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1/10 🌟 Today we’re thrilled to unveil the next iteration of Drips 🌟
Drips is a decentralized toolkit for funding public goods, that builds on the interdependence of software projects & people.
💧drips.network/💧
Here’s everything you need to know 👇
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hello world ✌️
Say hello to Drips💧, a new web3 protocol, built by the @radicle DAO, that allows anyone to generate continuous income using subscriptions and NFT memberships 🌈
👉 drips.network/ 👈
So, what’s a drip? 👇
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💡 @VitalikButerin's latest public goods funding mechanism, Deep Funding, explained in 70 seconds. Let’s go! 🚀✨
🔧 Built with @Dripsnetwork @OSObserver @VoiceDeckDAO @Pairwisevote @Evalscience @Gitcoin
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What an incredible week at @EFDevcon! 🙌 Thrilled to have @VitalikButerin visit the @dripsnetwork space & dive into dependency funding. Thanks for the insightful feedback – can’t wait to share our next steps! 🚀
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1/10 Today we're thrilled to introduce Drips AI: AI-assisted workflows for both funders and recipients of free and open source software within Drips. 🌟
Here’s what’s coming and why it matters. 🧵👇
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1/4 Today, we are proud to announce that @ENS_DAO is the latest organization to use Drips to fund their critical dependencies 👏💦
Thread 👇
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1/6 🚀 Today we are really excited to introduce a new feature we call Collaborative Drip Lists 🙌
🔗 drips.network/blog/posts/int…
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🌟 Exciting news, Drips fam! 🌟
Introducing our brand-new Explore page – your gateway to all the activity happening within the Drips network!
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🚨 @sveltejs has officially claimed their profile on Drips
Their two repos feature in multiple Drip Lists including our own ❤️
More vital dependencies receiving funding directly from the community that values & relies on their tools ✅
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6/10 🖇Drips also comes with an optional, oracle-based identity solution, powered by @chainlink. 🖇
It reduces friction by enabling users to send funds to the owners of public software repositories on Github, even if its owners don't have an Ethereum address yet.
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📢 Big news from Drips💧
It’s official: after passing with overwhelming support, we're actioning a proposal committing $1M in RAD and USDC tokens to fund crucial open-source software dependencies 💰
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💧 Just dropped: The embeddable support button!
Customize it, embed it, and make it easy for your fans to back you & your dependencies✌️
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Everything you need to know about #DripsForPrivacy with @web3privacy
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Hear directly from @ricmoo on what he thinks makes Drips stand out 🙌💦
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Can’t wait to see more uses of Drips like this!
Huge shoutout to @wslyvh for leading the way 👏💦
Just forwarded my @gitcoin #GG20 donations to @dripsnetwork 💦
Splitting the funds with critical dependencies @wevm_dev @tan_stack @WalletConnect @tailwindcss @signinwitheth @daisyui_ 🌱
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Great to hear from @OpenZeppelin how Drips helps them focus on building public goods 🙌
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"Open-source code forms the backbone of the crypto ecosystem." 🌱
We couldn't agree more. Big thank you to friends @TimInCrypto & @dlnews for covering the launch of Drips 💧
For anyone interested in learning more, check out drips.network
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Here’s a sneak peek of something special we filmed in Bangkok with @carl_cervone @OSObserver
More guests & insights coming soon…👀
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📢 Drips x @FILRetroPGF is coming soon! 🚀
We’re partnering with @Filecoin for their FIL-RetroPGF-2 round to stream funding directly on FVM 💦
More info here: filecoin.io/blog/posts/annou…
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'It's not just about money, it's about recognition' 💯👏
We couldn't have put it better ourselves @AlexSlobodnik
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"Most products foster a transactional relationship between funder & recipient, ignoring broader connections. We aim to shift this perspective and emphasise our interdependence" @lftherios 🙌
Read more 🔗 hackernoon.com/crypto-networ…
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10/10 Finally we want to thank the @radworks_ community for its support🌱and everyone that builds, funds & defend public goods✌️
@gitcoin @ethereum @optimismFND @ProtocolGuild @protocollabs @hypercerts @CeloOrg @OctantApp @pgn_eth @supermodularxyz @Giveth @clrfund @EthCatHerders
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3/10 Inspired by @optimismFND @retropgf 🔴and @ProtocolGuild, Drips takes these ideas even further by providing:
💧 a generalised platform for similar experiments
💧 a streamlined process tailored to software projects and
💧 the option to use a continuous payout
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📢📢 New feature alert!🚨🚨
The MULTI DRIP LIST is live! 🥳 ✨
Create, manage, share & nest multiple Drip Lists independently, from a single account, unlocking way more advanced cashflow use cases 🙌
We've also made it easier to support other people's projects & Drip Lists 🤝🤝
Check it out at drips.network & tell us what you think 👇
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If you’re at @FundingCommons today come on down to the Ocean stage @ 15:00!
