Impact Market Mini-Grants Update

A short operational update on the ACX/Manifold impact-market mini-grants prototype: a brief re-explanation of impact markets (retroactive funding offloading project-picking risk from foundations to skin-in-the-game investors), then logistics — an anonymous donor added $20k (conditionally raising the pot to as much as $40k), 16 project submissions, the accredited-investor bidding phase opening, and the schedule. Essentially administrative, with the impact-market recap the only standalone content.

Quality 50 · Solid. Solid-floor (50). An operational update carried just off the floor by the concise impact-market explanation and Scott's voice; mostly logistics, below the design-essay (ACX-316) and initial announcement (ACX-422).

Claude’s paradigm shift 26 · Slight. Slight (26). A program update; no novelty beyond the recap.

Real-world impact 2 · Minor. 2 — part of the impact-market prototype that helped seed Manifund; this specific update post contributes to that real outcome but is administrative (below the RWI3 of the design doc / launch announcement).