what's Drips?
Drips is a web3 protocol designed to enable sustainable funding for open source projects and ecosystems through automated recurring payments, subscriptions, and NFT memberships. It allows users to set up continuous streams of funds that can be split among dependencies, supporting models like RetroPGF rounds for quadratic funding. Built on blockchains like Polygon, Drips facilitates programmable money flows where senders can drip funds over time to recipients, who can further split or redirect them. This creates composable financial primitives for DAOs, creators, and developers to fund ongoing work without one-time grants.
Final Drips claim goes live on January 18, 2026.
Links
x.com/dripsnetworkFinal Drips claim goes live on 2026-01-18.
dripsnetwork is featured in "Pluralism is Punk" poster releasing 11/20, which maps $758M+ of Ethereum public goods funding flows from 2019-2025 and lists dripsnetwork as a retroactive funding mechanism alongside Optimism and other major protocols.