the Flows pitch
Go forth and build something that mattersFor much of human history, effectively funding public goods has been a difficult problem with no clear solution. Flows presents a novel mechanism to effectively deploy capital to grassroots projects at scale. No one has yet cracked how to move money online to the people who’ll use it best—whether in crypto or anywhere else. Judging quality of impact and honesty of the people involved is no easy task. Our hunch is a system that gives rise to effective c...
the Flows pitch
Go forth and build something that mattersFor much of human history, effectively funding public goods has been a difficult problem with no clear solution. Flows presents a novel mechanism to effectively deploy capital to grassroots projects at scale. No one has yet cracked how to move money online to the people who’ll use it best—whether in crypto or anywhere else. Judging quality of impact and honesty of the people involved is no easy task. Our hunch is a system that gives rise to effective c...
Streaming Grants v1
This is the first piece in a series of articles about a new capital allocation system, incubated in Vrbs with continued development funded by Nouns. Ensuring capital is effectively allocated to people making real impact is a largely unsolved problem in decentralized systems and more broadly in the world. Verifying quality of impact and genuineness of the people involved is no easy task. A main hypotheses for this streaming grants program is work that helps accurately allocate funding and veri...
Streaming Grants v1
This is the first piece in a series of articles about a new capital allocation system, incubated in Vrbs with continued development funded by Nouns. Ensuring capital is effectively allocated to people making real impact is a largely unsolved problem in decentralized systems and more broadly in the world. Verifying quality of impact and genuineness of the people involved is no easy task. A main hypotheses for this streaming grants program is work that helps accurately allocate funding and veri...
Introducing Vrbs
Vrbs is a new take on the Nouns protocol where you can earn a vote for your efforts.What is Nouns?Nouns is a protocol for spreading nounish culture. In Nouns, 1 membership (a Noun) is auctioned off every day, forever. 100% of sale proceeds go into a shared treasury, and owning a Noun gets you a vote on how to spend the treasury. The Nouns treasury funds public good, art, open source software, and more. Nouns has the most vibrant and well-intentioned community I’ve seen in more than a decade i...
Introducing Vrbs
Vrbs is a new take on the Nouns protocol where you can earn a vote for your efforts.What is Nouns?Nouns is a protocol for spreading nounish culture. In Nouns, 1 membership (a Noun) is auctioned off every day, forever. 100% of sale proceeds go into a shared treasury, and owning a Noun gets you a vote on how to spend the treasury. The Nouns treasury funds public good, art, open source software, and more. Nouns has the most vibrant and well-intentioned community I’ve seen in more than a decade i...
