# Forking分叉/对于协议开发不如应用开发热情

By [aaronwuge](https://paragraph.com/@aaronwuge) · 2021-12-05

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Forking分叉的价值：可以加速链的进化，因为可以允许多种路径同时进行尝试，然后最终最强的链会生存下来，类似于适者生存

但是forking的困境：就是复制链以后也会复制原有的token ownership，所以新的核心开发者并没有得到有效的激励。

核心协议开发者的数量远远小于Token的开发者

如果支持核心协议的开发：

1.private funding，比较灵活，但是funding的金额难以和协议改进产生的价值进行匹配

2.public crowdfunding，大家都希望享受成功但是不愿意贡献

3.inflation funding，增加通胀（更多的token），然后reward给贡献的人。有点类似于人民交税去做基础设施建设一样，也是被动交税

举例：

An example of how this would work: a developer submits a pull request to Ethereum with a working implementation of sharding. The community discusses and tests it. There is an on-chain vote of Ether holders to 1) determine if the upgrade should be merged and 2) if so, what the size of the bounty should be. The pull request increases the number of ETH outstanding and sends the new tokens to an address the developer includes. This would require a hard fork the first time, but may not in the future. The size of the bounty ends up being fair because Ether holders want to incentivize developers to keep submitting improvements like this in the future.

Forking的核心：为新分叉的新贡献者提供贡献的incentives

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