We’ll be running a mini retro-PGF round featuring Collaborative Drip Lists💦📋🗳️
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Want to learn more about Continuous Dependency Funding for public goods? 🤔
🎙Join @lftherios WAGMI @wevm_dev and @austingriffith @ 8pm CET tomorrow
nitter.app/i/spaces/1YpKkwpZBbNKj
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It’s the final panel of #FTCTaipei 😢
Rounding out a fantastic 2 days with a packed panel on philosophies for public goods funding!
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Distribution to @Filecoin FIL-RetroPGF-2 recipients is happening right now on @dripsnetwork 💦
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Recently on ENS Radio @lftherios discussed the origins of Drips & why funding open source matters 👏
ICYMI, catch up now 👇
nitter.app/i/spaces/1lDxLPppOzkxm
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1/8 Did you hear the big news?👂@Octantapp has become the newest org to fund their critical software dependencies via Drips! 💧💧💧
Based on the first two Epochs a cool 23.2 ETH ($59k) is on it’s way to their Drip List 💸
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Excited to see a new dependency funding experiment from @VitalikButerin happening on Drips! 💪
NEW - Part 2 of my @VitalikButerin interview is now live.
Joined by guest cohosts @sejal_rekhan and @devanshmehta , we chat with Vitalik about deep funding via dependency graphs🌟
From measuring a project's value to humanity 👉 to assessing how much credit dependency A deserves for B's success... Deep Funding is a new primitive for valuing/funding dependancies!
Deep Funding is a new frontier in onchain capital allocation! We go deep on deep funding with Vitalik in the Part 2 of the podcast. Don’t miss it! 👀🚀
00:00 Intro
01:06 Podcast Overview
02:06 Guest Introduction
03:24 Deep Funding Mechanism
08:00 Unintended consequences of Deep Funding
11:28 Alternatives in Market
12:13 Government AI initiatives filtering and eligibility
15:53 Protocol Guild
16:34 Deep funding cases other than software and GitHub
19:47 How can you contribute to the pilot's success?
23:21 Favorite underdog project for deep funding
25:11 Suggestion for other mechanism
26:54 Vote of Thanks
27:10 After Podcast Discussion
36:53 Outro
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🚨 @deep_funding needs you!
Nominations are open for the Level 2 jury - help guide funding to the most impactful projects
If you're a web3 dev, auditor, or open-source contributor, nominate yourself or someone who should be involved 👇
research.allo.capital/t/join…
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Exciting things coming up next week with @web3privacy
Keep your eyes peeled 👀
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What's a Drip List? Drips founder @lftherios explains👇
📍 FTC Berlin mainstage earlier today
Thank you for having us @FundingCommons 🙏
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Drips x @scroll_ZKP
We’re proud to power the voting & funding process for the Level Up hackathon in Argentina & incentivising devs in LatAm!
🔗 Read more here: drips.network/blog/posts/scr…
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Why Drips, Why Dependency Funding ? 🌧️mirror.xyz/dripsdev.eth/xxQQ…
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We ❤️ to see projects claim & immediately start to support their own dependencies!
Kudos to @RollupJS for splitting 40% of funds they've received on Drips 💸🙌
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9/10 🚀 Join Drips and Fund your Dependencies 🚀
Ready to make it rain? 💦Visit drips.network and fund your dependencies or join our discord and we can help you get started.
discord.gg/6cCKKSW2De
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Drips was created to reimagine the way we fund the communities and builders that we rely on for our mutual success.
See how the Radworks team used Drips to fund their critical dependencies 👇
Funds are 𝒻𝓁𝑜𝓌𝒾𝓃𝑔𝑔𝑔𝑔𝑔𝑔 now to 30 critical projects!💧
We split $1 million in total, over 1 year, between 30 critical software dependencies - 15 from Drips, 11 from Radicle & 4 from Grants.
To do it, we set up Drip Lists for each Org, like this 👇
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8/10 As part of this launch, we are happy to announce a proposal on the @radworks_ forum to allocate $1m over a year to the key dependencies of the @radworks_ ecosystem! 💸
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4/10 💧At the heart of Drips is the idea of a Drip List.
This is a collection of Ethereum addresses, @ensdomains and Git repos put together under one title. Each item is accompanied by a % of funds to be received.
