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About Drips
Drips is a funding tool for the open-source ecosystem, described as a superapp for funding developers. It lets organizations and individuals stream funds to the GitHub repositories they depend on, and supports retroactive public goods funding (RetroPGF) rounds, programmable on-chain payment streams and recurring Wave programmes.
The project offers several funding mechanisms: allocating funds to critical dependencies through a Drip List, running hackathons where participants vote on recipients, or distributing rewards transparently via collaborative lists. It uses a global splitting graph and composable building blocks to enable flexible funding schemes, helping organizations in an ecosystem send money directly to the contributors who maintain open-source software, connecting funders with developers and giving open-source maintenance a steady source of funding.
In the second quarter it shipped end-to-end RPGF, folding project nomination, round voting and automated payouts into one toolset. In the fourth quarter it ran the first fully end-to-end RetroPGF round with Filecoin, and a Radworks DAO proposal passed letting RepoDriver fund ORCIDs and any website, while the team toured Singapore, Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong. On January 21, 2026 the first full Wave cycle opened for the Stellar ecosystem, paying contributors on-chain through points and leaderboards in a monthly bounty format. Drips plans to make Wave a recurring programme in 2026, pairing it with RetroPGF, direct grants and dependency funding as multiple entry points, with the aim of becoming the default platform for ecosystems funding developers, and to push ahead with Filecoin's fourth RetroPGF round.