A Retrospective on EthCC

great post, really appreciate you both sharing your insights!

i think helping to educate one another on whats going on in the ecosystem is a public good :slight_smile: to put my money (errr ETH) where my mouth is, here is my own ethcc wrap up post/notes: https://twitter.com/owocki/status/1682327187595091971


retroactive public goods funding is cool! one thing i’d note here is that this is a multi-vector design space.

  • retroactive vs proactive
  • more democratic vs more exclusive (technocratic, token-holder-based, or other filters)
  • there are probably more vectors (size of round, is it a keynesian beauty contest or not etc) but simplicity i will not include them.

this is kind of how I see the design space above, mapped out visually (bolded items are things that exist now, italics could exist one day)

since Allo Protocol’s goal is to cover the design space of all types of capital allocation (or, as we put here, all coordination mechanisms), I’m excited for Allo v2 and the ability to build things in multiple pockets of the capital allocation design space.

i’m mindful that these allocation mechanisms are complementary to one another (not competitive), and in the future, DAOs will likely have multiple capital allocation mechanisms that each follow the unix philosophy of “do one thing and do it well, and play nice with others”.

one question that comes to mind is how to prioritize the build out of the modules, eg… does the dao prioritize by

  1. hottest mechanisms
  2. biggest market needs
  3. defer to community + let them fork + PR back any mechanism they are excited about?
  4. something else?

and is the exploration of the design space of modules going to be curated by gitcoin or permissionless? or perhaps in between where there is some guidance issued every quarter by Gitcoin + devreal outeach, but the community can traverse the design space however they want?

and should/will we have ways of categorizing the modules for easy findability (might matter at scale for dev experience, but not initially), eg tagging some of them as “audited” or “used by gitcoin core”, etc?

allo v2 hasnt even launched, so i’m getting way ahead of myself. but i’m excite to think out loud about this + have a dialogue with whomever is thinking ahead too.

my 002 wei.

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