What Is POTLOCK? The Open Funding Stack Explained

POTLOCK is the open funding stack for crypto fundraising and crowdfunding. Founders, projects, non-profits, and open source contributors use it to raise funds, accept donations in any supported crypto or stablecoins, find sponsors, and run or join funding rounds on NEAR and multi-chain.

What you can do on POTLOCK

• Raise funds: Create campaigns or apply to funding rounds (pots) to receive donations and matching.
• Donate: Support projects with EVM chains (Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Polygon), Bitcoin and forks, or Layer 1 (NEAR, Solana, Sui, Stellar, TON, and more).
• Run rounds: Operate quadratic funding or custom grant rounds as a chef.
• Curate: Build and share on-chain lists to surface projects and bootstrap discovery.

Key concepts

The Open Funding Stack (OFS) is the set of primitives: campaigns, pots (rounds), quadratic funding, identity (e.g. Nada.bot), and distribution. Everything is on-chain and composable; the protocol is open source (MIT).

To get started: app.potlock.org to donate or create a campaign; app.potlock.org/pots to browse or run rounds; docs.potlock.org for guides and whitepaper.