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With SQF...\n\n* Public good builders **earn sustainable funding** by delivering on their mission\u2014fewer distractions hunting/shilling grants and more focus on growing impact and cultivating long-term supporter relationships.\n* Donors **make high-conviction funding decisions** where and when they find something they care about rather than in chaotic, time-constrained voting periods. Think of it like a QF-supercharged Patreon where supporters invest in future value creation rather than providing one-off charity.\n* Ecosystems **attract, retain, and amplify talent.** No one likes funding uncertainty, administrative delays, or capital inefficiency. Streaming grants are a competitive advantage on both sides of the impact funding equation.\n\n**Team**\n* Graven Prest - Product & Operations\n* Gary Sheng - Community & Business Development\n* Stefano De Berardinis - Engineering\n\n**Flow State Updates**\n* **Our first partner-led SQF round is launching on October 24th and running through January 1!** It's sponsored by Octant with 15 ETH (with additional matching funders to be announced). The grantees will be graduates of [Octant's new Accelerator Program](https://x.com/OctantApp/status/1839274227796685154). The Accelerator's focus is all about finding sustainability as a public goods builder, so SQF is a perfect fit!\n* Our second partner-led SQF round is already **funded for $40k and will launch this fall**. More details to be announced soon!\n* We've completed work on our no-code management platform for SQF rounds. We'll open it up for permissionless use soon, but until then [drop us a message, if you're interested in running a round](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfGii7KmKIMq9J0nmvWjmiHEd864yMxkO4sXAjarQ01i98fcA/viewform).\n* We finalized the legal & governance structure of our digital cooperative. [If you're interested in learning more about becoming a member and earning patronage for funding and building public goods, hit us up](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdIIt9mUJTvc-4dOtpgYSTg9DMnT-jccfTCWEzyioEF5vXVDQ/viewform).\n* We're in education mode, teaching new grantees and prospective round funders about streaming grants. More rounds will be launching soon!", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}, "projectGithub": "flow-state-coop", "projectTwitter": "flowstatecoop"}
Flow State (Streaming Quadratic Funding)
Flow State is a streaming funding platform & digital coop that makes working for and investing in the public good more sustainable.

We’re focused on two big ideas:
* **Streaming allocation mechanisms** - Using the full potential of programmable money to deliver continuous funding where and when needed
* **Digital cooperative legal structure** - Combining a traditional legal structure with web3 rails to reward impact creators and funders with rights to the org’s future cash flows (in a transparent, compliant way—👋, Gensler)

Our flagship product, Streaming Quadratic Funding (SQF), brings the free-rider-incentive-busting quadratic funding mechanism to a real-time, continuous form. With SQF...

* Public good builders **earn sustainable funding** by delivering on their mission—fewer distractions hunting/shilling grants and more focus on growing impact and cultivating long-term supporter relationships.
* Donors **make high-conviction funding decisions** where and when they find something they care about rather than in chaotic, time-constrained voting periods. Think of it like a QF-supercharged Patreon where supporters invest in future value creation rather than providing one-off charity.
* Ecosystems **attract, retain, and amplify talent.** No one likes funding uncertainty, administrative delays, or capital inefficiency. Streaming grants are a competitive advantage on both sides of the impact funding equation.

**Team**
* Graven Prest - Product & Operations
* Gary Sheng - Community & Business Development
* Stefano De Berardinis - Engineering

**Flow State Updates**
* **Our first partner-led SQF round is launching on October 24th and running through January 1!** It's sponsored by Octant with 15 ETH (with additional matching funders to be announced). The grantees will be graduates of [Octant's new Accelerator Program](https://x.com/OctantApp/status/1839274227796685154). The Accelerator's focus is all about finding sustainability as a public goods builder, so SQF is a perfect fit!
* Our second partner-led SQF round is already **funded for $40k and will launch this fall**. More details to be announced soon!
* We've completed work on our no-code management platform for SQF rounds. We'll open it up for permissionless use soon, but until then [drop us a message, if you're interested in running a round](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfGii7KmKIMq9J0nmvWjmiHEd864yMxkO4sXAjarQ01i98fcA/viewform).
* We finalized the legal & governance structure of our digital cooperative. [If you're interested in learning more about becoming a member and earning patronage for funding and building public goods, hit us up](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdIIt9mUJTvc-4dOtpgYSTg9DMnT-jccfTCWEzyioEF5vXVDQ/viewform).
* We're in education mode, teaching new grantees and prospective round funders about streaming grants. More rounds will be launching soon!
Flow State (Streaming Quadratic Funding)