Drip lists form a graph of software projects and contributors⛓️
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What's up Taipei?! 🇹🇼 😎
The Drips team are here and ready to rock @FundingCommons tomorrow & Sunday #FTCTaipei
Take a look at the full agenda here👇👇👇
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The Drips dream? For open source devs to be rewarded for their maintenance work 👏 @lftherios
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Onboarding the best FOSS developers into crypto, one major project at a time 💦
📢 BIG NEWS for Ratatui!
💸 We received a funding donation from @radicle 🎉
🚀 Read the details on my blog: blog.orhun.dev/open-source-f…
🐁 "Ratatui Received Funding: What's Next?"
🦀 @ratatui_rs is a Rust library for building terminal user interfaces (TUIs).
#opensource #funding #rustlang #ratatui #tui
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"We are failing to recognize the care work that's happening... that's the most critical work"
@lftherios on providing a different reward model for open source 👏
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1/3 Drips means interdependence 💦
Partnering with our friends at @OctantApp for Epoch 3 🥳 Drips sends 100% of its allocation straight to Octant's Drip List 👇
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Up to date 24 projects on Octant's dependency tree have received more than $130k from Octant 🎁
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7/10 We hope that this new platform will inspire a multitude of exciting experiments in the public goods space. 🌈
You can read more about some of the ideas we ❤️ here:
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2/10 🌐We started Drips inspired by software dependency trees. 🌐
To us, dependencies illustrate a profound truth: we are all interdependent, and our success hinges upon the success of others. 🪴
So what if we could engineer new mechanisms that harness this interdependency? 🤔
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We're in! 🙋🙋♀️
We've a new amazing Companion! ✨
Together with @FundingCommons we’re hosting a week-long gathering focused on building resilient futures 👇
🗓️ June 10 – 15 | Berlin 🇩🇪 | Register: lu.ma/calendar/cal-nXNYzPPKi…
▶︎ FtC Forum: Infrastructures of Resilience + Dinner
▶︎ Co-Working & Community + BBQ
▶︎ Hackathon + CypheRave
Join us and connect with beautiful people and vibrant communities from @Rarimo_protocol,@dripsnetwork, @OctantApp , @0xHolonym, @fileverse , @Labyrinth_HQ , @Logos_network , @namada , @0xbowio , @RAILGUN_Project , @GnosisDAO and many more..
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We're stoked to be part of this! 🎉🎉🎉
Sign up and help to build a decentralized funding ecosystem!
📆 The first-ever Fund Public Goods Hackathon starts tomorrow!
Don't miss the chance to develop innovative funding tooling within the Web3 ecosystem and make a difference. #FTCHackathon
👇️ Register
rb.gy/2g7pj
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Excited for this next chapter and grateful to be part of the @radworks_ ecosystem as we continue to drive our shared vision forward!
Learn more about @radworks_ by reading the full announcement👇
We’re excited to announce the start of the next chapter in our long march towards a freer internet: Radworks 🌱
Radworks is the community-governed network behind @radicle (p2p code collaboration) & @dripsnetwork (p2p fund sharing & splitting).
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🚨Drips was the second most voted project in @Octantapp’s Epoch Two 😱
We’re very grateful to everyone who chose to support us & helped us raise 21.3845 ETH!
These funds will now flow directly to Octant’s critical dependencies and continue dripping down to other worthy and impactful projects
Continuous Dependency Funding in action 💦💪
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5/10 Drip lists are public, shareable and open for anyone to create and fund with any ERC-20 token, either as a one-off payment or as a continuous stream settled by the second.
We think that Drips offers the most flexible & comprehensive infrastructure for ongoing support. 🌊
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🚀 We’re excited to announce that @scroll_ZKP is now using Drips to power the voting & funding process for the Level Up hackathon in Argentina! 🗳️💰
🔗Read more about it here: drips.network/blog/posts/scr…
Special thanks to @dripsnetwork, who played a crucial role in organizing a seamless voting and funding system for the Level Up hackathon top 6 projects. 🔥
Learn more here: drips.network/blog/posts/scr…
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What a week! From studio recordings to workshops, presentations to parties it’s been a busy #ETHDenver for team Drips. Thanks to all the friends who’ve made it great! Full run down on the week coming soon!
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⏰ Less than an hour to go!
Today it’s @lftherios turn to join @bbeats1 on the excellent ‘Future of Public Goods’ series. We hope you can join us!
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🚨 Catch @lftherios today!
⏰ 15:30
📍Fabrics stage 3
Excited to speak at @EFDevcon in Thailand next week!
I will be sharing learnings from onboarding FOSS devs to Ethereum with @dripsnetwork, the rising trend of Financial Nihilism and how it contradicts with FOSS.
