Hi Kyle, awesome post. DAOs are the topic that really brought me down the web3 rabbithole and Gitcoin seems like one of the best examples. I continue to be amazed at how this organization has brought together so many great people under the mission of funding public goods (and has succeeded at this in many ways!)
Some of the GTC utility ideas you mentioned are touched upon in my recent proposal to explore/develop/implement a subDAO framework for the DeSci community to continue running regular grant rounds within the Gitcoin Grants Program.
Some ideas that have been discussed in the DeSci community include:
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Being able to lock in some capped amount of GTC in a subDAO contract, thus granting you a voting point within the subDAO. Whereas you could also receive a voting point by being a grantee or a donor to the round (each potentially having different weights). This is to move away from a pure “1 token = 1 vote” system and to give community members governance rights based on participation, but still offer the option to commit to the community via a nominal financial stake. This is of course inspired by the passport stamp
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Retroactively rewarding our elected round managers with some GTC that is locked for a year, but still available to be used for governance/delegation within Gitcoin.
We’re still far off from implementing something like this, but I would love to discuss technical feasibility sometime soon! Perhaps the first idea (locking GTC to participate in subDAO governance) could qualify you for the staked GTC passport stamp, or be a separate stamp altogether.