How do communities fund what markets won’t? These essays cover quadratic funding, grants program design, DAOs, decentralized identity, and the analytics that make capital allocation legible — written from inside the work at Gitcoin, Octant, and across the Ethereum ecosystem.
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- Being Right Isn’t Enough - Lessons for Ethereum from a 90s OS War — what a forgotten OS war teaches about why superior technology loses
- WTF is Cluster-Matching QF? — how quadratic funding breaks under collusion, and a fix
- Grants for Public Good - A Roadmap for Resilient Democratic Funding — a roadmap for funding that survives its funders
- Harnessing Nature’s Wisdom for Mechanism Design — what ecosystems already know about incentives
- Why Web 3.0 Communities is a Big Deal? A Non-Technical Story — the non-technical case, if you’re new to all this