Picture this

Who it is for

Kemi cannot spare cash for her town's open data project, but she can design. Skill Pledge lets her pledge 10 hours, the project confirms delivery, and her hours count in the quadratic match exactly like a donor's dollars.

Two ways to own it

What you get

Base$349

$87 deposit to reserve

Round setup, money and hour pledges, project delivery confirmation, QF math with hour-to-credit rate, matching pool payout, contributor profiles.

You choose: chain
You choose: name and logo
You choose: accent color
You choose: hour valuation rule
You choose: round length

Customfrom $3,000

Built around you

Reshape it entirely: new features, your flows, your brand end to end, integrations you need. We scope it with you.

Everything in Base
Custom features and design
Priority build

Why it is new

What exists today, and what this does differently

What is new

No product found that matches pledged skill hours like donations.

Closest things out there

Gitcoin Grants quadratic funding matches money donations only; no matching of pledged skill hours was found.

Checked with web searches in October 2026. A search is not proof that nothing similar exists, and the market moves fast, so we recheck before every build.

What it unlocks

The human in it

Mines your skill and time as fundable capital.

The Regatta Board

Races it can enter

grant · Gitcoin · upcoming

Gitcoin Grants rounds

quarterly-ish rounds; next round dates unknown

Official page ↗

Public goods funding tooling; existing open-source projects OK

Their rule on existing code: Existing open-source projects OK (generally required)

grant · Optimism Collective · rolling

Optimism Retro Funding

rounds/seasons; current round unknown

Official page ↗

Only after deployment with measurable impact

Their rule on existing code: Retroactive: existing deployed projects with measurable impact required

grant · Ethereum Foundation · rolling

Ethereum Foundation ESP

rolling

Official page ↗

Public goods research; existing projects OK

Their rule on existing code: Existing projects OK

What you own

The whole app, not a starter kit.

The complete Skill Pledge app: people fund public goods with hours of their skill, projects confirm the work, and confirmed hours count in the quadratic match like donations, with a paywall, owner console and round keeper built in.

Base price · $349

The user app, complete

Every buyer gets the same finished app. Basic branding and copy changes come through a quick form.

Three step onboardingHome

Shown once: no cash, give hours; the project confirms the work; hours count like dollars.

Pledge progress and next actionHome

Pledged, worked, confirmed and matched, with hours, confirmed hours and credit.

Hours wanted boardBoard

Project tasks by skill and hours, with project lead faces and one tap to pledge.

Hour pledges with capsPledge

Pledge hours under a fixed hour rule and per person cap; delivered or lapsed paths.

Project lead confirmationPledge

Only hours the lead signs off count, recorded as a delivery attestation with an evidence hash.

Quadratic match viewMatch

What the match is with and without a contributor, and how hours sit next to donations.

Round receiptsMatch

Round contract, pool and payout rules onchain; contributors never paid from the pool.

Start a community roundRounds

Open a round with a fixed hour rule; more rounds, all rules, sybil checks and sponsor reports gated behind Operator.

Contributor profile and settingsMe

Confirmed hours across rounds, plans with crypto checkout, Monday digest and private rate.

Open the full app demo

Add-on

Owner console

Your admin side: revenue, paywall editor, users, rules and the agent log.

Revenue and paywall editorRevenue

Operator subscriptions and sponsor fees, payouts, incoming USDC, payment methods and live editing of the Operator price, sponsor share and gates.

Sponsor pool approvalsSponsors

Approve sponsor pools, decline anyone wanting contributors paid from the pool, hours vs money report.

Rules, agent log and roadmapRules

Hour cap, round length, review threshold and lead confirmation; plus the Agent log and priced Roadmap.

Top-up

Growth and referrals

Referral and growth mechanics, switched on when you are ready to grow.

City skill sprints and referralsGrowth

Run a city skill sprint, see loops and simulate contributor referrals.

The money path, built in

How it earns for you

Pledging hours is always free. Round operators pay monthly for unlimited rounds, every hour rule, sybil checks and sponsor reports, and sponsors pay a small share of the matching pool for analytics and review.