💧 Nov 12, 3:30 PM (Stage 3). Details 👇 app.devcon.org/schedule/SSXA…
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🔒 Privacy is a public good, and public goods need sustainable funding!
Proud to launch #DripsForPrivacy with @web3privacy
Find out more 👇
Privacy deserves sustainable funding!
We’re launching #DripsForPrivacy with @dripsnetwork newly launched on @Optimism to fund privacy projects nominated in the Proof of Privacy Awards 2024 🏆
Read our article here: mirror.xyz/0x0f1F3DAf416B74D…
Explore the list here: drips.network/privacyproof24
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💻Calling all hackers 💻
In preparation for our upcoming Drips V2 launch, we are partnering with @code4rena for a 9 day auditing contest. 💧
Come break our contracts and get paid!! 👇
$90,500 USDC is up for grabs in our latest audit! @dripsnetwork is built to stream and split funds, and they're looking for your help in identifying vulnerabilities in their codebase 🫡
Happy hunting: rebrand.ly/C4-drips
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Funding your OS dependencies helps sustain & support the growth of other valuable projects in the ecosystem 💪
Shoutout to @graphprotocol for splitting 40% of funds they've received on Drips 💦
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We’ve gone gasless on @Filecoin 🎉
Claim and collect with ease, powered by @gelatonetwork
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10/10 Drips AI makes funding open-source dependencies seamless, scalable, and sustainable.
We’re rolling it out in Q1, but we’re already working with select ecosystems to test it. Want to join us? Reach out in our dms! 📮
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5/10 On Friday, @VitalikButerin announced Deep Funding, an exciting new experiment that takes Dependency Funding further by introducing AI algorithms to predict human judgement.
We are incredibly proud that the funds for this new experiment will be distributed through Drips. We are also contributing the first training dataset for it.
This is just the start for more Dependency Funding experiments!
Deep funding combines two ideas:
1. Value as a graph: instead of asking "how much did X contribute to humanity?", ask "how much of the credit for Y belongs to X?"
2. Distilled human judgement: an open market of AIs fills in all the weights, human jury randomly spot-checks them
nitter.app/TheDevanshMehta/status…
(1) has been a growing paradigm recently, for good reason. Contribution is hard to measure in the abstract: if you ask people how much they would pay to save N birds, they answer $80 for N=2000 and N=200000. "Local" questions like "is A or B more valuable to C?" are much more tractable.
(2) is based on ideas in my info finance post: vitalik.eth.limo/general/202… . Anyone can use any methods (eg. AI) to suggest weights for *all* edges, a human jury does detailed analysis on a random subset. The submissions that are most compatible with the jury answers decide the final output.
deepfunding.org/
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Set your reminder to join @lftherios, @awkweb & @austingriffith to learn more about Continuous Dependency Funding 💦
⏰ Tonight @ 20:00 CET
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ICYMI last week @lftherios spoke in depth about Continuous Dependency Funding (CDF) with @austingriffith & @awkweb
🎧 Take a listen 🎧
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4/10 At the same time, it also became evident that this mechanism takes time to scale, with the network forming one node at a time.
With this year’s significant LLM improvements, we saw an opportunity: What if we could supercharge Dependency Funding with AI, helping both funders and recipients—while preserving the principles that made Drips popular?
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7/10 What does this mean for funders?
Drips is the simplest way to fund your entire dependency tree.
1️⃣ Funders select projects as starting points for their dependency tree.
2️⃣ AI agents recommend a complete, weighted dependency graph.
3️⃣ Funders can use existing maintainer assessments and enhance them with algorithmic suggestions for new or unclaimed projects.
4️⃣ As maintainers claim funding, they self-report their dependencies, continuously refining allocation algorithms.
5️⃣ Funders can adjust initial allocations as new data and smarter AI agents become available.
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1/6 ICYMI the Drips team is in Taipei for #TBW2023.
Let’s take a look at the action from #FTCTaipei this weekend ⬇️
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2/10 Drips is a toolkit for funding open-source software through programmable value flows and dependency trees.
In 2024 we onboarded hundreds of open-source projects that voluntarily shared millions of dollars with the dependencies and maintainers that had the greatest impact on them.
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6/10 Today, we're really excited to announce that we're building an entire framework around next-generation dependency funding with AI.
This includes:
•Training data: Drips already has the largest dataset of human-reported dependency judgements, and we're making it easier to leverage this data at scale.
•AI allocation: Funders can choose from multiple AI agents to create large, optimized funding networks - fully integrated with Drips.
•Funding distribution: Import, view, and allocate funds to entire ecosystems directly in Drips.
