Launching Season 3 of the Artizen Fund

Raising $100,000 for creators at the frontier of art, science, technology, and design.

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Season 3 of the Artizen Fund is off with a bang! Creators have already raised more than 16.86 ETH (~$30K) in just the first week.

Have you ever felt that moment in the morning when the first light of dawn permeates the sky? It's a fleeting instance filled with immense potential. Season 3 of the Artizen Fund just launched, and the luminous hues of creativity are already illuminating a new landscape of innovation.

Fundraising for Season 3

Raised Ξ16.86 | Goal Ξ66 | 97 days left

Creators raised a total of $30,000 for Season 1 followed by $75,000 for Season 2. Our ambitions are sky-high for Season 3; we've set a goal to raise a total of $100,000 for creators. Remarkably, we've already achieved 28% of our target. To help us reach our goal, please buy cultural Artifacts from projects you love or email us to become a sponsor of the Artizen Fund.

Thank our Sponsors

A huge shoutout to our Season 3 sponsors: Funding the Commons, devoted to advancing public goods in fields from art to technology; Mona, who aims to power the Open Metaverse; Juicebox, your go-to crowdfunding platform on Ethereum; Constellation DAO, investing in internet-native startups; and Backdrop, the force behind open tech builders.

Top 9 Projects

1ST | 4.43 ETH raised

Gigatura

Gigatura is a CC0 art project that explores one woman’s quest to escape a dystopian techno monarchy.

Sponsored by Funding the Commons

2ND | 2.34 ETH raised

Resonate

Providing Detroit musicians with free studio time and community music programming.

Sponsored by Juicebox and Funding the Commons

3RD | 1.39 ETH raised

AudioVerse

Breathe Life Into Your Books! 📚🌱

Sponsored by Backdrop, Mona, Juicebox

4TH | 1.39 ETH raised

LLaMA2-Accessory

An Open-source Toolkit for LLM Development.

Sponsored by Backdrop, Mona, Juicebox

5TH | 1.39 ETH raised

Onchain Reads

A reputation and recommendation system for books.

Sponsored by Backdrop, Mona, Juicebox

6TH | 0.95 ETH raised

Strange Format

Pioneering the future of footwear by fusing innovative 3D printing technology with generative art.

Sponsored by Funding the Commons

7TH | 0.61 ETH raised

Flower Girls Spatial Metaverse

We are creating a Spatial metaverse gallery to display art from our children's art collection.

Sponsored by Juicebox

8TH | 0.48 ETH raised

Metaversité

Creative worskhop series focused on emerging tech and empowering innovation equity in communities around the world.

Sponsored by Mona and Funding the Commons

9TH | 0.48 ETH raised

dOrg Hot Seat Podcast

The podcast about the hard tech questions.

Sponsored by Juicebox and Funding the Commons

What’s next

As we progress through this exciting season, look out for a series of virtual and in-person events. From a major event in Miami at Art Basel to another spectacular gathering at Sundance, we're taking every opportunity to showcase the ingenuity of Season 3's projects and the transformative potential of our sponsors' match funds.

Here's to a groundbreaking Season 3!