Community roundFreeOne round a quarter, up to 20 projects, flat hour rule

Operator$49 per monthUnlimited rounds, all hour rules, sybil checks and a reporting page for sponsors

Sponsor2% of matching poolFor foundations funding the pool: full analytics, custom rules and review support

Pledge and attestation gas on Optimism is a few cents or less. Matching pools go to projects, never through the owner.

Prices are yours to set. Illustrative, not a promise of income.

Growth loops, built in

How it spreads

Confirmed contributor cards with hours and the project
Projects posting task lists to attract hours
Sponsors drawn by reports of delivered work
City skill sprints over a weekend
Contributor referrals onto the same project team

Roadmap · build the next phase with us

Where it goes next

v1 included

The full skill round

Round setup with hour rules
Money and hour pledges
Project delivery confirmation
QF math with hour credits
Paywall, owner console, round keeper

Included

Skill passports

Portable record of confirmed hours
Skill endorsements by project leads
Cross round reputation
Gitcoin style passport integration

Add-on from $800

Retro funding for skills

Retroactive rewards for delivered hours
Sponsor dashboards
Multi city federations
Grant report exports

Add-on from $2,000

For investors and grant reviewers

The pitch, ready

Fund a public good with hours of your skill and get matched like a donation.

Problem: Public goods rounds only count money. People with real skills and little cash cannot take part, and projects pay for design and code with the same scarce donations.

Solution: Rounds accept hour pledges alongside USDC. Project leads attest delivered hours with evidence, a fixed hour rule turns them into credits, and the quadratic match treats them like donations. Contributors are never paid from the pool.

Why now: Quadratic funding is mainstream in public goods, and attestations on L2s make confirming delivered work cheap and checkable.

Market: Civic tech communities, open source ecosystems and the foundations that fund their rounds.

The ask: A pilot round with an Ibadan open data community and a foundation sponsor.

Funding is never guaranteed. Check each program's rules.

For hackathons and demo days

Your 2 minute demo

Home: meet Kemi in Ibadan, no cash to give but design skills.
Board: pick the flood map legend task, about ten hours.
Pledge: pledge, do the work, and Tunde confirms the private file himself.
Match: see her hours add to the quadratic match like a donor's dollars.
Rounds: start a community round, hit the Operator paywall for other hour rules and pay in USDC.
Owner Agent: the private file and the 200 hour pledge, both handled.
Owner Revenue and Sponsors: change the Operator price and sponsor share, approve a foundation pool.
Owner Growth and Roadmap: run a city skill sprint, then request skill passports.

Many hackathons require code written at the event. See the Regatta Boardfor each race's rule.

Make it entirely yours

Custom work from $3,000: custom hour rules, foundation reporting, a federation of city rounds or a different chain. Scoped on a call.

Custom from $3,000

BLUEPRINT

Why it matters and how it really works

The need

Public goods funding rounds only count money. People with real skills and little cash, often in the places that need the projects most, cannot take part, and projects that need design, writing or code end up paying for it with the same scarce donations.

What exists and what is new

Gitcoin Grants and similar quadratic funding rounds match money donations only, and bounty boards pay for work but do not count it as community support. Research found no product that matches pledged skill hours like donations. Research verdict: fresh, high novelty, though each part (quadratic funding, attestations, bounties) is well known. What is new is the combination: hour pledges converted to match credit by a published rule, counted only after the project confirms delivery.

The data it runs on

Round settings, pledges (hours, rule, cap), project confirmations and match payouts are onchain. Design files, screenshots, chat and contributors' employers or rates stay offchain with the project.

1.The mission

Let anyone fund what matters with the thing they have most of: their skill.

2.Why people can't resist it

Your hours are a vote Quadratic matching rewards many contributors, so one person's ten hours can move real money toward a project.

A public record of good work Confirmed hours build a profile projects can trust and contributors are proud to share.

The Monday board A short list of tasks that fit your skill turns good intentions into a plan for the week.

3.How it works for real

Wallets: Email or social sign-in with an embedded wallet (for example Privy). Rounds run on Optimism, Base or Arbitrum.

Round contract: A quadratic funding round in the style of open source Allo-like contracts: money donations in USDC plus hour credits, with the hour rule, cap and round length fixed at launch.

Delivery attestations: The project lead signs an attestation (for example with EAS) that names the pledge, the hours confirmed and a hash of the evidence. Only attested hours count.

