 Gitcoin grants round 12 is kicked off, and they have over $2 million committed in matching funds for projects. There's a special category focused on longevity for round 12. We'll tell you what this means and who's looking to get funded in this episode of Lifespan News. Gitcoin is a platform dedicated to supporting and growing the open source software that will likely serve as the foundation of Web 3. The Gitcoin crypto platform launched in 2017 to foster collaboration on open source initiatives by incentivizing developers to take on projects with payments and grants. Gitcoin focuses on funding public goods projects intended to benefit everyone. What really sets Gitcoin apart is their use of quadratic funding, which Gitcoin describes as the mathematically optimal way to fund public goods in a democratic community. Essentially, a matching pool of funds is raised and then a crowdfund campaign is matched according to the quadratic funding algorithm. The algorithm weighs the number of contributors more than the amount funded, which rewards the projects with the most community support. This elevates the power of smaller contributors and creates a sense of camaraderie between them and the larger contributors. According to Ethereum co-founder and noted longevity mega supporter Vitalik Buterin, quote, Gitcoin grants quadratic funding is not just for funds allocation. It's also a grant signaling tool. For the last few rounds, Gitcoin.co forward slash grants has led me to discover a lot of really cool Ethereum projects I previously did not know about, end quote. You can learn more about quadratic funding and explore calculator to see how it works at the website WTF is QF.com. Gitcoin grants round 12 is full of new experiments as we collectively seek to test out the various ideas and mechanisms that will eventually build the future of the internet. Round 12 features three different cause rounds focused on climate advocacy and longevity. There's currently 21 projects called grants seeking funding within the longevity category, which have been curated by the Vida Dow community, which also includes lifespan extension advocacy foundation or lifespan.io president Keith Comito. Many of these longevity grants are affiliated with our work at LEAF or our projects of our friends and collaborators. For example, you can support lifespan advocacy video content by funding the life noggin project, a YouTube channel which reaches millions of people with educational videos. We have lifespan news life noggin collaborations planned for the future, so dollars in this category support our work as well. Or you can support lifespan.io's transition from web two, which we've built our success on to web three, which will take our life extension advocacy and research to a whole new level, including blockchain facilitated crowdfunding of decentralized human clinical trials. This will be a game changer. Another project is focused on stopping Alzheimer's with light and sound and is led by lifespan.io's Dr. Oliver Medvedek. This project aims to crowdsource the development of promising safe and non-pharmacological therapies for Alzheimer's by passing the slow and costly clinical trials associated with drug-based models to get meaningful results in the hands of the public as fast as possible. You can also help fund the creation of Tim Moppen's longevity-focused feature film, The Last Generation to Die, because as David Sinclair says in his book Lifespan, quote, nothing begins with science, it all begins with stories, end quote. I've funded Tim's film with $10,000 to show my support, while others have also helped fund Tim's film with multiple people contributing $1,000 or more already. And full disclosure, I'm even more involved in another Gitcoin project called Longevity Plan, where I serve as co-founder and CEO. Longevity Plan's mission is to show you the value of a longer and healthier lifespan and to help you get there. You can go to longevityplan.com to learn more. Let us know in the comments which project or projects you're considering supporting and why. It's important that we all work to grow and fund the longevity community because it will ultimately benefit all of humanity. We're excited to see the growth of Web 3 and the potential of decentralized, blockchain-enabled innovations in these important areas, and we look forward to continuing to work with the Gitcoin community to expand the longevity movement. All of our Gitcoin longevity projects are still in development, and we'll have much more to share about them soon. So please make sure that you're subscribed so you can be among the first to find out about the latest details. I'm Brent Nally with Lifespan News. Thanks, and we'll see you in the next episode.