🏛️Our History

The idea for GoodGhosting was born at the ETHLondon 2020 hackathon and revisited during the summer of 2020 as part of Gitcoin’s genesis KERNEL program. Here, the current team formed and started working on the minimum viable product (MVP), while connecting with other builders, mentors and founders in the Web3 ecosystem.

Since then, the GoodGhosting team has hit a number of milestones:

• Completed a public validation exercise [Q3 2020]

• Awarded an Aave Ecosystem Grant [Q4 2020]

• Ran three successful Gitcoin Grants fundraising campaigns [Q3 2020 - Q1 2021]

• Launched our first MVP prototype on the Ethereum Kovan testnet, connected to a basic user interface (for UX testing) [Q4 2020]

• Awarded a MakerDAO grant by MetaGammaDelta [Q4 2020]

• Started open beta testing with an improved MVP prototype and user interface (Kovan) [Q1 2021]

• Took part in the 2021 Celo Camp accelerator program [Q1 2021]

• Awarded an Early Support grant by Polygon (Matic) [Q1 2021]

• Awarded a Wave 1 grant by The Graph Foundation [Q1 2021]

• Start of the #GalacticGhosts campaign in preparation for our guarded launch on Polygon [Q2 2021]

  • 1500+ followers on Twitter

  • 3500+ users in our Discord server

• Finalist and Awardee in the Celo Camp Accelerator program [Q2 2021]

• Guarded launch with a limited number of users on Polygon [Q2 2021]

  • Over 1000 unique players joined one or more GoodGhosting savings games

• Partnerships with multiple online communities: BanklessDAO, SocialFi Alliance, Meta Gamma Delta and DeFi for the people [Q3 2021]

• Guarded launch with a limited number of users on Celo [Q3 & Q4 2021]

• Participant in the LongHashX accelerator program [Q4 2021]

• Over $1M worth saved through GoodGhosting [Q4 2021]

• Raised $1.25M seed round from strategic partners to scale up GoodGhosting [Q1 2022]

• Selected for Polygon's DefiForaAll Reward Program [Q1 2022]

• Over $2.5M worth saved through GoodGhosting [Q2 2022]

• Over 10,000 monthly unique active users are saving through GoodGhosting [Q2 2022]

• Received a DeFi For The People grant by Celo [Q2 2022]

• Release of version 2 of GoodGhosting [Q3 2022]

• Over $3.5M worth saved through GoodGhosting [Q3 2022]

We are currently an active development project. We plan to launch improved versions of GoodGhosting during 2022 and 2023.