens.fund/gardens/8453/0xa69f80524381275a7ffdb3ae01c54150644c8792/0xec83d957f8aa4e9601bc74608ebcbc862eca52ab

7. Team Members

  • Core Contributors: Paul, Gossman, Mati, & Afo

8. Social Links

9. Dune Dashboard

10. Contract Addresses

See Dune dashboards above. Gardens is deployed across multiple networks with community and pool contracts created per-community.

11. Networks

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

12. SuperTokens Used

Communities stream Pure Super Tokens (including $SUP ) or wrapped erc20 Super Tokens into funding pools. The Superfluid DAO community on Gardens uses $SUP as its governance token and accepts Super Token streams into its growth funding pool.

13. Current Daily Active Users

50+

https://atlas.optimism.io/project/0xf87dc66be181007e6d394553b4498ef833f7a53059d86e6ae399b4ca8db61543

14. Current Superfluid Volume

  • $44k total TVL inflows in Season 4 across all communities (DefiLlama)

  • 70k $SUP added to the Superfluid DAO growth pool to date

  • 12k $SUP/month actively streaming into the pool

15. Fee Structure

Gardens does not charge fees on streaming or funding pool contributions. The protocol is free to use — communities only pay gas costs for on-chain governance actions (staking, proposals, voting, fund distribution).

16. User Persona

  • Community builders setting up governance and funding infrastructure for their organizations

  • DAO contributors streaming recurring funding into community pools

  • Public goods funders matching and directing capital toward ecosystem priorities

  • $SUP holders participating in governance and signaling pools

  • Grant round participants registering communities for matching funds

17. KPIs

In Season 4, our rewards campaign targeted TVL growth across funding pool deposits and governance token stake, with bonus multipliers for activity in the Superfluid DAO community. The results were strong — we saw steady TVL inflows driven by Pure Super Token pools and incoming streams, and the Superfluid DAO grew to become the most active community on Gardens by membership, governance stake, and active streams into funding pools.

In Season 5, we’ll carry this momentum forward across all Gardens communities. The one structural change: we’re removing the Superfluid DAO multiplier. This reflects the program’s success — the community is now well-established and self-sustaining, so continued preferential incentives are no longer necessary. It also anticipates the upcoming launch of Streaming Conviction Voting, which will natively deepen Superfluid Protocol usage across the entire platform and strengthen the ties between the success of Gardens and the success of Superfluid.

Metric Season 4 Result Season 5 Target
Activity 3,643 5,000
> Total Communities 159
> Total Unique Members 2,556
> Total Proposals Created 928
Capital Flows $282,165 $350,000
> TVL (staked + funding pools) $85,738
> TVA (total value allocated) $196,427
Superfluid DAO Community
Unique Members 1,046 maintain or increase
$SUP staked in community 343k maintain or increase
$SUP in Growth Fund 68k 150k
$SUP streaming into growth pool 12k/month maintain or increase
Social Media
Farcaster followers (Gardens) 400+ 600
Twitter Followers 2,546 2,700

We will track all metrics via our Dune dashboards and DefiLlama.

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