The q/acc protocol combines the potency of Quadratic Funding (QF) with the many advantages of Augmented Bonding Curves (ABC), leveraging tokenization to optimize alignment of key stakeholders - the projects, the protocols and grant sponsors, and community - in the web3 grant space.

Each season accepts a group of web3 startup founders into our 8-week program. During that time they will launch an Augmented Bonding Curve for their project and join their first q/acc round, where anyone can buy their tokens. The round's matching pool funds build secondary market liquidity for project tokens.

Project may participate in future q/acc rounds to continue to build liquidity.

A bonding curve is a smart contract that algorithmically determines a token’s price, typically increasing as more tokens are minted, based on it’s circulating supply.

An Augmented Bonding Curve (ABC) provides the same automatic liquidity and dampened price volatility as other bonding curves and introduces two modifications: transaction tributes, and a vesting mechanism that can be applied to the initial tokens minted or any subsequent token mints and redemptions. 

Find out more on Commons Stack’s ABC page.

Quadratic Funding is a democratic funding mechanism where the amount of allocation from a matching pool that a project receives is proportional to the number of contributors. It optimizes for broad-based support by giving more weight to the number of individual contributions rather than the total amount of money contributed. 

The q/acc protocol used the same quadratic matching formula as QF. 

Find out more on the WTF is QF site or on Gitcoin’s QF site.

You still have questions? That’s normal, this is just getting started. Visit our Knowledge Hub for more information. We'll also share updates on X and Farcaster.

If you need to get in touch with us, email qacc@giveth.io.