[Why DeSci (decentralized science) is oriented toward “publicness” - Uncovering the origins of public blockchain and Web3｜ Taiyo Hamada. Why DeSci (decentralized science) is oriented toward “publicness” - Public Blockchain, Taiyo Hamada - On Alternatives to Research Funding 4th
Vitalik Buterin, in his blog entry “The Most Important Scarce Resource is Legitimacy,” published in March 2021, suggests that rather than spending all of Ethereum’s assets on infrastructure maintenance alone, a certain amount of spending Rather than allocating all of Ethereum’s assets to infrastructure maintenance alone, it suggests that allocating a certain amount of spending to R&D and core protocols would increase the value of the ecosystem by investing upfront in new infrastructure.
“Gitcoin” to support open source projects… Gitcoin has introduced a mechanism to support projects that contribute to ethereum’s ecosystem by focusing on the number of user donations, and has also started offering a mechanism to lend assets held by users to Gitcoin, with a portion of the interest going to support public goods, among many other initiatives. Gitcoin has partnered with the Ethereum Foundation and 1INCH, a decentralized finance protocol, to provide $50.82 million in support to date. As a prime example of its support for public projects, at the end of 2022, the Ethereum Foundation is partnering with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to support projects to close gaps in financial access, education and literacy, environment, and public health.
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Public blockchains supporting public services and projects is a powerful strategy to spread their own influence around the world
Everyone has access to the Web, and no one is excluded “permissionless”
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