Skill Pledge
Fund a public good with hours of your skill, not just money, and get matched like a donation.
Built for your chain · An Ethereum layer 2 and the OP Stack.
0 open live today. Each also targets other chains.
Built by the House We have already built 28 apps on Optimism, out of the House’s whole fleet.
Fund a public good with hours of your skill, not just money, and get matched like a donation.
Retro funding for the quiet helpers: the community nominates who mattered, a pot pays them.
Votes weighted by proven expertise on the topic, not by wallet size.
Participatory budgeting where every resident grows a garden of choices and the treasury follows.
Turn your community's longest-serving members into a rotating, accountable advisory council.
Show funders exactly what their grant built, milestone by milestone, with proof attached.
Log what you expect to learn before a course, then prove how much you actually grew.
A group writes one living briefing together and everyone is paid by the lines that survive edits.
Governance by text-sized questions: one decision a week, answered in ten seconds, with real quorum.
Launch a token that only your verified contributors can receive, weighted by work they actually shipped.
A project-in-a-box: contracts, site, docs and impact metrics shaped for grant applications.
Bridge and route aggregation that refuses paths breaking your own safety rules.
Tell an AI what you will do this week; it checks the evidence and stamps your follow-through onchain.
Your agent and theirs negotiate whether an intro is worth it, then stake a small fee on the meeting.
Mentees attest that you changed their path, building a lineage tree of who you lifted up.
Merge your GitHub, Figma, and onchain deploys into one verified contribution map.
Job references that the referee signs once and you carry everywhere, privately.
Your onchain resume: every credential, deploy, and attestation on one domain you own.
Your highlights and annotations on any article become a collectible, tippable layer others can subscribe to.
Every time someone you helped says it worked, you get a signed receipt that builds your real resume.
A shared house or club tracks who did the work, and the record becomes everyone's portable reliability score.
A coordination game: commit to a group action that only happens if enough people commit too.
A community archive where members contribute stories and photos, curated and preserved by the group.
Every commit, deploy, and demo you ship becomes a signed, timestamped builder diary.
Airdrop hunters prove they are one real person with one main wallet and get ranked fairly.
Every contributor to a project gets a signed credit, like movie credits, owned by them forever.
A single digital baton that travels the world one kind act at a time, drawing its journey on a live map.
Your training partner signs that you showed up, and that is all that goes onchain.
For founders and ecosystem teams
Everything above runs on Optimism or was designed for it. Partner with the House to put these apps in front of the people your ecosystem wants, and to build the next ones with you.
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