Gitcoin announced a partnership with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Innovation Office to launch a quadratic financing (QF round) pilot in Gitcoin's new grant protocol Grants Protocol from December 9 to December 16, providing quadratic funding for 12 innovative projects from all over the world (including Nepal, Kenya, Argentina, Brazil and the Philippines). Gitcoin said that this donation round marks the beginning of Gitcoin's transition to a decentralized protocol, and Grants Protocol will allow any community to coordinate its own grant funds.