Blog
News, product updates, and essays on grant accountability, onchain reputation, and funding infrastructure from the Karma team.

Aug 10, 2026
Karma ships - July edition
July was one of our highest-volume months yet: 298 PRs, a new donor-advisor product, 55+ Filecoin updates, and a lot more.

Jul 28, 2026
Launching Nonprofit Research for Donor Advisors
An AI agent that reads the 990s, checks the registries, scans the news, and shows its work

Jul 2, 2026
Karma ships - June edition
June was a month of three big pushes. We shipped the first full version of our donor advisor platform for nonprofit research, ran end-to-end support for Filecoin's ProPGF Batch 3 round (47 shipped updates for that program alone), and published v1.0.0 of an open standard for funding opportunity…
- nonprofits
- philanthropy
- funding
- grants

Jun 15, 2026
Karma for philanthropic funding
For the last few years at Karma, we've been working on a specific set of problems in web3 funding. How do you give funders real visibility into where their money goes? How do you measure the impact of grants once they're deployed? How do you efficiently match causes with the people who want to fund…

Jun 4, 2026
Karma ships - May edition
May was a big month at Karma. We closed out the multi-phase migration that moves all offchain milestone state onchain, shipped a new AI Interface that puts the chatbot at the center of any community grant program, and stood up the infrastructure to let AI agents (both ours and yours) connect to…

May 7, 2026
Karma ships - April edition
The shipping in April was dense at Karma. We shipped across every layer of the product, a foundational architecture shift to make Karma agent-native, new Telegram and Discord notifications for grant reviewers, a batch of milestone workflow fixes, and a handful of UI improvements that have been on…

Mar 12, 2026
Karma Ships - February 2026
Over the past month, we shipped some impactful updates to Karma's platform — from compliance infrastructure to a completely rethought admin experience. Here's everything that's new.Major UpdatesKYC/KYB Integration We integrated with compliance provider Treova so programs can verify grantees before…

Mar 10, 2026
Karma Skills: Making the Entire Karma Platform Agent-Friendly
We're launching Karma Skills — our first step toward making the entire Karma platform agent friendly. Anything you can do on our website, you or your AI agent should be able to do without ever visiting it. That means finding funding opportunities, creating and managing projects, posting updates,…

Feb 2, 2026
Karma Ships - January 2026
Hey community! Here's our monthly update sharing everything we shipped in January. We've been busy building new capabilities, improving performance, and squashing bugs across the platform. Highlights Integrated Payout Disbursement System We built a complete payout management system that transforms…

Jan 22, 2026
PL Filecoin Impact Fund Partners with Karma to Power $4M ProPGF Batch 2
The PL Filecoin Impact Fund is excited to announce that it has chosen Karma as the platform to manage the ProPGF Batch 2 funding program - a $4M initiative designed to accelerate innovation across the Filecoin ecosystem. This partnership brings modular grant management infrastructure to one of the…

Dec 8, 2025
Polygon Partners with Karma to Power Ecosystem Growth Programs
We're excited to announce that Polygon has chosen Karma as its platform to manage founder support and ecosystem growth programs, with four live funding programs including the /grow Founder Support initiative.
- polygon
- karma
- founder

Dec 3, 2025
Karma Activity Report November 2025
What a month November was for us at Karma! We hit some major milestones, kicking things off with the launch of a brand-new version of the Karma website and a team field trip to Devconnect in Buenos Aires.

Nov 7, 2025
Karma Activity Report October 2025
Welcome to our monthly product update! Looking back, October was a busy month for our development team. We've rolled out a host of new features and improvements across our platforms.
- october
- karma
- updates

Nov 5, 2025
Introducing Karma V2
Today, we're reintroducing Karma with a brand new website that reflects what we've learned from powering some of the largest onchain funding programs and what ecosystems actually need to grow.
- karma
- funding
- builders
- v2

Oct 15, 2025
Scaling Ecosystem Success With Karma
Celo, a leading Layer 2 solution runs various programs through multiple entities under the Celo umbrella. Karma and Celo partnered to enhance ecosystem wide project accountability and transparency.
- celo
- devrel
- l2

Oct 6, 2025
Karma September Activity Report
We're excited to share Karma's progress each month as we work to become the ultimate all-in-one funding platform for web3! This report gives you a quick rundown of all the cool new features, improvements, and fixes we rolled out across the Karma ecosystem in September.
- september
- developer

Sep 11, 2025
Welcome to the Karma Newsletter! 🌱
We're excited to announce the launch of our newsletter and we would be thrilled to have you as a part of our network of innovators, funders, and changemakers who believe that verification is the vibe.

Sep 3, 2025
What We've Been Building:
Hey everyone! We're excited to share what the team has been working on this past month to make Karma GAP the best end to end web3 grants and funding management and reporting platform.

Aug 21, 2025
Optimism Grants Partners with Karma for Season 8
Karma, the onchain accountability and capital allocation platform, has launched its new feature-rich direct funding solution with Optimism Grants as the inaugural partner for Season 8.

Jun 18, 2025
Livepeer Partners with Karma GAP
Livepeer, Ethereum's decentralized video platform, has partnered with Karma GAP to turn challenges in managing their funding operations into opportunities. This collaboration aims to bring clarity and accountability to how grants are tracked and managed across the Livepeer ecosystem resulting in a…
- livepeer
- ecosystem
- grants

Jun 17, 2025
GoodDollar Partners with Karma GAP
Good Dollar, the protocol that's already changing lives by distributing free digital money (G$) as Universal Basic Income to a global community has now supercharged their grant management with Karma GAP. Read on to learn how we are doing it.
- grants
- ubi
- community

May 27, 2025
Building Sustainable Web3 Funding Solutions: A Kokonut Network Case Study
Building Sustainable Web3 Funding Solutions: A Kokonut Network Case Study. Exploring how projects can use Karma GAP to address real-world challenges through innovative funding mechanisms, transparent project management, and verifiable reporting.
Apr 1, 2025
Karma AI is the Future of Funding
Unlocking Better Funding Decisions with Karma AI Today
- ai
- funding
- grants

Mar 27, 2025
Synced and Ready
Giveth is now integrated with Karma GAP! The world of public goods funding just got a major upgrade! We’re thrilled to announce that Giveth, a platform that empowers changemakers to accept crypto donations has been synced with Karma GAP, creating a seamless experience for builders, grantees, and…

Mar 18, 2025
Expanding Celo's Proof of Ship Program:
Our mission is to help builders showcase their work, build onchain reputation and unlock economic opportunities. Whether you're running a hackathon, incubator, accelerator, or any other initiative, Karma GAP (Grant Accountability Protocol) provides essential accountability and reputation building…

Mar 13, 2025
Revolutionizing Impact Measurement:
At the heart of Karma GAP’s new impact measurement feature is the adoption of the Common Approach Framework, a flexible and widely recognized standard in the traditional grants world. This framework eliminates confusion around what to track and how to measure it, providing a simple yet powerful…