The Rainbowpaper is an early, work-in-progress exploration of the core problem Gitcoin is orienting around: alignment. Not just AI alignment, but the broader civilizational challenge where individually rational actions create collectively disastrous outcomes. As shown in the early pages of the draft, issues like open source underfunding, public goods funding, climate gridlock, social the media attention economy are all expressions of the same underlying dynamic: alignment issues.
This WIP rainbowpaper outlines why solving alignment requires new incentive systems, and why Ethereum gives us a credible substrate for building them. It sketches Gitcoin’s shift toward a pluralistic, fund-driven funding network designed to experiment with new incentive & funding landscapes and reverse engineer these traps together.
If you want to get a copy of the release that we dropped at schelling point Buenos Aires, pick up a copy here.