•Feedback loops: Funds distributed via Drips incentivize FOSS maintainers to self-report dependencies, further growing the dataset and enabling smarter AI decisions.
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Happening NOW!
Watch the livestream👇
app.streameth.org/funding_th…
⏰ One hour to go! ⏰ @FundingCommons #FTCBerlin
Hear all about interdependence, on chain graphs & #publicgoods from @lftherios @ 15:30
Livestream here: app.streameth.org/funding_th…
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1/ Team Drips 💦 is heading to LabWeek Public Goods in San Francisco this week!
A decentralized conference from @protocollabs, there’s a ton of events focused on public goods funding, sustainability, and de-sci.
Follow the thread to see where you can catch us…
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9/10 Why does this matter?
Open-source ecosystems thrive when resources flow predictably and intelligently. 🛠️
Dependency Funding mechanisms provide a funding approach that reduces the tendency toward popularity contests and reach the deepest, often unappreciated projects within an ecosystem.
What’s even more exciting? These allocation mechanisms complement existing mechanisms like Quadratic Funding or RetroPGF perfectly. 🌟 Ecosystems can vote on what matters to them, using the output list as starting nodes for Drips AI - creating a broader impact and reaching even the deepest parts of their stack. ⚓️
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8/10 Core principles remain unchanged:
✅ Maintainers decide what’s impactful to them.
✅ AI agents accelerate and assist, but don’t replace human judgment.
✅ Allocation algorithms evolve with more data.
✅ Continuous distribution creates predictability for recipients and adaptably for funders.
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🚨 @snapshotlabs has claimed their profile on Drips & split a HUGE 60% of their funds to 5 projects!
More vital dependencies receiving funding directly from the community that relies on their tools 🎉
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3/10 Why this approach?
Assessing impact in the public goods space is notoriously difficult. When it comes to FOSS, we think this becomes more manageable when local experts (maintainers) evaluate what directly affects them.
This led to Continuous Dependency Funding: the simplest allocation mechanism based on voluntary dependency assessments and maintainer-led income redistribution that we announced in January.
Using this approach, we got hundreds of maintainers to assess which dependencies matter to them and to what extent. In doing so, we built the first public dataset for dependency funding - powered entirely by FOSS maintainers. 💡
Today I’d like to share a new mechanism that has been powering our work with @dripsnetwork. 👩💻💡👨💻
💧 Continuous Dependency Funding (CDF) is the first continuous mechanism for funding public goods, empowering protocols to to continuously allocate a % of their revenue or assets to their critical dependencies.
cdf.works/
Thread 👇
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2/4 🎉 The ENS Ecosystem Working Group is streaming $50,000 USDC over the next 6 months to 7 key projects that enable their work:
❤️ @wevm_dev
💚 @ricmoo (ethersjs)
💙 @GraphQL
💛 @OpenZeppelin
💜 @paulmillr (noble-hashes & scure-base)
🩶 @mafintosh (dns-packet)
Read more about it here 🔗 drips.network/blog/posts/ens…
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⏰ The countdown is ON - less than a month until #FtCSF
@FundingCommons create the best spaces to discuss innovation in digital public goods
We're hyped to support them once again 🙌
ONE month until #FtCSF! 🗓️
On March 15-16, we’re bringing together the researchers, builders, and funders shaping digital infrastructure for the commons. See you in San Francisco! 🙌
Register here: lu.ma/ftc-sf-2025
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It’s our last day in Taipei 😢
Finishing up a fantastic week with a panel @ #TBW2023 sharing insights from
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We are proud to support #FtCTokyo 🤝☺️
Check out the day 2 livestream here from 9pm ET
streameth.org/funding_the_co…
#FtCTokyo wouldn't be possible without our sponsors:
@protocollabs, @FilFoundation, Road to DEVCON (@EFDevcon), IBC Patent Attorney Corp, ANRI, @AIAlignNetwork, @n10Yamauchi, @desilo_jp, @bitgrit_global, @ONGAESHI_PR, @chizaizukan, Paramita, @OctantApp, @Optimism, @dripsnetwork, and @astrofitters. 🙏
We are also incredibly thankful to our partners:
@DeSciTokyo, @Plurality_tokyo, @EDCON2024, @wecandaoit, @CodeforJapan, Mitsubachi, @UNICEF’s Office of Innovation, @ArayaPress, and
@UTokyo_News_en (Endowed Chair for Blockchain Innovation). 🙌
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🚨 New blog post 🚨
Bridging the gap between web3 & traditional OSS communities with @OpenSourceColl
🔗drips.network/blog/posts/ope…
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We levelled up the homepage! Come take a peek 👀
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