"Giveth SomETHing Back - The QF Security Round"

Live now - DAdvisoor is with Griff Green to discuss the QF Security round on Giveth!

The YouTube session titled “Giveth SomETHing Back – The QF Security Round” featuring DAdvisoor and Giveth co‑founder Griff Green centers on the launch and mechanics of the Ethereum Security Quadratic Funding (QF) round being hosted on the Giveth donation platform. This round is backed by a 500 ETH matching pool from TheDAO Security Fund, making it the largest QF round on Giveth to date, and is designed to fund projects that improve the security of Ethereum and its Layer 2 ecosystem through community-driven quadratic funding. The discussion explains how builders, security researchers, and white-hat teams can apply to the round, and how donors can participate to direct the allocation of the matching pool. The background to this round is the creation of TheDAO Security Fund, which repurposes more than 75,000 ETH in recovered assets from the 2016 TheDAO hack into a long‑term funding source for Ethereum security initiatives. The Ethereum Security QF round runs on Giveth over several weeks in spring 2026, with applications opening in late March and the funding round itself taking place from late April to mid‑May, during which community donations signal which projects should receive a larger share of the 500 ETH pool. Eligible projects span a broad range of security work, including incident response, audits and formal verification, wallet and user protection, security tooling and infrastructure, threat intelligence, protocol and client security, cryptography and post‑quantum research, and security education and standards. For Giveth, this round exemplifies its role as a zero‑fee, multi‑chain public goods funding platform that uses mechanisms like quadratic funding and token incentives to support open-source and nonprofit work. By spotlighting this security-focused QF round in a live conversation, Giveth and its guests are emphasizing both the ongoing importance of Ethereum security and the use of community-governed funding to sustain it. Quadratic funding specifically amplifies the influence of many small donors rather than a few large ones, so the round also acts as a discovery mechanism for security teams that usually operate behind the scenes and may be underfunded. The session helps orient potential applicants and donors to the round’s goals, eligibility criteria, and broader context, including the collaboration between TheDAO Security Fund, the Ethereum Foundation’s grants management team (which defines eligibility), Giveth (which operates the round), and the wider Ethereum community that effectively decides the final distribution of funds via its donations. "entities":["Giveth","Ethereum Security QF Round","TheDAO Security Fund","Griff Green","DAdvisoor","Ethereum","Ethereum Layer 2 (L2) ecosystem","Ethereum Foundation Grants Management team","Gitcoin / GG24 (context for QF rounds)","TheDAO (2016 hack, historical context)"]}`

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