Hour valuation rule: Flat rate, a published local median, or project set with a cap. The rule is shown at pledge time and cannot change mid round.

Round keeper agent: A small model (for example a Haiku or GPT mini class model via OpenRouter) matches pledges to task lists, checks evidence links and flags outlier pledges. It never confirms work.

Sybil resistance: Per person caps, a passport style humanity score, and manual review for large pledges, as most QF rounds already do for money.

Payout: Matching pool paid to projects in USDC at round end. Contributors are never paid by the pool.

4.Cost per use and pricing

Per pledge on an L2 like Optimism: one pledge transaction and one attestation, typically a few cents or less together. Agent checks use a few thousand tokens on a small model, around $0.002 per pledge. A round with 600 pledges costs roughly $10 to $30 in gas and model use, plus hosting.

Community round Free

One round a quarter, up to 20 projects, flat hour rule.

Operator $49 per month

Unlimited rounds, all hour rules, sybil checks and a reporting page for sponsors.

Sponsor 2% of matching pool

For foundations funding the pool: full analytics, custom rules and review support.

5.Growth loop

Every confirmed contributor shares a card with their hours and the project. Projects post their task lists to attract hours, and sponsors like seeing work delivered, not only money raised, which brings bigger pools.

6.Risks and guardrails

Hour inflation: People or projects can overstate hours. Caps, project confirmation, evidence hashes and review of outliers keep it modest.

Collusion: A project could confirm fake hours from friends. Use humanity scores, caps and public attestations that can be challenged during the round.

Labour and tax rules: Unpaid work for organisations can raise legal questions in some places. Keep it voluntary, unpaid by the pool, and take local advice.

Valuation fairness: Any hour rate is a judgement. Publish the rule, show its effect, and let communities pick.

Privacy: Contributors may not want employers to see their pledges. Keep profiles opt in and never store employer data.

7.Build order

Round setup with hour rule, cap and length
Money and hour pledges in one round
Project task lists and pledge matching
Delivery confirmation as an attestation
QF math with hour credits and payout
Contributor profiles and share cards

8.Where this is going

Now
A city round where designers, writers and coders count alongside donors.
Next
Hour credits work across rounds and chains, so a profile follows a contributor.
Later
Large public goods rounds accept skill as a standard form of support.
The world it changes
Funding stops being only for people with spare cash, and useful local projects get built by the people who live there.

Costs and tools are estimates at the time of writing. General information only, not legal or financial advice.

OWNER PLAYBOOK

Own it, then chart your voyage

Nine routes from one vessel. Tap a port to open its chart.

Why own Skill Pledge

Quadratic funding only counts money, which leaves out everyone whose best gift is time and skill. Skill Pledge lets people pledge hours of design, code or translation, has the project confirm delivery, and counts those hours in the match like a donor's dollars. Owning it makes you the round operator: your rules, your matching partners, your community of contributors, and your fee for running rounds.

What’s stopping you?

“I can't code. Can I run a funding round?”

Yes. Round setup, money and hour pledges, delivery confirmation, QF math with an hour to credit rate, matching pool payout and contributor profiles are built. You choose the rules and deploy from your wallet with the guide. Run a tiny round first.

“How do you value an hour fairly?”

You set one rule per round, such as a flat $25 credit per confirmed hour, and publish it before pledges open. Flat rates avoid ranking people's worth. Expect debate, and revisit after each round.

“What stops fake hours?”

Hours only count after the project confirms delivery. Projects that rubber stamp lose matching eligibility next round. Keep rounds small until you trust the community.

“Who provides the matching pool?”

Sponsors, foundations, local businesses or DAOs. Start with a small pool of a few hundred dollars from people who already care about the projects.

“Is it really mine?”

Yes: contracts deploy from your wallet, the round runs on your app, and contributor profiles live under your brand.

The million-dollar ladder

You charge a round operation fee (a percentage of the matching pool or a flat fee) to communities, cities and DAOs that want to run skill inclusive rounds.

$100

$3,000

$45,000

$85,000

First round

1 round

$100 flat operator fee

Regular community rounds

6 rounds per month

$500 per round

Cities, DAOs and foundations

30 rounds per month