According to official news, ATOM Economic Zone (AEZ) long-term quadratic funding has completed the first round of applications on the global geek sports platform DoraHacks.io on January 22. A total of 7 projects will enter the quadratic voting round. From January 25th to February 7th, ATOM users can vote for projects selected for Grant through Dora Vota. The distribution of the quadratic matching bonus pool in this round is determined by community voting and due diligence results of shortlisted projects.
AEZ Quadratic Grant will fund public goods and emerging application chains in the Cosmos ecosystem in the long term to help expand the Cosmos application chain and the entire ATOM ecosystem. The seven projects that entered the first round of quadratic voting are Pouch, Abstract SDK, CosmWasm Orchestrator (cw-orchestrator), CosmWasm Interchain Accounts Controller, Fairblock Network, The Rollup (Cosmos) and InterChain NFT Gateway, covering infrastructure/tools, Privacy solutions, education, financial infrastructure, NFT and other project types. The AEZ Quadratic Grant application and community funding entrances are open to the public for a long time, and selection and quadratic funding will be conducted regularly.