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Allo Protocol: Building the Rails for Capital Allocation
Analysis of how Allo Protocol enables customizable funding mechanisms and its adoption across the ecosystem.
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BioFi: Bioregional Finance Powered by Web3
How bioregional finance channels web3 capital into regenerating ecosystems through local-first coordination, DAOs, eco-credits, and participatory funding.
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Bioregional Swarms
How bioregional financing facilities, AI swarms, and knowledge commons converge to enable place-based coordination beyond nation-state boundaries.
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Coalitional Funding: A 2026+ Era Funding Primitive
How coalitional funding evolves from ad-hoc practice to first-class coordination primitive, with historical precedents and design principles.
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d/acc Market Map
The d/acc Market Map maps the defensive acceleration ecosystem across digital and physical infrastructure.
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EIP 1890 & EIP 6969: Lessons from In-Protocol Funding
the story of two EIPs that tried to enshrine public goods funding into ethereum's protocol — one died with a bang, the other with a whimper. what they taught us about credible neutrality and the path forward.
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Ethereum Public Goods Funding Sources - The Next Era
in this piece, i examine where the money comes from. money always has a source, and the source shapes behavior downstream. by studying the attributes of its sources, we may then reason about the shape, form, and longevity of how it flows .
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Fair Fees: A Dynamic Formula for Balancing Value Creation and Value Capture
A proposed dynamic fee structure for onchain capital allocation mechanism builders that provides higher returns for smaller pools while decreasing to a minimal percentage for larger ones.
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From Auction to Incubator: The Evolution of Nouns DAO Capital Deployment
How Nouns DAO evolved from direct proposals to Prop House to Flows.wtf, revealing broader patterns in onchain capital allocation.
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The Case for Plural Funding Mechanisms
Why no single funding mechanism is optimal, and how ecosystems benefit from mechanism diversity.
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Sybil Resistance in Quadratic Funding: 2024 Approaches
An analysis of how Gitcoin Passport, MACI, and other approaches address sybil attacks in quadratic funding rounds.
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Impact Measurement in Retroactive Funding: Evolution Through RetroPGF 3-6
How Optimism has evolved its impact measurement approaches across four RetroPGF rounds, with lessons for the broader ecosystem.
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Revnets & Retailism: Can Autonomous Treasuries Fund Public Goods?
revnets propose a radical idea: deploy an immutable treasury once, and let it fund your project forever. no grants, no governance, no owners. here's how they work and what they mean for public goods funding.
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State of Public Goods Funding 2024
A comprehensive analysis of how public goods are funded across the Ethereum ecosystem, tracking capital flows, mechanism adoption, and emerging trends through 2024.
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The Great Interregnum: Where Capital Flows After Institutional Breakdown
Old systems still make money but no longer work for most people, and new web3 tools that help people coordinate and share value fairly could become the next big place where power and investment move.
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The Wells Are All Dry: Regen Web3 at a Crossroads
A frank assessment of the regen web3 ecosystem's stagnation after the 2021-2025 era of onchain public goods funding, arguing for a pivot from vibes-driven grants to revenue-generating applications with real product-market fit.
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