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

Karma ships - July edition cover

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.

Karma nonprofit research for donor advisors

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

Karma ships  - June edition

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
Karma for philanthropic funding

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…

Karma ships - May edition

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…

Karma ships - April edition

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…

Karma Ships - February 2026

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…

Karma Skills: Making the Entire Karma Platform Agent-Friendly

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,…

Karma Ships - January 2026

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…

PL Filecoin Impact Fund Partners with Karma to Power $4M ProPGF Batch 2

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…

Polygon Partners with Karma to Power Ecosystem Growth Programs

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
Karma Activity Report November 2025

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.

Karma Activity Report October 2025

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
Introducing Karma V2

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
Scaling Ecosystem Success With Karma

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
Karma September Activity Report

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
Welcome to the Karma Newsletter! 🌱

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.

What We've Been Building:

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.

Optimism Grants Partners with Karma for Season 8

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.

Livepeer Partners with Karma GAP

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
GoodDollar Partners with Karma GAP

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
Building Sustainable Web3 Funding Solutions: A Kokonut Network Case Study

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
Synced and Ready

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…

Expanding Celo's Proof of Ship Program:

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…

Revolutionizing Impact Measurement:

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…