DAO Drops is the public goods arm of dOrg. In 2023 we launched DAO Drops first iteration, a pilot supported by the Ethereum Foundation to empower Ethereum users to allocate ecosystem funds to underfunded projects. If you want to know more about how we built this first drop, visit https://daodrops.io/ 

We received a tremendous amount of positive feedback from the community, especially from groups that were interested in running their own rounds. As a result, we released our second drop: PairDrop. PairDrop is a reusable primitive that allows communities to intelligently allocate funds. It is designed to avoid common pitfalls of funding mechanisms like cognitive overload and favoritism, while making the process fun and painless.

This iteration empowers communities to engage in co-budgeting, directing funds to projects aligned with community goals with minimal overhead. The mechanism leverages random sampling and pairwise comparison, enabling large voter sets to allocate funds across impactful projects. The goal is to ensure a fair distribution that avoids popularity contests. Communities are also able to tailor the primitive for their own needs through a Voter Scoring Script that allocated voting power to individuals based on on-chain or off-chain datasets.

Our upcoming public goods tools drops for granting DAOs, including a privacy-preserving DAO, a bot for public goods projects to answer common questions, assist with DAO onboarding, and help write grants based on past applications, and a forkable version of dOrg Passport to manage builder reputation and voting. 