Gardens is a modular coordination mechanism giving organizations in low trust + inefficient environments streamlined access to web3’s best spending strategies like Conviction Voting, Quadratic Funding, Streaming Proposals, Bounties, and more, which they can use to invest their treasuries in any combination of instances.

Our emphasis is on a community experience that’s **healthy,** **fun, intuitive, secure, open, and trustless**

Right now we’re alpha testing our first major platform overhaul since we launched in 2021, dubbed internally as “Gardens v2.” The keystone of v2 infrastructure is the **Community Covenant**, which serves the role of:

1. encoding a community’s values / mission in an on-chain social contract
2. linking that Covenant to the various smart contracts that make up the communities funding and spending strategies.
3. allowing people to stake tokens to support the Covenant, giving them access to participate in spending strategies and community decisions.

All of our code is open-source. Always has been and always will be. 🌱

Gardens v1 pioneered Conviction Voting in web3, and saw significant adoption, reaching a max TVL of $40.5 million and distributing millions of dollars in tokens to Gardens communities with no successful attacks or malicious/abusive proposals passed to date. Gardens v1 numbers:

- 30+ communities
- 3,000+ members
- 400+ proposals passed
- 12 disputes resolved through Celeste arbitration

By the end of 2024 we are aiming for the following growth metrics

- 5+ ecosystems with active gardens communities
- 10+ active gardens communities
- 500+ active community members
- $100k distributed through gardens v2 Funding Pools
- $1M+ TVL - measured in Funding Pool token balances of all gardens v2 communities

The ultimate mission of Gardens is to help communities and public goods builders allocate resources more efficiently and with greater ROI. Gardens v1 was a launchpad that let open source software projects in web3 experiment with a new robust + flexible funding mechanism - Conviction Voting. Our goal with gardens v2 is to expand its usefulness beyond just the pioneers of web3 to all open source software projects, and then eventually to anyone building Public Goods in both the digital and real world.

Gardens is 100% community-owned, with all our funding to date coming from 1Hive funding proposals, grants, donations, hackathon winnings, and the visibility and support of our passionate users. We’d like to remain community-owned forever.