# POTLOCK

> The open funding stack, raise for anything.

POTLOCK is an open-source funding platform. It helps projects, non-profits, and contributors raise funds through campaigns, direct donations, and grant rounds across multiple blockchains.

POTLOCK is an open-source funding platform built on NEAR Protocol for projects, non-profits, and open-source contributors. Creators raise money through campaigns and direct donations, while treasuries and foundations run grant rounds with matched funding. It serves ecosystems that want to fund public goods in the open. Its code is open source, so other teams can deploy their own funding rounds.

Donors can give in many tokens from multiple blockchains, with cross-chain payments routed into NEAR accounts through NEAR Intents and no wrapped tokens. Quadratic funding rounds, called pots, match community donations from a shared pool.

Its flagship product is the POTLOCK funding app, alongside GrantPicks for head-to-head funding contests. It is used by NEAR ecosystem projects, DAOs, and grant programs.

- Type: Company
- Sector: Finance
- Status: Active
- Founded: 2024-01-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/potlock

## Products

- [POTLOCK](https://thegrid.id/profiles/potlock): POTLOCK is an open-source funding app on NEAR Protocol where projects raise money through campaigns, direct donations, and quadratic funding rounds with matching pools. Donors can contribute from multiple blockchains, with payments routed to NEAR accounts. Treasuries and foundations deploy funding rounds, manage project registries, and distribute matched funds through its smart contracts. (Grants Platform, Open Beta, Main Product)
- [nada.bot](https://thegrid.id/profiles/potlock): nada.bot was a sybil-resistance aggregator on NEAR Protocol that combined verification stamps from third-party contracts into a human trust score. Administrators chose which stamps counted, their weights, and the passing score, and connected apps such as quadratic funding rounds used it to check that participants were human. The project is now marked deprecated. (Decentralised Identity, Inactive/Support Ended)
- [GrantPicks](https://thegrid.id/profiles/potlock): GrantPicks is a funding platform where communities allocate grants by voting in head-to-head contests between projects. Round managers set up funding pots, projects apply, and pairwise votes decide how the funds are distributed on-chain. It is built for the Stellar network. (Grants Platform, In Development)
- [curate.fun](https://thegrid.id/profiles/potlock): curate.fun was an open-source brand automation platform that ran configurable content agents to curate social media posts and cross-post them to other platforms. Brands set up their own content pipelines and agent-based publishing workflows. Its hosted app has been paused. (AI Agent Platform, Discontinued)
- [POTLOCK Cross-Chain Widget](https://thegrid.id/profiles/potlock): POTLOCK Cross-Chain Widget was an embeddable donation tool that let any website accept multi-chain payments into a NEAR account through a short embed code, with no wallet connection needed. It showed donors a fee breakdown and a QR-code payment flow, and developers could customize it. Its site is no longer online. (Payments Infrastructure & Orchestration, Discontinued)
- [AI-PGF](https://thegrid.id/profiles/potlock): AI-PGF was a public goods funding initiative that ran quadratic funding rounds for AI safety, open-source AI research, governance, and ethics projects. Matched funding went through the POTLOCK protocol to projects working where AI and Web3 meet. The program is now marked deprecated and its site is offline. (Impact Initiative, Discontinued)
- [POTLAUNCH](https://thegrid.id/profiles/potlock): POTLAUNCH is a token launch product for community-powered token creation that has not been released yet. It is built around fair launch mechanisms such as bonding curves and Dutch auctions, with automated liquidity migration to decentralised exchanges. (Launch Pad, In Development)

## Links

- [Main](https://potlock.org)
- [Documentation](https://docs.potlock.org)
- [Whitepaper](https://potlock.org/whitepaper)
- [Terms of Service](https://potlock.org/terms)
- [Privacy policy](https://potlock.org/privacy)
- [Media Kit/branding](https://potlock.org/brand)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/potlock_)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/potlock)
- [Telegram](https://t.me/potlock)
- [Medium](https://medium.com/potlock)
- [Paragraph](https://paragraph.xyz/@potlock)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/nadabot)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/ai_pgf)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/potlock/curatedotfun)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/curatedotfun)

## Relationships

- [reply.cash](https://thegrid.id/profiles/reply_cash): Subsidiary

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